Photo of the Lusitania by Tackney os-Own work, CC BY-SA 4
RMS Titanic
George Beauchamp was a stoker in the engine room of the Titanic—he kept the fires going in the boilers—they in turn fueled the steam powered machinery — when he suddenly heard a noise like thunder! Water suddenly began to cascade in through the steel plates. They were held together by rivets. He was up to his waist in water in a short time. The doors and dampers began to block and George was ordered to stop. (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/titanic-rms-lusitania-sailor-survivor)
Beauchamp had lied about his age to get his job. He claimed to be 24 when he was really 32.
George went up on the deck and helped passengers get into Lifeboat Number 13. At an inquiry into the sinking Beauchamp stated:
“I had one foot on the deck and one on the lifeboat, and I was helping ladies and children into the lifeboat. We had difficulty keeping the lifeboat away from the ship’s side and preventing water coming in.”
“We pulled on the oars to get away as far as possible from the suction of the ship as it went down. I saw the ship go down bow first, and I could still see the stern and then that went too. It was a roar like thunder as it went down, and I heard cries as the ship sank.” (Wikipedia, “George Beauchamp (Sailor).” About 70 people squeezed into the boat. The liner, deemed to be unsinkable, had only half as many lifeboats as needed.
Lusitania
Three years later Beauchamp was a stoker on the Lusitania when she was struck by a torpedo and went down in eighteen minutes in 302 feet of water off the coast of Ireland. Only six of fort-eight lifeboats were able to be launched. (www. reditt.com/r/titanic/comments) The vessel carried enough lifeboats but sank too quickly for them to be launched.
Afterward
After the second sinking, George said, “I have had enough of large ships and am going to work on smaller boats.” (hulldailymail.com.uk/news/history) He continued to work at sea until the early 1930s; thereafter, Beauchamp worked on the docks in Southhampton. He died on April 5, 1965. (www.encyclopediatitanica.org)
Horoscope
George Beauchamp was born on March 9, 1888, in Totton, Hampshire, England. He was 24 years 1 month and three days when the Titanic went down. A Pisces, his career choice of sailor was a natural fit.
George’s Moon was in Aquarius. Here is what Grant Lewi had to say about his Sun/Moon combination: “You are a humanitarian, believing in people in the large, and likely to be at home in adventures of…public duty… (Heaven Knows What, p. 156)
Drowning victims are said to have a badly aspected Moon. In Beauchamp’s natal chart we find quite the reverse. His Moon is conjoined with Venus and trines Uranus. The Moon/Uranus trine gave George determination, firmness (5/10 planets are in fixed signs), and a sense of duty.
Neptune, ruling the sea and the Sun’s ruler– is together with Pluto and both are sextile to Saturn. The conjunction—Pluto is in Gemini—gave him a cognitive approach to life.