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Encyclopedia Titanica is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly updated information on the RMS Titanic. [1] The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a database of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or Titanic enthusiasts.
Margaret Bechstein Hays was born on December 6, 1887 [1] to Frank and Mary A. Hays. [2] [3] She was 24 years old when she boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France.She was accompanied by two friends, Olive Earnshaw and Lily Potter. [4]
Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field to look for survivors.
According to Encyclopedia Titanica, "the early days of the voyage were uneventful, but for the intense cold, remarked upon by both passengers and crew."
John Borland "Jack" Thayer III (December 24, 1894 – September 20, 1945) was a first-class passenger on RMS Titanic who survived the ship's sinking.Aged 17 at the time, he was one of only a handful of passengers to survive jumping into the frigid ocean.
Lawrence Beesley at encyclopaedia-titanica.org Luck for Some - Titanic's Lifeboat 13 and its Passengers, pp 40-48, Lawrence Beesley. Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Bernice "Bernie" Palmer (January 10, 1893 – February 11, 1989) was a Canadian photographer known for taking the photographs of the Titanic disaster survivors and the iceberg believed to have caused the sinking of the ship in April 1912.
Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL (22 July 1862 – 20 April 1931) was a prominent Englishman and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic.