Titanic History

sephia_liza

Originally posted by AzusaFuyutsuki at 5-4-2006 05:22 PM
mana chumpon nie..kasik la kacang cap tangan sket...panjang kita orang buat nieh..

kacang cap tangan?... what is that? i don't understand....

AzusaFuyutsuki

Originally posted by sephia_liza at 6-4-2006 05:17 AM


kacang cap tangan?... what is that? i don't understand....

tak pe..after she gave it you'll understand

sephia_liza

Originally posted by AzusaFuyutsuki at 6-4-2006 11:23 AM

tak pe..after she gave it you'll understand

ok:solute:

sephia_liza

The next card home is the aforementioned card of Titanic, posted 12th May 1912 (Titanic was lost on 14th April 1912). The message read: "Am just writing you a few lines to let you know that I am alive and kicking. I am keeping well and hope all at home are."




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Originally posted by sephia_liza at 4-4-2006 04:31 PM
First Class Passengers
The maiden voyage of the Titanic had attracted a number of rich passengers.
A first class parlour suite cost £870 while a first class berth cost £30.
The foll ...

Carter, Mrs. William E

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Originally posted by sephia_liza at 4-4-2006 04:35 PM
Passengers travelling second class on the Titanic enjoyed a luxury that rivalled first class on other liners. Titanic was also the first ship to have an electric elevator for second class passenger ...

Hart, Miss Eva

sephia_liza

Originally posted by sephia_liza at 4-4-2006 04:31 PM
First Class Passengers
The maiden voyage of the Titanic had attracted a number of rich passengers.
A first class parlour suite cost £870 while a first class berth cost £30.
The foll ...

Miss Elisabeth Walton Allen

Miss Elisabeth Walton Allen, 29, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on 1 October 1882, the daughter of George W. Allen, a St. Louis judge, and Lydia McMillan. She was returning to her home in St. Louis with her aunt, Mrs Edward Scott Robert , and her cousin, fifteen-year-old Georgette Alexandra Madill . Miss Madill was the daughter of Mrs Robert from a former marriage.
Miss Allen was engaged in 1912 to a British physician, Dr. James B. Mennell, and was going home to St. Louis to collect her belongings in preparation for moving to England where she would live with her future husband. Miss Allen, Mrs Robert , Miss Madill , and Mrs Robert's maid Emilie Kreuchen all boarded the Titanic in Southampton. For the voyage, Miss Allen was in cabin B-5 , along with cousin Miss Madill , while Mrs Robert was across the hall in cabin B-3 . The entire party travelled under ticket number 24160 (?221 16s 9d). She escaped with her relatives in lifeboat 2 , one of the last boats to leave the Titanic , under the command of Fourth Officer Joseph G. Boxhall . After the sinking, Elisabeth filed a $2, 427.80 claim against the White Star Line for the loss of personal property in the disaster.
Mrs Elisabeth Walton Allen Mennell made her home in England. She was living in Tunbridge Wells, England, at the time of her death, at the age of 85, on 15 December 1967.

Mrs Bessie Waldo Allison

Mrs Hudson J.C. Allison (Bess Waldo Daniels), 25, was born on November 14, 1886, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The youngest daughter of Arville Daniels and Sarah McCully. She had an older sister, Mabel who had been born three years earlier in 1883. She also had another sister, Myrtle who had been born in 1873 and was a child from Arville's first marriage to Mary Bowden.
Bess met Hudson on a train in 1907. They married later that year in her home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
On June 5, 1909 the couple's first daughter, Helen Loraine was born. She was soon followed by a brother, Hudson Trevor who was born on May 7, 1911.
Mrs. Allison was travelling with her husband Hudson Allison, a wealthy Montreal stockbroker, and their two children.
Mrs Allison, her husband, son and daughter, boarded the Titanic at Southampton as first class passengers.
When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Alice Cleaver took Trevor and left with him in lifeboat 11 . Bess Allison was put in a boat with Loraine, but refused to leave the ship without her baby. She dragged Loraine out of the boat and started searching for Alice and Trevor.
"Mrs Allison could have gotten away in perfect safety," Major Arthur Peuchen told the Montreal Daily Star "But somebody told her Mr Allison was in a boat being lowered on the opposite side of the deck, and with her little daughter she rushed away from the boat. Apparently she reached the other side to find that Mr Allison was not there. Meanwhile our boat had put off."
Major Peuchen, also gave this account of Mrs. Allison's last moments "She had gone to the deck without her husband, and, frantically seeking him was directed by an officer to the other side of the ship. She failed to find Mr. Allison and was quickly hustled into one of the collapsible life-boats, and when last seen by Major Peuchen she was toppling out of the half-swamped boat."
Trevor Allison was the only survivor having been rescued by the child's nurse Alice Cleaver. Bess's body, if recovered, was never identified.

Mr Ramon Artagaveytia

Mr Ramon Artagaveytia was born in July 1840 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was the son of Ramon Fermin Artagaveytia and Maria Josefa Marcisa Gomez y Calvo.
His body was forwarded to New York and from there was shipped to Montevideo, Uruguay under the auspices of the Uruguayan Consul in New York, Alfred Metz Green. He was buried in the Cemeterio Central, in Montevideo on 18 June 1912.
The bodies of the Carraus were never found.

