SS Adriatic Passenger List - 22 August 1931
Front Cover, Cabin Passenger List from the SS Adriatic of the White Star Line, Departing Saturday, 22 August 1931 from Liverpool to New York via Belfast and Glasgow, Commanded by Captain J. W. Binks, R.D. (LT CDR, RNR, Retd.). GGA Image ID # 13b9b572ab
Senior Officers and Staff
- Commander: Captain J. W. Binks, R.D. (LCDR, RNR, Retd.)
- Chief Engineer: H. P. Owen (Eng. Cmdr., R.N.R., Retd.)
- Chief Officer: W. J. R. Saunders
- First Officer: A. Pawley
- Second Officer: W. G. B. Jones
- Senior Second Engineer: R. Forbes
- Inter. Second Engineer: J. McCann
- Senior Third Engineer: J. Ferguson
- Surgeon: J. C. Brennan, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.
- Purser: W. J. O'Hagan
- Assistant Purser: R. T. Butler
- Chief Steward: E. Masters
- Second Steward: A. Gresty
Cabin Passengers
- Abbott, Mr. A. O.
- Abbott, Mrs.
- Abrams, Mr. J.
- Abrams, Mr. A.
- Adams, Miss Esther G.
- Ainsworth, Mrs. E.
- Anderson, Miss A.
- Anderson, Mr. John F.
- Anderson, Miss Mary C.
- Anderson, Miss Flora I.
- Atkinson, Mr. Cephas
- Atkinson, Mrs.
- Baggallav, Mr. H. L.
- Baggallav, Mrs.
- Baggallay, Miss V. J. L.
- Baker, Mr. Julia H.
- Baker, Mrs.
- Ball, Major J. Donald
- Ball, Mrs.
- Ball, Mrs. C.
- Ballaas, Miss Anne
- Barraclough, Mr. George H.
- Bartlett, Mr. Henry
- Bartlett, Mrs.
- Bartley, Mr. Alexander
- Bartley, Mrs.
- Bartley, Mr. Henry
- Bartow, Mr. Josiah B.
- Bartow, Mrs.
- Batty, Miss Margot J. N.
- Baxter, Miss Anne W.
- Beale, Mr. William
- Beecher, Mr. W. B.
- Beecher, Mrs.
- Beecher, Mr. George R.
- Birekhead, Mr. P. G.
- Birckhead, Mrs.
- Birdsall, Miss Mabel
- Booth, Mr. C. H.
- Border, Mrs. M. R.
- Boulter, Mrs. W. B.
- Boynton, Mr. W. P.
- Boynton, Mrs.
- Breese, Mr. G. J.
- Bridge, Mr. Ernest
- Bridge, Mrs.
- Bridge, Miss E. D.
- Brodbine, Miss Anna
- Brown, Prof. E.
- Brown, Mrs.
- Brown, Miss I. B.
- Brunner, Miss Veronica
- Buchtenkirk, Mr. G. C.
- Buchtenkirk, Mrs.
- Bulmer, Miss Laura
- Burgess, Mr. Sullivan
- Burgess, Mrs.
- Burns, Mr. John
- Burns, Mrs.
- Burns, Miss Alice Louise
- Burns, Miss Ruth
- Burnside, Miss Sybil
- Campbell, Mrs. K. H.
- Capell, Mr. Frank
- Carey, Rev.
- Alphonse J.
- Carless, Mr. Harry
- Carlton, Mrs. Willard G.
- Carroll, Mrs. Robt. de V.
- Catherall, Mrs. M. L.
- Chappell, Miss Cleo. R.
- Charles, Hon. Wm. B.
- Charles, Mrs.
- Chinn, Miss Deborah
- Citrin, Miss Marion
- Clark, Mr. Harold J.
- Cockill, Miss Anna K.
- Coe, Miss M.
- Colbert, Miss Katherine
- Collins, Miss Emily M.
- Conroy, Mr. Patrick J.
- Cook, Mr. David
- Cook, Mr. Wm. D.
- Cook, Mrs.
- Cook, Mr. William
- Cookman, Mr. Stephen H.
- Cooper, Mrs. A. G.
- Crabbe, Mr. G. W.
- Crabbe, Mrs.
- Craven, Mr. Algernon
- Craven, Mr.
- Cunningham, Mr. F. F.
- Cunningham, Miss Elizabeth
- Cunningham, Miss Helen
- Dahlman, Mrs.
- Daloz, Mrs. L. E.
- Daloz, Miss Victoria
- Dette, Miss Susan
- Dhuy, Mr. Benj. S.
