«Nellie E. Becker». Encyclopedia Titanica. Consultado el 11 de abril de 2008. «Miss Ruth Elizabeth Becker, 12, boarded the Titanic at Southampton. She was travelling with her mother Nellie, brother Richard and sister Marion from India to Benton Harbour, Michigan.»
«Titanic Today: Exhibition of Titanic Artifacts - The Salvage Controversy». Consultado el 2 de junio de 2008. «On April 16, 1994, the ashes of Titanic survivor Ruth Becker Blanchard were cast over the area by a USCG chaplain, where they will join Fourth Officer Boxhall and Frank Goldsmith, also Titanic survivors who requested they be returned to the sea where hundreds of people perished.»
«Screams, Then Sea's Silence, Still Haunt 5 Survivors Of Titanic.». New York Times. 18 de abril de 1982. Consultado el 11 de abril de 2008. «Out of a night so cold that ice crystals formed whiskers around the lights, as old sailors put it, over the dark waters and across 70 years, the screams still haunt these five survivors, aging men and women for whom the nightmare of the sinking of the Titanic is...»
