ALLEGED "JONAH"
SEAMAN OF FOUR LOST SHIPS. PJeading guilty at Liverpool recently to having failed to join his ship, Charles Dunn, seaman, said he had served in the Titanic, sunk in iceberg collision; the Empress of Ireland, lost in collision with Storstad; the Lusitania and the Florazan, torpedoed. f.n consequence of these, experiences seamen generally were alleged to regard Inmn as "a Jonah." Dunn said the ofchr seamen threatened to throw him overboard if he dared Co make the trip. He therefore joined the Royal Naval Reserve, but was discliarged later as unlit for further service. The Stipendiary: I think a man who has been through so much deserves, some consideration. I shall go out of my way, therefore, to bind you over to bo of good behaviour.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2734, 31 March 1916, Page 4
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128ALLEGED "JONAH" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2734, 31 March 1916, Page 4
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