Harold Lowe

About

5th Officer on the RMS Titanic, who survived the famous disaster after sleeping through the ship's iceberg collision. 

Before Fame

He ran away from home at age fourteen to join the Welsh Merchant Navy.

Trivia

His shocking comments during the American Senate Hearing on the matter of the Titanic's sinking included anti-Italian racist slurs.

Family Life

He was one of eight children born to Harriet and George Lowe. He married Ellen Marion Whitehouse.

Associated With

Margaret Brown, better known as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, was another survivor of the Titanic disaster.