A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival
From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History

Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells had been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam, but fled in what they described as a desperate journey around the world to save Sylvia’s health. Fellow missionaries, however, believed that the couple had plotted to renege on their contract at financial loss to the church. Not even sinking Titanic ended the hunt for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows all the true-life plot twists of a family who successfully fled aboard the Titanic but never could get out from under the shadow the ship cast over them.

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A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival
From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History

Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells had been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam, but fled in what they described as a desperate journey around the world to save Sylvia’s health. Fellow missionaries, however, believed that the couple had plotted to renege on their contract at financial loss to the church. Not even sinking Titanic ended the hunt for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows all the true-life plot twists of a family who successfully fled aboard the Titanic but never could get out from under the shadow the ship cast over them.

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A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival

A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival

by Julie Hedgepeth Williams
A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival

A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival

by Julie Hedgepeth Williams

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From author Julie Hedgepeth Williams, winner of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History

Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells had been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam, but fled in what they described as a desperate journey around the world to save Sylvia’s health. Fellow missionaries, however, believed that the couple had plotted to renege on their contract at financial loss to the church. Not even sinking Titanic ended the hunt for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic Family follows all the true-life plot twists of a family who successfully fled aboard the Titanic but never could get out from under the shadow the ship cast over them.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781588382825
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 03/01/2012
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

JULIE HEDGEPETH WILLIAMS is an adjunct communication and media professor at Samford University. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History. Williams is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama.

JULIE HEDGEPETH WILLIAMS is an adjunct communication and media professor at Samford University. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History. Williams is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Vast Ocean of Things I Didn't Know ix

1 Of Those in Peril on the Sea 3

2 As Far From the Sea as a Person Could Get 15

3 Caught in a Maelstrom 33

4 Deliver Us from Seasickness 57

5 To the Lifeboats-Women and Children First! 71

6 'To See How the Sea Flap-Dragoned It' 80

7 Pull for the Shore, Sailor 96

8 Tossed on the Ocean of Life 117

9 Navigating New Waters 134

10 Phantom from a Watery Grave 155

Afterword: Titanic Memorabilia 169

Sources of Information 173

Illustration Credits 187

Index 188

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