Titanic left Southampton pier where she received her official glorious name, on Wednesday,

April 10, 1912, at 12:15pm. Titanic took a 24 mile trip down the English channel en route to Cherbourg
France. Titanic then arrived in Cherbourg at 5:30pm, where the famous "Unsinkable Molly Brown"
boarded. At 8:30pm, the anchor is raised and she leaves for Queenstown, Ireland, taking her through
the English channel and around England's south coast.

Thursday, April 11, 1912: Titanic arrived at the Queenstown Harbour at 11:30 am. Finally, at
1:30pm, her anchor is raised for the last time and she departs with a total estimate of 2,228
passengers and crew members (1,343 passengers and 885 crew members) aboard, bound for a
destination that she would never reach. New York.

Friday, April 12, 1912: By daybreak Titanic was well out in the Atlantic running 21 knots. Between
April 11th and 12th, Titanic covers 386 miles in fine, calm, clear weather. Each day, as the voyage
went on, everybody's admiration of the ship increased: for the way she behaved; for the total absence
of vibration; for her steadiness even with the ever-increasing speed. As Lightoller observed, "We were
not out to make a record passage; in fact the White Star Lines invariably run their ships at reduced
speed for the first few voyages." During the day, Titanic had received many wireless messages of
congratulations and good wishes including those from the Empress of Britain and La Touraine. Each
greeting had also contained advice of ice, but this was not uncommon for an April crossing. Late in the
evening, Titanic's wireless apparatus ceased to function, forcing Jack Phillips and Harold Bride to work
through the early morning hours to troubleshoot the apparatus and locate the problem. As Friday
passed into Saturday, vessels were encountering ice all along the North Atlantic shipping lines.

Saturday, April 13, 1912: Between noon Friday and noon Saturday, Titanic covers 519 miles. At
10:30 a.m., Captain E.J. Smith begins the daily inspection.

Sunday, April 14, 1912: The fine weather continued with a smooth sea and a moderate
southwesterly wind. Everyone was in good spirits. The hardier passengers paced briskly up and down
the Boat Deck, even though the breeze was chilly but invigorating. Between Saturday and Sunday, the
Titanic covered 546 smiles. Earlier, Titanic had picked up a wireless message from the Caronia warning
of ice ahead, followed by a message from the Dutch liner Noordam, again warning of "much ice"
ahead. In the early afternoon, the Baltic reports "large quantities of field ice" about 250 miles ahead of
the Titanic (this is the message which Smith eventually gives to J. Bruce Ismay). A short time later, the
German liner Amerika warns of a "large iceberg" but this message was not sent to the bridge. Just
before 6:00 p.m., Smoth alters the ship's course slightly to south and west of its normal course,
perhaps as a precaution to avoid the ice warned by so many ships. Titanic's course is now South 86
West true. But no orders are given to decrease speed, in fact at this time, the Titanic's speed was
actually increasing. At 7:30 p.m., 3 warning messages concerning large icebergs are intercepted from
the Californian indicating that ice is now only 50 miles ahead. After excusing himself from dinner,
Smith heads for the bridge where he discusses the unusually calm and clear conditions with 2nd Office
Lightoller. Around 9:20 p.m., Smith retires for the night with the usual order to rouse him "if it becomes
at all doubtful" after which Lightoller cautions the lookouts to watch carefully for ice until morning. At
9:40 p.m., a heavy ice pack and iceberg warning is received from the Mesaba. This message is
overlooked by Bride and Phillips due to their preoccupation with passenger traffic. Altogether, the
many ice warnings received that day show a huge ice field 78 miles long and directly ahead of Titanic.

