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Richard T Deane
My grandfather, Richard T Deane and his first wife Dorothy Wyatt were aboard the City of Benares. Dorothy was lost due to exposure and he gave her up to the ocean to allow room for someone else to climb into the life boat he had commandeered. Or so the story goes.
It left him widowed with 7 children, but he later remarried and had 2 more children. He died at the age of 89 in 1973. My mother said he rarely talked of the tragedy but there is mention of him in a book called "Children of the Benares"