George Buckingham
Cruise Ship Passenger Missing Overboard
SS Portia - November 4, 1895
George Buckingham
Date: November 4, 1895
Cruise Bruise: Missing
Bruise Location: Canada
Age: unknown
Home Town: St. John's NL
Line: Red Cross Steamship Line
Ship: SS Portia
Details:
Buckingham was leaving New York City (NYC) for his home in St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada to rejoin his wife and children.
While in NYC Buckingham had been ill, but by the time the ship reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada he was said to be feeling much better.
Passenger reported that Buckingham had become very excited, having hallucinations, and was reported to have gone overboard.
The ship was stopped, and a boat was lowered to look for him in the dark of the night, but could not be found.
The SS Portia was a 732 ton schooner-rigged steamship. The Portia was a sister ship of the Miranda, and one of the original Red Cross Line Steamships of 1884, owned by the Bowring Company.
She was wrecked in July 1899 on Big Fish Shoal, Nova Scotia, on a voyage from New York to St. John's.
