Alice Cleaver a postman, and her mother was Lavinia Alice Cleaver (maiden name Thomas). When she was 22, Cleaver was hired by the Allison family to be a nursemaid for their youngest child, Trevor. She traveled first class on the "Titanic" with them (under ticket No. 113781) and boarded in Southampton. She stayed in the same room as Trevor so that she could care for him, which was right next to the parents in first class. On 14 April 1912 the RMS "Titanic" struck an iceberg and started to sink. Cleaver took Trevor into her lifeboat, but didn't tell anyone. Speculation claims
RMS Titanic in popular culture Convergence of the Twain" (1912), his "Lines on the Loss of the "Titanic"", was a considerably more substantial work. His poem sets "Titanic" in a pessimistic post-Darwinian contrast between the achievements and arrogance of man and the humbling power of nature. The building of "Titanic" in its unprecedented scale is contrasted with the origins of its nemesis, following a familiar nineteenth-century notion of the double or "doppelgänger" (a theme most famously realised in "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"): <poem> And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg