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00:00I fell into a mass of people.
00:30Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
00:40Children crying, women screaming, their hair in my face.
00:49My God, if only I could forget those hands and faces.
01:00He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
01:21I didn't become alarmed.
01:27There was no danger, they said.
01:30I told her to come at once, we were sinking.
01:36You can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and
01:45you're in the bowels of the ship.
01:47It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:49The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:58Then came the terrible cry, women and children, women and children.
02:04Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
02:09It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
02:28It really was every man for himself.
02:31My heart stood still.
02:35If we're gonna die, best to die gripping something.
02:53It's a split second decision.
02:55What would you do?
02:56What would I do?
03:00It was a terrible sight.
03:06Men swimming and sinking.
03:08I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
03:22For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:31The End
03:46I don't know.
04:16Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known, the last word in luxury, the ship, palatial, the food, delicious, the rudder alone weighed 100 tons.
04:36I sailed first class from Southampton. We called at Cherbourg and from there to Queenstown.
04:46Everyone was counting the days till we'd see the Statue of Liberty.
04:53My father and mother were invited to dinner that night, so I dined alone.
05:00Afterward, I took a few turns around the deck.
05:05Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
05:09The Titanic is a ship of dreams, the epitome of modern technology, of luxury and opulence.
05:23It looks like a cross between the Ritz and an English grand country house.
05:28Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line, built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:40She is absolutely huge, 10 decks, 840 cabins, an absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:50I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:16I was afraid of the sea.
06:17But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie, and I decided to go to America that way.
06:28First few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:46But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:51After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while, then I went back to my cabin.
06:57There was no moon, a brilliant, starry night.
07:12I'd never seen the sea smoother.
07:22It had become much colder.
07:24It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cosy thoughts.
07:40How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:43At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:52I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:54The first three days were very calm.
08:01We were another three days before we would reach New York.
08:05It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:09My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:20I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:24Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:28But everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:43It's a Sunday.
08:45First-class passengers have probably spent the day enjoying themselves.
08:48They had eaten roast duckling and sirloin of beef and foie gras and truffles and lamb with mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
09:00Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
09:07Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room, they'd had a cigar, a pipe, they'd played a round of cards.
09:16Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet.
09:23They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
09:25They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York in two or three days' time.
09:31It's been the perfect day.
09:37It's been the perfect day.
10:01My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:08He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:19It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:24Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship.
10:26And it was to ferry people, working people, from Europe to America.
10:34About three quarters of the Titanic's passengers are in second or third class.
10:39And it's really not surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:43This might be the first time they've been away from home.
10:47And maybe it's the first taste of freedom from very oppressive environments.
10:52They are young people embarking on a new life to a new world.
10:59It would have been wonderful.
11:04I was a bride of 50 days.
11:07By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship, memories that could easily have been lost to history.
11:20That's the way in.
11:22That's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
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11:31The planet belongs to the ships that have been maravilistised.
11:32They have a disfunctional of ships, of course.
11:33And the reputation of restrained passengers around the ship.
11:34Even who is when basically believed.
11:35There isn't any kinds of known blankets are all to allow them to be subtle about it.
11:37And wink and sleep, and the same day themselves now.
11:38They have access the things that have beenculined.
11:40It's really difficult to both humidity.
11:43It was difficult.
11:45If this happened, they could always know everything that man has been able to feel depressed in the boat.
11:47It's really stressful to do this crazy.
11:49It's really difficult.
11:50I don't know what to do.
12:20I joined her in Belfast, while she was still in the builder's hands, the biggest and finest
12:48ship in the world.
12:53On that night of April 14th, the first officer took over from me.
12:58We both remarked on the ship's steadiness, how comfortably she was slipping along.
13:08We knew perfectly well we were entering the region where ice might be sighted, and had
13:13taken precautions. As none of these bergs lay on our course, well, they didn't directly
13:21concern us. I passed on course, speed, weather conditions, wished him the joy of a few perishing
13:30cold hours and went below.
13:32It doesn't matter whether it's a ship, all the way down to a section of marines in my circumstance,
13:40there is a system and command structure. Everyone had a job to do. And this is the
13:45point where the ship just begins to take over.
13:50The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:56The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just keep
14:01the ship moving. The captain is retired to his cabin, you know, comfortable with his crew
14:06that ultimately have been at work since the ship left Belfast are very much in control.