Mme. Leotine Pauline Aubart

Mme. Leotine Pauline Aubart (known as "Ninette"), 24, was born in Paris on 20 May 1887.
A Singer, she lived at 17 Rue Le Sueur, Paris, France. She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her maid Emma S䧥sser . She occupied cabin B-35 (ticket number PC 17477, ?69 6s). Mme. Aubart (often misspelled Aubert) was the mistress of millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim who was also aboard. She and her maid were rescued, probably in lifeboat 9 .
Leontine Pauline Aubart died on 29 October 1964, aged 77.

Mr Algernon Henry Wilson Barkworth

Mr Algernon Henry Wilson Barkworth, a Justice of the Peace from Hessle, Yorkshire boarded the Titanic at Southampton (Cabin A-23, ticket number 27042, ?30).
Barkworth spent much of his time on the Titanic with his new acquaintences Arthur Gee and Charles C. Jones.
On the night of the sinking the three men sat deeply engrossed in a debate about good roadbuilding, a subject in which Barkworth was keenly interested. It was growing late, however, and he began to think about retiring. Someone said that the ship's clock would be set back at midnight, so Barkworth decided to stay up until then in order to set his watch.
Mr Barkworth recalled that some time before the ship sank he went below to retrieve some items from his cabin, the musicians were playing a waltz, by the time he returned they had gone.
As the ship sank deeper he pulled a heavy fur coat over his lifebelt, threw his briefcase into the water and stepped in after it. He found the coat and belt buoyed him. He eventually made his way to Collapsible B but someone warned him that if he came aboard he would swamp the boat. Eventually, however, he was able to drag himself aboard the overturned boat.

Mrs Hene Baxter (nde Lanaudiit-Chaput)

Mrs James Baxter (Hene de Lanaudiit-Chaput) was born on 29th March 1862 in Joliette, Quebec and claimed the fabled French Canadian heroine Madeline de Verches as an ancestor
By the time Hene was born, the family had social standing in Quebec but no money. In August 1882 she married James ("Diamond Jim") Baxter, a diamond broker and banker. They had three children, Anthony William, (1883), Mary (Zette) Hene (4th April, 1885) and Quigg Edmond (13th July, 1887). The children were raised to speak French to her, and English to her husband. The family moved into a huge mansion at 1201 Sherbrooke St. W., which later became the head offices of The Corby Distilling Company.
In 1892, James Baxter built what might be described as Canada's first shopping mall, putting 28 stores under a single roof in the Baxter Block on St. Lawrence Blvd. He opened his own Ville Marie Bank, and by 1898, Men in Canada described him as the country's largest private banker "a philanthropist who devoted a large share of his accumulated wealth to improving the outlying districts of Montreal."
The family's reputation fell apart in 1900 when her husband was arrested, charged and convicted of embezzling $40,000 from his bank - a fortune at the time. He was jailed for five years, and died in 1905 shortly before his 66th birthday. Mrs Baxter was well provided for. Her husband had investments in France, Switzerland and Belgium. She sold the mansion and moved into a comfortable brownstone at a still respectable address, 33 St. Famille St., near the McGill University Campus.
In 1911 she sold the Baxter Block and took her son and her married daughter 'Zette Douglas with her on another of her frequent excursions to Europe. They booked passage home on one of Titanic's most expensive suites, B 58/60, which cost ?247 10s 5d. Before boarding Titanic they stayed at the Elysee Palace Hotel; Paris. They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg (ticket number PC 17558).
Mrs Baxter was ill with nausea during most of the voyage, and found the throb of the engines relaxing. When the ship stopped in mid-ocean, she had an anxiety attack. Her son, Quigg, carried her up the Grand Staircase and put her and his sister into lifeboat 6. As he kissed them goodbye he gave his mother a sterling silver brandy flask so she might keep warm on the open ocean, and she berated him for his drinking.
After the disaster, she returned to Montreal and never recovered from the effects. She died in her apartment on 19th June, 1923 and is buried in the Baxter family plot in Notre Dame de Neiges cemetery.

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Originally posted by sephia_liza at 6-4-2006 05:18 PM


Miss Elisabeth Walton Allen

Miss Elisabeth Walton Allen, 29, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on 1 October 1882, the daughter of ...

Mr Quigg Edmond Baxter

Mr Quigg Edmond Baxter, 24, was born in Montreal on 13 July 1887, the son of banker James Baxter and his wife, Hene de Lanaudit Chaput.

