encyclopedia titanica

ALMOST a century has past since the great ocean liner the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage The worst maritime disaster at peacetime in living history claimed the lives of 1517 people on April 15 1912 including that of one of the ships musicians a young man called John Law Hume Born and raised in Dumfries before joining the illfated band of musicians on the White Star Ocean liner the body of 21yearold Jock was recovered from the waters of the Northern Atlantic by the MacKay Bennett shortly after the Titanic sank His unidentified body was buried in May of that year at Fairview Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia