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Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon was one of the few male first-class passengers to survive the Titanic disaster of 1912. His curious rescue came under harsh ridicule.
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They became the subject of much ridicule in the press, with their lifeboat being called the “money boat” because the perceived bribe by Cosmo. The reports indicated that the money was offered to the crew to prevent them from returning to the wreckage site.
In May, both Cosmo and Lucy Duff Gordon were called to testify at a British inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic. While Cosmo found to be innocent of any wrongdoing,
he continued to suffer in the court of public opinion. The whole incident cast a dark shadow over the rest of his life, which he spent largely in seclusion at Maryculter, his family estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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