Voyagers of the Titanic (42 page)

68. Alfred Mitchell-Innes, dispatch 128, May 1, 1912, NA FO 369/522.

69. Imanita Shelley, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 18.

70. “Mr. Wallace Hartley,”
Colne and Nelson Times,
May 24, 1912, 4.

71. “Funeral of Mr. Wallace Hartley,”
Colne and Nelson Times,
May 24, 1912, 7.

72. “Colonel Gracie Dies, Haunted by Titanic,”
New York Times,
December 5, 1912; Archibald Gracie,
The Truth About the Titanic
(1913), 250.

73. “Oh! The Crime of It!,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
April 20, 1912, 8.

Index

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Abbott, Eugene, 168–69, 248

Abbott, Rhoda, 168–69, 247–48, 249

Abbott, Rossmore, 168–69, 248

Abbott, Stanton, 168

Abelseth, Karen, 165, 214

Abelseth, Olaus “Ole,” 164–65, 213–14, 238, 249, 256, 295

Abi Saab, Shawnee “Shawneene,” 165–66

Abrahim/Abraham, Mary, 165

Adamic, Louis, 161

Adams, Henry, 267–68

Adriatic
(White Star Line), 38, 187, 188, 199, 301

Aks, Frank Philip “Filly,” 180

Aks, Leah, 179–80

Algerine
(White Star chartered ship): search for bodies by, 298

Allan Steamship line, 261

Allison, Lorraine, 290

Allison, Trevor, 283

American Ship Lines, 144

Amerika
(German liner), 52, 58, 108, 200, 201

Anderson, Harry, 98

Andersson, Erna, 159, 242

Andrew, Frank, 153–54

Andrews, Charles, 188

Andrews, Thomas, 50–52, 55, 61, 196, 208, 209

Appleton, Charlotte Lamson, 117, 242, 283

Aquitania
(Cunard ship), 33, 52, 53, 156

Arabic
(White Star Line), 38, 299

Armenians: as passengers on
Titanic,
24, 157, 170, 176–78.
See also
Eastern/Middle Europeans

Ash, Timothy Garton, 7

Ashburton, Lord, 277

Asplund, Carl, 160–61, 231

Asplund, Carl (son), 161, 231

Asplund, Felix, 161, 231

Asplund, Filip, 161, 231

Asplund, Gustaf, 161, 231

Asplund, Lillian, 156, 161, 231, 304, 305

Asplund, Selma, 161, 304, 305

Asquith, Elizabeth, 289

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 289

Asquith, Margot, 289

Asquith, Violet, 289–90

Assaf, Mariona, 172

Astor, Ava Willing, 84

Astor, Caroline, 272

Astor, John Jacob IV “Jack”: and activities on
Titanic,
110; appearance of, 17, 83–84; cars of, 28, 84; Cherbourg boarding of, 23; and claims against White Star Line, 300; contents of pockets of corpse of, 11–12; death of, 247, 265, 273, 278; dog of, 98, 241; heroism of, 270–71; lifestyle of, 84–85; loading of lifeboats and, 223–24, 240, 241, 245; marriages of, 84, 85–86; as New York City developer, 85; newspaper reports about, 265; personality of, 84; reactions to collision by, 212, 216–17; retinue of, 86; shipboard acquaintances of, 87; as slum landlord, 85; social class issues and, 83–84, 85–86, 243

