The Ship Hope, 1733 List A - The Captain's list List B - The signers of the Oath of Alligiance List C - The signers of the Oath of Abjuration. An impulse seemed to tell me to jump, so I jumped and landed safely on the bow of the ship. Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. . It will be quite well in a few days and I will be able to leave here. The sea was mountainous and the hurricane bit in, and he can remember his grandfather saying: "I will never forget it." Clifford was married to Aurelia Nell Parsons and had a daughter, Merle and a son, Hazen(?). Otranto was in service until 1957, when she was sold for scrap. This matching process enables a researcher to search by country when they do not know to which port within the country their passenger sailed. Give my love to all the others and love and kisses to you, the dearest of mothers! "MED" or medical reasons. Both were game-changers which popularized a new genre. Not all lists have survived. If you also see a more generic option in the drop-down alongside specific ports, it is important to note that this is not an 'all ports' option. L. Baldry contacted me about his grandfather, Francis Edwin Turner who was a crewman on the HMS Otranto. He enlisted 5 April, 1917 from Ottawa, Kansas. He enlisted 12 March, 1918 from Beloit, Kansas and was assigned to the 4th Co. CAC, Ft. Screven. Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis Schulze Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. My dad had written to my mother from Georgia asking her to bring me to the train station so he could see me before he went overseas, it seems the government was sending the troops through their hometowns so they could see their families before shipping out. The destroyer had just passed the wave valley and was just starting back up, so he not only hit with great impact but also his body had rotated in the air and he hit on his left shoulder. Lisa continues, They were both very young men at the time. This means that there can be two or even three originals of some of the passenger lists within the BT27 series. He worked hard at home to regain strength and range of motion and was far more successful that had been predicted by his surgeon. Victor Morris Perrin passed away in 1967 in Naples, Florida. We had no hopes-to jump into the sea meant death, for one could not live long in such a mad sea. Lisa recalls that Owen Tucker, her grandfather never spoke about the disaster but his brother Edward Tucker did only when he had a couple of drinks. Some are decorative and beautiful historical documents, others are more functional in their appearance. The dead were buried with military honors in a cemetery in Kilchoman on Islay. Some shipping lines produced passenger lists in duplicate or even triplicate for the Board of Trade. Entering the first letter will return a list of all ships with names staring on that letter. Embarking at Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Colombo, Naples, Toulon, Gibraltar, Sydney, Adelaide and Fremantle. Born November 27, 1893 in Poplar, London. Demise. Pearl B. Horn enlisted into the United States Army on May 4, 1917 at Jefferson Barracks, MO, did his basic training at Camp Hancock, Georgia, and then he went to Fort Dade, Florida for artillery duty. He and his friends were intoxicated one evening, rode into Edwardsville to enlist but they were turned down because of their current condition. Sgt. Arrived at Faslane for scrapping by British Iron & Steel Corp. Private Pearl B. Horn was discharged from the Army on February 1, 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois. I did have his Mandolin but at one point in my life I was really down and out and my Mom told me to sell it which I did now I wish I had kept it. Six hundred men owe their lives to him. View the catalogue description for. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Geiger of 527 Lawrence street received official word last evening and his mother is grief stricken as there existed between them a remarkably deep feeling of affection. Pvt. London, Naples, via Suez Canal, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. Men were lashed to guns on the deck of the Mounsey and was getting crowded and she was leaking, the pumps were going all the time but they were still waist deep in ice cold seawater and did not expect to see land again. Her name is Brooke and she lives in Napier, New Zealand. Read tagging guidelines. Partner websites are free to search but there may be a charge to view full transcriptions and download documents. Researchers should note that this means that occasionally you may see two entries for the same individual which correspond to two different original copies of the same list. River ports on such navigable rivers as the Amazon and the Yukon mean that, for example, inland locations such as Manaus (Brazil) and Dawson City (Canada) are included. The ship Alfred, 635 tons, H. E. Decker, commander, from Hamburgh 20th August, and Rio 17th October, arrived last evening, with 275 passengers, chiefly from Silisea and Saxony. Paul F. Smith service number 793373 was killed during the sinking of the Otranto on 6 October, 1918. Her tonnages were 20,032gross register tons(GRT), 12,031net register tons(NRT) and 12,228 tons under deck. It was a ruby with pearls around it. