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Erna
(sealing ship), 4

Etruria Forge, 186

Eustis, Elizabeth, 215, 240

Evans, Edith, 117, 242, 245, 283

Farquarson, Mary, 86

Farrell, Jim, 222

Farthing, John, 91

Faunthorpe, Harry, 146

field ice: formation of, 4

Fillbrook, Joseph, 152

firemen, 189–91, 208, 250, 301

first-class passengers, 73–119; activities on
Titanic
for, 82, 108–19; cancellation of
Titanic
reservations by, 75–76; collision and, 210–11; confidence tricksters among, 82; deaths of, 290; dress of, 77–78, 118–19; embarkation day of, 79–80; as heroes, 270–71; honeymooners as, 86–87; initial reactions to collision by, 214–17; loading and launching of lifeboats and, 223–24, 239, 244; recovery of bodies of, 298; rescue of, 257; “Ritzonia” of, 76–77; social class/race issues and, 73–119; stratification among, 82–83; as survivors, 290.
See also
specific
person

Fleet, Frederick, 202, 206, 207, 227, 247, 255, 306

Fleming, Honora “Nora,” 174

Fleming, Margaret, 92

Flynn, James, 174, 238

Foi, Henry Moy, 280

food: on
Titanic,
25–26, 117–18, 132, 160, 169

Force, Madeleine.
See
Astor, Madeleine Force

Ford, Ford Madox, 111

Ford, Margaret, 168

Forster, E. M., 42

Forster, Elizabeth, 114

Francatelli, Laura, 228–29

France: reaction to sinking of
Titanic
in, 264, 292.
See also
Cherbourg, France

Franklin, Philip, 261–62, 269

Frauenthal, Clara, 87, 231, 273, 283, 306

Frauenthal, Edward, 273

Frauenthal, Gerry “Isaac,” 87, 231, 273

Frauenthal, Henry “Hyman,” 87, 231, 273, 283, 305–6

Frick, Henry Clay, 28, 74–75

Fritham, England: second-class passengers from, 146, 147

Fry, Roger, 45, 49

Funk, Annie Clemmer, 143–44

Futrelle, Jacques, 241, 242

Futrelle, Lily May, 241, 242

Futurist Manifesto (Marinetti), 26–27

Fynney, Joseph, 146, 234

 

Gale, Henry, 154

Gale, Shadrach, 154

Garrett, George, 191

Gaskell, Alfred, 146, 234–35, 304

Gatti, Gaspare “Luigi” (caterer), 185, 191–92

Gavey, Lawrence, 147–48

Gaynor, William, 276, 282

Geddes, Richard, 183, 195

Geer, Alfred, 19

Geiger, Emily, 96

General Post Office, 185.
See also
postal clerks

General Slocum
(paddle steamer), 272

George family, 166

George, Lloyd, 16

George Washington
(Norddeutscher-Lloyd ship), 58

German shipping companies, 40–41, 122, 128.
See also
specific company or
ship

Germanic
(White Star Line), 38

Gibson, Dorothy, 225

Giglio, Victor, 90, 232

Gilbert, William, 152

Giles, Edgar, 153, 262

Giles, Frederick, 153, 262

Giles, Ralph, 128–29

Gilinski, Eliezer “Leslie,” 179

Givard, Hans, 128

Gluckstein, Montague, 120

Goldenberg, Nella, 97

Goldenberg, Samuel, 81, 97

Goldsmith, Emily, 162, 163, 167, 169, 238, 252, 283

Goldsmith, Frank, 162, 163, 238

Goldsmith, Frankie, 162–63, 167, 238, 252, 303

Goodwin, Augusta, 163, 164

Goodwin, Frederick, 163–64

Goodwin, Sidney, 170, 299

Gracie, Archibald IV, 109, 111, 117, 232, 250, 251, 301

Graham, Edith, 221, 274

Graham, Margaret, 221, 274

Graham, Stephen, 161–62, 168

Graham, William, 274

Grand Trunk Railroad, 92, 93, 214, 299

Great Cobar Mining Company, 113–14

Greenberg, Samuel, 129

Greenfield, William, 81, 82, 210, 224

Grenfell, Julian, 20

“growlers” (ice lumps), 5

Guernsey, England: second-class passengers from, 147–48

Guggenheim, Benjamin, 89–90, 91, 92, 231, 232–33, 270–71, 289, 300, 306

Guggenheim, Benjamin (grandson), 306

Guggenheim, Florette, 89, 90, 91

Guggenheim, Hazel, 306

Guggenheim, Peggy, 306

Guggenheim, Solomon, 90

Guggenheim, Terrence, 306

 

