Edith
Brown Haisman
January 20, 1997-
The oldest survivor of Titanic, died at the age of
100.
She was 15 years old onboard Titanic, when she was placed in lifeboat
No. 13 as the Titanic sank. In 1993 she describes the tragedy: "I was in
lifeboat no. 13. I always remembered that. My father was waving to us and
talking to a clergyman, The Rev. Carter. "The Titanic went in the ice, and
I heard 3 bangs. Before we hit, there had been terrific vibrations from the
engines during the night as the ship was really racing across the sea. As
the lifeboat pulled away we heard cries from the people in the water and
explosions in the ship. There were lots of bodies floating. We kept on rescuing
people and trying to cover them up against the cold. We were in the lifeboat
9 hours. I kept looking for my father and when we reached New York we
went to the hospitals to see if he had been picked up."
Edith married Frederick Haisman in South Africa
and they had 10 children and more than 30 grandchildren. |
