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Message: [QUOTE="Bob Godfrey, post: 260507, member: 136612"] Mrs Lindstrom made the acquaintance also of Erik Lindeberg-Lind, a [i]very[/i] interesting character who was traveling under an assumed name. On the night of the sinking he and Bjornstrom-Steffansson jointly escorted her to boat 6. Mrs Lindstrom was married to an army captain and had bought one of the cheapest 1st Class tickets, so was probably not notably wealthy. Sweden itself was a relatively poor agrarian country, only beginning the process of industrialisation in which Western European nations were far advanced. Thus the appeal of emigration to North America and even to countries closer to hand, like Denmark and Germany. . [/QUOTE]