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Gracie survived the sinking of the Titanic by climbing aboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat and wrote a popular book about the disaster. [1] He never recovered from his ordeal and died less than eight months after the sinking, becoming the first adult survivor to die.
Archibald Gracie was the third survivor of Titanic to die, being preceded in death by Maria Nackid on 30 July 1912 and Eugenie Baclini on 30 August 1912. Colonel Gracie's estate was divided between his wife and his daughter Edith.
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Colonel Archibald Gracie, the last man to leave the sinking Titanic, died yesterday at the Hotel St. Louis, at No. 24 East 32d street. His physicians ascribed his death directly to the shock of the Titanic disaster. His health had failed steadily since the ocean tragedy, and recently his condition had
Haunted by his memories of the wreck of the Titanic and never completely recovered from the shock of his experiences in that disaster, Col. Archibald Gracie, U. S. A., retired, died yesterday morning at his apartment at the Hotel St. Louis, in East Thirty-second Street.
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Gracie was born in Mobile, Alabama, a member of the wealthy Scottish-American Gracie family of New York. He was a namesake and direct descendant of the Archibald Gracie who had built Gracie Mansion, the current official residence of the mayor of New York City, in 1799. His father, Archibald Gracie III, had been an officer with the Washington Light ...
Gracie boarded the Titanic at Southampton on April 10th, 1912, and was assigned first-class cabin C-51. His ticket was 113780 at a price of £28 10. He spent much of the voyage chaperoning various unaccompanied women, including Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, Mrs. E.D. (Charlotte) Appleton, Mrs. R.C. (Malvina) Cornell and Mrs. J.M. (Caroline) Brown. He...
Gracie returned to New York aboard the Carpathia and immediately started on a book about his experiences aboard the Titanic and Collapsible "B". His is one of the most detailed accounts of the events of the evening; Gracie spent months trying to determine exactly who was in each lifeboat and when certain events took place. He later got a message fr...
Gracie never recovered from the ordeal. Although he survived the sinking itself, he did not survive the year. His health was severely affected by the hypothermia and physical injuries he suffered, and he died of complications of diabetes on December 4, 1912, less than eight months after the sinking. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx; ...
As one of the most well-known survivors of the sinking, Gracie has been featured as a character in many of the dramatizations of the Titanicsinking.
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Colonel Archibald Gracie, Sutton Publishing 1913 ISBN 0-86299-179-XThe Truth about Chickamauga, by Archibald Gracie, 1911 ISBN 0-89029-038-5Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, by John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, W.W. Newton & Company, 2nd edition 1995 ISBN 0-393-03697-9A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord, ed. Nathaniel Hilbreck, Owl Books, rep. 2004, ISBN 0-8050-7764-2Archibald Gracie was the third survivor of the Titanic to die, preceded only by Maria Nackid on July 30, 1912, and Eugenie Baclini on August 30, 1912. His funeral at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York was attended by many Titanic survivors and members of his regiment.
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Colonel Archibald Gracie IV (January 17, 1859 – December 4, 1912) was an American writer, amateur historian, real estate investor, and survivor of the sinking of the R.M.S Titanic. He survived the sinking by climbing aboard an overturned lifeboat.