- Dhuy, Mrs.
- Dhuy, Miss Leonice F.
- Dick, Mrs. Homer T.
- Dodds, Mrs. R. J.
- Dodds, Miss Agnes A.
- Dowell, Mr. George
- Dowling, Rev. James G.
- Drosse, Mrs. C.
- Druiffe, Mr. H. L.
- Druiffe, Mrs.
- Edwards, Mr. Charles C.
- Estabrooks, Mr. G. H.
- Evans III, Mr. Frank B.
- Ewing, Mrs. H. D.
- Ewing, Mr. James D.
- Ewing, Master George M.
- Farmer, Dr. E. S. Harvey
- Fielding, Dr. George B.
- Fielding, Mrs.
- Filsinger, Mrs. S. T.
- Fishman, Mr. J.
- Flanagan, Mr. W. H.
- Forbes, Mr. W. A.
- Forrest, Mrs. M. E.
- Foster, Miss Claire
- Frigar, Mr. Joseph H.
- Futcher, Mrs. Thos. B.
- Futcher, Mr. Palmer H.
- Gage, Brig.-General Moreton F.
- Gamble, Mr. J.
- Gesell, Mr. A. L.
- Gesell, Mrs.
- Gesell, Miss Catherine
- Gifford, Mr. John F.
- Gillespie, Mrs. B. M.
- Gillespie, Miss Emma
- Goddard, Dr. Henry H.
- Goddard, Mrs.
- Godfrey, Mr. Jonathan
- Gordon, Miss Helen B.
- Gostenhofer, Mr. C. H.
- Groome, Mr. Alexander C.
- Gummere, Mr. John F.
- Gummere, Mrs.
- Haley, Mr. Frederick J.
- Hamilton, Mr. C. A.
- Hamilton, Mrs.
- Hamilton, Mrs. R. A.
- Harrington, Miss Mary C.
- Healy, Rev. Father T. J.
- Heaton, Miss Doris
- Hencken, Mrs. Hugh O'Neill
- Hoagland, Miss Madge
- Hoffstetter, Mr. John R.
- Hollister, Mrs. S. L.
- Hollister, Miss Irene
- Holme, Mr. H.
- Hopkins, Miss Galina P.
- Howard, Mr. Wm. H.
- Howard, Mrs.
- Howden, Mrs. Henry F.
- Howden, Jr., Master Henry
- Huhn, Mr. Bruno
- Hunter, Miss Ruth C.
- Hutchinson, Miss Meta Hare and Maid
- Hutton, Mrs. G.
- Iinas, Mr. S.
- Isaacs, Miss Bertha P.
- Japs, Miss Amelia R.
- Jenkins, Miss Ruth L.
- Jones, Mrs. Henry K.
- Jones, Miss Evelyn H.
- Jones, Dr. Thomas J.
- Jones, Mrs.
- Joyce, Miss A.
- Kamenetsky, Mr. Aaron
- Kenny, Rev. John R.
- Knox, Mr. James H.
- Krentler, Mrs. A.
- Lappin, Rev, Fr. James
- Lapsley, Mr. Arthur B.
- Lapsley, Mrs.
- Lapsley, Miss Margaret
- Lascelles, Mr. Wm. J.
- Latimer, Miss Daisy
- Law, Mr. Andrew
- Law, Mrs.
- Law, Miss Virginia
- Lawrence, Mr. Wm. H.
- Lawrence, Mrs.
- Lawrence, Miss Leonice D.
- Lawrence, Mr. Frederick D.
- Lease, Miss Grace M.
- Litchfield, Mrs. E. D.
- Livingstone, Mrs. A.
- Lord, Rev. Dr. Rivington D.
- Lucia, Dr. S. P.
- Luques, Judge Herbert L.
- Luques, Mrs.
- Lynch, Dr. Charles
- Lyon, Mr. A. E.
- Lyon, Mrs.
- Macdonakl, Mr. Robert
- Macdonakl, Mrs.
- Macdonakl, Miss Catharine C.
- Macdonakl, Jr., Mr. Robert B.
- Mackay, Mr. W.
- Mackay, Mrs.
- Macniffe, Mr. Valentine
- Maddock, Mr. Sidney
- Maddock, Mr. Paul L.
- Marcotte, Mr. I. J.
- Marks, Miss Janet R.
- Marley, Miss Ethel L.
- Marshall, Miss Helene
- Martens, Miss Dora B.
- Mason, Mrs. J. R.
- Mather, Mr. Chas
- Mather, Mrs.
- Mather, Miss Christine P.
- Maveety, Miss A. M.
