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Anton Kink

**Anton Kink** was born on March 7th, 1883 in Mahrensdorf, Styria, Austria. He was the first child of Vinzenz Kink-Hofer. A brother, Vincenz Kink, was born in 1885, on July the 25th. A sister was conceived on the first of January 1889, named Maria Kink. Sadly, their father Vinzenz died shortly after that.

Anton Kink moved to Switzerland in 1906. There, he married the German-born Luise Heilmann on 5 May 1908, shortly after their daughter Luise Gretchen was born, on April 8, 1908. Anton was a shopkeeper and the family lived in Zürich.

In May 1911 his mother, her name is unknown, passed away. Upon this tragic loss, his siblings Maria and Vincenz came over to live with the family. At some point, they agreed that it was a good idea to emigrate to America.

## *Titanic*

All five boarded *Titanic* together in 1912, bound for Milwaukee. Anton was 29 years old at the time. They were Third Class passengers. Anton and Vincenz shared cabin #58 on F-Deck near the bow with Albert Wirz, Josef Arnold, Leo Zimmermann and (almost certainly) Wenzel Linhart. The women were in the aft part.

On the night of April 14, *Titanic* had struck and iceberg, and he was woken up by the sound of the impact and his brother ran upstairs to the Forward Well Deck. They saw the iceberg and decided to return to their cabin to get dressed, pack and put on their life preservers. As they did, water started to pour in.

Anton woke his wife, daughter and the women she shared her cabin with: Aloisia Haas, Josefine Arnold and his own sister Maria Kink.  He searched and found lifebelts for them too and managed to get himself and his family to the Boat Deck. In the throng of people, Anton lost his brother and sister in the In an interview with the *Milwaukee Journal* he said:

> *"A sailor took my child and handed her into one of them. My wife was also helped in by the sailors. I was touched upon the shoulder and asked to step back, whereupon my wife and child cried at the top of their voices at my being left behind. I ducked down, broke through those standing about and jumped into the boat as it was lowered."*
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That was lifeboat 2, one of the first boats to arrive at *Carpathia*. Anton survived the disaster but lost everything he owned with the exception of some cheap Swiss cigarettes. Sadly his brother and sister did not make it off the ship and died in the sinking. Once in New York the family spent a few days in hospital and his uncle Alois Hofer sent money from Milwaukee so they could afford a train journey to join him.

## Later life

He was later compensated for the loss of his relatives.

He found work in a factory and then leased a farm once he had enough money. He divorced his wife in 1919 and then returned to native Austria. In 1920 he married Josefa Stranzel and they had a son Fritz, born on 27th of June, 1921. They ran a food shop until they decided to emigrate to Brazil in 1924. This venture proved unsuccesful and they returned to Graz in Austria in 1939.

Anton died on April 8th, 1959, reaching the age of 75. His wife and child would live on for at least another 25 years.
Frank Osman

Frank Osman was one of the deck crewmen aboard *Titanic*.

He was born on March 28, 1885 in Gosport, Hampshire, England.

After initially working as a bricklayer, Frank went to sea aged 14 and then joined the Royal Navy at 16 in April 1900, lying about his age when he did. He completed an exemplary decade of service before joining White Star Line on board *Oceanic*.

He joined *Titanic* in Southampton as an Able Seaman and at the time of the collision he was outside the seaman's mess on C-Deck, waiting for the bell to ring to signal the start of his shift. Instead he heard the three bell ring, which he took to mean "ship ahead" before he felt the impact. He went to the forward well deck and saw a large quantity of ice, he collected a piece and returned to his quarters on D-Deck. On his way he noticed a list to starboard and it was not long before orders came to go up top and clear the lifeboats.

Osman assisted with loading and lowering three boats on the starboard side and one on the port side.  He then manned lifeboat 2 on the portside.  He recalled suggesting to Fourth Officer Boxhall that they remained alongside the ship to see if they could "squeeze any more hands in". Boxhall agreed although it made the women onboard nervous.

The lifeboat was aft of *Titanic* as she foundered, about 60 to 100 yards away. Osman also reported sighting an iceberg as daylight broke. He described it as being 100' tall, "round and one big point sticking up on one side of it." He also noted it seemed to have had a piece freshly broken off.

When asked why the lifeboat did not return to collect more survivors he siad it was almost full despite his earlier statement that they would stay alongside to collect more.  He testified in the US Inquiry but not the British Inquiry.

Frank returned to England and his family and continued to work at sea. He served in Navy once again durng the war as a leading seaman and was deocrated for his service, including the Battle of Jutland. After the war he worked for the White Star Line and Cunard Line before taking up work as a publican in 1934.

In the last six months of his life Frank had been unwell with heart and blood pressure problems and suffered two strokes. He showed signs of depression and mental instability.  On June 1938 he was working in his pub as usual, joking with his customers. After a brief absence from the bar his wife went looking for him and found him hanging from a roof beam in the cellar.  He was 53 years old.

He  was survived by his wife Clara and six of his seven children. His last surviving child, Emily, died in 2003 and in 2019 his wartime medals were put up for auction.
Kristina Sofia Laitinen

**Miss Kristina Sofia Laitinen** was a passenger on *Titanic*.

## Early life

Kristina Sofia Laitinen was a native of Riistavesi, Kuopio in Finland, where she was born on October 12, 1873. Her parents were Pekka Laitinen and Hedvik Asikainen. She was often just adressed by her second name, Sofia.

