Claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic


Chicago Daily News

Tuesday 2 March 1965


Deaths Elsewhere

Jacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, England.

Chicago Daily News, Tuesday, March 2, 1965, p. 21, c. 1



Courtesy of Thomas E. Golembiewski

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