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00:00I was afraid of the sea, but I listened to the people who said, take the new Titanic.

00:19She cannot come to any harm. New inventions have made us safe.

00:30He told me that apparently we'd struck something.

00:50Iceberg! Get in!

01:00I didn't become alarmed.

01:03There was no danger, they said.

01:09I told her to come at once. We were sinking.

01:15You can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and you're in the bowels of the ship.

01:22It makes me panic just thinking about it.

01:25The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.

01:33Then came the terrible cry, women and children, women and children.

01:40Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.

01:44It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.

01:49It really was every man for himself.

02:08My heart stood still.

02:09If we're gonna die, best to die gripping something.

02:29It's a split second decision. What would you do? What would I do?

02:32It was a terrible sight.

02:42Men, swimming and sinking.

02:52I'd been brought up to believe in a hell after death.

02:57For now, I think I went through a hell that night.

03:06For now, I know what I do.

03:07What would I do?

03:09I know.

03:11What would I do?

03:13If I didn't know what I would tell this about it.

03:14Let's get out of relief.

03:16I don't know what I do.

03:18This is a scene.

03:20It's a scene.

03:22What would I do?

03:23I don't know.

03:25It was a scene.

03:27It was a scene.

03:29It's a scene.

03:31It was a scene.

04:02Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.

04:14I got between 15 and 20.

04:23The engineers put the pumps on.

04:29Those who would have gone off to UT Stazan.

04:32Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.

04:42Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there,

04:47have been called back on shift to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartment.

04:54Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.

04:58There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.

05:03It's terrifying.

05:06They are like soldiers going into battle.

05:12With five compartments flooded, the Titanic is going to sink.

05:16They have around an hour and a half until it's going to disappear below the waves.

05:21They're never going to get all of the water out of the ship.

05:24Can they hold it back just a little bit longer in order to try and save everybody on board?

05:29What I think is unfortunate in Titanic is that the captain had not established a mechanism whereby he was getting information

05:57about what the actual damage was in various parts of the ship.

06:03This is something that there should have been being worked on much earlier.

06:07As a result, time was lost.

06:09Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time, it goes from, we can't save the ship,

06:19but can we get the passengers from the Titanic to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks?

06:26The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours, ultimately, that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.

06:35Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.

06:54Which call should I send?

06:59The Regulation International call for help.

07:02Just that.

07:04And the captain was gone.

07:08The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.

07:10So in the radio room, right now, it's a race against time.

07:20The operators must send out the distress signal.

07:25It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.

07:33These two young men, they're in their 20s, are now responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship, Titanic.

07:45My boats were along the port side.

08:10My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.

08:15They would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.

08:19All right, gentlemen.

08:20We know what to do.

08:22Up to this time, we hadn't had chance for a boat drill, beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.

08:31The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sift and caretaken that there were no misfits.

08:38A tap on the shoulder, an indication with the hand, was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.

08:46Clearing away the boat covers, hauling tight the falls, ready for lowering.

08:51We're not going to see hysteria.

08:54We're not even going to see anxiety at this point.

08:57Not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.

09:02Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.

09:05Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.

09:09The water, having reached F-deck, showed me she'd been badly hulled.

09:19Although I knew it was serious, I'd not have thought that it was likely to prove fatal.

09:24I figured that she'd go so far until she balanced her buoyancy and there she would remain.

09:31The captain doesn't share the information he has with all the officers, that the ship is going down.

09:39And precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.

09:43It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.

09:47Maybe it reflects an internal chaos.

09:49He doesn't know who to tell or when.

09:52The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment,

09:56they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.

09:59They just know they have a job to do.

10:01They just know they have a job to do.

10:31There are 2,208 passengers on board.

10:35They won't all fit in the lifeboats,

10:37so the lifeboats will have to do shuttle runs,

10:39take passengers to the rescue ship,

10:42come back and then take the next lot of passengers.

10:46It's physically possible for them to save all the passengers,

10:49but they have to do it in an orderly fashion.

10:52And the people who are going to go first

10:54are those whose rooms are closest to the boat deck,

10:56and those are the first-class passengers.

