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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
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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