Free immigration to Tasmania 1803-1946. Able Seaman Thomas Goodwin, Royal Navy Service Number 192409, was the son of Roger & Rebecca Goodwin and husband of Margaret. 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. Edward's body was later washed ashore in Scotland. 1954 Nov 10. L. Baldry. 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. Looking for . S.S. Graf Waldersee arrived at the port of Philadelphia from Hamburg on 1 September 1913 - page 17 has been transcribed: page 17. For instance, in the South African dropdown list there are the important ports of Durban (Port Natal) and Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay). He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. Bennett was from Woodeliff, Georgia and took basic training at Ft. Screven. 1938 The Australia service extended to New Zealand. However, if you know that a particular passenger left from a particular port, or are only interested in passengers sailing from a particular port, you can select (for instance) Southampton from the list. The sea departure cards are not linked to corresponding passenger lists (where they exist), and so you may be returned two results for the same person on the same voyage. 1954 Nov 12. Try an Ancestry.com Free Trial and Ancestry.ca Free Trial Genealogy Mystery Book! Once on deck the men were faced with very strong winds. You may search for a ship by entering the first letter of the name. The passenger lists in BT27 include long-haul voyages to destinations outside Britain and Europe. Pvt. Charles' body was recovered and buried in England. Swadner was born in Greenville, Ohio about 1898 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Arcanum, Ohio. This photo is previous to his service on the Otranto and is of a group of sailors from the HMS Pembroke. Theodore, the son of Friar Jerome and savior of Isabella, is the true heir of the Castle of Otranto. You can search and download lists of ships' passengers entering and leaving the United Kingdom from and for ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean. Lisa continues, They were both very young men at the time. Otranto was in service until 1957, when she was sold for scrap. The records are arranged by port or airport of arrival. Passenger List is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. It is awful to think of Clyde as going down in that terrible water. He could never finish telling the events of the sinking, as he would be come very upset. 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. Pvt. Pvt. He was selected for the September Automatic Draft from Ft. Screven troops, for duty in France. The conditions of the sea at that time were swells of 15 to 20 feet or more and men were being thrown across the deck of the ship. His mother, Mrs. Sam Smith, 348 Kilgore St., Cincinnati, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. His mother, Mrs. Martha McAfee, R. F. D. 1, Coldwater, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. 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. It is not known what the reason for his death was. 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. Her tonnages were 20,032gross register tons(GRT), 12,031net register tons(NRT) and 12,228 tons under deck. The three parts of a list may be on a single page or spread over two or more pages. These duplicate lists have been scanned to preserve the integrity of the BT27 dataset. If you want to search all ports within a destination country, do not select a destination port. 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. Later in life Pearl B. Horn did not talk much about the war in an detail, but one day many years ago, he told his son, Paul Horn, a few things about that time and his limited experience in the last battle of WWI, Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Horn would have joined the 57th Artillery as a replacement late in the war. He is buried in the Chatham Naval Memorial, grave reference 28. 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. He enlisted 5 April, 1917 from Ottawa, Kansas. Read tagging guidelines. 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. After the War my hometown erected a monument to honor the men who had died in service from my town. Vessel. 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. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 17 October 1918 at the age of 18 years 6 months old. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. His father, Samuel Dull of Arcanum, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 with Casual Company No. Our ship, a British transport, the Otranto, was a large well-armed vessel. The wildcard is denoted by a * and can be used in both the first name and the last name search fields. In the Second World War the second Otranto was converted into a troop ship and a Landing ship, infantry. 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. According to Private Pearl B. Horns discharge paper, he was in Battery D of the 57th Artillery Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps. His father, John Lauch, 248 West Forrer St., Lockland, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. 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. She was sold for scrap in June. 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. Hirt was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. FOR SALE! It is now Sunday afternoon and I shall write you an account of myself. She took on a list very quickly and flooding into the engine room shorted out the generators and the lights went out. 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. I remember November 11, 1918 very well. 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. 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. View the catalogue description for. An impulse seemed to tell me to jump, so I jumped and landed safely on the bow of the ship. The sea was mountainous and the hurricane bit in, and he can remember his grandfather saying: "I will never forget it." His mother, Mrs. Lue Radabaugh, R. F. D. 4, Marietta, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. Passenger lists vary in size and in length, they changed over time, and different shipping lines had their own pre-printed forms. The records in this collection consist of passenger lists created between 1910 and 1939. Passengers For New England, 1638, pg 108. He has no known grave and is recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent, UK. As well as searching for your ancestors in the passenger lists by their name it is also possible to browse by ship. Most of them are small farmers, who intend settling upon the lands of tthe South Australian Company. She had a displacement of 12,124 gross tons and 535.3 x 64.0 x 38.6ft . Berlin 1868, 2333 tons, 285ft x 39ft. 