14:11Really, it's the beginning of what should be another calm night on the Titanic.
14:16I joined the Marconi staff last July and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast. I didn't have
14:37much to do about it, except to relieve Philips, a senior operator.
14:44I went to bed. I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams from
15:04leaving Southampton. We got through about 250 telegrams.
15:34It's a tense situation in the wireless room because the equipment broke down the day before.
15:41And so he's got this great backlog of work to do. And he's focused on it. He's concentrating on it.
15:48The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
15:55It's the last thing he wants is new information coming in.
16:02What is this?
16:09What?
16:11I mean, the Marine Corps is a man who can be in the hospital.
16:16The man is a man who can be in the hospital.
16:18There are two people who can go to the hospital.
16:20There are two people who can be in that hospital.
16:22There are two people who can be in the hospital.
16:24It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night had never been
16:43delivered to the bridge, walling all ships of heavy ice in an area right ahead of the
16:49Titanic. And what was still worse, not far away.
16:57Light on us trying to say, I knew this was important, it should have gone to the bridge
17:06and it didn't and it's the wireless operator's fault. But that's not true, because the message
17:11didn't have the crucial prefix of MSG Master Service Gram, which would have meant that Jack
17:17Phillips would immediately have prioritized it and sent it up to the bridge. That didn't
17:23happen.
17:24We have this unique opportunity to understand the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective
17:31of those who are actually there. We're starting to piece things together, but we're working
17:36with people's memories. In reality, memories are going to distort. And there might be a
17:40bit of a bias where people will try and make sense of what was going on.
17:45There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead. But mostly, you know, it's just
17:52that people do remember things differently. You're not looking for the stone cold truths.
18:00We need to bring together all of those memories, see what seems to be consistent through it all,
18:07but also to recognize that every individual has a different experience. We have to respect
18:12that.
18:19Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man, Southampton, England, 25 next October. We are there to
18:39report anything we see. A ship or anything. Watch was nearly over. I had done the best part
18:52of two hours.
18:59Absolutely.
19:00Let's do it.
19:01Let's do it!
19:02Let's do it.
19:03Let's do it.
19:04It was not very large when I first saw it.
19:29A black mass.
19:32It kept getting larger.
19:34As we were getting near it.
19:45I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters when I heard
19:52the report of three bells.
19:57That signifies something's been seen ahead.
19:59I struck three bells first, then I went straight to the telephone.
20:03And rang them up on the bridge.
20:10Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:15The wheel was put to starboard.
20:21She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
20:26My mate saw it and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:33They swung the ship's bow away from the object.
20:37Yes.
20:40Because we were making straight for it.
20:46What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:48You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:50It's a split second decision.
20:52And there's just a cliche, isn't there, in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:56You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:03And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:22This red light came up.
21:29And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted,
21:35Shut all dampers, to shut the wind off the fires.
21:52The crash came before we had them all shut.
22:05I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:12I was about to step into bed when I seemed to sway slightly.
22:17If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand, not a drop would have spilled.
22:27I was soon awakened by a long, grinding shock.
22:33There was a backward jerk followed by a shorter one.
22:50And the ship started to back, like a train.
22:58Then a low, crunching, ripping sound.
23:09As Titanic shivered.
23:16I was fast asleep.
23:21Almost threw me off the bed.
23:29Suddenly I heard a tremendous noise.
23:38Immediately I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:40When we were alongside it, it was a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:01Like 50 feet, I should say.
24:03Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:10No.
24:12Just a slight grinding noise.
24:15Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:18I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:21You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:24Yes.
24:25You know, up on the top deck, people are thinking to themselves,
24:33whoa, that was close, but we got away with it.
24:35You know, it's just a near miss that somebody writes down in a log.
24:39But they don't know that this iceberg had a very large section jutting out of it,
24:45underneath the water.
24:46The water came pouring in about two feet from where I was standing.
25:07The ship's side was torn from the third stock hold to the forward's end.
25:24Open the door!
25:25The door's dropped instantly, automatically.
25:38Hurry up!
25:40We got through into the next section.
25:44Then the watertight compartment closed up.
25:46As the iceberg strikes, the rivets give way.
26:03And the water starts pouring into boiler room number six.
26:07That's on the starboard side of the ship.
26:10But Titanic is designed to have watertight compartments
26:14in the event of an emergency.
