Eva was sleeping when "Titanic" struck an iceberg at 11:40 pm on 14 April. Her mother was awake at the time and felt "a slight bump." She immediately asked her husband to investigate the disturbance and he left the cabin. Upon his return, he alerted her and Eva to the collision and, after wrapping her in a blanket, he carried her to the boat deck. Eva's father placed his wife and daughter in Lifeboat No. 14 and told her to 'be a good girl and hold Mummy's hand'. It was the last thing he ever said to her and the last time she ever saw him; he perished in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.