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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.
03:31See you guys tomorrow.
03:32Have a guest.
03:34Bye.
03:35Bye.
03:36Bye.
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04:00Titanic, largest ship the world had ever known, the last word in luxury, the ship palatial,
04:29food, delicious. The rudder alone weighed 100 tons. I sailed first class from Southampton.
04:41We called at Cherbourg and from there to Queenstown. Everyone was counting the days till we'd see
04:48the Statue of Liberty. My father and mother were invited to dinner that night, so I dined
04:57alone. Afterward, I took a few turns around the deck. Being 17 years old, I was all over
05:08the ship.
05:13The Titanic is a ship of dreams, the epitome of modern technology, of luxury and opulence.
05:22It looks like a cross between the Ritz and an English grand country house.
05:32Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line. Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard
05:39in Belfast. She is absolutely huge. Ten decks, 840 cabins. An absolute masterpiece of human
05:49engineering.
05:56I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:16I was afraid of the sea. But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and
06:26I decided to go to America that way.
06:31First few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time. But on Sunday, April
06:4814th, I was up and about. After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while
06:55and then I went back to my cabin.
06:56There was no moon. A brilliant starry night. I'd never seen the sea smoother. It had become
07:23much colder.
07:30It was indeed a night for bed warmth and cosy thoughts. How good it was to be in my bunk
07:42at last, devouring magazines. At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship. I was enjoying
07:53the trip tremendously. The first three days were very calm. We were another three days before
08:03we would reach New York. It was a pleasure to go to bed. My pretty
08:10little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains. I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:22Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat. Everything aboard this
08:33lovely ship reassured me.
08:37It's a Sunday. First 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
08:55mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs. Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the
09:01Turkish baths or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym. Perhaps the men had gone to the
09:09smoking room. They'd had a cigar, a pipe. They'd played a round of cards. Maybe the women had gone
09:16to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet. They've had a joyful, relaxing day. They're full of
09:24anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York in two or three days' time. It's been the perfect day.
09:54My name is Celini Jasbek. My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:05He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:11business.
10:20It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:25Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship, and it was to ferry people, working people, from
10:32Europe to America.
10:36About three quarters of the Titanic's passengers are in second or third class, and it's really
10:41not surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:45This might be the first time they've been away from home, and maybe it's the first taste
10:50of freedom from very oppressive environments.
10:55They are young people embarking on a new life to a new world.
11:01It would have been wonderful.
11:05I was a bride of 50 days.
11:15By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship, memories that could easily
11:19have been lost to history, that's the way in.
11:22It's how we understand the story of the Titanic.
11:29I'm not alone.
11:30There's only one family who is in the of us.
11:32I'm so tired that I'm tired of being out of this ship.
11:36You don't want to be able to grab a bag.
11:38You don't want to gather some items from the ship to the ship.
11:42We're going to the box!
12:12I
12:40I 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.
13:07We knew perfectly well we were entering the region where ice might be sighted, and had
13:13taken precautions.
13:15As none of these bergs lay on our course, well, they didn't directly concern us.
13:24I passed on the course, speed, weather conditions, wished him joy of a few perishing cold hours
13:31and went below.
13:33It doesn't matter whether it's a ship, all the way down to a section of marines, in
13:38my circumstance.
13:40There is a system and command structure.
13:43Everyone had a job to do, and this is the point 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.
13:54The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just
14:01keep the ship moving.
14:03The captain is retired to his cabin, you know, comfortable that his crew, that ultimately
14:07have been at work since the ship left Belfast, are very much in control.
14:12Really, it's the beginning of what should be another cam night on the Titanic.
14:30I joined the Marconi staff last July and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:38I didn't have much to do about it except to relieve Philips, a senior operator.
14:45I went to bed.
15:03I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams.
15:07And even Southampton, we got through about 250 telegrams.
15:20So, I had to go to bed.
15:21I was unconscious and I was scared to leave.
15:22I was serious.
15:23I was conscious of being in the air because I've taken the bay.
15:25I was unconscious.
15:26I was conscious of being able.
15:28But if I had to do this, it's been a while.
15:29You're right.
15:30I was conscious of being able to do the small ship.
15:32I was conscious of having an aeroying system here in California.
