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07:27minutes longer, hundreds of lives might have been saved.
07:34A little over an hour later, Second Officer Herbert Stone saw five white rockets exploding
07:41above the stop ship. Unsure of what the rockets meant, he called Captain Lord, who was resting
07:48in the chart room, and reported the sighting. Lord did not act on the report, but Stone was
07:55perturbed. A ship is not going to fire rockets to sea for nothing, he told a colleague. By
08:02this time, it was clear to those on Titanic that the ship was indeed sinking, and there
08:08would not be enough lifeboat places for everyone.
08:25A ship is coming out of his head down the way.
08:32A ship is coming out of his head down the way.
08:40A ship
08:48is coming out of his head down the bit.
08:50A ship is coming out of his head.
08:52He was coming inside the boat.
08:53We dla his region visit.
08:55He may be originally designed to see the sea rock while he's down the hiding spot.
08:59A ship is gone.
09:01He's staying a fixed spot.
09:01He grew us up to the daytime sky.
09:05He had to be soon.
14:30A crowd of men were trying to get up to a higher deck and were fighting the sailors, all striking and scuffling and swearing.
14:40Women and some children were praying and crying.
14:47Then the sailors fastened down the hatchways, leading to the third class section.
14:53They said they wanted to keep the air down there so the vessel could stay up longer.
14:58It meant all hope was gone for those still down there.
15:06Long and winding routes had to be taken to reach Topside.
15:11The steerage class accommodation, located on C through G decks, was at the extreme ends of the decks and so was the farthest away from the lifeboats.
15:21By contrast, the first class accommodation was located on the upper decks and so was nearest.
15:34Proximity to the lifeboats thus became a key factor in determining who got into them.
15:40To add to the difficulty, many of the steerage passengers did not understand or speak English.
15:48It was perhaps no coincidence that English-speaking Irish immigrants were disproportionately represented among the steerage passengers who survived.
15:58Many of those who did survive owed their lives to third-class steward John Edward Hart, who organized three trips into the ship's interior to escort groups of third-class passengers up to the boat deck.
16:15Hell yeah, real hero shit.
16:18Others made their way through open gates or climbed emergency ladders.
16:22Some, perhaps overwhelmed by it all, made no attempt to escape and stayed in their cabins or congregated in prayer in the third-class dining room.
16:33Leading fireman Charles Hendrickson saw crowds of third-class passengers below decks with their trunks and possessions, as if waiting for someone to direct them.
16:56Psychologist Quinn Craig-Wade attributed this to stoic passivity, produced by generations of being told what to do by social superiors.
17:16August Venestrom, one of the male steerage passengers to survive, commented later that many of his companions had made no effort.
17:26August Venestrom, one of the male steerage passengers to save themselves.
17:27August Venestrom, one of the male steerage passengers to save themselves.
17:28He wrote,
17:29Hundreds were in a circle in the third-class dining saloon with a preacher in the middle, praying, crying, asking God and Mary to help them.
17:39They lay there and yelled, never lifting a hand to help themselves.
17:43They lost their own willpower and expected God to do all the work for them.
17:49August Venestrom, two of the female steerage passengers to save themselves.
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