Geoffrey already had three brothers living in Australia. Otranto then resumed her pre-war role as a passenger liner, now refitted to carry 1,412 tourist-class passengers. 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. We were wet and cold, but were told that we would reach port in two hours. He has no known grave and is recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent, UK. 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 father, Samuel Dull of Arcanum, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. After being in the water for about 2 hours he finally made it to shore looking like a giant grease ball. Not all lists have survived. Dull was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. . Arrived at Faslane for scrapping by British Iron & Steel Corp. You can never know what it was like until you have been upon a storming sea. 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. Eastward bound ships when crossing this line observe the same date twice. Dr. Bowden, surgeon-superintendent, reports them to be in a highly healthy state, no diseases but measles having exhibited itself. Pvt. He enlisted 12 March, 1918 from Beloit, Kansas and was assigned to the 4th Co. CAC, Ft. Screven. 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. However, given the size of the database, unless you are dealing with a rare or distinctive name, you may find that you need to select a country (or to work through a selection of counties one at a time) for your results to be manageable. The ship was named after the town of Otranto in Apulia in southern Italy. By providing the drop-down list, we save a researcher from searching for information which is not within the database. 1817-1829 : Indexes of Tasmanian Convicts (Tasmania GenWeb) - inculdes several passenger lists 1817-1829. Six hundred men owe their lives to him. 56 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate surface area of 2,688 square feet (250m2) heated her boilers. 1949: Resumed Australian service. One man survived by grabbing a large tub of lard that was floating by him. Debbie Baker tells of Clifford Ardell Carpenter her 2nd great-grand-uncle sailing aboard the HMS Otranto. This was some consolation, but it was 8:30 Sunday night when we landed. Just a few days before his enlistment he bought himself a new automobile for her pleasure. There was no loss of life, as we picked up all of the crew, of thirty-six French sailors. McAfee was born in Coldwater, Ohio about 1897 and at the time of enlistment he lived at R. F. D. 1, Coldwater, Ohio. Hudson was from Jakin, Georgia and was assigned to the September Automatic Replacement Draft from Ft. Screven. This information was shared with me by a relative of Seaman Ludlow. 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. Ascension is included under St Helena. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 2, from Fort Screven Georgia. 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 I had looked for brother but was unable to find him. Passenger lists dating between: 1845-1886 record emigrants selected by the Colonization Commissioners London, whose passage were paid for out of the Emigration Fund. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Barrow. Date. The sea was mountainous and the hurricane bit in, and he can remember his grandfather saying: "I will never forget it." length 482ft x beam 58.2ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw, speed 10 knots, accommodation for 12-1st class passengers. Looking for . Wherever we can, we have paired each port with its matching country. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by John Scott Dryden; co-written and co-directed by Lauren Shippen; and edited and sound designed by Mark Henry Phillips, who also composed the music for the show. I was the only War Orphan in my town and that is why I was selected to unveil the monument. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. example: 1847 passenger list . Pvt. Commanders of Trans-Atlantic Steamships - 1894. These voyages often called en route at additional ports, including those in Europe, and any passengers disembarking at these stops are included. What do I need to know before I start? Pvt. 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. Your account confirms what he told me. 1939: Troopship. In 1919 P&O Line acquired a controlling interest in Orient Line. Present at the North African, Sicilian & Italian landings. Westward bound ships when crossing the line skip a day, and . 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. KAITLIN - Kelly Marie Tran RORY - Ben Daniels PROFESSOR ALCOTTE - Cyril Nri MARIANNE - Carlyss Peer CONOR - Akie Kotabe NADJULA - Munirih Grace HARRIS - Kerry Shale AGENT MURPHY- Danielle Lewis OTHER VOICES: Laurel Lefkow, Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Gianna Kiehl, Eric Sirakian, Chris Kelly, Maddy Kelly, Merk Nguyen 28 min Steamship Line: Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd) Class of Passengers: Cabin. This matching process enables a researcher to search by country when they do not know to which port within the country their passenger sailed. Mounsey managed to take off several hundred soldiers and crewman 431 died. Edward was assigned to Fort Screvena, Georgia to train for war. London: SS Otranto (Orient Line) travelling from Brisbane to London. 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 sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. 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. Paul F. Smith service number 793373 was killed during the sinking of the Otranto on 6 October, 1918. 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. Born in Union County, North Carolina he was the son of Reese & Tabitha/Tobitha (Helms) Haywood. 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. He was selected for the September Automatic Draft from Ft. Screven troops, for duty in France. What kind of passenger records do we hold? Although the destroyer H.M.S. Sergeant Battle enlisted into the Army on July 8, 1918 at Fort Screven, Georgia, and was attached to the Coast Artillery Corps. I was brought up to the hospital with a number of others that had been hurt. RMS Otranto was an ocean liner that was built for the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1925. We had quite a bit of rain, and a heavy sleet fell upon us too. Passing time with a boxing match on board the HMS Otranto with Seaman Francis Edwin Turner on the left and an unidentified sailor from another ship on the right. He was 20 years old at the time he enlisted and was born in Montgomery, Alabama and lived at the home of his father George W. Smith, at 1111 E. Lurna St. in Pensacola, Florida at the time he enlisted. privacy policy, Need more context? September Automatic Replacement Draft Unit No. The wildcard is denoted by a * and can be used in both the first name and the last name search fields. As well as giving you additional information, sea departure cards give you a chance to view a person's signature. 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. 406 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. Some destination ports can be difficult to distinguish in the early handwritten records. HMS Otranto men listed on the Toddington St. George Roll of Honour, Bedfordshire, England: Benjamin Lewitt, Otranto Ship's Surgeon, killed during the sinking. Passenger lists usually give details of the overseas port to which the passenger is sailing, while remaining silent on the country in which the port is situated. View the catalogue description for. 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. We were delayed four or five hours. For example, if there are no sailings from Ramsgate in Kent, there is no point in a researcher typing Ramsgate in a search field. Dilts tried to jump from the Otranto onto the Mounsey and fell in between. This photo is previous to his service on the Otranto and is of a group of sailors from the HMS Pembroke. He is buried in the Kilchoman Cemetery, Islay, West Coast of Scotland, Grave site 7.131. He could never finish telling the events of the sinking, as he would be come very upset. Pvt. Was assigned to Machine Gun Company K, 1st Kansas Infantry (Co. K 137th Infantry). Otranto accidentally collided with the Japanese steamer Kitano Maru[4] in August 1928, heavily damaging her. He helps Isabella escape from the castle during Manfred's suspenseful pursuit, while also attracting the . [1], In 1926 Otranto was slightly damaged when she struck a rock at Cape Grosso, Greece during a heavy rainstorm. She was 632.0 feet (192.6m) long between perpendiculars, had a beam of 75.2 feet (22.9m) and a draught of 37feet 6inches (11.43m). In February 1957 she made her final voyage, from the UK to Sydney, Australia via Cape Town, South Africa. 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 list contains: Non-Convict name, title, ship, contact name and e-mail address. Assisted immigrant ships 1832-1889. printable version. Discover your ancestors who left Ireland and Great Britain between 1890 and 1960. Australian Shipping 1788-1968: Vessels arriving by year. Of course, our first thought was a torpedo, but were told that it was nothing serious. For these two reasons, we use a default +/- 2 years when you search by year of birth. Lisa Hughson related about her grandfather Owen Tucker and his brother Edward Tucker both from Liverpool, England who were both crewmen aboard the HMS Otranto when she sank with both brothers surviving the sinking. 1888-1940 are the official passenger lists for people arriving in Port Adelaide from overseas. 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. However, two points need to be noted. For November and December 1960 only, sea departure cards are available to view, as well as the regular passenger lists, in some cases. Demise. 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. She took part in the invasions of French North Africa (Operation Torch), Sicily (Operation Husky) and Italy (Operation Avalanche). He was a very handsome man, played the mandoline and used to whistle 'Listen to the Mocking Bird' when he went past our house. Please note that not all ports are sea ports. 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. And many of these men were from the State of Georgia. My injury isnt very much only a bruised thigh. Roger Mary knows him. There is a memorial tombstone for him erected in the Cooks Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rockingham County, Virginia that says: "Lost at sea on the Otranto off the coast of Scotland". Our trip was eventful until the night of the 1st when we collided with a French Schooner. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. Was assigned to the Spetember Automatic Replacement Draft and was drowned on the Otranto when she was sunk on October 6. He did say that it was a needed but terrible job to have to perform over a two-week period.. I can remember standing in front of my mother at the funeral parlor and seeing his coffin with the flag over it. 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. Synopsis It is now Sunday afternoon and I shall write you an account of myself. 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. 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. Read tagging guidelines. L. Baldry contacted me about his grandfather, Francis Edwin Turner who was a crewman on the HMS Otranto. 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. RMS Otranto was an ocean liner that was built for the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1925. 