10:58In this emergency plan, the wealthy and the powerful

11:02have an innate advantage.

11:04They are top of the list.

11:10Suddenly, orders came down.

11:13Everybody to the boats.

11:19All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections

11:24to assist and direct people.

11:28I continued through my section,

11:30trying to reassure,

11:33reminding people to put on warm clothing,

11:36take blankets and valuables.

11:41Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess.

11:44She's 24 years old.

11:45She's the youngest stewardess on board.

11:48The first-class stewards and stewardesses

11:50really are the ones who are responsible

11:52for making this evacuation process happen.

11:55They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control

11:59and put these other people first.

12:06Of course, we reiterated from room to room

12:09that it was just precautionary measure.

12:11Everywhere I found extraordinary calmness.

12:20People who'd been asleep were dressing,

12:24fumbling, sleepy-eyed with buttons.

12:29They were...

12:30They were unemotional.

12:33Probably thinking, as I did,

12:37that it was all too fantastic.

12:44The first-class passengers have invested financially.

12:47They've spent a lot on their tickets.

12:49They've invested psychologically

12:50in this being safe and luxurious.

12:54And they therefore cannot believe

12:57that it can be anything but that.

13:01It's such a leap of imagination

13:03to go against everything they've internalised

13:06about this experience

13:07and start to believe

13:09that something might be going wrong.

13:11A steward knocked at the door.

13:19Sorry to alarm you, madam,

13:21but the captain's orders

13:22are that all passengers should put on lifebelts.

13:28He laughed and joked as he helped us.

13:32Wrap up warmly.

13:33We may have a little trip for an hour or so

13:35in one of the lifeboats.

13:37What a very fetching colour, is it?

13:38Cosmo was so brave

13:40to try and keep us in good spirits,

13:42making a bad jest

13:44as to how unappetising we both looked

13:47in those sickly white life preservers.

13:54Lucy Lady Duff Gordon

13:56is one of the most prominent people on board.

14:00After divorcing her previous husband,

14:02she managed to build up her business,

14:05which is a fashion design house,

14:07into a multi-million pound enterprise.

14:10And this is a time

14:11when many women

14:12don't even have bank accounts.

14:14So she's obviously extraordinary.

14:16She's very resourceful.

14:18And that will come to be important.

14:22I put on a heavy crepe scarf.

14:25I wore the big squirrel coat.

14:28Bought my little velveteen ring bag.

14:30It all looked so pretty.

14:34Just like a bedroom on land.

14:37It didn't seem possible

14:38there could be any danger.

14:43But a vase of flowers on the washstand

14:45slid off and fell to the floor.

14:47let me just say,

14:50but there it is.

14:51Thank you very much.

14:55Yes, yes, this way.

15:21Slowly, people started.

15:25Some joking, taking their time about it.

15:30To those few who showed concern, a reassuring answer was, there are plenty of boats in the

15:37vicinity, they'll be with us any moment now.

15:53I heard the Crow's Nest report a light on the bow.

15:58I went on the bridge right away and found this light.

16:09It was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon.

16:16You could not only see her lights with the naked eye.

16:19You could see the lights of her portals.

16:22So Boxall can see the nearest ship to the Titanic, which is the Californian.

16:27She's very close by, about 14 miles.

16:32The Californian had already communicated with the Titanic earlier that evening that she

16:39was going to spend the night in the ice flow because it was too dangerous to continue.

16:44But the Californian would be able to reach Titanic before she sinks.

16:51Captain Smith, we spotted a steamer on the horizon.

16:57I told the captain about this ship.

16:59He said, tell them to come at once.

17:02We are sinking.

17:03We are sinking.

17:04We are sinking.

17:09And we are sinking.

