Irish girls fought Titanic seamen to get drowning brother in lifeboat

[Encyclopedia Titanica]

How 30 young Irish women were saved in the Titanic disaster after burning their straw hats for signals... New York Herald Mon, 29 Apr 1912

Irish girls fought Titanic seamen to get drowning brother in lifeboat

How 30 young Irish women were saved in the Titanic disaster after burning their straw hats for signals

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[William Oakes]

When I read the title of this thread, my first though was that those seamen never had a chance...