- McDermott, Mrs. E.
- McDermott, Miss Ann
- McDermott, Miss Frances
- McGrattan, Miss Annie
- McGregor, Miss Eleanor
- McHugh, Mr. E. C.
- McHugh, Mrs.
- McHugh, Master Edward C.
- McHugh, Miss Nancy
- McHugh, Miss Mary Ann
- Mcllvaine, Miss Elian
- Merriss, Mr. G.
- Miles, Mrs. D.
- Miller, Mrs. A. B.
- Molahan, Miss Mary
- Morris, Mrs. J. Bertrand
- Muller, Miss Marie M.
- Mulligan, Miss Louise S.
- Mulligan, Miss Mary S.
- Murphy, Miss Katherine M.
- Murphy, Miss Mary S.
- Musser, Mrs. A. J.
- Musser, Miss Helen E.
- Myerson, Dr. S.
- Nixon, Miss Jennie
- Odell, Mrs. Joseph H.
- Ohnemus, Mr. Paul M.
- Ohnemus, Mrs.
- O'Malley, Miss Anne
- Orcutt, Mrs. E. E.
- Oughterson, Miss M.
- Oxley, Dr. H. W.
- Parsons, Mr. Wm. V.
- Parsons, Mrs.
- Pateson, Mrs.
- Patterson, Mr. H. T.
- Patterson, Mrs.
- Pettit, Mrs. Henry Paris
- Pierce, Miss Marion
- Playford, Mr. Norman P.
- Playford, Mrs.
- Pletke, Miss Dora
- Plimpton, Miss Harriet
- Porten, Mr. Wm.
- Porten, Miss Elizabeth
- Powell, Mrs. J. H.
- Powell, Jr., Rev. J. H.
- Pratt, Mr. Thomas C.
- Price, Mrs. F. A.
- Prince, Miss B. J.
- Purvis, Mrs. L. B.
- Purvis, Miss Roberta
- Raw, Mrs. E. J.
- Rice, III., Mr. George S.
- Rohde, Miss Eleanor S.
- Roman, Mrs. S.
- Roughan, Mr. George W.
- Roughan, Mrs.
- Roughan, Jr., Mr. George W.
- Runyan, Mrs. M. D.
- Schenck, Dr. Aletta
- Scott, Miss Florence
- Scudder, Mrs. H.
- Scudder, Miss H.
- Scudder, Miss Sadie
- Sheraton, Mrs. I. A.
- Shriver, Mr. James
- Siewers, Mrs. John B.
- Siewers, Miss Jeanette
- Siewers, Miss Margaret
- Skinner, Jr., Mr. James
- Smith, Miss Lida M.
- Smith. Miss Elizabeth
- Smithick, Miss Alice
- Spring, Miss Joan
- Spurgeon, Jr., Mr. W. H.
- Spurgeon, Jr , Mrs.
- Spurgeon, Miss Sherrill
- Spurgeon, Mr. Bill
- Stacker, Miss H. Dora
- Stephenson, Mr. L. A.
- Stephenson, Mrs.
- Stephenson, Miss Alice
- Stone, Mr. Frank P.
- Stonington, Mr. Edgar H. L.
- Stonington, Miss Beatrice E.
- Strahan, Miss Doris V.
- Sturges, Mrs. L. P.
- Sturges, Mr. Albert B.
- Sturges, Mr. George D.
- Sturges, Mr. W. Delafield
- Suasa, Princess Di Poggio
- Swan, Mrs. Wm. L.
- Switzer, Mr. Eyre
- Switzer, Mrs.
- Tator, Jr., Mr. Arthur E.
- Taylor, Miss Mary C.
- Tencher, Mr. R.
- Teacher, Mrs.
- Tencher, Mr. James R.
- Teacher, Miss Martha A.
- Thorn, Miss Mary G.
- Thorn, Miss Elizabeth
- Thomas, Miss Myra
- Thornpsoa, Mr. D. G. Brinton
- Thompson, Mrs.
- Thorburn, Mr. David
- Thorburn, Mr. Alexander
- Thorne, Mrs. L.
- Titus, Mr. L. Robert
- Tobey, Miss Caroline
- Travis, Miss Edna K.
- Treciokas, Mr. A. S.
- Tucker, Miss M. Lucille
- Underbill, Dr. Elizabeth C.
- Underhill, Mr. Harold L.
- Walker, Mrs. E. W.
- Walker, Miss S. C.
- Wardell, Miss L.
- Watson, Mr. Frank R.
- Weeks, Miss M. L.
