Tuesday 28 April 2009

Titanic.Eva.Hart

Being seven years old at the time of the sinking, Eva maintained several vivid memories of that night.
"I saw that ship sink," she said in a 1993 interview. "I never closed my eyes. I didn't sleep at all. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it." "I can remember the colors, the sounds, everything," she said. "The worst thing I can remember are the screams." And then the silence that followed. "It seemed as if once everybody had gone, drowned, finished, the whole world was standing still. There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead."
Eva was seven years old when she and her parents boarded the RMS Titanic as second-class passengers on April 10, 1912 at Southampton, England. Almost instantly, Eva's mother felt uneasy about the ship and feared that some catastrophe would befall them. Her mother said to call a ship 'unsinkable' was 'flying in the face of God.'[1] With such fear, Esther slept only during the day and stayed awake in her cabin at night fully dressed.[2]
Eva was sleeping when the Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14th. Eva's father rushed into her cabin to alert his wife and daughter, and after wrapping Eva in a blanket, carried her to the boat's deck. He placed his wife and daughter in Lifeboat No. 14 and told Eva to 'hold Mummy's hand and be a good girl.'[3] It was the last thing her father ever said to her, and the last time she ever saw him.
Eva and her mother were picked up by the rescue ship RMS Carpathia and arrived in New York, New York on April 18th. Eva's father perished and his body, if recovered, was never identified.
Soon after arriving in New York, Eva and her mother returned to England and her mother remarried. Eva was plagued with nightmares and upon the death of her mother when Eva was 23, Eva confronted her fears head on by returning to the sea and locking herself in a cabin for four straight days until the nightmares went away

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