Titanic Survivor Accounts

Titanic Survivors: What They Saw

Titanic Survivors: What they Saw 2

(Above is the accounts of Joseph Boxhall, Eva Hart, Ruth Becker, and Edith Haisman)

Ruth Becker account

Marjorie Newell Account

Millvina Dean Story

Survivors on the "A Night To Remember Set"

Above in "A Night To Remember Set", the people seen are Lawrence Beasely, Edith Russell, Edmund Navatril, and Frank Goldsmith. The others, I can't identify.

Survivor's Voices

Edith Russell Account

Survivor Accounts

Charles Lightoller Account

Titanic Documentaries

Deep Inside Titanic 1

Deep Inside Titanic 2

Deep Inside Titanic 3

Deep Inside Titanic 4

Deep Inside Titanic 5


Titanic: The Legend Lives On 1

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 2

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 3

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 4

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 5

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 6

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 7

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 8

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 9

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 10

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 11

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 12

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 13

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 14

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 15

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 16

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 17

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 18

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 19

Titanic: The Legend Lives On 20


Last Mysteries of the Titanic 1

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 2

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 3

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 4

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 5

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 6

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 7

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 8

Last Mysteries of the Titanic 9


Last Secret of the Titanic 1

Last Secrets of the Titanic 2

Last Secrets of the Titanic 3

Last Secrets of the Titanic 4

Last Secrets of the Titanic 5

Last Secrets of the Titanic 6

Titanic Untold Stories 1

Titanic Untold Stories 2

Titanic Untold Stories 3

Titanic Untold Stories 4

Titanic Untold Stories 5

Titanic Untold Stories 6

Edith Haisman

Edith Brown was born on October 27, 1896 in Cape Town, Africa. Her father was an Englishman but lived with his wife in Africa because he owned a hotel there. She was
going with her father and mother to Seattle, Washington where her father would open a new hotel.

She was to sail on the TITANIC to New York and then take a train to Seattle. In the hold, there were 1,000 dishes and many beds and tables. On April 14, 1912, her father had come into her cabin around 11:40. In a later interview, Edith said this: "Father appeared a few minutes later. He told us, 'You'd better put on your life jackets and something warm, it's cold on deck. It's just a precaution. We've struck an iceberg, it's nothing much. The steward in the corridor says it's nothing to worry about. We waited for ages on the boat deck for someone to tell us what to do. The ship's band was playing ragtime. They played to keep our spirits up. Everybody kept saying: 'She's unsinkable. She won't go down. Father kissed us and saw us into Lifeboat 14. Up to fifty people got in as it swung perilously over the side. One man jumped into the boat dressed as a woman. As we rowed away from the ship, we could still hear the band playing, but now it was hymns. We were almost six hours in the lifeboat and during that time we had no water and nothing to eat. I kept wondering if my father had got off the ship, that's all I could think of."

She was only 15 when she lost her father that fateful night. There are thousands of china littering the sea bed and any of them could be her father's. In May of 1917, Edith Brown met Fredrick Thankful Haisman and 6 months later, they married. She had her first son in 1918 and had 9 other children. Fredrick died in 1977. By 1993, she attended conferences and was present when they raised a large piece of the TITANIC'S hull. She and a fellow survivor, Eva Hart opened a garden memorial to the TITANIC. She was given a pocket watch thought to be her father's with the initials T.B.
(Thomas Brown ?). As she was leaving the wreck sight for the last time, she threw a rose over where her father died. Edith Haisman died on January 20, 1997 at the age of 100.

Eva Hart

Eva Hart was born on Tuesday, January 31, 1905. Her father in one night decided to sell his business and go to Canada. They was going to Winnipeg, Mantobia on the R.M.S. Titanic. Eva Hart described what it was like on the ship for her in this interview:

"I was 7, I had never seen a ship before... it looked very big...everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would sit up at night... she decided that she wouldn't go to bed at night, and she didn't!"

Throughout the voyage Eva's mother was troubled by a fear that some kind of catastrophe would hit thew ship. To call a ship unsinkable was, to her mind, flying in the face of God.

"My father was so excited about it and my mother was so upset... The first time in my life I saw her crying... she was so desperately unhappy about the prospect of going, she had this premonition, a most unusual thing for her... "

It was on the night April 14, when her mother heard a commotion. She asked her husband to go up and see what was the matter. However, she knew pretty much what was happening. She woke Eva up. She told her to get up and get dressed. Eva just buried herself deeper under her covers and said, "No". Then her father returned and put a coat on her mother. He then wrapped her in a blanket and took her out of the cabin on E Deck. As they were leaving, Eva told her father that she wanted her teddy bear which was almost as big as she was. Her father just kept going. They reached the Boat Deck. He placed her down on the deck and told she and her mother to stay there while he went to find out what the matter was. He later returned saying that they had struck an iceberg, but then explained that the ship was unsinkable due to her compartments. He went away again, and said that they were to launch the lifeboats but that they would be back in time for breakfast. Her father took her and her mother to boat 14.

"I saw that ship sink," she said in a 1993 interview. "I never closed my eyes. I didn't sleep at all. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it." "I can remember the colors, the sounds, everything," she said. "The worst thing I can remember are the screams." And then the silence that followed. "It seemed as if once everybody had gone, drowned, finished, the whole world was standing still. There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead."

She later became a magistrate in England and a singer in Australia. She died on Wednesday, February 14, 1996.