By 10:00 p.m., Lightoller is relieved by 1st Officer Murdoch. At 10:55 p.m., some 10-19 miles north of
Titanic, the Californian is stopped in ice and sends out warnings to all ships in area. Bride rebukes the
Californian with the famous reply, "Keep out! Shut up! You're jamming my signal. I'm working Cape
Race" and the Californian wireless officer shuts down his set for the night. By this time, 24 of 29 boilers
were fired and the Titanic was now running at over 22 knots, the highest speed she had ever achieved.
At 11:30 p.m., lookouts Fleet and Lee note a slight haze appearing directly ahead. At 11:40 p.m., with
the Titanic steaming at over 22 knots, Fleet sees a large iceberg dead ahead and signals the bride.
Sixth Office Moody acknowledges the signal and relays the message to Murdoch who instinctively
orders "Hard-a-starboard" and telegraphs the engine room to stop all engines, followed by a full astern.
He also closes the watertight doors. Titanic slowly begins to veer to port, but an underwater spar from
the passing berg scraps and bumps along the starboard side forward to the sea, as 300-foot distance
fully opening the five forward compartments to the sea, as well as flooding the coal bunker servicing
the No. 9 stokehole.
By 11:55 p.m., 15 minutes after the collision, the post office on "G" Deck forward is already flooding.
After a quick inspection of the damage by Wilde, Boxhall and Andrews, Smith knows the worst... that
Titanic was sinking and the more than 2,200 people aboard were in extreme peril. With a heavy heart,
Smith personally takes the Titanic's position, worked out by a 4th Office Boxhall, to the wireless room.
Handing the paper to Phillips shortly after midnight, he ordered a call for assistance. Phillips taps out
the regulation distress signal CQD...MGY...CQD...MGY...

Monday, April 15, 1912: Shortly after midnight, the Squash court, 32 feet above keel, is awash. The
majority of the boilders have been shut down, and the huge clouds of steam roar out of the relief pipes
secured to the sides of the funnels. Smith orders that the lifeboats be uncovered and musters the crew
and passengers. There is only enough room for 1,178 people out of an estimated 2,228 on board, if
every boat is filled to capacity. Wireless operators, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, try the CQD (Come
Quick, Distress) MGY (Titanic's call sign) signal but received few responses. They then try the new SOS
(Save Our Ship) signal and received responses from Frankfurt, Olympic and Carpathia. Frankfurt's
signal was the strongest; however they were 170 miles away. Olympic wouldn't arrive until the next
night. Carpathia, however, was the closet ship to Titanic. She was 57 miles away and it would take her
4 hours to get there.
Between 12:10 a.m. and 1:50 a.m., several crewmembers on Carpathia see what is thought to be a
tramp steamer's lights. Rockets are also observed, but no great concern is taken. Carpathia's crew
members saw Titanic's flares in the early morning sky, but thought they were having a celebration.
They didn't think of waking up their sleeping wireless operators.
At 12:15 a.m., Wallace Hartley and his band begin to play lively ragtime tunes in the 1st Class lounge
on "A" Deck.
At 12:25 a.m., Smith gives the order to start loading lifeboats with women and children, and this order
is particularly followed to the letter by 2nd Officer Lightoller.

By 12:45 a.m., starboard No.7 is safely lowered away with only 28 people, while it can carry 65. At
about this same time, the first distress rocket is fired by Quartermaster George Rowe, under the
direction of Boxhall, from the bridge rail sockets on the Boat Deck by the No.1 emergency cutter. They
soared 800 feet in the air and explode into 12 brilliant white stars, along with a loud report. Boxhall
sees a vessel approach and then disappear, despite attempts to contact her via Morse lamp.

By 1:15 am, water has reached Titanic's name on the bow, and she now lists to port. By this time,
seven boats have been lowered, by with far fewer passengers and crew than rated capacity. The tilt of
the deck grows steeper and boats now begin to be more fully loaded, with starboard No. 9 lowered at
1:20 a.m., some 56 people aboard. The Titanic has now developed a noticeable list to starboard. By
1:30 a.m., signs of panic begin to appear as port No. 14 is lowered with 60 people, including 5th Officer
Lowe. Lowe is forced to fire three warning shots along the ship's side to keep a group of unruly
passengers from jumping into the already full boat. Wireless distress calls tapped out by Phillips reach
desperation status, with messages such as, "we are sinking fast" and, "cannot last much longer." Ben
Guggenheim along with manservant Victor Giglio, returned to their cabins and changed into evening
dress explaining, "We're dressed up in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen."

By 1:40 a.m., most of the forward boats have left and passengers begin to move to the stern area. J.
Bruce Ismay leaves on collapsible "C" with 39 aboard, the last starboard boat to be lowered. The
forward Well Deck is awash. By
2:00 a.m., water is now only 10 feet below the Promenade Deck. Around this time, Hartley chooses the
band's final piece, 'Nearer, My God to Thee.' Hartley said it would always be the hymn he would select
for his own funeral. They would continue playing to almost the end, and every member would be lost.
With more than 1,500 still on board, and just 47 positions available in Collapsible "D," Lightoller
instructs the crew to lock arms and form a circle around the boat, permitting only women and children
to pass through the circle.

