Harold Bride, Titanic’s surviving wireless operator, being carried off Carpathia with sprained and frostbitten feet. Harold Bride, Titanic’s Surviving Wireless Operator Titanic survivors converse on the deck of rescue ship Carpathia.Ī crowd gathers to await the arrival of rescue ship Carpathia.Ĭarpathia laden with Titanic’s survivors and lifeboatsĬarpathia laden with Titanic’s survivors and lifeboats. Titanic Survivors on the Rescue Ship Carpathia Police keep order in front of White Star Line’s New York offices.

Police Keep Order in Front of White Star Line’s New York Offices Twenty-two Titanic passengers huddled in Lifeboat D, the last to leave the sinking ship. Twenty-two Titanic Passengers Huddled in Lifeboat D Lifeboat 14, towing Lifeboat D, approaches Carpathia. The Millet Family Papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art contain three folders of letters addressed to Lily Millet (his widow) and Laurence Millet (his son) in the days after the sinking.Ī passenger aboard RMS Carpathia photographed this iceberg near Titanic’s wreck site. Noted American artist Francis (“Frank”) D. Clerks placed facing slips on bundles of mail to indicate their destination. Signed “Love, Ugly” by an unknown passenger, this card addressed to “Miss Gwen” was postmarked aboard Titanic and sent ashore with the mail, probably at Queenstown, Ireland, the ship’s last port of call before heading westbound across the Atlantic.įound on Oscar Scott Woody’s body nine days after Titanic’s sinking, this facing slip bears one of the clearest surviving strikes of the ship’s onboard postmark (Transatlantic Post Office 7). The writer could have purchased it dockside or in the ship’s barber shop. The picture side of the postcard shows a view of Olympic standing in for Titanic. The morgue ship Mackay-Bennett recovered Graham’s body. Destined for Berlin, the envelope was postmarked on the ship and sent ashore with the mail, probably at Cherbourg, France. Graham, a Canadian returning from a European buying trip for Eaton’s department store, addressed this folded letter on Titanic stationery. Officials had kept detailed records at issuance, and so many money orders were eventually reimbursed.įirst-class passenger George E. More than $150,000 in postal money orders sank along with Titanic’s mail. The last reports concerning their actions show that they were engaged in this work and in carrying the sacks up on deck to the last moment.”Ĭourtesy Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris

The clerks were seen in the sorting room above, closing sacks and preparing to take on deck all the mails available. “About a quarter of a hour after the collision the opening or lower room in the sea post office was found to be practically filled with water and the sacks in it adrift. The post office, below the ship’s waterline on the forward starboard side, was among the first areas to flood: The Post Office Department’s annual report for 1912 recounted the heroics of Titanic’s postal clerks. Post Office Department Annual Report, 1912

Titanic approaching iceberg image