On the night of the sinking, he was in his cabin (B-60) when his mother demanded to know why the Titanic had stopped in mid ocean. When he stepped outside just before midnight to investigate, he saw Captain Smith talking to Bruce Ismay outside Ismay's cabin next door. "There's been an accident, Baxter, but it is all right," Smith told him. As Smith hurried away to the bridge, Ismay told him to get his mother and sister into the lifeboats. Baxter carried his mother up the grand staircase to lifeboat 6. "Quigg didn't seem at all disturbed," his sister later told The Montreal Standard, "While he didn't relish being parted from us, he bade me farewell bravely." As he put his mother into the boat he handed her a sterling silver flask of brandy, and she began to complain about his drinking. He cut her short: "Etes vous bien maman?" he asked, Au revoir, bon espoir vous-autres." (Goodbye and keep your spirits up everyone.) Berthe Mayn didn't want to get into the boat without him, but Molly Brown convinced her to do so. He waved them away, and drowned in the sinking, his body, if recovered, was never identified

Mr Thomson Beattie

Mr Thomson Beattie was born on 25 November 1875, late in his mother's life in Fergus, Ontario, a small but thriving rural community 100 km west of Toronto. He was the last of eleven children in a solid, conservative Presbyterian family, and was 24 years younger than his eldest brother, William. His father was a private banker, and in 1871 was named the Clerk of Wellington County, a position he held until his death in 1897.


Thomson Beattie


John Hugo Ross, Unknown, Thomas McCaffry, Mark Fortune and Thomson Beattie feed pigeons in St. Mark's Square, Venice, March 1912

Beattie paid ?75 4s 10d for first class cabin C-6 (ticket number 13050), which he shared with McCaffry. Beattie must have been on the roof near the officer's quarters, near the last available life raft, Collapsible A when the ship went down. He scrambled aboard, made it into the boat, but died of exposure. When Harold Lowe emptied the boat, there were three bodies, including Beattie's left behind.
Beattie's body was buried at sea on his mother's birthday, almost at the same spot in the Atlantic where she had been born 82 years earlier on a ship bound for Canada.

Mrs Sallie Beckwith

Mrs Richard Leonard Beckwith (Sarah "Sallie" Monypeny), 47, was born to born to well-to-do parents in Columbus, Ohio on 21 September 1865. As a young woman in Ohio she married Logan C. Newsom and had a son William Monypeny Newsom and a daughter, Helen Newsom. After Logan's early death she married Richard Leonard Beckwith but had no children by that marriage.
Richard, Sallie and Helen boarded the Titanic at Southampton. They were destined for New York, NY and occupied cabin D-35 (ticket number 11751).
The family were rescued in lifeboat 5.
Sallie Monypeny Beckwith died on 11 February 1955

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Mr Karl Howell Behr
Tennis stars Richard Norris Williams II (left) and Karl Behr pose after winning the Davis Cup together

Mr Karl Howell Behr, 26, was born 30 May 1885, in Brooklyn, New York; the son of Herman Behr and Grace Howell.

Karl Behr was educated at Lawrenceville School and Yale. He was admitted to the bar in 1910. Behr was also a well known lawn tennis star. Playing on the United States Davis Cup team in 1907. Behr, with Beals C. Wright, was also runner up in the 1907 Wimbledon men's doubles championship.

Behr boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a first class passenger; he occupied cabin C-148 (111369, ?30). He had been pursuing Helen Monypeny Newsom, a friend of his sister. In fact, part of the reason he was on the Titanic was to continue his courtship of Miss Newsom. Mrs Beckwith, Helen's mother had been attempting to discourage the relationship and had taken Miss Newsom on a "Grand Tour" of Europe to separate them for a time. It did not work as Behr invented a business trip to Europe and arranged to book passage on the Titanic for his return to America.

On the night of the wreck, Behr joined the Beckwiths, Helen Newsom, and Edwin and Mrs Kimball on the starboard boat deck. Although Third Officer Herbert Pitman was in charge of loading lifeboat 5 Bruce Ismay was also urging wary passengers into the boat. Mrs Kimball stepped forward and asked if they could all go together, and Ismay replied, "Of course, madam, every one of you." As a result, Karl Behr and his friends were rescued in Boat 5.

Whilst returning to New York on the Carpathia, Behr and some other survivors (Mr Frederic K. Seward - Chairman, Molly Brown, Mauritz Bj?tr?teffansson, Frederic Oakley Spedden, Isaac Frauenthal and George Harder) formed a committee to honour the bravery of Captain Rostron and his crew. They would present the Captain with an inscribed silver cup and medals to each of the 320 crew members.

In March, 1913, just short of a year after the catastrophe, Karl and Miss Newsom were married in the Church of the Transfiguration. The couple had 4 children; three sons, Karl H. Behr Jr. (still alive, Florida), Peter Behr (b. May 24, 1915, d. March 10, 1997 in San Rafael, California), and James Behr (b. July 16, 1920, d. June 14, 1976, Napa, California), and a daughter, Sally Behr (later Mrs Samuel Pettit, b. March 8, 1928, d. September 1995, Wilmington, Delaware)

Behr later went into banking; he was vice-president of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers, of 28 Nassau St., NY. He was also on the board of the Fisk Rubber Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the National Cash Register Company. At his death he was a director of he Interchemical Corporation, the Behr-Manning Corporation of Troy, N.Y., and the Witherbee Sherman Corporation. His clubs included the Downtown, University and Yale, and the St. Nicholas Society.

Karl Behr's died on 15 October 1949, he was buried at Evergreen Cemertery, Morristown,New Jersey.

Mr Dickinson H. Bishop

Mr Dickinson H. Bishop "Dick", 25, was born on 24 March 1887 in Dowagiac, Michigan the son of George Bishop and Virginia (Jennie) Dickinson.

