To one survivor, Jack Thayer, the Titanic disaster ushered in a new, and frightening world. "To my mind the world of today awoke April 15th, 1912," he wrote.

As Thayer's children began to approach the age he had been when he took that fateful voyage, Jack began to think about how to deal with his memories of the Titanic – images, conversations ...

Thayer's husband's late uncle, Jack Thayer, survived the ship's sinking. He was on board with his father, John Borland Jr., and Marian Thayer. Sadly, John Borland Jr. was among the 1,500 who died ...

John Thayer, his wife Marian and John “Jack” their 17-year-old son had boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10th April. They had two staterooms and a servant quarters with a cost of £110 17s 8d ...

At age 49, he was among those who died on the Titanic — but his 17-year-old son, Jack Thayer III, survived, as did his wife, Marian. "To my mind the world of today awoke April 15, 1912," Thayer ...

The dramatic first-hand account of Jack Thayer, a 17-year-old survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, is to be published next month after lying almost forgotten for decades.

John B. “Jack” Thayer, who boarded the ship at age 17 with his parents, printed his recollections of the catastrophe as a family record in 1940 and made just 500 copies.

A survivor’s account of the sinking of the Titanic has been rediscovered after having been lost for decades and will be published next month ahead of the 100th anniversary of the disaster.

The Titanic distributed a souvenir program to its first-class passengers including John and Marian Thayer and their 17-year-old son Jack. Read More If Philadelphia had an aristocracy, John Thayer ...

Mrs. John B. Thayer, daughter-in-law of survivor Jack Thayer, not only has Titanic material collected by her late husband but has an entire room devoted to liners and the sea.