Voyagers of the Titanic (45 page)

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Hyman, Abraham, 238

“ice blink,” 4, 66

iceberg(s): destruction of, 3; from Iceland, 2, 3–5; impact of
Titanic
hitting, 207–18; International Ice Patrol and, 297; ramming vs. sideswiping of, 207; rescue of
Titanic
passengers and, 257; sailors’ anxiety about collisions with, 66, 69; Sargasso Sea and, 307; splitting of, 5;
Titanic
lookout sighting of, 206–7; visibility of, 202; Wells analogy of urban poor and, 9.
See also
Jakobshavn Glacier

Iceland: icebergs from, 2, 3–5

immigrants/migrants: and
Carpathia
arrival in New York City, 283; Cherbourg boarding of
Titanic
by, 23–24; contempt for, 29; couriers for groups of, 164–65, 180–81, 237; German shipping lines and, 40; and iceberg as metaphor, 9; loading and launching of lifeboats and, 243–44; social class/race issues and, 10–11, 29–31, 81; Southampton as port for, 13, 18; as survivors, 276; as third-class passengers, 157–59, 162–66, 168–81; White Star Line expansion and, 37.
See also
Eastern/Middle Europeans;
specific
person

Immigration Commission, U.S., 158, 222

Imperator
(Hamburg-Amerika ship), 33, 53, 301

Inman Ship Lines, 52

International Ice Patrol, 297

International Mercantile Marine (IMM), 36, 45-49, 91, 95, 128, 259, 261, 264, 269.
See also
specific person

Inverchapel, Lord, 100

Inverclyde, Lord.
See
Burns, Sir John

Ionic
(White Star ship), 38

Ireland: reactions to sinking of
Titanic
in, 263–64; third-class passengers from, 173–75.
See also
specific person

Irving, Washington, 73–74

Isaacs, Godfrey, 198

Isaacs, Harry, 198

Isaacs, Rufus, 198, 296

Isham, Ann, 97

Isle of Wight, 12–13, 21–22

Ismay, Bruce: appearance of, 39, 40; and blame for sinking of
Titanic,
265–66, 280; and cause of sinking of
Titanic,
297; as chairman of White Star Line, 48; Cunard competition and, 33; English views about, 303; “friends” of, 83; as IMM director and president, 47, 48; and impact of
Titanic
hitting iceberg, 208; in lifeboat, 239, 244, 247, 266, 297, 302; and lifeboat provisions, 57; Mersey investigation and, 297; Morgan and, 46; Olympic class liner proposal of, 33–34, 47; on
Olympic
maiden voyage, 55–56; and peerages, 40; personal and professional background of, 39–40; personality of, 39; power of, 34; reputation of, 40, 239, 290; rescue of, 258; Sanderson recruited by, 183; and sinking of
Titanic,
247; at Spithead Naval Review, 39; Thayers as acquaintances of, 119; U.S. Senate inquiry and, 293, 294, 295; warnings about weather conditions and, 201

Ismay, Thomas, 37, 38–39, 40

Jakobshavn Glacier, 2, 3

Jakobshavn, Greenland: description of, 2–3

Jalševic, Ivan, 181

James, Henry, 21–22, 77, 98

James, William, 155

Jansson, Carl, 178

Jarvis, Denzil, 123–24, 133

Jarvis, Wellesley, 123–24

Jenkin, Stephen, 151

Jermyn, Annie, 242

Jessop, Violet, 53–54, 79–80, 83, 125, 193–94, 196, 197, 237

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 140

Jews, 30, 31, 81–82, 91–92, 139, 178–80, 232–33.
See also
specific
person or family

Jiang Zemin, 10

Johnson, James, 207

Jones, Thomas (
Titanic
seaman), 230, 253–54

Joseph, Catherine, 165, 269

Joughin, Charles, 231, 250

July, Serge, 10

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosser
(Norddeutscher-Lloyd ship), 13, 197, 282

Kaiser Wilhelm II
(Norddeutscher-Lloyd ship), 13

Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
(Hamburg-Amerika ship), 52, 58

