We Welcome Your Letters! Please send correspondence to: editorial@seahistory.org or by USPS to: Editor, Sea History, 7 Timberknoll Road, Pocasset, MA 02559. presidentofNMHS. He confirms that Karl fully accepted the wheel as Kaiulani's-no shadow of doubt about it in his mind. I remember Karl telling me that he visited this retired Army bloke and that he had the wheel mounted on a stone chimney above the living room mantelpiece in his home. Ir was Alan who was responsible for bringing it before President Johnson when President Macapagal of the Philippines made the formal gift of the ship to the United Stares and Johnson conveyed it to rhe Society in trust for the American people. be grateful, indeed, to Learn more about how this terrific artifact came to its present resting place. If you have any more details to add to the story, please contact us at the address at the top of this page. -DO'R
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Titanic Had Survivors Thanks to Carpathia's Radio Operator Well done to Paul Johnston for mentioning Harold Thomas Cottam, the Marconi operator on RMS Carpathia in 1912. Ir was Cottam's competence and diligence that picked up Titanic's S¡O¡S and his self-assurance that sent him to wake his captain. Without Cottam there would have been no story of Titanic having had any survivors; everyone would have drowned or died of hypothermia. There are hundreds of Titanic memorials around the world, but not one to Harold Cottam. Happily, with the cooperation of his family, a memorial will be dedicated in Lowdham Parish Church, Nottinghamshire, on 3 June 2012. I shall be telling his story, because it is pivotal to Titanic's indestructible appeal. GRAHAM ANTHONY
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Coarsegold, California A Good Read I received a copy of Sea History, and I was very impressed to say the least. I have always loved the sea and stories about the sea and naval history. I notice the advertisement about USS Slater DE-766. I am an old DE sailor having served in the USS Earl K Olsen DE 765. I have been to Albany to see the Slater Destroyer Escort Sailors Association and the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum, both worth a visit by your members if they are in the area. EDWARD BOHMANN
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey Littoral Literal: I truly enjoyed the poetry piece in the last issue of Sea History, bur how could you have nor inluded Shakespeare? Here is his famous "Sonner 60." Like as rhe waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent to il all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainsr his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the Bourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to rimes in hope, my verse shall stand Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. EDWARD KING
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Family Touched by the War of 1812 In 1812, several members of the Kirkpatrick family in Ireland decided to emigrate to rhe US . Samuel, his three brothers, and a number of other relatives agreed to emigrate together. Samuel was the one to make arrangements for the party's passage to New York on the American vessel, Magnet. When the Magnet was within three days' sail of New York, the ship was hailed and boarded by a British man-of-war and brought to Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a war prize. All the men were pressed, but then only kept for five days. Two inBuential men of the province, Esquire Dimock and Esquire Chambers, interviewed the men and gave them letters of recommendation, resulting in Samuel getting a position as a school reacher and his brother Alexander a job as a weaver, a trade he'd learned in Ireland. Thus the family became Canadians rather than Americans. Samuel married a Miss Lockhart, and one of their daughters, Margaret Louisa Kirkpatrick, married John Davison, a master shipbuilder in the firm of his brother-in-law, Ezra Churchill, founder ofE. Churchill & Sons, Hantsporr, Nova Scotia. Churchill was a senator in the first Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1877. This account was related to Louisa in the 1880s by an elderly aunt, who had been aboard the ship in 1812 when ir was seized. The aunt said it was a sad rime among the unfortunate passengers when they observed rhe Royal Fleet looming upon them, and sadder yet when the officers boarded the vessel. Louisa, my great-grandmother, recorded this account in her diary, of which I have a copy. If she had nor done so, our family would never have known about this
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