After Sofia had moved to Helsinki from the village of Riistavesi outside Kuopio in 1905, where she worked for three years at a school for the blind. After that, she worked at Missionärshuset for a while and then she became a housekeeper for the merchant K. Koskinen.

She had no opportunity for education, apart from the school for confirmation, but she was always willing to learn something new and spent her free time reading. She had a couple of school friends.

One of her friends emigrated to America in 1911. She lent her friend some money on the condition that the friend would arrange for a ticket to be sent to her, to enable Sofia to travel over as well. In November, she got her ticket but couldn't decide whether to go or not, so the trip was postponed. Once she had decided to leave, the departure was set for April, on the *Titanic*.

Sofia had a sense of impending disaster. One night she dreamed that she fell into a well with ice-cold water.

## *Titanic*

She made her way to Southampton where she got aboard the new ocean liner. Sofia had a  ticket for Third Class. She was 28 years old at the time and thusfar had been an unmarried woman her entire life.

On board the *Titanic*, she shared a cabin on the aft part of the ship with Anna Sofia Turja, Hedvig Turkula , Helga and Hildur Hirvonen as well as Katriina and Maria Jussila.

On April 14 *Titanic* had an unfortunate contact with an iceberg. After the collision, Sophia and the other women received reassuring messages from stewards who claimed that nothing was wrong and they could stay in the cabin. But soon enough, Helga's brother Eino Lindqvist came from the bow part and said that they had to dress warmly and go up on deck.

Sofia and Anna Turja saw another Third Class passenger named Maija Panula, who had several children with her on the voyage but some were missing during the evacuation. She was crying in despair and wondering what to do.

The small group may have gotten separated in the crowds, but Sofia and Anna Turja were together and were waiting for a while on the starboard side of A-Deck, but then parted ways. Anna thought it was safer and warmer to stay, while Sofia preferred to go up to the Boat Deck. It was packed with people up there. Somehow Sophia never got into a lifeboat, which meant that she was lost in the disaster and her body was not found. Anna Turja did make it off safely, surviving the ordeal.

No one in Finland sought compensation for her through the authorities there, but her mother did receive £60 from the charity fund in March 1913.
Anna Sofia Sjöblom

Miss Anna Sofia Sjöblom, 18, from Finland, was traveling in Third Class to meet her father, Gabriel Gustafson in Olympia, Washington. Her time aboard *Titanic* was not particularly pleasant as not only could she not speak English but she was seasick. April 14, 1912 was Anna'a 18th birthday. At the collision, she woke up and collected her most valuable attires, and she made her way from Third Class to the Boat Deck and was able to enter lifeboat 16.

From the lifeboat, she saw an officer shoot himself through the head.

Sjöblom gave an account to the *Tacoma Daily News* of April 30, 1912 (partly reprinted in *The Visitor's Guide to Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit* by the *King County (Washington) Journal Newspapers*, reprinted in full in *The Titanic Commutator* Vol. 19 No. 4). A full vesion of her account was published in the *Olympia Daily Recorder*, of April 30th, 1912.
Ernest Owen Abbott

## Biography

Mr. Ernest Owen Abbott was born on the first quarter of the year 1891 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. He was the son of John Abbott (1862 - 1896) and Catherine Louisa Welch (1861 - 1929). His father was from Southampton while his mother was from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. They got married in 1880 and had six children. Ernest's siblings were Blanche Louisa (June 29th, 1883 - 1969), Hilda Daisy (1886 - Unknown), Percival Frederick (1888 - Unknown), Florence (1893 - Unknown) and May (1897 - Unknown).

Ernest is first seen in the 1891 cencus as a newborn living at 56 Millbank Street in Southampton with his family. His father was listed as a miller. However, five years later, he would pass away at the young age of 34 years old. On the 1901 cencus, his family is still seen living at 56 Millbank Street but this time, his mother is listed as a tailoress and taking in lodgers. She worked hard to make sure she could still sustain her family financially. Later that year, she remarried to Frederick John Brown (1863 - Unknown), a ship's steward. He is last seen ten years later on the 1911 census living with his mother and step-father at 98 Northumberland Road in Southampton described as an unmarried ship's steward. Probably following his step-father's steps at sea.

When he signed on the Titanic, on April 6th, 1912, he gave his adress as 98 Northumberland Road, Southampton, Hampshire, England and his previous ship as the R.M.S. Trent. He would work as a pantry steward for the first class lounge and would receive monthly wages of £3 15s. Also serving on the Titanic was his brother-in-law William James Francis Revell, his sister Blanche's husband. Ernest was lost in the sinking, as for his brother-in-law William. Nobody knows what happened to him or William. Their bodies, if recovered, were never identified.

A death notice appeared in the Hampshire Independant in Ernest's memory.

*Abbott - April 15th, on the S.S. Titanic, Ernest Owen Abbott, aged 21, of 98 Northumberland Road, beloved son. Deeply missed by his sorrowing mother, brother and sisters, and step-father. "Peace, perfect peace".*

His widowed sister Blanche remarried and had a son that she named in Ernest's memory, Ernest Owen Piper (1918 - 1981).
Hugh Hatch

Hugh Hatch was a scullion on *Titanic.*

## Early life

Hugh Hatch was born in East Wellow, Romsey, England in the summer of 1891.

His father, Charles Hatch, was a market gardener from Bramshaw, Hampshire and his mother, Emily Jane Hacker, was from Tisbury in Wiltshire. They had seven children. Hugh had one older brother, three older sisters (of which two were twins) and two younger sisters.

Hugh lost his father sadly, at a young age. Charles died in 1901.

