Mr John Foley

From Encyclopedia Titanica

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/john-foley.html

• Age: 44 years
• Marital Status: Married.
• Last Residence: at 2 Queens Road Southampton Hampshire England
• Occupation: Storekeeper
• Last Ship: Olympic
• Deck crew
• First Embarked: Belfast
• Rescued

Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912

John "Jack" Foley, 44, was born in York. He appears to have signed-on to the Titanic initially in Belfast on 25 March 1912 as a quartermaster. When he signed on to the Titanic on 6 April 1912, he gave his address as 2 Queen's Road (Southampton). His previous ship was the Olympic. His wages were £5 per month.

Foley claimed to have helped Seaman "Sam Parks" search for an axe to chop away the sounding spar protruding directly below lifeboat 4 [1].

Foley was rescued in lifeboat 4.

Foley signed-on to the Oceanic on 10 July 1912 but failed to join the ship when it sailed.

Notes

• Sam Parks is not listed, he may have existed but signed on under a different name, possibly it was Walter Perkis or perhaps Frank Parkes of the Harland and Wolff guarantee group.

Documents

• Crew Particulars of Engagement

Sources United States Senate, Washington 1912. n° 806, Crew List

References

• Daniel Allen Butler (1998) Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
• Crew Articles of Agreement (Belfast), Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (TRANS 2A/45 381)
• Crew Particulars of Engagement, Public Record Office (BT100/259)
• Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Agreements and Crew Lists Oceanic January – August 1912
• Archibald Gracie (1913) The Truth about the Titanic
• Walter Lord (1976) A Night to Remember. London, Penguin. ISBN 0 14 004757 3

Contributors

• Inger Sheil, UK
• Kerri Sundberg, USA
• Hermann Söldner, Germany
• Bill Wormstedt, USA