Present at the North African, Sicilian & Italian landings. The lifeboats were useless, as they had been crushed to pieces. They are divided into: 1. inward bound passengers "assisted" (subsidised) "unassisted" (paying their own way), or "coastal" (travelling to Victoria from an Australian port), and 2. outward bound passengers, regardless of destination. She took part in the invasion of French North Africa later that year and the landings in Sicily and Salerno in 1943. S.S. Graf Waldersee arrived at the port of Philadelphia from Hamburg on 1 September 1913 - page 17 has been transcribed: page 17.
Passenger Lists | Dead Reckoning - State Library Of Western Australia Pvt Smith enlisted into the Regular Army 8 March 1918 at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Passenger arrival records | naa.gov.au - National Archives of Australia Fremantle. When I jumped I fell between the two anchor chains, which were stretched along the deck floor, and held on. This ship had gone wrong and could not be steered, so on a raging wave she plunged right into the middle of our ship, tearing a great hole in her side. Hirt was shared with me by Roy Pfundstein ( who was a friend of the family. We left Camp Merritt, N.J., on the 24th of September and went to New York; there we boarded the transport that was to take us over there. As we left our dear old country and bid adieu to the Statue of Liberty in a mist of rain, so our view of land was hidden. Our trip was eventful until the night of the 1st when we collided with a French Schooner. For instance, in the South African dropdown list there are the important ports of Durban (Port Natal) and Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay). Pvt. The passenger train was carrying 342 travellers and 10 crew, with two crew on the cargo train, Hellenic Train data showed. Hong Kong is included under China. We had been on the destroyer since 10 oclock that morning.
ArchivesSearch | Queensland State Archives | Queensland Government He has no known grave and is recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent, UK. Pvt. 61541: Wayne. 1 from Fort Screven Georgia, and sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918. The destroyer Mounsey pulled alongside to rescue the men and Cpl. His daughter Barbara Dilts Joike reflects; "I also do not have many memories of him. Please note that different ships with the same name have not been distinguished in the ship search. Horn would have joined the 57th Artillery as a replacement late in the war. Applications for any other use should be made to. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton and London. 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. 1949: Resumed Australian service.
Ellis Island Passenger Lists 1903 | GG Archives - Gjenvick This page is owned by Joe Hartwell 2003-2019 Strong enough that one had to hold on to something to keep from being blown over.
Passenger list Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster General MB Stewart arrived at the port of New York from Bremenhaven on 22 Feb 1952 - two manifest pages have been transcribed partial passenger list. In 1953 the two rival vessels clashed at sea and almost come to grief. This information will help us make improvements to the website. He enlisted into the Ohio National Guard at Cincinnati, Ohio on 17 March 1917. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. Your ancestor may have arrived as an individual or with family. S.A.R., [September Automatic Replacement] C.A.C., 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. Edward Lewis Williams was a coal miner living in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 24 July 1918 at the age of 20 1/2 years old. Her name is Brooke and she lives in Napier, New Zealand. This information was shared with me by a relative of Seaman Ludlow. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. SBS TV | SBS Radio | SBS On Demand, news, sport, food, movies Able Seaman Fuller, J.69782 was a member of the crew of the HMS Otranto and was killed during the sinking on October 6, 1918. This story of Pvt. That is, passengers may go to sleep Wednesday night and find that it is still Wednesday when they arise the next morning. Partner websites are free to search but there may be a charge to view full transcriptions and download documents. Kashmir off the coast of Scotland. Dull was born in Wood County, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Arcanum, Ohio. If you do open up a destination port drop-down list, you will see an A-Z alphabetical list of available ports. This information on Cpl. 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. Commander: Captain O. Cppers. He is survived by his parents and one brother, Cornelius of 132 South Hall street. This photo is previous to his service on the Otranto and is of a group of sailors from the HMS Pembroke. Once on deck the men were faced with very strong winds. These lists recorded details on all persons arriving at U.S. ports on ATS ships. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 with Casual Company No. Journey to Australia: Tall Trees Family History DEPARTURES: 1822-1869 London, England Liverpool, England Locally he was known as 'Charley'. U.S.N.S. 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. 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. crew, passengers, military. Again, lots of love to all. 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 The Castle of Otranto, novel by Horace Walpole, published under a pseudonym in 1764 (though first editions bear the next year's date). He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company No. 1957 Aug. 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. Port of arrival. These duplicate lists have been scanned to preserve the integrity of the BT27 dataset. Pvt. It is awful to think of Clyde as going down in that terrible water. Discover more about Washington, Seattle Passenger Lists, 1890-1957. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. There was a great inrush of water, which of course would soon send her to the bottom. The mass emigration from Norway started about 1865-66, after the Civil War was over. Mounsey managed to take off several hundred soldiers and crewman 431 died. In 1942 she was modified to carry landing craft as a Landing ship, infantry. September Automatic Replacement Draft Unit No.