15:35I was conscious of being able to be aware of the ship.
15:37You're not gonna be able to be able to be careful.
15:42For you to be able to be able to ride a big car.
15:46I was conscious of having a big car in the car.
15:47But you're getting nervous?
15:50It's a tense situation in the wireless room
16:02because the equipment broke down the day before.
16:04And so he's got this great backlog of work to do.
16:08And he's focused on it, he's concentrating on it.
16:10The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
16:20It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night
16:41had never been delivered to the bridge.
16:44Walling all ships of heavy ice in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:52What was still worse, not far away.
17:01Lighton was trying to say,
17:03I knew this was important, it should have gone to the bridge and it didn't
17:06and it's the wireless operator's fault.
17:08But that's not true because the message didn't have the crucial prefix
17:13of MSG, Master Servicegram,
17:16which would have meant that Jack Phillips would immediately have prioritised it
17:20and sent it up to the bridge.
17:22That didn't happen.
17:25We have this unique opportunity to understand the sinking of the Titanic
17:29from the perspective of those who are actually there.
17:33We're starting to piece things together,
17:35but we're working with people's memories.
17:36In reality, memories are going to distort
17:39and there might be a bit of a bias
17:41where people will try and make sense of what was going on.
17:46There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead,
17:50but mostly, you know,
17:52it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:56You're not looking for the stone-cold truths.
17:59We need to bring together all of those memories,
18:03see what seems to be consistent through it all,
18:06but also to recognise that every individual has a different experience.
18:11We have to respect that.
18:13Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man, Southampton, England, 25th next October.
18:36We are there to report anything we see.
18:43A ship or anything.
18:48Watch was nearly over.
18:51I had done the best part of two hours.
18:54I had done the best part of two hours.
18:55I had done the best part of two hours.
18:56I had done the best part of two hours.
18:57I had done the best part of two hours.
18:58I had done the best part of two hours.
18:59I had done the best part of two hours.
19:00I had done the best part of two hours.
19:01I had done the best part of two hours.
19:02I had done the best part of two hours.
19:03I had done the best part of two hours.
19:04I had done the best part of two hours.
19:05I had done the best part of two hours.
19:06I had done the best part of two hours.
19:07I had done the best part of two hours.
19:08I had done the best part of two hours.
19:09I had done the best part of two hours.
19:10I had done the best part of two hours.
19:11I had done the best part of two hours.
19:12It was now very large when I first saw it, a black mass.
19:32It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer there.
19:42I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck and almost abreast of the captain's quarters when I heard the report of three bells.
19:56That signifies something's been seen ahead.
20:00I struck three bells first, then I went straight to the telephone and rang them up on the bridge.
20:08Iceberg! Get ahead!
20:11Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:14Horser!
20:17The wheel was put to starboard.
20:20She 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?
20:36Yes.
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 cliché, isn't there, in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:57You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:01And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:13This red light came up.
21:14Shut all dampers!
21:15And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:19Shut all dampers!
21:20Shut all dampers!
21:21Shut all dampers!
21:22Shut all dampers!
21:23Shut all dampers!
21:24Shut all dampers!
21:25And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted, shut all dampers!
21:26Shut all dampers!
21:27Shut all dampers!
21:28Shut all dampers!
21:29Shut all dampers!
21:30Shut all dampers!
21:31Shut all dampers!
21:32Shut all dampers!
21:33And I'm the man in charge of the watch, so I shouted, shut all dampers, to shut the
21:36wind off the fires.
21:37Shut all dampers!
21:38Shut all dampers!
21:39Shut all dampers!
21:40Shut all dampers!
21:41The crash came before we had them all shut.
21:54I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:10I 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.
22:22I was soon awakened by a long grinding shock.
22:38There was a backward jerk followed by a shorter one.
22:51The ship started to back, like a train.
22:58Then a low, crunching, ripping sound as Titanic shivered.
23:12I was fast asleep.
23:17It almost threw me off the bed.
23:21Suddenly I heard a tremendous noise.
23:27Immediately I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:40When we were alongside it, it was a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:0150 feet, I should say.
24:04Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:08No.
24:10Just a slight grinding noise.
24:15Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:18I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:20You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:21You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:22Yes.
