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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 .
A nearby tugboat, Vulcan, came to the rescue by taking New York under tow, and Titanic ' s 62-year-old Captain Edward Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains, ordered her engines to be put "full astern". [7] The two ships avoided a collision by a distance of about 4 feet (1.2 m).
Lucian Philip and Eloise Hughes Smith boarded Titanic on Wednesday evening, 10 April 1912 in Cherbourg on their way home from their honeymoon. The couple had considered taking the older, smaller, and slightly faster Cunard liner RMS Lusitania home but ultimately decided to buy a ticket for the maiden voyage of the newest, and most luxurious ship in the White Star fleet, Titanic.
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]
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 ...
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The Wideners booked their return passage on RMS Titanic. After the ship struck an iceberg, Widener placed his wife and her maid Amalie Gieger [4] in a lifeboat. The women were rescued by the steamship RMS Carpathia, but Widener and his son Harry and their valet Edwin Keeping [5] perished on the Titanic. [6]