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Titanic History

Thursday, May 16, 2024
1856 - 1st class passenger Mr Charles Melville Hays was born in Rock Island, Illinois, USA.

1876 - 2nd class passenger Mr John Linnane married Ellen Savage, who was not on the Titanic.

1912 - 2nd class passenger Mr Michel Navratil's sons were reunited with their mother Marcelle. When couple had separated, the boys lived with their mother. They went to stay with their father over the Easter weekend, but when she came to collect them, they had left on the Titanic and were travelling under the assumed name of Hoffman. Their father perished in the disaster and they were dubbed the "Orphans of the Titanic".

1912 - Day 16 of the American inquiry into the Titanic disaster in Washington, D. C., USA. Witness called that day: Vice President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. Benjamin Campbell.

1912 - Day 9 of the British inquiry into the Titanic disaster in Westminster, London, England, UK. Witnesses called that day: Marconi Officer for the Mount Temple John Durrant, Bath Steward Samuel Rule, Third Class Steward John Edward Hart, Third Class Pantryman Albert Victor Pearcey, First Class Steward Edward Brown, Bathroom Steward Charles Donald Mackay, and Assistant Second Steward Joseph Thomas Wheat.

1922 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage

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Lyrics: Nearer My God, to Thee


Words: Verses 1-5, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, in Hymns and Anthems, by William Johnson Fox, 1841; verse 6, Edward Henry Bickersteth, Jr.

Music: "Bethany (Mason)," Lowell Mason, 1856

Some Titanic survivors said it was played by the ship's orchestra as the ocean liner went down (though other survivors said it was a different song).

In 1901, Dr. Mann, the attending physician, reported that among American president William McKinley's last words were "Nearer, my God, to Thee, e'en though it be a cross, has been my constant prayer." On the afternoon of September 3, 1901, after five minutes of silence across the nation, bands in Union and Madison Squares in New York City played the hymn in memory of the fallen president. It was also played at a memorial service for him in Westminster Abbey, London.

"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is sung at the end of the 1936 movie San Francisco, which was nominated for several Academy Awards.  
 
 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God to Thee.

Refrain

There let the way appear, steps unto heav'n;
All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I'll fly,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain

There in my Father's home, safe and at rest,
There in my Savior's love, perfectly blest;
Age after age to be, nearer my God to Thee.

Refrain

Source: The Cyber Hymnal





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