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Thomas Roussel Davids Byles (26 February 1870 – 15 April 1912) was an English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 14–15 April 1912. He was reported as being amidst the throng of trapped passengers on the ship's rear deck in its final ...
Fr. Peruschitz's German obituary A memorial plaque place outside the Scheyern monastery. Josef traveled to Southampton and boarded the RMS Titanic on April 10; a survivor named Lawrence Beesley said that Josef and two other priests, Fr. Montvila and Fr. Thomas Byles held daily mass aboard the ship and during the sinking, "When all the excitement became fearful all the Catholics on board ...
Arthur John Priest (31 August 1887 – 11 February 1937) was an English fireman and stoker who was notable for surviving four ship sinkings, including the RMS Titanic, [2] HMS Alcantara, HMHS Britannic and the SS Donegal. [3] Due to these incidents, Priest gained the moniker "the unsinkable stoker". [3]
It was a nightmarish tragedy that shocked humanity's psyche. Within two weeks, the first Titanic joke had already been logged. In a short story dated April 28, 1912, the Czech humorist Jaroslav ...
According to reports, after the Titanic's collision, Montvila "served his calling to the very end" by refusing a place on one of the lifeboats, [2] [6] and offering solace to fellow travelers. Montvila eventually died and his body sank. His body was never identified. [1] His parents and grandparents received a grant of 130 GBP from the Titanic ...
Social media users are rejoicing that the playlist for Trump's rally Friday in Bozeman, Montana, included "My Heart Will Go On," from "Titanic," the 1997 Oscar-winning film about the infamous 1912 ...
Thirty years ago today on September 1, 1985, the 73-year-old Titanic wreckage was finally discovered. The tragedy of the RMS Titanic rocked the world on April 15, 1912, when the "unsinkable" ship ...
At the time of the Titanic disaster, Harper was 39, a widower with a six-year-old daughter, Annie Jessie (Nana), and pastor of Walworth Road Baptist Church in London. He was traveling with his daughter and his sister, Jessie W. Leitch, to Chicago to preach for several weeks at the Moody Church, where he had been guest minister the previous fall, when the ship hit an iceberg on the night of 14 ...