Edgar Samuel Andrew was supposed to travel on the Oceanic but because of the coal strike, he was forced to change his ticket and go aboard the Titanic instead.

On 8 April 1912 he wrote a letter to his friend from Argentina:

“You figure Josey I had to leave on the 17th this [month] aboard the ‘Oceanic’, but due to the coal strike that steamer cannot depart, so I have to go one week earlier aboard the ‘Titanic’.
It really seems unbelievable that I have to leave a few days before your arrival, but there’s no help for it, I’ve got to go. You figure, Josey, I am boarding the greatest steamship in the world, but I don’t really feel proud of it at all, right now I wish the ‘Titanic’ were lying at the bottom of the ocean.”

17 year old Edgar boarded Titanic as a Second Class Passenger in Southampton.

He did not survive the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified.