Edith Haisman; Survived Sinking of the Titanic

Edith Haisman, 100, the oldest survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. Haisman remembered seeing her father, Thomas Brown, standing on the deck of the sinking ocean liner in April 1912, with a glass of brandy in one hand and a cigar in another. He waved and said: “I will see you in New York.” The Titanic, then the world’s largest liner, took 1,500 lives down with it. Another 700 crew members and passengers escaped in lifeboats as the giant vessel broke up and sank 560 miles off Newfoundland. During her nine hours in lifeboat No. 13, Haisman recalled, “we heard cries from people left on the ship and in the water and explosions in the ship. There were lots of bodies floating.” In 1993, the frail Haisman appeared in public to accept her father’s gold watch, which had been recovered from the Titanic’s wreckage by AMS Titanic Inc. of New York City. On Monday in Southampton, England.