Maritime Timetable Images - Archives 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. As well as giving you additional information, sea departure cards give you a chance to view a person's signature.
ORIENT LINE PASSENGER LIST RMS ORONTES Australia service 1953 EMIGRANTS He was drowned during the sinking.
Passenger List on Apple Podcasts A solution is being designed so that customers will only be charged once for the information contained within these duplicate pages. Year Title Description Download ; 1926 : Hatarana : 232/1926 - Hatarana : PDF: 1926 : Mongolia The Azores, the Canaries and Madeira are given their own identities within the destination country list. Passenger lists before 1820 included name, departure information and arrival details. 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. HMS Otranto men listed on The Australian Naval War Memorial in Canberra: M. McNally, lost while serving on the Otranto. The Alfred brings no mail. 1891-1954 immigration passenger lists: During the first decades of the 20th century, the . 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. 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. A full account of the Johnson-Jeffries fight was received from the Macedonia's operator on Monday. 1948-9: Fitted out as a one class ship at Birkenhead. The photo on the right shows five HMS Otranto crewmen. 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.
About Australia: Orient Line Migrant Ships Pvt. 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. View all Works.
U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists Radabaugh was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. Barrow. This matching process enables a researcher to search by country when they do not know to which port within the country their passenger sailed. His father, Henry J. Swadner, Arcanum, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. 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. I wrote you last Monday saying that I had landed safely. Of course, our first thought was a torpedo, but were told that it was nothing serious. I cannot write any more. William Brumit was killed on 6 October, 1918 during the sinking of the Otranto. HMS Otranto men listed on the Toddington St. George Roll of Honour, Bedfordshire, England: Benjamin Lewitt, Otranto Ship's Surgeon, killed during the sinking. The Passengers of the May Flower in 1620 [pg 47] Passengers of the Mary and John, p. 265.
Ships and Passenger Lists of Polish WW2 DPs arriving from Africa and Europe 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). However, within this alphabetical listing there is also an entry called New Zealand. He enlisted 5 April, 1917 from Ottawa, Kansas. Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. This is an incomplete list of American and British men who were killed during the sinking: Pvt. Private Pearl B. Horn, USA, likely taken at Fort Dade, which was on Egmont Island in the Tampa Bay Harbor. Please note that not all ports are sea ports. The Otranto is the first of the new Orient liners to be fitted with wireless, and during her present trip she was able to maintain communication with 23 shore stations and 45 steamers. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 30 July 1918 at the age of 19 years 8 months old. She had a displacement of 12,124 gross tons and 535.3 x 64.0 x 38.6ft . This means that there can be two or even three originals of some of the passenger lists within the BT27 series. C1E 8B0. Radabaugh was born in Connersville, West Virginia about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived at R. F. D. 4, Marietta, Ohio.
Ship Descriptions - O - TheShipsList Original lists (1883-1891) also survived. New York Passengers (1820-1891) - familysearch: Searching for New York Passengers up to 1891 in One Step New York Passengers (1925-1957) - familysearch: Searching for New York Passengers from 1925 onward in One Step All NY Ship Lists (1820-1957) - familysearch: Searching for Ships in all New York Microfilms in One Step Redirecting to https://www.shf.org.au/archives-research/ephemera/ephemera-otranto. In addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger lists, copied from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm, M237, rolls 95-580 and T715 . The list contains: Non-Convict name, title, ship, contact name and e-mail address.