17:35after the signal had been sent out the ether seemed to be dead no reply came

17:43through California isn't picking up any signals the radio operator has gone to

17:51bed not because he's negligent but because he's allowed to go to bed there's

17:55no duty to stay in the radio room all night and many ships did not ask this of

18:00their operators but then suddenly a chance message comes in from a wireless

18:12operator on another ship the Carpathia I was about to retire I'd taken my coat off

18:22I should have been turning in in about 10 minutes called the Titanic

18:28and his only answer was Struckerberg come at once we told her our position instead

18:43we were sinking by the head I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned

18:52around immediately and he said yes quick the operator went to tell his captain

18:59the Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship she's fast but she's going in the other direction

19:09Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain that Titanic is in trouble the

19:17captain of the Carpathia will then make the decision about what to do and that usually means to turn

19:24your vessel towards the ship that is in distress that's the rule of the sea so here is a chance of

19:31rescue as long as Carpathia is able to get there in time

19:38so we'd been

20:07warned by the stewards to be going away in a boat it it didn't seem possible that all this could

20:14actually be happening it was the strangest scene people bundled up in old clothes boarding lifeboats in

20:27the night if you seem to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat and it was only after considerable

20:41coaxing that many went at all people don't want to get in why would you want to get out of your warm

20:48bed and go in a lifeboat into the freezing water when there's no problem you wouldn't this is like

20:54a really annoying fire drill at school and everybody says no I'll just stay here until it's finished at

21:02that point in time the general public weren't really trusted keeping people in ignorance was considered

21:08better and we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an emergency if they

21:13do have some information that information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic

21:19we were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo

21:47the officers called for women and children

21:51so Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should be

21:58prioritized on the port side the second officer officer Lightoller interprets it as women and children

22:08only the consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side

22:17you will be separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboat saving the lives of women

22:26and children comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset women at the time are seen as having a kind of

22:34childish status I mean this is before they've been allowed to vote and they are perceived to have a

22:40physical and mental weakness that means that men have to be their protectors

22:45please step back sir please step back

22:47I had no such ideas about my husband it would have been too awful to have been alone

22:56every time officer Lightoller prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat there is the possibility

23:04that his wife won't go that they will stay on board the ship so he's actually potentially

23:11endangering the lives of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save

23:16in a great emergency like that where there were limited facilities could you not have put more people

23:44into boats I did not know it was urgent then I had no idea it was urgent you did not know it was urgent

23:57nothing like it

23:59Lightoller wants to do a good job clearly maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking

24:14he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats but because the captain is

24:22withholding information people like Lightoller can't do their job properly and this will have

24:27disastrous consequences what one wants is to have a very good relationship a band of brothers and when

24:38you've got that you must keep them informed of what's going on and what we call nowadays mission

24:43command in other words you let them know what you want to achieve overall you tell them all the facts

24:48and then you let them get on with it I think the captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity of

24:54what was happening and was not really grasping it and taking charge

25:01what we're going on with it we're going to know the numbers of the men and there's a lot of the men that

25:08yeah

25:10and I go inside and live in the comments which I'm going to show up on with you

25:12this will be one of the men that have the German people who are not armed and me

25:14and I'm not talking about this because they love the men that have the women that have the men that have been

25:16in a few days in terms of saying that they need to be here now and they'll all be that

25:21The operator returned and told us the Carpathia

25:34was putting about and heading for us.

25:40Our captain had left us at this time.

25:42Phillips told me to run and tell him

25:43what the Carpathia had answered.

25:44I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin.

25:55The decks were full.

26:02I came back and heard Phillips give him

26:03the Carpathia full of directions.

26:05He told me to put my clothes on.

26:11Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed.

26:14I went to my cabin and dressed

26:18and brought an overcoat to Phillips.

26:21It was very cold.

26:24I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.

26:28Imagine the relief in the radio room.

26:31Carpathia has answered the distress call,

26:34is coming their way.

26:38But although she's going as fast as she can,

26:41she's having to go through the same ice field

26:44where Titanic has floundered.

26:50She's four hours away,

26:52and Titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long.

26:55The nearest ship to Titanic is the Californian,

27:08but the radio operator's still asleep.

27:12Nobody is aware of any problem on the Titanic.

27:15The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.

27:23So they start to use Morse lamps

27:24and send a signal using light rather than sound.

27:29The ship was close enough, I thought,

27:32to read our electric Morse signal.