26:17There's 16 compartments, and the doors do what they're supposed to do.
26:21Come down, seal off the compartments, and protect the rest of the ship.
26:27Fred Barrett and his boys escape this wall of water.
26:32At the moment, they are safe.
26:37But the thing about the Titanic is nobody had thought
26:41to put in a direct communication system between the boiler rooms.
26:46Which could flood.
26:48And the bridge.
26:52But equally, it's not just a case of sending somebody up quickly.
26:56A lowly boiler operator or stoker goes up and tells the captain what's happened.
27:01There is a chain of command.
27:02So there was no way that Fred Barrett could tell the captain straight away what was happening.
27:12And that lost time.
27:14The captain said, what have we struck?
27:15Mr. Murdock, the first officer, said,
27:16we have struck an iceberg.
27:17The captain said, what have we struck?
27:18Mr. Murdock, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:19The captain said, what have we struck?
27:20The captain said, what have we struck?
27:21Mr. Murdock, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:26I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close.
27:27She hit it.
27:28But she hit it before I could do any more.
27:29He also said, I intended to port around it, but she hit it before I could do any more.
27:30The captain said, what have we struck?
27:31The captain said, what have we struck?
27:32Mr. Murdock, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:33I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close.
27:34She hit it.
27:35I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close.
27:36She hit it before I could do any more.
27:37He also said, I intended to port around it, but she hit it before I could do any more.
27:58We walked out onto the bridge to take a look at the iceberg.
28:03It seemed to be a small black mass not rising very high out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:20It couldn't have extended above the ship's rail.
28:25Captain Smith, the captain of the Titanic, was a very experienced seaman, a very highly
28:34respected seaman.
28:35He'd served in the Royal Naval Reserve as well as in the Merchant Navy.
28:40He was coming to the end of his career, and he must have been very, very proud that he
28:45was taking Titanic, this world-beating ship across the Atlantic, and that would be a wonderful
28:51end to what was a glittering career.
28:55And suddenly, of course, there's a collision.
28:57It's the last thing you want.
28:59He would have been annoyed as well as keen to solve the problem as quickly as he could.
29:18He stopped.
29:19The sudden quiet was disturbing.
29:27When there's that sudden cut of the engines, it's going to be really noticeable.
29:33Something's going on.
29:35Something's not right.
29:36Something's not as it should be.
29:38I lay still.
29:39I waited for Anne, my cabin mate, to speak, for I knew she was awake.
29:49I looked over the side of my bunk at her, and she returned by saying in her calm way,
29:55sounds as if something has happened.
30:00Passengers were really left in the dark.
30:02There was no tunneling system or announcement of what was going on, of what to do.
30:08They had to work it out themselves.
30:13I could hear the footsteps of people on the deck above my head.
30:24There was some stamping and queer noises, as though the ship's tackle was being pulled about.
30:34My husband said there must have been some slight accident in the engine room.
30:41He put on his coat and left me.
30:47Different people will react to the situation in different ways,
30:51but a number of passengers have no qualms at all about going up onto the boat deck
30:55and finding someone to inquire what's going on.
31:06It was bitterly cold.
31:13I moved around the deck, trying to discover what had happened.
31:16Have you seen the officers?
31:18There were quite a few people standing around, questioning each other in a dazed kind of way.
31:33There were many prominent people on the passenger list,
31:36and because it was for Maiden Voyage, those responsible for building the ship.
31:40Tommy Andrews, designer for Harland & Wolfe.
31:45He was respected by everyone.
31:51A great shipbuilder and a real gentleman.
31:57A perfectionist.
32:04Thomas Andrews was a highly respected, in fact, probably the most respected ship designer in the UK at this time.
32:12Titanic was the pinnacle of Andrews' career.
32:15You know, he'd been building up to this moment, this amazing liner that was going to win all these different prizes,
32:21that was the queen of the seas, really.
32:23He knew a great deal about ship design.
32:28He understood buoyancy, stability, all of these issues.
32:34He's got 16 watertight compartments.
32:36That's far more than most of the liners that were steaming around.
32:40And of those 16, four of them could be flooded, and the ship was still stable and would stay afloat.
32:46And that's why Titanic had been billed as an unsinkable ship.
32:54She was a fabricated steel vessel of gigantic dimensions.
33:01We're just stopping, precautionary, just making a few checks, and we'll be on our way to New York area.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully safe vessel.
