Titanic Victim Margaret Rice-- Part 2: She and Family All Perished

After the col,lision with the iceberg, 3rd class passenger Bertha Mulvihill saw Margaret Rice in the 3rd Class Holding area with Eugene in her arm and the rest of her boys holding her skirt.  The entire family perished.

Margaret's body, #12, was recovered by the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett.

The words written:

"No. 12 --  Female --  est. Age 40 --  Hair dark.
Clothing:  Black velvet coat; jacket and skirt; blue cardigan; black apron; black boots and stockings.
Effects--  wedding ring; keeper, and another gold; locket and photo; one jet one bead Necklace; gold brooch in bag, 3 pounds in gold; 4 pounds in Irish notes' gold brooch; plain gold wag earrings; charm around neck; B.V.M.; false teeth in upper jaw; box pills.

PROBABLY THIRD CLASS

--Cooter

Things to See on the Titanic Trail-- Part 2

COBH-- located 213 miles away and from 1850 to 1920, known as Queenstown, Cobh is a seaport on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland, and the last port-of-call of the Titanic before its fateful Atlantic crossing. Some 120 passengers boarded here where you will find a granite marker for Margaret Rice and her five sons who all perished.

The former White Star office has been converted into the "Titanic Experience," an interactive virtual voyage. You check in, get the name of an actual passenger, cross the gangplank and meet actors portraying the captain and crew. Then you visit an elegant first-class cabin and exit to a lifeboat.

At the end of that, you find out if you survived or not.  The article's writer was Katherine Buckley, a 22-year-old Irish girl in steerage. Her body was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett rescue boat and identified by her blue serge suit and ticket in pocket. Her body was sent to her half-sister's in Boston where she was buried.

Quite An Experience. --DaCoot

C.S. Minia-- Part 2

The C.S. Minia belonged to the Anglo-America Telegraph Company and was chartered on April 21, 1912 and put to sea the next day from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canmada, under command of W.E.S. DeCarteret, with undertaker H.W. Snow and Rev. H.W. Cunnigham (rector Anglican Parish). /// It arrived at the Titanic site April 26 and was joined by the CS Mackay-Bennet and remained searching until May 3rd. Bad weather hampered recovery operations the whole time. Just seventeen bodies were recovered and fifteen taken back to Halifax to be claimed or interred. //// Three bodies were unidentified. Charles Hay's body was the first one recovered. ////

The CS Minia-- Part 1: Contracted to Find Titanic Bodies

From Titanic Items. com. //// Saturday, I wrote about Charles Melville Hays, an important railroad man who was one of the Titanic's victims in 1912 and I read that his body was recovered by the CS Minia, a ship I'd never heard of before, even in connection with the Titanic. Further research was needed. //// The CS Minia (Cable Ship, I had to look that one up) was contracted to relieve the CS Mackay-Bennet which had recovered the bodies of 306 Titanic victims along with flotsam fron the wreck, but was forced to suspend operations to return to Halifax as it had run out of embalming fluid. //// The Minia was able to find just 17 bodies after arriving at the sinking site April 26th. //// It is reported that several Minia crewmembers made ornate objects such as picture frames, document boxes and furniture out of Titanic flotsam. //// More to Come. --Cooter