Titanic Survivors Tales Highlight Guggenheim Lifeboat Aid
Passengers who perished with the Titanic faced the disaster with stoic resolve as Benjamin Guggenheim and others helped women into lifeboats and restrained crowding. The narrative recalls how some men acted to forestall a calamitous outcome after abandoning ship.
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Benjamin Guggenheim
Gretchen Longley
Longley
Hudson, N. Y
Corinne Andrews
J. C. Hogeboon
Key
Carpathia
Newfoundland
C. E. Henry Stengel
Newark
Titanic Survivor Describes Night of Sinking and Rescue
Robert W. Daniel of Philadelphia, among the first survivors leaving the Carpathia, recounts the Titanic disaster. He details chaos at the moment of collision, heroism of Capt. Smith, lifeboat evacuations, freezing seas, and a harrowing five hours in icy waters before rescue by the Carpathia.
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Carpathia
Robert W. Daniel
Philadelphia
Daniel
Lucien T. Smith
Congressman Hughes
West Virginia
Smith
Mr. Daniel
Bruce Ismay
Capt. Smith
John Jacob Astor
Mrs. Astor
Stoker
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
New York
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