Thomas Byles in ministry and his final hours on board the RMS Titanic. Thomas Byles Thomas Roussel Davids Byles (26 February 1870 – 15 April 1912) was an English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the "RMS Titanic" on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 15 April 1912. He was reported as being amidst the throng of trapped passengers on the ship's rear deck in its final moments of descent, audibly praying. Thomas Byles was born Roussel Davids Byles in Leeds, Yorkshire, the eldest of seven children of the Reverend Alfred Holden Byles,
Passengers of the RMS Titanic indicating the recovery vessel: Numbers 324 and 325 were unused, and the six bodies buried at sea by the "Carpathia" also went unnumbered. In addition to the above-listed passengers, the "Titanic" carried 29 cross-channel passengers who boarded at Southampton and disembarked at either Cherbourg, France or Queenstown, Ireland. Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic", the second of the White Star Line's "Olympic" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the