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mike disch
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Username: mikedisch
Post Number: 51
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 12:28 am: | 
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Besides the bio info already on this site, I'm seeking any info on Mr. Uruchurtu - 1st Class Mexican passenger who gave up his lifeboat seat and perished.
He will soon be represented by another "Historical Performer" here at the L.A. Titanica exhibit and, as always, we wish to be as authentic as possible.
Thanks to all the mavens. |
gabino noval
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Username: gabo055
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 3:32 am: |
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He was a mexican politician, very close friend of Ramon Corral, who was vicepresident of Mexico, during a period of the Porfirio Diaz regime, the dictatorship that lasted more than 30 years, exiled in Paris in 1910. Manuel Uruchurtu went to France to visit Ramon Corral and probably Diaz himself, boarded the Titanic on Cherbourg because a relative of Ramon Corral also wanted to return to Mexico and traded Uruchurt´'s ticket of a boat called "France" or "Paris" for one of the Titanic, he was on that time, an active member of the mexican congress, a deputy. He gave up the seat that corresponded to him as a traveller on an official politic visit, besides of being a first class passenger, he gave it up to a woman named Elizabeth Nye, a second class passenger, who pleased a seat and said her husband and son were waiting for her in New York, so Manuel let her go on his place with the only condition that she went to Mexico to tell his wife what had happened with him. She went to Veracruz, Mexico until 1924, 12 years later and narrated Manuel's wife the story with tears on her face.
It was discovered that Elizabet Nye did not have a husband nor a son when the Titanic made it's only journey in which a mexican deputy perished, while a liar took his place. |