33:16It's just precautionary, we're just...
33:18In answer to many questions, Mr. Andrews assured everybody that we were absolutely safe.
33:28She would stay afloat indefinitely.
33:39This one man had a piece of ice, and I took it out of his hands wondering where he'd got it from.
33:43Tried to make him understand that there was nothing the matter.
33:47Go down to bed and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it very seriously.
33:56After what seemed a few moments, my husband returned, and he was quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed, we have struck an iceberg, a big one.
34:08But there's no danger. An officer just told me so.
34:13This story reassured me.
34:17If these people weren't worried, why should I be?
34:26At that particular time, we know in England, certainly, there's a strong, very hierarchical class system.
34:32Getting the message from authority figures that everything's okay, even though the ship is stationary, and they're out at sea, and it's dark and it's cold.
34:41For the most people, that's enough.
34:46There had been an accident, a collision, and yet there was a sense of complacency rather than a sense of urgency to discover what exactly has gone wrong.
34:57Thomas Andrews was saying to people, everything's fine, it's all safe, when he didn't have any data about what the damage to the ship was.
35:06And that was not a clever thing to do.
35:08There are eight firemen in the number six section. The second engineer shouted, all hands, stand by your stations.
35:22That's for the men that stand by the fires.
35:25For Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:28And he's worried that there's going to be a minor explosion because the freezing water is hitting the hot coals.
35:37Fred Barrett is in the boiler room next door.
35:38And the only way to assess the damage is to climb out of boiler room five to this overhead gangway that's above boiler room six.
35:42Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:45Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:47And he's worried that there's going to be a minor explosion because the freezing water is hitting the hot coals.
35:55Fred Barrett is in the boiler room next door.
35:58And the only way to assess the damage is to climb out of boiler room five to this overhead gangway that's above boiler room six.
36:11He went up and escaped and down to the boiler room.
36:17But I couldn't get in.
36:24There was eight feet of water in it.
36:29When he tries to get back down into boiler room six, he can't because there's eight feet of water in there and the whole place is already filled with steam.
36:41But I think when Fred Barrett saw the situation, he would have been still feeling that everything could be contained.
36:48You know, this is how the ship was sold to passengers and crew alike.
36:51You know, he got six.
36:52I don't know.
37:22Captain Smith looked at the inclinometer, which is a sort of spirit-level type gauge, which shows whether the ship is stable or not, and realized there was a five-degree list in the ship to starboard.
37:45We're taking on water.
37:47Captain Smith knows that property is water. The problem is, where is this water coming from, and what the hell is going on?
37:57Titanic, of course, was a massive ship with a huge number of compartments. Therefore, finding out what's happened is a difficult and complex task, because the ability to communicate between parts of the ship was very, very poor indeed.
38:15Therefore, you have to send a person, a runner, to go down and look, and then come all the way back to the bridge to tell you what on earth is going on.
38:24I went right down below, into the lowest steerage as far as I could go without going into the cargo portion of the ship.
38:46And I inspected all the decks as I came up, in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck.
38:57I couldn't hear any noise.
39:00I couldn't see any damage.
39:02Remember, the mindset is, this ship is unsinkable.
39:09If you believe a ship is unsinkable, you're not looking for trouble.
39:17Imagine it, wandering about this vast ship, looking for water.
39:23He's not going to find it, because he doesn't go down to the boiler rooms.
39:27I boarded a Titanic in Queenstown.
39:46I'm 21 years old.
39:48I wanted to come to America to make some money.
39:52There were three other boys from the same place, sleeping in the same room with me.
39:57I jumped on the floor.
40:13First thing I knew, my feet were getting wet.
40:17I told the other fellas to get up, that there was something wrong.
40:21Get back to bed.
40:24They only laughed.
40:27One of them says, get back to bed, you're not in Ireland now.
40:32Go back to bed, Daniel.
40:33I really understand where that voice is coming from.
40:37Something that I hear from immigrants nowadays is this belief that you've entered a world of order
40:43and protection and protection and security, so you don't have to worry about anything.
40:51This is the safest ship in the world that's ever been built, but it's so wrong in this context.
40:57I turned on to my surprise, and to my surprise, there was a stream of water running along the floor.
