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  I recently read of one of the stewards (who's name I forget at the moment) who was woken by the collision and went up on deck to see what had happened. Once he had seen the ice and everyone going about their business he went back to bed. As luck, certainly for him, would have it, he was woken about an hour later by the noise of people running about. Going back on deck and discovering that all the lifeboats had gone he put on a life-jacket, slipped into the water (his word but by that time the bow would have been close to the water line) and managed to swim out to one.
  
  My own great aunt (on my mothers side), listed on the passenger list as "and maid", survived because her employer gave her her seat in the lifeboat, preferring to stay with her husband, and entrusted her to deliver her jewelry box to her family.

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