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.
Arthur Rostron Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a captain for the Cunard Line. He is best remembered as the captain of the ocean liner RMS "Carpathia", which rescued hundreds of survivors of the RMS "Titanic" when it sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.