41:10The fact that water was seen on the deck at the level where Daniel Buckney had a cabin
41:30was seen to indicate that a second water site compartment had actually gone as well as the boiler room,
41:37and the water was rising up the bulkhead in that compartment,
41:40and that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:43But who exactly knew that is a different issue?
41:47But who exactly knew that is a different issue?
41:47I met the carpenter coming up, absolutely out of breath,
42:16and he said, she is evidently making water fast.
42:20Number one tarpaulin is ballooning.
42:23Go tell the captain.
42:29At last, Boxall gets himself some concrete information.
42:34The carpenter he meets is talking about one of the tarpaulins up on G-deck
42:39that's covering a cargo hold.
42:41The air in there is being pushed out at speed, at pressure.
42:46By the volume of water coming in.
42:52In the cargo hold, there's all the passengers' luggage.
42:57There's goods that are being shipped from companies across the Atlantic.
43:01There's a Renault car all boxed up belonging to one of the first-class passengers.
43:06There's cases of feather boas.
43:08There's all kinds of crazy things in there.
43:10But it is the entirety of everyone's possessions.
43:21Then, on his way to investigate, Boxall gets some more news.
43:25I met the mail clerk coming up.
43:33And he said, Mr. Boxall, the mail room is filling.
43:36I got back to the boat deck and I saw the captain.
44:05The mail room is filling, sir.
44:06And I said, the mail room is filling, sir.
44:10What did he say?
44:15He walked away and left me.
44:20He went off the bridge as far as I remember.
44:24He didn't say anything to you?
44:27No.
44:27The captain goes down to inspect, accompanied by Thomas Andrews.
44:39Here, they can see with their own eyes, the mail room has been flooded.
44:44And that means another compartment is gone.
44:46The Titanic was a ship designed to carry mail from Great Britain.
44:59And there are about three and a half thousand sacks of mail on board.
45:03Already, these mail bags are beginning to float away.
45:06The mail clerks have tried to salvage some of them.
45:08But they can't, because the water is everywhere.
45:13This doesn't look good for Royal Britannia.
45:17Seeing the speed with which the water levels were rising
45:20must have been quite a sobering moment for both of them.
45:24And, of course, this was not what the captain had hoped would be
45:28his final crowning glory in command of this splendid ship.
45:34This was going to be the ultimate test for him.
45:37He was going to have to prove himself
45:39as the sort of captain that he thought he was
45:41and that other people thought he was.
45:43But then, the situation gets worse.
45:51The captain learns that a third compartment is flooded.
45:59The captain knows that this is a terrible circumstance.
46:03But equally, Titanic was built to endure that.
46:07There's 16 compartments.
46:09Four of them could be fully flooded.
46:11And the ship was still stable and wouldn't sink.
46:14If another one, a fifth compartment, started to be flooded,
46:18then that changed the equation completely.
46:23The captain is sitting right at the moment
46:25of what is known as event horizon.
46:27You know, once you tip over that precipice,
46:31the ship is going to sink.
46:33Any captain worth their salt
46:35is ultimately going to prepare for the worst
46:37and actually not even expect the best.
46:40You have to be preparing
46:41for things to continue to worsen.
46:51Then came the order to clear the lifeboats.
46:54There was the frightful noise of escaping steam.
47:12Many first-class passengers report this unearthly scream
47:25that comes out of the funnels.
47:28It's the steam which has been diverted from the engines
47:33now emerging from the funnels.
47:35For those who have their rooms closest to the boat deck,
47:45suddenly this is very alarming indeed.
47:49It's a moment where they realize
47:50that things are not as they should be
47:52and maybe they should be worrying.
47:55I was uneasy.
47:59I rushed to the husband.
48:02Go up on deck and see what has happened.
48:04He got out of his bed rather unwillingly.
48:07On board the Titanic in first class
48:23are American millionaires.
48:25There are people like Colonel John Jacob Astor IV,
48:29who is an American business magnate.
48:31He's one of the richest men in the world.
48:32And Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon sees Astor stride over
48:38to Captain Smith and have a private little word with him.
48:41I'm exactly how you say, Borman.
48:43I would advise you to go and get your family
48:46into the lifeboats.
48:47The first-class passengers know Captain Smith.
48:49They are able to mix with the senior crew.
48:53They have exclusive access.
48:55It means that they're part of the inner circle
48:57and other people are not.
48:58From the get-go, first-class passengers
49:01are in a kind of chumocracy with the senior crew.
