
Today in Titanic History - with Searching
Today in Titanic History Friday, April 25, 2025 | 1964 - 1st class survivor Miss Constance Willard died of cancer in Compton, California, USA at the age of 73.
1969 - 1st class survivor Miss Madeleine Newell died in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA at the age of 88.
1909 - 3rd class passenger Master Urho Abraham Panula was born to Juha Panula and Maria Emilia Panula.
1904 - 3rd class passenger Miss Robina Maggie Ford was born to Edward Ford and Margaret Ann Watson Ford.
1878 - 3rd class passenger Mr Albert Karvin Andersen was born.
1967 - 4th. Officer and survivor Mr Joseph Groves Boxhall died of cerebral thrombosis (stroke) in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, UK at the age of 83. On 12th June 1967, his ashes were scattered over the position he had calculated that the Titanic had gone down.
1878 - Able Seaman and survivor Mr Joseph George Scarrott was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK.
1912 - Day 6/7 of the American inquiry into the Titanic disaster in Washington, D. C., USA. Witnesses called that day: Chairman of the British Marconi Company Guglielmo Marconi, Marconi Operator for the Carpathia Harold Thomas Cottam, Quartermaster George Thomas Rowe, Quartermaster Alfred Olliver, Able Seaman Frank Osman, Saloon Steward Edward Wheelton, Fireman William Henry Taylor, Able Seaman George Moore, Able Seaman Thomas Jones, Lookout George Symons, Lookout George A. Hogg, Quartermaster Walter John Perkis, Chief Second Class Steward John Hardy, Saloon Steward William Ward, Bath Steward James Widgery, Able Seaman Edward John Buley, Saloon Steward George Frederick Crowe, Assistant Steward C. E Andrews, Assistant Cook in the First-Class Galley John Collins, Able Seaman Frederick Clench, Able Seaman Ernest Archer, Able Seaman Walter T. Brice, Boatswain's Mate Albert Haines, Lamp Trimmer Samuel S. Hemming, and Able Seaman Frank Oliver Evans.
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The Flub Report: High and Low Heels
For our first installment, I want to address these claims regarding Rose's shoes:
"During Jack and Rose's trip on the deck to the bow right before the sinking, she is wearing flat shoes. In the water, laying on the furniture (as Jack hangs on) she is wearing high heels."
"Young Rose's shoes are clearly off in one wide shot as she stands on the railing of the ship. As they cut to her before she turns around, when you can see her entire body, you can clearly see in two shots her toes outlined by black nylons clutching the rail, and NOT her heels as seen previously in other shots before and afterward when she slips on her gown going back over the rail to safety."
As Rose climbs over a railing and then jumps down to the well deck, she throws her legs over the railing. This is most clearly seen in Exhibit A:

We know that Rose has been wearing the same heels (unbelievably) through running through the boiler room, rescuing Jack, running down that flooding hallway, and all the way through to boarding the Carpathia. When she is floating on the debris, you can most clearly see this as in Exhibit B:

This first claim is decidedly true.
Rose's attempt at suicide places her perilously over the stern railing. Was Kate Winslet in stocking feet as she stood on the set (which really had her only 12 feet off the ground)? Would they have traded out her slippery shoes during the scene so she wouldn't fall? Even after going through the scene frame-by-frame, I can't decide. This one I will leave up to you. Notice in Exhibit C how her feet appear darker than her bright red shoes from Exhibit D.
Exhibit C
Exhibit D
Exhibit C is split into the original lighting conditions from the movie, on the left, and my adjusting the lighting via computer to try and reveal more detail, on the right. Of course Exhibit D has her shoes in more light, so perhaps Exhibit C shows the same shoes in less light. The claim says these are her stocking feet because there is an outline of her toes, but those could very well be the ledge obscuring parts of the shoes.
For this claim, I am undecided.
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