Kickass Women: Theodate Pope and Belle Naish
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Both Belle and her husband behaved heroically during the sinking, helping multiple people put on their life jackets and assisting other passengers with getting into boats. They were separated in the water and she never saw him again. When a lifeboat approached, Belle insisted that they pull someone else in instead of her, but a man told her that she was the only person he could reach and so she allowed him to pull her up. She asked him to write his name on the inside of her shoe “lest in the experience to follow I might forget.” Passengers who survived along with Belle remembered her for having a positive and encouraging attitude on the lifeboat.
Before I close, I’d like to leave an honorary mention here for Margaret Gwyer, a honeymooner who was sucked into the sinking Lusitania’s funnel and promptly blown back out again (but she didn’t actually land IN a lifeboat, as later embellishments would have it, just NEAR a lifeboat, which turned out to be just as good since its occupants pulled her in). In one of the few happy endings from this terrible day, she and her new husband were reunited. She was so covered in soot that at first he didn’t recognize her, but she said, “Never mind, we’ve lost those awful wedding presents.” If that isn’t Kickass, I don’t know what is.
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