At 2:05 a.m., "D" begins it's downward journey with 44 people out of a rated capacity of 47. The sea is
pouring on to the forward end of "A" Deck, and Titanic's tilt grows deeper. At this same time, Smith
goes to the wireless cabin and releases Phillips and Bride telling them that they have "done their duty."
On the way back to his bridge, Smith tells several crewmen, "It's every man for himself." His last
thoughts are likely of his beloved wife Eleanor and his young daughter Helen. As Walter Lord describes
the scene in "A Night to Remember," "with the boats all gone, a curious calm came over the Titanic.
The excitement and confusion were over and the hundreds left behind stood quietly on the upper
decks. They seemed to cluster inboard, trying to keep as far away from the rail as possible." The stern
begins to lift clear of the water, and passengers move further and further aft.

At about 2:17 a.m., Titanic's bow plunges under while hundreds of 2nd and 3rd class passengers hear
confessions from Father Thomas Byles gathered at the aft end of the Boat Deck.
At 2:18 a.m., a huge roar is heard as all moveable objects inside Titanic crash toward the submerged
bow. The lights blink once and then go out, leaving Titanic visible only as a black silhouette against the
starlit sky. Many are convinced that the hull breaks in two between the 3rd and 4th funnels. The ship
achieves a completely perpendicular position and remains there for several minutes.

At 2:20 a.m., she settles back slightly and slides down to the bed of the North Atlantic some 13,000
feet below. Almost at once, the night was punctuated with the cries of the survivors, growing in
number and anguish until Thayer's words they became "a long continuous wailing chant." They ghastly
noise would continue for some time, but mercifully many would freeze to death and rather than drown.
The cries even affected the hardened Lightoller who heard the "heartrending never-to-be-forgotten
sounds" from overturned Collapsible "A." Later, he would confess that he had never allowed his
thoughts to dwell on those terrible cries.

At 3:30 a.m., the Carpathia's rockets are sighted by those in the lifeboats and at 4:10 a.m., Titanic's
No.2 lifeboat is picked up.

By 5:30 a.m., after being advised by the Frankfort of Titanic's loss, the Californian makes for the
disaster site and arrives about three hours later, just as the last boat No. 12, is rescued by the
Carpathia. True to form, Lightoller is the last survivor to come aboard.

At 8:50 a.m., the Carpathia leaves the searching for survivors to the other ships and heads for New
York. She carries only 705 survivors. An estimated 1,522 souls have been lost. J. Bruce Ismay sent the
following message to the White Star Lines New York offices: "Deeply regret advice you, Titanic sank
this morning after collision with iceberg, resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later."

Titanic: The Major Motion Picture vs. The Facts

In spite of the efforts of the producers of the Titanic faithfully to reconstruct every detail of the fateful
voyage, they also had to make a popular movie which people would want to see, and so they fudged
the facts here and there.
Here are some of the areas where the movie does not fit with the facts.
All of the major characters in the love story were fictional. Jack Dawson, Rose Calvert, Rose's mother,
and Rose's fiancee, Cal Hockley, were all fictional.
No such diamond as "The Heart of the Ocean" was on the Titanic. King Louis XVI is reported to have
owned a diamond by that name. King Louis XVI was beheaded during the French Revolution. The
diamond has never been found.

The true situation proved to be worse, as between 1498 and

1521 died and only 700 survived.

