A Corkman’s Voyage to New York in the Year of the TitanicManuscript: A fascinating eight-page M/ss Journal of a Voyage to New York aboard the RMS Baltic from 17 to 20 September 1912. The Baltic, once the world’s largest ship, was a White Star liner that sailed the Atlantic between 1904 and 1933. she was involved in several dramatic incidents, including sending the famous iceberg warning to Titanic.the writer, who signs with his initials “B.H.” is thought to be Benjamin Haughton (1855 – 1932), a Quaker merchant of Cork who worked actively on behalf of various charitable organisations in the city; he was a member of the Senate of the Irish Free Sate from 1922 to 1928. On the voyage he was accompanied by his daughter (?) Marjorie, whose 19th birthday was celebrated the day before their arrival.Fellow-passengers included William Redmond, the passionate Irish nationalist MP and inveterate traveller; the socialite Adele Countess of Essex, and the former Bishop of Ripon William Boyd Carpenter, who preached a lugubrious sermon after a fireman named Doyle threw himself overboard and drowned.There are comments on fellow passengers and on the entertainments provided, which included lectures by two celebrated missionaries, Henry Hodgkin on “China” and Ralph Wardlow Thompson on “The Menace of Moslemism” As a m/ss. Rare. (1)
A Corkman’s Voyage to New York in the Year of the TitanicManuscript: A fascinating eight-page M/ss Journal of a Voyage to New York aboard the RMS Baltic from 17 to 20 September 1912. The Baltic, once the world’s largest ship, was a White Star liner that sailed the Atlantic between 1904 and 1933. she was involved in several dramatic incidents, including sending the famous iceberg warning to Titanic.the writer, who signs with his initials “B.H.” is thought to be Benjamin Haughton (1855 – 1932), a Quaker merchant of Cork who worked actively on behalf of various charitable organisations in the city; he was a member of the Senate of the Irish Free Sate from 1922 to 1928. On the voyage he was accompanied by his daughter (?) Marjorie, whose 19th birthday was celebrated the day before their arrival.Fellow-passengers included William Redmond, the passionate Irish nationalist MP and inveterate traveller; the socialite Adele Countess of Essex, and the former Bishop of Ripon William Boyd Carpenter, who preached a lugubrious sermon after a fireman named Doyle threw himself overboard and drowned.There are comments on fellow passengers and on the entertainments provided, which included lectures by two celebrated missionaries, Henry Hodgkin on “China” and Ralph Wardlow Thompson on “The Menace of Moslemism” As a m/ss. Rare. (1)
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