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6 unusual facts about Edith Haisman


Edith Haisman

Edith remembered clearly when RMS Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on 14 April 1912.

Titanic's hold contained tableware, furnishings, and 1,000 rolls of bed linen for the intended hotel.

Edith's last memory of her father was that he was dressed in an Edwardian dinner jacket while smoking a cigar and sipping brandy on Titanic's deck as Edith and her mother were being lowered in the lifeboat.

Edith was 15 years old when she and her parents boarded the RMS Titanic in Southampton, England as second-class passengers.

On 15 April 1995, Edith was present with fellow Titanic survivor, Eva Hart, aged 90, at the opening of a memorial garden at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London where a granite monument commemorating the 83rd anniversary of Titanic's sinking was erected.

Edith Haisman (27 October 1896 – 20 January 1997) was one of the last remaining and oldest survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912.



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