The last time he was seen alive, Sante Righini was standing on the deck of the sinking Titanic, his fate sealed. 
 
 The young New York man with dark hair and a wispy mustache went down with the doomed ship after carrying out a final – and ultimately fatal – act of chivalry. 
 
 As passengers rushed onto lifeboats that morning in April 1912, Righini is said to have given up his seat to a woman who had cried out to him. 
 
 The 28-year-old’s body was fished out of the icy North Atlantic days later. 
 
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 “My brother died a hero,�? his sister Emma Wenger said at his funeral at her Bay Ridge home, according to a May 1912 article in the Standard Union newspaper. 
 
 Righini’s story seemed to end there. 
 
 But two months ago, an email arrived in the inbox of the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. 
 
 Evergreens Cemetery is Brooklyn is the burial site of Sante Righini, who was killed on the Titanic. He is buried here with his sister Emma and her husband Frederick Wenger. The cemetery will get a sign made by the Titanic Historical Society. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News) 
 
 A British forklift driver-turned-Titanic researcher had been scouring the internet for clues of Righini’s final resting place. 
 
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 “I am looking for the grave site of Sante Righini,�? wrote Trevor Baxter, 63, of Yorkshire. “I believe he is buried here.�? 
 
 Intrigued, an Evergreen interment clerk punched the name Sante Righini into the cemetery’s online system. He was in fact buried there. What popped up on her screen as Righini’s place of death felt like a piece of history: “Sea. S.S. Titanic.�? 
 
 “I was so excited,�? said the clerk, Nicole Segarra. “It’s amazing to know that there’s someone here that died on the Titanic.�? 
 
 The cemetery is commissioning a special sign to mark Righini's grave. A wreath-laying ceremony will be held at the site on April 15, the 105th anniversary of the world's most infamous maritime disaster. 
 
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 “There’s so much interest in the Titanic,�? said the cemetery’s president Julie Bose. “We’re delighted that we’re able to bring history alive at the Evergreens Cemetery.�? 
 
 Righini was a passenger aboard the Titanic. He was 28 when he died. (PRESS OFFICE HANDOUT/EPA) 
 
 Only the barest contours of Righini’s abbreviated life are known. 
 
 Born in Italy, he arrived in the U.S in 1903 and settled in Manhattan. He applied for U.S. citizenship in 1910 listing his occupation as a valet, records show. 
 
 Righini eventually landed a job as a “manservant�? to a wealthy widow named Ella White, who had a vast estate in Briarcliff Manor and a permanent suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. 
 
 It was through White that Righini punched his ticket onto the magnificent cruiseliner hailed as unsinkable. 
 
 White, Righini, her maid and a female friend boarded the ship in Cherbourg, France, at the tail end of a European vacation. 
 
 Even before disaster struck, it wasn’t an especially pleasant trip for the group. 
 
 White sprained her ankle while boarding the ship. She remained holed up in her lavish cabin where she was attended to by the faithful Righini. 
 
 About a quarter to midnight on April 14, White felt the slightest of vibrations. She had no way of knowing the ship had slammed into an iceberg. 
 
 “It was just as though we went over a thousand marbles,�? White would later tell a Senate committee. 
 
 White and her entourage eventually went out onto the deck. One of the ship’s captains suddenly appeared and ordered them to put on life preservers. 
 
 From the top deck, White, her friend and maid were helped onto Lifeboat No. 8. Righini, dressed in black pants and a grey overcoat, stayed behind. 
 
 “I have learned he was about to enter one of the lifeboats when a woman behind him appealed to be saved and, stepping aside, he allowed her to take a place in the boat,�? Righini’s sister said at his funeral. 
 
 Cemetery historian Donato Daddario shows an entry "Sea. S.S. Titanic" found in their records. The staff was unaware that a Titanic victim is buried there until a British research contacted them. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News) 
 
 “When last seen he was standing on the deck, waiting for the ship to sink.�? 
 
 Righini’s body arrived at Evergreens on May 4, 1912. An undertaker identified as J. Senger buried him in a plot along the back end of the cemetery near Cypress Ave. 
 
 These details, along with Righini’s revealing place of death, are noted in one of the cemetery’s century-old, 3-foot-long log books with yellowing pages that are kept in a fireproof vault. 
 
 More than 526,000 people are buried at Evergreens, including actors, professional athletes and politicians. But the staff had no idea a Titanic victim was among its permanent residents. 
 
 That changed with the Feb. 17 email from the British Titanic researcher. Baxter developed a lead on Righini’s final resting place after finding conflicting information online and contacting other historians. 
 
 When Evergreen confirmed his tip, Baxter was overjoyed. 
 
 Righini was on a lifeboat like this one when he gave his seat to woman crying for help. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) 
 
 “They were absolutely over the moon about it, and I am as well,�? Baxter said. 
 
 For Donato Daddario, Evergreen’s resident historian, the discovery made his year. 
 
 It was Daddario who set off to find the gravesite after Baxter initially contacted the cemetery. 
 
 There it was — “Sante Righini 1883 - 1912�? — not far from one of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 garment workers in 1911. 
 
 A relative had replaced Righini’s original headstone with one that included his sister and her husband after she died in 1959. 
 
