As the most anticipated and luxurious addition to the White Star Line fleet, Mr Ismay accompanied the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York - he travelled aboard Nomadic from Cherbourg harbour to meet the Titanic on 10th April After the disaster, he became infamous as the highest-ranking White Star official among the survivors and was slated by both the American and the British press for deserting the ship while women and children were still on board.
He was often referred to as the "Coward of the Titanic. Benjamin Guggenheim was a wealthy American mining magnate. Following the collision, Guggenheim ensured that his mistress and her maid were safely loaded into one of the lifeboats and then he and Giglio returned to their cabin and changed into evening wear.
As the two men were seen heading to the Grand Staircase, Guggenheim was reported to remark, "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen". The bodies of Benjamin Guggenheim and Victor Giglio were never recovered. Margaret 'Molly' Brown was a wealthy American socialite, philanthropist and activist. She travelled on Nomadic when she boarded Titanic, as a first-class passenger at Cherbourg in April She survived the disaster and later became known as 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' for her efforts to persuade the crew of lifeboat number 6 to return to search the water for other survivors.
In , thirty-two years after her death, a musical 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was made based on her life story - where a poor, uneducated, mountain girl leaves her mountain cabin in search of a wealthy husband, respect and a better life. Dorothy Gibson was an American singer and dancer who appeared in a number of Broadway musicals between and In , after completing a series of motion pictures, Dorothy and her mother went on vacation to Europe.
Dorothy and her mother booked their return passage aboard Titanic and boarded the ship via Nomadic in Cherbourg. Following the collision, Dorothy and her mother survived the sinking on lifeboat number 7. Soon after the disaster, Dorothy acted in the first film produced about it - 'Saved from Titanic' - in which she played herself. The movie was released barely a month after the sinking. Marie Curie was the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize.
