Current Events > I am pretty obsessed with the Titanic disaster.

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I put the ring in the coat

dont you mean the diamond?

I put the ring in the coat

Titanic x The Lord of the Rings fanfic

How bout the submarine too

I heard the Titanic would have survived a head on collision with the iceberg.

I got serious into the Titanic when that story was going on last year.

Still baffles me that they stuffed themselves into a tube that'd take them down to the wreck... that they then would observe through a monitor connected to outside cameras.
They could have seen the wreck, without any risk of death, by sending down an unmanned submersible!

It was probably just them wanting to feel physically close to thing... but anyone who'd done even five minutes of research would know that thing they were going down in was dodgy AF.

How bout the submarine too

My great great grandfather was a Titanic survivor so I've been fascinated with it since I was a kid. I literally wouldn't exist if he hadn't survived.

My great great grandfather was a Titanic survivor so I've been fascinated with it since I was a kid. I literally wouldn't exist if he hadn't survived.

I went through a big Titanic phase as a kid, but nowadays I'm more about warships.

What was his name?

Was he crew or a passenger? Considering women and children had priority, how did he get onto a lifeboat?

Was he crew or a passenger? Considering women and children had priority, how did he get onto a lifeboat?

Not meaning to take away from the question about the family member, but it wasn't impossible for men to get onto the lifeboats. It mostly just depended upon which side of the ship they were on.

Lightoller was very strict with the loading of his lifeboats. Women and children ONLY, even if this left the boats at not-full capacity.

Meanwhile, Murdoch would let men in to fill up the boats if there were no other women or children within eyeshot.

But then there were also crewman (usually firemen or a junior officer) that were assigned to each lifeboat to take charge and to row.

Obviously still not very good chances, but if you happened to be a man and on Murdoch's side of the ship, you may have been able to get into a lifeboat.

Kurt von Scheven, according to his obituary (my mom has the newspaper clipping of it) he was a fireman and he cut his hand trying to free a lifeboat and he was pushed on board by an officer.

That would make sense then, maybe my great great grandfather (a fireman) was deemed unable to help free more lifeboats, but still capable of helping row one.

That's a really cool (and morbid) family story. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Thanks. I really don't know any other details unfortunately. I wish I did. I visited his gravesite some years ago in Trenton, NJ. It's really just a marker, not much of anything. He was my mom's dad's mom's dad. lol if that makes sense.

I'm sure there's definitely some kind of PTSD survivors faced in their life after the event.

Last survivor of the Titanic dies, aged 97
May 31, 2009, 9:46 PM CEST / Source: The Associated Press

Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

She was 97 years old, and she died where she had lived in Southampton, England, the city her family had tried to leave behind when it took the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage, bound for America.

She died in her sleep early Sunday, her friend Gunter Babler told the Associated Press. It was the 98th anniversary of the launch of the ship that was billed as "practically unsinkable."

Babler said Dean's longtime companion, Bruno Nordmanis, called him in Switzerland to say staff at Woodlands Ridge Nursing Home in Southampton discovered Dean in her room Sunday morning. He said she had been hospitalized with pneumonia last week but she had recovered and returned to the home.

A staff nurse at the nursing home said late Sunday that no one would comment until administrators came on duty Monday morning.

Ship sank in under three hours
Dean was just over 2 months old when the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. The ship sank in less than three hours.

Dean was one of 706 people mostly women and children who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.

Babler, who is head of the Switzerland Titanic Society, said Dean was a "very good friend of very many years."

"I met her through the Titanic society but she became a friend and I went to see her every month or so," he said.

The pride of the White Star line, the Titanic had a mahogany-paneled smoking room, a swimming pool and a squash court. But it did not have enough lifeboats for all of its 2,200 passengers and crew.

Dean's family were steerage passengers setting out from the English port of Southampton for a new life in the United States. Her father had sold his pub and hoped to open a tobacconists' shop in Kansas City, Missouri, where his wife had relatives.

Initially scheduled to travel on another ship, the family was transferred to the Titanic because of a coal strike. Four days out of port and about 600 kilometers (380 miles) southeast of Newfoundland, the ship hit an iceberg. The impact buckled the Titanic's hull and sent sea water pouring into six of its supposedly watertight compartments.

Credits her survival to her father
Dean said her father's quick actions saved his family. He felt the ship scrape the iceberg and hustled the family out of its third-class quarters and toward the lifeboat that would take them to safety. "That's partly what saved us because he was so quick. Some people thought the ship was unsinkable," Dean told the British Broadcasting Corp. in 1998.

Wrapped in a sack against the Atlantic chill, Dean was lowered into a lifeboat. Her 2-year-old brother Bertram and her mother Georgette also survived.