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. One of them was brother Clydes top sergeant Sergt. For these two reasons, we use a default +/- 2 years when you search by year of birth. He tried to time his jump to the destroyer so he would land on the destroyer as it was at its wave peak or at least just starting back down. He is buried in Grave 190 in Kilchomen, Islay Island, Scotland. Dr. Bowden, surgeon-superintendent, reports them to be in a highly healthy state, no diseases but measles having exhibited itself. You can never know what it was like until you have been upon a storming sea. Like rival Dutch shipping company Nederland Line's passenger ship Oranje, the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd's William Ruys served the Netherlands-Indonesia route after the war, having been built in 1947 for that purpose. For instance, if you search by last name without a first name, results without given forenames top the list, followed by the initials and exact first name matches in alphabetical order: if you click the First Name column header, results will be sorted so that the order is reversed and initials and first names top the list, with the blanks coming at the end of the list. The passenger lists in BT27 include long-haul voyages to destinations outside Britain and Europe. I was in bed and heard gunshots, I ran downstairs and sat on the piano bench scared and I thought the Germans had invaded us. My search for him that Sunday morning one week ago today was in vain. Private Pearl B. Horn, USA, likely taken at Fort Dade, which was on Egmont Island in the Tampa Bay Harbor. In May 1932 she played a small part in the rescue of the passengers and crew of the French ocean liner Georges Philippar in the Gulf of Aden. Names have also been standardised where they appear variously as one or two words, e.g., Ionic Star and Ionicstar. Discover your ancestors who left Ireland and Great Britain between 1890 and 1960. Captain Ernest W. Davidson true to the ancient traditions of the sea, stayed with his ship and went down with her in the terrible sea as he saluted his men for one last time. He has no known grave and is recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent, UK. Pvt. Applications for any other use should be made to. Analysis. Passenger lists before 1820 included name, departure information and arrival details. Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. Write to me soon and tell others to write to me. His mother, Mrs. Martha McAfee, R. F. D. 1, Coldwater, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. He had served 16 years in the navy prior to the war and was called up again in August 1914. She had twin propellers driven through reduction gears by six steam turbines that between them developed 3,722 NHP. Dear Mother, the saddest thing that I have to write is that I havent heard a word of brother Clyde, but I am living in hopes that he was among the number saved. Commanders of Trans-Atlantic Steamships - 1894. The life boats were lowered to act as fenders between the two ships but boat after boat was smashed into matchwood. The Passengers of the May Flower in 1620 [pg 47] Passengers of the Mary and John, p. 265. To see the passenger list, use the Book and Page above, to find the correct microfiche in Assisted Immigrants from UK, 1839-1871, Compartment 21, Call no. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. The National Maritime collection contains a rich and diverse range of historic artefacts and contains over 140,000 objects. This page is owned by Joe Hartwell 2003-2019 The Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 with the loss of the British ships HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth with very heavy loss of life. Oct. 13, 1918. Edward Lewis Williams was aboard the HMS Otranto when it sank. This story of Pvt. OANFA 1903 7,902 gross tons. listen to the trailer where to start 01. The jump to the HMS Mounsey was 40 feet and as the sea rolled up and down was reduced to 20 feet, but if you got it wrong you were crushed or cut in half by the ships wire rope rails. S.S. Kronprinz Roger Mary knows him. If you are unsure how a name was spelt, or cannot find it with the usual spelling, try using the wildcard facility. For example, you may know that your passenger sailed to Chile without knowing whether he or she disembarked at, say, Antofagasta, Iquique or Valparaiso. Assisted immigrant ships 1832-1889. printable version. Pvt. However, where this is unclear or not stated, the destination of the ship is given for the passenger instead. A typical passenger list can be divided into three parts. Passenger lists are not always clear or precise as to their exact routes and any ports of call on their way to their final