Eva Hart, Titanic survivor photographed at her her home in Chadwell Heath, Romford,Essex in 1985. Scanned in was seven years old when she and her parents boarded the Titanic as second-class passengers on 10 April 1912 at Southampton, England. Her father seen here died when the Titanic went down but Eva and her mother Esther who remarried survived.
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.
Size: 3246px × 5002px
Location: Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex, England
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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