Saves Dogs While Passengers Perish


Worcester Evening Gazette

Saturday 20 April 1912


New York, April 19- A narrative of the disaster to the Titanic as prepared by one of the stewards of the rescuing ship Carpathia contains the following:

"One of the earlier boats to arrive was seen to contain a woman tenderly clasping a pet pomeranian. When assisted to the rope ladder and while the rope was being fastened around her she emphatically refused to give up for a second the dog which was evidently so much to her."

The steward further says that a survivor told him that one woman declined to leave the Titanic because they would not take off a pet dog belonging to her.


Courtesy of Julie Dowen

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