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TIL Rhoda Abbott, 39, was the only woman aboard Titanic to survive going into the freezing water- every other female survivor was lowered in a lifeboat- and the only woman aboard after 2:05 A.M. to survive. Abbott swam to Collapsible A and climbed aboard, but lost her 2 teenage sons in the chaos.

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