deaths

MAB note: Bence's death occurred on 14 November, but in the pre-wireless days of 1887, did not become known in England until Coptic arrived there on Christmas Eve. The Times, London, 26 December 1887 SUDDEN DEATH---A painful case of sudden death on board the Shaw, Savill, and Albion...

See the article, from the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/woman-dies-after-fall-from-queen-mary.html We'll have to see what happened. I'm not certain, but the fall may have happened from the attached walkway, heading on to the Ship.

Captivating new biography charts, for the first time, the life of one of the most important men to die aboard the RMS Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage of 1912. Hugh Richard Walter McElroy was the Chief Purser of the RMS Titanic. His legacy was all but lost at sea; the media focus over...

The Times, London, 2 November 1934 DEATHS *** FLEMYNG-On Oct. 30, 1934, at Gambier Terrace, Liverpool, GEORGE GILBERT FLEMYNG, B.A., M.D.. son of Benjamin Flemyng, of Dublin, and late Surgeon of the S.S. Homeric, White Star Line, aged 65 years. Interment, Hampstead Cemetery, London. to-day...

MAB Note: White Star commander Inman Sealby, perhaps best remembered for having been in command of Republic II when she sank in 1909, died in 1942, a resident of Vineland, New Jersey, and President of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society. In 1943 and 1944 the Society's Vineland...

The Mercury, Hobart, 12 December 1913 Retrieved from the National Library of Australia web site, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper PERSONAL --- The many friends of Captain E. Crosby Roberts, who for a considerable number of years was connected with the steamers belonging to the White...

MAB note: What I have from contemporary sources indicates that Capt. Kelk, not Capt. Musgrave, was Southland's commander when she was sunk in 1917. The West Australian (Perth), 29 September 1936 Retrieved from the National Library of Australia web site, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper...

The Journal of Commerce, Montreal, 12 September 1914 DR. HARRY BELL --- Friends in Montreal of Dr. Harry Bell, the late surgeon on the White Star Steamship Adriatic, received a decided shock yesterday when the news of his death at Liverpool was received through the city branch of the...

The Otago Witness, Dunedin, New Zealand, 25 July 1895 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES --- (From Our Own Correspondent) *** London, *** June 14 *** Many New Zealanders who...

The Times, 19 June 1933 MR. P. E. CURRY --- Mr. Philip Eddowes Curry, J.P., who, until his retirement in 1930, was for 33 years a prominent figure in shipping at Southampton, died suddenly at his home at Bassett on Friday night, at the age of 71. Mr. Curry was appointed general manager...

Following up on his three-volume biography of Archibald Butt, George Behe has produced a single-volume work called "A Death on the Titanic," which contains a condensed version of Butt's pre-Titanic career followed by a more detailed account of his final hundred days. Ordering details appear here.

The Evening Post, Wellington, 26 April 1929 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home OBITUARY --- MR. HUGH PURVIS --- One of the best known and most highly esteemed engineers in the London-New Zealand...

The Evening Post, Wellington, 6 March 1934 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home LONG SERVICE --- SEA CAPTAIN'S DEATH --- MANY NEW ZEALAND FRIENDS --- Fifty-four years' service with the Shaw, Savill...

MAB note: Not stated here, and the reason for this article's being presented today, is that the incident described here occurred on 4 December 1916; http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2748214. This is the first (and so far, only) detailed report I've found about the...

The Evening Post, Wellington, 27 November 1924 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home PERSONAL --- Particulars of the death at sea on the 8th November of Captain J. L. Jones, commander of the Shaw-Savill...

MAB note: To the extent that this article says that Jennings spent two and a half years on the Hong Kong-San Francisco route, it's wrong. He only took Oceanic I on her first two transpacific roundtrips in 1875, and then returned to the North Atlantic. The Evening Post, Wellington, 16...

MAB note: I have only come across Capt. Armstrong as a commander on the White Star/Occidental & Oriental transpacific service and have no information about any other aspect of his career at sea. The San Francisco Call, 9 November 1904 Retrieved from the California Digital Newspaper...

The San Francisco Call, 6 November 1896 Retrieved from the California Digital Newspaper Collection web site, http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=p&p=home Death of Captain Pearne, a Old-Time Master on the Occidental and Oriental Line --- *** A cablegram to the Merchants' Exchange...

Mab Note: Two earlier articles about Cauty's White Star career appear here. The Times, 4 August 1954 SIR ARTHUR CAUTY --- LIVERPOOL SHIPPING --- Sir Arthur Belcher Cauty, formerly joint general manager of the Cunard White Star Company, died in hospital at Southampton on Saturday...

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