The Aristocrat and the Able Seaman The Countess of Rothes, Thomas Jones, and the Tragedy of Titanic

When Titanic left Southampton in 1912, neither the aristocrat, the Countess of Rothes, nor the able seaman Thomas Jones could have imagined meeting—let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night among towering icebergs. But Jones placed No?l Rothes at the tiller when he recognized her calm capability, and for seven long hours they did everything they could to guide at least twenty-five others to safety.

Their ordeal forged an unlikely bond that endured until No?l’s death in 1956. Angela Young, No?l’s great-granddaughter, tells the intertwined stories of these two courageous Titanic survivors and examines why so few people survived the tragedy.

ANGELA YOUNG is a writer with two novels under her belt. Long inspired by her great-grandmother’s Titanic papers, she developed a talk to present her story and the story of the ‘Able Seaman’ in whose lifeboat her great-grandmother survived. Through those papers Young reveals the stark truth behind the tragedy. She writes a monthly blog which often includes Titanic-related topics. She has also previously written about Titanic for YOU magazine and for the Mail on Sunday.

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