He was ostracized in society and ultimately resigned from his post and kept a low profile. Today, Ismay's family say that he was unfairly maligned by the press and that he never fully recovered from the ordeal.
Isidor and his brother later acquired Macy's, and he eventually became a powerful businessman and a member of the US House of Representatives. According to Today , Straus was offered a spot on a lifeboat while the ship was sinking. He declined, saying he wouldn't board a raft until every woman and child had gotten off the ship. Ida then refused to leave her husband.
When her husband urged her to evacuate the ship, she reportedly responded, "We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go. Ida then ordered her maid to board a lifeboat. She also gave her a mink coat, quipping that she wouldn't need the garment anymore. The couple was last seen together on the deck of the Titanic.
Isidor's body was recovered from the ocean, but Ida was never found. Woodlawn Cemetary in the Bronx memorialized Isidor and Ida Straus with a cenotaph bearing a line from the Song of Solomon : "Many waters cannot quench love —neither can the floods drown it.
Duff-Gordon was a major landowner and society figure in the UK, known for his fencing skills. Lady Duff-Gordon was a top British fashion designer, whose innovations included the precursor to the modern day fashion show. When disaster struck, they both escaped on the first lifeboat that embarked off the ship.
According to Vogue , Lady Duff-Gordon described the scene on the Titanic, saying, "Everyone seemed to be rushing for that boat. A few men who crowded in were turned back at the point of Captain Smith's revolver, and several of them were felled before order was restored.
I recall being pushed towards one of the boats and being helped in. In the wake of the tragedy, Sir Duff-Gordon received criticism for not adhering to the ship's "women and children first" evacuation policy.
A few years later in , Lady Duff-Gordon escaped death again after canceling her voyage on the doomed Lusitania. Benjamin Guggenheim was a member of the powerful Guggenheim family, which earned its fortune in the mining industry. It's just a repair. Tomorrow the Titanic will go on again. Guggenheim, whose body was never recovered, reportedly put a rose in his buttonhole and quipped, "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.
He later passed on a message to his estranged wife to a Titanic survivor. After getting her start as a young girl in vaudeville, Gibson went on to become a model and launch a career as a silent film star. She was years-old when she booked a passage on the Titanic. Gibson reportedly heard the ship crash into an iceberg. She grabbed her mother and together they escaped the ship on the first lifeboat. Gibson subsequently appeared as herself in a now-lost film about her experienced called " Saved from the Titanic.
Gibson quit acting shortly afterward. After that, Gibson's life is a bit cloudy. Her affair with a prominent film producer was a scandal in America and prompted Gibson to move to Paris.
As WWII began, there were allegations that she herself was a Nazi sympathizer — the veracity of those rumors is unclear. Later, while living in Italy in the s, the former actress was imprisoned by fascists. She survived prison but died shortly after the war. The industrialist was the founding president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, a now-defunct steel-manufacturing business. Wick had been traveling in Europe in order to improve his health.
Passengers on the Titanic thought they were to experience the ultimate journey by sea, yet so many were to lose their lives in the sinking. It could have been even worse, however, if the ship had not been about half full. Read on to discover even more fascinating facts and figures about the people on board the ship. Astor died in the sinking of the Titanic, and his body picked up by the Mackay-Bennett.
A small coal fire was discovered in one of her bunkers—an alarming but not uncommon occurrence on steamships of the day. Stokers hosed down the smoldering coal and shoveled it aside to reach the base of the blaze. After assessing the situation, the captain and chief engineer concluded that it was unlikely it had caused any damage that could affect the hull structure, and the stokers were ordered to continue controlling the fire at sea.
According to a theory put forth by a small number of Titanic experts, the fire became uncontrollable after the ship left Southampton, forcing the crew to attempt a full-speed crossing; moving at such a fast pace, they were unable to avoid the fatal collision with the iceberg. Another unsettling event took place when Titanic left the Southampton dock.
