"The Loss of the Douro"
The following official statement was posted outside the Royal Mail Company's premises in Southampton yesterday:-
"List of persons still unaccounted for from the Royal Mail steam packet Douro. - E. C. Kemp, commander; A. H. Tongue, first officer; C. S. Bateman, second ditto; F. Luce, third ditto; P. G. Atherley, fourth ditto; Henry Whitrow, purser; John Marshall, boatswain; Antony Jones, quartermaster; Edward Bury, A.B.; William Young, chief engineer; Richard Child, second engineer; John T. Miller, fireman; Eli Adams, coal trimmer; H. Anderson, assistant baker; George Senior, scullion. The following men are reported as saved, but their names do not appear on the ship's articles:- J. Andrews, A.B.; Lewis, A.B.; and Brown, A.B."
The total loss of life, therefore, as far as the Douro's crew are concerned, is now known to amount to 17, supposing that none of those missing have been picked up by some other vessel. [Bateman, the second officer, and Anderson, the assistant baker, were reported safe the following day] . . . That so many persons (including the ladies and children) were saved, while the captain and his executive officers were all lost, is good proof that those gentlemen nobly preserved the traditional reputation of British seamen, and stood firm to their posts to the last.
("The Loss of the Douro,""The Times," Thursday, 06 April 1882, #30474, 6f)
