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MurdochsAid
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 Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
Here is a very interesting article about Titanic's acting Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde...
http://nautical-papers.com/onwatch/wilde/wilde.html
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Oct/10/2005, 12:05 pm
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Lights
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
Thank'ee for the tip! :sailor:
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Oct/10/2005, 1:46 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
You're most welcome, Lights. When I read that article about Wilde, I found it to be most informative about him...especially that part about him changing his Will, so that his survivng children would have homes to go to, should he not return on Titanic's maiden voyage.
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Oct/10/2005, 3:24 pm
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Lights
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
Yes, it is. And there is some thought that he had a premonition about Titanic's maiden voyage. It would seem that he wrote his sister in a leter posted at Queenstown:
"I still don't like this ship....I have a queer feeling about it.". 
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Oct/10/2005, 7:54 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
That, he did say, all right.  And to think, he sworn out his new Will the 14 January 1911 - then probate of the Will was granted to the executers on 12 July 1912, three months from when Wilde lost his life to the Titanic disaster.
Oh! I enjoyed meeting his son, Henry Owens Wilde(?), too.
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Oct/11/2005, 5:48 pm
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Lights
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
Isn't that neat (his son) I wonder if Wilde actually started one of those seafaring dynasties.
I think that Wilde had a premonition about death...I honestly do...and he really wanted in his heart to be with his Polly again...men often do not do very well when their wife is the first to pass on.
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Nov/28/2005, 3:09 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
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Isn't that neat (his son) I wonder if Wilde actually started one of those seafaring dynasties.
I think that Wilde had a premonition about death...I honestly do...and he really wanted in his heart to be with his Polly again...men often do not do very well when their wife is the first to pass on.
And vice-versa, when it comes to us widows wanting to be with our husbands after they've passed on. Therefore--I fully understand how Wilde felt, after losing my husband to the sea...I, henceforth, lost all my will to live as well. Infact, I am surprised that I lasted 29-years after losing Will.
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Dec/3/2005, 9:31 am
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Lights
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
That is indeed a long time...longer than my Syl lasted.
In general, I read somewhere that men do worse than women do when widowed...probably because of all the emotional support and love their wives have given them. 
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Dec/29/2005, 4:56 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
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That is indeed a long time...longer than my Syl lasted.
In general, I read somewhere that men do worse than women do when widowed...probably because of all the emotional support and love their wives have given them.
You could be right on target there, Lights. It was not too long ago that the original minister of our church lost his wife. The last thing I heard in our Sunday School Bible Class from my friend, Ellen, was that he was not fairing too well.
Then come Christmas morning at our church, we (a fellow church member & I) were headed over to the church services section of our church to where Dr Bob, our minister, would be holding our BC, when we met him in the hallway. He was heading down to our rec room, where we have coffee and donuts set up; and where we gather before we head off to our prospective BCs. Anyway, he looked pretty good for a widower. Evidentally, all the prayers of loving support in his behalf, by us his fellow perishioners paid off. For now he is back with us. 
Your Syl & our original above mentioned minister, had the loving support of both your intermediate (and church) families. I had neither from mine; but yet I did survive for almost 30-years, didn't I?
My family was totally against our marriage from the start, and not once did they give us their blessings. But yet, we forgave them for all their bad feelings towards us. Atleast Will & I had had a happy, but few too short five years together just the same, didn't we? 
I can also boast that MURDOCH, my married name, is a standout on my Banks Family tombstone in the Linwood Cemetary, back in my native hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, too.
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Dec/30/2005, 9:34 am
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Lights
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Re: Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde
Support is very important to those who have been widowed, but especially to widowers. Unfortunately, that sort of support just wasn't there in 1910-12. It was expected that men would behave as men and "get over it"...far easier said than done, I suspect. And our good Mr Wilde just never managed it.
I suspect that, given his statement about not caring how he went or how long it took to rejoin her, death would have been something of a mercy for Wilde, poor man.
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Dec/30/2005, 4:02 pm
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