49:05And that means that they get the information
49:07immediately when others don't.
49:09They have a distinct advantage from the word go.
49:14Yes, my wife.
49:15What is your sentence?
49:16I would appeal to you, Vickie, sure.
49:19My husband was back, looking rather grave.
49:27I've been up to the bridge
49:31and I've seen Colonel Astor, he said.
49:34He told me that he was going to ask his wife to dress
49:37and I think you'd better do the same.
49:41I hurriedly put on the warmest clothes I could find.
49:45As I was dressing,
49:47my secretary, Miss Francatelli,
49:49came into the room very agitated.
49:52I woke up with my own accord
50:21and I promised to relieve Phillips early than usual.
50:27I asked him how he was getting on.
50:30I think we struck something.
50:32He told me that he felt the ship tremble and stop.
50:37He thought she'd got damaged in some way.
50:41Suddenly, the captain put his head in the cabin.
50:45Struck an iceberg.
50:50We've struck an iceberg, the captain said,
50:53and I'm having an inspection made to tell what he's done.
50:56He'd better get ready to send a call for assistance.
50:59But don't send it until I tell you.
51:01But don't send it until I tell you.
51:02The captain went away.
51:09Phillips resumed the phones.
51:10It's okay.
51:11Pretty much.
51:12Mothin sky.
51:13Oh, I'm going to shout.
51:17Oh, my God.
51:18And the other,
51:23we saw that.
51:23And then the fire especially
51:25we saw a 누구 house move on through
51:27and was able to do that.
51:29I said to you before us
51:29I said to you before us.
51:30Oh, we noticed this.
51:30We saw this as well.
51:31Let's hear it.
51:32It's okay.
51:33There's not any more pretty much time
51:33but I said to you before us
51:34we saw a tension.
51:35And then there's not gonna end
51:35us pressure and dance.
51:36It is supposed to feel
51:36there's not any amendments or is
51:37that we're out there.
51:38We offered me to get theц.
51:39Let's go away.
51:39because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship,
51:45Captain Smith and others still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship.
51:52During his inspection, Andrews must have learned that a fourth compartment had flooded.
52:00But problems in the boiler room, he was still completely unaware of.
52:09When Andrews went down into the boiler room, he was horrified, horror-struck.
52:20Water was rising, and it was rising in spaces that they had not realized it would be in.
52:28Earlier on, Andrews had said about Titanic that she was nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve.
52:35He had put all of his knowledge into Titanic to make her as safe as she could be.
52:46But unfortunately, the ship was doomed.
52:49You're now at a point where it is mathematically certain that this ship is going to sink.
52:58Now that the front five compartments are flooded, the water will start pouring over the top of the bulkheads.
53:05Picture an ice tray.
53:11You start filling it at one end, and eventually it will, you know, rise up over the line in the next compartment,
53:17in the next compartment, and it just continues to fill and fill.
53:20And that is ultimately what is going to draw this ship to the bottom of the ocean.
53:24My husband and I jumped up and ran out to see what had happened.
53:48We were still wearing our nightclothes.
54:02I can imagine them in my mind.
54:05Middle of the night, they wake up, and then suddenly there's the terror of finding water,
54:10and you're in the bowels of the ship.
54:11You are not being told anything.
54:15There's no announcements.
54:16You're left to work out what's going on and how that impacts on your own safety.
54:23It's such a jarring break from this very beautiful experience, I think,
54:28that must have been having up until this point.
54:33We walked around to the port side.
54:36And the ship had, then, a fair list.
54:45We stayed there, looking over the side for about five minutes.
54:51The list seemed very slowly to be increasing.
55:01Thomas Andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge
55:04with a look of terror on his face.
55:09No doubt he realized the first time,
55:12my God, we can't save the ship.
55:16His unsinkable ship was going to sink.
55:25I saw the captain.
55:29It was then I realized it was serious.
55:31The captain looked over it.
55:36He said,
55:37we are sinking.
56:08It's just a precautionary change.
56:16Suddenly orders came down.
56:18Everybody to the boats.
56:21We sent an urgent distress call.
56:23Instead we were sinking by the head.
56:27If you are a family, you will be separated.
56:31Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.
56:35Husband stepped over to an officer.
56:38And asked him a question.
56:41I heard him shout back, keep calm, there's no danger.
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