Dickinson Bishop was a wealthy young widower whose first wife had willed him a major share in the Round Oak Stove Company in Dowagiac, Michigan. He married Helen Walton, of a well-to-do family from Sturgis, Michigan, on November 7, 1911. They were returning from a four-month honeymoon trip to Egypt, Italy, France and Algiers, delaying their departure so they could return on the new Titanic. They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg and occupied cabin B-49 (ticket number 11967, ?91 1s 7d).

The couple were rescued in lifeboat 7, articles announcing their rescue and detailing their experience appeared in the local press in the following days. The couple were delayed in their return home by the Senate inquiry at which they both testified.
In the years following the disaster Dickinson endured rumours that he had dressed as a woman in order to secure a place on the lifeboat. The couple also expereinced an earthquake and were involved in a serious car accident from which Helen never properly recovered. In addition, the child that Helen was carrying when the Titanic sank, died after only two days of life.
Dickinson and Helen Bishop were divorced in 1916, Helen died on March 16, 1916 and Dickinson Remarried on March 14, 1916. The article announcing her death was on the front page of the Dowagiac Daily News. Ironically the marriage of Dickinson Bishop to his third wife, Sidney Boyce of Chicago, appeared on the very same page.
Bishop served during the first world war. He moved away from Dowagiac and for many years lived in Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois. He died after a stroke on 16 February 1961 and was buried at the Ottawa Avenue Cemetery on 20 February 1961.

Mrs Helen Bishop

Mrs Dickinson H. Bishop (Helen Walton), 19, and her husband Dickinson H. Bishop from Dowagiac, MI, USA, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg. They occupied cabin B-49.

On the night of April 14th Helen had already retired and Dick was reading in their stateroom when the Titanic struck the iceberg. Helen reported that she did not hear or feel any shock and it was several minutes until someone came to their door and told them to come on deck. Helen dressed and the went on deck, where officers told them they might as well go back to their cabin as there was no danger.

After they returned to their stateroom and prepared for bed, they were again summoned, this time by their friend, Albert Stewart, who expressed concern about the now noticeable list the ship had taken. They quietly dressed again and went on deck where they found only a few people there. Helen asked Dickinson to return to their stateroom and recover her muff. As he was going about that Helen came into the cabin and told him that they had been ordered to don their life vests. Returning to deck they were put into the first lifeboat (No. 7), Helen was reported as being the first person to board. She later claimed to have heard the order "all brides and grooms may board" and that three other newly married couples boarded as well.

Most of the passengers on deck were reluctant to board the lifeboats, dangling 75 feet above the dark ocean below. Helen also reported seeing the Astors on deck, they had spent some time with them in the days preceding this and had become quite friendly with them, but Mrs Astor was reluctant to leave the Titanic, as the ship "couldn't sink". Lifeboat 7 was lowered at 12:45 with 28 passengers, less than half its capacity.

Helen also regretted leaving her newly acquired dog, Freu Freu, in their stateroom. She had been allowed to keep her dog with them during the voyage, but left her there when Helen realized that "there would be little sympathy for a woman carrying a dog in her arms when there were lives of women and children to be saved."

There were only three crew members onboard the lifeboat, so several passengers including Helen, helped with the rowing. Helen recalled a French aviator, Pierre Mar?al, never took his monocle from his eye, even when assisting with the rowing. Another passenger, a phoney German baron called Baron von Drachstedt (Alfred Nourney) apparently refused to row and just sat smoking.

After being rescued early the following morning and returning to New York aboard the Carpathia the Bishops testified before the Senate inquiry into the disaster, which was headed by Dowagiac-born Michigan Senator William A. Smith.

During the Senate investigation Helen testified that they were literally pushed into the lifeboat, saying nothing about the "brides and grooms" order she had claimed to hear after they had arrived safely in New York. Dickinson then testified that he witnessed the sailors unsuccessfully trying to close the locks on the watertight doors.

Helen Walton Bishop was pregnant on board Titanic to be saved with her husband. On December 8th, 1912, Helen gave birth to a baby boy, Randall Walton Bishop, but the infant died two days later.

An interesting, and tragic, addendum to this story began when Helen, in an effort to buoy the spirits of the people in lifeboat No. 7, related to them a story. While the Bishop?s were honeymooning in Egypt a fortune teller had divined her future. She would survive a shipwreck and an earthquake before an automobile accident would end her life. "We have to be rescued," she said, "for the rest of my prophecy to come true." During a later vacation in California an earthquake jolted the couple, fulfilling the second part of the Egyptian?s prophecy. Finally, on November 15, 1913, the couple was returning to Dowagiac from Kalamazoo, Michigan, in their motor car when it went out of control and struck a tree. Helen suffered a severely fractured skull and was not expected to live. She recovered with a steel plate placed in her skull, but the accident caused a change in her mental condition and their marriage suffered. In January 1916, the couple divorced.

Three months later Helen fell while visiting friends in Danville, Illinois. On March 16, 1916, she died and was buried in Sturgis, Michigan. The article announcing her death was on the front page of the Dowagiac Daily News. Ironically the marriage of Dickinson Bishop to his third wife, Sidney Boyce of Chicago, appeared on the very same page.

