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To all, The story of Charles Joughin being drunk is not an absolute fabrication. The level of his intoxication, however, is subject to debate and will never be known with any degree of certainty. I only believe Joughin exaggerated the amount of time he spent in the water but who was counting...

I would very much appreciate seeing a copy of the cabin assignment article you referenced. Thank you for the kind offer. I'm sure research has come a long, long way since my active days in the 80s and 90s doing Titanic research. There was no internet then, and one had to travel or write to...

Thanks for your help, Tom. I always believed Richard and his father were on D deck - especially after having read the former's memoirs and after discussions with Richard's grandson, Quincy Williams, years ago. I remember meeting Quincy at a Titanic convention in the 1980s and we had quite the...

I hope that I helped clear up the mystery of what happened to Fred Sutton's remains following his body recovery. I didn't realize there was still some confusion over the disposition of his remains. The records at Halifax and from the Mackay-Bennett seem very accurate. They have the names of...

Mr. Sutton's body was never returned to Halifax by the Mackay-Bennett. He was buried at sea the day after his body was recovered. Since Mr. Sutton was found on the first recovery day, most of the bodies found were in poor condition and more than half would be buried the following day. Class...

Hi Chris, I just so happened to visit ET tonight and saw your message about the Taylors. The name of Elmer's memoirs was titled "Jigsaw Puzzle of People Whom I Met or Associated" or something to that effect. Elmer penned his life's journey in a privately printed memoir written in the early...

Regarding Carpathia passengers and crew, I do recall seeing an episode of Good Morning America in 1982 to observe the 70th anniversary of Titanic's loss. On the program were Walter Lord, Edwina Troutt MacKenzie and George Thomas. Joining them was Bernice Palmer Ellis, who was a 17-year-old...

Hi Seumas, There are many other survivors whose voices can still be heard. I don't have a complete list but from memory, I remember the following: First Class: In addition to Edith Russell (whom you mentioned), I know that survivors Washington Dodge, Jr., Margaret Graham Moore, Marjorie...

Dear Kendra, I'm late in posting here but since I helped Judith Geller with her book, perhaps I can be of some assistance in helping to try to identify some of the survivors you mentioned. If I recall, there were photos of many of the third class Syrian families and we weren't exactly...

Hi Jason, Regarding the "other" woman, I am still checking my photo collection. I know that it is not Mrs. Leah Aks who was photographed with Mrs. Selena Rogers Cook and other survivors at the premiere. It has been a frustrating search since I did know at one time who that woman was and for...

To the best of my knowledge, the only two survivors who viewed Cameron's film were Eleanor Johnson Shuman (just months before her death) and Michel Navratil who also watched it only a few weeks before his death. I know that Millvina Dean has seen "bits" of the Cameron film and movie...

Hi Kyle, I, for one, think the Hollywood producers did a fairly good job in portraying shipboard life aboard, and the eventual sinking. Of course, there are many historical errors, but given that the time the movie was made, the writers I'm sure had to rely on newspaper archival records, old...

Hi Michael, Yes, Marjorie certainly was one of the many survivors who absolutely refused to even the mention the Titanic until at least after her mother passed away in 1957. Sitting on the porch at their home in Lexington, Massachusetts, in the 1960s, Marjorie for the first time decided to...

Hi Peter, Absolutely. Yes, I will have to check William Lucas' testimony. I distinctly recall that comment to Miss Evans coming from Walter Lord's book, A Night to Remember so perhaps this is where I'm thinking Walter was basing his writing on Lucas' version of events. Poor Walter did in...

This account matches the same version of events described by Henry Blank, who was one of von Drachstedt's friends with whom he was playing cards in the Titanic's smoking room that fateful night. After Blank, von Drachstedt, and the other friend, William Greenfield, witnessed the water steadily...

This threads reminds me of a quote from survivor, Mary (Lines) Wellman, who was a 16-year-old girl on the Titanic, returning to the United States with her mother, to attend her brother's graduation from Dartmouth College. Mary Lines Wellman had been interviewed by Walter Lord prior to his...

Hi Peter, Sorry for not having my notes readily available, and I know we have discussed this matter numerous times before regarding Mrs. Brown being either in boat 4 or boat D, but didn't William Lucas, who left in D, call up to Miss Evans on the deck, "There is another boat going to be put...

I believe the man seated to the left of Thomas Whiteley is fireman John Thompson. Still hunting.... Kind regards, Mike Findlay

The woman crying on the left of the magazine cover is second-class passenger, Selena (Rogers) Cook. I am double checking my photos to confirm the identity of the second woman. Kind regards, Mike Findlay