The sea then began to get restless. He is buried in the Kilchoman Cemetery, Islay, West Coast of Scotland, Grave site 7.131. Pvt. Date. London, Naples, via Suez Canal, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. I had looked for brother but was unable to find him. Pvt. The Titanic is an exception, with the ill- fated 1912 vessel and its 1894-1900 namesake listed separately. Pvt. Please note that the A-Z drop-down list of countries includes larger and less precise entities such as Africa, Antarctica, Far East, Mediterranean Ports and South America, for cases where more specific information is not available. He did say that it was a needed but terrible job to have to perform over a two-week period.. Not all lists have survived. listen to the trailer where to start 01. Partner websites are free to search but there may be a charge to view full transcriptions and download documents. Pvt Smith enlisted into the Regular Army 8 March 1918 at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia. 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. The American landsmen thought they would be safer on board the larger vessel than the small naval craft but this was to their undoing and explained why so many were lost. Pvt. Otranto was in service until 1957, when she was sold for scrap. In addition to troops, passengers could also include nurses and other support personnel, family members, and any other passengers who may have been traveling onboard these ships. Born in Union County, North Carolina he was the son of Reese & Tabitha/Tobitha (Helms) Haywood. The differences between these different copies of the same list are usually cosmetic but there are sometimes also minor differences in content or in the Board of Trade's annotations or stamps upon them. Pvt. However, often you will need to view both card and list, as sea departure cards usually do not contain details of destination, although they do have the date and departure port, meaning that you should be able to tell if a card relates to the same voyage as a passenger list found in your search. Voyages from all British (English, Welsh and Scottish) ports, and from all Irish ports before partition in 1921 and all Northern Irish ports after partition, are covered in BT27. Dont worry about me Im all right, and if you dont hear from me regularly dont worry for you know the mails are so uncertain. I think about him a lot and keep wondering about our meeting when I get to heaven. Was assigned to Machine Gun Company K, 1st Kansas Infantry (Co. K 137th Infantry). 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. He enlisted into the Army at Fort Thomas, Kentucky on 17 July 1918 at the age of 18 years 1 month old. Free immigration to Tasmania 1803-1946. However, in a few minutes we got orders to go up on C deck with life preservers, which we did in a calm manner. The National Maritime collection contains a rich and diverse range of historic artefacts and contains over 140,000 objects. Westward bound ships when crossing the line skip a day, and . Have you found an error with this catalogue description? 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. 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). The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. When I was a child we had a book about the first world war and the last page was about the Troopship Otranto which had been sunk. 56 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate surface area of 2,688 square feet (250m2) heated her boilers. We do not want for anything. There was a great inrush of water, which of course would soon send her to the bottom. For example, if there are no sailings from Ramsgate in Kent, there is no point in a researcher typing Ramsgate in a search field. 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. Please note that different ships with the same name have not been distinguished in the ship search. The photo on the right shows five HMS Otranto crewmen. He helps Isabella escape from the castle during Manfred's suspenseful pursuit, while also attracting the . Pvt. My hopes and prayers are that he may yet survive. A solution is being designed so that customers will only be charged once for the information contained within these duplicate pages. HMS Otranto was an Orient Steam Navigation Company liner and was built by Workman Clark, Belfast in 1909 for the London to Australia route but also did cruses to Norway and the Mediterranean on occasion. 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 Discover more about Washington, Seattle Passenger Lists, 1890-1957. If you are unsure how a name was spelt, or cannot find it with the usual spelling, try using the wildcard facility. Pvt. He was the son of Harrison C. Carpenter and Laura S. Grover, I (Debbie Baker) am descended from his sister, Mary Elizabeth Carpenter. The accident happened not far from the same place where the Lusitania was sunk near Ireland. The passenger lists in BT27 include long-haul voyages to destinations outside Britain and Europe. 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. He sailed aboard the, Among the names of 200 American soldiers who lost their lives in the sinking of the transport. 