Story of 9 people who survived the Titanic disaster

On April 10, 1912, the Titanic was owned by The White Star Line, departing from Southampton, England to New York City, USA, and this was the first trip since launch. After 5 days of crossing the Atlantic, at 23:40 on April 15, the Titanic hit an iceberg in the sea and sank 2 1/2 hours later.

Titnic carrying 2,435 passengers. When the disaster struck, 1,571 people died, most of them drowned because they did not escape the bedroom in the lower floors when the water came in, or jumped into the sea and had to soak in the cold water for many hours. . Only 864 people were rescued by the Carpathia. Of the 864 people, 9 people escaped death in very special circumstances .

1. Elizabeth Shutes is 40 years old when the Titanic sank. A maid for an English aristocratic family, buy tickets at the first-class deck. As a rule, when Captain Edward Smith issued an evacuation order, first-class passengers must be prioritized on lifeboats but somehow, the name Elizabeth Shutes is No. 1 on the list.

At first, Elizabeth Shutes said there was confusion. She tried to explain to the officer in charge of rescue on Titanic that her boss and their four children were the ones to be saved. However, the officer ignored Elizabeth Shutes' opinion and pushed her into the boat so that she fell on her knees, losing her front teeth.

5 hours later, Elizabeth Shutes was picked up by the Carpathia with 27 others while, according to the design, the capacity of the boat was 65 people. Her host family is not alive.

2 . The secretary of a London silk trading company, the time of the Titanic disaster, Laura Mabel Francatelli turned 30 years old. Buying a ticket in the third class, Laura only wore her pajamas, went barefoot, followed the stairs to the deck when she heard the staff in charge of the compartment announcing the order to leave the ship.

Unable to climb the lifeboat because there were so many people jostling, Laura picked up a life jacket and put it on her neck. When the Titanic sank near her stand, she and the others jumped into the cold water. Luckily for Laura, only about 40 minutes later, a lifeboat picked her up.

Upon seeing the light on the Carpathia - the first ship to save the victims - running more than 8km away, Laura and 42 others held paddles, rowing like crazy. In order to climb the deck of nearly 10 meters high, all had to cling to the rope ladder. Of the 43 people, only 20 went to the Carpathia - including Laura. The remaining 23 people were probably too tired and freezing, falling into the sea.

3. Charlotte Collyer is the third of nine passengers to die in very special circumstances after the Titanic disaster. She and her husband and daughter bought a second class ticket. When the order to leave the ship was announced, her husband dragged her and her daughter to the deck. Three times, rescue officers have given priority to lifeboats for women and children, but her husband still wants the whole family to go together so they miss the chance to survive.

Finally, when she was jostling, wrestling, trampling to board the canoe 16 and when the boat was lowered into the sea, Charlotte Collyer did not see her husband and daughter anymore. When the Carpathia docked in New York, Charlotte Collyer went ashore alone.

4. Lawrence Beesley , a physics professor at Downing University in the United Kingdom, bought a second class ticket on the Titanic to visit Toronto, Canada, and visit his brother. When the Titanic sank, he easily climbed on the lifeboat number 13 because many passengers stood before him, everyone was afraid of the number . bad luck!

When being picked up by the Carpathia, Lawrence Beesley's canoe was only 13 people! Lawrence always said that the number 13 was the most lucky number for his life. When his wife gave birth to her first son, Lawrence named the child Lawrence Thirteen (Lawrence Thirteen).

5. Eva Hart is one of the very few children who survived the Titanic disaster. At the age of 7, Hart accompanied his parents with tickets in third class. Perhaps it was fate because at first, when the Hart family decided to move to the city of Manitoba, Maryland, USA, to open a pharmacy, they booked tickets on the Philadelphia train.

Eva Hart (middle).

However, near the start of the day, a coal industry worker strike at Southampton port made Philadelphia unable to ship on time. Therefore, Father Hart decided to change tickets to the Titanic.

As soon as she got on the ship, Hart's mother did not like the ship because she had a disease called 'narrow space fear'. She called the Titanic a 'fish box' because the third-class rooms were small and confined.

The night of the disaster, she asked her husband and daughter to board the deck, sitting on chairs by the pool. When the Titanic sank, Hart was taken by a sailor to the lifeboat No. 4 for priority for children. Since then, she never saw her parents again.

