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A NATIVE of Cobh, Co Cork, who died in the sinking of the Titanicwas remembered at a special ceremony yesterday, 98 years after the Titanicstopped at on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. All of those who died when the ship sank were recalled at the commemoration in her last port of call.

Of special note this year was the remembrance for the first time of able seaman Lionel Leonard. Leonard was born in Queenstown (now Cobh) in 1876. Christened Andrew Shannon in St Colman’s Cathedral, he went to England at the age of 16 and joined the royal navy. He went absent from the navy in 1908 and married Annie Matilda Gould in Poole, Dorset, the same year. In 1912, having become a US citizen and changing his name to Lionel Leonard to work in the merchant fleet, he was a quartermaster on the SS Philadelphiaof the American Line.