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Thomas Knowles

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Thomas Knowles

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Auction Date:2012 Dec 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Knowles saw service on several vessels before taking the place of a deserting crew member to have a chance to serve as a firemen's messman aboard the Titanic and survived the sinking in lifeboat Collapsible C. Certificate of Discharge, one page, 7.5 x 6, stamp-dated August 1, 1896. Knowles’s discharge from the ship Norman, where he served in the capcity of a fireman. Certificate notes that Knowles served from May 1 to July 31 of 1896. Signed at the conclusion by the Norman’s master and a representative from the shipping office. The discharge also bears two “V.G.” stamps in areas for character of conduct and ability. In very good condition, with a central vertical fold, scattered creases and wrinkles, light toning, and show-through from old tape along one edge on reverse. Knowles’s wife did not even know he was on board the Titanic until she received word that he had been saved.
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