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Here’s another Titanic survivor: Richard Norris Williams III was born in 1891 in Switzerland to well-to-do Philadelphian parents. He received a private education at a Swiss boarding school and was fluent in English, French and German. Dick won the Swiss tennis championship in 1911. The following spring, he and his father booked first class passage on the Titanic. Shortly after the collision, Dick freed a trapped passenger by breaking down a cabin door. He was scolded by a steward who threatened to charge him for the damage. His father was killed by a falling funnel, but Dick was able to swim to a partially submerged lifeboat. He spent several hours knee-deep in freezing water before being picked up by the Carpathia. Surgeons wanted to amputate his frostbitten legs, but he refused. Instead, he orchestrated his own recovery by getting up and walking every two hours around the clock. Later that same year, he won the U.S. tennis championship.