Re: Who was on the Titannic

On Apr 29, 1:33 pm, "kim" <ntscu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Apr 29, 10:30 am, "Mark E Sievert" <Siever...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Apr 22, 5:53 pm, Chuck <charleswolf...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 21, 11:11 am, "mcclur...@xxxxxxxxxxx" <mcclur...@xxxxxxxxx>
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Did the nobility travel on cruise lines much (anymore) after the
Titannic was sunk? The movie is one of my favorites, but it seemed
to give them a bad rap. I remember somewhere reading a daughter of
Abraham Lincoln died.

Bob

You can forget about the daughter of Abraham Lincoln. He had four
sons and no daughters, and only his son Robert, the former US
Secretary of War, was alive at that time. As to the other three
sons, one died at the age of three years ten months before Lincoln
became President, Willie died in the White House and Tad died in
1871. As to grandchildren, President Lincoln's only grandson died
in 1890 at age 17 years, and his granddaughters died in 1938 and
1948. Unfortunately, the most high-and-mighty personage now
associated now with the Titanic - The Queen of Schmalz and Schlock
herself - was not aboard.

No. Molly Brown was indeed aboard.

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I thought about this question as I rode the Toronto subway this
morning and noticed not a single Duke among the 300 in my car. Perhaps
we were a little too dismissive of the orignial poster. Although there
were many royals and nobles in Canada both before and after Titanic, I
cannot recall a single one who was here other than in an official
capacity. Queen Victoria herself could simply not be induced to cross
the Atlantic even though such a visit would, during difficult times,
have driven patriotism here through the North Pole. The difficulties
of the journey were always cited, although she did risk the Prince of
Wales in 1860.  I don't think the United States enjoyed great
popularity in Europe either, especially after Dickens wrote about it
in 1842. Incidentally, there is a wonderful photo of the Britannia
(one of the great ships of its day and the one which upon which
Dickens travelled) beside the Queen Mary. Britannia looks like
something out of a box of Cracker Jacks.

My point - I don't think there was much in North America to attract
visitors of means, to whom so many places of greater interest were
accessible with so much less trouble (and where nobles could be more
assured being treated as such).

Just two years after Titanic, the Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence
river with the loss of over 1,000 lives and the incident is almost totally
forgotten!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_Ireland

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Apparently her sinking was "overshadowed" by World War One. Seems that
when it comes to getting attention we Canadians just can't win.

Bill
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