1. Titanic April 15, 1912 Lives Lived Lives Lost
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2. When the Titanic sank on
April 15, 1912 there were
2,224 people on board.
710 survived
1,514 died

3. Lives Lived Lives Lost
Women and children were given priority for entering the lifeboats but class also played a role in who survived.
Individuals on the Titanic: 2,224
survived:
died: 1,514
Men: total: 1,690
survived:
died: 1,352
Women: total:
survived:
died: 109
Children: total: 109
survived:
died:
Numbers from Wikipedia,
Extracted from Mersey, Lord (1999) [1912]. The Loss of the Titanic, The Stationary Office. ISBN 

4. Lives LIved The “Titanic Orphans”
56 children survived, including brothers Michel (age 4) and Edmond Navratil (age 2).
The “Titanic Orphans”
Michel and Edmond were children of Marcelle and Michel Navratil and living with their mother after their parents separated. Unbeknownst to their mother their father took them with him on the Titanic. Michel Navratil boarded the ship as a second class passenger under the assumed name Louis Hoffman and identified the children as Lolo and Mamon. He perished in the disaster.
They were reunited with their mother on May 16 after she recognized their photograph in a newspaper article about the “Titanic orphans”.
Edmond became an architect and builder. He died in 1953.
Michel became a professor of psychology. He died in 2001, the last male survivor of the disaster.
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5. Lives Lost 52 children (of 79) in 3rd class perished.
Only 1 child (of 30) in 1st and 2nd class died.
One of the first bodies recovered was that of a male child estimated as 2 years old, “probably third class”, dressed in “a grey coat with fur on collar and cuffs; brown serge frock; petticoat; flannel garment; pink woolen singlet - brown shoes and stockings”.
When no family member claimed the body the “unknown child” was buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax. In 2007 researchers announced DNA testing proved the child to be Sidney Goodwin from England.
Sidney Leslie Goodwin was 19 months old when he died along with his parents Frederic and Augusta and his siblings Lillian (16), Charles (14), William (11), Jessie (10), and Harold (9).
Sidney Goodwin photo from family collection, unknown photographer
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Ruffman, A., & Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. (1999). Titanic remembered: The unsinkable ship and Halifax. Halifax, N.S: Formac.

6. Lives Lived
Mary Eloise (Hughes) Smith was 18 years old. She had married Lucien P. Smith, 24, in February They were on their way home from their honeymoon. Lucien Smith did not survive the sinking.
Mary Eloise Smith gave birth to a baby boy, Lucien P. Smith II, in December 1912.
Robert W. Daniel , 27, a Philadelphia banker, jumped from the Titanic wearing only his bathrobe, which he lost in the ocean. He was pulled naked into a lifeboat and , apparently, met or was reacquainted with Mary Eloise among the survivors on the Carpathian.
Mary Eloise Smith and Robert Daniel were married in 1914.
They divorced in They each had two more marriages.
Both Mary Eloise Smith and Robert Daniel died in 1940.
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Mary Eloise Smith image Bisbee Daily review (Bisbee, Ariz)
Robert Daniel image The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia: Chronicling America

