Voyagers of the Titanic (48 page)

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Authors: Richard Davenport-Hines

Stewart, Alexander, 111

stowaway: on
Titanic,
227, 235–36

Stoytchev, Ilia, 175

Straus, Ida, 80, 91, 108, 231–32, 291

Straus, Isidor, 91, 92, 108, 231–33, 270–71, 292, 300

Sunderland, Victor, 211–12, 250

survivors: and attention-seeking imposters, 275; on
Carpathia,
281–86; children as, 290; crew members as, 290–91; deaths of, 303–6; first-class passengers as, 290; from lifeboats, 250; memories/remorse of, 304–5; men as, 250, 290–91; posting of names of, 273–74; public treatment of, 302–3; second-class passengers as, 290; social class/race issues and, 290–91; stories recounted by, 291–93, 301; third-class passengers as, 290; women as, 290–91.
See also
specific
person

Sutherland, Duchess of, 55, 109

Sutherland, Duke of, 55

Svenson, Johan, 236

Svevo, Italo, 73

Symons, George, 207

Syrian-American Club, 276

Syrians: as passengers on
Titanic,
24, 278

 

Taft, William, 99, 101, 103, 266–67, 269, 293

Talbot, Edward, 293

telephones: on
Titanic,
27, 196

Temple, Lucinda “Lutie.”
See
Parrish, Lucinda Temple “Lutie”

Tener, John, 100

Tenglin, Gunnar, 178

Teutonic
(White Star liner), 32–33, 38, 39

Thaw, Harry, 112

Thayer, John Borland, 92, 118, 215, 223–24, 239, 240, 241, 245, 268, 300

Thayer, John Borland Jr. “Jack” (son), 92, 119, 146, 245–46, 250, 252, 265, 268, 300

Thayer, Marion, 92, 118, 201, 239, 254, 258, 265, 268, 287, 300, 304

Theobald, Thomas, 163, 238, 283

third-class passengers, 155–81; activities for, 167; amenities/comforts for, 155–56, 159–60, 169; cabins for, 155–56; collision and, 211–12, 222–23; deaths of, 290; demarcation between second and, 122, 123; dress of, 169–70; Eastern/Middle Europeans as, 157–59, 170–72, 175–79, 237, 286; immigrants/migrants as, 157–59, 162–66, 168–81, 237, 286; initial reactions to collision by, 213–14; inquiries into sinking of
Titanic
and, 296; loading and launching of lifeboats and, 233, 243–44; national origin of, 156–57; number of, 156–57; reactions to sinking of
Titanic
by families of, 276–77, 278; recovery of bodies of, 298; rescue of, 258; stewards assigned to, 185; as survivors, 290; survivors’ lists and, 273.
See also
specific person

Thorne, George.
See
Rosenshine, George

Thorne, Maybelle, 90, 242

tickets, cost of: for first-class passengers, 24, 79, 116, 312; monetary values and, 312; for second-class passengers, 24, 126, 130, 134, 139, 143, 144, 146, 147, 152; for third-class passengers, 23–24, 166, 180

A Time to Be Born
(Powell), 116

tips: for crew members, 125, 195–96, 229–30; and rescue from collision, 229–30

Titanic
(film), 10

Titanic
(White Star liner): amenities/comforts on, 21, 24–26, 27, 59, 60–61, 108–19, 128, 134–36, 196, 210, 262; anniversaries of sinking of, 303–4; baggage and freight on, 14–16, 31; “black gang” of, 18–19; blame for sinking of, 265–66; British Board of Trade/Mersey inquiry into loss of, 59, 296, 297, 302; building of, 26, 33, 34, 47, 49, 53; cause of sinking of, 296–97; collision with iceberg of, 205–58; confirmation of sinking of, 198; damages to, 208–9; design of, 55–56, 59, 60–62; distress transmission/rockets from, 209–10, 228, 230–31, 233, 236, 261, 296; European reactions to sinking of, 262–64, 269–72, 277–79, 280, 288–90, 291–92, 293; as expression of racial supremacy, 12; filming of documentary about maiden voyage of, 136; first-class passengers on, 73–119; last survivor of, 164, 231; legacy of, 297; lifeboats on, 57–59, 188, 219–40; lookouts on, 184, 202, 206, 296; as mail carrier, 200, 297; menus on, 25–26, 117–18, 132, 160, 169; as metaphor for Western society, 10; number of passengers on, 18, 31, 57–58; officers/sailors on, 63–69, 182–202; ownership of, 34, 49; passenger grievances against, 126–28; political scandals associated with, 198

Traffic
(Cherbourg tender), 22

Train Transatlantique
(French train), 22

Travelling Palaces
magazine, 67–68

Trembisky, Berk, 179–80, 218, 222

Trengrouse, Henry, 152

Trevaskis, Abednego, 149, 274

trimmers, 189–91

Troutt, Edwina “Winnie,” 130, 300, 305

Tucker, Gilbert, 225

Turcin, Stefan, 181

“Turkey Trot” party, 109

 

