Hollywood actor : ancestor in Titanic's Third Class

[Kareen Healey]

Hello everyone, I read somewhere that there is an Hollywood actor who's ancestors came in United States with Titanic. I have in mind Dylan McDermott (and there was someone whose name is actually McDermott) but maybe it is not him because I don't find it anymore in the web. I've read it in IMDB there's few years ago but impossible to remember who. Does someone has ideas ???

 

[Arun Vajpey]

There was an Irishwoman named Delia Bridget McDermott who survived the Titanic disaster. There are some quite fanciful stories about her, starting with a supposed encounter with a "little man" just before she left her native Ireland for the voyage. Reportedly, this "little man" (probably a Leprechaun ) told Delia that she was going on a long voyage on which there would be a disaster but that she would be saved.

Delia McDermott boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a Third Class passenger with several other Irish people. A further story is that she had bought an expensive hat the day before and was very proud of it. She was asleep during the collision but was at some stage hustled into a lifeboat. Then she reportedly realised that she had forgotten her precious hat, jumped back onto the sinking ship, went to her cabin to get her hat and so missed that boat. She eventually survived on Lifeboat #13.

Looking at that fanciful story, Dylan McDermott comes across as rather too bland to be Delia's descendant.

 

[Kareen Healey]

thank you very much. Very interesting story!