On the other hand, many of the characters were real. Captain Edward John Smith was the real captain.
First Officer William McMaster Murdoch was a real officer. The major villain of the voyage, Bruce Ismay,
was the real owner of the Titanic. He became a villain saying that he wanted the ship to go faster and
break a speed record and then by getting on the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic. He later testified that
there were 12 empty seats on that lifeboat and no women who wanted to get on. There were four
Filipino and Chinese stowaways who got on the same lifeboat and survived, whereas many paying first
class customers died.
John Jacob Astor, played by the star of the Soap Opera "The Young and the Restless", was a real
person. However, he was John Jacob Astor IV and not his much more famous grandfather.
There was a big scandal going on at the time, because John Jacob Astor, a millionaire in his late 40s,
had married an 18-year-old girl who was already pregnant with his child. This scandal is mentioned in
the movie.
In real life, John Jacob Astor tried to get into a lifeboat with his wife, Mrs. John Jacob Astor (Madeleine
Force), saying that she was "in a delicate condition". However, he was ordered off the boat by Second
Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller. In one incident, Fifth Officer Lowe pointed a gun at the head of a 13-
year-old boy who was hiding under a lady's dress and who said that he would not take up much room,
and ordered him off. The boy got off and went down with the ship. On the other hand, the life boat left
the Titanic only a little more than half full. (It also contained Officer Lowe).
In real life, the 18-year-old wife of John Jacob Astor survived and gave birth to the child, whom she
named John Jacob Astor V. His estate gave her an endowment of $5,000,000, on the condition that she
never remarry. Years later, she did remarry and thereby gave up the five million dollars.
Molly Brown was a very real person from Denver who survived the disaster and became famous as
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown".
Many things which happened in the movie involving fictional characters were obviously put into the
script so as make the story at least possible. For example, Leonardo Di Caprio boards the Titanic using
somebody else's ticket, which he had won in a card game. It has been reported that there were card
sharks on board traveling under assumed names. Some of them survived the sinking and even won big
money from other survivors who still had money on the Carpathia. This is one of the reasons why a
complete and exact list of those who died has never been possible to assemble. In addition, survivors
reported that a card game was in progress while the ship was sinking. The card players came out to
access the damage, but then went back to their card game.
At the end of the movie, Rose Calvert gives a fake name to a person who is taking down a list of
survivors. This would explain why we cannot find her name on the lists of those who survived.
The name of Rose Calvert in the movie is clearly derived from Rosa Abbott. While the Titanic was
sinking, Rosa Abbott, a third class passenger, jumped in the water with her two sons. After the Titanic
sunk, 14 survivors were pulled from the water, but seven of them later died. All of the others were ship
employees. Rosa Abbott was both the only woman and the only passenger who was pulled from the
water and survived. Her two sons died in the water, however. She later remarried.
Most of the small details in the movie are true. For example, when something is broken during the
Titanic sinking, a steward says: "That is White Star property. You will have to pay for that." That line
gets a laugh from the movie audience, but in reality the steward did say that. He survived the sinking
and later explained that he did not realize that the Titanic was sinking when he said that.
One of the final scenes in the movie shows a woman with a baby in her arms both frozen and dead in
the water. Sad to relate, this is true. The woman and her baby were found frozen dead when Officer
Lowe went back to look for survivors.
Officer Lowe was by no means a hero. He did not want to go back and only did so when the other
survivors vehemently insisted upon it.
Many details in the movie were lifted directly from the 1958 Titanic film "A Night to Remember". Rights
to that film were purchased by James Cameron to avoid any copyright problems.

The only change in the true facts which I found disturbing was that some of the undersea shots of the
Titanic wreckage were fake. James Cameron did in fact personally take a dive down to see the actual
Titanic. However, new technology had to be developed to take the underwater shots at a depth of two
miles which were shown in the movie. It was only possible to take 12 minutes of film.
To make up for this, after the Titanic replica was sunk in the making of the film, some underwater shots
were taken of that. Included in the fake footage were the frequent scenes of the clock in the stateroom
where Leonardo Di Caprio draws Kate Winslet nude.
The Renault car which was shown in the movie was real. Whether Kate and Jack or anybody else on
board ever had sex in the back seat of that car (thereby establishing a fine American tradition) is not
known.
I had a distant relative named Mary Sloan, who survived the Titanic.
Sam Sloan
Mary Sloan, Titanic Survivor
People with the last name of Sloan are almost all Irish, although a few are Scots. This fact, which I have
always known, was verified when somebody set up a Sloan Family e-mail group, and almost all of us
turned out to be Irish.
My own ancestors came from Stewartstown, which is in Northern Ireland, near Belfast, where the
Titanic was built.
A member of the Sloan family survived the Titanic. Little is known about her, except that her name was
Mary Sloan and she was from Belfast. She worked as a stewardess on the ship. No one seems to know
what ever happened to her.
I do know that she bears a remarkable resemblance to my own daughter, whose name also happens to
be Mary Sloan.

