Volume 14 , Issue 16

100 Years Ago Today - April 16, 1912

It was one hundred years ago today, on a Tuesday, 16 April 1912, in which the infamous Giant White Star Liner (RMS Titanic) sank after a collision with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, which began 10 April 1912. 1,800 lives were reported lost with this World's greatest marine disaster.

Only 675 aboard were known to have escaped an icy death in the ocean. Besides some of the wealthy passengers aboard the Titanic on 16 April 1912, there was over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. Were your ancestors some of the survivors of the Titanic?

The Times Dispatch, dated 16 April 1912, Tuesday, reported this marine disaster one hundred years ago today. The list given out that day showed 1,310 passengers and a crew of 860, or or 2,170 persons in total on the ship Titanic. There was a loss of 1,495 persons on 16 April 1912. It was reported that the Titanic sank four hours after her death blow with an iceberg. The mammoth White Star Line steamer Titanic was bound from Liverpool to New York on her maiden voyage. The Titanic went to the bottom off the Newfoundland Banks.

Of the approximately 2,200 persons on board the giant liner, some of them of world wide prominence, with only 675 known to have been saved. Nearest approaching the magnitude of marine disasters was the steamer Atlantic, in 1873, when 574 lives were lost, and to La Bourgogne, in 1808, with a fatality list of 571.

Many vessels were in wireless communication with the Titanic. She was in direct wireless touch with thirteen passenger carrying steamships bound east and seven bound sweet, besides those that went to her help. Among the eastbound craft that were close enough to the Titanic to get her call for help were the Hamburg-American liner Amerika, for Hamburg; the Oceania, of the la Veloce Line, for the Mediterranean; the Hamburg-American liner Pennsylvania, for Hamburg; the North German-Lloyd liner Berlin, for the Mediterranean; the Red Star liner Vaderlan, for Antwerp; the North German-Lloyd liner Prinz Freidrich Wilhelm, for Bremen; the Fabre liner Germania, for Marseilles, and the Anchor liner Calabria, for the Mediterranean.

The Cunarder Carpathia and the Virginian reached the Titanic position at daybreak, finding boats and wreckage only. The Titanic sank about 2:20 A.M. in 41.16 north, 50.14 west. The Titanic lies at the bottom of the sea just South of the Grand Banks of New Foundland and 600 miles southeast of Halifax. All her boats were accounted for, containing about 675 souls saved, crew and passengers included. nearly all saved were women and children.

People of Prominence On Board

The Titanic carried notable passengers of prominence throughout the world. There were 325 first cabin passengers; 285 second cabin and 730 third cabin passengers. Madeleine Force, daughter of William H. Force, married Colonel John Jacob Astor, was on board with Colonel Astor. These were only some of the first-class passenger list of persons who were on the Titanic that day, 16 April 1912. Click Link for more names not mentioned here:

1. Benjamin Guggenheim, married daughter of Joseph Seligman, the banker
2. Major Archibald Butt (son of C. R. Guggenehim), President Taft's aid, who had been in Rome
3. W. T. Stead, English journalist
4. George D. Widener
5. Henry Sleeper Harper
6. Washington Dodge and wife
7. Jacques Futrelle and wife
8. Washington Roebling II
9. Dr. Henry Frauerrthal
10. Clarence Moore
11. Henry B. Harris
12. Col. Archibald Gracie
13. Col. John Jacob Astor, wife, manservant and maid
14. Robert Chisholm
15. Mrs. Ida Huppuch
16. Miss Jean Huppuch
17. J. Clinch Smith
18. Isidor Straus
19. Miss E. W. Allen
20. H. J. Allison, wife, daughter, son, maid and nurse
21. Harry Anderson
22. Miss Cornella I. Andrews
23. Thomas Andrews
24. Mrs. E. D. Appleton
25. Raymond Artaga-Veytia
26. Mrs. N. Auhert and maid
27. O. H. Barkworth
28. J. Baumann
29. Mrs. J. S. Baxter
30. Quigg Baxter
31. T. Beattle
32. R. L. Beckwith and wife
33. K. H. Behr
34. D. H. Bishop and wife
35. H. Bjornstrom
36. Steven W. Blackwell
37. Henry Blank
38. Miss Caroline Bonnell
39. J. J. Borebank
40. Miss Bowen
41. Elsie Bowerman
42. John B. Brady
43. E. Brandeis
44. George Brayton
45. Dr. Arthur Jackson Brew
46. Mrs. J. J. "Unsinkable Mollie" Brown

-- The Evening World had the following report of those saved from the Titanic that the White Star line gave out early this afternoon official lists of the survivors in both first and second cabins. Inaccuracies in names which resulted from transmission by wireless had been corrected, but many were still in doubt.

Besides some of the wealthy passengers aboard the Titanic, 16 April 1912, there was over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. Were your ancestors some of the survivors of the Titanic? We found this website Share Your Family's Titanic History with those memories of their legacy and recollections from families whose lives were linked to the Titanic steamer that sank 100 years ago.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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