EVA Hart, Titanic sopravvissuto fotografato a casa sua a Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex nel 1985. Scannerizzato nel 2013.Hart aveva sette anni quando lei e i suoi genitori salirono sul Titanic come passeggeri di seconda classe il 10 aprile 1912 a Southampton, Inghilterra. Originariamente erano stati prenotati su una nave chiamata Philadelphia, ma lo sciopero del carbone a Southampton che la primavera lo ha tenuto dalla vela e molti dei suoi passeggeri sono stati trasferiti al Titanic.
3946 x 5959 px | 33,4 x 50,5 cm | 13,2 x 19,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1985
Ubicazione:
Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex, England
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Eva Hart, Titanic survivor photographed at her her home in Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex in 1985. Scanned in 2013. Copies of old family photographs made with permission of Eva Hart in 1985. Eva died peacefully in 1996 Eva Miriam Hart was born on 31 January 1905 in Ilford, Essex, England to Benjamin Hart and Esther Bloomfield. She was the only child of Benjamin and Esther. Her mother had been previously married and had several children from her first marriage who died young. Eva was educated at St. Mary's Convent (Later St. Mary's Hare Park) in Gidea Park, Essex. In early 1912, Benjamin decided to take his family and emigrate to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he planned to open a drug store. Aboard Titanic Hart was seven years old when she and her parents, Benjamin and Esther, boarded the Titanic as second-class passengers on 10 April 1912 at Southampton, England. They had originally been booked on a ship called Philadelphia but the coal strike at Southampton that Spring kept Philadelphia from sailing and many of her passengers were transferred to Titanic. Almost instantly, Hart's mother felt uneasy about Titanic and feared that some catastrophe would happen. To call a ship unsinkable was, in her mother's mind, 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] Hart was sleeping when the Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 pm on 14 April. Hart's father rushed into her cabin to alert her and her mother, and after wrapping her in a blanket, he carried her to the boat's deck. He placed his wife and daughter in Lifeboat No. 14 and told Hart to 'hold Mummy's hand and be a good girl.'[1] It was the last thing her father ever said to her, and the last time she ever saw him. Hart and her mother were picked up by the rescue ship RMS Carpathia and arrived in New York, New York on 18 April. Her father perished and his body, if recovered, was never identified.
