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Titanic History Friday, November 22, 2024 |
| 1913 - 1st class survivor Mr Maximilian Josef Frölicher-Stehli died of heart failure / disease at the age of 62.
1963 - 2nd class survivor Mrs Elizabeth Nye died in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA at the age of 81. 1889 - 3rd class passenger Miss Ida Sofia Strandberg was born to Sofia Strandberg (crofter). 1950 - 3rd class survivor Mr August Wennerström died in Culver, Indiana, USA at the age of 66. 1998 - Actress Kate Winslet ("Rose DeWitt Bukater" in James Cameron's movie "Titanic") and Jim Threapleton married at the Anglican All Saints' Church in Reading, England, UK, near the Winslet family home. Kate wore a beautiful white gown designed by Alexander McQueen, and the church was decorated with white and yellow roses. The ceremony was planned in absolute secrecy - not even the 170 guests knew the exact location. |
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People: First Class: Archibald Gracie IV
During the trip Gracie offered to protect three "unprotected" sisters with whom he was acquainted with and their friend whom was traveling with them. The sisters were returning from burying their fourth sister. Most of Gracie's time was spent during the trip reading and relaxing. On April 14th Gracie woke up when the ship hit the iceberg. When he went into the hall and noticed the engines were not running anymore he thought there could be trouble. When he arrived on the boat deck he was informed by a fellow passenger that the ship had struck an iceberg and the mailroom was already flooded. Knowing that this meant danger Gracie returned and brought the sisters up to the boat deck. He eventually left them in Officer Moody's care to be placed onto a lifeboat. For the rest of the night Gracie offered his assitance to the officers in the loading of the lifeboats. He helped Officer Lightroller load Lifeboat 2 and followed him to Lifeboat 4. When arriving at Lifeboat 4 Gracie helped a pregnant teenage girl into the boat to later discover it was the wife of J.J. Astor. Gracie then followed Lightroller to Collapsible D and lent the officers his penknife to free the boat from the roof of the officer's quarters. The ship began to sink beneath Gracie and he jumped from the ship into the ice cold waters. He was sucked down with the ship as she sank but was able to free himself and float to the surface with the aid of his lifebelt. Once on the surface Gracie clung to a wooden crate and eventually paddled over to the partially sunken Collapsible B. Gracie stayed on Collapsible B throughout the night standing up in a huddle with roughly 30 men. Lightroller was manning the boat and giving orders to the men to sway left or right to keep the ship afloat. When the Carpathia arrived they realized they would not be able to paddle to the ship and Lightroller whistled for the lifeboats to come over and aid the half frozen men. By this time Gracie was so frozen he could not make the jump from the Collapsible so he had to crawl into Lifeboat 12. When he finally boarded the Carpathia, he was settled in on the couch while his clothes dried in the oven. Gracie sustained many injuries from the sinking, not realized until he was on the Carpathia. After he got home he wrote the book "The Truth About The Titanic" but would be unable to finish it as he was the third survivor to die in December of 1912. It is said that Gracie never fully recovered. |
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