In 1910 his mother remarried, to Francis Gannaway, a labourer from Southampton, and made a home in Blackhill, East Wellow. By this time Hugh had moved in with his eldest sister Mabel Rose and her family at 446 Portswood Road and was working as a colonial butcher.

What prompted him to go to sea isn’t clear but, by 1911, he was working aboard *Oceanic*, probably as a scullion.

## *Titanic*

On April 9, 1912, he joined *Titanic* as a scullion. A scullion did not have an easy life, cleaning the kitchens, fetching and carrying and washing dishes on a large ship such as *Titanic*, with so many people onboard, must have been a relentless task. Hugh would have earned just £3 10s a month but, for an unmarried 23 year old, it was a decent living wage at the time.

On April 14, the ship hit an iceberg late in the night. On April 15, after midnight, it became clear that the ship was sinking, and the order for evacuation was given. The ship would last well over 2 and a half hours, but finally foundered at 2:20 A.M.

What happened to Hugh on that fateful night isn’t clear but he didn’t survive the disaster and his body was never identified.

## After his death

What became of his sister Mabel and the rest of the family isn’t very clear, although it’s said that mother Emily remained in Southampton, where Mabel would live untill she passed away in 1966.

## Source

Special thanks and credits to Marie Keates for allowing me to use a large part of this information on her blog:

https://iwalkalone.co.uk/the-final-titanic-tales-from-portswood-part-two/ The final Titanic tales from Portswood part two – I Walk Alone
Margaretta Corning Spedden

Margaretta Corning Spedden was First Class Passenger onboard Titanic. Affectionately called "Daisy," she was born on November 3, 1871, in Morristown, New Jersey and was the second daughter of George Frederic Stone and Margaretta Carll Corning. Margaretta had 2 siblings: Hanson and Emma Corning Stone.

Margaretta married Frederic Oakley Spedden at First Presbyterian Church on June 6, 1900, with a reception at Margaretta's family home called "Fair Oakes."

In 1905, Frederic and Margaretta's first and only child, Robert Douglas Spedden, was born. The family lived at Wee Wah Lodge, Tuxedo Park, New York and were very wealthy due to Frederic being a banker.

They dedicated their lives to their son, travel, and hobbies. They usually spent summers in Bar Harbor, Maine and spent the winter at various resorts around the world.

At the end of 1911, the Spedden family sailed for Algiers with 2 maids; Margaretta's personal maid, Helen Alice Wilson and Robert's nanny, Elizabeth Margaret Burns. From Algiers, they moved to Monte Carlo and then to Paris.

In April 1912, after a stint abroad visiting Madeira and several Riviera resorts, Frederic Oakley Spedden, Margaretta Corning Spedden and Robert Douglas Spedden boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg, accompanied by maid Helen Alice Wilson and nanny Elizabeth Margaret Burns.

On the night of April 14-15, 1912, Daisy was awakened by the collision with the iceberg. Shenoticed that the ship was listing, so they went to rouse the servants. Margaret woke Douglas, telling the boy they were taking a "trip to see the stars." The Family made their way to the starboard side of the boat deck, where the women and children boarded Lifeboat 3. After all the women and children had been loaded, Frederic, along with about 20 other men, were also allowed in the boat.

One year after the disaster, Christmas 1913, Daisy wrote and illustrated a little storybook for her son called "My Story", starring the little stuffed teddybear that her son never left behind and in it he recounted all the trips they made through Europe together, the sinking of the *Titanic* and the subsequent rescue. In addition, Daisy was also writing a series of diaries starring the little bear for Douglas, when he was older, to read and reminisce about all those moments he spent together with his parents.

However, this was not fulfilled since, one summer afternoon in 1915, Douglas died at the age of 9 after being struck by a delivery truck on Gridstone Neck, Winter Harbor, near the family summer retreat in Maine. Both Frederic and Daisy mourned stoically, because they always had faith in Christian providence
Trevor Allison

Hudson Trevor Allison was born in Canada in 1911 as the last child of Hudson Allison and his wife Bessie Daniels. He had an older sister named Loraine. Shortly after his birth, the Allison family traveled to England for business purposes where the little boy was baptized. Ride on the Titanic The Allisons had altered travel plans to sail back with old friends on the Titanic. They boarded the ship in Southampton, England, bound for Montreal, Canada. Trevor, 11 months old, stayed in a separate suite with his nanny, Alice Catherine Cleaver.

When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Alice grabbed Trevor and climbed into lifeboat 11. We're not sure why she did this, but there are stories that she was already having prominitions or an uneasy feeling that the ship would sink while the parents didn't think it would all end in tragedy right after it became apparant there had been a collision with an iceberg. It is unclear if his father Hudson Allison and his mother Bessie Daniels knew Alice had taken little Trevor off the ship. Ultimately, Trevor was the sole survivor of the Allison family as both his parents and his sister perished on the night of April 14-15, 1912 and the missing of their baby is probably the reason they ran out of time to at least get mother and daughter Loraine off the ship in a lifeboat, because they searched everywhere for Trevor.

After the sinking, Trevor was taken to Canada where he was raised by his paternal uncle George Richey Barber Allison and his wife Lillian Adelaide Workman. Trevor died in 1929 at the age of 18 in Maine, USA after food poisoning and was buried next to his father in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada.
Lucile Polk Carter

**Lucile Polk Carter** was born October 20th, 1898; the daughter of William Ernest and Lucile Carter. She also had a brother William Thornton Carter. The family lived at Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Carters boarded the *Titanic* at Southampton Ticket #113760 as First Class passengers. They also brought along their two servants. They occupied cabins B-96 and B-98.