27:34So I signalled her.

27:35I told her to come at once.

27:41We were sinking.

27:44The captain was with me most of the time.

27:46We were signalling.

27:48I would signal with the Morse

27:49and then go back and look at the ship.

27:57I cannot say I saw any reply.

27:59In a crisis,

28:09you just have to increase your chances of survival.

28:12Survival is all about probability.

28:14You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible

28:16and seeing what sticks.

28:20Then we started sending off these distressed rockets,

28:24the quartermaster and I on the bridge.

28:29They go right up into the air

28:33and throw stars.

28:34They go right up into the air and throw stars.

28:59Right now, the water is rising up

29:19through the body of the ship.

29:23The waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level.

29:26By this stage, water was tipping over bulkheads

29:29and cascading into the next compartment.

29:33So compartment after compartment

29:35was being filled by water.

29:40And as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads,

29:44it starts flowing back on itself,

29:46making cascades and waterfalls

29:48coming down the narrow staircases.

29:50Third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship

30:09are at most risk.

30:11They were really left in the dark.

30:12They are wading through water.

30:18They're not aware of what's going on,

30:19the rescue mission going on in the upper decks.

30:22They had to work it out themselves.

30:27My husband had left some money in our cabin

30:30and there were all our clothes

30:33and things that we were taking to America.

30:44Selene is from Hardin, which was in Lebanon.

30:47She's a newlywed bride

30:50and her older husband is taking her

30:54to live with him in America.

30:56They are caught between going up to the higher decks

31:00and the desire to keep their belongings.

31:04It's easy to underestimate

31:06just how important things are to a migrant,

31:11to someone who's leaving home forever.

31:13Do you want to arrive in New York destitute

31:17with nothing to your name,

31:19nothing to pay for a room?

31:21Of course not.

31:28We returned to try and get our clothes,

31:32money and jewellery.

31:35We started down for them.

31:37But the water on our deck was waist-deep.

31:46We never got there.

32:00Depending on where you are in the ship right now,

32:03you're going to start seeing a lot of water.

32:04The third-class passengers in particular.

32:09Water in any quantity is terrifying

32:12because you can't push it away,

32:14you can't fight it.

32:15People are now seeing evidence with their own eyes.

32:19It's not rumour, it's not gossip.

32:21It's not even that they're waiting to be told.

32:23They can see, feel that there is a problem.

32:26By this time, the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little.

32:44And we heard queer noises

32:47as if the ship was being pulled about.

32:49Charlotte Collier is a second-class passenger.

33:02She's travelling with her husband, Harvey,

33:04and her eight-year-old daughter, Marjorie.

33:06Charlotte has health issues, she has tuberculosis,

33:09so she's eager to find a new climate for her health

33:12as well as whatever economic benefit

33:15they might get from migrating.

33:16Whilst this whole hour has passed

33:24in which the first-class passengers are being evacuated,

33:28they were told to stay in their cabin.

33:32They are sitting there and worrying,

33:36and no-one is telling them anything.

33:38Suddenly, we heard people running along the passageway

33:46in front of our door.

33:52Their feet reminded me of rats scurrying.

33:58I could see my face had grown very white.

34:01My husband stammered when he spoke to me.

34:07He said we had better go on deck

34:09and see what's wrong.

34:16For anyone that was feeling confused

34:21or was just following the rules,

34:23it's very clear

34:25something major is now happening.

34:29It's going to be terrifying,

34:31especially if you're a parent with a young child.

34:39When we went on board the Titanic,

34:42every possession was with us.

34:46Neither of us took any belongings from the cabin.

34:49My husband even left his watch

34:52lying on his pillow.

34:55I had a big dolly

34:58that I got two Christmases before,

35:00and we were in such a hurry

35:03that I left it behind.

35:07I cried for my dolly,

35:09but we couldn't go back.

35:10When we reached the deck,

35:22there was a great many people.

35:34Some of them were crying.

35:36I was crying for my doll,

35:41but nobody could go back and get her.

35:49An officer said

35:50we should put on life preservers.

