About the Titanic – interesting items.

 
Facts about the Titanic – an index to events. 
 

Actress                             Gibson D

Affairs                               Morley, Phillips, Rosenbaum

Alcohol                              Dillon, Joughin, Williams

Anglo-Boer War               Carr, Smith E

Aristocracy                       Duff-Gordon, Rothes

Ashes scattered over site   Becker R, Boxhall J, Goldsmith F

Australia/ns                       Brown E, Lightoller, Marsden

Auto accidents                  Bishop, Hocking, Smith EJ, Spedden

Aviator                              Marechel

Babies                               Aks, Allison, Caldwell, Cleaver, Dean, Jessop, Troutt

Band                                 See Musicians

Bibliophile                        Widener H

Black passenger                Laroche

Born Xmas Day                Head, Rothes

Born 15 April                    Nicola-Yarred, Reeves

Born later                          See Pregnant

Boxers                               D Bowen, L Williams

Britannic survivor              Jessop

Brooklyn Bridge                Roebling

Canadians                          Hays, Molson, Peuchen

Captain’s Steward              Paintin

Cavalryman                       Smith C

Centenarians                      Brown E, Newell, Troutt

Chief Baker                        Joughin

Chief Steward                    Latimer

Christmas                           See Born Xmas Day

Con-men                            Brereton

Congress                            Smith L

Cowboy formerly               Lightoller

Criticism of crew               Anderson K, Brown M, Turja

Diamond – Real!                Porter

Died 15 Apr later               See Survivors died 15 April.

Died later                           See Order of Dying

Divorces                             Astor, Bishop, Carter W

Doctors                               Bateman, Brewe, Frauenthal, Mrs

Leader, Minahan,

Moraweck, O’Loughlin, Simpson

Diabetes          Kelly, F

Dogs                                Astor (Airedale), Bishop, Carter W(Airedale), Gee,

Harper H (Pekinese), Hays (Pomeranian), Isham (Great

Dane), Rothschild (Pomeranian), Williams R

Dogs saved (3)                  Harper, Hays, Rothschild

Draughtsman                     Chisholm

Dressed to die                    Giglio, Guggenheim

Benjamin Guggenheim (Wikipedia).

Dressed as women           Buckley

Earthquake                       Stephenson

Egyptian statuette           Brown M

Engineers                           Bell, Farquharson

False names                     Brereton (Bradley), Duff-Gordon, Gibson D,

Homer (Haven), Lind(Lindgrey), Morley (Marshall),

Navratil (Hoffman), Rosenbaum (Russell),

Rosenshine (Thorne), Rosenshine, Wennerström

Fault, whose?            Lord

Fighter pilot                      Froelicher

Finns                                 Panula, Turja

First on Carpathia             Allen

First Class women died    Allison, Evans, Isham, Strous.

First conceived later         Baclini

First survivor to die           Maria Nackid

Forebodings of disaster    See Premonitions

Freemasons                        Bateman, Harris, Molson

French                               Chaudanson, Chevre, Laroche, Malachard, Marechal, Omont,

Spencer

Gamblers                           Brereton, Homer, Yates

Gestapo                             Gibson D

Guarantee group                Andrews, Chisholm, Parr

Guests aboard Titanic        Hays

Gymnasium instructor       McCawley

Hair turned grey                 Lindell

Honeymooners                    See Newlyweds

Icebergs                               Harper H, Robinson, Woody

Ice warnings told to            Ismay, Capt Smith, M Thayer, E Ryerson

Imprisoned later                 Gibson, Hichens

Injured during escape        Behr, Bride, Stengel, Mulvihill

Italian Resistance               Gibson D

Japanese                              Hosono

Jewish                                 Cohen, Guggenheim, Harris, Jacobsohn, Moor, Rosenbaum,

Rothschild, Straus

July 4                                  Harder, D, Quick W

Kidnapped                          Aks, Navratil, Sutehall

King                                    See Royalty

Largest Titanic memorial   Phillips

Last American survivor     Asplund L, Drew, M.

