Anna Sjöblom

Anna Sjöblom was born 1892 in Finland and was in 1912 travelling to join her father in America. Anna was supposed to have travelled on the Adriatic, but was transferred to the Titanic due to the coalstrike.

At the time of the collision Anna was laying fully dressed in her cabin. She woke up when a young dane came to wake up her room mate. He gave her a lifebelt and encouraged her to follow them. But Anna was too seasick to even care. Eventually, Anna got up and put her lifebelt on.

Trying to reach the boatdeck she found herself lost on second class promenade deck on B-deck. But together with another finish girl Anna used a ladder ment for the crew. On her way up she saw the lights from the A Lá Carte Restaurant. Amazed by the elegant tables and china, the two girls could do nothing but stare. The other girl wanted to kick out the window to get in, but Anna was able to stop her afraid that they would hafto pay for damaging company property.

Around 01.30 she got into a lifeboat, probably boat number 16. She spent a week in hospital after arriving to New York and later continued to join her father in Olympia, Washington. She later married and died in 1975.

Credits:
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org
Titanic by Claes-Göran Wetterholm
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

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