The numbers re only one of the ships seems, so far, to agree! (Rappahannock).

There are so far, as you can see above, 24 passengers ex the Volturno who arrived in the U.S. aboard the Uranium or in Canada aboard the Royal Edward where the name of the rescue vessel is not known to, or cannot be 'guesstimated' by the Webmaster. So I do not therefore know where they should correctly be placed in the above table. We will need other contemporary lists to be able to figure that out!

But I suspect that the bottom 23 of the 24 are from the Narragansett.

And Walter Trentepohl seems not to be listed with those I have so far found referenced to the Carmania.

We should keep in mind, however, that some passengers who were rescued & landed in Europe, may have decided to return to their original homes & declined to take new passage to North America. And would never therefore be listed on Ellis Island. I presume also that some of the passengers were European tourists & after their ordeal may have decided enough was enough & did not return. And other passengers were U.S. citizens. And maybe would not be listed on Ellis Island when they arrived in the U.S.? And the crew of the Volturno is a puzzle also. It would seem that many crew members were not manifested or, I should restate that, I have not yet found them to have been manifested. But maybe they were! But would they normally be manifested at all since they presumably were not immigrating to the U.S.? Lots of reasons, perhaps, for the numbers to be less than perfect.

I now know that, in fact, twenty of the survivors who were landed in Europe returned to their former homes & chose not to travel back to North America on another vessel. That information comes from a report of the American Red Cross on the relief activities conducted in 1913 & 1914 for the Volturno survivors, a report that is now on site (a large part of it at least) & accessible here. The vessels on which those 20 survivors were landed back in Europe was not stated, alas. With that data, were it available, I could significantly advance the above list.

I have a way to go yet to assemble even the correct number of ships, let alone, the correct number of passengers! The text of that Red Cross report in part reads as follows. 'There were 562 passengers on the VOLTURNO, of which 103 were lost. Of the 459 who were saved, 348 eventually came to the port of New York on fourteen different ships, and 91 others were landed in Canada. Twenty of the survivors who were landed in Europe returned to their former homes.' Of the vessels that I am aware of, only 9 are in my list (if one includes the Seydlitz, if, that is, it is correct that that vessel went on from Philadelphia to New York. It would seem that it did, judging by the Red Cross report words). I have excluded from my numbers the vessels which went to Canada & did not, to my knowledge, also visit New York. So I am missing, from a list that I thought was quite advanced, no fewer than 5 ships! And therefore the survivors that they all brought to the U.S.! I should not place 100% accuracy on that Red Cross report, but it is amazingly detailed & they were clearly intimately aware of all of the Volturno passengers even those who were lost. And so far that report does seem to be, in fact, astonishingly accurate. My nine are as follows: Campanello, Uranium, Carmania, Grosser Kurfürst, Kroonland, La Touraine, Olympic, Florizel and Seydlitz. Can anybody tell me which five vessels I am missing? Link below if you can.

If you were to try to tally up the numbers above, my list would seem to be slightly inaccurate. I seem to have 351 passenger survivors coming to New York & only 87 going to Canada. But we are getting close!

THE PORTS (OTHER THAN U.S. PORTS) AND SHIPS

A little list that has helped me track the timings of the various vessels and therefore the survivors.

Note re Avonmouth: The city of Bristol is inland on the Avon River in the West of England. Avonmouth is the deep water port at the mouth of the Avon River, for ships unable, because of their large size, to travel up river to Bristol itself.

THOSE WHO WERE LOST

I started a little list to assemble data about Volturno passengers that were lost in the disaster. A small list indeed at this moment. Just 6 names as recorded below. Since that list was commenced, I now learn that a list of passengers (but not Volturno crew) who were lost, a list originating from the general agent in New York of the Uranium Steamship Company, was published in the New York Times on Friday, Oct. 24, 1913. That list contained 102 names. The text indicated that the list may later change when 3 more vessels arrive with survivors. It also states that 30 crew were lost. I have a print of part of that list but the quality of the print is very poor indeed. I will try, in the future to include here that list, once I have rechecked the microfilm. If, in the meantime,  any visitor wants such data they might locate it through their local big city main reference library I trust. Hopefully in good legible detail.

But now that data IS on site and in good order I believe. See site page 09 for the exact texts. I think that I should somehow include that data on this page also, but have to yet figure out how to integrate it with the data I already have.

The numbers are quite confusing! I am advised that the Board of Trade provided a casualty report to Parliament in London, England, but not until 1920 because of the intervention of WW1. It advised that 134 lives were lost in the Volturno disaster, specifically 104 passengers & 30 crew. Thank you David Asprey for that most interesting data!

Even though I have difficulty in reading all of the New York Times text, I can see that there are three Kutkowski's in the list with names indicated. But there is no sign that I can see of my items 4 and 5, i.e. no Sapsen or Tourneur however spelled.

As I come across, if I do, names or data about Volturno passengers who were lost in the disaster, I will record them here. 6 passengers so far.

If any visitor can clarify (or correct) or provide more information about any of these matters, I would truly welcome their help.