35:53So,

35:54mother put one on me

35:56and then fastened one around herself.

35:59Papa put one on too.

36:02Do you know?

36:03Yeah.

36:06My husband stepped over to an officer

36:08and asked him a question.

36:11Excuse me.

36:12Yes, sir.

36:12What's going on?

36:13I heard him shout back.

36:15Are we in danger?

36:16Keep calm.

36:17There's no danger.

36:21Nobody's telling anybody what's going on.

36:24The captain knows.

36:26A few of the officers know.

36:27But it's important to keep this away

36:29because of panic.

36:31But now,

36:32because of the noise,

36:33the tilt,

36:34people are realising

36:36that something is wrong.

36:39No!

36:40No!

36:41No!

36:42No!

36:43No!

36:44No!

36:45No!

36:46No!

36:47No!

36:48No!

36:52All the water

36:53that had been thrown

36:54on the furnaces

36:55just making the stock

36:56all thick with steam.

37:01Mr. Shepard's

37:02was walking across

37:02in a hurry

37:03to do something.

37:03and he fell down

37:11the hole

37:11and broke his leg.

37:15He lifted him up

37:16and carried him.

37:29There was a knocking noise.

37:30all at once

37:34I saw a wave

37:35of green foam

37:36tearing between the boilers.

37:37a rush of water

37:39came through.

37:44I never stopped to look.

37:46I just jumped

37:47for the escape ladder.

37:48A huge wave of green water

38:03comes flying through

38:05into the room

38:05because the coal bunker

38:07has been gradually

38:08filling up

38:09and filling up

38:10and filling up

38:10with the pressure

38:11and then it burst

38:13and suddenly

38:13it's all over them.

38:16Another engineer

38:17Jonathan Shepard

38:18has already slipped

38:19and broken his leg

38:21so he can't escape

38:22this wall of water.

38:24and he's the first casualty

38:31to die

38:32on the Titanic.

38:39I went up the escape

38:41and into the main alleyway.

39:01Titanic was sloping down

39:02by the head.

39:04Water was coming down

39:06the alleyway

39:06from forward.

39:07Now that boiler room 5

39:14is filled with water

39:16the engineers realise

39:18that all their efforts

39:19are futile.

39:20There's no point

39:21pumping it out anymore.

39:23It's coming in faster

39:24than anyone

39:25can manage it.

39:30This is a moment

39:31of terror

39:33and certainty.

39:35Perhaps this is

39:37the first moment

39:38where these brave men

39:41realise

39:41that the ship

39:42is going to go down.

40:00All passengers

40:01upstairs

40:02at last.

40:03I...

40:04I returned

40:07to my room.

40:15I began tidying up

40:16folding my nightgown

40:19putting everything

40:20in its place.

40:23There was

40:24there was no sound.

40:28Titanic

40:28might have been in dock

40:30and all the crew

40:30gone home.

40:31I saw Stanley

40:43at the door

40:44watching me

40:44and he...

40:47he almost shouted

40:49at me

40:50as he seized

40:51my arm.

40:52My God

40:53don't you realise

40:54this ship will sink?

40:55You have to follow

40:56the rest upstairs

40:57as quickly as possible.

40:58sinking.

41:08The word

41:09repeated itself

41:12without fully

41:14fully entering

41:16my understanding.

41:17my mind

41:22could not

41:22accept that

41:23the super

41:24perfect creation

41:26was to do

41:28so futile

41:29a thing

41:29as sink.

41:32Of course

41:32Titanic

41:34couldn't be

41:35sinking.

41:36suddenly there

41:54was a commotion

41:55near one

41:56of the gangways

41:56and we saw

41:59a stoker

41:59come up from below.

42:01all the fingers

42:05of one hand

42:06had been

42:07cut off.

42:10Blood was

42:11running from

42:13the stumps

42:14and was

42:15spattered

42:16on his face

42:17and clothes.

42:19It

42:20brought up

42:22a picture

42:22of

42:23smashed

42:24engines

42:25and

42:26mangled

42:28human bodies.

