Derby library aide to tell of local ties to Titanic

By Phyllis Swebilius
Register Staff
DERBY — If not for a Derby woman’s refusal to get into a lifeboat without her brother, he would have been lost when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank April 15, 1912, in the North Atlantic.
A West Haven man, Adolf Dyker, was not so fortunate.
Dyker died, but not before giving his wife, who survived, a small satchel containing two gold watches, two diamond rings, a sapphire necklace and 200 Swedish crowns, said Mary Bisaccia, local history coordinator at Derby Public Library.
Dyker’s last words to his wife were: “‘I’ll see you later,’” Bisaccia said Monday.
Bisaccia tonight will be exploring the people and the circumstances of that fateful first voyage of the world’s biggest and most glamorous passenger ship, Titanic, which left Southampton, England, for New York City.
Bisaccia’s PowerPoint presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Derby Public Library, 313 Elizabeth St.

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