Last survivors (per Encyclopedia Titanica):

2009  Millvina Dean  97

2007  Barbara West  96

2006  Lilian Ashford  100

2002  Winnifred Quick  98

2001  Michel Navratil  93

1998  Eleanor Johnson 88

1998  Louise Laroche 88

1997  Edith Hart  92

1995  Beatrice Sandstrom 85

1990  Ruth Becker 91

Last person to travel on the Olympic and Titanic    Drew, M.

Last to get on Carpathia     Lightoller

Last male survivor              Drew, M.

Latest living                         Dean M, West B

Lesbian                                 Fortune M

Lifeboat designer                 Chisholm

Lifeboats, near collision      Lifeboats 13 and 15 while being lowered.

Lifeboats, least number     Lifeboat 1 with 12 aboard. See Duff-Gordon.

Lifeboats, occupants           See ‘Useful Resources’.

Lincoln, Abe                         Isham

Locking gates or doors      Chaudanson, Williams, Murphy, Turja

Longest living survivors     M Davis 104,  M Newell 103

Lookouts                            Fleet, Hogg, Lee, Rowe, Symons

Lost                                      See Statistics.

Love on the Titanic            Maioni, Tucker

Macy’s part-owner             Straus

Masons                                See Freemasons

Mayors                                Head

Medals                               Brown M, Browne, Carr, Lightoller, Pears, Pitman, Rostron,

Smith EJ, Williams R

Memorials                         Belfast City Hall grounds, Godalming – south of Guildford,

Surrey (Phillips Memorial), Halifax, Lichfield – north 0f

Birmingham (Statue of Captain Smith),

Titanic Engineers' Memorial in Southampton (Encyclopedia Titanica).

Liverpool (Titanic Tradesmen),

New York (Titanic Memorial Park, Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, Strous Memorial, Stead memorial),

Southampton (Titanic Engineers’ Memorial, Titanic Stewards’ Memorial, Dock Gates),

Boston (Harvard’s Harry Elkins Widener Memorial library).

Washington (Titanic Womens’ Memorial, Titanic Memorial).

Mental illness                     Frauenthal

Message in bottle             Burke, Hegarty

Metallurgist                        Julian

Millionaires                        Astor, Carter W, Guggenheim, Hays, Molson, Rothschild,

Straus, Widener

Ministers                            Bateman, Byles, Carter, Funk, Harper, Kirkland, Peruschitz

Mistresses                          Aubart, Thorne, Molson

Missionaries                       Funk

Money Boat                       Lifeboat 1, Duff-Gordon.

Motor car aboard              Carter W

Movies                               Gibson, Marvin

Museums Canada: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax.

Museums England: Southampton Maritime Museum.

Museums Ireland: Belfast.

Museums South Africa: Knysna Titanic Room.

Museums USA: Titanic Museum, Indian Orchards, Mass; Maritime Museum, Fall River, Mass; Mariner’s Mueum, Newport News, Virginia; Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, New York, NY.

Music teacher                    Young

Musicians                           Brailey (Piano), Bricoux (Cello), Clarke (Bass),  Hartley

(Bandmaster and violinist), Hume (Violin), Krins

(Violin), Taylor (Piano), Woodard (Cello), See Band

Names                                See False Names

Named after Titanic         Aks

Nazi sympathisers            Gibson, P

Newlyweds                        Astor, Bishop, Frauenthal, Greenfield, Harder, Marvin,

McNamee, Penasco, Smith L, Snyders, Yasbeck

Nine/Eleven                        Bird, Daniel

Nuns                                     Hegarty, Kelly A

Nurses                                 Endres

Officers of the Titanic

Some officers: 1st Officer Murdoch, Chief Officer Wilde, Unidentified officer, and Captain Smith (Google - MaritimeQuest).

