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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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