Henry Tingle Wilde

[123everton]

Are there any biographies available specifically about the life and career of Henry Tingle Wilde or for that matter Captain Edward J. Smith, William Macmaster Murdoch, Herbert Pitman and Joesph Boxall?
Thanks in advance.

[Mrs Y]

Can't find anything on Henry Tingle Wilde, but these might be of interest?

'The Man Who Sank the "Titanic"?: Life and Times of Captain Edward J.Smith' by Gary Cooper - ISBN 0950898171

'Master of the Titanic' by Pat Lacey - ISBN 1857762215

'William McMaster Murdoch. A Career at Sea: The Complete and Documented Version' by Susanne Stormer - ISBN 3936160007

'The Titanic Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions' by Stephen Cox - ISBN 0812693965

Happy reading!

[123everton]

Nice one thanks, Murdoch and Smith should be a good read.
Did you know Wilde hated Titanic? He wrote to his sister when she stopped at Queenstown and said that he "does'nt like this ship" he never said why and it's all the more curious because he knew the Olympic very well and they were basically the same ship.

[Lysistrata]

Not really the same ship though, even if they were sisters and similar in many respects! I don't think anyone who spends time at sea would ever think 2 ships were exactly the same, especially not when it comes to having 'funny feelings' about them. Sailors are notoriously superstitious, though at least Wilde didn't manufacture this one afterwards like a lot of people who claimed to have had strange feelings about her from the start (well, he couldn't have).

I assume you know 2nd Officer Lightoller wrote a book? Not sure about the others, but Boxhall gave a radio interview in 1962. If you go here http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/boxhall.h tml you'll find the whole thing.

[123everton]

Thanks Lyristra, yes I have a reproduction copy of "Titanic And Other Ships" I've also read Patrick Stenson's book "Titanic Voyager" on Lightholler.
Did you know that Wilde was a widower and left 2 children?
His wife died in childbirth (along with the twins she bore) and is buried in Fazackerley cemetetary on Longmoor Lane L9.