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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1912 deaths. It includes 1912 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Victims of the RMS Titanic .
The RMS Titanic departing Southampton, on 10 April 1912 ; five days later, after colliding with an iceberg, it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. A total of 2,240 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, the second of the White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liners, from Southampton, England, to New York City. [1]
Ella Bertha Holmes was born on December 18, 1856, in New York, the daughter of Edwin Holmes [1] and Eliza Ann Richardson. She had two brothers and a sister. [2] Holmes later moved to Briarcliff Manor, New York, staying at the Briarcliff Lodge (her apartment was The Oak Room), [3] [4] and when in New York City she would stay at the Waldorf-Astoria or the Plaza Hotel.
Of the groups shown in the table, 49 per cent of the children, 26 per cent of the female passengers, 82 per cent of the male passengers and 78 per cent of the crew died. The figures show stark differences in the survival rates between men and women, and of the different classes aboard Titanic, especially among women and children. Although less ...
People who died in the year 1912. See also: 1912 births. 1907; 1908; 1909; ... Deaths on the RMS Titanic ... Deaths in April 1912; A.
Dean died of pneumonia on the morning of 31 May 2009, aged 97 at a care home in Ashurst, Hampshire; [2] [20] her death coincided with the 98th anniversary of the Titanic's launch on 31 May 1911. She was cremated, and on 24 October 2009, her ashes were scattered from a launch at the docks in Southampton where the Titanic set sail. [21]
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Titanic was long thought to have sunk in one piece and, over the years, many schemes were put forward for raising the wreck. None came to fruition. [ 254 ] The fundamental problem was the sheer difficulty of finding and reaching a wreck that lies over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) below the surface, where the water pressure is over 5,300 pounds per ...