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Mr Henry Blank
Mr Henry Blank was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA on 17 September 1872 the son of Henry Blank Sr. and Hortense Lowenather [1]. Henry moved to Philadelphia with his family in his youth. He later moved to Newark, New Jersey, while still a teenager in search of better job opportunities.

In Newark, he began working for a jewellery manufacturer, and the owners of the firm recognized Henry's own artistic and mechanical abilities. They eventually apprenticed him at the bench where Henry would become a goldsmith and subsequently, a platinumsmith, all before he was 21-years-old.


Henry Blank in 1895

In 1895, Henry Blank married Phoebe Eve Miller in Newark, New Jersey. They eventually became the parents of six sons and one daughter. One of their sons later died of pneumonia when he was 2-years-old.

For a brief time, Henry left the jewellery business to work for the Prudential Life Insurance Company in Newark. After having worked for the firm for a few years as a salesman, Henry found that he was not interested in the insurance business. He turned his sights back to his jewellery days and established himself with a former friend and jewellery manufacturer, Newton E. Whiteside, in Newark. The two formed a limited partnership in the Newton E. Whiteside & Company in the city of Newark.
As Henry progressed in the jewellery business, he and his family left Newark and settled in nearby Glenridge, New Jersey, in 1907. It was here that Henry constructed a magnificent home on fashionable Ridgewood Avenue. The estate boasted a large music room, a formal English dining room with a magnificent, green marble fireplace with inset Wedgewood medallions, and even a third floor art gallery. Henry employed a cook, two maids, a governess to instruct the child in both French and German, a gardener, and even a chauffeur.


The house on Ridgewood avenue in 1925

Although having only achieved an eight-grade education, Henry was a lifelong student. After supper every night, he would leave the family and would sit down in his library with books in his field of interest: fine arts, architecture and music. He and Mrs Blank loved the opera and would travel into New York City to attend as many performances as they could.

As was customary since the firm was established over a decade before, both Henry and his partner Newton Whiteside would take annual business and pleasure excursions to Europe in the early Spring. On several journeys, their wives and several members of their family would accompany them.

In the Spring of 1912, Henry Blank travelled alone to Europe to conduct the customary dealings with watch movement manufacturers in Switzerland and stone dealers in Paris, Belgium and Amsterdam. This particular journey was devoted more toward business and Henry was bringing back very few pleasure items home with him.

On his return home, Henry made reservations in Paris to embark on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. A man known for his taste in anything new and the latest in design, it would have been unnatural for him to turn down the opportunity of sailing on the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner.

Henry boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a first class passenger (ticket number 112277, ?31, Cabin A-31).

Henry Blank related very little about his experiences on the Titanic up until the night of the disaster. Like most passengers, he most likely toured his home for the next few days in wonder and marvelled at the advancement technology had made in just a short time.

Though travelling alone, Blank was far from being so during the voyage. At some point, either in Cherbourg or shortly after boarding the Titanic, Blank struck up an acquaintance with two fellow German passengers - William B. Greenfield and Alfred Nourney (who had booked passage as Baron von Drachstedt). Greenfield was travelling with his mother back to their home in New York City, and Nourney himself was heading to New York from his native Cologne, Germany, in search of his interests in the demonstrations of high speed automobiles for manufacturers in New York.

On the night of 14 April, Henry Blank retired to the first-class smoking room with Greenfield and Nourney. The trio began a card game, lit their cigars and began conversing. When the Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m., Henry only remembered having felt "a slight jar." A loud voice called out to the men in the room, "Hey boys, we've just grazed an iceberg!" Blank, Greenfield and Nourney were soon on their feet with the others in a vain attempt to spot the berg from the promenade deck.

The berg having passed and not in sight, the men returned to the smoking room and did not seem worried. Blank later recalled that he had felt worse jars "when the ship's propellers had jumped out of the water."

The Titanic came to a stop shortly after the men returned. Puzzled, the three men left the smoking room and went below to look for trouble. They went to F deck and to their surprise and horror, saw seawater entering the squash racquet court. Blank estimated that the depth of the water would have covered his shoes. The men needed no orders or instructions and quickly returned to their staterooms to prepare for an inevitable evacuation.

As Henry was leaving his stateroom, complete with his lifebelt fastened, his steward noticed him and was pleased that he had heeded the order to put on lifebelts. "It will keep you even warmer!" the steward called out to Blank, explaining how cold it was outside on deck.

Henry was among the first to arrive on the starboard Boat Deck. Small groups followed, and soon William Greenfield and his mother, Alfred Nourney, and a friend of the Greenfields, Mrs Antoinette Flegenheim, arrived. The group was assisted into lifeboat 7, and joined about twenty-two others in the boat before it was lowered away at 12:45 a.m. boat 7 was the first lifeboat to be lowered from the sinking Titanic. Henry Blank and other men who entered the boat had no trouble in getting in. Since it was so early in the evacuation, many women refused to leave the Titanic without their husbands, and male companions. In an effort to move the evacuation along, First Officer William Murdoch, who was in charge of lowering the boats on the starboard boat deck, did allow several men in boat 7 to help with the rowing and because their was plenty of room. Henry Blank later said,

"Every woman and child in sight was ordered into the boat but there were not enough there to fill it and in that way some of us got a chance for our lives."