42:30I went

42:31over to speak

42:31to him.

42:33I asked him

42:34if there was

42:35any danger.

42:37Danger?

42:39I should say

42:40so.

42:42It's hell

42:42down below.

42:45This ship

42:46will sink

42:47like a stone.

42:52At this moment

42:54I

42:54got my first

42:57grip

42:58of fear.

43:15Those in charge

43:16herded us

43:17herded us

43:17towards

43:18the nearest

43:18boat.

43:22Then

43:23above the

43:25clamour

43:25came the

43:26terrible cry

43:27lower the

43:29boat

43:29women

43:30and

43:30children.

43:36Someone

43:37was shouting

43:38these last

43:39few words

43:39over

43:40and over

43:41again.

43:41Women

43:42and

43:42children

43:42only.

43:43That's

43:43women

43:43and

43:44children

43:44only.

43:46Women

43:46and

43:46children

43:47only.

43:48Women

43:48and

43:49children

43:49only.

43:53It might

43:53be that

43:54Lightoller

43:54has this

43:55kind of

43:55rigid view

43:56of the

43:56world.

43:57He's

43:57come in

43:57with a

43:58set of

43:58rules.

43:59It

44:00might

44:00be

44:00that

44:00under

44:00this

44:01stressful

44:01situation

44:02it's

44:02the

44:02only

44:03way

44:03he

44:03can

44:03function.

44:04He

44:04can't

44:05cope

44:05with

44:05more

44:05information

44:06and

44:06more

44:06decision

44:07making

44:07so

44:07he

44:08just

44:08sticks

44:08to

44:09this

44:09one

44:10option.

44:11Cosmo

44:25pleaded

44:26with

44:26me

44:26while

44:27three

44:28or

44:28four

44:28boats

44:28were

44:28launched

44:29but

44:29I

44:30refused.

44:32I

44:33only

44:33said

44:33promise

44:34me

44:34that

44:34whatever

44:35you

44:35do

44:35you

44:36will

44:36not

44:36let

44:36them

44:37separate

44:37us

44:37and

44:39I

44:39clung

44:39to

44:39him.

44:41He

44:41saw

44:41that

44:41there

44:41was

44:41no

44:42use

44:42resisting

44:42me.

44:49We'll

44:50go

44:50round

44:50to

44:50the

44:50starboard

44:51side

44:51Cosmo

44:52said

44:52it

44:52might

44:53be

44:53better

44:53there.