Lucile, her brother, and her mother were rescued in Lifeboat 4. Her father escaped in Collapsible C.

For some reason, her father had made comments on Carpathia, that he thought her mother wouldn't make it, and a divorce happened in 1914. At a Philadelphia dinner party given by Mr. & Mrs. Edward Brooke, Lucile met the host's brother, George Brooke Jr., a wealthy banker and steel manufacturer, and a bachelor in his mid-40s.

Lucile and her mother departed for Europe in June 1914, intending to stay for a year. When World War I broke out at the end of July, Carter and her mother were caught in Paris. George Brooke arrived in London and tried to get to Paris, but wartime travel restrictions made it impossible. Instead, he arranged passage for Carter and her daughter to England. Her mother married George Brooke and they returned to the United States. The couple married in London on August 16, 1914, with Brooke's brother and Lucile in attendance. The whole group sailed almost immediately back to the United States on board the *Olympic*, the sister ship of the *Titanic*.

For the first two years of their marriage, the new family divided their time between a city house in Philadelphia; a country house in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, "Brookewood", that Brooke had inherited from his late parents; and a rented summer cottage in Newport, Rhode Island. Lucile made her Philadelphia society debut in 1916 while they were living at "Rock Rose", a Radnor, Pennsylvania mansion they rented in the Fall, but their stay was marred by a fire in December 12. Another fire happened in the early hours of Christmas Day 1917. Brooke, Carter and the children were roused from their beds. The new country house "Brookewood" was destroyed.

In 1922 Lucile married Samuel James Reeves, an iron magnate. They had a daughter (the later Mrs. Clinton W. Trowbridge) and a son, David Reeves who lived in Wayne, Pennsylvania. At the time of her death, she had six grandchildren and was residing in Charleston, South Carolina.

Lucile died at her daughter's home in Summerville, South Carolina on October 19th, 1962. She was buried at Valley Forge Memorial Park, Pennsylvania.
Margaret Bechstein Hays

**Margaret Bechstein Hays** was an American First Class Passenger that survived the sinking of the *Titanic.* She was born in New York on 6 December 1887, meaning she was 24 at the time of the sinking.

Margaret Hays boarded in Cherbourg with a group of friends and aquintances. She travelled with Lily Potter and Olive Earnshaw. Olive and Margaret had been school friends at Briarcliff School in New York. Olive and Margaret shared cabin C-54. Gilbert Tucker, a handsome young man Hays had met in Europe, cut his visit short to join her on the *Titanic*. He occupied cabin C-53. He had fallen for her and became her self-appointed escort. She also brought her dog Bebe with her, one of 12 dogs onboard the ship.

When the *Titanic* sank, Hays dressed and enveloped Bebe, and went to the boat deck with Lily Potter, Olive Earnshaw and Gilbert Tucker jr. James Clinch Smith passed by Hays and jokingly commented: *"Oh, i suppose we ought to put a life preserve on the little doggie, too."* She did manage to get Bebe with her off the ship, 1 of only 3 dogs that survived. The group entered Lifeboat 7, the first lifeboat to be launched. While being on the *Carpathia*, she looked after the two Navratil orphans, Michel and Edmond, who lost their father in the sinking and could not speak English but she knew French. The two of them played with Bebe, until they were picked up by their mother again.

Hays's admirer Gilbert Tucker also survived the sinking. Nevertheless, Hays went on to marry a Rhode Island physician, Charles Daniel Easton, in 1913 and they had two daughters. She was widowed on October 4, 1934. Hays remained friends with Tucker and the two corresponded frequently. She died on August 21, 1956, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of a heart attack while on vacation with one of her daughters. She is buried at St. Mary's Churchyard, Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Alfred Evans

Alfred Frank Evans was employed as a Look Out Man aboard Titanic. With George Hogg he was on watch each day from 12 A.M. to 2 A.M., 6 A.M to 8 A.M., 12 P.M. to 2 P.M. and 6 P.M. to 8 P.M.. His wage was £5 plus 5 shillings.

Alfred Evans was born on 3rd February 1887 in Southampton. His parents were Charles and Elizabeth Russell. He joined the Royal Navy Reserve on 14th July 1906, being 19 years old.

He signed on as being a member of Titanic’s crew on 6th April 1912. He had sailed on the *RMS Oceanic* before, another White Star Line vessel.

Off duty when Titanic struck the iceberg, it is likely that Alfred Evans was asleep; George Hogg, whom he was paired with for his watch in the crow’s nest ,had been woken up due to the confusion in the forecastle after the collision, and had gone up on deck, found nothing interesting nor concerning there and returned down below. It is possible he was joined by Alfred Evans.

After George Hogg asked him what the time was, 11.45 P.M, they decided to get ready to go on duty.

At 12 A.M, around 20 minutes after the collision with the iceberg, Alfred Evans and George Hogg climbed up to the crow’s nest and relieved Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee, the lookouts who first spotted the iceberg.

From the crow’s nest they could see people with lifebelts on, and following a failed attempt by George Hogg to telephone the bridge to ask if they were wanted in the crow’s nest, they climbed down after being there in the crow’s nest for around 20 minutes.

Alfred Evans escaped from Titanic in lifeboat 15, one of the most crowded lifeboats to leave the ship and the last of the main lifeboats to leave the starboard side. He was put in command of the boat.

