Who was the train dispatcher who sent a warning message to another passenger train in the December 6, 1917 Halifax maritime disaster?
Vince Coleman (train dispatcher) Patrick Vincent Coleman (13March 18726December 1917) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop out of range of the explosion. Today he is remembered as one of the heroic figures from the disaster.
Alfred Frank Evans Alfred Frank Evans (3 February 1887 – 1 February 1964) was a British sailor who worked as a lookout on board the ill-fated  . Evans was 25 at the time of the sinking of the ship. He, along with Fireman Frank Dymond, was put in charge of lifeboat 15, which was lowered away at around 1:40am.