Individual Details
Wilfred Copland Templer
(22 Dec 1861 - 24 Aug 1881)
Entered Merchant Service 1881 - Lost at sea in Ship 'Tubal Cain' near China Aug 1881 aged 19 - Catherine Ann Prior c1909
Wanted to go into the Royal Navy the father could not afford it.
Tubal Cain was a modern Merchant Navy training ship which founded in a cyclone in the Indian Ocean
Iron-hulled ship "TUBAL CAIN",
The vessel
2,006 tons gross.
1,933 tons net.
1,831 tons under deck.
Length 267.3 ft.
Breadth 39.7 f t
Depth 24 ft.
Length of poop 54 ft.
Length of forecastle 42 ft.
Official Number 84075
Port of Registry Liverpool.
Classed 100A1 by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
History
November, 1880 Completed by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton, for L.H. Macintyre & Co., of Liverpool.
August 12, 1881 Sailed from Singapore, bound for San Francisco, in ballast, under command of Captain Taggart; spoken about 60 miles WSW. of Sabatan Island, August 24, 1881, and not heard of again.
February 8, 1882 Posted Missing at Lloyd's.
This is not the Tubal Cain that was lost off South Australia in 1862
Wanted to go into the Royal Navy the father could not afford it.
Tubal Cain was a modern Merchant Navy training ship which founded in a cyclone in the Indian Ocean
Iron-hulled ship "TUBAL CAIN",
The vessel
2,006 tons gross.
1,933 tons net.
1,831 tons under deck.
Length 267.3 ft.
Breadth 39.7 f t
Depth 24 ft.
Length of poop 54 ft.
Length of forecastle 42 ft.
Official Number 84075
Port of Registry Liverpool.
Classed 100A1 by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
History
November, 1880 Completed by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton, for L.H. Macintyre & Co., of Liverpool.
August 12, 1881 Sailed from Singapore, bound for San Francisco, in ballast, under command of Captain Taggart; spoken about 60 miles WSW. of Sabatan Island, August 24, 1881, and not heard of again.
February 8, 1882 Posted Missing at Lloyd's.
This is not the Tubal Cain that was lost off South Australia in 1862
Events
| Birth | 22 Dec 1861 | Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Christen | 25 Jan 1862 | Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Residence | 1871 | Age: 9; RelationToHead: Son - Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Death | 24 Aug 1881 | Drowned in Tubal Cain - Pacific Ocean | |
Families
| Father | Charles Copland Templer (1825 - 1895) |
| Mother | Florence Nicholetts (1833 - 1915) |
| Sibling | Constance Templer (1856 - 1958) |
| Sibling | Col Henry "Laddie" Templer OBE (1858 - 1945) |
| Sibling | Maj Charles Bertram Templer (1860 - 1931) |
| Sibling | Charles Lionel Templer (1864 - 1927) |
| Sibling | Capt Ronald Arthur Templer (1868 - 1958) |
Notes
Birth
Hemsworth Vol 9C Pg 93 Mar 1862Death
Iron-hulled ship "TUBALCAIN",The vessel
2,006 tons gross.
1,933 tons net.
1,831 tons under deck.
Length 267.3 ft.
Breadth 39.7 f t
Depth 24 ft.
Length of poop 54 ft.
Length of forecastle 42 ft.
Official Number 84075
Port of Registry Liverpool.
Classed 100A1 by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
History
November, 1880 Completed by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co.,Southampton, for L.H. Macintyre & Co., of Liverpool.
August 12, 1881 Sailed from Singapore, bound for San Francisco, in ballast, under command of Captain Taggart; spoken about 60 miles WSW. of Sabatan Island, August 24, 1881, and not heard of again.
February 8,1882 Posted Missing at Lloyd's.