After Titanic, later on, he served aboard Titanic’s near identical sister ship Olympic.

He was a soldier during the First World War.

At some point after the First World War he worked for Harland and Wolff’s Southampton shipyard. He later worked for Camper & Nicholsons shipyard in Southampton. He continued to work at dockyards until a fall forced him to retire.

He chose to never speak about the sinking of the Titanic.

Alfred Evans died in Southampton on 1st February 1964, aged 76.
Victualling Crew

1. Abbott, Mr. Ernest Owen
2. Ahier, Mr. Percy Snowden
3. Akerman, Mr. Albert Edward
4. Akerman, Mr. Joseph Francis
5. Allen, Mr. George
6. Allen, Mr. Robert Spencer
7. Allsop, Mr. Frank Richard
8. Anderson, Mr. Walter Yuill
9. Andrews, Mr. Charles Edward
10. Ashcroft, Mr. Austin Aloysius
11. Ashe, Mr. Henry Wellesley
12. Ayling, Mr. Edwin George
13. Back, Mr. Charles Frederick
14. Baggott, Mr. Allen Marden
15. Bagley, Mr. Edward Henry
16. Bailey, Mr. George
17. Ball, Mr. Percy
18. Barker, Mr. Albert Vale
19. Barker, Mr. Ernest Thomas
20. Barker, Mr. Reginald Lomond
21. Barlow, Mr. George
22. Barnes, Mr. Frederick Charles
23. Barratt, Mr. Arthur
24. Barringer, Mr. Arthur William
25. Barrow, Mr. Charles Henry John
26. Barrows, Mr. Edward William Peter
27. Barton, Mr. Sidney John
28. Baxter, Mr. Harry Ross
29. Baxter, Mr. Thomas Ferguson
30. Bedford, Mr. William Barnett
31. Beedem, Mr. George Arthur
32. Beere, Mr. William
Hammad Hassab

Hammad Hassab was an Egyptian aboard Titanic, the only Egyptian that survived. Hassab, who owned farmland, worked with Thomas Cook & Son at the Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo as a dragoman (a translator, guide and interpreter), thanks to his fluency in English, French and German. He had a wife, named Fatima Hussein Kamel Katukhdh Kharbotliand.

He was invited by Henry Sleeper Harper and his wife Mira on board the Titanic, both of whom insisted he joins them given his hospitality whenever they’d visit Cairo. In April 1912, he boarded the ship with ticket number PC 17572. He was curious about America. While he was going on this sea voyage, his wife Fatima was expecting.

Throughout the course of the trip, Hassab was dubbed "mysterious" by many passengers, given how quite he remained and the very few interactions he had. On April 14, the day the Titanic hit an iceberg, Hassab was walking around before he heard someone tell his crew members the iceberg split the ship in the middle and they will inevitably sink.

Hassab quickly told the Harpers and they all rushed and boarded lifeboat 3, alongside their dog Sun Yat Sen. A number of other passengers joined them and it’s believed the lifeboat had a total of 32 people, half of it's total capacity, which is why they were able to survive.

Following the Titanic disaster, Hassab remained missing and his family didn’t know about his whereabouts for three years. He, however, sent them a postcard on April 18, 1912, three days after the ship sank, from New York to let them know he's safe.

Another short message was written by him to his brother.

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In 1915, Hassab returned home to his wife and family, who didn’t question him or talk about his absent years.

"We do not know what happened to my grandfather during the three years during which he was absent. He did not talk about this period. He had a strong personality, no one could talk to him about something he did not want to talk about," Sirajuddin told Saad.

"He certainly suffered from a traumatic shock; something he saw on the ship caused him to lose his memory, and when he regained it immediately returned to his home or was detained there during the investigations conducted in America after the ship sank, and returned when he was released. But what we know is that my grandfather would not leave his family voluntarily," he added.

For the 10 years to follow, Hamad stayed home and refused to travel, fearing that what happened in the Titanic would happen again.

He passed away in 1965.
Carl Robert Carlsson

Carl Robert Carlsson, 24 years old, came from Sörby, Vessigebro in Halland, north of Falkenberg. He was born there on January 19th, 1888. His father was a farmer named Emanuel Carlsson. His mother was Anna Beata Bengtsdotter. The couple was married, and Carl had 8 siblings.

He had been a hired driver or coachman in Falkenberg around 1908 and later enlisted as a soldier in Gothenburg. At some point he wanted to visit relatives in Huntley, Illinois. He traveled from Gothenburg together with another Dane, Nils Hilding Jönsson who came from Tågarp outside Falkenberg.

They traveled via Copenhagen. Carlsson belonged to the group of young men who purchased a so-called "Danish vest" in Copenhagen. It was actually a completely ordinary vest, but in its pockets there were false emigration documents and, where applicable, a new passport. After he and his pal Nils Hilding travelled together to Esbjerg, they cruised to England. On April 10, the two found themselves boarding *Titanic* at the Southampton harbor. Carl and Nils were Third Class passengers.

During his voyage with the *Titanic*, Carlsson bought a larger postcard of the ship and it was posted onboard to get sent to his family. The card came back via Queenstown (today Cobh) in Ireland which was *Titanic*'s last port of call.

In the card he writes about the luxury, to them it's like living in the finest hotel and he mentions how there's people of many cultures and nationalities onboard. He was impressed by the demeanour of the ship and its grand composture, riding the waves smoothly. He regrets not having his sister Anna, the youngest of the family, with him.

