Newspaper item mentioning Fred: 8/3/1912
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The Western Morning News in Plymouth, Devon, England reports that Fred has finished the first leg of his voyage to Africa.
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This page is not currently a stop in any Tour. But it's still worth your attention! Maybe someday I'll create a Tour about Fred's path to becoming a medical missionary.
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PORT OF PLYMOUTH
OCEAN MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
Orlando Davis and Co. have received the following message from Captain Prehn, of the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm: -- "Will probably arrive Plymouth Saturday, 11 p.m."
THE OLYMPIC.
The Olympic, of the White Star Line, arrived at Plymouth at 11.51 a.m. yesterday, from New York July 27th. Fair weather prevailed throughout the voyage. The passage occupied 5 days 18 hours 13 minutes, the average speed being 22.58 knots, and the daily runs 517, 526, 534, 520, 526, and 496 miles to the Eddystone. The liner brought 140 passengers, 306 bags of mails, and specie to the value of $220,000 for Plymouth; 344 passengers and 64 bags of mails for Cherbourg, and 275 passengers for Southampton. Among those on board were Gen. J. L. Carter, Miss A. G. Carter, Mr. W. Grant-Smith, secretary of the American Legation at Brussels; Mr. J. C. Hemment, Mme. Therese Lions, Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, Hon. H. G. Ward, Hon. Lafayette Young, Gen. Healey, Rev. J. L. Duclos, Lieut. R. H. C. Halifax, Professor H. Osborne, Dr. F. E. Stokey, Rev. H. D. Salmon, Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. P. Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. C. Steele, Misses N. G., K. N., and R. Steele, and Mr. H. E. Hooper. After landing the passengers, mails, and specie the Olympic was cleared at 12:35 p.m. for Cherbourg and Southampton by Mr. Frank Phillips.
OCEAN MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
Orlando Davis and Co. have received the following message from Captain Prehn, of the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm: -- "Will probably arrive Plymouth Saturday, 11 p.m."
THE OLYMPIC.
The Olympic, of the White Star Line, arrived at Plymouth at 11.51 a.m. yesterday, from New York July 27th. Fair weather prevailed throughout the voyage. The passage occupied 5 days 18 hours 13 minutes, the average speed being 22.58 knots, and the daily runs 517, 526, 534, 520, 526, and 496 miles to the Eddystone. The liner brought 140 passengers, 306 bags of mails, and specie to the value of $220,000 for Plymouth; 344 passengers and 64 bags of mails for Cherbourg, and 275 passengers for Southampton. Among those on board were Gen. J. L. Carter, Miss A. G. Carter, Mr. W. Grant-Smith, secretary of the American Legation at Brussels; Mr. J. C. Hemment, Mme. Therese Lions, Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, Hon. H. G. Ward, Hon. Lafayette Young, Gen. Healey, Rev. J. L. Duclos, Lieut. R. H. C. Halifax, Professor H. Osborne, Dr. F. E. Stokey, Rev. H. D. Salmon, Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. P. Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. C. Steele, Misses N. G., K. N., and R. Steele, and Mr. H. E. Hooper. After landing the passengers, mails, and specie the Olympic was cleared at 12:35 p.m. for Cherbourg and Southampton by Mr. Frank Phillips.
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1.
The Olympic, of the White Star Line, arrived at Plymouth at 11.51 a.m. yesterday, from New York July 27th. Fair weather prevailed throughout the voyage. The passage occupied 5 days 18 hours 13 minutes, the average speed being 22.58 knots, and the daily runs 517, 526, 534, 520, 526, and 496 miles to the Eddystone.
Wikipedia says:
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, RMS Titanic and the Royal Navy hospital ship HMHS Britannic.
The Titanic had sunk less than 4 months before, so I wonder if everybody felt just a little strange being on the Olympic. The speed and daily distance details for this voyage remind me that the hope had been that the Titanic would set a speed record.
I'm glad that Fred had good weather for the transatlantic crossing.
As for the Eddystone Light, Wikipedia says:
The Eddystone Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, 9 statute miles (14 km) south of Rame Head in Cornwall, England. The rocks are submerged, and are composed of Precambrian gneiss.
In 2026 I read a book about Scottish lighthouses in which some time was spent on what a big deal the building (four times!) of the Eddystone Light was.
