Voyagers of the Titanic (47 page)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
Titanic
passengers and families from, 268–69, 275, 287

Phillips, Alice, 130

Phillips, John “Jack” (
Titanic
Marconi operator), 199–200, 201, 209, 289, 291

Phillips, Kate, 146

Phillips, Robert, 130, 217

Pinchot, Gifford, 112

Pinchot, Mary Eno, 112

Pinewood Studios, 303

Pirrie, Lord: charity of, 53; financial affairs of, 29; IMM and, 47, 49; Ismay proposal to build Olympic class liners and, 33–34, 47; Kylsant as successor to, 49; as L&SWR director, 13; learns about sinking of
Titanic,
264; and lifeboat provisions, 57; management style of, 34, 35–36, 51; Morgan and, 46; patriotism of, 46; perceptions of, 36–37; personal and professional background of, 29, 34–35; personality of, 34; power and reputation of, 33–34, 36; Stead profile of, 36; as White Star director, 46

Pitman, Herbert (
Titanic
officer), 63, 201, 207, 253, 295, 302

Podesta, John, 18, 19

Poingdestre, John, 185, 205, 222, 271

Polk, Anderson, 275

Portaluppi, Emilio, 300

Post, Emily, 87, 115–16, 118–19, 195

postal clerks,
Titanic,
184, 192–93, 212, 226

Powell, Dawn, 116

property claims, 300

Quaritch, Bernard, 96–97

Queenstown: departure of, 31, 188; safety measures on, 56–59; second-class passengers on, 120–54; secrecy about sinking of, 260; sinking of, 242–44, 246–48, 251; size of, 14; Smith damage inspection of, 208–9; Southampton departure of, 20–21, 136, 137; speed of, 188, 200–201, 202, 206–7, 212, 294, 296, 297; stores needed by, 185–86; testing of, 188; third-class passengers on, 155–81; weather warnings sent to, 200–202, 297; White Star–L&SWR relationship and, 13; as world’s worst peacetime disaster, 301

Queenstown, Ireland: passenger letters mailed from, 98, 103–4, 131–32, 134, 150–51, 195; passengers embarking at, 141, 156; as port for White Star Atlantic routes, 13;
Titanic
departure from, 31, 188

Quimby, Harriet, 27

Quinn, John, 15, 16

Rayner, Isidor, 266

Red Star Line, 259

refugees, political/religious: as passengers on
Titanic,
24, 178

religion, 26, 157.
See also
clergy;
specific person

Richards, Emily, 149, 288

Richards, George, 149

Richards, Sib, 274

Richards, William, 149

Ritz, César, 52

“Ritzonia,” 76–77

Robbins, Victor, 86

Robinson, Annie, 305

Roebling, Washington II, 29, 221, 223–24

Rogers, Harry, 121–22

Romaine, Charles, 82

Roosevelt, Theodore, 101, 266–67

Rosenshine, George (aka George Thorne), 81, 90–91, 92, 242

Rosenthal, Herman, 282

Rostron, Arthur, 59, 64, 68, 157–58, 256–58

Rothes, Lady, 253, 274

Rothes, Lord, 274

Rothschild, Elizabeth, 97

Rothschild, Martin, 23, 81

Rothschild family, 43, 91, 98
n

Rotterdam
(Holland-Amerika ship), 58

Royal Mail Packet Line, 193

Rule, Samuel, 220, 252

Rush, Alfred, 163, 238

Ryan, Edward, 235–36

Ryerson, Arthur, 116–17, 240, 241

Ryerson, Emily, 116, 201, 208, 240, 241

Ryerson, John, 116, 240, 241, 245, 304–5

Ryerson, Suzette, 116

Saalfeld, Adolphe, 81

Sage, Annie, 163, 164

Sage, John, 163, 164

Sage, Will, 170

Sägesser, Emma, 90, 232

Saint Paul’s Cathedral (London):
Titanic
memorial service in, 288–89

Salkjelsvik, Anna, 165, 214

Salomon, Abram Lincoln, 81, 92, 229

Salz, Herr, 260

Sandburg, Carl, 31, 161

Sanderson, Basil, 40

Sanderson, Harold, 57, 183

Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 15

Sargasso Sea, 306–7

Scarrott, Joseph, 185, 233, 257

second-class passengers, 120–54; clergy/religious people as, 137–44; deaths of, 290; demarcation between classes and, 122–23; from Hampshire, Guernsey, and Cornwall, 146–54; loading and launching of lifeboats and, 233; lower echelons of, 132–33; recovery of bodies of, 298; rescue of, 257; stewards assigned to, 185; as survivors, 290;
Titanic
musicians as, 185.
See also
specific person

