In 1919 P&O Line acquired a controlling interest in Orient Line. OTRANTO December 6th 1947 PASSENGER LIST EMPIRE DEBEN July 30th 1947 PASSENGER LIST MV DORSETSHIRE September 4th 1951 PASSENGER LIST EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND February 14 1948 PASSENGER LIST SS ORBITA February 3rd 1948 PASSENGER LIST RMS SAMARIA August 10th 1947 PASSENGER LIST SS MATAROLA August 5th 1947 PASSENGER LIST SS EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA Arthur Harmon, No. For example, in the 1890s passenger lists the city known as Jakarta was generally referred to as Batavia, so if you select the destination country Indonesia you will find that we have joined together these two names as Jakarta (Batavia) in the dropdown list of ports. I was the only War Orphan in my town and that is why I was selected to unveil the monument. Accordingly, you may wish to check under both Curacao and Caracas if you are trying to find a person who went to one or other of these destinations. Finally, there is the summary section, which gives statistical detail on the number of passengers and usually a signature and stamp from the Board of Trade (BT), to which the list was sent by the shipping line. 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. Most of them are small farmers, who intend settling upon the lands of tthe South Australian Company. S.S. Kronprinz When the destroyer reached port he was virtually frozen stiff to the railings and they had difficulty prying him loose.. Herbert A. Dodd listed above. Commanders of Trans-Atlantic Steamships - 1894. In the stories that Pearl Horn told to his son Paul, he told about the adventure of, Having to jump on to the deck of the British destroyer, and that many refused to do so and according to the various accounts that are now available on the web, over 400 died. On 6 Oct. 1918, during a heavy storm while carrying troops from America to Glasgow and Liverpool, HMS Otranto collided with the P&O liner H.M.S. You can see the artist even painted in the men jumping from one ship to the other, just an unbelievable event.. She took part in the invasion of French North Africa later that year and the landings in Sicily and Salerno in 1943. Passenger List Page - Irish Genealogical Society - MN. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. 56 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate surface area of 2,688 square feet (250m2) heated her boilers. It is awful to think of Clyde as going down in that terrible water. Sugar was sent to Europe for the service men who did not get it because it was on the wharf in France and got rained on. The National Maritime collection contains a rich and diverse range of historic artefacts and contains over 140,000 objects. We didnt know how we could get from our ship to the destroyer, but with a most daring captain, or else he could not have done such a wonderful thing, the destroyer came alongside our ship, so near that our boys, and the crew, jumped for their lives. Redirecting to https://www.shf.org.au/archives-research/ephemera/ephemera-otranto. When I jumped I fell between the two anchor chains, which were stretched along the deck floor, and held on. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (Pauling) of 248 St. Leonards Road, Poplar E. Date this page was last updated March 2, 2019 example: 1851 passenger list (scroll down) l847 Canadian list. Cuzco. He was a very handsome man, played the mandoline and used to whistle 'Listen to the Mocking Bird' when he went past our house. For instance, in the South African dropdown list there are the important ports of Durban (Port Natal) and Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay). Roger Mary knows him. 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:. The Passengers of the May Flower in 1620 [pg 47] Passengers of the Mary and John, p. 265. Some are typed, others are handwritten; some record only a minimum of detail about the passengers, others include a wealth of information down to exact address and ultimate destination overseas. 1 from Fort Screven Georgia, and sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918. Hudson was from Jakin, Georgia and was assigned to the September Automatic Replacement Draft from Ft. Screven. Six double-ended and two single-ended boilers supplied steam at 215 lbf/in2 to the turbines. Below is an article written in the Monroe Journal October 29, 1918: [1] The 1900 Union County, NC census (Vance Township, stamped page 278) indicates the month and year of his birth as November 1898 whereas the death notice puts his birth year as about 1894. Find out where they were going and where they were coming from, where they called home as well as their age, occupation and whether they were married or single. The passenger train was carrying 342 travellers and 10 crew, with two crew on the cargo train, Hellenic Train data showed. Summary Menu 'At The Equator' published by the Orient Line for passengers travelling on the SS Otranto in 1954 and used for a child's birthday party. 718867. Our trip was eventful until the night of the 1st when we collided with a French Schooner. However, within this alphabetical listing there is also an entry called New Zealand. William Patrick Battle, Jr. was from Augusta, Georgia. Pvt. 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. The Willem Ruys and Oranje passed in opposite directions . We do not want for anything. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. For Dutch ships, for example Damsterdijk, also spelt Damsterdyk, only one version of the name has been selected, allowing you to view passenger lists for both spellings with one search. Pvt. Otranto accidentally collided with the Japanese steamer Kitano Maru[4] in August 1928, heavily damaging her. Locally he was known as 'Charley'. Passenger lists are indexed for the years 1845 - 1886 . 