Captain/Master                 Edward J Smith

Chief Officer      Henry Wilde

1st Officer        William Murdoch

2nd   “             Charles Lightoller

3rd   “              Herbert Pitman

4th   “              Joseph Boxhall

5th   “              Harold Lowe

6th   “              James Moody

6th Officer James Moody (Wikipedia).

 

Officers of the Titanic who survived

Surviving officers: 5th Officer Lowe, 2nd Officer Lightoller, 3rd Officer Pitman (seated) and 4th Officer Boxhall (Google - Marinequest).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olympics                               Duff-Gordon, Williams RN, Froelicher

Only woman to survive in sea      Abbott

Orphans of the Titanic                  Navratil

Overheard Ismay                          Lines

Photographer                      Browne

Photographs                       Harper , Lily Odell, Ryerson

Pipers                                 Daly, Farrell

Politicians                          Head

Postmaster                        Woody, See Postal staff

Predictions                         See Premonitions

Pregnant                             Astor, Bishop, Laroche, Morley, Paintin, West

Premonitions                      Bucknell, Evans, Frauenthal I, Gracie, Hart,

Hocking, Jessie, McDermott, Robertson,

Rosenbaum, Sowden, Stead, Ward, Daly

President’s aide                  Butt

Prime Minister’s son         Asquith

Publishers                           Harper

Pursers                                McElroy, Baker

Quartermasters                  Hichens, Oliver, Perkins, Wynn

Racing cars                          Pears

Radio operators                  See Telegraphists

Recovered items                 Candee, Kent, Porter, Sutehall

Restaurant manager           Gatti

Returned to the ship           West

Rockets                                  Boxhall, Rowe

Roosevelt                               Butt, Young

Rough Rider                          Butt

Royalty                                  Julian, Robinson

Salvation Army                    Abbott, Nye, Sowden

Scott of the Antarctic           Smith EJ

Sculptor                                 Chevré

Secretaries                            Francatelli, Harrison

Saved                                     705 of a possible 1,178 places in lifeboats. See Statistics.

Shipbuilder                           Andrews

Shipowner                             Ismay

Shipwrecks – previous       Harper H, Lightoller, Molson, Robinson

Shipwrecks – later              Jessop, Lightoller, Roberts, Rosenbaum

Shootings aboard                 Daly, Murdoch

Singers                                  Aubart, Wright

Soap dynasty                       Pears

South Africa/n                     Brown E, Jacobsohn, Julian. See ‘My E-book’ section.

Sports Instructor                 Wright

Statistics                                                            Total      Saved     Lost   % Saved

First Class            329         199       130       60

Second Class        285         119       166        42

Third Class           610        174        536       25

Crew                     898         213       685       24

Total                    2 122        705      1 517     33

Stewards/esses                   Caton, Jessop, Leather, Marsden, Robinson, Sloan

Stowaways                           Rowe

Suicides later                       Brereton, Dodge, Fleet, Frauenthal H, Quick P, Robinson, Rush

Sunk later                             See Shipwrecks later.

Survivors marrying             Behr/Newsom, Daniel/Smith M

Survivors died on 15/4        Selma Asplund, Meier Moor, Bertha Moran., Murphy

Swam and rescued               Daniel, Henning

Swedish                                 Lindeberg, Lindell, Lindstrom, Wennerström

Swiss                                      Sagesser, Simonius-Blumer

Tallest Titanic headstone     McCrae

Teddy Bear                            Spedden

Telegraphists                         Bride, Phillips

Tennis players                       Behr, Williams R

Titanic breaking in half        Anderson K, Froelicher, Thayer

Titanic (Hiking) Trail          See ‘Enquiries’ re Bushman Valley.

