Herbert james haddock biography of martin
Captain Herbert Haddock was technically the first captain of the Titanic because he was in charge of recruiting the crew who would sail the ship to Southampton.
Herbert James Haddock was born on month day , in birth place.!
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Captain Herbert Haddock
- Early Career
Herbert James Haddock was born in Rugby, a market town in Warwickshire, England, on the 27th of January 1861.
A month later he was christened, on the 31 March 1861. Not long after, his brother Sideny George Haddock was born in June 1862, followed by James Rudolph Haddock (1865-?) and John Cecil Haddock (1865-1916).
Raised in Rugby, Herbert travelled to Liverpool to begin a four year apprenticeship in August 1875, when he was 14 years old.
The apprenticeship was with the Rathbone Brothers, a company founded by William Rathbone II in 1742 as a Liverpool-based timber trading business By the 19th century it had become a leading trader in cotton from the United States and in 1841 it became the Liverpool agent for the East India Company.
A painting of the HMS Conway, a naval training school, where Haddock trained 1875 - 1877.
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The apprenticeship was aboard the HMS Conway, a naval training school or