Here is what one source says about her:

"Miss Mary Sloan came from Belfast.
"After the collision Mary saw Dr. O'Loughlin and he confided to her that 'Child,
things are very bad'. She also met Thomas Andrews who advised her 'It is
very serious, but keep the bad news quiet, for fear of panic.'
"Mary Sloan was standing by one of the boats which was being filled
(probably Lifeboat 16). Thomas Andrews recognized her and asked why she
was still there. She replied, 'All my friends are staying behind. It would be
mean to go.' Andrews said, 'It would be mean for you not to go. You must get
in.' Miss Sloan finally assented and was aboard the boat when it left the
ship."

There was also a Peter Sloan on the Titanic. He was the Chief Electrician and was from Liverpool. He
did not survive, but went down with the ship. I have a son named Peter Sloan, too!
My son, Peter Sloan, does not resemble the Peter Sloan who died on the Titanic.

Peter
Sloan, who
died on the
Titanic

Peter
Sloan, my
son

UPDATE: I am discovering that there are dozens of references to Mary Sloan. It seems that almost
every author who has written about the Titanic has used her letters about the sinking as a source. In
the acknowledgments section of the book "Her Name, Titanic" by Charles Pellegrino, the author writes
"The Andrews' impressions of each other, and Thomas Andrews affection for his ship, are derived from
stewardess Mary Sloan's account of Thomas Andrews during the maiden voyage."
Mary Sloan was a stewardess who was one of the first to know that the ship was sinking. She went
around waking up passengers. She pulled life jackets out from the cargo bins and she helped
passengers board the lifeboats. At the very end, when suddenly the danger was realized and there was
a crush of people trying to get on, Mary Sloan was literally pushed onto the lifeboat. The ship sunk
immediately after she got on and she was apparently the last to leave the ship (not counting those
who survived by climbing onto collapsible lifeboats which floated off the Titanic as she went down).
A letter by Mary Sloan to her sister is in the preface to the book: "Titanic Survivor: The Newly
Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters" - Violet
Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham; Hardcover.
The book "Her Name, Titanic" by Charles Pellegrino describes going down in a submersible and seeing
the Titanic at the bottom. He writes: "The sub circled the bridge and turned around on the liner's port
side, passing beneath the davit for collapsible D - Mary Sloan's Boat, the last boat down." (Page 166).
The account quoted above that Thomas Andrews recognized her and asked why she was still there
does not accord with her own account in her letter to her sister. In her letter to her sister, Mary Sloan
wrote that immediately after the collusion with the iceberg, Dr. Simpson rather than Dr. O'Loughlin told
her that things were very bad. He then went off to see if there were any injuries. She never saw him
again.
In her own account, she says that, while helping passengers board the lifeboats, she was literally
pushed on the boat by the crush of passengers behind her.
This was confirmed by the testimony of Witness Edward John Buley, Able Seaman and British Royal
Navy Veteran from Itchen, England, who testified in the Hearings before a Subcommittee on Commerce
United States Senate, page 262:
SENATOR FLETCHER: Were any ladies on the deck when you left?
MR. BULEY: No, sir. Ours was the last boat up there, and they went around and called to see if there
were any, and they threw them in the boat at the finish, because they didn't like the idea of coming in.
SENATOR FLETCHER: Pushed them in, you mean?
MR. BULEY: Threw them in. One young lady slipped, and they caught her by the foot on the deck below,
and she came up then and jumped in."
All sources agree on one point: Mary Sloan was the last person to board a lifeboat, before the Titanic
sank.
One reason she is not better known is that she turned around and went back to England immediately
after she reached New York on the Carpathia. All of the Titanic crew members, with the exception of
the officers, were sent back to England on the Lapland after staying only one day in America. They
were paid about three pounds (twelve dollars) for their entire voyage. She arrived in England on April
28 on the S.S. Lapland.
Sam Sloan

Here is: The Letter which Mary Sloan wrote to her sister Maggie about the Titanic sinking. This letter
seems to be one of the primary sources for information about the Titanic disaster.

