Lifeboat (shipboard) — A lifeboat is a small craft carried on a ship to provide a means of emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard the ship. Lifeboats may be rigid or inflatable vessels; the inflatable type are sometimes referred to as liferafts . In the … Wikipedia
Archibald Gracie — Infobox Person name = Archibald Gracie IV image size = 100px caption = Colonel Archibald Gracie birth date = January 17, 1859 birth place = Mobile, Alabama death date = December 4, 1912 (age age|1859|1|17|1912|12|4) death place = New York, New… … Wikipedia
Jack Thayer — John Borland Jack Thayer III (December 24, 1894 September 20, 1945) was a 17 year old first class passenger on the RMS Titanic who provided several first hand accounts of the disaster. Aboard the RMS TitanicJack Thayer boarded the Titanic along… … Wikipedia
William McMaster Murdoch — See also William Murdoch (disambiguation). Infobox Person name = William McMaster Murdoch image size = 120px caption = birth date = 28 February 1873 birth place = Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland death date = 15 April 1912 death place = Atlantic… … Wikipedia
J. Bruce Ismay — Infobox Person name = J. Bruce Ismay other names = imagesize = caption = birth name = Joseph Bruce Ismay birth date = 12 December 1862 birth place = Crosby, Lancashire, England death date = 17 October 1937 death place = Mayfair, London, England… … Wikipedia
Women and children first (saying) — RMS Titanic survivors aboard a collapsible lifeboat Women and children first is a saying that implies that the lives of women and children are to be saved first if the lives of a group of people are at stake. The saying is most famously… … Wikipedia
berthon boat — ˈbərˌthän noun Usage: often capitalized 1st B Etymology: after Edward L. Berthon died 1899 English ecclesiastic and physician, its inventor : a collapsible lifeboat often carried on small ships … Useful english dictionary
List of characters in Titanic (1997 film) — The following is a list of characters from the 1997 film Titanic .1912 characters: Passengers on the RMS TitanicJack DawsonInfobox Person name=Jack Dawson birth date=1892 birth place=Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin death date=death date|1912|4|15|mf=y… … Wikipedia
Timeline of the sinking of the RMS Titanic — The timeline of the sinking of the RMS Titanic details the events of the night of Sunday 14 April 1912, and into the early hours of the following day, which saw the loss of the ocean liner Titanic , one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters… … Wikipedia
RMS Titanic — was an Olympic class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg, and sank… … Wikipedia
Charles Lightoller — Charles Herbert Lightoller Born 30 March 1874(1874 03 30) Chorley, Lancashire Died 8 December 1952( … Wikipedia