"The night before sailing I asked my wife to put my White Star in my cap and while she was doing it, the star fell all to pieces. With a look of dismay she said, I don't like this."
Steward Arthur Lewis
"My father was so excited about it and my mother was so upset... The first time in my life I saw her crying... she was so desperately unhappy about the prospect of going, she had this premotion, a most unusual thing for her... "
We went on the day on the boat train... I was 7, I had never seen a ship before... it looked very big... everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would sit up at night... she decided that she wouldn't go to bed at night, and she didn't!
Eva Hart
"We were let out of school for half the day to see her, I lived in Woolston and that's where we could see the docks from where we were standing. Teacher was in control of us and we watched the Titanic come out so far and then there was a delay and it was drawn back again to the warf and so we waited and waited and finally she sarted again and that time she went down out of sight of Southampton waters and that was the last we saw of her. An old gentleman mentioned alongside me, that it was, a sign of bad luck, let's hope not, he said.
Mrs Lois Jacobs, nee Brown