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She was asleep in her cabin when the collision occurred. She was awakened and told that there was no danger. So she returned to bed, only to be called again in a few minutes and told to get up on the highest deck, that the ship was sinking.
They then made their way to the boat deck.
Two men assisted her into Lifeboat 13 and it was lowered. She remembered that the weather was clear, the water was calm, a moonless night, and the beautiful bright stars seemed to light up the ocean around the sinking ship.
She stated that there was very little suction as the ship sank. She said that it was early in the morning when the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Carpathia hove in sight and pulled them aboard.
She was numbed from the waist down and practically unconscious from exhaustion and cold.
Davies returned to England a few months following the disaster when the White Star Lincolnshire, the company which owned the Titanic, offered her a free fare. She returned to the United States in 1913 where she worked as a cook. John died in 1972 and Carl in 1994.
Davies died on July 29, 1987 in Syracuse, New York at age 104.
She was the longest-lived Titanic survivor, and one of only about 30 that were alive when the Titanic"s wreck was discovered in 1985.
