Genealogy Chat

All the sites for 1912 seem to concentrate on the Titanic. But how can I find out which ship was the next one to sail.

I love these type of questions, off we go !! lets see if we can find out.

Lloyds Registers of Shipping & Lloyds Lists should tell you, copies of these are held in a number of National Libraries around the country. There are a few web sites for The White Star Line which will have details of other vessels such as the Oceanic, the Titanics sister ship. Some National newspapers carried daily shipping lists, if you are near to a Central Library which holds copies of these papers you should be able to find which vessels sailed out of Southampton and other ports. Kathleen

Carpathia on her way to the Mediterranean & she was one of the first boats to help the titanic

Thanks for the information. I will do a google The reason I ask, is that my grandfather`s parents and siblings emigrated to Canada in 1912, and he stayed here. The story goes, that they should have gone on the Titanic, but missed it for some reason, and got the next one. How true this is, I don`t know.

Carol I think the ship you are looking for may have been the Olympic. This vessel was also owned by White Star Line and sailed to New York arriving there on 3 April 1912. There is a web site listing the ships sailing from Southampton immediately after the Titanic. As soon as I find it again I will e-mail it to you. Kathleen

I found a website after googling for White Star Line, which listed all their ships. The Olympic looked favourite to me, but I have emailed these White Star sites and asked them.

My mother seems to think they went in the 1920`s, but a sister of my grandfather married there and had a son in 1916. I wouldn`t have thought they would have gone after the war started, most of the ships were taken over by the forces. I do know that for certain, as I have the cemetery records from Canada.

would it be the luiatania(can not spell