1891-1954 immigration passenger lists: These lists recorded details on all persons arriving at U.S. ports on ATS ships. If the card is for a child, you will be able to view the relevant parent's detail on the reverse of the card; similarly, if you find a parent travelling with a child, you will be able to view both sides of the card for the same charge. Just then a great wave rushed over the top and I was completely under water that was icy cold. Rhein 1868, 2901 tons, 332ft x 40ft. 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. 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 By 11:00 am it was all over the Otranto was gone with many men and those who survived were taken to Belfast, Ireland. In 1942 she was modified to carry landing craft as a Landing ship, infantry. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 30 July 1918 at the age of 19 years 8 months old. Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee about 1894 and at the time of enlistment he lived at 615 E. 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Register of Immigrants: Otranto, 1911-1912 Access status Open Previous System Identifier DID39118 Description Register of passengers on immigrant ships arriving in Queensland Format PDF . The passenger lists are arranged in chronological order of arrival of ships 1898-1963 and aircraft 1952-1963 interfiled (note: during 1945 a number of military flights ferried passengers and military personnel into Perth - these were usually Catalinas or Liberators which are denoted by a 5 letter call sign, e.g., G.AGUK, G.AGFM). We hold permanent records created by Federal agencies and courts in the following states: New Jersey New York Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands Hours and Address Enlarge Directions Address One Bowling Green, Room 328 New York, NY 10004 Phone: 212-401-1620 Toll-free: 1-866-840-1752 Fax: 212-401-1638 Email: newyork.archives@nara.gov Hours Similarly "Under 16" was indicative of minor children not traveling to reunite with a parent. Clifford Ardell Carpenter - Born 21 October 1876 in Oconomowoc, WI, died 6 October 1918 off the Coast of Scotland during the sinking of the Otranto. Likewise German ships which would naturally include an umlaut in their name may be spelt with a 'u' or with a 'ue'. 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. William Patrick Battle, Jr. was from Augusta, Georgia. In most instances, you will find more information by looking at the image of the list. Port of arrival. Marshal claims that the manuscript takes place "in the darkest ages of Christianity" but that the story's language is far . S.A.R., [September Automatic Replacement] C.A.C., He had served 16 years in the navy prior to the war and was called up again in August 1914. C1E 8B0. 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. Theodore, the son of Friar Jerome and savior of Isabella, is the true heir of the Castle of Otranto. You may search for a ship by entering the first letter of the name. 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. Passenger lists on ships continued until 1965, when cards completely replaced lists for both air and sea travel. He is survived by his parents and one brother, Cornelius of 132 South Hall street. mc N 761, in the Family History Area. This page is owned by Joe Hartwell 2003-2019 Pearl B. Horn passed away in 1969. A few destinations in Africa which have yet to be allocated a country are included under Africa in the dropdown list. Lauch was born in Cleveland, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived at 249 W. Forrer St., Cincinnati, Ohio. In each case, viewing the image of the passenger list will reveal the exact term used and the precise destination of the passenger. Seaman Francis Edwin Turner is marked with the "X", middle of the back row. 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. 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. It is awful to think of Clyde as going down in that terrible water. He is buried in Grave 190 in Kilchomen, Islay Island, Scotland. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Fort Thomas, Kentucky on 17 July 1918 at the age of 20 years 3 months old. 718867. He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company 1, from Fort Screven Georgia. Edward Lewis Williams was aboard the HMS Otranto when it sank. Sgt. 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. Names of places have been standardised in the port dropdown list, of course, but also in the transcriptions. 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. Journey to Australia: Tall Trees Family History DEPARTURES: 1822-1869 London, England Liverpool, England He was selected as part of the September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company No. Baltimore 1868, 2321 tons, 285ft x 39ft. Researchers should note that there is no strict geographical relation between, for example, a passenger's last address within the British Isles and the port from which they embarked overseas. Not long after breakfast, about 9:30 oclock, we felt a great jar. 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. 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. 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. Discover more about Washington, Seattle Passenger Lists, 1890-1957. Thomas and Margaret Goodwin had a son named Charles Goodwin who served in the Scottish Rifles and was killed in action during WWI just two years earlier at the Battle of the Somme when only 19-years of age and he is buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, France. The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. Replacement Unit #1, was being transported aboard the Otranto. ORIENT LINE PASSENGER LIST RMS ORONTES Australia service 1953 EMIGRANTS - $97.58. 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. Both were game-changers which popularized a new genre. Some are decorative and beautiful historical documents, others are more functional in their appearance.

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