![]() ![]() ![]() RMS Titanic, which was believed to be unsinkable, was sunk by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, just five days into its maiden voyage. Like a scene from James Cameron’s Titanic movie, she held on for as long as she could but, as she finally lost her grip and sunk beneath the waves, all husband Edvard had left grasped in his hand was the wedding ring that had slipped from her finger.Įdvard did not last much longer himself and, having succumbed to the cold, his fellow survivors pushed his body overboard to lighten the load in the stricken vessel until the few that were still alive hours later were rescued and collapsible lifeboat A was abandoned to drift off into the Atlantic. ![]() The Sun reports that third-class passenger Edvard Lindell, floundering in the maelstrom, struck out desperately in the direction of the half-submerged craft and managed to drag himself aboard, but wife Gerda, already exhausted by the numbingly cold water, did not have the strength to clamber into the swamped collapsible lifeboat A. WITH a groan of tortured metal and the screams of the remaining passengers still clinging to her hull, Titanic sank beneath the waves and the last unlaunched canvas lifeboat was washed from her deck into the foaming whirlpool of freezing water. ![]()
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