Umbria
(Cunard ship), 68

unions, labor, 14, 51–52

United States: British rivalry with, 48, 102, 280, 296; early reactions to sinking of
Titanic
in, 266–69, 274–77.
See also
New York City; Senate, U.S.;
specific person or
topic

United States Line, 193

 

Valéry, Paul, 120

Vanderbilt, George, 75, 81, 277

Vanderbilt, William K. II, 28–29, 84

Vartanian, David, 177–78, 236

Vaterland
(Hamburg-Amerika ship), 33

Veale, James, 152–53, 262

Verne, Jules, 306

Victoria
(British battleship), 251

Victoria (queen of England), 40

Virginian
(Allen ship), 261, 262

 

Wallace, James, 105

Wallace, Lucy, 104, 105.
See also
Duff Gordon, Lady Lucy

Wallach, Samuel, 283

Washington Herald,
267

Waugh, Evelyn, 113, 194

weather warnings: sent to
Titanic,
200–202, 297

Webber, Susan “Susie,” 130

Weir, John, 75

Weisz, Leopold, 144

Weisz, Mathilde, 154

Wells, Addie, 149, 233, 288

Wells, Arthur, 149, 233, 274

Wells, H. G., 9

Wennerström, August, 178, 224, 248

West, Ada, 231

West, Arthur, 231

Western Morning News,
271

Whabee, George, 166

Whabee, Thomas, 166

Wharton, Edith, 30, 68, 74, 77, 95–96

Wheaton, Homer, 285

Wheeler, Frederick, 75

White, Ella, 85, 206, 212, 230, 254–55

White, Stanford, 112

White Star Line: amenities/comforts on ships of, 122; competition for, 13, 38, 39–41, 53, 122, 128; concerned family members at offices of, 264, 269, 271–72, 273–74, 276–77, 286; design of ships in, 37–38, 53; expansion of, 37–38; Harland & Wolff relationship with, 37, 38, 46, 49, 57; IMM and, 36, 46–48, 49; Ismay (Bruce) as chairman of, 48; Ismay family history with, 37; and Ismay Olympic class proposal, 33–34; Jessop criticisms of, 194; L&SWR relationship with, 13; lifeboat drills on liners of, 188; lifeboat provisions for ships in, 59; Morgan buying/control of, 17, 36, 46, 91; Morgan collections and, 16; and New York arrival of
Olympic,
54; passenger grievances against, 126–28; Pirrie as director of, 46; search for bodies by, 297–99; size and comfort of liners of, 37–38, 41; social class/race issues and, 12, 38, 40, 41, 61, 157; Southampton as port for, 12–14; in Wharton novels, 74.
See also
specific person or ship

Wick, George, 285–86

Wick, Mary Hitchcock, 286

Wick, Natalie, 286

Widener, Eleanor, 79, 118, 119, 202, 206, 216, 239, 258, 268, 269, 287

Widener, George: collections of, 95; and collision of
Titanic
with iceberg, 214, 216; death of, 268–69, 287; dinner party of, 118, 119, 202, 206; dress of, 118; and loading and launching of lifeboats, 224, 241, 245; Paris trip of, 79; and property claims of Widener family, 300; social class issues and, 118

Widener, George Jr., 269

Widener, Harry, 95, 96–97, 210, 216, 268–69, 287

Widener, Joseph, 95, 269

Widener, Peter, 95, 268–69, 287

Wilde, Henry (
Titanic
officer), 183, 222, 265

Wilde, Oscar, 102, 104

Wilkinson, Lizzie, 146

Wilks, Ellen, 288

Williams, Richard, 215

Wilson Line, 178, 183

Winchester, Lord, 293

Winterton, Lord, 54–55, 109, 278

Witt, Harry, 19

Witter, James, 154

Wolff, Gustav, 35

women: as lifeboat rowers, 254–55; and men as squires of women traveling alone, 221–22; as survivors, 290–91.
See also
“women and children first”;
specific person

“women and children first”: Franklin’s media statements about, 262; in lifeboats, 220, 223, 224, 227–28, 230, 231, 233, 235, 236–37, 239, 240–41, 243, 253–55, 262, 263, 280–81

Woolner, Christopher, 114

Woolner, Hugh, 111, 112–15, 211, 221, 231–32, 239, 243–45, 257

Wright, Marion, 128, 139

 

Young, Marie, 206, 221

Youssef, Gerios, 171–72

Yrois, Henriette, 136

 

Zakarian, Mapriedereder, 176

Zakarian, Ortin, 176

Zola, Émile, 22–23

About the Author

 

RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES is the acclaimed biographer of W. H. Auden and the Macmillan dynasty. He is also the author of
Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris
and
The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
. He is a regular contributor to the U.K. publications
Literary Review
, the
Sunday Telegraph
, the
Spectator
, and the
Times Literary Supplement.

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