Passenger Lists 1845 - 1940 | State Records of South Australia His detachment was sailing aboard the Otranto and Sgt. Customs Passenger Lists between 1820 and 1891 asked for each immigrant's name, their age, their sex, their occupation, and their country of origin, but not the city or town of origin. 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. Try an Ancestry.com Free Trial and Ancestry.ca Free Trial Genealogy Mystery Book! As well as searching for your ancestors in the passenger lists by their name it is also possible to browse by ship. Roy C. Dilts was most likely in the same unit from Ft. Screven, Georgia as Cpl. Newsome was born in Belvidere, North Carolina about 1897 and at the time of enlistment he lived at R. F. D. 5, London, Ohio. The Hirt family have run a nursery and greenhouse business in Strongsville, Ohio since 1915 and they do business throughout the world. 1888-1940 are the official passenger lists for people arriving in Port Adelaide from overseas. Pvt. 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. Westfal Larsen. 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. Able Seaman Ludlow was in the British Royal Navy and was a crewman on the Otranto. Firstly, the simple calculation ignores the date of voyage within the year: for instance, a passenger who was aged 21 and who travelled on 1st January 1911 is more likely to have been born in 1889, while a passenger of the same age who travelled on 31st December 1911 is much more likely to have been born in 1890, yet both will displayed in your results with the calculated year of birth of 1890. Analysis. For instance, Curacao (West Indies) and Caracas (Venezuela) can look extremely similar and it is not always possible to be confident that you have identified the correct place (not least because a single voyage to the Caribbean could conceivably call at both places). We finally managed to get below to safety but it was a trying hour, believe me. When the destroyer reached port he was virtually frozen stiff to the railings and they had difficulty prying him loose.. In many cases, the country is self-evident, i.e., Boston is of course in USA, Melbourne in Australia and so on.
PolandGenWeb Archives - RootsWeb Where an age is given for a passenger in the original list, we have calculated the approximate year of birth using the simple subtraction of the age from the year of voyage. Orient. About this time the HMS Mounsey was coming along side and the swells crashed the two ships together. In addition, crew on passenger lists are not normally shown, although the captain or master is usually named on the header pages and some pre-printed and other lists do give details of senior staff. We did not suffer any damages, but the schooner was sent to the bottom. 406. Some shipping lines produced passenger lists in duplicate or even triplicate for the Board of Trade. Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee about 1894 and at the time of enlistment he lived at 615 E. 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Hirt was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. Blair Witch launched the "found footage" horror trope and Otranto inaugurated the "Gothic." Interestingly enough, Otranto also employs a "found footage" gimmick with its first edition, pretending that the original manuscript was hundreds of years old, unearthed from the . Twentieth century lists include even more details and can give the town or county of origin, as well as the names of other family members, destination, physical description, and . This means that you are likely to find what initially appear to be discrepancies when you click through to the image of the passenger list. Pvt. Swadner was born in Greenville, Ohio about 1898 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Arcanum, Ohio. Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. I remember my Grandmother complaining there was no white flour only brown, I remember seeing maple syrup in cans shaped like a log cabin with the chimney a pouring spout, that was used in place of sugar. John was born in Allentown on 19 January, 1884. I am sure if he was lost you will hear it from Washington before you get this letter. Dilts was given to me by his daughter Barbara Dilts Joike who on December 17, 2004, turned 90 years old. There is a header, providing details about the ship and its voyage. Geoffrey already had three brothers living in Australia. Born November 27, 1893 in Poplar, London. 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. Belfast, Ireland. If you want to search all ports within a destination country, do not select a destination port. Pvt. Names of places have been standardised in the port dropdown list, of course, but also in the transcriptions. The names of wives and children were often not included. Biographies of many transatlantic sea captains and commanders from the 1880s through the early 1900s.
Passenger lists | National Library of Australia This ripped a large hole in her side at the point where the ships hospital was. An impulse seemed to tell me to jump, so I jumped and landed safely on the bow of the ship.
Oct 12, 1918 ~ 372 U.S. Soldiers Lost in Sinking of Otranto The Castle of Otranto The First Edition Preface Summary & Analysis William Patrick Battle, Jr. was from Augusta, Georgia.
Passenger Lists - Ancestry Date. He is buried in the Kilchoman Cemetery, Islay, West Coast of Scotland, Grave site 7.131. View the catalogue description for. She was Orient Line's second ship of that name. Otranto was in service until 1957, when she was sold for scrap. I was brought up to the hospital with a number of others that had been hurt. You can never know what it was like until you have been upon a storming sea. Swadner was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. Give my love to all the others and love and kisses to you, the dearest of mothers! Passenger Lists From Ireland - 1803 - #1 Passenger List From Ireland - 1803 - #2 Bowditch, Liverpool to NY, May 1839 One had to hold to something to keep from being swept overboard. He was selected for the September Automatic Draft from Ft. Screven troops, for duty in France. 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. We had no hopes-to jump into the sea meant death, for one could not live long in such a mad sea. Geiger is buried in Kilchoman, Ireland as there is a cross in a cemetery there marked as: America Pvt. It is now Sunday afternoon and I shall write you an account of myself. The Orient Line, along with the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, were the two British based shipping lines that pioneered and dominated the passage of migrants by sea to Australia and other colonial outposts in the Orient, such as India, Malaysia and Hong Kong since the 1850s. Norwegian Police Emigration Records (1867 - 1973). 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. I lived with my maternal grandparents most of my growing up years." 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.
