Titanic Survivor Adolphe Saalfeld-- Part 3: The Aftermath

"No one in our boat knew how many lifeboats were on the Titanic but ... there was ample time for saving every soul on board had their been sufficient boats....  

"The Captain and Officers  of the Carpathia did all  that was possible to make  us comfortable and to those that were sick or injured, they gave their tenderest care.  The icebergs were huge and the weather extremely  rough on the voyage to New York."

Afterwards, Saalfeld returned to his wife in England.  But as a male survivor of the disaster he found himself ostracized by  society and  his family reported that  he never slept properly again, often calling on his chauffeur to drive him around empty  midnight streets before he drifted off.

He died  in Kew, Surrey on June  5, 1926, at age 61.  He was still chairman of the firm, which continued to do business until 1954.    His estate was settled  on July 16, 1926, and his assets were worth 46,902 pounds.  Burial was at Golders Green Jewish  Cemetery in Barnet,  London.

--Cooter

'Miss Unsinkable' Violet Jessup-- Part 2: Survived Sinkings of Titanic and Brittanic

Then, Violet Jessup made the move to the Titanic in time for that "Unsinkable" ship's famous maiden voyage in April 1912 when it sailed for New York City across the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic.  She later wrote in her memoirs of the  unforgettable night of April 14-15, when the ship hit an iceberg and san, taking some 1,500 people with her.

Jessop helped other women and children into lifeboats before climbing into one herself; one of the ship's officers placed a bundled up baby on her lap.  After eight hours on the lifeboat, a ship called the Carpathia rescued Jessop and the others, and a frantic woman (whom Jessup assumed was the baby's mother) snatched the infant from her arms.

She was also on the third of the three sisters, the Britannic.  After World War I broke out, the Britannic was requisitioned by the British government and turned into a hospital ship.  By then, Miss Jessup was a nurse working for the British Red Cross.

In November 1916, the Britannic hit a mine set by a German U-boat in the Aegean Sea.  The explosion caused significant damage and the ship sank less than an hour later, only 30 people died.  More than 1,000  were saved, including "Miss Unsinkable."

Jessup continued working on cruise ships after the war and had a 42-year career at sea before her retirement.  She died in 1971.

I Don't Think I'd Get On a Ship That This Woman Was On.  --DaCoot

New Titanic Items at Auction

From the April 19, 2016 Fox News "Titanic artifact reveal gruesome discovery of tragic ship's last lifeboat" by James Rogers.

Photos and a handwritten note detailing the grisly discovery of the tragic ship's last lifeboat are to be auctioned later this week.

The phots were taken May 13, 1912, almost a month after the sinking.  It shows the RMS Oceanic's find of what is thought to be the last lifeboat to leave the doomed ship.  Inside were three decaying bodies of passengers.

This was known as "Collapsible A."

The corpse wearing a dinner jacket was first-class passenger Thomson Beattie.  A wedding was found on the boat which had belonged to Swedish passenger Elin Gerda Lindell, who briefly reached the boat but later drowned.

Always the Titanic.  --Cooter

The Titanic's Lifeboats After the Sinking

From Wikipedia.

Thirteen lifeboats were retrieved by the Carpathia and taken to the White Star Line's Pier 59 in New York where souvenir hunters soon began stripping much of their equipment.  The Titanic nameplates were removed by the company.

The boats were inventoried by C,M. lane Lifeboat Co. of Brooklyn.  Their assessed salvage was $4,972 collectively and they were the only salvageable items from the Titanic.

They may have been taken back to England on the Olympic which left 23 May 1912.  there, they were either destroyed or redistributed to other ships of the company.

Nothing remains of the life boats but fitting taken by souvenir hunters.  One of them is a bronze White Star Line bungee now at the museum of the Titanic Historical Society.

A full-size replica of a lifeboat is on display at the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction.

--Cooter

Last Titanic Lunch Menu Going to Auction-- Part 1: From "The Money Boat"

From the August 30, 2015, Yahoo! News "Last Titanic lunch menu, saved by survivor, going to auction" by Ula Ilnyyzky.

It was saved by a passenger who climbed aboard the "Money Boat" and expected to get between $50,000 and $70,000 by Lion Heart Autographs who will be offering it along with two previously known artifacts from Lifeboat No. 1.  The auction was on September 30th, the 30th anniversary of the Titanic's discovery.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon, one of the handful of first class passengers who boarded the "Money Boat," also called "The Millionaire's Boat"    Lifeboat No. 1 was dubbed this by the press because reportedly one of the people aboard bribed the crew members to quickly row away instead of trying yo rescue others..

The menu listed corned beef and dumplings along with other 1st-class offerings.  It is signed on the back by another 1st Class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped in another lifeboat.  It is believed they ate together that day.

--DaCoot