Titanic: 40 Untold Stories of Tragedy

Not a single engineer made it off the Titanic; they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.

27. One of the two co-owners and founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died aboard the Titanic.

28. Loraine Allison was the only child from first class to die on the Titanic. She had remained with her parents on the ship looking for her baby brother, who, unknown to them, had already safely left in a lifeboat with his nanny.

29. The richest man that drowned on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor IV, left his wife a five-million-dollar fund, the use of his mansion in New York, one of his limos, and five of his prize horses on the condition she wouldn't remarry. She remarried after his death.

30. Almost a month after the Titanic sank, a lifeboat from it containing three decomposed bodies was found 200 miles away.

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.

32. There's a picture of the iceberg that sank the Titanic, taken by the chief steward of the ocean liner Prinz Adalbert on the morning of April 15, 1912. He left a note on the photo saying he saw "plainly visible" red paint on the iceberg that appeared to have been left by the scraping of a vessel.

33. Berthe Mayne was a Belgian singer who claimed to her family that she survived the Titanic's sinking by traveling first class as the mistress of a young Canadian millionaire. No one believed her until after her death, when her belongings and correspondence corroborated the story.

34. Katherine Gilnagh was a Titanic survivor who was 16 when the ship sank. She didn't realize the seriousness of the ship's situation until she reached New York. She thought that disembarking in lifeboats and being picked up by another ship were all part of the journey.

35. The second officer of the Titanic, Charles Lightoller, swam from the sinking ship to a capsized raft and lived. Later in life, he sailed his civilian boat to Dunkirk and helped get over 130 people out of the area.

Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.

37. The only children to survive the Titanic without a parent were two brothers, aged 2 and 4. Their father abducted them from his ex-wife and boarded the ship under a false name. The father didn't survive, and for weeks, the boys were known as the Titanic Orphans until their mother was found.

38. Molly Brown survived the Titanic and was rescued by the Carpathia. Aboard the Carpathia, a battered Brown did what she could to help the other survivors, including raising money from the wealthy to help poor passengers. Her acts of heroism earned her the nickname "the unsinkable Mrs. Brown."

39. Masabumi Hosono, the only Japanese who survived the Titanic. He later lost his job back home because he was known as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.

40. Annie Robinson was a stewardess who survived the Titanic's sinking. She suffered from such severe PTSD after the disaster that she committed suicide less than three years later on the SS Devonian after reacting to the ship's whistle.