Washington, Seattle Passenger Lists, 1890-1957 - Findmypast One man survived by grabbing a large tub of lard that was floating by him. -The following American survivors of the Otranto, all of them privates, have been landed here: Charles E. Smithson, David R. Roberts, George S. Taylor, Earle Garver, Stewart Early [Early Steward], Noah Taylor, William Cooney, Robert F. Schaun, Thomas A. Kelly, Ben Smith, Robert Brown, Joseph S. Richards, William Richards, Emil Peterson, Joseph M. He was listed as working for the Y.M.C.A. One of them was brother Clydes top sergeant Sergt. Likewise German ships which would naturally include an umlaut in their name may be spelt with a 'u' or with a 'ue'. He joined the Army on a whim to help his family out of poverty. Pvt. It will be quite well in a few days and I will be able to leave here. (note: Jennings is shown as age 1 in this census, again a good indication that 1898 is correct) A family history article by Peggy Haywood Gregory is found on page 225 of The Heritage of Union County, North Carolina, 1842-1992, Vol. Read tagging guidelines. The indexing is complete only for the assisted immigrant programme through to 1888. Pvt. Kish was born in Cleveland, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Cleveland, Ohio. Battle was drowned during the sinking on October 6, 1918. Rafts and crushed lifeboats were used between the two ships so she would not be hit so hard. He sailed on the Otranto with Casual Company No. [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]. 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. Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 Discover your ancestors who left Ireland and Great Britain between 1890 and 1960. He told me about it only once, and only briefly, when I was a teenager, in response to my question as to his military experience.
United States Emigration and Immigration FamilySearch Dilts tried to jump from the Otranto onto the Mounsey and fell in between. 56 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate surface area of 2,688 square feet (250m2) heated her boilers. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 17 October 1918 at the age of 18 years 6 months old. ORIENT LINE PASSENGER LIST RMS ORONTES Australia service 1953 EMIGRANTS - $97.58. Passenger lists dating between: 1845-1886 record emigrants selected by the Colonization Commissioners London, whose passage were paid for out of the Emigration Fund. It is a wonder that the destroyer (the Mounsey) wasnt torn to pieces, for sometimes she would be a wave higher than our ship, then she would be far below; then she would come up again near us. Wherever possible, given destination ports are those of the passenger not of the ship. 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. 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. But I meant to do all in my power to make good. You can search these arrival records in our collection. He and others had climbed to the top deck on the port side. 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. I thank one for my safety, and I pray for brothers and my chums safety. There was no loss of life, as we picked up all of the crew, of thirty-six French sailors. Union 1867, 2800 tons, 325ft x 40 ft. Weser 1867, 2870 tons, 325ft x 40ft. Some are decorative and beautiful historical documents, others are more functional in their appearance. Able Body Seaman, Francis Edwin Turner, Royal Navy, Service No. He is buried in Grave 190 in Kilchomen, Islay Island, Scotland. Pvt. see description line storage D28 144038857786
Passenger Lists: The Meaning Behind the Notations, Abbreviations, and He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. You need to bear in mind also that a significant proportion of passengers are shown on the original list without an age - these 'blank' ages are shown in your returned results together with those of the right year of birth, so that you can consider them as well. Write to me soon and tell others to write to me. Forces. 1903-06-30 SS Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse Passenger List. "MED" or medical reasons. Weeks was from Waynesboro, Georgia and was assigned to the September Automatic Replacement Draft at Ft. Screven. 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. They would carry passengers to America, and take cargo back for Europe. Kashmir also carring American troops, in Machir Bay off the North coast of Islay, Scotland, drifted ashore and became a total wreck. The National Archives has passenger arrival records, sometimes called "ship passenger lists," for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and December 1982 (with gaps). J. C. Geiger, 3372653, 6 October, 1918", Victor Don Perrin shared his fathers story of the account of the HMS Otranto collision in WW I. Victor Don Perrin writes about his father, My father, a 22 year old doughboy, survived that collision.