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The wreck, which was located in 1985, claimed more than 1,500 lives including wealthy magnates Benjamin Guggenheim and John Jacob Astor IV. More than a hundred years later, passengers paid ...
Now, after an appeal for information by the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the first photograph has surfaced of Victor Giglio, the Liverpool manservant to millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. According ...
Businessman Benjamin Guggenheim also died in the shipwreck. Of the 329 first class passengers aboard, 199 survived. Of some 995 second and third class passengers, 293 survived. And among the 899 ...
John Jacob Astor, then 47, and his pregnant 18-year-old second wife, Madeleine; Benjamin Guggenheim; and Isidor Straus, one of the founders of Macy’s. The kitchen facilities were state-of-the ...