On the night of April 14, 1912, 2,224 people faced doom in the middle of the fridge north Atlantic. The luxury liner hailed as unsinkable was about to do just that and disappear beneath the waves. The tragedy has long captured the public imagination with heroic tales of millionaire John Jacob Astor going down with the ship like a gentleman and fictionalized romances about people who weren’t really on board. Today lets met a handful of the real women who were on board that terrible night. We’ll learn more about the famous first class ladies like Madeline Astor and Molly Brown but also met some of the lesser known passengers of second and third class including the only black family aboard. And we’ll meet a crew member who was truly unsinkable.
First Class:
Helen Churchill Candee
Molly Brown
Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon
Madeline Astor
Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes
Ida Straus
Second Class:
The Hart Family (Eva Heart)
The Laroche Family
The West Family (Barbara West)
Third Class:
The Goodwin Family (The Unknown Child)
The Dean Family (Millvina Dean)
Crew:
Violet Jessop
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