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In December 1916, some eight months after the sinking of the Lusitania, Captain Turner was reassigned to the passenger ship Ivernia. On July 1, 1917, his ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of 153 men: Turner managed to survive again.

At the age of 64, Turner retired from the Cunard Company and traveled to Australia, but soon returned to England. In his latter days, he attended to a number of his beehives and also harvested the honey. While he felt the loss of the Lusitania and all the lives that were lost, he was reluctant to discuss the disaster. He believed that he did all he could do to help save the lives of those aboard his ship.

He died on January 24, 1933 at the age of seventy-six. On his tombstone, there is just a short note about the Lusitania.

Captain Schwieger was a highly decorated U-boat commander. In the fall of 1917, Schweiger suddenly encountered a British Q-ship HMS Stovecrip, which was outfitted to appear to be a freighter but was carrying many weapons. In his haste to attempt to escape, he ran directly into a British mine field. Schwieger’s U-88 and his entire crew did not survive: his newer and more powerful U-boat was never recovered.

On September 16, 1941 a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British ship Jedmoor killing most of its crew. Captain Turner’s youngest son, Seaman Percy Wilfred Turner, was one of those who did not survive. (Larson 2015)