The boat pulled away from the sinking ship, and Henry assisted in the rowing for a brief time to keep himself warm. He later said that he was never a sailor and knew nothing about the sea but one will learn just about anything when it comes to saving his or her life.

Henry described the Titanic's sinking.

"After we were some distance from the ship, I heard revolver shots on board, but I don't know what part of the ship they came from. I was under the impressions, as were many in my boat, that everyone had escaped. When there arose a roar from the vessel herself and the screams of those passengers and crew still, I was almost overcome by the horror of the situation. Realizing that many were still aboard and left to perish has left a permanent scar. We saw the Titanic plunge forward and then down out of sight but not before we heard the explosions of her boilers. The sea was very calm and there was floating ice everywhere. The women in our boat began to get chilled and we men took off our coats and wrapped them about them."

The next morning, the occupants of boat 7 were pulled from the icy Atlantic by the rescue ship, Carpathia. Henry Blank quickly wired his family that he was safe but the message never reached them. He later recalled.

"On the Carpathia , we were treated with the utmost kindness. The women got places in the staterooms while we men bunked in the smoking room and on the decks. I didn't have my clothes off from Sunday night until I got home".

When the news of the disaster reached the Blank home in Glen Ridge, the entire household was thrown into a quandary. It was not until Henry was reunited with his wife at the Hotel Seville in New York City, did she and her family believe that their husband and father had been saved.

Henry Blank returned to his firm, and prospered further in later years. He never liked to discuss the Titanic disaster, and his only relic from the disaster was a White Star Line playing card that he saved from his card game in the smoking room. The card is still preserved by his descendants today.

In his later years, many rumours circulated that Blank had left the Titanic dressed as a woman. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The fact that so many women and children had perished while so many men survived never ceased to annoy the public. Blank's actions were warranted, but he never fought back against those who gossiped about him. As long as those he knew and loved knew the truth, that was all that mattered to him.

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Originally posted by sephia_liza at 8-4-2006 03:08 PM
Mr Henry Blank
Mr Henry Blank was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA on 17 September 1872 the son of Henry Blank Sr. and Hortense Lowenather . Henry moved to Philadelphia with his family in hi ...

Henry and Phoebe Blank c. 1927

Mrs Blank never let her husband travel to Europe alone again and accompanied him on all of his future trips. She died in 1942. Henry continued to live alone (his children being all grown and living elsewhere) in his elegant estate. He never lost his love for the opera and his daughter and son-in-law would drive up from their home near Philadelphia to drive Mr Blank to New York to attend the performances at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Henry Blank died from pneumonia on 17 March 1949 at the age of 76. He was buried in the family plot in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. He had five children who lived to maturity (four boys and a girl). His son Carl died in Bloomfield, N.J. in 1969; Philip died in Montclair, N.J. in 1985. Ralph was the last surviving male child, dying in Summit, N.J. on October 19, 1990 at the age of 84. Henry Blank's daughter Hortense lives today in the Philadelphia area.

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ada lagi ker survivor yang masih hidup?

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Originally posted by tadika_action at 9-4-2006 11:21 AM
ada lagi ker survivor yang masih hidup?

Fond memories of her trips to Dundee are still sharp in the mind of Titanic survivor Millvina Dean, city councillor Neil Powrie discovered when he visited her recently.
Ms Dean was just nine weeks old when the Titanic went down on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg in April, 1912. Although Millvina survived with her mother and brother, her father was one of the 1500 who died.

She is now one of only three people left alive who were on the ill-fated White Star liner the night it plunged to the bottom of the north Atlantic.

Councillor Powrie has had a life-long interest in the Titanic and was instrumental in bringing Ms Dean to Dundee for her first visit to the city in 1998.

She returned when Europe抯 largest Titanic exhibition was held at City Quay to mark the 90th anniversary of the sinking in 2002.

Recently Mr Powrie visited Ms Dean, who celebrates her 92nd birthday on February 2, at her home in the New Forest, near Southampton.

揑 found her in excellent spirits,

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Originally posted by tadika_action at 9-4-2006 11:21 AM
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... We are sailing on the 10th of April on the Titanic from Southampton, so by the time you get this letter we shall be well on our way ... We have just finished packing the boxes. So, please God, we shall soon see you again ... Your loving brother and sister, Harry and Mary."

Marion Hankey gingerly unfolds the worn letter and places it in her lap. The lines on the faded scrap of paper echo in her head.
She already knows how this story ends.


This montage shows clippings on Mary Davison and photos of the Titanic. Sun photo illustration by Bob Bailie.

he Brecksville woman grew up hearing the tale of that tragic voyage from her favorite aunt, Mary. The niece, now 75, still has the skirt her young aunt wore the day she was forced to jump ship, leaving her husband, 32-year-old Thomas Henry "Harry" Davison, behind.

Her aunt survived. But for almost 30 years, Mary Davison lived with the memory of that fateful night and her role in her husband's death. She told the tragedy to a young Hankey, who shares it with others as a living tribute to a special woman.

