1. Eva Miriam Hart MBE was an Englishwoman who was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.
17 Facts About Eva Hart
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Eva Hart was born on 31 January 1905 in Ilford, Essex, England, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother.
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Eva Hart's parents were Benjamin Hart and his wife Esther.
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Eva Hart was influenced by his brother, who already lived there and economic recessions at that time in England, in his decision to emigrate.
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Eva Hart was seven years old when she and her parents boarded Titanic as second-class passengers on April 10,1912.
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Eva Hart's mother was awake at the time and felt "a slight bump".
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Eva Hart immediately asked her husband to investigate the disturbance and he reluctantly left the cabin.
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Eva Hart's father placed his wife and daughter in Lifeboat No 14 and told her to "be a good girl and hold Mummy's hand".
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Eva was plagued with nightmares and upon the death of her mother in 1928, when Hart was 23, she confronted her fears head-on by booking a ticket on a passenger ship heading to Singapore, upon which she locked herself in her cabin for four straight days until the nightmares went away.
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Eva Hart recalled hearing the ship's band playing "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship succumbed to the ocean.
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Eva Hart was a professional singer in Australia, a Conservative Party organiser, and a magistrate.
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Eva Hart insisted in interviews that the ship had broken in half, a widely debated rumour that was later proven to be true after the discovery of the wreck site by Robert Ballard in 1985.
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Eva Hart claimed the vessel was less than 10 miles from Titanic, not 19 miles as was previously believed:.
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When salvaging efforts at the wreck site began in 1987, Eva Hart was quick to note that Titanic was a gravesite and should be treated as such.
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Eva Hart remained active in Titanic-related activities well into her 80s.
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Eva Hart participated in three more conventions in 1987,1988, and in 1992.
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Eva Hart died from cancer on February 14,1996, in a hospice in London, two weeks after her 91st birthday.