W. Wilson
W. Wilson, a second-class passenger on the Valencia was one of the ten men that set off on the first of two rafts that left the Valencia. After about 10 hours on the raft, soaking wet with freezing seawater, Wilson leaped into the sea and drowned. He was the third man on the raft to die. Only four of the ten men that boarded the raft survived. Wilson’s body was later found and identified by Hancock, one of the raft survivors. A handkerchief was found on his body with the initial “W” worked into it with red silk.