Astor, Madeleine Force, 85–86, 87, 110, 216, 217, 239, 240, 258, 265, 283

Astor, Nancy, 278

Astor, Vincent, 272–73, 283

Atlantic Daily Bulletin
(
Titanic
magazine), 198

Atlantic Transport Company, 46, 47

Aubart, Léontine, 90, 232

Backström, Maria, 242

Baclini, Eugenie, 301

Baclini, Latifa, 166

Bacon, Robert, 75

Bailey, Percy, 149–51, 288

Baker, George, 113, 114

Balkic, Kerim, 157

Ball, Ada, 141

Ballin, Albert, 46, 52

Baltic
(White Star liner), 114, 186, 200, 201, 282

Banfield, Frederick, 152

bankers: public perceptions of, 32, 42

Barkworth, Algernon, 29, 250, 303

Barnes, Bertha, 111–12

Bateman, Robert, 141

Baumann, John, 81

Baxter, “Diamond Jim,” 78–79, 94

Baxter, Hélène, 78–79, 94, 227, 255, 295

Baxter, Quigg, 79, 227, 295

Bazzani, Albina, 110, 216

Beattie, Thomson, 300–301

Beauchamp, George, 208

Becker, Charles, 282

Becker, Luther, 142

Becker, Nellie, 142, 284

Becker, Richard, 142

Becker, Ruth, 284

Beckwith, Richard, 225–26

Beckwith, Sallie, 225–26

Beesley, Lawrence, 21, 24, 31, 135–36, 137, 138, 211, 236, 247, 303

Behr, Karl, 226

Belknap, Troy, 95–96, 97

Bell, Gertrude, 171

Belmont, Oliver, 84–85

Bennett, Arnold, 122–23, 167, 189, 278

Bennett, Sir Courtenay, 277

Bentham, Lillian, 147

Berenson, Bernard, 16, 76–77, 94–95

Berlin
(Norddeutscher-Lloyd ship), 99

Berriman, William, 151

Berriman’s Hotel (Southampton, England), 148

Bertram, John, 177

Bidois, Rosalie, 86

binoculars, lack of, 184

Bird, Ellen, 91, 232

Birnbaum, Jakob, 81, 92

Bishop, Dickinson, 29, 86, 212, 224–25, 293

Bishop, Helen, 86, 97–98, 225

Bishop, Walter, 208, 275

Bismarck
(Hamburg-Amerika ship), 33

Bisset, James, 65, 190, 256

Björnström-Steffansson, Mauritz Håkan, 111, 112, 211, 243–45, 275, 300

“black gang”: of
Titanic,
18–19.
See
also
specific person

Black (
Titanic
crewman), 19

Blair, David, 184

Blake, John, 148

Blake, Sid, 148, 274, 287–88

Blank, Henry, 82, 210, 224

Blue Anchor Line, 63

Blue Riband, 13, 38, 53

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 279

Board of Trade, British, 57, 58–59, 69, 182–83.
See also
Mersey, Lord

bodies: search for, 297–99, 301

Boldt, George, 274

Borah, Hannah Assi.
See
Hannah, Borak

Borghese, Scipione, 27

Botsford, Hull, 123, 133

Bourke, John, 174–75, 237

Bourke, Kate McHugh, 174–75, 237–38

Bourke, Mary, 174, 237–38

Bournemouth beach (England): sand models on, 291–92

Bowerman, Edith, 227

Bowerman, Elsie, 107–8, 227

Boxhall, Joseph (officer), 201, 208, 228, 302

Bradley, “Boy”.
See
Brereton, George

Brandeis, Emil, 23

Brayton, George.
See
Brereton, George

Brereton, George (aka “Boy” Bradley and George Brayton), 82, 306

Brewe, Arthur Jackson, 111, 268

Brewer (
Titanic
trimmer), 18–19

Bricoux, Roger, 292

Bride, Harold (Marconi operator), 199–200, 201, 209

Bright, Arthur (quartermaster), 185, 242

Britannic
(White Star Line), 33, 38, 47, 53, 129

British Shipbuilders, 36
n

Brown, Caroline Lamson, 117, 242, 283

Brown, Edward, 246

Brown, J. J., 87–88, 89

Brown, Margaret, 15, 23, 87–89, 110–11, 216, 225, 227, 255, 300

Büchel (Swiss agent), 180, 181, 237

Buckley, Daniel, 218, 221, 237

Bucknell, Emma, 110–11, 212, 215–16, 230, 253–54

Bulgarians: as
Titanic
passengers, 175–76, 304.
See also
Eastern/Middle Europeans

Burbidge, Catherine, 80

Burns, Sir John, 40, 47

Butt, Archie, 79, 99–102, 118, 210, 221, 243, 245, 266–67, 276

Butt-Millet Fountain (Washington, D.C.), 99

Byles, Thomas, 137–38, 142, 250

Caldwell, Albert, 142–43, 236

Caldwell, Alden Gates, 143

Caldwell, Sylvia Harbaugh, 143, 212, 236

Californian
(Leyland ship), 201, 209, 213, 253, 256, 265, 295, 296

Calik, Jovo, 181

Calik, Peter, 181

Cameron, James, 10

Canada: Armenians in, 177; Berenson comment about, 94–95; Hays empire in, 92–94.
See also
Hays, Charles M.

Canavan, Mary, 175

Canavan, Pat, 174

Candee, Helen Churchill, 111, 112, 221, 227, 243, 255–56

Carbines, William, 151

Cardeza, Charlotte Drake, 23, 24, 78, 228, 268, 300