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. 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. "SS Lucania" - partial passenger list for voyage from Ireland to New York in 1898 "Germanic" - partial passenger list for voyage from Queenstown, Ireland to New York in 1903. Lauch was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. Your ancestor may have arrived as an individual or with family. If you select this option, you will be returned only entries where New Zealand (rather than a more specific port) has been given on the passenger list. 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. SBS TV | SBS Radio | SBS On Demand, news, sport, food, movies Norwegian Police Emigration Records (1867 - 1973). 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. I know he was stationed at Savannah Georgia and a friend who had seen a picture of him in his uniform said that it was Coast Artillery. Pearl B. Horn passed away in 1969. Deutschland 1866, 2800 tons, 325ft x 40ft. 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. We had been on the destroyer since 10 oclock that morning. He was the son of Harrison C. Carpenter and Laura S. Grover, I (Debbie Baker) am descended from his sister, Mary Elizabeth Carpenter. His letter follows: Royal Victoria Hospital, Not all lists have survived. They then boarded a train in Wilkes Barre and rode into Baltimore, Maryland. 1965 P&O acquired the whole of the Orient Line shareholding and the company became a P&O subsidiary. Was assigned to the Spetember Automatic Replacement Draft and was drowned on the Otranto when she was sunk on October 6. Whilst the ships listed in the Passenger Lists records are all departing from ports in the UK, not all of the ships themselves are British. That is, passengers may go to sleep Wednesday night and find that it is still Wednesday when they arise the next morning. You can of course reduce this option to 'exact' or '+/- 1 year' but you may be less likely to achieve a successful result if you do. PASSENGER LISTS Journey to Australia Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild THE COMPASS PASSENGER LISTS If you find a ship you would like to research you will find the URL link under the site name and also at the bottom of the page. Lisa recalls that Owen Tucker, her grandfather never spoke about the disaster but his brother Edward Tucker did only when he had a couple of drinks. Seaman Turner made it safely and years later was able to tell his story to his grandson, Wayne. There is no single, standard format. For example, you may know that your passenger sailed to Chile without knowing whether he or she disembarked at, say, Antofagasta, Iquique or Valparaiso. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. Finally, the islands of the Caribbean have been grouped together under a single West Indies heading, with the exception of the large islands of Cuba, Haiti/Dominican Republic and Jamaica, which have their own entries. Hong Kong is included under China. Demise. 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. His father, Alfred K. Newsome, R. F. D. 5, London, Ohio, was notified as next of kin of his death. 1903-06-30 SS Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse Passenger List. Passenger List Page - Irish Genealogical Society - MN. Dull was born in Wood County, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Arcanum, Ohio. Let us know. Replacement Unit #1, was being transported aboard the Otranto. Smith was assigned to Co. G, 1st Infantry, Ohio National Guard (Co. G 148 Infantry). L. Baldry contacted me about his grandfather, Francis Edwin Turner who was a crewman on the HMS Otranto. Give my love to dear Mary and tell her there are hopes yet. 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 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. Edward Lewis Williams was a coal miner living in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA. I was brought up to the hospital with a number of others that had been hurt. 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. The National Archives holds detailed passenger records for arrivals and departures at all Australian ports from 1924. 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. All British ports found so far within the BT27 passenger lists are given in an alphabetical A-Z drop-down list. 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). 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. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. However, in some cases there are cards without corresponding lists, as well as lists without cards. McAfee was born in Coldwater, Ohio about 1897 and at the time of enlistment he lived at R. F. D. 1, Coldwater, Ohio. His detachment was sailing aboard the Otranto and Sgt. [7], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RMS_Otranto_(1925)&oldid=1124982995, This page was last edited on 1 December 2022, at 15:49. Pvt Smith enlisted into the Regular Army 8 March 1918 at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia. The passenger train was carrying 342 travellers and 10 crew, with two crew on the cargo train, Hellenic Train data showed. The dead were buried with military honors in a cemetery in Kilchoman on Islay. OTRANTO | Passengers in History OTRANTO OTRANTO - 1909 OTRANTO Modify Page Content Ship Details Rig Steel Twin Screw Steamer, 2000 nhp Built 1909 Built In Belfast Tonnage 12,124g 7,433n Built By Workman Clark & Co Dimensions 535'4 x 64' x 38'7" Demise Present at the North African, Sicilian & Italian landings. Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. (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. Vickers Armstrong built Otranto in its Barrow-in-Furness shipyard and launched her on 9 July 1925. Orient Steam Navigation Co./Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Outward sailings January-April 1882 (issued January 18, 1882) Vessel (s) Ports of call. "7h:100c:95f" was written by Kevin Rodriguez and Lauren Shippen. Corporal Herbert A. Dodd drowned 6 October, 1918 during the sinking of the Otranto. This was the first time I had realized that I had been hurt. Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. Passenger lists dating between: 1845-1886 record emigrants selected by the Colonization Commissioners London, whose passage were paid for out of the Emigration Fund. Mounsey managed to take off several hundred soldiers and crewman 431 died. HMS Otranto men listed on The Australian Naval War Memorial in Canberra: M. McNally, lost while serving on the Otranto. One man survived by grabbing a large tub of lard that was floating by him. The SS Rhein is listed among the following 14 sister-ships: Hermann 1865, 2873 tons, 318ft x 40ft. 406 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. This page is owned by Joe Hartwell 2003-2019 Biographies of many transatlantic sea captains and commanders from the 1880s through the early 1900s. 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. Was assigned to Machine Gun Company K, 1st Kansas Infantry (Co. K 137th Infantry). Kish was born in Cleveland, Ohio about 1899 and at the time of enlistment he lived in Cleveland, Ohio. 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. Wherever we can, we have paired each port with its matching country. For instance, if you search by last name without a first name, results without given forenames top the list, followed by the initials and exact first name matches in alphabetical order: if you click the First Name column header, results will be sorted so that the order is reversed and initials and first names top the list, with the blanks coming at the end of the list. Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 - Genes Reunited Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960 All Categories Armed Forces & Conflict Births, Marriages & Deaths Census, Land & Surveys Newspapers, Directories & Social History Travel & Migration Collections in this Category Colonial Service Passenger Lists Travel Records in this Collection The life boats were lowered to act as fenders between the two ships but boat after boat was smashed into matchwood. List of passengers disembarking at Southampton and London. 1817-1829 : Indexes of Tasmanian Convicts (Tasmania GenWeb) - inculdes several passenger lists 1817-1829. Names have also been standardised where they appear variously as one or two words, e.g., Ionic Star and Ionicstar. These are digitised records from two. Union 1867, 2800 tons, 325ft x 40 ft. Weser 1867, 2870 tons, 325ft x 40ft. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. Please note that different ships with the same name have not been distinguished in the ship search. 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. Six hundred men owe their lives to him. Pearl Horn told his son that they had to re-train on the Big French guns (his description) before going to the front. The ship Alfred, 635 tons, H. E. Decker, commander, from Hamburgh 20th August, and Rio 17th October, arrived last evening, with 275 passengers, chiefly from Silisea and Saxony. 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. Pvt. 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. Journey to Australia: Tall Trees Family History DEPARTURES: 1822-1869 London, England Liverpool, England Although the destroyer H.M.S. View all Works. Applications for any other use should be made to. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? By 11:00 am it was all over the Otranto was gone with many men and those who survived were taken to Belfast, Ireland. She reported to Admiral Cradock in his flagship, HMS Good Hope and then made her escape as she was no match for the German guns. 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. Orient. Our trip was eventful until the night of the 1st when we collided with a French Schooner. The mass emigration from Norway started about 1865-66, after the Civil War was over. Roy C. Dilts was most likely in the same unit from Ft. Screven, Georgia as Cpl. The first was a 1909 passenger liner that in 1914 became the armed merchant cruiser HMSOtranto and in 1918 was lost as a result of a collision. Passenger Lists From Ireland - 1803 - #1 Passenger List From Ireland - 1803 - #2 Bowditch, Liverpool to NY, May 1839 1888-1940 are the official passenger lists for people arriving in Port Adelaide from overseas. Pvt. Men were in the raging sea and clinging to anything that would float. We had quite a bit of rain, and a heavy sleet fell upon us too. September 25th saw the Otranto leaving America with a full load of troops on which, would be her last trip across the Atlantic. 718867. Synopsis Outgoing passenger lists (1890-1960) Search and download ( charges apply) lists of passengers boarding at UK and Irish ports and travelling to places such as America, Canada, India, New. Find a ship: In this database you will be able to find ships, not only those which departed directly from Norway, but also other transatlantic ships which carried emigrants. Edward was assigned to Fort Screvena, Georgia to train for war. 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. First Settlers of New Hampshire. She took part in the invasions of French North Africa (Operation Torch), Sicily (Operation Husky) and Italy (Operation Avalanche). In a letter to his mother, he tells in an interesting manner the story of the accident. He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 30 July 1918 at the age of 19 years 8 months old. Your account confirms what he told me. length 482ft x beam 58.2ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw, speed 10 knots, accommodation for 12-1st class passengers. He is buried in the Kilchoman Cemetery, Islay, West Coast of Scotland, Grave site 7.131. I was quite seasick for four days and nights, but I overcame that and felt good, although I would have been very glad to have seen land. Not long after breakfast, about 9:30 oclock, we felt a great jar. He was drowned during the sinking. He was listed as working for the Y.M.C.A. 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. 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 He enlisted into the Regular Army at Columbus Barracks, Ohio on 7 August 1918 at the age of 20 years 8 months old. We do not want for anything. Date of Departure: 30 June 1903. Belfast, Ireland. The indexing is complete only for the assisted immigrant programme through to 1888. 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. 1942 Nov.: Fitted out as an assault ship. A solution is being designed so that customers will only be charged once for the information contained within these duplicate pages. Dr. Bowden, surgeon-superintendent, reports them to be in a highly healthy state, no diseases but measles having exhibited itself. 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.

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