“The ladies have to go first.. Get into the lifeboat, to please me.. Goodbye, dearie. I’ll see you later.”

The businessman and financier, thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, was on the Titanic when it sank after hitting an iceberg. Astor perished when the ship went down, his last words were to his pregnant wife Madeleine as he helped her into a lifeboat.


