Hannah Holman

“Newark Star, 20 April 1912 To the rare presence of mind of her father, John H. Cribb, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, Miss Lillian M. Cribb, 17 years old, believes she owes her life. Controlling her overtaxed nerves as best she could upon her arrival at the home of her uncle, John W. Welch, at 106 Pennington Street, last night, she recited the incidents attending her rescue aboard the Carpathia.”
― Hannah Holman, Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary Stories

“Lawrence Beesley was a 34-year-old science teacher. A Cambridge University graduate, Beesley wrote one of the more considered and authoritative eyewitness accounts of the disaster. The Loss of the SS Titanic, its Story and its Lessons was first published just nine weeks after the disaster. No Titanic collection would be complete without Beesley, and it is for this reason that I have included a major extract. I would like to thank Nicholas Wade, Lawrence Beesley’s grandson, for permission to reproduce this extract. As with many accounts, some of Beesley’s timings are a little off. His estimate of when lifeboat 13 was launched is earlier than the time now accepted.”
― Hannah Holman, Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary Stories