Frank "Lucky" Tower ( English "Frank" Lucky "Tower ) is a hero of a city legend who tells about a stoker who sequentially survived the catastrophes of three airliners:" Titanic "in 1912," Express of Ireland "in 1914 and" Lusitania " 7 May 1915 In fact, there was no man named Frank Tower in the crews of these ships [1] . Nevertheless, the first known mention of it was noted in the Irish Independent newspaper of May 10, 1915 [2] .
Content
- 1 Possible prototypes
- 1.1 William Clark
- 1.2 Frank Toner
- 2 See also
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Possible Prototypes
There is a version that the “Lucky” Tower is a collective way, combining the stories of two real-life stokers - William Clark and Frank Toner.
William Clark
Stoker William Clark ( born William Clark ) really survived the disasters of the Titanic and the Express of Ireland [1] .
Frank Toner
Among the surviving members of the Lusitania crew was Frank Toner, a fireman. This name is not in the crew lists of the Titanic and the Express of Ireland, but in the newspaper Cork Examiner (now ) on Monday, May 10, 1915, it was he who was mentioned as having survived the catastrophe of the three airliners fireman. Perhaps the name of Toner in other publications was distorted due to a typo (inverted letter) in the London Times May 8 message, where a stoker by the name of English is mentioned among those rescued from Lusitania . Touer , consonant with the English. Tower [2] .
See also
- Violet Jessop , who survived the collapse of the Titanic , Britannic and Olympic
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Stephen J. Spignesi. The Titanic For Dummies . - John Wiley & Sons, 2012-01-05. - P. 288. - 344 p. - ISBN 9781118206508 .
- ↑ 1 2 Senan Molony. On the Trail of 'Lucky' Tower . Encyclopedia Titanica . Date of treatment March 8, 2018.
Links
- Senan Molony. On the Trail of 'Lucky' Tower . Encyclopedia Titanica . Date of treatment March 8, 2018.