24:23You know, up on the top deck, people are thinking to themselves,
24:25Whoa, 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.
24:40But they don't know that this iceberg had a very large section jutting out of it underneath the water.
25:06Water came pouring in about two feet from where I was standing.
25:10The ship's side was torn from the third stock hold to the forward end.
25:24Open the door!
25:25The doors dropped instantly, automatically.
25:38Hurry up!
25:40We got through into the next section.
25:44Then the watertight compartment closed up.
25:48As 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.
26:09But Titanic is designed to have watertight compartments in the event of an emergency.
26:16There'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.
26:26Fred 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 to put in a direct communication system
26:44between the boiler rooms, which could flood, and the bridge.
26:49But 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.
27:05So there was no way that Fred Barrett could tell the captain straight away what was happening.
27:12And that lost time.
27:19The captain said, what have we struck?
27:40Mr. Murdock, the first officer, said, we have struck an iceberg.
27:46I put her hard to starboard, but it was too close she hit it.
27:51He also said, I intended to port around it, but she hit before I could do any more.
27:57We 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 respected 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 was taking Titanic, this world-beating ship across the Atlantic.
28:50And that would be a wonderful end 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.
29:18The engine stopped.
29:21The sudden quiet was disturbing.
29:26When 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.
29:41I waited for Anne, my cabin mate, to speak, for I knew she was awake.
29:47I 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.
30:07They had to work it out themselves.
30:09I could hear the footsteps of people on the deck above my head.
30:16There was some stamping and queer noises, as though the ship's tackle was being pulled about.
30:32My husband said there must have been some slight accident in the engine room.
30:42He put on his coat and left me.
30:47Different people will react to the situation in different ways, but a number of passengers have no qualms at all about going up onto the boat deck and finding someone to inquire what's going on.
30:59It was bitterly cold.
31:09I 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, and because it was for Maiden Voyage, those responsible for building the ship.
31:40Tommy Andrews, designer for Harland and Wolfe.
31:47He was respected by everyone.
31:50A great shipbuilder and a real gentleman.
31:55A perfectionist.
31:59Thomas 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.
32:16You 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.
32:26He knew a great deal about ship design.
32:29He understood buoyancy, stability, all of these issues.
32:35He's got 16 waterside compartments.
32:37That'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.
32:47And that's why Titanic had been billed as an unsinkable ship.
32:55She was a fabricated steel vessel of gigantic dimensions.
33:02We'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.
33:19In answer to many questions, Mr. Andrews assured everybody that we were absolutely safe.
33:29She would stay afloat indefinitely.
33:32The ship is unsinkable.
33:35Is that time?
33:39This one man had a piece of ice.
33:42And I took it out of his hands, wondering where he'd got it from.
33:45Tried to make him understand that there was nothing the matter.
33:48Go down to bed and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it very seriously.
33:53After what seemed a few moments, my husband returned, and he was quite excited.
34:05He exclaimed,
34:06And we have struck an iceberg, a big one.
34:10But there's no danger.
34:11An officer just told me so.
34:14This story reassured me.
34:17If these people weren't worried, why should I be?
34:22At that particular time, we know in England, certainly, there's a strong, very hierarchical class system, getting the message from authority figures that everything's okay.
34:36Even though the ship is stationary, and they're out at sea, and it's dark, and it's cold.
34:42For most people, that's enough.
34:43There 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.
34:58Thomas 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.
35:07And that was not a clever thing to do.
35:13There are eight firemen in the number six section. The second engineer shouts is,
35:35All hands, stand by your stations. That's for the men that stand by the fires.
35:41For Fred Barrett and his crew, they need to manage the fire in boiler room six.
35:48And he's worried that there's going to be a minor explosion, because the freezing water is hitting the hot coals.
35:56Fred 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.
36:07He went up and escaped, and down to the boiler room.
36:17But, he couldn't get in.
36:19There was eight feet of water in it.
36:27When 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.
36:38But, 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.
36:51What are passengers and crew alike?
36:52What are passengers and crew alike?
37:21Captain Smith looked at the inclinometer, which is a sort of spirit level type gauge, which shows whether the ship is stable or not,
37:39and realized there was a five degree list in the ship to starboard.
37:46We're taking on water.
