S S City of Atlanta

I have some info. Leman Chapman Urquhart was from Castalia, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. He didn't survive the sinking and was last seen on the bridge. He had been in the employ of thecompany as was my grandfather Lawrence George Urquhart, though he may have been on the S S Beauregard on a Murmansk, Russia convoy and sometimes I think he said he might have been on it. Last I heard Leman Urquhart (I will check) was that his family whom I've never met, lived in Jacksonville, Florida. My grandfather said he was in an argument once with someone who insisted we could goto the Moon back then. There is a book "Operation Drumbeat" about the WWII "Battle of the Atlantic" (which has gone on for so long and for so many times wave heights have increased along with average wind speed) by Floridian scholar Michael Gannon "The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along The American Coast In World War II" Harper & Row c) 1990 which mis-spells Leman "Lehman" and Urquhart "Urquart" which was promised to be corrected in the Second Edition (if there ever was one). There have been some problems with numbers as reported too, two survivors, three survivors also reflected in the number dead, 42, perhaps from the ordeal. Leman Urquhart, along with a few others, are named on the base of the flagpole at the old church (between two brass cannons) overlooking North Head, Grand Manan Island's main harbor, as having died to preserve Canadian freedom. We left a chalice at the church with Lawrence Urquhart's name engraved on it, given after his brother, Lawrence Urquhart, my grandfather, passed on. At the time I lived with him while excavating a circa 1730's ship in lower Manhattan and working in "contract archaeology" in the New York City vicinity, where the "S S City of Atlanta" had left from. The harbor pilot's association, at Sandy Hook, said that he may have been hired to be the captain, as a Master Mariner, ships could come and go faster without pilotage into and out of the harbor, in so doing, decrease the time at sea. The ship was a sidewheeler built in 1903 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I read somewhere, twice as much coal was used in propulsion, compared to the screw propellor. There was a social history written about the West Chester area by Anthony F.C. Wallace. Please send an email to georgejmyersjr@gmail.com for further info or questions or leave them here. We once used to sometimes summer vacation on Grand Manan Island and had an old house for awhile down in Seal Cove there, originally settled by an American Dr. Faxon, who built the island's first square-rigger, but left over the loyalties questions of the War of 1812. Nearby Maine later, in 1820, became a state, the borders there contentious and "litigious" as Mick Jagger once said on the Bronx County, NY courthouse steps, near where I live. (wish I could spell check these comments, Mr. Gates) Posted at MSN Spaces