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Henry Tingle Wilde, RNR (21 September 1872 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval officer who was the chief officer of the RMS Titanic. He died when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912.
Sep 1, 1996 · Owing to the Olympic being laid up, the ruling lights of the White Star Line thought it would be a good plan to send the Chief Officer of the Olympic, just for the one voyage, as Chief Officer of the Titanic, to help, with his experience of her sister ship.
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Lieutenant Henry Tingle Wilde was the Chief Officer of the RMS Titanic. He didn't survive the Titanic disaster. Henry Wilde was christened at the Loxley Congregational Chapel in Bradfield, Yorkshire on October 24th, 1872.
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Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde was born at the Loxley Congregational Chapel in Bradfield, Yorkshire on 24 October 1872. He was the son of Henry Wilde, an insurance surveyor from Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire. His mother was Elizabeth Tingle of Loxley, Bradfield. Henry went to sea in his teens...
Sep 21, 2020 · Henry Tingle Wilde, Titanic’s chief officer, was born in Liverpool on 21 September 1872. Wilde served on a number of White Star Line ships over the years, mainly on the company’s Liverpool-New York and Australian routes, including Arabic (1902), Celtic (1901), Medic and Cymric.
For many years Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde, from Liverpool, has been unfairly considered an "enigma" due to the limited amount of information on his life and actions aboard Titanic during the sinking.
"Henry Tingle Wilde was not considered a man given to flights of fancy. A tall, powerfully built man, just thirty-eight, he too had worked his ranks from a ship's apprentice in the old square-rigged ships, through the ranks until his appointment as chief officer of the Olympic in May 1911.