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. Pvt. There is a header, providing details about the ship and its voyage. She was Orient Line's second ship of that name. That is, passengers may go to sleep Wednesday night and find that it is still Wednesday when they arise the next morning. Orient Steam Navigation Co.Ltd., Orient Line, reg. After the War my hometown erected a monument to honor the men who had died in service from my town. Please note that not all ports are sea ports. He was drowned during the sinking. Private Pearl B. Horn was discharged from the Army on February 1, 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois. However, in other instances, the port in question can be small and obscure, or now known by a different name, or not have a unique name. C1E 8B0. Rafts and crushed lifeboats were used between the two ships so she would not be hit so hard. 1939: Troopship. He sailed aboard the, Among the names of 200 American soldiers who lost their lives in the sinking of the transport. 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. He is buried in the Kilchoman Cemetery, Islay, West Coast of Scotland, Grave site 7.131. Pvt. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery in England. This is an incomplete list of American and British men who were killed during the sinking: Pvt. Only known photo of Able Seaman Thomas Goodwin, shown 2nd from left in the front row. His shoulder always caused him great pain and finally, he retired from his business in 1946, turning it over to my older brother Robert Morris Perrin, when he returned from WW II. I have a copy of my Grandfathers letter of recommendation advising all records went down with the ship and I also have a painting of the HMS Otranto and the Mounsey coming along side. The Persian Gulf is included under Iran but a voyage marked as heading for that destination might of course have called at ports on the opposite side of the Gulf: you need to search under Iran to cover this possibility. 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. 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. The sea then began to get restless. Dull was born in Wood County, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Arcanum, Ohio. 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. McAfee was born in Coldwater, Ohio about 1897 and at the time of enlistment he lived at R. F. D. 1, Coldwater, Ohio. Synopsis Pvt. Orient. The "RMS" prefix stands for Royal Mail Ship, as she carried overseas mail under a contract between Orient Line and Royal Mail. Just after breakfast on Sunday morning 6 October 1918 there was a great jarring and the ship trembled severley. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, MA; 1820 to July 29, 1891 (NARA & FHL Microfilm Numbers) (National Archives Publication M277, 115 rolls) The original customs passenger lists for Boston prior to 1883 were destroyed in a fire. The default setting is All, which allows you to search all ports at the same time. Original lists (1883-1891) also survived. Radabaugh was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. 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. Able Seaman Thomas Goodwin, Royal Navy Service Number 192409, was the son of Roger & Rebecca Goodwin and husband of Margaret. 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. The life boats were lowered to act as fenders between the two ships but boat after boat was smashed into matchwood. Edward Lewis Williams was aboard the HMS Otranto when it sank. Paul F. Smith service number 793373 was killed during the sinking of the Otranto on 6 October, 1918. However, in some cases there are cards without corresponding lists, as well as lists without cards. Seaman Goodwin was lost at sea aged 39-years when the HMS Otranto, on which he was serving, sank off the coast of Islay on 6th October 1918. Pearl B. Horn, a private, was no doubt one of the "replacements" on their way to the war, but got side tracked for a short time due to the sinking. [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]. He was listed as working for the Y.M.C.A. Seaman Turner made it safely and years later was able to tell his story to his grandson, Wayne. It was a ruby with pearls around it. In the Second World War the second Otranto was converted into a troop ship and a Landing ship, infantry. We were delayed four or five hours. Generally, in our experience, cards give more biographical information than their matching lists. Kashmir also carring American troops, in Machir Bay off the North coast of Islay, Scotland, drifted ashore and became a total wreck. National Work Council. My hopes and prayers are that he may yet survive. 1 and agrees with his birth year being 1898 but offers little more information on Jennings (though they thought he was returning from WWI on the transport ship which is a mistake). Edward Lewis Williams was a coal miner living in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA. This was the first time I had realized that I had been hurt. This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1851-1891 and 1935-1938. L. Baldry. Deutschland 1866, 2800 tons, 325ft x 40ft. During the first decades of the 20th century, the . privacy policy, Need more context? Date of Departure: 30 June 1903. The Brig Alexander - The passenger list of the Brig Alexander and the Glenaladale Settlers of 1772. If you wish to search by country, simply select the country but leave the destination port dropdown at its default 'all ports within destination country' setting. The men on the Otranto were instructed to remain calm and 15-20 minutes later were again instructed to get on deck as quickly as possible. Orient Steam Navigation Co./Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Outward sailings January-April 1882 (issued January 18, 1882) Vessel (s) Ports of call. His initial role in the novel is to illustrate the relationship between the fallen helmet and the prophecy of the true heir being revealed. Pearl Horn told his son that they had to re-train on the Big French guns (his description) before going to the front. There is then the body of the list, giving details of the passengers travelling on board.