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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche
Haitian engineer, RMS Titanic victim (1886–1912)
Haitian engineer, RMS Titanic victim (1886–1912)
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf filip ləmɛʁsje laʁɔʃ]; 26 May 1886 – 15 April 1912) was a Haitian engineer and one of three black passengers on the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic (the other two being his children). He put his pregnant French wife and their two daughters onto a lifeboat; they survived, but he did not. Joseph's daughter Louise Laroche (2 July 1910 – 28 January 1998) was one of the last remaining Titanic survivors at the time of her death.
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