On April 14 on the late night, *Titanic* had struck an iceberg, and started to sink. Whatever happened to Carl is during the sinking is not known, but he died in the disaster when the ship sank on April 15 at 2:20 A.M. His body was lost at sea.

After Carl's death, his father tried to seek financial aid from a Fund overseas, in America. He was rudely denied compensation for his loss by some sheriff who blatently claimed the Carlssons didn't need it.

Emanuel then turned his attention to the UK. The Mansion House Fund did respond positively however and paid out £48 on support, and £75 for damages to Emanuel.

Carl Robert Carlsson's postcards were shown at the Halmstadt Titanic Exhibition in 2014.
Narciso Bazzi

Narciso Bazzi was born on July 22, 1878 to Demetrio and Marietta Bazzi in Brissago on Lake Maggiore. He grew up with three older siblings in the Ticino community, another brother died in infancy before Narciso Bazzi was born.

In 1911 Bazzi emigrated to London, where he first worked in the restaurant of his brother Giuseppe, who was 16 years his senior. Later he found employment on the White Star Liner Olympic as a waiter. In the spring of 1912 he was able to find work on the new Titanic, in the À la Carte Restaurant.

There are also two legends circulating in his homeland as to how he got his job, although there is no evidence that it could have actually happened that way - especially since the same stories are told about different crew members - what they have in common is that they (then as now ) are difficult to verify, and that such a story could make someone interesting.

One story says that two men from Brissago answered only one vacancy on the Titanic and let the lot decide - Bazzi was the winner. According to the second legend, Bazzi is said to have stepped in for another Brisaghese, 35-year-old Agostino Giovanelli, who suddenly fell seriously ill. As mentioned, Bazzi was already working on the Olympic and thus recommended himself directly for the change to the Titanic, so the two legends seem rather unlikely.

As a waiter, Bazzi was paid £3 a month, but he earned at least three times that from tips. He lived in London at 21 Great Chapel Street, just off Oxford Street. On April 6, 1912, he boarded the Titanic along with most of the crew to spend the days before her maiden voyage preparing the ship for the voyage. Since boarding the Titanic, there has been no trace of Narciso Bazzi - no one who survived the sinking reported about him and, as far as is known, he himself did not send any letters or postcards from board. During the crossing he went about his business as a waiter in the restaurant.

On the night of the sinking, several employees of the restaurant tried in vain to get from their accommodation in the Third Class area to the lifeboats in vain, the route that they otherwise traveled several times a day remained blocked to them at night. It is not known whether Bazzi also belonged to the group trying to get to the higher decks at the stern in the Third Class area. His body was not identified so likely not found.

His mother received the outstanding wages of 12 shillings. The London lawyer A. A. Biucchi was able to get the family to be awarded £60 from Lord Mayor's collection, and £80 were then paid out. In addition to the gifts of love, this was probably also the compensation, after deduction of the lawyer's fee. In March 1913, the lawyer Biucchi refused to tell the Swiss embassy in London the amount of his fee because it was "private in nature". Biucchi also represented the interests of the relatives of Alessandro Pedrini from Ticino. After the sinking, a commemorative plaque with a portrait photo for the waiter who died was placed in the burial chapel of the Bazzi family in the Brissago cemetery.

Bazzi perished in the disaster.
Collapsible C

**Collapsible C** or Collapsible 3, was an “Engelhardt Type Collapsible” raft that was stationed on the starboard side of the RMS *Titanic*. it was the ninth lifeboat to be launched from the starboard side; and the first collapsible to be launched. Officers Murdoch and Wilde had launched the lifeboat from the davits at around 1:47 AM.

## Diegesis

Bruce Ismay had been quite active on the starboard side all night, assisting passengers into boats, more or less urging them to get away. Now, he was standing close to the collapsible lifeboat C, which had been fitted into the empty davits after lifeboat 1, which had left more than 30 minutes earlier. Those near the boat seem to have been third-class passengers, many from the Middle East. Quartermaster Rowe had been assisting with the Morse lamp, trying to contact ships in the vicinity and with firing rockets.

When about 25-28 women and children had been assisted into the boat, Wilde ordered five crew in, as well as quartermaster Rowe. Seeing there were a few seats still free, Ismay and another first-class passenger, William Carter, who had left his family at lifeboat 4, entered it and the boat was lowered away. Mr. Ismay was later heavily criticized for his escape and he was portrayed as *Brute Ismay* in some newspapers. Some have theorized that he jumped into the boat, despite there being women still near boat C. Others claim there were none, and his escape was justified; he was a passenger just like any other passenger. Be that as it may, he survived, working at an oar, his back to the ship so as to avoid having to watch the end. Boat C was probably lowered away about 40 minutes before the ship sank.

While rowing away from the ship four Chinese third-class passengers were discovered in the bottom of the boat. Mrs. Goldsmith noticed them along with other passengers and they told QM Rowe in charge about them. Mrs. Goldsmith thought there were 30 women, five crew and four Chinese and her son in the boat. QM Rowe thought there were 39 and Bruce Ismay estimated 40-45 in the boat.

In all likelihood, there were just under 50 people in the boat. They picked up nobody from the sea and possibly reached the *Carpathia* as the tenth or twelfth boat.