- Wells, Miss Ruth
- Wheeler, Jr., Mr. W. H.
- Wheeler, Jr., Mrs.
- Whinery, Mr. John E.
- Whinery, Mr. Chas. C.
- Whipple, Mrs. George H.
- Whittle, Mrs. Georgio R.
- Whittle, Miss Georgina C.
- Williamson, Mr. Alexander
- Williamson, Mrs.
- Wilson, Dr. Basil M.
- Wilson, Mrs. W.
- Wilson, Master D. H.
- Wilson, Master S. E.
- Wood, Mrs. Maurice
- Wood, Miss Hazel M.
- Wood, Miss L. F.
- Wright, Mr. Ben.
- Zimmerman, Miss M. L.
Information for Passengers
RECOVERY OF U.S. HEAD TAX
Refund of Head Tax can be obtained provided passengers have complied with the following conditions:—
(1) Inform the U.S. Immigration Inspector on arrival that it is their intention to leave the United States within sixty days, and obtain from the Inspector "Head Tax Refund Certificate " (Form 514).
(2) When leaving the United States to have the departure certified on Form 514 by the Purser of the vessel or by the conductor of the train upon which the departure takes place.
(3) The Immigration Authorities impose a time limit of 120 days from date of entry, after which claims for refund will not be considered. Passengers must, therefore, submit Form 514, duly completed, to the Company in sufficient time to enable the Company to make their application within this limit of time (120 days).
Track Chart and Memorandum of Log (Unused). RMS Adriatic Passenger List, 22 August 1931. GGA Image ID # 1dd5f946e2
Collector's Item Auction Details
RMS Adriatic Cabin Passenger List - 22 August 1931
Experience the golden age of transatlantic travel with this original Cabin Passenger List from the RMS Adriatic of the White Star Line, documenting the voyage departing Saturday, 22 August 1931, from Liverpool to New York via Belfast and Glasgow.
Provenance
This Passenger List is from the esteemed collection of Paul K. Gjenvick, a distinguished maritime archivist whose collection is revered by collectors and historians worldwide.
Item Description
The Cabin Passenger List for the RMS Adriatic, a renowned ship of the White Star Line, provides a snapshot of transatlantic travel in 1931. The document features passenger names, ship details, and onboard amenities, capturing the spirit of an era marked by elegance and exploration. Commanded by Captain J. W. Binks, R.D. (Lt. Cmdr, RNR, Retd.), the voyage highlights the craftsmanship and service excellence synonymous with White Star Line.
Key Features
- Date of Voyage: 22 August 1931
- Route: Liverpool → Belfast → Glasgow → New York
- Ship: RMS Adriatic, White Star Line
- Commander: Captain J. W. Binks, R.D. (Lt. Cmdr, RNR, Retd.)
- Contents: Passenger roster, ship information, and a memorandum of log
Historical and Design Highlights
- Art Deco Influence: Reflects design elements popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
- Transatlantic Significance: Chronicles a period when ocean liners served as vital links between continents.
- Ship Legacy: RMS Adriatic was a symbol of White Star Line’s commitment to luxury and service.
- Socio-Historical Context: Offers insight into passenger demographics and societal structure during the Great Depression.
Condition
- Cover: Minor edge wear consistent with age but well-preserved.
- Interior: Clean and crisp pages with no significant discoloration or damage.
- Overall Condition: Excellent for a document of this age.
Notable Passengers (VIP Travelers)
- Brig.-Gen. Moreton F. Gage (1868–1942): A prominent military leader recognized for his contributions during World War I.
- Judge Herbert L. Luques (1875–1958): Renowned legal figure and advocate for judicial reform.
- Dr. Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957): A leading psychologist known for his work on intelligence testing.
- Rt. Rev. Rivington D. Lord (1870–1945): An influential clergyman in the Episcopal Church.
- Princess Di Poggio Suasa: European aristocracy, noted for her social influence and philanthropy.
Historical Significance
This Passenger List is a tangible link to the storied era of ocean liners, reflecting the grandeur and importance of transatlantic travel in 1931. It provides invaluable insights into the passengers and maritime culture during a period marked by both luxury and global economic challenges.
Estimated Auction Price Range
- Low Estimate: $30 USD
- High Estimate: $45 USD
Conclusion/Reason to Bid
This RMS Adriatic Passenger List offers an exceptional opportunity to own a piece of maritime history. Its pristine condition, historical context, and connection to notable individuals make it a valuable addition to any collector’s portfolio. Whether for its genealogical relevance or its reflection of an iconic era, this artifact is a must-have for enthusiasts and historians alike.