"She was more than an aunt," Hankey says. "I was always with her. I'm doing this for her because she was so great and so good to me as a child. That's why I feel so strongly about this. I feel it's something I owe her."

Hankey understands the fascination with the legend that has been turned into James Cameron's blockbuster movie "Titanic." (Through Sunday, the Leonardo DiCaprio/Kate Winslet weeper has grossed an astounding $274 million in just six weeks.) Hankey, who has seen it twice, calls the film an emotionally charged but highly accurate telling of a tragedy that took 1,500 lives. And it made her realize there were hundreds of sad Titanic stories similar to her aunt's.


Marion Hankey still has the skirt her great aunt was wearing when she jumped ship .Sun photo by Bob Bailie.

Mary was born in 1878 in England, and had come to America with her husband once before. They lived in Bedford but in 1907 returned to England.

In 1912, the Davisons were ready to return to America. Mary missed her family, including her sister Alice, Hankey's mother. Alice had made the skirt Mary was wearing the night the ship went down. Photos, letters and postcards from Mary before and after the disaster are Hankey's tribute to her aunt, who was never the same after the sinking.

Mary lived until she was 61, and died of cancer at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland. Now buried at Bedford Cemetery, she never forgave herself for what she lost crossing the cold Atlantic.

Her husband, Thomas, originally bought tickets on another vessel. But Mary's wish was to sail on the luxury-liner's maiden voyage. Her husband, ever-willing to please his love, returned the tickets and bought both of them passage on the doomed ship.

"She was the one who sent him back to the office," Hankey says. "And she always said, 'If I would have not said anything, I would still have him."'

On the night of the sinking, Mary and Thomas were jolted awake. Something was wrong. Thomas told Mary to get dressed, and the two headed for the top deck. The ship had hit an iceberg. Passengers panicked.

As the rescue began, crewmen held some men at gunpoint so the women and children could get into the lifeboats first.

"There were so few lifeboats," Hankey says. "It was like saying to God, 'We don't need you.' And then they did. And there just wasn't room."

As the "unsinkable" vessel tilted to its watery grave, Mary and Thomas knew the time had come. But the young woman was afraid to jump. She turned to her husband.

"Go, Mary," Thomas told his shaking wife. "I'll be right behind you."

She faced the dark water, then looked back. Thomas already was handing his lifejacket to someone else.

"She loved this man so much," Hankey says. "And she knew he wasn't coming. She knew he wasn't going to follow her."

As the lifeboat pulled away from the sinking ship, Mary heard her husband's beautiful tenor voice rising into the night sky. He was singing "Nearer My God to Thee" with the orchestra.

Mary huddled against the other survivors and helplessly watched as the Titanic slipped further into the water and then disappeared. She escaped with her life. Yet she would live the rest of it in the shadow of a ghost.

"She never was quite the same after the Titanic," Hankey says. "She never forgot. She always blamed herself."

"Now dear mother don't feel bad about me ... It is very sad for us all ... There are 12 of us here off the Titanic ... They are all very kind to us in this terrible disaster. Now bear up, dear mother and father, for me to see you all once again. So now, to conclude, with fond love I remain your loving daughter, Mary."

Dunhill.

saya juga berharap agar semua dapat kerjasama dan tidak memaki hamun atau mengeluarkan kata-kata yang berunsur menghina seperti barua dan haprak pada seseorang.

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Originally posted by tadika_action at 9-4-2006 11:21 AM
ada lagi ker survivor yang masih hidup?

Anna Sophia Turja was one of 21 children, born of two mothers and one father, in Oulainen, in northern Finland. John Lundi, the husband of her half-sister, Maria, invited her to come work for him at his store in Ashtabula, Ohio, and he got her a ticket on the Titanic.


Anna Turja just prior to sailing on Titanic


Anna Turja in her later years.

On Board
She was 18 years old when she boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, as a steerage (third class) passenger on her way to America. To her the ship was a floating city. The main deck, with all its shops and attractions, was indeed bigger than the main street in her home town. The atmosphere in third class was quite lively: a lot of talking, singing, and fellowship. She had two roommates on board who were also young Finnish women. One was married, traveling with two small children; the other traveling with her brother. But in steerage, the men were kept in the front part of the ship, the women in the rear. Late that Sunday night, she felt a shudder and a shake.
   Shortly thereafter, her roommate抯 brother knocked on the door and told them that 搒omething was wrong,

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The last message Titanic sent (above right) reads: "SOS, SOS (the new distress signal) CQD, CQD (the old distress signal)  MGY (Titanic's radio call letters) We are sinking fast - passengers are being put into boats.. MGY

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Downloadable Titanic deck plans including
Boat Deck


A Deck


B Deck (or Poop & Forecastle Decks)


C Deck  (or Shelter Deck)


D Deck   (or Saloon Deck)


   E Deck  (or Upper Deck)


F Deck  (or Middle Deck)


G Deck  (or Lower Deck)


Orlop Deck



he order to proceed with Titanic's construction was officially given on April 30, 1907. Building began in the Spring of 1909, and her keel was laid on March 31st in the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Ireland. Her yard number was 401, her build number was 131428, and the hull number was 390904. She was one of the "Olympic Class" liners and built as a schooner rigged vessel.

