Sidney Clarence Stuart Collett was a Second Class passenger aboard the Titanic, he survived the sinking.
Biography[]
Sidney Collett was born on June 8, 1887 in Hampstead, London, England to his parents Mawbey Ernest Collett and Ann Pinfold (née Casely).
Titanic[]
Sidney originally planned to travel to New York on the SS St. Louis but missed bookings and failed to secure a berth on the ship, he then decided to go on the SS Philadelphia which got its voyage cancelled due to a coal strike.
He was then was moved to the RMS Titanic, where he bought a ticket for Second Class (ticket number 28034, £10 𝓼10) he took a train from Waterloo on April 10th 1912 with his uncle Sidney Collet to Southampton. Along he brought was possessions left in Britain by the family when they moved to America in 1910.
Such as family documents, and a considerable amount of cash, the day before, Sidney sent a letter to his mother from London. The letter contained a second letter in which the first instructed that should anything unforeseen happen to Collet, then they open the second letter.
Sidney was seen of on the ship by his uncle and auntie, just before departure of the ship from Southampton, his aunt told him to look after another passenger. Marion Wright, a young lady who was travelling to join her fiancé in New York.
Sidney then said later on in life: “ …since I became her protector, she playfully suggested that in order I might not make love to her she get another friend as our companion.” That companion was Kate Buss and Sidney then looked after both women.
Collett survived the sinking by getting into lifeboat 9.