Unbelievable facts
The sinking of the Titanic was one of the major tragedies of the 20th century.
This terrible event is surrounded by a lot of myths, speculations and rumors.
But few people know what happened to the passengers of the fateful voyage, who managed to survive the worst maritime disaster of the century.
The following collection of documentary photos will give a complete picture of what happened next to those who managed to escape from the sinking ship.
Titanic passengers photos
Frederick Fleet
This photo shows 24-year-old British sailor Frederick Fleet a few days after the sinking of the Titanic. The guy was the first to notice the iceberg.
He took part in two world wars. In 1965, after a prolonged depression, Fleet committed suicide.
As for the events on the Titanic, events developed roughly as follows:
On April 10, 1912, the ship set sail for its first and last voyage. A huge liner was speeding at full speed from Southampton to New York.
On April 14, 1912, at 11:39 p.m., Friedrich Fleet noticed an iceberg right on course that eventually destroyed the Titanic.
After two hours and 40 minutes, when faced with a huge block, he sank.
Of the 2,224 people aboard the “unsinkable” ship, only about 700 people fit into lifeboats, leaving them alive.
The remaining 1,500 died while staying on the sinking ship or died within minutes of falling into the cold waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Just before dawn on April 15, a fleet of survivors was spotted by the steamer Carpathia, which arrived at the site of the Titanic's sinking. By 9 a.m., all of the surviving passengers were aboard the Carpathia.
Titanic iceberg photo
The iceberg that sank the Titanic.
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Surviving Titanic passengers in boats sail to the ship Carpathia, April 15, 1912.
All the same surviving passengers from the boat wreck.
Surviving passengers aboard the Carpathia (April 15, 1912)
A sketch of the sinking Titanic.
A sketch of a sinking ship by surviving passenger John B. Thayer. Some time later, the drawings were completed by Mr. P.L. Skidmore while aboard the steamer Carpathia, in April 1912.
The surviving passengers of the Titanic are trying to warm up aboard the ship Carpathia.
When Carpathia went to New York, it was decided to send radio messages. So the news about the tragedy spread quite quickly.
People were shocked, the passengers' relatives were in a panic. Seeking information about their loved ones, they attacked White Star Line's offices in New York City and Southampton.
Some of the wealthy and famous surviving passengers and victims were identified before the Carpathia arrived at the port.
But the relatives and relatives of lower-class passengers, as well as the families of the crew members, continued to be unaware of the fate of their relatives.
The lack of connections did not allow them to get the news right away and they had to wait in the painfully unknown.
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Carpathia arrived at New York Harbor on a rainy evening on April 18. The ship was surrounded by more than 50 tugs carrying journalists. They yelled, called out to survivors, offering money for first-hand interviews.
A reporter from one of the major American publications, who at that time was aboard the Carpathia, had already interviewed the survivors. He put his notes in a floating cigar box and threw them into the water so that the editor of the publication could catch the message and get the sensation first.
After all lifeboats were launched at Pier 59, owned by White Star Line. The ship itself docked at Pier 54. In the pouring rain, the ship was greeted by an alarmed crowd of 40,000 people.
People are waiting for news outside White Star Line's New York office.
Lifeboats, thanks to which several hundred people survived.
Lifeboats at the White Star Line berth in New York City, April 1912.
People are waiting for the Carpathia to arrive in New York.
Huge crowds of family and friends stand in the rain, waiting for the ship Carpathia to arrive in New York, April 18, 1912.
About 40,000 people are waiting for Carpathia.
Those who managed to survive the fateful Titanic voyage in New York were greeted at the port by family and friends, as well as numerous media representatives.
Some mourned the dead, some wanted an autograph, and some tried to interview survivors.
The next day, the US Senate convened a special hearing on the crash at the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
On April 29, the surviving crew members returned to their homes in southern England.
The entire crew of the Titanic numbered 885 people, of whom 724 were from Southampton. At least 549 people did not return home from the fateful flight.
Surviving crew members.
The surviving crew, left to right, front row: Ernest Archer, Friedrich Fleet, Walter Perkis, George Simons, and Frederick Klachen.
Second row: Arthur Bright, George Hogg, John Moore, Frank Osman, and Henry Atsh.
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People surrounded the Titanic survivor.
A crowd of people at Devonport surrounded a man who survived the Titanic to hear firsthand how things really happened.
Payment of compensation to victims.
April 1912
J. Hanson, sitting on the right, is District Secretary of the National Union of Seafarers and Firefighters. The people around him are Titanic survivors who are being compensated as victims of the crash.
Relatives are waiting for the Titanic's surviving passengers.
On April 29, 1912…
People are waiting on Southampton's railway platform for their loved ones who survived the Titanic crash.
Relatives in Southampton meet their loved ones.
Relatives are waiting for the surviving crew members.
April 29, 1912.
Relatives are waiting for the Titanic's surviving crew members to disembark in Southampton.
People are going back to their homes in England. The crash claimed the lives of 549 crew members. In total, there were 724 people from Southampton who worked on the ship, ranging from sailor to cook or postman.
Relatives minutes before meeting surviving relatives.
Titanic survivors
Relatives welcome relatives who survived the shipwreck to Southampton.
A surviving crew member kisses his wife, who was waiting for him on land in Plymouth, April 29, 1912.
Stewards testifying after the shipwreck.
On April 29, 1912…
The surviving stewards stand outside the courthouse. They are invited to testify to the commission investigating the Titanic disaster.
A surviving Titanic passenger signs autographs to passers-by.
Titanic Survivors
25. The Pasco brothers, members of the crew of the ill-fated ship, were lucky enough to survive all four.
The photo shows the brothers immediately after returning home to Southampton, on April 29, 1912.
Titanic Orphans
April 1912
At first, they could not identify the two babies who miraculously escaped.
The children were later identified as Michelle (4) and Edmond (2) Navratil. To get on the ship, their father took the name Louis Hoffman and used the children's fictional names Lolo and Mamon.
The father, with whom the children sailed to New York, died, which caused difficulties with the real names of the brothers.
However, they were later identified and the babies were safely reunited with their mother.
In this photo, Edmond and Michelle Navratil are now grown up with their mom.
Cameraman Harold Thomas Coffin is questioned by a Senate committee at Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, May 29, 1912.
29. Titanic Baby
A nurse holds a newborn Lucien P. Smith. His mother Eloise was pregnant with him when she returned with her husband after a honeymoon aboard the Titanic.
The baby's father died in a crash.
Eloise subsequently married another survivor of the dreaded flight, Robert P. Daniel.
And finally, a photo of the Titanic itself on the day it embarked on its first and last fateful voyage…