37:47Captain Smith knows that property is water.
37:53The problem is, where is this water coming from, and what the hell is going on?
38:00Titanic, of course, was a massive ship with a huge number of compartments.
38:05Therefore, finding out what's happened is a difficult and complex task,
38:10because 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.
38:23I went right down below, into the lowest steerage as far as I could go without going into the cargo portion of the ship.
38:32And I inspected all the decks as I came up, in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck.
38:41I couldn't hear any noise.
38:42I couldn't hear any noise.
38:43I couldn't see any damage.
38:48Remember, the mindset is, this ship is unsinkable.
38:49If you believe a ship is unsinkable, you're not looking for trouble.
38:55Imagine it, wandering about this vast ship, looking for water.
39:09If you believe a ship is unsinkable, you're not looking for trouble.
39:16Imagine 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.
39:39I boarded a Titanic in Queenstown.
39:46I'm 21 years old. I wanted to come to America to make some money.
39:51There were three other boys from the same place sleeping in the same room with me.
40:02I jumped on the floor.
40:09The first 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.
40:31Go back to bed, Daniel.
40:33I really understand where that voice is coming from.
40:36Something that I hear from immigrants nowadays is this belief that you've entered a world of order and protection and security.
40:48So 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 the lights.
41:06And 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 Butney 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.
41:41And that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:44But who exactly knew that is a different issue.
41:47I met the carpenter coming up.
42:14Absolutely out of breath.
42:17And he said, she is evidently making water fast.
42:20Number one tarpaulin is ballooning.
42:23Go tell the captain.
42:24At last, Boxall gets himself some concrete information.
42:34The carpenter he meets is talking about one of the tarpaulins up on G-deck that's covering a cargo hold.
42:41The air in there is being pushed out at speed, at pressure, by the volume of water coming in.
42:49In 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.
43:05There'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.
43:20Then, 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.
44:35The 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 3,500 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.
45:25And of course, this was not what the captain had hoped would be
45:28his final crowning glory in command of this splendid ship.
45:32This was going to be the ultimate test for him.
45:37He was going to have to prove himself as the sort of captain
45:40that he thought he was and that other people thought he was.
45:46But then the situation gets worse.
45:51The captain learns that a third compartment is flooded.
45:54The 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.
46:20The 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 for things to continue to worsen.
46:50Then came the order to clear the lifeboats.
47:09There 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.
48:03And he got out of his bed rather unwillingly.
48:20On board the Titanic in first class
48:23are American millionaires.
48:26There 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
48:37stride over to Captain Smith
48:39and 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.
48:54It means that they're part of the inner circle
48:57and other people are not.
48:58From the get-go,
49:00first-class passengers are in a kind of chumocracy
49:03with 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.
49:12My husband was back, looking rather grave.
49:29I've been up to the bridge
49:31and I've seen Colonel Astor, he said.
49:33He 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,
49:50came 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.
50:47Struck an iceberg.
50:48We've struck an iceberg, the captain said.
50:53And I'm having an inspection made
50:54to tell what he's done.
50:56He 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.
51:06The captain went away.
51:09Phillips resumed the phones.
51:10We've got a good one.
51:26We'll feedback.
51:26We'll see you next time.
51:29Let's do a few hours.
51:35We'll see you next time.
51:36So yeah.
51:37Because 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.
52:07When 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.
52:59Now 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 they 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.
54:54Thomas Andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge with a look of terror on his face.
55:09No doubt he realized the first time, my God, we can't save the ship.
55:16His unsinkable ship was going to sink.
55:18I saw the captain.
55:28It was then I realized it was serious.
55:34The captain looked over and he said, we are sinking.
55:38The captain was something Tara Scott Andrejson and the captain.
55:54That's what he did.
56:00So
56:00the captain was is
56:01the king not the bekman he's of asute.
56:02He named
56:03the captain loves the king,
56:04the captain was the king.
56:05And the captain goes,
56:06the captain of the captain is
56:08the captain of the captain.
56:08suddenly orders came down everybody to the boats we sent an urgent distress call
56:22and said we were sinking by the head
56:24if you are a family you will be separated nobody's telling anybody what's going on
56:34husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question
56:40i heard him shout back keep calm there's no danger
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