Senate, U.S.: and Duff Gordon rescue, 229; Ismay condemnation in, 266; McCumber comments about speed to, 280;
Titanic
inquiry by, 59, 126, 243, 293–96

Senior, Henry, 250

Seward, Frederic, 225

Shaw (
Titanic
stoker), 18–19

Shelley, Imanita, 126–28, 217–18, 295

shipboard acquaintances, 115–16

Shutes, Elizabeth, 206, 221–22

Silverthorne, Spencer, 211

Simpson, John, 127

Sincock, Maud “Maudie,” 151–52

Sirayanian, Orsen, 177

Sivic, Husein, 157

Sjöstedt, Ernst, 124

Skoog, Anna, 164

Skoog, William, 164

Slade, Alfred, 18–19

Slade, Bertram, 18–19

Slade, Tom, 18–19

Sloper, William, 225

Smith, Bertha Barnes, 111–12

Smith, Edward (Captain): activities as captain of, 188; admiration for, 188; Astors’ conversations with, 217; and blame for sinking of
Titanic,
265, 297; and cause of sinking of
Titanic,
296–97; concerns about weather conditions of, 206; damage inspection tour by, 208–9, 214; death of, 246–47; and hierarchy of
Titanic
command, 184; and impact of
Titanic
hitting iceberg, 208; and instructions to row to
Californian,
253, 254; as legend, 291; lifeboat orders of, 209–10, 220, 227, 239, 253, 254; Mersey investigation and, 297; and passenger grievances, 127; personal and professional background of, 186–87; personality of, 187, 256; rebuking of crew members by, 230; retirement plans of, 187; salary of, 187; social class issues and, 222; speed of
Titanic
and, 200–201, 265, 266; stories of survivors about, 295; testing of
Titanic
by, 188; U.S. Senate inquiry and, 294; warnings about weather conditions and, 200, 201–2, 297; at Widener party, 118, 202, 206

Smith, Eloise, 206, 210, 227–28, 255

Smith, James Clinch, 111–12, 245

Smith, Lucien P., 86, 210, 227–28

Smith, William Alden, 293–96

Snyder, John P., 86, 224–25

Sobey, Samuel, 152

social class/race issues: appearance and, 17–18; and blacks on ocean liners, 129; contempt and, 29–30; demarcation/stratification among passengers and, 10–12, 83–86, 88, 91, 122–23; design of liners and, 61; Eastern/Middle Europeans and, 157–59; Franklin press statements and, 262; immigrants/migrants and, 29–31; inquiries into sinking of
Titanic
and, 296; lifeboat tensions and, 254–56; money as differentiation in, 10–12;
Oceana
collision and, 67; recovery of bodies and, 298; rescues from
Titanic
collision and, 243; speed and, 27–29; survivors and, 290–91;
Titanic
deaths and, 290–91;
Titanic
as metaphor for, 10; and
Titanic
sinking as vindication of heroism of Anglo-Saxons, 280; U.S. immigration laws and, 11; White Star Line and, 12, 38, 40, 41; and “women and children first,” 280.
See also
first-class passengers; second-class passengers; third-class passengers

Soholt, Peter, 165, 214, 238, 256

South African War, 39, 277

Southampton Dock Company, 12

Southampton, England: German steamships at, 13; as port, 9; reaction to sinking of
Titanic
in, 270–72, 293;
Titanic
departure from, 20–21, 136, 137;
Titanic
passengers boarding at, 17–19; unions in, 14; as White Star port, 12–14, 33

Southern Daily Echo,
270

speed: beauty of, 26–27; cars and, 28–29; criticisms of craze for, 279–80; design of liners and, 53; of German liners, 40, 279; idealization of, 27; McCumber comments about, 279; risks of, 67–68; social class and, 27–29; of
Titanic,
188, 200–201, 202, 206–7, 212, 265, 294, 296, 297; U.S. Senate inquiry about, 294; White Star competition and, 53.
See
also
Blue Riband

Spithead Naval Review (1897), 39

Stagg, Jack, 195

Stankovic, Ivan, 181

Stanley, Amy, 169

Star Hotel (Brooklyn, New York), 148

Stead, W. T., 36, 102–4, 278, 292

Steiner, Edward, 10–11, 80–81, 82–83

Stengel, Annie, 214, 231, 300

Stengel, Henry, 81, 214, 229, 231, 257, 294, 307

Stephenson, Martha, 215, 240

Stevenson, Nelle, 86

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 122, 123

stewards/stewardesses: accommodations for, 196–97; Americans as, 192–93; characteristics of, 194; and initial reactions to collision, 207, 211, 215, 216; loading of lifeboats and, 222–23; recovery of body of, 301; salary of, 195; tips for, 125, 195–96; as
Titanic
crew members, 184–85, 191–97; working conditions for, 194.
See also
specific person