Hi Maisie Although a lower rung than the 1st or 2nd Engineer it was still a respectable rank and far from a skivvy As to how he came to drown, no one on a ship stayed below the whole time You may be right but seems rather unkind to assume he was drunk without some sort of evidence, he may have been a teetotaller and fell over a rope I don't like to think ill of the dead without some sort of evidence Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > The 3rd engineer was low man on the totem pole, then, the equivalent > of a skivvy! I was curious that if Gordon Hyslop worked below decks > as an engineer what were the circumstances of his death by drowning. > Mean thought: maybe he’d been in his cups and lost his balance and > fell overboard!!! > > Thanks for the info. > > Maisie --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

I should have added that these unidentified bodies were only one portion of the bodies recovered as many were identified.  Most of the murdered seamen had some money in their pockets and went ashore to buy clothes, shoes, get a good meal and a drink (or 2 or 3 or more).  They were easy targets for the dock gangs. Good hunting, Cliff. On Saturday, April 9, 2016 2:26 PM, Nivard Ovington via <lanark@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hi Maisie Although a lower rung than the 1st or 2nd Engineer it was still a respectable rank and far from a skivvy As to how he came to drown, no one on a ship stayed below the whole time You may be right but seems rather unkind to assume he was drunk without some sort of evidence, he may have been a teetotaller and fell over a rope I don't like to think ill of the dead without some sort of evidence Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > The 3rd engineer was low man on the totem pole, then, the equivalent > of a skivvy!  I was curious that if Gordon Hyslop worked below decks > as an engineer what were the circumstances of his death by drowning. > Mean thought:  maybe he’d been in his cups and lost his balance and > fell overboard!!! > > Thanks for the info. > > Maisie --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus   ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online:  http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message