Titanic Bodies Recovered by C.S. Minia-- Part 2

Victuallizing crew would be the ones providing food for the passengers and crew.

Howell, Arthur--  31, victuallizing crew, saloon steward, #319

King, Ernest--  28, victuallizing crew, clerk (1st class), #321

Moen, Sigurd--  27, 3rd class, 7 pounds 13 shillings, carpenter/joiner, #309

Mullin, Thomas--  20, victuallizing crew, 3rd class steward, #328

Stanbrook, Augustus--  30,  engineering crew, fireman, #316

Wiklund, Jakob--  18, 3rd class passenger, 6 pounds 9 shillings, 11 d, general laborer, #314

Wittman, Henry--  30, victuallizing crew, bathroom steward 1st class, #315

Yousseff, Gerios--  26, 3rd class passenger, 7 pounds 4 s., Shoemaker, #312

Titanic Bodies Recovered by Minia-- Part 1

From the Encyclopedia Titanica.

The number after the name, age and occupation is the Body Number

Cartwirght, James, 32, victuallizing crew, Saloon Steward, #320

Donati, Italo, 17, restaurant staff, assistant waiter, #311

Elliott, Everett, 24, engineering crew, trimmer, #317

Fynney, Joseph, 35, 2nd class passenger,. ticket 25 pounds, businessman, #307

Gatti, Gaspare, 37, restaurant staff a la carte, restaurant manager, #313

Hays, Charles, 55,  1st class passenger, ticket 93 pounds 10 shillings, businessman, #307

CS Hooper: World's First Purpose-Built Cable-Laying Ship

From the Marine Insight site by Sharda.

I came across this while looking up what C.S. stood for (which is Cable Ship) in connection with the C.S. Minia.

The ship was operated by the British engineering company Hooper telegraph Works and the C.S. Hooper was regarded as the first purpose-built ship to lay cable. It was named after company owner William Hooper.

Built 1873 and 103 metres long by 17 metres beam. It could carry almost 89,000 cubic feet of cable when rolled up into cable lines.

When not in use layibng cable, it acted as a cargo ship.

--Cooter

C.S. Minia-- Part 3: Unidentified Titanic Bodies Recovered

The bodies were numbered as they were found. //// The second body recovered, #308, was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Halifax. A handkervhief was found on it with the letters "A.H.F.. No other aids of identification found. //// BODY #310 was buried at sea. No aid to indentification found. //// BODY #318 was buried at sea. He wore a brass watch and chain. There was no other aids to identification and he was thought to be a fireman on the Titanic. //// I'm not sure why one unidentified was taken back and the other two buried at sea. Perhaps there bodies were mangled beyond identification or partially eaten by some sea creature. ////

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

Charles Melvin Hays: Canadian Railroad Man-- "Some Appalling Disaster"

From Wikipedia. //// Born May 16, 1856. Died April 15, 1912. //// Began his railroad career as a clerk at age 17 and rapidly worked his way up until, in 1896, he became general manager of Grand Trunk Railway in Canada. In 1909, he became president. //// A big desire of his was to build a second Canadian transcontinental railroad. However, his company faced bankruptcy and he went to England to seek financial assistance. //// He was on his way back aboard the RMS Titanic and reportedly, the evening before the ship struck the iceberg, made a comment about the steamship companies seeking passengers by building newer, bigger and faster ships, saying, "The time will come soon when this trend will be checked by some appalling disaster." //// He assisted women aboard the lifeboats and then he, his son-in-law and secretary perished. His body was recovered by the Minia and he was buried at Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. ////