Miss Elizabeth Mussey Eustis boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her sister
Mrs
W.B. Stephenson.
On the night of the disaster the two ladies were awakened by a "ripping"
sound, and
Mrs Stephenson decided to slip on a wrapper and investigate. However, other
noises
outside their stateroom made both ladies decide to get fully dressed. They went
out into
the corridor, but a steward advised them to go back to bed. They did not do
so, but
instead put on street clothes, grabbed their rings and went up on deck.
Mrs Stephenson and Miss Eustis were on A deck when all women and children were
ordered up to the boat deck. they followed Mrs Thayer and her maid up the stairway
and stood watching the distress rockets being fired -- which alarmed them greatly.
Steward Dodd then ordered the ladies to return to A deck and led them down to
where Lifeboat 4 was hanging next to the big windows
there. the ladies were helped to jump into Lifeboat
4, which was then lowered away.
Miss Edith Corse Evans (36) of New York, NY. boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg.
She joined the group of sisters: Mrs E. D. Appleton, Mrs John Murray Brown and
Mrs
R. C. Cornell during the voyage and came to know Colonel Archibald Gracie who
had
gallantly offered his services to the unaccompanied ladies.
In the early hours of April 15th after all of the main lifeboats had got away
Gracie rushed
up to where Second Officer Charles Lightoller was shepherding women and children
into collapsible D, he guided Mrs Brown and Miss Evans as far as he could before
being stopped by the cordon Lightoller had set up to prevent a rush on the boat.
Evans turned to Brown and said, 'You go first, you have children waiting at
home.' Brown stepped into the boat but Evans faltered and the boat eventually
left without her. As boat D hit the water seaman William Lucas called up to
Miss Evans 'There's another boat going to be put down for you', but there was
no boat and Edith was left to reminisce on the words of the fortune teller who
had recently warned her to beware of water.
The Making of History
| Owners | A
Grand Design | Construction | Sister
Ships - Olympic and Britannic
|
| Strict Segregation | Outdated
Lifeboat regulations | The Aura of Invincibility
|
| Launch | Specifications
|
Leaving for the New World
| Southampton | Southampton
- The New York and a Near Miss | Cherbourg
| Queenstown |
Provisions |
Passenger Lists
| First Class | Second
Class | Third Class |
Alphabtical list | Crew
| The Band |
Lifeboat Lists
| Lifeboats 1- 3 | Lifeboats
4 - 6 | Lifeboats 7-9 | Lifeboats
10-12 | Lifeboats 13 -16 |
Collapsibles |
Aftermath
| American Inquiry |
| Causes - An extract from February 1995 Edition
of Popular Mechanic |
Facts and Figures
| Harland and Wolff's 101 Answers to
the most asked questions about the RMS Titanic |