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Paul Cragg
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Username: paul_c
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 3:35 pm: | 
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What an interesting discussion. I'm studying volcanic hazards to ships and shipping and have used the Mt Pelee eruption extensively in my work. Due to the number of seafarers who survived (though I know not a lot in total) and recounted their observations this is my main source of anecdotal data.
For more on the accounts from seafarers try the link below.
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/northamerican/TheSanFranciscoCalamity/chap29.html
As a serving seafarer I can only say that I agree with the comments about not wanting to have been on the Roraima. |
Jim Kalafus
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Username: jak
Post Number: 2544
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 1:03 am: |
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Hi, Paul; Thanks for posting! If you go into one of the St Pierre links I posted, there are some excellent transcripts of crew testimony. This has been an interest of mine longer than Titanic (since 1969- age 3- the whole volcano thing kids go through) but I've only started seriously researching it in the last year and am surprised at how much new material there is to find.
Found a later article which alludes to the impending death of the last Stokes child, but I'm still hoping to find evidence that she lived to old age in Barbados~ she could conceivably have lived into the late 1980s. If she did die of her burns later, then Clara King was ~ I believe~ the only passenger from the ship to survive.
Here is a 1902 print which recently arrived, showing the destruction of the Roraima.
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In a bit I'll post the long account by Comte Fitz-James who viewed the destruction from a small craft further out in the harbor.
Just because I am paranoid does not mean that they are not following me.....
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Jean C Noble
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Username: jaycee
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 4:53 pm: |
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In my family research I have come across Edwin Ralph Broome, born 1871 at Sunderland who received his Chief Mates Certificate 1897.
He married Mabel Amy Baster in 1898 and she died in childbirth the same year.
Family history has it that Edwin was killed while aboard a ship in the harbour. I have found no details or record anywhere of his death. Reading through the various accounts I see that only a few of those present at the time are named.
Has anyone discovered the names of those not named in the various accounts posted on the net?
Does anyone know if an attempt has been made to list those who died on the ships in the harbour?
Has it been mentioned on these pages that Ogdens (tobacco) had the Roddam at St Pierre as one of the subjects in its cigarette card series (50 cards) called 'Sea Adventure'? |
Stéphane Havard
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Username: watalibi
Post Number: 1
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 6:01 pm: |
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Hello,
Here are some recent pictures of the RORAIMA and TAMAYA.
http://www.watalibi.com/martinique06-1.htm
Enjoy
Stéphane Havard |
Jean C Noble
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Username: jaycee
Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 12:58 pm: |
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Further to my posting on 19 December 2006 regarding the death of Edwin Ralph Broome at St Pierre, Martinique I have discovered the following.
Captain Edward William Freeman, the captain of the Roraima, was married to Edwin Ralph Broome's sister, Elizabeth Ellen Broome in 1893 in Stepney, London. Both appear on the 1911 Census for Camberwell along with Edwin Ralph Freeman who I believe is Edwin Ralph Broome's son of the same name.
Edwin Ralph Broome, born 1871 at Sunderland, county Durham and who died at Martinique passed his Chief Mate's examination in 1897. His father and grandfather were both master mariners born in Topsham, Devon and it was no doubt Edwin's aim to become a master mariner.
I believe it possible/probable he was the first mate of Captain Freeman's ship. If not it is a strange coincidence that they were both in the harbour of St Pierre, Martinique on May 8 1902.
Captain Freeman was presented with a watch by the President of the United States and pictures of it can be see on the National Maritime Museum's website -
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=ZBA0019 |
Jean C Noble
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Username: jaycee
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 10:12 am: |
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Additional information about Edwin Ralph Broome. He was the 3rd Engineer of the Grappler which sank with the loss of all hands on 8 May 1902 when Pelee erupted. |
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