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. His body was recovered and later returned to Farmington, Illinois for burial. Six double-ended and two single-ended boilers supplied steam at 215 lbf/in2 to the turbines. Similarly "Under 16" was indicative of minor children not traveling to reunite with a parent. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Otranto accidentally collided with the Japanese steamer Kitano Maru[4] in August 1928, heavily damaging her. 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. Notes. Charles was serving during WWI and his unit, C.A.C. Seaman Turner made it safely and years later was able to tell his story to his grandson, Wayne. In theory if not in practice, there are no domestic British or purely European voyages in BT27, and no lists for Merchant or Royal Naval vessels or for troop ships. length 482ft x beam 58.2ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw, speed 10 knots, accommodation for 12-1st class passengers. He mistimed it. His initial role in the novel is to illustrate the relationship between the fallen helmet and the prophecy of the true heir being revealed. Passengers For New England, 1638, pg 108. I am sure if he was lost you will hear it from Washington before you get this letter. It is important to note that wherever a voyage has one or more ports of call prior to its final destination, there may be a difference between where the ship is going and where a passenger on board is going: for instance, the ship may be sailing to Sydney, Australia but passengers may disembark at, for example, Bombay in India if that is one of the ports of call en route. The ship was named after the town of Otranto in Apulia in southern Italy. Swadner was born in Greenville, Ohio about 1898 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Arcanum, Ohio. see description line storage D28 144038857786 William Patrick Battle, Jr. was from Augusta, Georgia. . 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. He enlisted into the Ohio National Guard at Cincinnati, Ohio on 17 March 1917. These lists recorded details on all persons arriving at U.S. ports on ATS ships. Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. Old Calabar and New Calabar are different places within Nigeria but have been merged within the dropdown list of Nigerian ports, as many entries in the passenger lists simply state Calabar. 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. He is buried in the Chatham Naval Memorial, grave reference 28. Men were beginning to jump off the Otranto and onto the Mounsey some timing the jumps right and making it to the Mounsey and others were crushed as the two ships slammed together. I waited until she came alongside for the last time. September 25th saw the Otranto leaving America with a full load of troops on which, would be her last trip across the Atlantic. Several ship-owners saw the opportunity to earn good money by transporting emigrants to America. L. Baldry. Kashmir off the coast of Scotland. Newsome was born in Belvidere, North Carolina about 1897 and at the time of enlistment he lived at R. F. D. 5, London, Ohio. 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. Present at the North African, Sicilian & Italian landings. 1954 Nov 10. This page is owned by Joe Hartwell 2003-2019 For instance, in the New Zealand drop-down list, you will see a list of ports from Auckland to Westport from which to choose. 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. Herbert A. Dodd listed above. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 17 October 1918 at the age of 18 years 6 months old. Baltimore 1868, 2321 tons, 285ft x 39ft. 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. S.S. Graf Waldersee arrived at the port of Philadelphia from Hamburg on 1 September 1913 - page 17 has been transcribed: page 17. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists, 1839-1973. 1903-06-30 SS Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse Passenger List. When I jumped I fell between the two anchor chains, which were stretched along the deck floor, and held on. There is then the body of the list, giving details of the passengers travelling on board. This was started by Paul's father, Samuel Hirt. When war was declared in 1914 the British Admiralty requisitioned the Otranto for use as an Auxiliary Cruiser and armed her with four 4.7-inch guns. 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. The inclusion of Dutch, German, Swedish, Portuguese and other foreign ships means that some ships will have names that may initially look like mis- transcriptions. The three parts of a list may be on a single page or spread over two or more pages. And many of these men were from the State of Georgia. This matching process enables a researcher to search by country when they do not know to which port within the country their passenger sailed. