Miss Olga Lundin

Olga Elida Lundin was born in Sweden 1889, but was in 1912 living in Meridan, Connecticut (USA). At the time she was travelling with the Titanic, Olga was 23 years old. She had been visiting her place of birth in Hallaryd (Sweden) and was now returning home to Usa. She travelled with Paul Andreasson, Albert Augustsson, her fiancée Nils Johansson and her brother-in-law Carl Jonsson. They party had bought third class tickets in Copenhagen (Denmark).

But at sea Olga became so seasick that Nils paid the difference so that she could be transferred to second class. The couple could then only see each other on boatdeck, where they used to talk over a gate that separated the two decks. Lawrence Beesley noted the couple and assumed that they were married.

On the night of the sinking Olga was sleeping in her cabin when she was awoken by the collision. She got up, determined to find her friends. And even though the party was separated into two classes, all five managed to reach boatdeck. The group stood close to lifeboat number 10, but Olga had no desire to step into a lifeboat. They did not want to separate, and was determined to die together. Olga held Nils by the hand and Carl in the other, but she was thrown down into lifeboat 10 by sailors. Olga screamed for Nils since she did not want to leave the ship without him, but the sailors held Nils back. His last words to Olga was "Greetings to father and mother". Lifeboat number 10 was lowered 01.20 by Lightoller and contained 35 people.

Paul, Albert and Nils went down with the ship, only Olga and Carl Jonsson survived. On the Carpathia, Olga wrote a a long letter to her parents. She noted the terrible conditions for the survivors on the Carpathia, about the smell and the food. In the mid 1960´s Olga returned to her native Sweden where she died in 1973.

Credits:
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (special swedish 1998 edition)
Titanic by Claes-Göran Wetterholm

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