Last surviving Titanic hero, Carpathia crewmember Herbert Johnston, 104
Posted: Wednesday, May 29th, 2002 9:49 pmThe last surviving hero of the Titanic, Herbert Johnston has died in hospital at Port Shepstone on KwaZulu-Natal South Coast at the age of 104 years. The man dubbed as “Pops” was a crewmember of the Carpathia, the first ship to arrive, after the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
Johnstone lived to tell detailed stories of the fateful night in 1912 when the so-called unsinkable Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. He was a 15-year old crewmember of the Carpathia that was bound for the Italian port of Genoa when the SOS came through. … Read full obituary
