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- Henry Tingle Wilde, RNR (21 September 1872 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval officer who was the chief officer of the RMS Titanic. He died when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912.
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Henry Tingle Wilde, RNR (21 September 1872 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval officer who was the chief officer of the RMS Titanic. He died when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912.
Sep 1, 1996 · Henry Tingle Wilde. Mr Henry Tingle Wilde, 39, was born 21 September 1872. He grew up in Walton, Liverpool and went to sea as a young man serving his apprenticeship on the sailing vessels of Messrs. James Chambers & Co., Liverpool. After gaining his second mate's certificate, he joined the Maranhan Steamship Company as a second officer.
- Male
- English
- Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
- Chief Officer
- Henry's Early Career
- A Caring Father
- "A Very Fine Ship"
Henry Tingle Wilde was born on 21 September, 1872 and grew up in Walton, Liverpool. Aged 17 he began his apprenticeship with Messers. James Chambers & Co., Liverpool. Completing this in 1893 he stayed with the company and served as third mate on the Greystoke Castle and later as third mate on the Hornsby Castle. After gaining his second mate’s cert...
As Henry Wilde’s career had gone from strength to strength so had his personal life. On 3 August 1898 Henry had married Mary Catherine Jones in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on Princes Road, Liverpool. Their first child Jane Elizabeth (Jennie) was born in 1900 followed by Henry Owen (Harry) in 1904, George Arnold (Arnold) in 1906 and Annie...
Henry had been hoping to return to Liverpool and take command of the Cymric and only found out that he was due to accompany Titanic on 9 April, the day before she sailed. On 11 April he wrote what would be his last letter, to his daughter Jennie, expressing his disappointment not to make it home to Liverpool and describes Titanic as "...a very fine...
He was the son of Henry Wilde, an insurance surveyor from Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire (born 1838) who had died of hepatitis on the 6th of June 1872, just three and a half months before his son was born.
Henry Wilde's First mate certificate. After three voyages he signed off her on the 23 April 1897 and sat for his master’s certification on the 17th of May 1897. While he attended a Liverpool ‘crammer’ – a navigation school geared towards preparing would-be officers for their examinations – Wilde met a young officer named Stanley Lord ...
Sep 21, 2020 · Henry Tingle Wilde, Titanic’s chief officer, was born in Liverpool on 21 September 1872. Wilde served on a number of White Star Line ships over the years, mainly on the company’s Liverpool-New York and Australian routes, including Arabic (1902), Celtic (1901), Medic and Cymric.
For many years Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde, from Liverpool, has been unfairly considered an "enigma" due to the limited amount of information on his life and actions aboard Titanic during the sinking. He has been variously portrayed as aloof, a depressed widower and inactive during the evacuation.
