Rhoda Abbott

Rhoda Abbott was the only woman to survive being in the freezing water after the ship submerged. This 39-year-old divorcee was traveling in 3rd class with her teenage sons, and when it was her turn to enter the lifeboat, she realized that her sons would be denied a spot and, stepping back, refused a place in the lifeboat. She went down with the ship and was rescued, but her sons were lost.