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Titanic propeller with shipyard workers before launch. (May 31, 1911) (Click on image to enlarge.) | Unidentified Titanic survivors aboard the Carpathia rescue ship. (Click on image to enlarge.) | Photograph of the "Hoffman orphans" before they had been identified as the Navratil children. (Click on image to enlarge.) | Arthur Rostron, Captain of the Carpathia, being presented with a silver "loving cup" by survivor Molly Brown. (Click on image to enlarge.) |
Lawrence Beesley (35) is an English science teacher. One of his pupils at Dulwich College, London, was a boy called Raymond Chandler. Beesley's wife Cissy has recently died of tuberculosis, and he has decided to visit his brother in Toronto. He is travelling Second Class.
Harold Bride (22) is the Assistant Wireless Operator. He had been born in London in 1890, and had qualified in June 1911. His sending and receiving rate of 20 words a minute had been deemed to be 'very good'.
Edith Brown (15) is travelling with her parents Elizabeth and Thomas in Second Class. She had been born in South Africa, and the family is emigrating to live in Seattle in the United States.
Frank Goldsmith (9) is travelling with his parents Emily and Frank. The family is from Strood in Kent, England, and they are travelling Third Class. Like the Browns, they are emigrating to the United States, but in their case to Detroit.
Colonel Archibald Gracie (53) is a wealthy American amateur military historian. He has just finished writing a book about his father, and has been on holiday in Europe. He is travelling First Class.
Eva Hart (7) is travelling in Second Class with her parents Benjamin and Esther. The family are from Seven Kings, east of London. They are also emigrating, but in their case to Winnipeg, in Canada. Eva is carrying a large doll that her father bought for her in Gamages Department Store in Holborn, London.
Elin Hakkarainen (24) is a domestic servant, originally from Helsinki in Finland, but who had been working in the United States. Her husband Pekka had also been working there, in a steel mill, in Monessen, Pennsylvania. The couple got married in Helsinki in January, and are looking forward to their new lives in the United States.Violet Jessop (24) is a Stewardess, working in First Class. Violet was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1887. Her best friend is another Stewardess, Elizabeth Leather.
Herbert 'Lights' Lightoller (38) is the Second Officer. He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, in 1874. The crew have been reshuffled, and he has just been demoted from First Officer to Second.
Arthur Rostron (43), is not on the Titanic, but is Captain of the Carpathia liner. He was born in Bolton in 1869, and has had a long career on various ships. On 11 April 1912, the Carpathia leaves New York and is heading in the opposite direction to the Titanic, for Fiume on the Adriatic coast.
Elizabeth Shutes (40) is a governess, travelling in First Class with the Graham family. Her charge Margaret Graham is 19, and also in the party is Margaret’s mother, Edith. Elizabeth was born in 1871, in Newburgh, New York.
Hanna Touma (27) is travelling in Third Class with her children Maria and Georges. The family is from a village called Tibnin in the Middle East and are travelling to be reunited with Hanna's husband, Darwis. He is already working in the United States, in a town called Dowagiac, Michigan.
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