encyclopedia titanica

THE son of Titanics oldest survivor came to Coventry to share his mothers harrowing tale of survival on the maiden voyage Edith Brown was just 15 when she sailed on the Titanic as a secondclass passenger with her mum and dad Before her death in 1997 at the age of 101 she told her 10 children about the tragic sinking of the legendary vessel which struck an iceberg 400 miles off Newfoundland Canada on April 14 1912