AMONG the Dorset Titanic victims was a Weymouth man whose wife’s father lived in Poole.
The victim was, presumably, Andrew John Shannon, aka Lionel Leonard, an American Line employee travelling third class from Weymouth to New York.
A report in the East Dorset Herald after the tragedy tells of how the victim’s wife, Mrs D Shannon, was the daughter of Mr William Henry Gould, of Blue Boar Lane, Poole.
Her husband was “proceeding to America for payment of money due, having been a quartermaster on the Philadelphia.”
Mrs Shannon had been nursing a sister at Portland and was left with two children, one aged two and the other just six months.
She was the niece of a well-known Dorset footballer, Charlie Gould.
“Since the disaster she has been prostrated with grief and her mother has gone to Portland to attend her,” the paper reported.
Another victim it recorded was Thomas Bookman, a steward on the Titanic.
He was the son of Mrs Figgins of Cannon Lane, Lymington, Hampshire... and had only been married three days before sailing.
Perhaps the most encyclopaedic book on the tragedy is Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, by John P Eaton and Charles A Haas.
The third edition has recently been published by Haynes Publishing (£30).
In it is a list of all the passengers who were on board the ship, detailing their names, place of residence, intended destination, port of embarkation, class of ticket, which lifeboat they were in... and whether they were saved.
Other local passengers who are not listed among those saved include:
• William Dibden, aged 18, from the New Forest. (Second Class.)
• Leonard Mark Hickman, 24; Lewis Hickman, 32; Stanley George Hickman, 32 – all from the New Forest and bound for Canada. (Second Class.)
• Ambrose Hood, 20, also from the New Forest and bound for Canada. (Second Class.)
• Richard John May, aka John Adams, 26, travelling from Bournemouth, bound for LaPorte City. (Third Class.)
• Rowland Edwin Stanley, 22, travelling from Swanage to Cleveland Ohio. (Third Class.)
• The East Dorset Herald also recorded the death of steward Thomas Bookman.
Among the crew who survived was Charles Burgess, a baker, from Swanage.
He arrived back in Britain with Jacob Gibbons, also from Purbeck, but returned to sea.
He was destined to serve the sea longer than anyone else on board, the book Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy records.
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