John Jacob Astor, who was in his early 40s. Madeline Astor - she was part of a group of about six summer colony residents from Mount Desert Island. Some of the more interesting stories are in what happened to some of these survivors when they came back to Maine. I was able to talk to Percival's great granddaughter, Lucy Sallick, who spent a full day showing me family mementos and documents and things. And she said that's what kept herself and her mother fortified in the lifeboats until the rescue ship came. One woman credits her and her mother's survival to the Whites because they had a bottle of wine with them and they shared that wine with these two ladies.

She did get some responses back, and it basically told a tale of her husband and son spent their last minutes loading the last of the lifeboats. Both men would perish in the sinking, which left Percival's wife Edith, Richard's mother, at home in Brunswick wondering what her family's last moments were like, and she would send out a flyer to all the first-class survivors looking for any information that she could regarding her family.Īs far as you know did you ever find anything out? And his father's reward for his son's hard work would, ironically, be a ticket aboard Titanic. And Richard was a college student at Bowdoin College and he was very studious young man and had completed his studies a semester early. One of the more interesting people - families - it was Percival and Richard White who were father and son from Brunswick. Generally, the men in these parties did perish in the sinking, and generally the women in these parties did survive. How many of them perished, how many of them survived? And I went to Fogler Library in Orono and researched the state’s newspapers from that time and found about 14 different parties that were aboard the ship.Ĭredit Courtesy Mac Smith 'Mainers on the Titanic,' by Mac Smith.

Seems like everybody has a story that they had a relative aboard, and I just wondered if there were a lot of Mainers. There were about 14 parties from Maine aboard Titanic. How many of those lives were connected to Maine?

GRATZ: And author Mac Smith will be talking about them Tuesday in Damariscotta. Some of them, and some of Titanic's 703 survivors, had ties to Maine. Fifteen-hundred-thirteen lives were lost. In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, Titanic, which had struck an iceberg less than three hours before, sank beneath the waters of the North Atlantic. As investigators try to get to the bottom of the transportation tragedies involving Boeing 737 MAX jets, we come once again to the anniversary of another transportation disaster.

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