At 08:32 PM 2/5/99 +0100, James Carlisle ( james@carlisle.net ) wrote:

Hello,
My name is Jim Carlisle and I have a very big interest in the Titanic. This I have had all my life mostly
because My Grandad was one of the people who built her. My Dad worked in the Shipyard as well for
over forty years. I have a lot of information about Titanic on my web site if you would like to read it.
Being from Northern Ireland (I live in Norway now) I know a lot of Sloans, as you know you name is
Northern Irish and Scottish.
Well Mary Sloan, she lived in Kerrsland Terrace in Belfast with her mother and two sisters. She used
May as her name (same as my Mum). One of her sisters married and moved to Bangor, County Down.
This is who she wrote the letter to.
Mary was also a stewardess on the Olympic when it collided with HMS Hawke.
She is the person who saw Thomas Andrews in the smoking room ( this everyone believes is where he
remained, but Mary Sloan said that she saw him later throwing deck chairs overboard and helping
women and children into the lifeboats.
I hope this information is of some help to you.
PS. There was no mummy aboard the Titanic!
All the best
James (Jim) Alexander Carlisle
Titanic wasn't a disaster, what happened to her was
http://www.james.carlisle.net

Sam Sloan wrote:

Thank you so much for your letter.
Do you happen to know if she ever married, had children and when she died?
Sam Sloan
At 12:53 PM 2/6/99 +0100, James Carlisle wrote:
Hello Sam,
I'm not sure, I'll be over in Belfast in April for the Annual Titanic Dinner and I'll try and find out more for
you.
Jim
Mystery of Mary Sloan, Titanic Survivor
After the sinking of the Titanic, almost all of the survivors seem to have disappeared. Some apparently
wanted to live out their lives in peace and did not want it known that they had survived the Titanic. For
example, Harold Bride, the Marconi operator who became famous for sending out the SOS messages
that the Titanic was sinking, afterwards kept it a secret that he was that famous man. When he died in
1956, it was reported to the coroner's office that one H.S. Bride had died, and the coroner inquired:
Was that THE Harold Bride?
Another survivor, Violet Jessop, complained that nobody had asked her about the Titanic sinking and
that she had been ignored.

Postcards from M. Sloane

Mary Sloan was a Titanic survivor who wrote letters to her family while she was on her way back to
England on board the Lapland. After reaching New York, all of the Titanic crew members went back on
the Lapland the next day except for those who were kept in the USA to testify before the US Senate
and elsewhere.
What happened to Mary Sloan, after she returned to England on the Lapland, has remained a mystery.
However, today I received an e-mail which may solve the mystery.
The e-mail contains four postcards which were written by someone with the same or a similar name to
her sister or aunt Annie Sloane.
I have just posted the cards on my website as follows: http://www.anusha.com/marysloan.jpg
http://www.anusha.com/maysloan.jpg
Here are two of the cards. They are from Belfast, Ireland. They are addressed to Mrs. William J. Gilliland
(Annie Sloane), Alpine Avenue, Silverton, Hamilton Co., Ohio, US America and read:
"We are stopping for a fortnight. Glorious weather. All well M. Sloane"
"We are all well. Hope you got the Christmas number I sent you all right. Fine Weather here now. M.
Sloane"
The other two cards are more difficult to read and are signed "May Sloane".
Silverton Ohio is just outside of Cincinnati. I have found Alpine Avenue on a map. The question is
whether this is the same Mary Sloan who survived the Titanic.

Postcards from May Sloane

One clue which indicates that it is the same person is that in one place she is May Sloane and in
another place she is Mary Sloane.
The Titanic survivor is also sometimes referred to as Mary Sloan and other times as May Sloan.
The Titanic survivor was from Belfast. This May Sloane was also from Belfast. Also, Mary Sloan, the
Titanic survivor, had two sisters.
On the other hand, these postcards are signed Sloane, whereas the name of the Titanic survivor is
spelled Sloan.
This difference is not important however, as these are alternate spellings of the same name and Annie
and Mary both signed their names with and without the e at end.
On the other hand, if this is the same Mary or May Sloan, she seems to have been older than it was
supposed that the Titanic Survivor was. This Mary or May Sloane died on January 13, 1926.
I also have a marriage certificate showing that the father of Annie Sloan was named Samuel Sloan
(me?). This information was sent to me by the great-granddaughter of Annie Sloane.
I have just posted the marriage certificate at http://www.anusha.com/sloanmar.jpg and at
http://www.anusha.com/maysloan.htm
Does anybody have any insight into this. What would be helpful would be if the letters which Mary
Sloan, the Titanic survivor, wrote her sister while on board the Lapland can be found. If the letters can
be found, we could determine if a person with the same handwriting wrote the letters to Mrs. William J.
Gilliland.
Note that Annie Sloane was sometimes called Anna Sloan and William J. Gilliland later became known
as William J Gillian.Sam Sloan