Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
Chartered by White Star and carrying ice, coffins and an undertaker, she recovered 306 bodies over the following weeks, burying many at sea and returning the rest to Halifax. Later charters brought the total found to around 330 out of some 1,500 lost.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax · cemetery · Canada
- RMS Titanic · vessel · not located
Evidence
Verified — Every field is supported by a cited authoritative source.
Titanic body-recovery and burial records
The cable ship Mackay-Bennett recovered 306 bodies and later vessels a further two dozen or so; 150 victims are buried in three Halifax cemeteries, 121 of them at Fairview Lawn.
Nova Scotia Archives / Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax · Verified
Nova Scotia Archives, Titanic collection - Mackay-Bennett recovery lists, coroner's records and Halifax cemetery burial registers
Recorded on Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
- Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
- Titanic launched at Belfast
- Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
- Maiden voyage departs Southampton
- Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
- Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
- Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
- Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
- Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
- Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
- Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
- Iceberg sighted and struck
- Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
- First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
- First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
- Last boat launched from the davits
- Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
- Titanic founders
- Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
- Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
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- First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS · 1912-04-15 00:15
- First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired · 1912-04-15 00:45
- Last boat launched from the davits · 1912-04-15 02:05
- Lights fail and the hull breaks in two · 1912-04-15 02:18
- Titanic founders · 1912-04-15 02:20
- Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue · 1912-04-15 04:00