Sunday September 14, 1930

Did Josephine awake this morning having trouble standing, as Mrs. Fannie Fine of Missouri did? Was she able to get dressed and leave her cabin?

If so, Josephine’s cabin steward would have informed her that they were in the midst of a storm that had happened just as the gulf stream poured into the Atlantic.

I wonder if Josephine was able to attend Mass at 8 am that morning. Mrs. Fine did attend an 11 am service conducted by an Episcopal minister from Philadelphia who was aboard the ship. Mrs. Fine found his sermon to be wonderful, the subject being “Immortality.” She wondered if she was at that moment in a better mind to hear such a sermon; or perhaps the fact that they were in the midst of an awful storm made the topic that more compelling to her!

The deck furniture was tied down to prevent the waves tumbling over the top deck from washing the furniture away. Those passengers who were still able to navigate the interior of the ship had to use ropes to move around the hall ways – heavy ropes were put up in the halls for the passengers to cling to as they made their way down the hall way.

By the time dinner rolled around, the storm had taken its toll on many of the passengers. About two thirds of the passengers on the ship were absent from the dining table that night.

And the storm would continue the next day. How was Josephine holding up?




Source: written by Carolyn Ourso