When Elin Gerda and Edvard Lindell boarded the Titanic at Southampton, they were a young couple on their way to the next chapter of their married life.
But when the liner struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic ocean, the pair – third-class passengers – found themselves plunged into ice-cold water.
Edvard managed to pull himself into a lifeboat and reached for his 30-year-old wife’s hand. But, her fingers frozen in the -0.5C chill, she slipped away into the dark.
