00:00We've heard so much information about this terrible tragedy that happened on the night
00:06of April 14, 1912.
00:09What really caused the disaster?
00:11Could the Titanic passengers have been saved?
00:14Was the ship cursed?
00:15All these questions still remain unanswered.
00:18So this time, let's not focus on the tragic side of the event, but on the fantastic stories
00:24of people who miraculously managed to survive that day, and what happened to them in the
00:29future.
00:31As you know, when Titanic crashed into the iceberg, the ship's crew first evacuated
00:36the women and children.
00:38But among the passengers, one woman remained on the sunken vessel and survived after it
00:43went underwater.
00:44Her name was Rhoda Abbott.
00:47She and her two sons lived in England and had been living there for two years before
00:51they decided to return home to Providence, Rhode Island.
00:55Rhoda bought three third-class tickets for the most modern and unsinkable ship of that
01:00time.
01:01The whole family slept in their cabin on that ominous night from April 14 to 15.
01:06They didn't feel the jolt and got up only after the steward knocked on the door.
01:11He asked them to wear life jackets and go to the upper deck.
01:15Then along with other third-class passengers, they waited in line to board the lifeboats.
01:21The crew members allowed only women and little kids to go further.
01:24Still, the brothers negotiated with the team and walked their mother to the lifeboat.
01:30All three went to the last lifeboat, but the crew asked the sons to leave since not all
01:35the women had been evacuated.
01:37Rhoda didn't want to leave her sons, so she decided to stay with them.
01:42She left the boat and hugged the boys.
01:44By this time, the ship was sinking into a stern up position.
01:49The deck tilted.
01:50Rhoda tried to hold her sons but couldn't.
01:53She slapped off the deck and fell into the icy water.
01:56From there, she swam to the lifeboat that was washed away from the deck.
02:01Rhoda climbed aboard and watched the Titanic go under the water.
02:05Unfortunately, she was unable to save her two sons.
02:09Besides her, there were 13 people in the boat.
02:12But in the end, no one except Rhoda survived.
02:16A few hours later, the ship Carpathia arrived and found a nearly frozen Rhoda in the boat.
02:22The vessel arrived almost three days later in New York, where Rhoda was hospitalized,
02:28and she lay there for about two weeks.
02:30Swimming in cold water caused her asthma, which remained with her for life.
02:35Later, she admitted that she hadn't regretted that she had refused to evacuate with other
02:39women because she got a little extra time to spend with her sons that night.
02:46Another survivor of Titanic was Violet Jessop.
02:50She boarded the ship not as a passenger, but as a working staff.
02:54She was hired by the White Star Line, which was looking for people to serve wealthy clients
02:59on the new luxury liner.
03:01And on April 10, after an interview, Violet boarded the Titanic.
03:06The first days of work went as usual, but then the ship crashed into an iceberg.
03:11In the beginning, no one panicked and didn't even want to believe that the unsinkable boat
03:16could go down.
03:17But while the people on the upper deck were having these conversations, water flooded
03:22the ship's hull.
03:23Violet, along with other stewards, helped people evacuate.
03:27One of the ship's commanders ordered Violet to get into the boat first to show everyone
03:32else it was safe.
03:34She obeyed and spent several hours there until rescuers came for the survivors.
03:39But the most exciting thing in this story was that before the Titanic, Violet had already
03:44been in another shipwreck.
03:47The ship where she worked as a steward collided with another vessel at sea.
03:52All the people were saved, and Violet got a job on the Titanic a few years later.
03:57But even after the famous shipwreck, she didn't change her profession and went to the Britannic
04:02Floating Hospital.
04:04And you know what?
04:05It also sank.
04:07Violet managed to survive for the third time, but this didn't scare the girl.
04:12After all these events, she continued her work on other ships.
04:16She survived three shipwrecks and got a name for this – Miss Unsinkable.
04:22One of the bravest passengers of the Titanic was the ship's chief baker, Charles Jogan.
04:29On the night of April 14, he woke up after the collision with the iceberg.
04:33During the few hours as the ship was sinking underwater, Charles helped the passengers.
04:39First he ordered his bakers to supply all rescue boats with food, then helped the crew
04:43evacuate the passengers.
04:45He was one of the last people left on the ship when all rescue boats were on the water.
04:50But still, he continued to save people's lives.
04:54Charles started to throw deck chairs overboard so people could hold onto them.
04:59Then, when half of the Titanic went down, he lowered into the icy water, where he noticed
05:04a capsized rescue boat.
05:06Charles boarded it and waited a few hours until rescuers appeared.
05:10And the most incredible thing is that he was completely fine when the Carpathia arrived
05:15and found him.
05:16He had not even a scratch and wasn't at all hypothermic.
05:22Among the Titanic's surviving passengers was Margaret Brown, known as the Unsinkable
05:27Molly Brown.
05:29She was visiting a friend in England with her daughter.
05:32But when Margaret found out her grandson was ill, she immediately bought a ticket to New
05:36York on board the Titanic.
05:39After colliding with the iceberg, Margaret bravely helped people evacuate until the stewards
05:44forced her to get into a boat.
05:47She continued to help other passengers until they were rescued by the Carpathia.
05:52Margaret created a survivors committee and raised about $10,000.
05:57At that time, it was quite a lot of money.
05:59For many years, she protected and supported the Titanic's passengers, who were in poor
06:04financial condition.
06:06Margaret also helped to build the Titanic Memorial in Washington.
06:11A wealthy English businessman, J. Bruce Ismay, was on board the Titanic, and the shipwreck
06:18was not the only disaster for him.
06:20He managed to jump into the last boat 20 minutes before Titanic was completely submerged.
06:26Thus, he saved his life but condemned himself to eternal contempt.
06:32When he was on the mainland, the newspapers began to write about him as the main coward
06:37of the Titanic.
06:38Also, some articles accused him of sinking the ship.
06:43Ismay was a White Star Line company director that created the ship.
06:47And according to newspaper articles, the businessman asked the captain to sail faster.
06:52He wanted the ship to arrive in America ahead of schedule and receive good reviews in the
06:57press.
06:59As a result, the ship crashed into the iceberg at high speed and damaged the hull.
07:04Nobody proved the businessman's guilt.
07:07Almost all of the criticism of Bruce Ismay was concentrated in one newspaper.
07:13Its publisher had a fight with the businessman before the tragedy, so they decided to destroy
07:18his reputation.
07:21Britain organized an independent investigation, which concluded that Ismay did nothing wrong.
07:26Yeah, he jumped into the last boat, but only after all the women and children were evacuated.
07:32However, the investigation didn't help to clear his reputation.
07:37In England and America, many friends and colleagues turned away from him.
07:42For many years, Ismay compensated the families who lost someone on the Titanic.
07:50The most famous passengers of the Titanic were an orchestra of 8 musicians.
07:55In the beginning, there was no panic when the ship collided with the iceberg.
07:59Many refused to get into the boats, as it seemed to them that it was safer on the Titanic.
08:05Others were sure the breakdown on the ship would soon be repaired.
08:09Some people didn't believe the ship could sink.
08:12A minor panic began when everyone realized a catastrophe was imminent.
08:17To calm the people down a bit, the 8 musicians from 2 ensembles started playing music.
08:24Survivors said the orchestra played until the very end.
08:27Fear for their lives and the nearness of the end didn't confuse the valiant men.
08:32Unfortunately, they didn't survive.
08:35But a memory about them was written in history forever, and their musical instruments became
08:41world-famous artifacts and very valuable items at auctions.
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