The Spedden Research Paper

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Survivors and Deaths

The Spedden Story

One Survival story, was about Douglas that was the only child of Frederic and Daisy Spedden when they boarded the Titanic. An hour after the shuddering collision, Douglas, his mother, Daisy, and two servants went into lifeboat 3. The dad was also allowed to get into a lifeboat when they let men get into lifeboats early on. They had all fortunately survived! Sadly Douglas’s life was cut short on August 6, 1915, two years after the Titanic crashed. While he was playing football, he ran in front of the car and was killed. His family never recovered from his sudden death. After Daisy and Frederic died, a relative discovered a story Daisy wrote for Douglas in 1913 that was about the viewpoint

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