45:05One

45:05of the

45:06pivotal

45:06facts

45:06about

45:07the

45:07loading

45:07of

45:07the

45:07lifeboats

45:08is

45:08this

45:08there

45:09are

45:10different

45:10protocols

45:11on

45:11each

45:12side

45:12of

45:12the

45:12ship

45:12on

45:14the

45:15starboard

45:15side

45:16officer

45:17Murdoch's

45:17approach

45:18is more

45:19pragmatic

45:19it's

45:20more

45:20flexible

45:21was

45:25better

45:25for

45:26although

45:27there

45:27were

45:27crowds

45:27there

45:28was

45:28no

45:29confusion

45:29the

45:33lifeboats

45:34were being

45:34quietly

45:35filled

45:35if

45:38if

45:38you

45:38emerge

45:39on

45:39the

45:39starboard

45:40side

45:40then

45:42officer

45:42Murdoch

45:43might

45:43well

45:44allow

45:44the

45:45men

45:45to

45:45join

45:45the

45:46women

45:46and

45:47their

45:47children

45:47if

45:48there

45:49are

45:49spaces

45:49left

45:50so

45:51there's

45:51Murdoch

45:51allowing

45:52men

45:52to

45:53fill

45:53up

45:53the

45:54spare

45:54places

45:55why

45:55not

45:55Murdoch

45:57doesn't

45:57want to

45:57split

45:58families

45:58up

45:58Murdoch

46:02I think

46:02probably

46:03had a

46:03sense

46:03of

46:04wanting

46:04to

46:04preserve

46:05life

46:05and

46:09Light Hollow

46:09had a

46:10stricter

46:10more

46:11patriarchal

46:12view

46:12perhaps

46:12of

46:13men

46:13should

46:14sacrifice

46:14themselves

46:15for

46:15women

46:15and

46:16children

46:16but

46:17the fact

46:18that it

46:18was

46:18happening

46:18on the

46:19same

46:19ship

46:19at

46:19the

46:19same

46:19time

46:20shows

46:21just

46:21how

46:21vague

46:21this

46:22policy

46:22was

46:22so

46:26it

46:27matters

46:27very

46:28much

46:28which

46:29side

46:29of

46:30the

46:30ship

46:30you're

46:30on

46:31if

46:31you're

46:31a

46:32man

46:32I

46:51I

46:52I

47:00I was walking up and down the bridge.

47:07Saw white lights in the sky in the direction of this other steamer.

47:15I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship.

47:20Or possibly signalling to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.

47:25Didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.

47:27I just thought there were white rockets, that's all.

47:32It might have been anything.

47:36We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp.

47:40Received no answer whatsoever.

47:47Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals.

47:52But I didn't see any of them.

47:53We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.

48:01There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets.

48:05Were they distress signals?

48:07It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply.

48:13Because there's something strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.

48:17You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top.

48:23Which is creating a kind of mirage effect.

48:27Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.

48:29What a chance her captain missed.

48:42He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic and taken practically every soul on board.

48:52However, he didn't.

48:53This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.

49:08I don't think it was bad faith.

49:10I don't think it was negligence.

49:11I think everything conspired that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.

49:18I don't think it was good.

49:48Because the earlier lifeboats went out half full,

50:01there are now only about 900 places left on the lifeboats.

50:06And more than 2,000 people on board the ship.

50:10If people don't get onto a lifeboat, they will go down with the Titanic.

50:15If people don't get onto a ship, they will go down with the Titanic.

50:21Suddenly, we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat.

50:26It was a captain's special boat.

50:32Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.

50:37This is the moment to take one of those spaces.

50:46My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.

50:49We were helped in, followed by two American men who came up at the last minute.

51:08There is something here about being in the right place in the right time,

51:12but also seizing the opportunity and having the confidence to do so.

51:17I think that class probably had a huge impact on people's sense of entitlement to safety, to rescue.

51:30You probably did assume that if you bought a first-class ticket, then that would buy you survival.

51:35They are people who are important in the world.

51:37They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.

51:46And there they are as a couple sitting safely in a lifeboat.

51:57I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.

52:01Men standing nearby joked with us because we were going out on the ocean.

52:08You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.

52:31I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.

52:44I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.

52:54I did not want to leave him.

52:56him. Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her

53:00hospital. Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited, I think she probably was just

53:05thinking, please, no, not this. I want to survive, but not at this cost.

53:12Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment,

53:16those are, yeah, those are heavy.

53:20Officer Lytoler, you know, the man's been at sea since he was 13. He doesn't have that

53:31understanding of what it means when a woman is clinging to her husband, when a child is

53:36crying for their father. He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right. But it's

53:44not objectively right. From what you have said, you discriminated entirely in the interest

53:51of the women and children in filling those lifeboats. Yes.

53:57Why did you do that? Because of the captain's orders or because of the rule of the sea?

54:03The rule of human nature.

54:05The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet. I hung onto my husband's arm.

54:20And although he was very brave and not trembling, I saw his face was white as paper.

54:30Port or starboard.

54:37That sliding doors moment will determine who survives and who doesn't.

54:41Keep moving along the deck. We are filling the lifeboats.

54:44Women and children only. That's women and children only.

54:47Women and children. Women and children.

54:52They struck utter terror into my heart and...

54:55Now they'll ring in my ears till I die.

55:00...

55:04Old Union.

55:07High five five five.

55:13O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O..O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O 2

55:15I don't know.

55:45A lot of confusion.

55:48People crying, swearing and praying.

55:53There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers.

55:58Chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands.

56:02Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.

56:06All of the order has been lost.

56:09I called out.

56:10Don't shoot!

56:15Don't shoot!

56:45Don't shoot!

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