2.
The liner brought 140 passengers, 306 bags of mails, and specie to the value of $220,000 for Plymouth; 344 passengers and 64 bags of mails for Cherbourg, and 275 passengers for Southampton. Among those on board were...
So the majority of the passengers who disembarked in England waited until the Olympic got to Southampton to disembark. I figure Fred probably got off in Southampton. Maybe someday I'll find a newspaper item about his voyage from England to Lisbon, where he would study the Portuguese language before proceeding to Angola, which at that time was part of Portuguese West Africa.
3.
Among those on board were Gen. J. L. Carter, Miss A. G. Carter, Mr. W. Grant-Smith, secretary of the American Legation at Brussels; Mr. J. C. Hemment, Mme. Therese Lions, Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, Hon. H. G. Ward, Hon. Lafayette Young, Gen. Healey, Rev. J. L. Duclos, Lieut. R. H. C. Halifax, Professor H. Osborne, Dr. F. E. Stokey, Rev. H. D. Salmon, Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. P. Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. C. Steele, Misses N. G., K. N., and R. Steele, and Mr. H. E. Hooper.
Fred is among the very few passengers who are listed here. Maybe it was his title of Doctor that rated him a mention. He got his MD just a couple of months before this. Did it still give him a thrill to be called Doctor?
Mr. Kermit Roosevelt was a son of the former US President Theodore Roosevelt. I checked Kermit's Wikipedia biography and found that he graduated from Harvard in 1912. There was no mention of a trip to Europe; the article skips straight to a Brazilian jungle that he made with his father in 1913-1914.
The Olympic, of the White Star Line, arrived at Plymouth at 11.51 a.m. yesterday, from New York July 27th. Fair weather prevailed throughout the voyage. The passage occupied 5 days 18 hours 13 minutes, the average speed being 22.58 knots, and the daily runs 517, 526, 534, 520, 526, and 496 miles to the Eddystone.
Wikipedia says:
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, RMS Titanic and the Royal Navy hospital ship HMHS Britannic.
The Titanic had sunk less than 4 months before, so I wonder if everybody felt just a little strange being on the Olympic. The speed and daily distance details for this voyage remind me that the hope had been that the Titanic would set a speed record.
I'm glad that Fred had good weather for the transatlantic crossing.
As for the Eddystone Light, Wikipedia says:
The Eddystone Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, 9 statute miles (14 km) south of Rame Head in Cornwall, England. The rocks are submerged, and are composed of Precambrian gneiss.
In 2026 I read a book about Scottish lighthouses in which some time was spent on what a big deal the building (four times!) of the Eddystone Light was.
2.
The liner brought 140 passengers, 306 bags of mails, and specie to the value of $220,000 for Plymouth; 344 passengers and 64 bags of mails for Cherbourg, and 275 passengers for Southampton. Among those on board were...
So the majority of the passengers who disembarked in England waited until the Olympic got to Southampton to disembark. I figure Fred probably got off in Southampton. Maybe someday I'll find a newspaper item about his voyage from England to Lisbon, where he would study the Portuguese language before proceeding to Angola, which at that time was part of Portuguese West Africa.
3.
Among those on board were Gen. J. L. Carter, Miss A. G. Carter, Mr. W. Grant-Smith, secretary of the American Legation at Brussels; Mr. J. C. Hemment, Mme. Therese Lions, Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, Hon. H. G. Ward, Hon. Lafayette Young, Gen. Healey, Rev. J. L. Duclos, Lieut. R. H. C. Halifax, Professor H. Osborne, Dr. F. E. Stokey, Rev. H. D. Salmon, Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. P. Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. C. Steele, Misses N. G., K. N., and R. Steele, and Mr. H. E. Hooper.
Fred is among the very few passengers who are listed here. Maybe it was his title of Doctor that rated him a mention. He got his MD just a couple of months before this. Did it still give him a thrill to be called Doctor?
Mr. Kermit Roosevelt was a son of the former US President Theodore Roosevelt. I checked Kermit's Wikipedia biography and found that he graduated from Harvard in 1912. There was no mention of a trip to Europe; the article skips straight to a Brazilian jungle that he made with his father in 1913-1914.
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