Description: BORN IN 1862, MISS LUCY RIDSDALE, WAS 50 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE BOARDED THE TRAIN AT WATERLOO STATION, LONDON, BOUND FOR SOUTON (SOUTHAMPTON) AS IT IS ABBREVIATED ON HER LUGGAGE TICKET. She was to board the RMS Titanic for passage to America to live out her final years. This listing is for a nice reprint of her luggage ticket. (There will be no watermark on your copy) It is printed on archival, acid free, 65lb card stock and will look Great in your Titanic collection! Lucy had over 300 pounds of belonging packed into 5 trunks, which represented everything that she owned. This luggage tag might not seem like much to you, but to her it meant EVERYTHING! Miss Lucy Ridsdale, 50, (born 1862) boarded the Titanic at Southampton and travelled in second class, she shared a cabin with Mary Davis.Lucy Ridsdale had run a nursing home in London before retiring. With all her possessions in the hold of the Titanic she was travelling to America where her three sister already lived. She would stay with her niece, Mrs J. E. Wickstrom, who lived in Marietta, Ohio before moving on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.After the collision Miss Ridsdale was helped to dress by her cabin-mate Mary Davis; being afflicted by a club-foot she struggled to get to the boat-deck, but was eventually able to get into lifeboat 13. Lucy Ridsdale was one of 706 survivors of the most infamous disaster in maritime history. When the Titanic struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, Lucy and her cabinmate Mary Davis made their way onto lifeboat 13. After being picked up by the RMS Carpathia, she arrived at the Port of New York on April 18, 1912. I will carefully package and ship your Replica via USPS with tracking! Thanks for looking!
Price: 6.88 USD
Location: Dacula, Georgia
End Time: 2024-02-01T12:24:58.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Cruise Ship & Ocean Liner: White Star & Titanic
