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I recently visited the Titanic Honour & Glory Exhibition at The King’s Hall, Herne Bay, and took a lot of pictures; this silver pocket watch was recovered from an unknown victim by the Mackay Bennett. Sadly, the owner possessed no identification and was buried at sea, whilst the pocket watch was brought back to Halifax.
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April 20, 1912
The cable ship the Mackay Bennet was at the scene of the sinking of the RMS Titanic recovering bodies of the victims left floating in the sea.
(Pictured: CS Mackay Bennett, you can see some of the recovered bodies abaft.)
April 26th, 1912, 12.00 PM - CS Mackay-Bennett has recovered a final fourteen bodies from the sea this morning while awaiting the arrival of CS Minia, a transferring of supplies between the two vessels occurring at noon. 306 have been found in total by the little cable ship, some as many as 170 miles from the scene of the disaster, carried to the south and east especially by Atlantic currents. Of these, 116 have been buried at sea, the rest stowed aboard for return to Halifax (many can be seen here on her foredeck, sewn into canvas bags).
Following a trade by cutter of embalming fluids to Mackay-Bennett for spare canvas and other supplies to Minia, the first vessel leaves the area for Nova Scotia, doubtlessly to the relief of many of her crew, whose backbreaking and horrible work has been carried out around the clock for five long days, and who must now face a long return journey sharing quarters with 190 of the dead.
Photo from the collection of the Nova Scotia Archives, journal of Mr. Hamilton sourced via Eric Chapman/ET
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Today’s ship, the Cable Layer Mackay Bennett (1884-1963)
The Mackay Bennett was one of the several cable ships that operated laying and maintaining telegraphic cables on the North Atlantic. She became famous, however, for a much more grim task. From 17 to 23 of April of 1912, the Mackay Bennett was comissioned for the task of recovering the bodies of Titanic’s victims, scattered through the Atlantic. The small ship recovered 328 of the more then 1500 bodies; many have to be buried at sea, because the Mackay Bennett lacked space and conditions to properly preserve all the bodies. The criteria to descart the bodies were the apparent social status; those who looked like first class passengers were given priority for embalming, and those who looked crew or steerage were buried at sea. Most of the bodies that have made to shore were layed to rest at the Halifax cemetery, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Rare photo taken on board Mackay Bennett in 1912 will be auctioned off next month in Devizes, Wiltshire. [x]
The ship's priest, Reverend Hind, is seen with body bags stacked on the windswept deck during funeral, records show that 166 of 306 bodies retrieved by Mackay Bennett were buried at sea.
Most of the victims dropped into the Atlantic were believed to have been chosen because they had no means of identification or were third-class passengers and therefore could not afford a funeral.
The Mackay Bennett spent five days retrieving bodies from the wreck site and had to request for a second vessel to join it because there were so many. This photo shows that the deck was pretty much full up with the victims.The Mackay Bennet was a Canadian cable laying ship and the owners of the Titanic, White Star Line, contracted it at a rate of £300 a day to recover the bodies. It left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 17 and arrived at the wreck site on April 21.
The crew conducted burials at sea on the evenings of April 21, 22 and 23 and then of the afternoon of April 24, when it is thought the picture was taken.
In an account of the burials, Reverend Hind later wrote: ‘Anyone attending a burial at sea will most surely lose the common impression of the awfulness of a grave in the mighty deep, the wild Atlantic may rage and toss but far below in the calm untroubled depth they rest in peace.'
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The cable ship MacKay-Bennett, Captain Frederick H. Larnder (seated middle row third from left) and the crew which recovered 306 bodies from the Atlantic following the sinking.
This is believed to be the iceberg that sank the Titanic on April 14-15, 1912. The photograph was taken from the deck of the Western Union Cable Ship, Mackay Bennett, commanded by Captain DeCarteret. The Mackay Bennett was one of the first ships to reach the scene of the Titanic disaster. According to Captain DeCarteret, this was the only berg at the scene of the sinking when he arrived, it also had a smear of red paint over it.
Sidney Leslie Goodwin (9 September 1910 – 15 April 1912) was a 19-month-old English boy who died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. His unidentified body was recovered after the sinking by the Mackay-Bennett.
The sailors aboard the Mackay-Bennett were very upset by the discovery of the unknown boy's body. They paid for a monument and he was buried on May 4th 1912 with a copper pendant placed in his coffin by the sailors that read "Our Babe."
The boy was referred to as the Unknown Child for almost a century but in 2007 his remains were identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin.
All 7 members of the Goodwin family were lost in the disaster.
