Photo: A copy of the orders assigning Oscar Scott Woody to duty aboard the RMS Titanic is one of the items on display at the Titanic exhibition in Charlotte, NC.
A traveling exhibition about the RMS Titanic has added a display honoring Oscar Scott Woody, one of five sea postal clerks who perished in the April 15, 1912, disaster.
“Titanic: The Exhibition” is in Charlotte, NC, through Sept. 7.
The Titanic’s postal clerks died while moving the mail under their care from the bowels of the British ocean liner to the upper deck for it to be loaded onto lifeboats.
“We don’t often think of postal workers in a sacrificial way,” Carrie Currie, executive director of the Person County Museum of History in Roxboro, NC, told a local news outlet.
Woody was a resident of Person County, and the museum loaned the show several items for the exhibit.
“In this case, [for] those five individuals — the two British and three Americans — it’s an unbelievable sacrifice for the countries that they represented.”
Woody was celebrating his 44th birthday with the other clerks in a private dining room when the British passenger liner hit the iceberg.
According to the National Postal Museum, 3,364 mailbags were aboard, noting that the clerks’ efforts to rescue the mail “forfeited any chance they may have had to escape the doomed ship.”
“Titanic: The Exhibition” is running through Sept. 7 at The Park Expo and Conference Center-Freedom Hall. The exhibition is offering discounts to all USPS employees with the code USPS20.
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