Thomson Beattie, Thomas McCaffry, and John Hugo Ross: Same-Sex Intimacy on the Titanic, 1912

Hugh Brewster writes of "A trio of Canadian bachelors who were known as 'the Three Musketeers' " -- Thomson Beattie, Thomas McCaffry, and John Hugo Ross. "Ross and Beattie were both successful real estate agents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, than a boomtown with Canada's largest per capital population of millionaires. To escape the fierce prairie winters, Beattie and his close friend McCaffrey, a Vancouver banker, were in the habit of boarding liners for destinations like North Africa or the Aegean. This year [1912] they had been joined by Ross, another dapper, witty bachelor, and the three men had departed from New York in January bound for Trieste and a three-month tour of Italy, Egypt, France, and England. . . . Beattie and McCaffry, whom the Winnipeg Free Post would describe as 'almost inseparable,' shared cabin C-6. . . ."