Beatrice Sandström
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| Beatrice Irene Sandström | |
| Born | August 9, 1910 San Francisco, California |
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| Died | September 3, 1995 Motala, Östergötland, Sweden |
| Parents | Hjalmar Sandström and Agnes Bengtsson |
Beatrice Irene Sandström (9 August 1910-3 September 1995) was one of the last remaining survivors of the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912.
[edit] Early Life and the Titanic
Beatrice Irene Sandström was born on 9 August 1910 in Motala, Östergötland, Sweden, the younger daughter of Hjalmar and Agnes (née Bengtsson) Sandström. She had an older sister, Marguerite Rut Sandström, born in 1908.
Beatrice, her mother and sister were visiting her mother's parents in Hultsjö, Sweden as well as friends in Forserum, Sweden. They boarded the Titanic at Southampton as third class passengers, joining a group of fellow Swedes led by Thure Edvin Lundström.
On board the ship, Agnes, Marguerite and Beatrice shared cabin G6 with Elna Ström and her two-year-old daughter Selma. The two women were woken by a steward after the collision and told to get up to the Boat Deck. They dressed their daughters and made their way to the Boat Deck. In the confusion on the aft well deck ladder, Agnes lost sight of the Ströms, who would perish in the sinking. The Sandströms escaped the ship on lifeboat 13. Although she did not remember anything about the voyage in particular, as a child, she used to say: "Look, the moon is falling down", perhaps in reference to the distress rockets fired as the ship went down.[1]
Upon arriving in New York, Agnes and her daughters were sent to St. Vincent Hospital, and then continue on their way to California. The Sandström family moved back to Sweden permenantly in the autumn of 1912.
Beatrice was, at the time of her death on 1 December 1985, the tenth remaining survivor of the disaster.
