Edith Haisman (UK, nee Brown b. 27 October 1896), who died in a nursing home in Southampton, Hampshire, UK, at the age of 100 years 85 days on 20 January 1997, was 15 years old when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on the night of 14 April 1912.

She could remember sitting in one of the ships lifeboats watching her father, Thomas Brown, standing on deck holding a glass of brandy and a cigar and saying ‘I’ll see you in New York!’. He was taking his family from South Africa to Seattle, Washington, USA, where they intended to start a hotel business. Edith appeared in public in 1993 to accept her fathers gold watch, which had been recovered from the wreckage.