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piece of wreckage. She lost sight of her parents in the panicking crowd in the water. A few minutes later, Grace saw a couple of lifeboats and called for help. One crowded boat with only two ladies in it while the rest were men, responded and she was pulled aboard, where she lost consciousness, and woke up in a bed on the
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victims. She had a photo of her taken in 1934 with nine other
Salvation Army members that survived the sinking: Thomas and Margaret Greenaway, David MacAmmond, Ernest Green, Rufus Spooner, Alfred Keith, Mary Atwell, and Frank and Henrietta Brooks. When she grew older she married Maurice Martyn, with
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on the ship in the afternoon. The ship started to set sail at 4:27 in the afternoon, as the orchestra played. Once they had started, Grace and David Rees’ son Harold went on a tour of the ship. To her, it was beautiful, like a lovely hotel, and she was quite thrilled with it. After that, she and her
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so far on its side that the family couldn't use lifeboats, and went to the high part of the railing and sat with the Evans family until the ship sank. Before the three of them were thrown into the water Grace's parents told her to not be afraid. She went under the water twice until she held onto a
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That night the family was awakened by a noise, which her father suggested to be the mail pickup, before they were told the ship was sinking. The family ran out as they were, and on the deck they ran into Ensign Ernest
Pugmire. Edward asked for Pugmire's overcoat so he could wrap it around Grace,
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Following the death of her parents, Grace lived with her grandparents, uncle, and aunt; her uncle, John
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Empress of Ireland was sinking and that the lifeboat that saved her only had two ladies in.
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that was next to a porthole as she believed this would be "where the water will come in", the memory of the sinking of the
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for the third
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on May 29, 1914. She was one of four children (out of the 138 children on board) who survived the sinking.
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dining room at 7:00, and then they prepared to turn in for the night. Grace refused to sleep in a
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Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. Maidment, the Leader of the Salvation Army
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Empress of Ireland sinking living history for woman.
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