**Based on a summary by Peter Engberg**

## Notable occupants

* George Thomas Rowe (in charge) Quartermaster
* Albert Victor Pearcey *Third Class Pantryman*
* Joseph Bruce Ismay *First Class Passenger*
* William Ernest Carter *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs Juliette La Roche\* *Second Class Passenger*
* MIss Louisa La Roche *Second Class Passenger*
* Master William R. La Roche *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Mariana Assaf\* *Third Class Passenger*
* Miss Margaret Delia Devaney\* *Third Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Emily A. Goldsmith *Third Class Passenger*
* Frank J. W. Goldsmith *Third Class Passenger*
* Mr. Hee Ling\* *Third Class Passenger*
* Miss May Howard\* *Third Class Passenger*
* Miss Amy Stanley\* *Third Class Passenger*

\* = not certain
Elin Braf

Elin Ester Maria Braf (October 16, 1891 – April 15, 1912) was a Third Class passenger of the *RMS Titanic.*

## Biography

Born in Medeltorp, Ramkvilla (Småland, Sweden), Elin was the daughter of Johan and Lovisa Braf and in the censuses her trade appears as a servant. Along with Helmina Josefina Nilsson, also a native of Ramkvilla, Elin took a trip to the United States in order to join her sister Annie Hammar, who resided at 1006 Roscoc Street in Chicago, both boarding the RMS Titanic in Southampton on the 10th of April 1912 as Third Class passengers.

According to Helmina, Elin had previously been to the United States. Helmina stated that Elin was used to traveling, which is why her parents allowed her to go with her, although this has not been confirmed. Elin had a doll on board for her niece Mabel among her belongings. It appears that the doll was not left with the rest of the luggage, Helmina stating in an interview that Elin had brought a package with the doll onto the deck after the Titanic had struck an iceberg on the night of April 14 and before. before it sank in the early hours of the morning the next day. Helmina survived, but Elin perished in the shipwreck and her body was never recovered. The Mansion House Fund paid SEK 875.42 (£48) to her parents, who also received SEK 911 (£50) in damages on June 14, 1914.

Regarding the doll that she carried with her, its head was photographed in a field of rubble near the stern, where most of the victims lived their last moments.
Lifeboat 10

**Lifeboat 10** was the seventh boat to be lowered from the port side, at 1:45 A.M. Chief Baker Joughin was near this boat and said that he more or less threw people into it. A woman nearly fell into the sea when trying to board the lifeboat, this may have been Mrs. Hakkarainen, from third class.

"*One of the officers pointed at me saying, Room for one more lady. Come on, hurry!As I stepped into the boat, it was already moving downward. I lost my balanced (sic), almost falling between the lifeboat and ship until someone in the lifeboat grabbed my arm and pulled me into a seat. On the way down we stopped at a lower deck and picked up one more lady. Our lifeboat did not return to the spot where the Titanic went down. Our lifeboat reached the Carpathia at 7.30 a. m. We were one of the last boats to be picked up. I finally located Anna Sjöblom, who had knocked on my cabin door to awaken me. We had become separated in the rush to the upper deck and had entered separate lifeboats.*"
The youngest survivor, Millvina Dean, was in this boat together with her mother and brother. Her brother was taken care of by Mrs. Thorneycroft who was with them. There were perhaps seven or eight ladies from first class, possibly 15 or more second class passengers, including Mr. Hosono, who jumped into it at the last moment and possibly ten or twelve third class passengers apart from the four crew in it; a total of perhaps 40 people. When they encountered No. 14 and other boats, the two able seamen, Frank Evans and Edward Buley were transferred to No. 14. On the other hand, ten or twelve others were transferred into the boat from No. 14 and No. 10 arrived at the *Carpathia* with 50 or so, the last boat but one to be rescued.

## Notable occupants

* Alfred Frank Evans *Lookout*
* Edward John Buley (in charge) *Able Seaman*
* Frank Oliver Evans *Able Seaman*
* C. Rice *Fireman*
* William Burke *1st Class 2nd Saloon Steward*
* Miss Kornelia T. Andrews *First Class Passenger*
* Ethel Flora Fortune (3?) *First Class Passenger*
* Mabel Helen Fortune\* (3?) *First Class Passenger*
* Mary Fortune\* (3?) *First Class Passenger*
* Alice Elizabeth Fortune\* (3?) *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Anna Hogeboom *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Gretchen F. Longley *First Class Passenger*
* Mary Graham Carmichael Marvin *First Class Passenger*
* Masabumi Hosono\* (13?) *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. L. Davis Parrish\* (12?) *Second Class Passenger*
* Imanita Shelley\* (12?) *Second Class Passenger*
* Barbara Joyce West *Second Class Passenger*
* Lilian Asplund *Third Class Passenger*
* Elizabeth Gladys 'Millvina' Dean *Third Class Passenger*
* Bertram F. Dean *Third Class Passenger*
* Eva Dean *Third Class Passenger*

\* = not certain
William Mintram

William Mintram (March 1866 – 15 April 1912) was a Fireman on the RMS *Titanic* when it struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912. William worked for White Star Line after his release from prison for the murder of his wife.

## Married life

William married Eliza Mary Rose Veal on 16 August 1886 and went on to have five children with her, William Jnr, Charles, George, May & Rosina. Rosina was married to Walter Hurst who was also a Fireman on the *Titanic.*

Mintram did not have a happy marriage. On the evening of 18 October 1902, after a row when he complained over his wife's pawning of his son's boots to pay for drink, he stabbed her in the back and she died soon afterwards. Mintram appeared at Winchester Assizes the following month, charged with wilful murder; he gave evidence in his own defence, saying that he had been drunk and his wife had rushed at him, but he did not remember anything more. A policeman gave evidence saying that he had heard quarrelling in the house and had to disperse a crowd from outside, about half an hour before the attack. Mintram was said by his employers to have an excellent character. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and the judge sentenced him to penal servitude for 12 years. He served three before being released.