 “I saw it,�? Daddario recalled, “and I said to myself, ‘Finally, I had someone from the Titanic.’�? 
 
 With Seth Bookey ||||| The cruise-liner captain accused of abandoning ship after it struck rocks off the Tuscan coast last Friday has reportedly claimed he could not lead the evacuation because he slipped and fell into a lifeboat while helping passengers leave the stricken vessel. 
 
 Captain Francesco Schettino said it was an accident that he left the Costa Concordia, according to Italian press reports. "The passengers were pouring on to the decks, taking the lifeboats by assault," he was quoted as telling a judge during a hearing to determine whether he should be held in custody on charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. 
 
 "I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60-70 degree angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats. That's how I found myself in the lifeboat," Schettino said. 
 
 The death toll among the 4,200 passengers and crew stands at 11, with 21 people still unaccounted for. Eight bodies have been retrieved from the grounded vessel, while three drowned while trying to reach the shore. One of the bodies found on the vessel was identified on Wednesday as Sandor Feher, 38, a Hungarian violinist who worked on board and was last seen helping crying children into life jackets before returning to his cabin to get his violin. 
 
 Italian officials said a German woman who was mistakenly listed among the missing had been located alive in Germany. 
 
 Schettino, who took command of the newly launched, 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia in 2006, admitted responsibility for crashing into rocks near the island of Giglio, which tore a hole in the liner. 
 
 "I don't know why it happened. I was a victim of my instincts," he said. He confirmed he sailed close to the island to salute a retired captain, Mario Palombo. 
 
 Schettino said he was not afraid of a drugs test. "I don't do drugs and I had not drunk," he said. 
 
 By grounding the vessel close to the shore after it struck the rocks, he claims he saved the lives of many passengers. 
 
 A report released on Wednesday by the judge, Valeria Montesarchio, revealed the ship was sailing at more than 15 knots when it struck the rocks. 
 
 Schettino left the vessel while 300 people were still on board. After his "gravely imprudent" behaviour, he remained "completely inert" on the rocks as others scrambled to help the evacuation, the report stated. 
 
 The judge also revealed that Schettino had told police he would never go to sea again. 
 
 The judge interviewed Roberto Bosio, a cruise ship captain who was on board by chance, and who has been hailed a hero in Italy after he reportedly stayed on the ship to take charge of the evacuation. 
 
 The judge's decision to free Schettino from custody and place him under house arrest is to be subject to an appeal by prosecutor Francesco Verusio, who said Schettino "doesn't appear unhappy about what he caused," and could flee. 
 
 Verusio questioned Schettino's story about falling into the lifeboat. "Even if he fell in the lifeboat, he could have got back on the [Costa Concordia]," he said. 
 
 Support for Schettino came from his parish priest, Father Gennaro Starita, who said the captain was being "killed" by a "media circus". 
 
 On Giglio, divers searching for passengers on the half-submerged ship were urgently pulled off the vessel on Wednesday after sensors revealed it had shifted about 1.5 metres. A smaller shift on Monday prompted fears the vessel may move from the rocks on which is now lodged and tumble into the 70-metre depths below. 
 
 Navy divers had been planning to blow three holes in the hull with explosive charges after five holes were created on Tuesday to allow access to a lower deck, where divers found five bodies. 
 
 As hope fades of finding passengers alive, Italy's environment minister, Corrado Clini, said it would take two weeks to empty the ship's 15 fuel tanks of 2,280 tonnes of fuel to avoid the possibility of a leak. 
 
 The tiny port on Giglio has this week become a busy hub for 600 rescue workers and journalists, prompting about 700 winter residents to reopen shops and hotels closed until the summer. Relatives of missing passengers visited the porton Wednesday to meet officials and appeal for information. 
 
 Posters appeared on the walls around the port asking for news of Giuseppe Girolamo, 30, an Italian musician who was hired to play in a rock band on the Costa Concordia in December. He was reportedly seen boarding a lifeboat on Friday before jumping back on board the cruise ship to help other passengers disembark.
– Like 1,500 others, Sante Righini went down with the Titanic on April 15, 1912. But his was a heroic end, his sister explained at his funeral. The 28-year-old Italian-born man—who boarded the ship in France alongside the wealthy widow who employed him as a manservant in Manhattan—had been moments from safety, about to take a seat in a lifeboat, "when a woman behind him appealed to be saved and, stepping aside, he allowed her to take a place in the boat," Righini's sister said at the 1912 service, per the New York Daily News. "When last seen he was standing on the deck, waiting for the ship to sink." His body was pulled from Atlantic days later, but what became of it was lost to history—until now. After learning of Righini, British researcher Trevor Baxter received a tip earlier this year that he might've been laid to rest at Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. An entry in a yellowed, century-old log book at Evergreens confirmed his body arrived on May 4, 1912, and was buried at the back of the cemetery. Righini's place of death was given as "Sea. SS Titanic." "It's amazing to know that there’s someone here that died on the Titanic," says a cemetery clerk. Baxter adds he's "over the moon" to have tracked Righini down. In other Titanic news, CBS News reports a first-class passenger's gold locket, recently found on the ocean floor, will go on display in Las Vegas this week to mark the 105th anniversary of the disaster. (You'll soon be able to visit the Titanic.)