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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487975/coastguard-surprised-to-find-armed-french-warship-in-hauraki-gulf
A volunteer Coastguard crew has happened upon an armed, foreign warship in the Hauraki Gulf while searching for a yacht.
The Kawau Coastguard was responding to distress calls from a 42-foot yacht last week. It had lost all navigation systems in a storm and had no idea where it was.
Skipper of the Coastguard boat Thelma Wilson said her crew had spent hours in the dark being lashed by 36-knot south-easterly winds.
"The waves were crashing over the roof of the boat and the water was pouring inside through the air vents," Wilson told Stuff.
The Kawau crew was scanning the radar for any sign of a vessel, when one appeared.
In the distance, they could just make out what appeared to be a large, illuminated ship.
It turned out to be the French frigate Vendémiaire - which is fitted with a 100mm artillery turret, and two mounted 20mm guns which can fire in 8-shot bursts.
The Coastguard was able to identify it using their Automatic Identification System (AIS) - a specialised piece of equipment fitted into rescue and police boats.
"Calling warship off of Kawau Island, please respond", Wilson said into the radio before an accented reply came crackling through.
They made the broadcast on emergency channel 16, assuming such a warship would be monitoring all frequencies.
"We also figured that a warship would have better radar gear than our small boat, so we asked if they could see the yacht."
It was short back and forth, but a helpful one, Wilson said.
The French naval staff located the missing yacht and provided Wilson's crew with a compass bearing.
They found the yachtie shaken, but relieved, and used their lights to guide him back to shelter in Kawau Island's Bon Accord Harbour. It was slow-going at 6 knots, moving in a zigzag pattern.
Wilson said Coastguard HQ had first picked up the yachtsman's cellphone signal near Hauturu Little Barrier. But, he had strayed towards Cape Colville as he did his best not to be wrecked on the coast.
When asked by Stuff what Vendémiaire was doing in New Zealand waters, the Defence Force replied with a brief email which said: "You would be best to contact the French Embassy about this."
The French embassy was not available for comment.
The 94-metre frigate is typically based in New Caledonia and can take a crew of 90 people.
It visited in 2009 when it conducted a joint training exercise with the New Zealand Navy and conducted diplomatic duties.
It is designed as a surveillance vessel, patrolling French overseas maritime areas and its exclusive economic zone.
According to an event listing by Alliance Française cultural society, naval staff from the Vendémiaire presented at a "French armed forces in the South Pacific" conference in Remuera in Auckland at the end of March.
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How were names and bodies recorded back then?
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The Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
Theodore Dreiser
Guglielmo Marconi
Milton Snavely Hershey
J. Pierpont Morgan
Henry Clay Frick The Pittsburgh steel baron was a business associate of fellow non-passenger J.P. Morgan. He canceled his passage on the Titanic when his wife sprained her ankle and had to be hospitalized in Italy.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt The 34-year-old multimillionaire sportsman, an heir to the Vanderbilt shipping and railroad empire, was returning from a trip to Europe and canceled his passage on the Titanic so late that some early newspaper accounts listed him as being on board. Vanderbilt lived on to become one the most celebrated casualties of the Lusitania sinking three years later.
John R. Mott Though perhaps less well known today than the others on our list, Mott was an influential evangelist and longtime YMCA official, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. He and a colleague were supposedly offered free passage on the Titanic by a White Star Line official interested in their work but declined and instead took the more humble liner Lapland. According to a biography by C. Howard Hopkins, when they reached New York and heard about the disaster, “It is said that the two men looked at each other and one voiced their common thought: ‘The Good Lord must have more work for us to do.’ ”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seven-famous-people-who-missed-the-titanic-101902418/
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During the Titanic recovery, bodies weren’t simply discovered and carried to shore. Instead, the act of recovery involved decisions about whether there were bodies in the sea, which bodies were reachable and which were still bodily enough (in terms of injuries or mutilation) to be brought to shore. Bodies were kept for land burial if they met one of two criteria. First, they were seen as being readily identifiable, whether as individuals or even as human bodies. Second, they were presumed to have economic value even after death, to be the bodies of passengers whose families and friends were believed to have a high social and economic worth. Therefore, it is important to delve further into the implications of the recovery and identification, which took place through efforts to scrutinize a casualty’s belongings and physical appearance not just to identify and preserve the remains, but also to determine which remains were worthy of being identified and preserved at all.
https://daily.jstor.org/bodies-of-the-titanic-found-and-lost-again/
Scholar Jess Bier examines what was done with those bodies and explains how their identification and treatment was wrapped up in their economic valuation. All the recovered dead were numbered for the records, but some counted a lot more than others. As she notes, “Decisions about which bodies to bury at sea were made largely according to the perceived economic class of the recovered victims, and those with third-class tickets were far more likely to be returned to the water.”
the $5 million in insurance for the ship was paid within 30 days of the sinking.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48568910?mag=bodies-of-the-titanic-found-and-lost-again&seq=1
https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-titanic-reveals-about-class-and-life-expectancy/
https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-titanic-reveals-about-class-and-life-expectancy/
In fact, the death rate for all individuals on the Titanic decreased as socioeconomic status and cabin class increased (as you might recall from a certain film). The majority of children who died were in third class. Even in exceptional circumstances (like being on the sinking Titanic), socioeconomic status haunted the life expectancy of the passengers. From long before the Titanic began its voyage—from the moment the individuals were born—it would seem their life expectancy was predetermined.
==Who knows where the bodies are buried ref:)
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Indicates those who died in accident.
Adelt, Gertrude Berlin, Germany
Adelt, Leonhard
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Anders, Ernst Rudolf, Dresden, Germany
Belin, Peter,Washington, D. C.
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Brink, Birger
Clemens, Carl Otto, Bonn, Germany
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Doehner, Hermann, Mexico City, Mexico
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Doehner, Irene
Doehner Matilda
Doehner, Walter
Doehner, Werner
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Dolan, Curtis, France
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Douglas, Edward, New York
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Erimann, Fritz
Ernst, Elsa, Hamburg, Germany
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Ernst, Otto C.
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Feibusch, Moritz, Lincoln, Nebraska
Grant, George, London, England
Heidenstamm, Rudolf von
Herschfeld, George, Bremen, Germany
Hinkelbein, Claus
Kleeman, Marie
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Knoecher, Erich, Zeulenroda, Germany
Leuchtenberg, Wm., New York
Mangone, Philip
Mather, Margaret
Morris, Nelson
O’Laughlin, Herbert
Osbun, Clifford, Chicago, U.S.A.
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Pannes, Emma, New York
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Pannes, John
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Reichold, Otto, Vienna, Austria
Spaeh, Joseph
Stoeckle, Emil
Vinholt, Hans, Copenhagen, Denmark
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