6. Jack Thayer , 17, and his family bought tickets for first class. When the Titanic collided with the iceberg and began to sink, Jack and his friend Milton were in the ballroom. Going back to the first-class compartment to find his parents, but not seeing it, Jack and Milton decided to jump into the sea because they could not jostle to board the lifeboat. The whirlpool that created the sinking Titanic pulled Jack and Milton down, but he was lucky to escape.

Jack Thayer and Milton on the Titanic.

Rising to the surface, Jack didn't see Milton anymore. Swimming for a while and when he was about to freeze to death, Jack saw a lifeless lifeboat. With all the effort, he turned the boat back and climbed in. Over the next four hours, Jack paddled around the area where the Titanic sank and recovered a total of 57 people. When boarding the rescue ship Carpathia, Jack met his mother and his father disappeared.

7. Rhoda Abbott with 2 sons living in America. They went to London to visit a relative and then returned by the Titanic when the ship made its first voyage across the Atlantic. When Titanic began to sink, Rhoda Abbott and two children quickly ran to the deck and this became a blessing because most passengers who bought third-class tickets drowned when the sea came in.

But only a few minutes later, what Rhoda Abbott thought was fortunate became unhappiness. When 3 mother and son ran to the lifeboat, Abbott's two sons were given priority to go to the boat and Abbott did not because she was a woman, although she was too old! Replaced her position as J. Bruce Ismay - the ninth person who survived because of 'cowardice'.

However, when two of Abbott's two children climbed onto the lifeboat with their hands, the older boy slipped and dragged the child into the sea. Witnessing the death of his two children, Abbott fainted. Abducted by a kindhearted man, Abbott survived but from then until his death (1966) in a mental hospital, Abbott never returned to normal.

8. Michael (2 years) and Edmond (4 years old) are 2 French boys but live with their parents in London, England. Due to the conflict with his wife Navratil, the father of the two children planned to kidnap both and take them to the United States using the fake name Hoffman to buy the Titanic train ticket.

Michael and Edmond were kidnapped by their biological father and taken to the United States by the Titanic (photo published by Mrs. Navratil).

When the Titanic sank, both Michael and Edmond were allowed to board the lifeboat while the father was a man so he had to stay. Meanwhile, in London, Mrs. Navratil - the mother of two boys - kept looking for her child.

By asking some newspapers to post pictures of Michael and Edmond, more than a month later Mrs. Navratil learned that her two sons were on Titanic at the time of the disaster and were fortunate to be saved by the Carpathia. Her husband is on the list of missing people.

9 . The ninth of 864 survivors of the Titanic disaster was J. Bruce Ismay. He is the Chairman of the White Star Line Company, which owns the Titanic and many other vessels.

On April 10, 1912, when the Titanic made the first voyage across the Atlantic, J. Bruce Ismay was also the first passenger on the list in first class. When Titanic hit the iceberg and sank, J. Bruce Ismay was still the first to jump on the lifeboat, taking over the place of Rhoda Abbott because despite being a woman given priority but ordered by J. Bruce Ismay, Rhoda Abbott was left behind because . too old!

After the Titanic disaster, investigators discovered that the design of the Titanic had 48 lifeboats, each carrying 65 people, but J. Bruce Ismay ordered a reduction of only 16 for following him. , too many lifeboats will do 'reduce the trust of passengers, especially the upper class passengers, nobles because Titanic is a ship that cannot sink'. The act of jumping on the lifeboat of J. Bruce Ismay was called ' Ismay's survivor by cowardice'.

According to the survey results, 23 hours on April 15, Cyril Evans, the telegraph officer on the Californian - was about 12km from the Titanic at the time - sent a warning message to the Titanic, that there was an iceberg. big drift right ahead. When the direct officer Jack Phillips gave this news to Captain Edward Smith and the owner of the ship, J. Bruce Ismay, Ismay replied: 'Stop it, shut up! I'm busy!'.

At 1:16 in the morning, two officers, Stone and Gibson, on the Californian ship appeared in the sky with many red signals. Immediately, they informed Captain Stanley Lord. However, due to the lack of unification of the general rules of the meaning of color fireworks at the time, Captain Lord was not sure if it was an emergency signaling. Finally Stanley Lord ordered 'keep watching' and went to sleep until the next morning, he knew that Titanic had sunk .