Henry Wood was a Trimmer on the Titanic.
Background[]
Henry Wood was English. He saw daylight for the first time in period between Summer and Autumn, 1881, in Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Henry Wood was also the name of the man who begot him. He was the bidie-in of Emily Lloyd. Henry senior had started out life in Dudley while Emily grew up in Lancashire, also the place where they said the yes-word in 1872. With the marriage done, they took their stay in Aston, Warwickshire. Henry brought the bread and butter as a gaffer. Their love brought many children forth.
Henrietta was the eldest and brought them into parenthood. They would raise another daughter since 1875, Mary Jane, before being blessed with a son in 1878: Alexander. Henry junior was next and three brothers and two sisters followed him.
Joseph appeared in 1883, before Lily emerged in 1887. Mary then was welcomed in 1890, then it was John who was delivered in 1892 before William surpassed him as the youngest and final family member in 1894.
Before the last 2 kids made their appearance, the Woods had changed adress and had drawn to a different street in Aston, Wil. When a new century began, a black year was marked as Emily was ripped out of the family life. In 1901, Henry was no longer seen with the others. He must have considered whizzing off to the foamy, billowing expanses during the period that the family lost an invaluable member and soon enough, the two parents were no more, with Henry senior going beyond the veil in 1902. Henry junior hoped to find a career beyond the shore.
Titanic[]
In 1912, Henry had gotten to this point. As his eldest brother had been looking out of the Benjamin of the family, Henry must have been homeless for a while as he was registered at the Saint Michael’s Home in Southampton in April 1912. He had had carried out a role on the Allan Line’s Corinthian before he ended up on the Titanic as Trimmer.
He was engaged with the Engineering Crew on April 6, a few days after Titanic had made the delivery trip to Southampton. Southampton welcomed Titanic most heartily as many Sotonians would have new work. The coal strike in Britain had made things difficult for workmen and ship companies alike.
The White Star Line, owner of the Titanic, had every interest to led her first ever voyage proceed. It was the creme de la creme of all ships and it made many jaws drop. It was still doing that on April 10, as Henry had embarked and from 4:00 to 8:00, twice a day, he would haul coal away from the bunkers and place it so the Firemen could have easy access, along with 21 others. Trimmers were split in three groups, each group making up a third of 24 hours. They would also have loaded it onboard before Titanic got under steam.
On April 14, Titanic homed in on an iceberg at the late night, which finally twigged by the two lookouts as the tip of the iceberg was above the horizon. By that time, Titanic’s bow hastened towards it fast and they had one minute or less to respond. The clangors of a bell was heard by the bridge and a telephone came from the lookout that had witnessed the mass first. The dark side suddenly had turned white. The helmsman, by decree of the First Officer, whizzed the steering wheel all the way to the left, while said Officer attempted to bring Titanic to a halt and the engines backwards. As Titanic’s pointy end coiled, her starboard palpated the solid steel and found its weak spot, which must have been high amounts of sulfur and oxide. The detriments of this stroke were that the water flowed into the ship’s side.
The ramifications were acute. Tons of water spilled all over the lower deck and formed a growing layer. The captain had detected the vibes throughout the ship and he stood up, got dressed in a hurry and bolted off to the bridge. The iceberg collision was described and then he enjoined one of his Officers to explore the state of affairs below. This Officer came back with nothing, but in his wake came a Postman, who had to get his ankles wet as their mail was resting on the incoming water in the Mail Hold.
Captain Smith and the creator of Titanic, naval architect Thomas Andrews, probed from a higher viewpoint down into the lowest decks. Andrews later proclaimed that a cataclysm was at hand. It was midnight, April 15, when the Captain had the shipbuilder affirm this mishanter that was cast upon them. He was visibly stricken but then organised the lifeboat procedure. The crew was assembled on deck and at 12:05 A.M.
Twenty minutes later, a scarcely filled boat was dribbled down, close to the giant hull, which was a good bit lower into the water. Andrews had set an estimation of 2 hours for the ship. It did take longer for the ship to sink, but the evacuation dawled in the first hour.
At the end, there wasn’t enough of the ship left as the 2 final boats came into play. The denouement of Titanic was upon them as they only had figured out how to get the boats off a cover on top of the Officer’s accomodations. Titanic then sagged downwards, headfirst. The icey water was soon at kneeheight at the place were people awaited the boats to be set afloat, which came in another form, the bridge could no longer be entered. The water had already done that.
A while later, the first funnel was free-falling while many of the Engine Staff in the depths of the still Titanic tried to keep her afloat for a bit longer, feeding her system to arrange that the ship remained lit. At 2:18 A.M, Titanic had gone with half of her hull. The bulk of her weight stemmed from her engines, which were well clear of the water. The lights faded away and the pitched-black ship must have had explosions inside that could be heard over a distance. Seconds after that, the shady silhouette of Titanic consisted of two shapes. Her construction came undone and her backbone had cracked. The obverse of the once proud vessel was elevated once more pulled itself under at 2:20 A.M, completely upended.
Henry Wood would not get to to land. He was in the thick of the mischanter while around him, at least 1500 others were erased out of existance. The Trimmer crew on watch from 12:00 A.M had the smallest statistical survival rate. Out of a total of 73 men, 20 managed to get to a lifeboat. Henry was not provided for. He would not make it and nor would his body.
After his death[]
A document exists from March 1913, in which the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund declared May Wood, his sister, applicable for benefitting from their deposit.