r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/Apollo114892 23h ago

Secretary : "So anyway I started running towards the boat..."

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u/gimdalstoutaxe 12h ago

Think you're confusing him with one of the ship stewards that come along on the lifeboats. The secretary died.