Kantor, Sinai, 169

“Karain” (Conrad), 15

Karajic, Milan, 181

Karun, Franz, 161, 181, 237

Karun, Manca, 161, 237

Katavelas, Vassilios, 12, 23–24

Keane, Nora, 130

Keeping, Edwin, 96

Kekic, Tido, 157

Kelly, Annie, 173–74, 175, 237

Kelly, Mary, 242

Kent, Edward, 111

Kerr, Archie Clark, 100.
See also
Inverchapel, Lord

Kerr, Lord Alistair, 55

Kimball, Edwin, 226

Kimball, Gertrude, 226

Kinsella, Leonard, 19

Kipling, Rudyard, 52

Kirkland, Charles, 140–41

Kleber, Herman, 81

Krikorian, Neshan, 156, 177, 303

Krin, Georges, 292

Kronprinz Wilhelm
(Norddeutscher-Lloyd ship), 13, 200

Kroonland
(Red Star ship), 259, 260

Kurunfuleh (Lebanese woman), 171

Kylsant, Lord, 49

La Provence
(French ship), 58

La Touraine
(ship): weather warning to
Titanic
from, 200, 201

Labrador Current, 3, 306–7

Lacey, Polesden, 17

Lafargue, Juliette, 129

Lahtinen, Anna, 141–42

Lahtinen, William, 141–42

Lambert, William, 275

Lamson sisters, 117.
See also
specific sister

Laroche family, 233

Laroche, Joseph, 129

Larsson-Ronsberg, Edvard, 165

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 93

Le Matin
newspaper, 264, 292

Lebanese League of Progress, 276

Lebanon:
Titanic
passengers from, 24, 157, 165–66, 170–72, 238, 242, 243, 276, 301.
See also
Hardin, Lebanon;
specific person

Lee, Reginald, 202, 206, 207

Leeni, Fahim, 227, 244

Lehmann, Bertha, 145

Leveson-Gower, Lady Rosemary, 55

Lewis, Sinclair, 71–72, 167

Leyland, Frederick, 45, 46, 47

Leyland Line, 45, 46, 47, 201

lifeboats: Board of Trade regulations concerning, 57–59, 182–83; drills for, 188; fears concerning, 67, 219–20, 225;
Oceana
collision and, 67, 219; on
Olympic,
219; revision of regulations concerning, 297; testing of, 182–83, 219

lifeboats,
Titanic
: Board of Trade regulations concerning, 57–59; crew members in, 226, 228, 230, 232, 236, 237; and deception of passengers by officers and crew, 213; dogs in, 98
n
; drills for, 188; first-class passengers and, 223–26; and initial reaction to collision, 210, 212, 218; loading and launching of, 214–15, 218–31, 296, 297; men/boys in, 220, 224–25, 228–29, 230, 236–37, 239–45, 248–49, 254–55, 262, 281; number of, 209–10, 218–19, 222, 228, 233, 258, 261, 266; as partially filled, 210, 213, 229, 232, 233, 241, 244, 297; passengers refusal to enter, 210; readying of, 209–10, 212; rowers in, 253–55; social class tensions in, 254–56; third-class passengers and, 222–24; views about crewmen in charge of, 258; and women and children first, 220, 223, 224, 227–28, 230, 231, 233, 235, 236–37, 239, 240–41, 243, 253–55, 262, 263, 280–81

Lightoller, Charles Herbert (
Titanic
officer): admiration for Smith by, 188; concerns about speed of ships by, 68; deception of passengers about collision by, 213; initial reaction to collision by, 212; initial tour of
Titanic
by, 182; jumps overboard, 249–50, 251; lifeboat fears of, 219; lifeboat testing and, 183; loading and launching of lifeboats and, 220, 221, 228, 230, 236, 237, 239, 240, 241, 244–45, 246, 304; memories of, 303; and night of collision, 206; post-sinking treatment of, 302; promotion for, 184; recollections of voyages by, 64–65, 66–67; stowaway and, 227; as survivor, 250; U.S. Senate inquiry and, 294, 295; warnings about weather conditions and, 201, 202