Ethel Flora Fortune

Ethel Flora Fortune
Born	(1883-09-22)September 22, 1883 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	March 22, 1961(1961-03-22) (aged 77) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)	Crawford Gordon I (1883-1957) 2 children

Ethel Flora Fortune was a first-class passenger and a survivor of RMS Titanic.

Early life

Ethel Flora Fortune was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on September 22, 1883. She was the second daughter and third child of Mark and Mary Fortune. Her parents, Mark and Mary, invited her to join them and her younger siblings on a Grand Tour of Europe. She had 3 younger siblings, Alice Elizabeth (b. May 10, 1887), Mabel Helen (b. November 3, 1888) and Charles Alexander (b. October 13, 1892). Ethel's two elder siblings Robert William H. (b. July 1, 1877; d. Dec 28, 1965) and Clara Alma (b. Aug 2, 1879; d. 1964) did not accompany the rest of the family on their tour. Ethel was engaged to Crawford Gordon I, a rising Winnipeg banker. Ethel agreed to postpone her wedding so that she could shop for a trousseau in Europe and chaperone her younger siblings. She bought gowns from the leading fashion house, Worth, in Paris.

RMS Titanic

Ethel boarded RMS Titanic at Southampton as a first-class passenger together with her parents and siblings. They occupied staterooms C-23-25-27.

She thought getting into a lifeboat was a waste of time. She left her two sisters on the deck to return to her cabin. In her cabin, a steward informed her that her mother had gone on deck. The steward escorted her to lifeboat 10, just as it was being lowered. She jumped into the lifeboat. The people in the boat caught her. By the time Titanic went down their lifeboat was a mile away from the site. The thought of Charles floundering in the water while crying out for help stayed with her for the rest of her life.

Later life

Ethel married Crawford Gordon I in 1913. Seven years later they moved to Jamaica. They, again, moved to Toronto, Ottawa and London, England when Crawford Gordon I was appointed manager of the Bank of Commerce in United Kingdom. They had two sons, William Fortune Gordon and Crawford Gordon Jr. Crawford Jr. became the head of the Canadian aircraft manufacturing plant A.V. Roe. In the 1950s Crawford II was responsible for producing the Avro Arrow aircraft.

Death

Ethel died in Toronto on March 22, 1961. She is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

References

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/ethel-flora-fortune.html

RMS Titanic

Sinking

Deck officers

Edward J. Smith (Captain)
Henry Tingle Wilde (Chief Officer)
William McMaster Murdoch (First Officer)
Charles H. Lightoller (Second Officer)
Herbert Pitman (Third Officer)
Joseph G. Boxhall (Fourth Officer)
Harold G. Lowe (Fifth Officer)
James Paul Moody (Sixth Officer)

Crew members

Passengers

Victims	Thomas Andrews John Jacob Astor IV David John Bowen Archibald Butt Thomas Byles Walter Donald Douglas Edith Corse Evans Annie Funk Jacques Futrelle Sidney Leslie Goodwin Benjamin Guggenheim John Harper Wallace Hartley Charles Melville Hays Edward Austin Kent Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche Francis Davis Millet Harry Markland Molson Michel Navratil Eino Viljami Panula William Thomas Stead Ida Straus Isidor Straus John Borland Thayer, Jr. Frank M. Warren, Sr. George Dennick Wick George Dunton Widener Harry Elkins Widener Duane Williams George Henry Wright

Survivors	Rhoda Abbott Madeleine Astor Lawrence Beesley Karl Behr Dickinson Bishop Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson Elsie Bowerman Francis Browne Margaret "Molly" Brown Daniel Buckley Helen Churchill Candee Charlotte Drake Cardeza Lucile Carter Gladys Cherry Margaret Devaney Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Ethel Flora Fortune Dorothy Gibson Archibald Gracie IV Frank John William Goldsmith Henry S. Harper Margaret Bechstein Hays Masabumi Hosono J. Bruce Ismay Margaret Mannion Alfred Nourney Arthur Godfrey Peuchen Edith Rosenbaum Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes Emily Ryerson Frederic Kimber Seward Eloise Hughes Smith Jack Thayer Marian Thayer R. Norris Williams

Last living survivors	Lillian Asplund Ruth Becker Alden Caldwell Millvina Dean Edith Haisman Eva Hart Eleanor Ileen Johnson Louise Laroche Louise Kink Michel Marcel Navratil Winnifred Quick Marjorie Newell Robb Beatrice Sandström Barbara West

other	Allison family

Monuments, memorials

General	Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic

Australia	Bandstand (Ballarat)

United Kingdom	Engine Room Heroes (Liverpool) Engineers (Southampton) Musicians (Southampton) Titanic (Belfast) Orchestra (Liverpool)

United States	Straus Park (New York City) Titanic (New York City) Titanic (Washington, D.C.) Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain (Washington, D.C.)

Popular culture

Books	Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan (1898) A Night to Remember (book) Polar the Titanic Bear

Films	Saved from the Titanic (1912) In Nacht und Eis (1912) Atlantic (1929) Titanic (1943) Titanic (1953) A Night to Remember (1958) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) Raise the Titanic (1980) Secrets of the Titanic (1986) Titanic (1997) The Legend of the Titanic (1999) Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000) Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) Titanic II (2010)

Television	S.O.S. Titanic (1979) Titanic (1996) No Greater Love (1996) "A Flight to Remember" (Futurama) (1999) "Voyage of the Damned" (Doctor Who) (2007) Titanic (2012) Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)

Music	"The Titanic (It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down)" (folk song) The Sinking of the Titanic (music composition) Titanic (musical) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (musical) "My Heart Will Go On" (song)

Video games	Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (1996) Titanic: Honor and Glory (2017)

Museums, exhibitions

SeaCity Museum (Southampton)
Titanic Museum (Branson, Missouri)
Titanic Museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Halifax)
Titanic Belfast

Places

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