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. Radabaugh was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. This list is only for people who came to Tasmania and Norfolk Island on convict transport ships, and were not convicts, e.g. Additionally, this record set contains no incoming voyages to Britain. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 31 July 1918 at the age of 19 1/2 years old. He is survived by his parents and one brother, Cornelius of 132 South Hall street. FOR SALE! The default setting is All, which allows you to search all ports at the same time. It is not known what the reason for his death was. Oct. 13, 1918. see: Immigration and Ships Passenger List Research Guide Section 4: Research in the Years 1820-1892; Information on the lists:name of ship, name of master, port of embarkation, age, sex, occupation and nationality. The actor Buster Keaton sailed to Europe on the Otranto in August of 1918 with units of the 40th Division. We had been on the destroyer since 10 oclock that morning. Berlin 1868, 2333 tons, 285ft x 39ft. Kish was born in Cleveland, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Cleveland, Ohio. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 2, from Fort Screven Georgia. Others were on deck, but their hold wasnt very good and they were swept overboard. HMS Otranto, killed and died, casualty lists, November 1918 World War 1, Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies Researched & compiled by Don Kindell 1st - 31st OCTOBER 1918 in date, ship/unit & name order SS Leinster, lost 10 October 1918 with Royal Navy men onboard (Dave Martin, click to enlarge) on to November 1918 Notes: These are digitised records from two. Barrow. Hudson was from Jakin, Georgia and was assigned to the September Automatic Replacement Draft from Ft. Screven. L. Baldry contacted me about his grandfather, Francis Edwin Turner who was a crewman on the HMS Otranto. Somehow the waves carried my left leg underneath one of the chains and the weight of the anchor chain held me in a straining position until another wave loosened me. Also capacity for 1,200 Mecca pilgrims on deck Launched Jan.1903 by D & W. Henderson, Glasgow for the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., Liverpool, an Alfred Holt ( Blue Funnel Line) subsidiary. What do I need to know before I start? The National Archives holds detailed passenger records for arrivals and departures at all Australian ports from 1924. Both were game-changers which popularized a new genre. William Brumit was killed on 6 October, 1918 during the sinking of the Otranto. When we got on deck we found a very strong wind and high waves. There is a header, providing details about the ship and its voyage. In the Second World War the second Otranto was converted into a troop ship and a Landing ship, infantry. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. 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. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. We have been treated well since we landed here. A typical passenger list can be divided into three parts. Corporal Toy C. Dilts was in the US Army Coast Artillery and on October 6th was on the Troopship Otranto when she collided with the P&O liner H.M.S. The author of the preface, "William Marshal, Gent.," claims that he found a 1529 copy of The Castle of Otranto in its original Italian in the library of an ancient Catholic family in northern England. The "RMS" prefix stands for Royal Mail Ship, as she carried overseas mail under a contract between Orient Line and Royal Mail. For example, if you search for William Lancaster and you type in William Lan*, your search will return a list of results that include names such as William Lane or William Landau - as well as William Lancaster. The manoeuvring of the Mounsey was magnificent and the destroyer was in danger of being dashed to pieces her self and she was taking on water. Also on his discharge papers, it gives the dates of his departure on Sept. 25, 1918 to go overseas, and his return date of January 14, 1919. Who First name (s) Name variants Last name Name variants Roy C. Dilts was most likely in the same unit from Ft. Screven, Georgia as Cpl. Sgt. 1939: Troopship. Arthur Harmon, No. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. Passenger lists on ships continued until 1965, when cards completely replaced lists for both air and sea travel. In 1953 the two rival vessels clashed at sea and almost come to grief. The ABA was a 7,937 gross ton passenger ship, 450ft x 55.8ft, twin screw motor ship, speed 14 knots, accommodation for 225-1st, 70-2nd and 70-3rd class passengers. However, where this is unclear or not stated, the destination of the ship is given for the passenger instead. Passenger lists before 1820 included name, departure information and arrival details. crew, passengers, military. Steamship Line: Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd) Class of Passengers: Cabin. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (Pauling) of 248 St. Leonards Road, Poplar E. Date this page was last updated March 2, 2019 Read tagging guidelines. Six hundred men owe their lives to him. Pvt. Mounsey managed to take off several hundred soldiers and crewman 431 died.