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On the evening of the third day Margaret and Ellie went up for air. lieutenant was very cold, and they saw ice and icebergs. They eventually went below.
They were getting dressed for bed “when the ship took a very sharp turn which threw both of them to the floor.” At 11.40 p.m., just as she was beginning to sleep, there was a sudden, violent jerk which threw people across their cabins.
There was silence. The Engine stopped. Mannion was lucky to jump into the second to last boat.
She could not see any of her friends. She caught a final glimpse of Martin Callaghan kneeling with a group of passengers on the deck, saying the Rosary.
Callaghan, Smyth and Kilgannon all died.
A first-class passenger saved her life by giving her a fur coat to survive in the cold until rescued by the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Carpathia. She subsequently spent seven years in New York, returning in 1919. In 1959 the family moved to Ganaveen, Clontuskert.
Her descendants still live in the parish.
