Miss Carla Christine Nielsine Anderson (Jensen), 19, was born on 13 February 1893 in Pederstrup, Eskildstrup, Odense, Fyns County, Denmark.  She was Christened on 26 February 1893 in the St. Hans' parish of Odense in the (Lutheran) Church of Denmark tradition.

Carla (or Karla) was the daughter of Niels Peter Hansen (a bachelor) and Karen Sofie Andersen (born 30 June 1870; who it is believed were not married when Carla was born)¹. Karen Sofie had in fact had a child before Karla was born; Jens Peder Andersen was born 20 May 1889, his father was a Claus Larsen.^2. Karen later married Hans Christian Jensen (a butcher, born 30 March 1870).

Carla worked as a maid in Eskildstrup, Pederstrup, Odense, Denmark where her step-father, Christian Jensen was a butcher.

Carla Jensen got permission from her parents to go and settle in America and her uncle Niels Rasmus Jensen, a Carpenter now settled in Portland Oregon, agreed to lead the party that also included Carla's brother Svend Lauritz Jensen and her fiancé Hans Peder Jensen.

They travelled via Esbjerg and London to Southampton. She is shown in the passenger list as Carla Andersen.

Carla's cabin was in the stern, the others' (as single men) in the stem:

I shared the cabin with three young girls, two English and a Swede and we had turned in early because the passengers in 3rd class had instructions to be below deck before 22 hours. We felt a bump a half hour later, but after the first shock, we went back to sleep again. We had confidence in Titanic, the other 3 girls would never wake again! At 12.30 I heard a knock and by uncle said: You better to put a coat on and come up on the deck....so I put a coat over my night dress. We were now up on the deck and there were not much commotion, we had hit an iceberg, but everyone felt the ship would stay afloat. The ship was fully lit and there was music in the 1st class saloon. There were no panic even when the lifeboats were launched, no one seem to push to get into them and the women and children went into the boats first.

Carla was placed, as were most rescued 3rd class passengers, in one of the last, stern boats, probably lifeboat 16. She later recalled that while she entered a boat the men were making jokes with her saying that she might reach New York faster than the others that way. When the boat was lowered the uncle said "now you can wait there until we come."

Carla and the other survivors werre later picked up by the Cunard steamer Carpathia.

In New York Carla was quartered in a hospital and sewed to occupy herself. She received $200 from the Women's Relief Committee. From the hospital she sent a wire home that she had survived but the rest of her family had not, her father told her to come home immediately. White Star gave her a second class ticket on Adriatic to Liverpool. She was back at Eskildstrup on 13 May and never travelled out of Denmark again.

On 5 November 1913 at  at Søllinge, Svendborg, Odense County, Carla married Frederik Ferdinand Pedersen, a farmer (b. 22 November 1888, in Denmark). Their son Laurits was born on 5 June 1915 and in 1916 they lived in Nørre Lyndelse, Odense County, Denmark.

In 1916, her family lived in Søllinge, Vindinge, Svendborg.  Carla's stepfather was still a butcher and her older brother Jens Peder Andersen was a merchant. Her four younger (half-) brothers and sisters still lived with the family at the time.

Carla and Frederick would go on to have two more children: Ellen (later Barkholt) and Bente.

Some years after Frederick's death Carla moved to an old people's home in Ferritslev, Fyn, Denmark.

 
Carla Jensen in old age holding the nightdress she wore April 14th 1912

She died on 14 March 1980 and was is buried with her husband in Sønder Nærå graveyard on the island of Fyn, Denmark.  By her own request buried in the nightdress she had worn on 14 April 1912.