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George Barker was an Able Seaman on the Titanic, for a short while.

> NOTE: There was another George Barker on the delivery trip from Belfast, he was a temporary storekeeper who also got off the ship in Southampton.

Background[]

George Barker’s life began in Belfast in Ireland, around the year 1866. More information on his early life is unavailable.

Titanic[]

George Barker was in his mid-fourties when he was appointed as Able Seaman for the delivery trip for the RMS Titanic in Belfast on Friday, the 29th March 1912. He had come over from her sister ship, the Olympic.

Titanic made her way from Ireland to England, on the 4th of April, after she had been approved from her first tests. When Titanic had landed in Southampton, George left the ship again.

What he did in further life is up for research.

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