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Rose Amelie Icard

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Out of the 2,208 people on the titanic only about 700 passengers/crew survived. But, who were those people? They will be generally remembered for the horrors they went through, but we should honor them with knowing their full experiences the ship. One of the ladies on the titanic was named Rose Amelie Icard. She was a woman who worked as a maid for a woman named Mrs. Martha Evelyn Stone. She was at the age of 38 when she stepped aboard the titanic for the first time. She got on the titanic with a first class ticket along with Mrs. Stone. After feeling the ice hit the ship and knowing something was wrong, they stepped out to the corridor to ask someone if they knew what was going on. The stuart said that to his knowledge nothing was going on. So they went back into the room without a warning of the things that were going to happen. Then Rose and Mrs. Stone felt another violent jerk and the boat stopped. They went outside to see their neighbors daughter grabbing the life preserver frantic. …show more content…

The three of them ran together up to the main deck to see the sailors getting into the lifeboats. They all stepped into lifeboat 6. Rose took charge and rowed with all her might. Her hands were bleeding and her wrists ached. By the morning and all of them mourning they saw the ship “The Carpathia” and got on board with the other few survivors. Many years later after getting home safely , her family encouraged her to write down the accounts of that time. So she wrote a first person accounts of the events. After she died a person bought the letter at an auction. He knew how to speak french and english so he translated it. Part of the letter

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