Read full story.. Audrey Lawson-Johnston - Telegraph Audrey Lawson-Johnston Audrey Lawson-Johnston, who died on Tuesday aged 95, was the last known survivor of the Lusitania disaster of May 1915, when the Cunarder was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat en route from New York to Queenstown (now Cobh) in southern Ireland. Audrey before being presented at Court in 1933 Photo: UPPA/PHOTOSHOT