Three thousand men labored for 2 years to complete the largest man made moving object in the world. Each of  Titanic's engines were the size of a 3 story house. She weighed 66,000 tons and was equivalent in length to four city blocks. Her height from bridge to keel was equal to a ten story building. Two workers lost their lives in construction accidents during Titanic's building, which was actually a good safety record compared to many others in this era. These were days before any occupational safety and heath acts. Despite persistent myth and legend, a worker was not sealed up inside Titanic's hull during the building.  


The agreement between the White Star Line and Harland and Wolff stated "she will be built barring no expense." Her total cost in 1912 accumulated to approximately 7.5 million dollars. (About $400 million to build today.)

How Big was Titanic?
(Below)Titanic was slightly larger than the WWII Aircraft Carrier, USS



On May 31, 1911, Titanic was launched into the Irish Sea from slip number 3 of the Thompson dry-dock at Queens shipyard for the final fitting. After lubricating her launch ramp with railroad grease and 23 tons of tallow and soft soap, the detonators were fired and Titanic was in the water 62 seconds later. To complete her superstructure and interior, a 200-ton floating crane was purchased. Fitted to Titanic's superstructure, were 4 funnels, 22 feet in diameter that rose 62 feet above the casings. Rising 50 feet above these funnels were the aerial wires for her wireless radio supported by two 70 foot masts positioned at the bow and stern of the ship.

1,200 tons of rivets were needed to construct Titanic's hull, a total of 3 million rivets. These were days before arc welding and the rivets held a series of 1" thick iron plates to comprise the outer hull. As large as a house, her 101 ton rudder was forged into 6 separate pieces. 20 draft horses were required to pull just one of  Titanic's 15 ton anchors through Belfast to the shipyard on a wagon.

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When completed, Titanic was 882' 8" long (268 meters) and 92' 0" wide. Her draft (required water depth) was 59.5 feet She had 8 steel decks and a cellular double bottom. She was fitted with 2 bilge keels amidships, 295.75 feet long that projected 25 inches from the sides of the hull that also served the purpose of preventing a rolling motion at sea.

One interesting note, an engineer in 1912 theorized from reports of water coming in through Titanic's bottom as well as her side, that this may have been caused by Titanic's starboard bilge keel making contact with the iceberg and ramming it up through her double bottom.

More recent studies on iron hull plate samples taken from the wreck site suggest that manufactured iron at the turn of the century may have contained a high sulfur content. It's believed by some that iron containing certain levels of sulfur may become brittle when exposed to cold water. Some naval architects and engineers suggest that this could have contributed to the hull damage when Titanic made contact with the berg.

The latest progress in marine technology was featured onboard Titanic. She was fitted with a Parson's low pressure turbine engine as well as tipple expansion reciprocating steam engines. The reciprocating engines ran at 75 rpm and generated 30,000 horse power. The thought was more power achievement without the use or requirement of additional steam. The turbine engine drove Titanic's center propeller and the reciprocating engines drove her two port and starboard wing propellers. The turbine ran at 165 rpm and generated 16,000 hose power. The wing props were 23' 6" in diameter and the turbine prop was 17' 0". Her top speed was 23-24 knots.

She was fitted with 4 - 400 kilowatt dynamo's or generators that produced 16,000 amps at 100 volts. These dynamos were attached to over 200 miles of electrical wiring. 10,000 light bulbs lit the ship.


One of Titanic's reciprocating engines is still fitted in place standing upright in the stern section.

The ship was fitted with 29 boilers and 159 furnaces. (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers) Over 8,000 tons of coal filled her coal bunkers. The coal fired furnaces heated water in the boilers to generate steam. The steam (215 psi) was then funneled to the tipple expansion engines. Once the steam entered the engine cylinder it created the necessary power to turn the propellers. If the turbine was not in use, such as reverse orders to the helm or entering or leaving port, lost steam would condense in evaporators and the water would be returned to the boilers. Controlling the amount of steam fed to the engines controlled the speed of the ship. Exhaust was vented through Titanic's first 3 funnels, the fourth was a dummy funnel used for ventilation and storage. Many Titanic enthusiasts enjoy pointing out errors in various Titanic movies and artwork by noticing smoke coming from the 4th funnel.


Schematic of Titanic's engine room

itanic was also had a unique fire detection system, a 1912 version of a smoke detector. Near the bridge was the ship's master fire station. A fireman was stationed there 24 hours a day and was never more that 6 feet away from his post. Positioned on the bulkhead of this station was an airtight glass case. Little tubes entered this case from secondary fire stations positioned throughout the ship. A suction system drew air from the stations back into the glass case. A filament of foil was in the case to let the observer know that the suction was activated by vibrating back and forth from the air flow. If smoke were present in a room that contained a secondary fire station inlet tube, it would eventually be sucked up into the glass case and form a little ball of smoke that resembled a ball of wool. The lead fireman would then telephone deckhands at the secondary stations and order them to check for smoke or fire. Hydrants and fire hose were strategically placed throughout the ship.