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Well, of course, we knew that!
On 10/30/2018 6:25 AM, Tim wrote:
On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 8:09:56 PM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 10/29/2018 8:28 PM, wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:04:16 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/29/2018 5:53 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: I don't know what the status of my grandparents was when they "landed" here and got off the boats. Never discussed it with any of them. All four of them became citizens at some point. If they arrived by boat as my grandparents did in 1907, it's doubtful that they entered the USA illegally. I recently came across my grandfather's naturalization papers. He arrived from Sweden in 1907 at the age of 17 and became naturalized in 1916. By then he was married and had one son, my uncle, who was 10 years older than my father. My uncle was a marine engineer. He and I shared the same birthday (Oct 19th) although obviously he was here many years before me. More newcomers ;-) (a little boating content) Even found a picture of the ship my grandfather arrived on in Boston. Also found his manifest ... he paid $10 for the voyage from Liverpool, England via Greenland and then to Boston. http://funkyimg.com/i/2MCaC.jpg Interesting ship, Richard. I know those aren't sailing masks. Would those towers be directional for shortwave or radio? Probably. Records indicate it had "steam quadruple-expansion engines geared to twin propellers". I looked it up on Wiki and it turns out it had an interesting history and fate. The SS Ivernia was owned by the British Cunard line and was primarily built to transport immigrants from Europe to Boston and New York. When WWI broke out it was hired by the British government as a troop transport. From Wiki: "In autumn of 1916, William Thomas Turner (made famous for being the captain of RMS Lusitania at the time of her sinking) was given command. On 1 January 1917, the Ivernia was carrying some 2,400 British troops from Marseille to Alexandria, when at 10:12am she was torpedoed by the German submarine UB-47 58 miles south-east of Cape Matapan in Greece, in the Kythira Strait. The ship went down fairly quickly with a loss of 36 crew members and 84 troops. Captain Turner, who had been criticized for not going down with the Lusitania (even though he had believed he was the last person on board), remained on the bridge until all aboard had departed in lifeboats and rafts "before striking out to swim as the vessel went down under his feet." |
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