This Hotel, known today as the Commodore was built in 1855 and named the Queen's Hotel in honour of the visit of Queen Victoria to Cobh inn 1849. It was used to assist in accommodating the survivors from the Lusitania in 1915 while under the ownership of the German family Humbert. In the early 1920s the hotel was renamed the States Hotel. It opened and closed several times up until 1939 when it was refurbished, renamed the Commodore only to close down again at the start of the second world war. The Commodore reopened in 1947. It is operated today by the O'Shea family.