Actress, feminist, baker, wealthy widow, unidentified kids: what happened to the most famous passengers who survived the Titanic crash? (9 photos)

On this journey, which promised to be grandiose, went passengers in the amount of more than 2 thousand people. Few survived.





Life on pause



Jack Thayer was still very young at the time of the crash, only 17 years old. And the crash completely changed the life of the young man, dividing it into before and after. During the confusion on the deck, the guy was pushed aside from his parents. IN Finally, he jumped into the water, grabbed onto the pieces of boards, and held on until he was not taken into one of the boats. Jack's mother also managed to escape. Father died.

Thayer tried to erase those terrible events from his memory, to live like others. He got married, got heirs, got a job in a bank. The only time he returned to the "Titanic" was an appeal to an already adult children to whom he addressed the letter. In 1945 a man committed suicide, shortly before that, having lost his son, who died during plane crash.

I can't bear to get married





Madeleine Astor - a young aristocrat went on a trip together with your spouse. She became a widow and became a wealthy widow. However, her husband's will required widowhood and imposed a ban on remarriage. Only in this way could the funds be used testator. But at 18, the heart wants love. And Madler could not stand it and with head plunged into a new love and married a childhood friend. True, she soon ran away and cohabited with a temperamental Italian, who regularly beat his beloved.

With difficulty paying off the sadist, she took from him in exchange for a solid sum of money, a promise that the story will never come up anywhere. Greedy the guy promised and immediately ran to the newspaper in order to profitably sell history. Madeleine passed away in 1940. According to some, the reason was an overdose of sleeping pills.

kidnapped babies



These crumbs - the Navratil brothers were only 2 and 4 years old of the year. Their father stole them from their mother in order to take them under false names to USA. He put his sons in the boat, and he himself remained on deck and died. Michelle and Edmond were the only children who escaped without relatives. Brothers were too small to explain anything clearly. Besides, they didn't know English.

The mother identified the children in a photo in the newspaper. woman has no idea had where the ex-husband took the kids. The family was reunited. Brothers lived a long and quite successful life.

hello love



Famous actress Dorothy Gibson not only escaped, but also saw this as a chance: after the crash, she immediately set about filming a film dedicated to this event. She played herself clothes for reliability used the one in which she was rescued.

On the set, she met colleague Jules Brulatour, for whom she married. True, the marriage did not last long, and after the divorce Dorothy moved to Europe. In vain, because I got into the Nazi concentration camp, but survived. In 1946, the actress died. Apparently his a series of severe life tests made a contribution.

Unsinkable Medic



This woman is history because nurse Violette Jessop managed to survive in three historical wrecks - "Titanic", "Olympic" and Britannica. At the same time, she did not lose courage and did not acquire fear of the sea. She continued to work on various courts until the 50s, that is, until retirement.

Fireproof and water resistant bread maker



Charlie Johin also did not break the test in the form of a disaster. He worked on the Titanic as a baker. And escaped, by his own confession, after hanging out in icy water solely because that he was dead drunk. It is possible that it was intoxication that warned hypothermia and panic. Another ship on which he later worked Charlie caught fire, and at the end of his career, the baker managed to survive again, when the ship he was on rammed another ship.

Coward's Brand



Masabumi Hosono became the only representative of Japan, rescued after the crash. At home, he was accused of cowardice, because choirosho knows that the officers of the Titanic are as responsible as possible approached the descent of the boats, placing children and women there.

The unfortunate Masabumi had to live out the rest of his days with this a shameful stigma, and the “good” compatriots even turned the surname into phraseologism and began to be used to denote indelible shame.

Women's rights activist



Molly Brown behaved very coolly and bravely: helped to place passengers in boats, calmed the panicked ones. About Me she seems to have completely forgotten. And the sailors just forcibly threw her into one of the boats.

Barely got on board the "Carpathia" - a ship that received victims, Molly again launched a stormy activity, now accommodation, search for blankets, warm clothes, food. And, of course, providing psychological support.

Subsequently, Mrs. Brown became an active fighter for the rights women to vote, to be elected, to study. During the war, she joined Red Cross, subsequently participated in the elimination of destruction during France. She died in 1932, a little before reaching the age of 70. Many survivors called Brown their guardian angel until the end of their lives.

Do you think it is possible to survive such a plan without consequences? stressful situation? Or sooner or later, stress will still make itself felt know and provoke physical or psychological problems?