Claim Against White Star

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 07/30/2020 at 11:18 • Filed to: None

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Not really “Oppo” but interesting enough to share. This is a page from a claim against the Titanic Owners, White Star from one of the survivors from the sinking Albina Bassani.

I spent 5 years at the Vancouver office of the broker who placed the coverage on the Titanic and had seen some stuff on our intranet about it before.

I’ve always been interested in the Titanic and had the opportunity to visit many of the graves of the victims in Halifax a few years ago as well as view a piece of the main staircase in the maritime museum there.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 11:25

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Just so everyone is on the same page, that is a $76,000 claim in 2020!

Interesting to see that many of the systems in place today functioned basically the same 100 years ago.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 07/30/2020 at 11:32

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The insurance world, at least on the grand scale of things, evolves pretty slowly.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 11:33

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Fascinating.

White Star Attorney Reply: “Your client owes us over $3 000 for all the free ice we brought to their cabin...  Let’s call it even. ”

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 07/30/2020 at 11:33

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This is true in a lot of industries... Processes and procedures we think of “as modern”? Been around since the start of the industrial age of commerce.

In this case?  Some poor stenographer had to hand-type all these forms up...  but the process in the background?  All the same.

DipodomysDeserti > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 11:38

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I was in Cobh last Fall. I believe it was the last port the Titanic left from. They have a few memorials around the harbor for the Titanic . I believe this was memorial for people who immigrated from Ireland. There’s also a Lusitania memorial as it was sunk just off the Irish coast.

My great grandfather was on the water when the Titanic sank and he received distress calls from her. He used to get very emotional telling us that story.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 11:49

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In 1912, you could have a full time lady in waiting. What a time to be alive.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > DipodomysDeserti 07/30/2020 at 11:59

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Damn...

ranwhenparked > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/30/2020 at 12:22

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Labor was dirt cheap and there was an endless supply of immigrants to provide it, wasn't unusual for even middle class families to have a live-in servant. Of course, the middle class itself was a lot smaller then.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 12:27

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I’m tying to find the story. Durring ww2 ships that had been requisitioned, the owners were still filing insurance policies. Some of these policies were processed through n eu tral countries, and  german navy intelligence were able to intercept critical details. It went on for a year before navy found out. 

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 12:31

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when I was really little I loved ships and did a book report on the Titanic, which became annoying as then family members thought I loved the movie and all that other crap.

i find the fire information very interesting.

Thomas Donohue > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/30/2020 at 12:32

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$250 in cash. hmmmm that’s about $6,500 in todays sheckels. Even though everything was paid for in cash back then, sounds a bit suspicious.

I’d have paid out no more than $175.

facw > Thomas Donohue 07/30/2020 at 23:00

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Well transatlantic banking was a much more complicated affair, and you didn’t have credit cards (though the well heeled might have charge accounts with particular stores), so carrying more cash might be desirable.

Zenith2455 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/31/2020 at 17:32

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I had the pleasure of seeing the Titanic exhibit at Science World (Phoenix) many years ago. IT was very neat, but also sad walking threw some of the old artifacts that had been pulled up from the sea floor. Before leaving we bought a fact book on the Titanic; this one: https://www.amazon.ca/Amazing-Answers-Questions-About-Titanic/dp/0439042968 The book contains so many interest facts, that it was a fun read; and did I read that book a bunch. Seeing this like this has been  very interesting to me. Thanks for posting

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Zenith2455 07/31/2020 at 17:46

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$16 is a good deal for that book! Yeah, it is always sad/somber to walk amongst items associated with death, but still important to remember and interesting.