Haddock, Herbert, 262

Hambly, George, 274

Hamburg-Amerika Company, 12–13, 33, 40–41, 46, 52, 53

Hampshire, England: second-class passengers from, 146–47

Hanna, Boulos, 172

Hanna, Mansour, 169

Hannah, Borak, 172

Harbaugh, Sylvia Mae.
See
Caldwell, Sylvia Harbaugh

Harbeck, William, 136

Harder, George, 212

Hardin, Lebanon:
Titanic
passengers from, 170–72, 276

Hardy, John, 211, 242, 243

Hardy, Thomas, 203–4

Harland & Wolff shipbuilders: begins work on Olympic class ships, 53; British Shipbuilders and, 36
n
; as building the
Oceana,
67; design of ships by, 36, 37–38, 196; financial affairs of, 35–36; Hamburg-Amerika interest of, 46; hazards on ships designed by, 56–59; IMM relationship with, 36, 46, 47, 49; insolvency of, 36
n
; Kylsant as Pirrie successor at, 49; lifeboat provisions for ships of, 59; Morgan and, 46; nationalization of, 36
n
; Pirrie first joins, 35; privatization of, 36
n
; reactions to sinking of
Titanic
at, 263; size of, 36; testing of lifeboats by, 219; violence in shipyards of, 26, 51–52; White Star Line relationship with, 33–34, 37, 38, 46, 49.
See also
specific person

Harland, Edward, 35

Harmer, Abraham.
See
Livshin, David

Harper, Henry, 97, 98
n
, 228

Harper, John, 141

Harris, Henry, 81, 92, 109, 242

Harris, Irene “Renee,” 91, 108–9, 208, 242, 244, 283, 300

Hart family, 233

Hart, John, 222–23

Hartley, Wallace, 195, 299–300

Hassab, Hammad, 97

Hassey (Michigan man), 172

Haverford
(American Line ship), 144

Hawaweeny, Rafa’el, 276

Hayes, Bertram, 129

Hays, Charles M., 92–94, 98
n
, 115, 119, 136, 163, 214, 223–24, 261–62, 275, 298, 299

Hays, Clara, 93, 228

Hays, Margaret, 97, 225

Hays, Orian, 93

Hecht, Ben, 77

Hedman, Oskar, 165

Heinsheimer, Clara.
See
Frauenthal, Clara

Hendekovic, Ignjac, 169

Henson, Matthew, 2

Herbert, George, 182

Herman, Sam, 130

Hershey, Milton, 75

Hichens, Robert, 206, 226–27, 255–56, 306

Hickman, Leonard, 146–47

Hickman, Lewis, 146–47

Hickman, Stanley, 146–47

Hoare, Philip, 9

Hocking, Ada, 133, 134

Hocking, Eliza, 149, 240, 288, 303–4, 305

Hocking, George, 149, 150, 288, 303

Hocking, Nellie, 149, 240, 274, 288

Hocking, Samuel “Jim,” 133–34

Hocking, Sidney, 274

Hodges, Henry, 134–35

Hoffman, Louis.
See
Navrátil, Michel

Hogg, George, 224, 254

Holden (
Titanic
stoker), 18–19

Holland-Amerika Lines, 58

Homer, Harry “Kid,” 82, 237, 284

honeymooners: on
Titanic,
86–87, 116, 289.
See also
specific person

Hosgood, Richard, 19

Hosono, Masabumi, 129, 236, 303

Houghton County, Michigan: passengers heading for, 151–52

Howard, May, 169

Hoyt, Frederick, 242–43, 244

Hoyt, Jane, 242

Hughes, Lillian.
See
Carter, Lillian Hughes

Hughes, Mary Eloise, 86

Humblen, Adolf, 165, 213, 214, 256

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