7. Lives Lost
Hudson “Hud” Allison, 30, and his wife Bess, 25, from Montreal were travelling with their two young children, Lorraine (almost 3 years old) and son Trevor (11 months). They were accompanied by a nurse Alice Cleaver , 22, who shared a suite with Trevor.
The Allison’s were in Britain so Hud could attend a directors meeting of the British Canadian Lumber Corporation. They also purchased horses for their Allison Stock Farm.
When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Alice Cleaver took Trevor and left with him on a lifeboat. Bess and Lorraine were placed in another lifeboat but Bess refused to stay and returned to the ship with Lorraine. Depending on the version Bess either refused to go without her husband or because she did not realize that Trevor was safe until too late. Hud, Bess and Lorraine all died. Lorraine was the only child from 1st and 2nd class who did not survive.
Lives Lived
Trevor Allison was raised by his uncle and aunt but, unfortunately, died at 18 from ptomaine poisoning. Alice Cleaver returned to England, married and had 2 children. She died in 1984.
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Trevor Allison &
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8. Lives Lived
Eugene Daly was a 29 year old weaver and mechanic from Ireland on his way to New York. He was travelling with two women, one possibly his cousin. A 3rd class passenger, the steerage passengers were well entertained by his bagpipe playing accompanied by “a great deal of dancing and singing”.
He was one of the last survivors off the ship. His story differed from the heroic tales told of the sinking. He told of the panic on the ship in the last moments, how the 3rd class passengers were held in steerage while the water rose, how they could not get through the crush in the stairwells when finally allowed up to the top decks, and how men were gunned down to stop them from rushing the lifeboats. Daly jumped into the sea and managed to cling to an overturned raft until rescue.
Eugene Daly settled in the United States, married and had one child, a daughter. He died in 1965.
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9. Lives lost
Joseph Dawson was a 23 year old from Dublin, Ireland. He signed on the Titanic as a coal trimmer.
The worst paid job on engineering crew of the ship, trimmers worked inside the coal bunkers shoveling coal down chutes to the firemen below who would shovel it into the furnace. Trimmers also had move and shift the coal around so the load remained level and didn’t unbalance the ship.
54 of the 73 trimmers on the Titanic died in the disaster.
Joseph Dawson’s body was recovered and brought to Halifax where he was buried in the Fairview cemetery.
After the 1997 movie Titanic was released movie fans brought flowers and mementoes to Joseph Dawson’s grave mistakenly believing he was the inspiration for Jack Dawson. Director James Cameron said he did not know of Joseph Dawson before the movie.
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10. Lives Lived
Jean Gertrude Hippach, 16, from Chicago was a first class passenger on the Titanic. She and her mother, Ida Sophia Hippach, 44, were returning from a tour of Europe. They had already been through a recent tragedy. Jean’s two brothers had died in the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903.
Jean slept through the bump when the Titanic struck the iceberg, waking only because of the roar of the steam in the funnels. When Jean and her mother went on deck they didn’t get on the early lifeboats because they felt it was safer on the ship. John Jacob Astor, who died in the sinking, finally convinced them to enter a lifeboat.
Ida Hippach lost a third child in 1914 when her 19 year old son died in a car accident. Ida died in 1940.
Jean Hippach married J. Unander-Scharin, whom she later divorced. She had 3 children. She died in 1974.
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11. Lives Lost
Thomas Andrews Jr., 39, was an architect and shipbuilder with Harland & Wolff, and managing director in charge of design for the Titanic. Thomas wanted more lifeboats and a double hull on the Titanic but was overruled. Leaving his family behind he travelled on the Titanic to assess the ships performance.
At the time the ship stuck the iceberg Thomas was in his cabin making notes on improvements he would make to the ship and didn’t notice the bump. Captain Smith asked Thomas to examine the damage to the ship with him. Thomas concluded that the ship was going to sink within an hour or two.
By all accounts, Andrews spent his last hours encouraging passengers into lifebelts and lifeboats. He was last seen staring into space in the 1st class smoking room, not wearing his lifejacket.
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12. Want more on the Titanic?
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Books in the St. Francis Xavier University Library
Brown, Richard G. B. Voyage of the Iceberg: The Story of the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic. Toronto: J. Lorimer, Call number: G 530 T6 B76
Davie, Michael. The Titanic: The Full Story of a Tragedy. London: Bodley Head, Call number: G 530 T6 D38
Everett, Marshall. Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic: The Ocean's Greatest Disaster. S.l.: L.H. Walter, Call number: VK 1255 T5 W
Marshall, Logan. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters: Constructed from the Real Facts As Obtained from Those on Board Who Survived ... Including ... Descriptions of the Development of Safety and Life-Saving Appliances. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co, Call number: G 530 T6 S5
Padfield, Peter. The Titanic and the Californian. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Call number: G 50 T6 P3
Ruffman, Alan. Titanic Remembered: The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax. Halifax, N.S: Formac, E-Book
Wilcox, Rabia C. Under the Titanic. Ottawa: Baico, Call number G 530 T6 W
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