Mary Elizabeth Davison survived by boarding lifeboat 16, and lived in Bedford until she died nearly 27 years after the Titanic sank.
BEDFORD, Ohio - It’s been 111 years since the most famous ship in the world struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage.Mary Elizabeth Davison
The couple had already purchased tickets for another ship, but Mary asked Thomas to exchange them to sail on the maiden voyage of the most luxurious ocean liner the sea had seen. Just four days into the trip, the “unsinkable” ship met her cruel fate when she collided with an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14.With the dooming realization that there only a fraction of lifeboats needed to save every soul aboard, women and children were instructed to board the lifeboats first.Titanic slipped below the Atlantic to her watery grave at 2:20 a.m. on April 15.The 710 passengers in third class suffered the highest mortality rate, with only 174 surviving, including Mary.
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