"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is associated with the sinking of the RMS "Titanic", as some survivors later reported that the ship's string ensemble played the hymn as the vessel sank.For example, Violet Jessop said in her 1934 account of the disaster that she had heard the hymn being played; Archibald Gracie IV, however, emphatically denied it in his own account, written soon after the sinking, and wireless operator Harold Bride said that he had heard "Autumn", by which he may have meant Archibald Joyce's then-popular waltz "Songe d'Automne" (Autumn Dream).