William Ernest Carter might have survived the Titanic, but his marriage could not survive the allegations that he abandoned his family as the ship went down and of abuse and cruelty toward his wife Lucile... within a few months of the divorce she had married again.

Jeremiah Burke died on the Titanic, on his birthday. One year later, in the early summer of 1913, a postman walking his dog found a small bottle on a shingle beach near Cork Harbour. Inside was a pencilled message...