There were 128 children aboard the ship, 67 of which were saved. The youngest Titanic survivor was just two months old; her name was Millvina Dean (UK, b. 2 February 1912), and she wasn't even supposed to be on board, nor were her family.
Lillian died in her home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, on May 6, 2006, at the age of 99. She was buried at the Old Swedish Cemetery in Worcester, alongside her father, mother, and brother. Her death left Barbara West Dainton and Millvina Dean as the last two living survivors of the Titanic.
Around 109 children were onboard when the titanic sank. And about half of the number, around 59 to 60 children, died. Only one child travelling in first class died. The others were children of third-class passengers.
Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 – 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard.
Two-year-old Loraine Allison is believed to have been the only child from first or second class who died during the sinking of the Titanic. She was traveling aboard the luxury liner with her parents, Hudson, a Canadian entrepreneur, and Bess, her seven-month-old brother Trevor, and an entourage of servants.
A toddler who died when the Titanic sank and whose identity remained a mystery for almost a century will be the subject of a documentary airing later this month on the Smithsonian Channel. Sidney Leslie Goodwin was only 19 months old when he boarded the ill-fated luxury liner with his parents and five older siblings.
Many vessels kept cats to keep mice and rats away. Apparently the ship even had an official cat, named Jenny. Neither Jenny, nor any of her feline friends, survived.
Of the casualties from the actual sinking, the most famous – and richest – was probably John Jacob Astor IV, a German-American millionaire who had made his fortune in real estate and was the great grandson of John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
Three small dogs, two Pomeranians and a Pekingese, survived the Titanic disaster cradled in their owners' arms as they climbed into lifeboats.
The short answer is no – Jack and Rose were not real people on board the Titanic, but fictional characters created especially for the film by James Cameron. The inspiration for Rose was actually an American artist who had nothing to do with the story of the Titanic sinking: Beatrice Wood.
Unwilling to risk her safety, Jack stays in the water, clinging to the raft's edge, and slowly freezes to death. Rose is rescued.
Joughin proceeded to tread water for about two hours before encountering a lifeboat, and eventually being rescued by the RMS Carpathia. He is believed to be the very last survivor to leave the ship, and he claimed that his head barely even got wet. When he was rescued his only medical complaint was swollen feet.
Dorothy Gibson (born Dorothy Winifred Brown; May 17, 1889 – February 17, 1946) was an American actress, socialite and artist's model, active in the early 20th century. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic and for starring in the first motion picture based on the disaster.
On today's date in 1912, the body of James McGrady, a saloon steward aboard the RMS Titanic, was interred in Halifax, N.S., where he's buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery. Recovered in the preceding weeks, McGrady's body was the last body recovered from the tragic sinking that took place about two months prior.
Titanic, in full Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 (see Researcher's Note: Titanic) passengers and ship personnel.
Though the death of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) is often regarded as the saddest in Titanic, u/BuachEtiveMor found the deaths of the other nameless passengers to be much sadder. Especially the third-class passengers, who had no chance of escaping the sinking ship at all.
The average lifespan of an iceberg in the North Atlantic typically is two to three years from calving to melting. This means the iceberg that sank the Titanic "likely broke off from Greenland in 1910 or 1911, and was gone forever by the end of 1912 or sometime in 1913."
Were there horses aboard the Titanic? That's still a mystery. Some sources say there were polo ponies aboard, and there's an unverified story about a German racehorse who had a private paddock on C deck.
They included dogs, cats, chickens, other birds and an unknown number of rats. Three of the twelve dogs on the Titanic survived; all other animals perished.
A third-class ticket on the Titanic cost £7 ($35 at the time), the equivalent of around £852 in today's money ($1,071). That price did include food as well as the accommodation cost. Titanic's third class was considered to be as good as second class on similar ships of the time.
Alice Catherine Cleaver (1889-1984) was a survivor of the RMS Titanic and nursemaid for the Allison family, wealthy insurance moguls from Canada during the early 20th century. She is best known for rescuing the youngest Allison child, Trevor, from the Titanic.
Originally like its sister ships, Britannic, was designed to be an Atlantic liner but with the First World War and the urgent need for hospital ships, it was converted for service in the Mediterranean.
Several witnesses claimed to have seen him in the water. In an account attributed to Titanic fireman Harry Senior, Smith jumped off the ship with “an infant clutched tenderly in his arms,” swam to a nearby lifeboat, handed off the child and swam back toward the Titanic, saying, “I will follow the ship.”