New York. Superstitious Titanic buffs sometimes point to this as the worst kind of omen for a ship departing on her maiden voyage. On April 14, after four days of uneventful sailing, Titanic received sporadic reports of ice from other ships, but she was sailing on calm seas under a moonless, clear sky.
At about p. The engines were quickly reversed and the ship was turned sharply—instead of making direct impact, Titanic seemed to graze along the side of the berg, sprinkling ice fragments on the forward deck. Sensing no collision, the lookouts were relieved.
Andrews did a quick calculation and estimated that Titanic might remain afloat for an hour and a half, perhaps slightly more. At that point the captain, who had already instructed his wireless operator to call for help, ordered the lifeboats to be loaded.
A little more than an hour after contact with the iceberg, a largely disorganized and haphazard evacuation began with the lowering of the first lifeboat.
The craft was designed to hold 65 people; it left with only 28 aboard. Tragically, this was to be the norm: During the confusion and chaos during the precious hours before Titanic plunged into the sea, nearly every lifeboat would be launched woefully under-filled, some with only a handful of passengers.
In compliance with the law of the sea, women and children boarded the boats first; only when there were no women or children nearby were men permitted to board. Yet many of the victims were in fact women and children, the result of disorderly procedures that failed to get them to the boats in the first place. Those hours witnessed acts of craven cowardice and extraordinary bravery.
In the end, people survived the sinking of the Titanic. Ismay, the White Star managing director, helped load some of the boats and later stepped onto a collapsible as it was being lowered.
To save from cluttering decks, the ship ended up carrying 20 on her maiden voyage. Passenger and fashion writer Edith Rosenbaum cabled her secretary in Paris that she had "a premonition of trouble" about the Titanic. She survived. Governess Elizabeth Shutes was so unnerved by the smell of the night air on April 14 that she could not fall asleep.
She told fellow passengers that the smell reminded her of the air inside an ice cave she had visited. The fortune teller predicted his death aboard the ship. She was right. The plot of Morgan Robertson's novel "Futility" bears an uncanny resemblance to the Titanic disaster. The novel tells the story of the Titan, the largest ship ever built, billed as "unsinkable," which strikes an iceberg in April and sinks.
In the book, more than half the passengers die in the North Atlantic because of a lifeboat shortage. The book was published 14 years before the Titanic sank. Edward G. Crosby, a Milwaukee veteran of the Civil War, founded a steamship company on Lake Michigan but became famous for refusing to put enough lifeboats for all the passengers on his steamers.
Aboard the Titanic, he was unable to find a place on a lifeboat, and he sank with the ship. He went into the Atlantic waters after the collision. Jennie made it into a lifeboat and lived until Louise Kink Pope was 4 years old when she went on board the Titanic.
She and her mother, Luise, were loaded into a lifeboat, but her father was told to remain on deck. Instead, he jumped into the lifeboat as it was being lowered. The family survived and Pope died in Milwaukee at age 84 in Unfortunately for scriptwriter James Cameron, Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir that didn't exist until The first-class dining saloon was sheathed in hand-cut mahogany paneling.
Many of the first-class female passengers left the Titanic still dressed in the silk evening gowns they had worn to dinner. The Titanic was stocked with 20, bottles of beer and stout, 1, bottles of wine and 8, cigars for use by first-class passengers.
The last dinner served in the first-class saloon consisted of 11 courses. First-class passengers were given copies of "The White Star Music Book" containing songs so they could make requests.
The musicians had to know all the titles. Second-class accommodations were equivalent to first class in most other ocean liners of the time.
Third-class passengers could hear the loud roar of the ship's engines in their cabins at all times. Only two bathtubs were available for more than third-class passengers — one for men, one for women. Gates separating the third-class spaces from the other classes were kept locked even after the collision, according to some firsthand reports.
One recent scientific theory holds that the moon's extremely close approach to Earth on Jan. The Titanic's launch was delayed by six weeks because her sister ship Olympic needed repairs in the same dry dock.
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