Torpedoed later                    Roberts

Toys                                       Rosenbaum, Spedden

Unknown child                     Panula, Goodwin S

Unknown passengers          Hall,  O’Doherty

Victoria Cross                       Pears

Violins                                 Krins, Newell, Hartley, Hume

Wealthiest person aboard     Astor worth $87 million (18m pounds stg)

Websites                                www.titanichistoricalsociety.org/index.asp

www.titanic-titanic.org/

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

www.titanic.com

http://mollybrown.org

www.titanicinquiry.org

Wives who refused to leave   Allison, Rev Carter, Strous

Wireless operators               See Telegraphists

World War I                         Asquith,  Bishop, Bride, Brown M, Browne, Buckley,

Lightoller, Pears, Rosenbaum, Williams

World War II                       Boxhall, Gibson, Jessop, Lightoller, Navratil, Thayer

Women’s clothes!                Carter W, Duff-Gordon, Sloper

Writers                                  Candee, Futrelle, Gracie, Rosenbaum, Spedden, Stead,

Tucker

Youngest survivor                Dean E Millvina (7 weeks)

 

Card players on 14 July evening

Butt, Carter W, Moore, Widener H.

Gibson, Seward, Sloper, Another

Frolicher, Simonius, Staehelin

Family                           Maid/Nanny/Secretary/etc

Allison                          Alice Cleaver                       Nanny

Astor                             Victor Robbins                    Manservant

Astor                              Rosalie Bidois                    Maid

Astor                             Caroline Endres                  Nurse

Aubart                           Emma Sagesser                   Maid

Duff-Gordon                 Laura Francatelli                 Secretary

Guggenheim                 Victor Giglio                       Valet

Guggenheim                 Rene Pernot                        Chauffeur

Ismay                            William Harrison                Secretary

Rothes, Countess          Roberta Maioni                   Maid

Ryerson                         Victorina Chaudanson        Maid

Spedden                        Elizabeth Burns                  Nursemaid

Straus                            Ellen Bird                             Maid

Straus                            John Farthing                      Manservant

Carpathia Committee  

Behr, M Brown, Frauenthal, Harder, Seward (Chairman), Spedden, Bjornstrom-Steffanson

Ladies ‘protected’ by Col Gracie

The three sisters (nee Lamson) who returned from a fourth sister’s funeral in England:

Mrs JM (Caroline) Brown, 59

Mrs RC (Malvina) Cornell, 55

Mrs ED (Charlotte) Appleton, 53

And the unaccompanied Edith Evans, 36.

Later Surnames   

Blanchard           Becker, Ruth 12

Haisman             Brown, Edith 15

Mackenzie          Troutt, Edwina

Order of dying after rescue

Age   Date died    Class

Maria Nackid                  2   30.7.1912       3

Eugenie Baclini              3    30.8.1912       3

Archibald Gracie          53     4.12.1912      1

Marie Spencer              46    20.10.1913     1

Maximilian Frolicher   62    22.11.1913      1

Kornelia Andrews        64     4.12.1913       1

Elizabeth Hocking       56    15.4.1914        2

Charles Stengel            56    19.4.1914        1

Our Coterie (Writers’ circle)

Helen Candee, Edward Kent, Edward Colley, James Clinch Smith, Mauritz Bjorn-Steffanson, Col Archibald Gracie, Hugh Woolner, etc.

Postal Staff 

Oscar Woody (Postmaster) – Virginia, USA

William Gwinn – USA

John Marsh – USA

John ‘Jago’ Smith – Cornwall, England

James Williamson – Dublin, Ireland

Dining parties on 14 April

Andrews, Dr O’Loughlin

Allisons, Molsen, Peuchen

Gracie, Smith C, Kent E

Widener’s party for Captain Smith (9)

Major Archibald Butt

Mr & Mrs William Carter

Clarence Moore

Captain Edward Smith

Mr & Mrs John Thayer

Mr & Mrs George Widener

Band/Orchestra/Musicians

Roger Bricoux      Cellist        Lille, France

Fred Clarke           Bass           Liverpool

Wallace Hartley    Violinist     Dewsbury  (Bandmaster)

Jock Hume            Violinist     Dumfries, Scotland

George Krins         Violist        London

Jack Woodward     Cellist        Oxon

Theodore Brailey   Pianist       London

Percy Taylor           Pianist       London

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