destination. HMS Otranto men listed on The Australian Naval War Memorial in Canberra: M. McNally, lost while serving on the Otranto. Pvt. Passenger Lists From Ireland - 1803 - #1 Passenger List From Ireland - 1803 - #2 Bowditch, Liverpool to NY, May 1839 see description line storage D28 144038857786 Eastward bound ships when crossing this line observe the same date twice. He mistimed it. Kashmir off the coast of Scotland. It was the lookouts from the Otranto that first spotted the German fleet. example: 1851 passenger list (scroll down) l847 Canadian list. You'll find steamship captains from Cunard, White Star, Inman, Guion, Anchor, American, Red Star, CGT French Line, and many others. Not long after breakfast, about 9:30 oclock, we felt a great jar. First Settlers of New Hampshire. 406 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. Arthur Harmon was badly injured when he leaped from the deck of the sinking ship to that of a destroyer and recovered in the Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast, Ireland. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 17 October 1918 at the age of 18 years 6 months old. However, in 1933, she was given a comprehensive refit to become a One Class Liner, accommodating just 770 Tourist Class passengers and she was listed as being 14,983 GRT. Similarly "Under 16" was indicative of minor children not traveling to reunite with a parent. However, they will not have sailed from, say, Glasgow if their destination overseas is not served by a shipping line operating out of that port, or if sailings there do run but are not departing at the date at which they need to travel. Synopsis We had quite a bit of rain, and a heavy sleet fell upon us too. As well as giving you additional information, sea departure cards give you a chance to view a person's signature. "7h:100c:95f" was written by Kevin Rodriguez and Lauren Shippen. Secondly, a passenger who is shown as aged 30 on a voyage on 10th June 1935 may have been travelling on their 30th birthday and only just turned 30, or they may have been on the eve of their 31st birthday. Your account confirms what he told me. The wave seemed like huge mountains. He was the son of Harrison C. Carpenter and Laura S. Grover, I (Debbie Baker) am descended from his sister, Mary Elizabeth Carpenter. This photo is previous to his service on the Otranto and is of a group of sailors from the HMS Pembroke. Two sons of Mrs. J. S. Harmon, of Inman, both in the service of their country, were on the British transport Otranto that was sunk off the coast of Ireland when she was rammed by the Kashmir, one of whom, Arthur, was saved, the other, Clyde being lost. From the Obituary section of The Allentown Morning Call, in Allentown, Pennsylvania: Private John C. Geiger, up to the time of enlistment last August, employed by the Lehigh Portland Cement Company as their travelling freightagent, perished on the transport Otranto when in a collision off the Irish Coast she was beached and battered to pieces causing a loss of over 200 soldiers, Private Geiger was 33 years of age, and was known by all as a good fellow, genial, always wearing a smile and ready to do a good turn for anyone. During the first decades of the 20th century, the . Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, BT - Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies, Division within BT - Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Departments, BT 26 - Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists, Subseries within BT 26 - Inwards passenger lists, 1929, Available to view free at The National Archives, About our There is then the body of the list, giving details of the passengers travelling on board. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 7 August 1918 at the age of 20 years 8 months old. My mom put her engagement ring in the place where the pick was kept, a man came visiting next door to us, borrowed the mandolin when we got it back the ring was gone, she sent me over to ask him about it but he denied seeing it. She was Orient Line's second ship of that name. Such duplicates were written out again by hand (not produced using carbon paper). We were told that our ship had been rammed by another large ship, which was carrying troops also, the name of this ship was ____________ (erased by censor). He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft from Fort Screven Georgia. However, in a few minutes we got orders to go up on C deck with life preservers, which we did in a calm manner. Bennett was from Woodeliff, Georgia and took basic training at Ft. Screven. His mother, Mrs. Sam Smith, 348 Kilgore St., Cincinnati, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. This information on Cpl. Pvt. However, if you know that a particular passenger left from a particular port, or are only interested in passengers sailing from a particular port, you can select (for instance) Southampton from the list. Fremantle. The first was a 1909 passenger liner that in 1914 became the armed merchant cruiser HMSOtranto and in 1918 was lost as a result of a collision. She spent the last months of 1914 in the South Atlantic off the West Coast of South America looking for the German Cruiser Squadron commanded by Admiral von Spee. I lived with my maternal grandparents most of my growing up years." The list contains: Non-Convict name, title, ship, contact name and e-mail address. