went on alone, and in April 1912 sent for his family to join him. Minnie therefore booked tickets on the Titanic for herself and her children William Leslie (9) and Neville (3). The family had lived in London and boarded at Southampton. All three were saved in lifeboat No. 2, the seventh and last-but-one lowered from the port side of the stricken ship.
The Irish News reported on 20 April 1912:
The formal list of survivors issued up to the present includes also Robert Hopkins, able seaman, of Belfast, and persons named Coutts, who are stated to belong to this neighbourhood, but who have not yet been definitely traced.
Report of the American Red Cross (Titanic Disaster) 1913:
No. 91. (Irish.) A mother, 37 years of age, with two children, nine and three years old, coming to join her husband in Brooklyn, lost five cases of household goods. She was not injured. The husband, employed as engraver, earns a fair salary but assists his aged mother in Ireland and was unable to furnish his home without assistance. ($750)
Happily reunited, the Coutts family went to live in Maplewood, New Jersey. Minnie died at her home at South Pierson Road on 29 February 1960. She was a widow, aged 84. Her remains were cremated and the ashes passed to her son, 51-year-old stocks and bonds salesman Neville, the boy of three she had scooped up from the deck of the Titanic as she entered a lifeboat with his older brother.
The older brother, William Leslie, a widower, had predeceased his mother, dying on Christmas Day 1957 in Steubenville, Ohio.
Eugene Daly (29) Saved
Ticket number 382650. Paid £6 19s.
Boarded at Queenstown. Third Class.
From: 2 Wolfe Tone Terrace, Athlone, County Westmeath.
Destination: E.G. Schuktze, 477 Avenue E, Brooklyn, New York city.
Eugene Daly was on board the Titanic until the very end. His sensational story tells of an officer shooting two men dead â before another shot rings out and the officer himself falls. Dalyâs account of the panic and of his own escape is probably the most graphic of any told by any survivor. He was in compartment C-23 on F deck, very far forward on the starboard side, so close to the impact that he was almost thrown out of bed:
I was in compartment 23, Deck C, steerage [there was no steerage accommodation on C Deck]. Two other men were with me. I was in my bunk asleep on the Sunday night (the night of the disaster). A crash woke me up. It nearly threw me from my bed. I got up and went to the door. I put on my trousers and shoes.
I met the steward in the gangway. He said there was nothing serious and that I might go back. I went back for a little while. Then I went up on deck as I heard a noise there. People were running around. Then I went down and went to the room where Maggie Daly and Bertha Mulvihill were.
They came out with me, but a sailor told us there was no danger. He said the ship would float for hours. He also said to go back, and that if there was any danger he would call us.
I went for a lifebuoy in the stern and Maggie and Bertha came with me. I had a scuffle with a man for a lifebuoy. He would not give it to me, but he gave it to Maggie Daly.
There was a great deal of noise at this time and water was coming in. We knelt down and prayed in the gangway. Then the sailor said there was danger. We went to the deck but there were no boats going off. Then we went to the second cabin deck. A boat was being lowered there. It was being filled with women. Maggie and Bertha got in, and I got in. The officer called me to go back, but I got in. Life was sweet to me and I wanted to save myself. They told me to get out, but I didnât stir. Then they got hold of me and pulled me out. Then the boat was lowered and went off.
There was another boat there, but I went up to the first cabin. The steerage people and second cabin people went to the first cabin part of the ship. They were getting women into the boats there. There was a terrible crowd standing about. The officer in
The Irish News reported on 20 April 1912:
The formal list of survivors issued up to the present includes also Robert Hopkins, able seaman, of Belfast, and persons named Coutts, who are stated to belong to this neighbourhood, but who have not yet been definitely traced.
Report of the American Red Cross (Titanic Disaster) 1913:
No. 91. (Irish.) A mother, 37 years of age, with two children, nine and three years old, coming to join her husband in Brooklyn, lost five cases of household goods. She was not injured. The husband, employed as engraver, earns a fair salary but assists his aged mother in Ireland and was unable to furnish his home without assistance. ($750)
Happily reunited, the Coutts family went to live in Maplewood, New Jersey. Minnie died at her home at South Pierson Road on 29 February 1960. She was a widow, aged 84. Her remains were cremated and the ashes passed to her son, 51-year-old stocks and bonds salesman Neville, the boy of three she had scooped up from the deck of the Titanic as she entered a lifeboat with his older brother.
The older brother, William Leslie, a widower, had predeceased his mother, dying on Christmas Day 1957 in Steubenville, Ohio.
Eugene Daly (29) Saved
Ticket number 382650. Paid £6 19s.
Boarded at Queenstown. Third Class.
From: 2 Wolfe Tone Terrace, Athlone, County Westmeath.
Destination: E.G. Schuktze, 477 Avenue E, Brooklyn, New York city.
Eugene Daly was on board the Titanic until the very end. His sensational story tells of an officer shooting two men dead â before another shot rings out and the officer himself falls. Dalyâs account of the panic and of his own escape is probably the most graphic of any told by any survivor. He was in compartment C-23 on F deck, very far forward on the starboard side, so close to the impact that he was almost thrown out of bed:
I was in compartment 23, Deck C, steerage [there was no steerage accommodation on C Deck]. Two other men were with me. I was in my bunk asleep on the Sunday night (the night of the disaster). A crash woke me up. It nearly threw me from my bed. I got up and went to the door. I put on my trousers and shoes.
I met the steward in the gangway. He said there was nothing serious and that I might go back. I went back for a little while. Then I went up on deck as I heard a noise there. People were running around. Then I went down and went to the room where Maggie Daly and Bertha Mulvihill were.
They came out with me, but a sailor told us there was no danger. He said the ship would float for hours. He also said to go back, and that if there was any danger he would call us.
I went for a lifebuoy in the stern and Maggie and Bertha came with me. I had a scuffle with a man for a lifebuoy. He would not give it to me, but he gave it to Maggie Daly.
There was a great deal of noise at this time and water was coming in. We knelt down and prayed in the gangway. Then the sailor said there was danger. We went to the deck but there were no boats going off. Then we went to the second cabin deck. A boat was being lowered there. It was being filled with women. Maggie and Bertha got in, and I got in. The officer called me to go back, but I got in. Life was sweet to me and I wanted to save myself. They told me to get out, but I didnât stir. Then they got hold of me and pulled me out. Then the boat was lowered and went off.
There was another boat there, but I went up to the first cabin. The steerage people and second cabin people went to the first cabin part of the ship. They were getting women into the boats there. There was a terrible crowd standing about. The officer in
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