William died on the *Titanic* as one of its many victims. On the night of the sinking William had managed to find a lifejacket but his son-in-law Walter had not, so William gave him his. His actions contributed to Walter's survival
Hannah Riordan

Miss Hannah Riordan was born in Glenlougha, Kingwilliamstown, Co. Cork on 27th January, 1894 1, as the daughter of Peter Riordan 2 and Mary Riordan (née O'Connor).

Hannah was seen as a domestic servant in the 1911 census. Hannah boarded Titanic at Queenstown as a Third Class passenger (ticket number 334915, £7, 14s, 5d). Her destination was 319 Lexington Avenue, New York City where her sister Ellen lived. Ellen was holding a position she had found for Hannah as a domestic worker. Hannah was accompanied on the Titanic by Daniel Buckley, Bridget Bradley, Patrick Denis O'Connell, her cousin Patrick O'Connor, Nora O'Leary and Michael Linehan from Kingwilliamstown (now Ballydesmond).

From the *Titanic*, Patrick O’Connor called out to her party as it got into lifeboat 13, "Goodbye girls – I'll see you in New York," but he went down with the *Titanic*.

According to Senan Molony’s *The Irish Aboard the Titanic*, Hannah was probably not up on Boat Deck until lifeboat 13 was being prepared for launch at 1:40 A.M.—the next-to-last lifeboat on the aft starboard to be launched. This meant that for nearly two hours, she was stuck in steerage, where, because of the distance from the rescue boats, she had only a 50-50 chance of being saved.

In New York, Hannah’s sisters Nellie and Julia were sure she had perished -- a newspaper report listing survivors mangled her name as "Anna Reibon," the result of a botched wireless transmission -- so they were astonished several days later when, after going to the pier to see the incoming rescue ship *Carpathia*, they caught sight of the shivering Han on her way off the boat.

Hannah's subsequent experience was more fortunate. Amazingly enough, twelve years after her perilous voyage, she journeyed across the Atlantic again to make a return visit to Ireland.

She was naturalized as a US citizen on 10th May, 1928 in New York City. In her application she is described as 150 pounds, brown hair, grey eyes, 5 feet, 9 inches tall with fair complexion. At the time she was living at 109 E. 72nd Street in New York City.

Hannah worked as a house maid for several New York families, most notably for an old-money family that split time between New York City and, when the mercury rose, Hyde Park—the Newbolds, the next-door neighbors and friends of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (She brought FDR—by this time, crippled with polio—up in the elevator at Bellefield, which is now the National Park Service headquarters at FDR’s estate.)

She was later married to John Spollen, son of James and Margaret Tilvius Spollen, on March 17, 1936 at St. Anselm's Church in the Bronx, New York. Shortly after marriage the couple moved to 14 Whitesboro Street in Utica, New York. At some point they returned to the Bronx and lived the rest of their lives. The couple had no children.

Hannah Spollen (née Riordan) died on 29th September, 1982. She was survived by her husband and two nieces.
Harriette Rebecca Crosby

Born in Michigan, on the 8th of October 1872, **Harriette Rebecca Crosby** was named after her maternal aunt Hariette and her paternal aunt Rebecca. Her parents were Catherine Elizabeth Crosby and Edward Gifford Crosby.

She was married on 8 November 1893 to Marvin Persons Gillis. The couple lived near the Ford factory in Detroit but it seems the marriage was an unhappy one. They divorced in 1897 and Harriette reverted to her maiden name.

Harriette was joined by her father and mother and they travelled in England where, on 11 February 1912, she gave birth to a baby girl, Andree. The family moved on the France and, while they prepared to travel home, the child was left behind to be cared for by a nanny at a Paris boarding school. She would not be reunited with her mother for over a year.

Harriette travelled to Paris in 1910 to study music with her friend Lily Brand. In Paris she had tuition from the noted pianist Louis Philippe. At a party she met a man named Edouard Bourdois and Harriette fell pregnant. It is unclear how long the relationship lasted but they were never married. Her parents, Captain Edward Crosby and Catherine Crosby joined her in Paris in 1912 and they travelled together to England, where Harriette gave birth to a baby girl, Andrée Catherine. As the family prepared to return to the USA, the baby was left with a Parisian nanny. A year would go by before mother and daughter were reunited. They boarded *Titanic* in Southampton as First Class passengers.

On the night of the collision Harriette was awoken by her father and she boarded lifeboat 5 with her mother. Harriette was critical of the *Titanic* crew in an interview with the Chicago Record-Herald. Claiming they were placing women and children in lifeboats without making basic safety checks like confirming that the plugs were in place.

Harriette and her mother returned to Europe to collect Andrée, arriving back in the USA in May 1913.

Harriette maintained her interest in music. She moved from Milwaukee to California, where she lived for a time with her daughter, until her death, in Los Angeles General Hospital, Los Angeles, California on 11 February 1941. Interestingly, her death certificate lists her "husband" as "Edward B. Boudoise" but in fact they were never married.

It was Harriette's wish to be interred with her mother and father but at the time her daughter, Andree Hathway, could not afford the cost of reopening the crypt. Therefore Harriette's body was cremated and her ashes interred in an adjacent crypt in Fairview Mausoleum, Milwaukee. In 1995 the the mausoleum, which had fallen into disrepair, was opened. In 1997 the remains of Captain Crosby, his wife and daughter were re-interred together at Graceland Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.