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 with Casual Company No. Our trip was eventful until the night of the 1st when we collided with a French Schooner. John Elder. William Brumit was killed on 6 October, 1918 during the sinking of the Otranto. We could see, over the right, a great high cliff of rocks, not more than a half-mile away, but no hope there, as we knew we would be dashed to death against the rocks. He was selected for the September Automatic Draft from Ft. Screven troops, for duty in France. So, if you are initially unsuccessful with a search try again periodically. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. They then boarded a train in Wilkes Barre and rode into Baltimore, Maryland. The mass emigration from Norway started about 1865-66, after the Civil War was over. He wrapped himself around railings. Pvt. Variations of spelling have been standardised as far as possible to avoid confusion and to ease searching. Private Pearl B. Horn, was one of the American soldiers who was on the Otranto when she sank off the coast of Scotland and Ireland on October 6, 1918. You can search and download lists of ships' passengers entering and leaving the United Kingdom from and for ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean. C1E 8B0. Charles' body was recovered and buried in England. Mother, it is with a sad heart that I write of Clyde, but we have hopes yet. Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee about 1894 and at the time of enlistment he lived at 615 E. 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio. He is buried in the Kilchoman Cemetery, Islay, West Coast of Scotland, Grave site 7.131. The Red Cross is very good to us also, and we are certainly grateful. There was a great inrush of water, which of course would soon send her to the bottom. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Fort Thomas, Kentucky on 23 July 1918 at the age of 18 years old. You could see the waves break upon them. Traduzioni in contesto per "advised to return him" in inglese-italiano da Reverso Context: Given his history, I was advised to return him to the authorities. S.S. Graf Waldersee arrived at the port of Philadelphia from Hamburg on 1 September 1913 - page 17 has been transcribed: page 17. [5] On 4 August 1932 she collided with the Thames barge Why Not in the Thames Estuary at Thameshaven, Essex, England; Why Not sank.[6]. Able Body Seaman Turner was one of the last to jump from the Otranto and saw the ship and Captain Ernest W. Davidson go down as he waved to his men as he stayed by his charge to the very end. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 31 July 1918 at the age of 19 1/2 years old. A man from my hometown saw me when I was eleven while I was unveiling the monument to the service men and he told me that he was on the same ship and saw my dad try to jump from the Otranto to the Mounsey which had pulled alongside and he fell in between. mc N 761, in the Family History Area. If your search returns a large number of results you may wish to sort them by clicking on the column heading, to help you scan the list of records. Journey to Australia: Tall Trees Family History DEPARTURES: 1822-1869 London, England Liverpool, England In a letter to his mother, he tells in an interesting manner the story of the accident. Passenger List (Empress of Britain - From Liverpool Friday, August 30th, 1957 To Quebec and Montreal), includes sailings July 1957-March 1958: 1957: Sailings of Empress of Britain, Empress of England, Empress of France and Empress of Scotland: S: Sailings to and from Europe - Saint John Season 1957-1958, November 1957-April 1958: 1957 His body was recovered and later returned to Farmington, Illinois for burial. Kashmir also carring American troops, in Machir Bay off the North coast of Islay, Scotland, drifted ashore and became a total wreck. "SS Lucania" - partial passenger list for voyage from Ireland to New York in 1898 "Germanic" - partial passenger list for voyage from Queenstown, Ireland to New York in 1903. What kind of passenger records do we hold? Barrow. She took part in the invasion of French North Africa later that year and the landings in Sicily and Salerno in 1943. 61541: Wayne. It was used by Geoffrey and Hazel Tirchett who immigrated from London to Victoria, as '10 Pound Tourists' leaving London on 3 June 1954. Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Laid down in 1916 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow for the Imperial Russian Government, work was suspended when the October Revolution occurred and she was taken over by the Shipping .
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