Archibald Gracie

Archibald Gracie IV (1858-1912) was an American writer, amateur historian, and real estate investor best known for surviving the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. He climbed aboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat and subsequently wrote a popular book about the disaster that remains in print today. He died less than eight months after the sinking from complications of diabetes and hypothermia-related injuries, becoming the first adult survivor to die.