LAST SEAT IN LAST BOAT
STORY OF THE TITANIC. The world was recently told the dramatic story of the last seat in the last boat of the Egypt, the heroic sacrifice of Miss Ethel Rhoda M'Neile, who gave up her place to a poor mother beside her who, in that fearful moment, was overcome with distress at the thought of her little ones. A companion story to this deathless tale has been told in Arthur Mee’s Monthly. It is that of the woman , who refused ,the last place in the last boat when the Titanic sank. It was the finest ship in the world, and it was on its first voyage. The woman who gave up her seat was with her husband. He'-was by her side. They had been inseparable for. 15 years. They had thought out splendid schemes together, and together they had carried them out. They had laughted and joked with one another, and round life in a London slum a great adventure, and how together they were facing death. They called out to her that there was one place left, but she slipped her. hand through her husband’s arm saying, “Of course I - shall stay with you.” Somebody else took her place in the boat that rowed away, and two hours later the Titanic went down.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21579, 26 February 1932, Page 14
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