King Princess (Mikaela Straus)

The singer-songwriter King Princess is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, co-owners of Macy’s department store. The couple tragically perished together on the Titanic, choosing to remain onboard rather than be separated.

It is taken that the order to put the wheel hard over came about 30 seconds before the collision, or about 20 seconds after Fleet first struck the lookout bell,

Wendy Rush, the wife of the late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, is also a descendant of Isidor and Ida Straus. This connection gained attention during the 2023 Titan submersible tragedy, which occurred near the Titanic wreck site.

It would then have taken Hichens only about 7 to 8 seconds, or thereabouts, to get the wheel all the way over.

In those 27 seconds, from the 3-bell warning to the time the wheel was hard over, the distance to the iceberg would close from 2000 ft down to 1000 ft.

Thirteen seconds later, just 10 seconds before impact, the distance to the berg as seen from the nest would have closed to 500 ft.

In the next 7 seconds, the distance to the berg would close to 250 ft while the ship’s head would turn another 6° to port.

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1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.

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Notable victims of the Titanic disaster:

Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)

John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864)

Archibald Butt, American general and journalist (b. 1865)

Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and author (b. 1875)

Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865)

Henry B. Harris, American producer and manager (b. 1866)

Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878)

Charles Melville Hays, American businessman (b. 1856)

James Paul Moody, English Sixth Officer (b. 1887)

William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish First Officer (b. 1873)

Jack Phillips, English telegraphist (b. 1887)

Edward Smith, English Captain (b. 1850)

William Thomas Stead, English journalist (b. 1849)

Ida Straus, German-American businesswoman (b. 1849)

Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845)

John B. Thayer, American business and sportsman (b. 1862)

Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer (b. 1872)

Her loss was the catalyst for major reforms in shipping safety and is arguably the most famous maritime disaster, being the subject of numerous media portrayals.

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The Carpathia navigated the ice fields to arrive two hours after the Titanic had sunk, and the crew rescued 705 survivors from the ship's lifeboats.

Arthur Rostron RD, RNR. Under his command, Carpathia responded to Titanic's distress call and rescued survivors.

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Alexis Sanchez - the sequel

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Barbara Joyce Dainton (née West, 24 May 1911 – 16 October 2007) was the penultimate remaining survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 14 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. She was the last living survivor who travelled second-class on the ship.

Barbara, her mother and sister all survived the sinking and were picked up by the rescue ship Carpathia. Her father, Arthur, however, did not survive the sinking; and his body, if recovered, was never identified.

Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, DSC & Bar, RD, RNR (30 March 1874 – 8 December 1952) was a British mariner and naval officer who was the second officer on board the RMS Titanic. During the ship's sinking, and as the officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, Lightoller strictly enforced the women and children only protocol, not allowing any male passengers to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen. He was the most senior officer to survive the disaster. Lightoller served as a commanding officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and, despite ordering an alleged war crime while engaged in anti-submarine warfare, he was twice decorated for gallantry. During World War II, in retirement, he voluntarily provided his personal yacht, the Sundowner, and sailed her as one of the "little ships" in the Dunkirk evacuation.

So in summary:

Yes, it's possible that a few people still living today had parents on the Titanic.

But they’d be very elderly, and extremely rare.

They wouldn't have been on the ship themselves — they'd have been born later, to survivors.

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Patrick Dooley was a 3rd class passenger from County Limerick, Ireland. He perished on the Titanic at age thirty-eight, having been on his way to his younger brother Richard in New York before striking out for Chicago. Prior to his death, Patrick had immigrated to America in 1903 and lived in Chicago for nine years, where he had worked in a hotel. His intentions were to make this only a short visit back to America before permanently returning to Ireland, where he may have been planning to take over the family farm.