COSI Interview with Tom Goldsmith, Grandson of Titanic Survivor

Tom Goldsmith's grandfather, Frank John William Goldsmith, was aboard RMS Titanic the night of the ship's sinking in April 1912. Here Tom tells his grandfather's story from inside Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Tom Goldsmith today lives in Ashland, Ohio; this interview was filmed on April 14, 2010 - the 98th anniversary of the collision. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition can be seen at COSI - Columbus, Ohio's hands-on science center - through September 6, 2010. For more information, please visit www.cosi.org.

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[M63Mike]

Very interesting interview Tom, your grandfather was my great uncle, his sister Nancy Goldsmith was my grandmother. I guess this means we're related though I can't quite work out how! Frank met my parents when at Southampton when he c visited the UK in 1965. I still have a postcard of the Titanic inscribed 'Frank Goldsmith - 3rd Class Survivor.

Mike Minihane

Overton on Dee

Wrexham

LL13 0LE

UK

[kkallebb]

Really interesting interview.  i've never heard the story about Alfred Rush before. I think I read somewhere that two of Frank Goldsmith's playmates on board the Titanic were Rossmore and Eugene Abbott, who went down with their mother Rose/Rhoda Abbott. The two boys were lost, but their mother survived. I think she was the only woman who actually sank with the ship and survived.

[kukral]

I remember hearing survivor Frank Goldsmith Jr. speaking at our library in Hudson, Ohio, when I was a kid in the early 1970s. He created a lifelong interest in the Titanic for me.