Herbert Pitman

Herbert John Bert Pitman MBE was the Third Officer on board the RMS160Titanic. He was the only deck officer who was not a member of the Royal Naval Reserve. He was the second to last surviving officer of the Titanic.

Pitman was born in the village of Sutton Montis near Castle Cary, Somerset, England. He was the son of farmer Henry Pitman and Sarah Pitman. After his fathers death in 1880, his mother remarried, to Charles Candy. In 1881, a census shows Herbert Pitman was living on 112 acres farm on Sutton Road with his brother, sister, and widowed mother. He first went to sea in 1895 at the age ofby joining the merchant navy. He received the shore part of his nautical training in the navigation department of the Merchant Venturers Technical College, under Mr E. F. White, and qualified as a master mariner in August 1906. He served a fouryear apprenticeship with James Nourse Ltd. followed by five years as a deck officer. From 1904, he served one year as a deck officer with the Blue Anchor Line before moving to the Shire Line, where he served for six months. He moved to the White Star Line in 1906. While with White Star, he served as Fourth, Third and second officer on the vessels Dolphin and Maje

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