This matching process enables a researcher to search by country when they do not know to which port within the country their passenger sailed. 1965 P&O acquired the whole of the Orient Line shareholding and the company became a P&O subsidiary. Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 Discover your ancestors who left Ireland and Great Britain between 1890 and 1960. Ft. Screven, American Ex. Passenger lists are not always clear or precise as to their exact routes and any ports of call on their way to their final destination. Pvt. The destroyer Mounsey pulled alongside to rescue the men and Cpl. After the War my hometown erected a monument to honor the men who had died in service from my town. SBS TV | SBS Radio | SBS On Demand, news, sport, food, movies When World War II broke out in 1939 the Admiralty requisitioned Otranto and had her converted into a troop ship. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Geiger of 527 Lawrence street received official word last evening and his mother is grief stricken as there existed between them a remarkably deep feeling of affection. However, in some cases there are cards without corresponding lists, as well as lists without cards. Just a few days before his enlistment he bought himself a new automobile for her pleasure. Pvt. Many passengers are described as going on a round trip or a tourist cruise, and these are all grouped together under the single header Round Voyage. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? Others were on deck, but their hold wasnt very good and they were swept overboard. Additionally, this record set contains no incoming voyages to Britain. If a port is not in the drop-down list, this means that (to the best of our knowledge) there are no sailings from it. Oct 12, 1918 ~ 372 U.S. Soldiers Lost in Sinking of Otranto Able Body Seaman, Francis Edwin Turner, Royal Navy, Service No. 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. 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. However, in a few minutes we got orders to go up on C deck with life preservers, which we did in a calm manner. Forces. United States Emigration and Immigration FamilySearch "7h:100c:95f" was written by Kevin Rodriguez and Lauren Shippen. However, within this alphabetical listing there is also an entry called New Zealand. 1891-1954 immigration passenger lists: Eastward bound ships when crossing this line observe the same date twice. 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. Victor D. continues about his father in later life, He was a successful businessman in Atlanta, Georgia, his hometown. [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. It was a ruby with pearls around it. 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. Lauch was assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Screven, Georgia. 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. 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 Assisted immigrant ships 1832-1889. printable version. Discover more about Washington, Seattle Passenger Lists, 1890-1957. Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. 1, from Ft. Screvens, Georgia. Passenger lists before 1820 included name, departure information and arrival details. Sea departure cards are marked on the search results as 'card'. First Settlers of New Hampshire. Passengers - The National Archives 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. 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. It is awful to think of Clyde as going down in that terrible water. 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. Pvt. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. He sailed aboard the HMS Otranto on the 25th September 1918 and he was killed during the 6 October sinking of the Otranto. We did not suffer any damages, but the schooner was sent to the bottom. Sea Captains Biographical Sketches - Gjenvick Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. He said that he had to spend a couple days in the hospital (did not say where, but from articles, it may have been Belfast) and then on to England for final training before being sent over to France. Paul Horn continues, What I recall from my conversation with my dad, was the story of having to go to the "front" area and with many others from those units in the rear, having to pickup the dead soldiers left on the field. For example, you may know that your passenger sailed to Chile without knowing whether he or she disembarked at, say, Antofagasta, Iquique or Valparaiso. These ships' names have also been standardised, i.e., Munchen/Muenchen is listed under Munchen only. Searching passenger lists - Archives New Zealand Such duplicates were written out again by hand (not produced using carbon paper). 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). Herbert A. Dodd listed above. I waited until she came alongside for the last time. 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. 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. He has no known grave and is recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent, UK. 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 . SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS - Olive Tree Genealogy He joined the Army on a whim to help his family out of poverty. Variations of spelling have been standardised as far as possible to avoid confusion and to ease searching. 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. privacy policy, Need more context? Secondly, a passenger who is shown as aged 30 on a voyage on 10th June 1935 may have been travelling on their 30th birthday and only just turned 30, or they may have been on the eve of their 31st birthday. I was brought up to the hospital with a number of others that had been hurt. crew, passengers, military. Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. 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. Hirt was shared with me by Roy Pfundstein ( who was a friend of the family. 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. Generally, in our experience, cards give more biographical information than their matching lists. The Castle of Otranto Characters | GradeSaver Orient Line - R.M.S. Ormonde 1917 to 1952 - Page Two Pvt. Who First name (s) Name variants Last name Name variants 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. There is no single, standard format. 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. Route: Bremen to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg. U.S.N.S. These are digitised records from two. Read tagging guidelines. Passenger lists - The National Archives He was drowned during the sinking. 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 William Brumit was killed on 6 October, 1918 during the sinking of the Otranto. This will allow you to view all of the voyages that a ship undertook from the UK, between 1890 and 1960. Some shipping lines produced passenger lists in duplicate or even triplicate for the Board of Trade. 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. 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. Geiger is buried in Kilchoman, Ireland as there is a cross in a cemetery there marked as: America Pvt. When we landed I found I couldnt walk very well. Baltimore 1868, 2321 tons, 285ft x 39ft. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Pearl B. Horn passed away in 1969. 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. View all Works. It is now Sunday afternoon and I shall write you an account of myself. You need to sign in to tag. If you are unsure how a name was spelt, or cannot find it with the usual spelling, try using the wildcard facility.