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00:00The things I saw made impressions, I can never forget.
00:20I can't describe it. I can't say how it was.
00:25It was just terrible.
00:34A dream of being trapped on the ship with no means of escape.
00:43But I always wake up before the boat sinks.
00:55He told me that apparently we'd struck something.
01:07Iceberg!
01:08Get in!
01:08I didn't become alarmed.
01:18There was no danger, they said.
01:24I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
01:27I 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.
01:37It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:40The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:47Then came the terrible cry.
01:51Women and children, women and children.
01:54Conjuring!
01:55Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
01:59It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
02:06Back!
02:07Back!
02:07Back!
02:07Back!
02:08Back!
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02:12Back!
02:13Back!
02:14Back!
02:15Back!
02:16Back!
02:17Back!
02:18It really was every man for himself.
02:23My heart stood still.
02:37If we're gonna die, best to die gripping something.
02:44It's a split-second decision. What would you do? What would I do?
02:47It was a terrible sight.
02:57Men swinging and sinking.
03:06I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
03:17For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:47I nipped along to have a look down the emergency staircase to gauge the speed the water was
04:14rising, that cold green water crawling its ghostly way.
04:25The electric lights shone under the surface with a weird effect.
04:33Sir Lightoller knows now things are getting more serious. He thought this thing could not go down and
04:43now he knows it could sink. This is a terrible shock for him.
04:48Captain Smith is at fault here. He has not informed his senior officers of what he has known for some
04:59time. It's very hard to know why Captain Smith did not give out the information to his most trusted
05:05command. Maybe it's important to keep this away to stop them panicking and to keep control.
05:12There are just ten standard lifeboats left on the ship along with four collapsibles. There's 2,000
05:34souls and more on board and only around 700 places. There's no rescue ship coming anytime soon,
05:41so if you don't get in, you're going to die.
05:58Lightoller is going to continue doing exactly what he's done before, but with even more fervour and rigidity
06:05enforcing the plan. It's the only thing he can do.
06:10And children only.
06:15Charlotte Collier is just about holding herself together in her family unit, her husband Harvey and her little daughter Marjorie.
06:22Mr. Lowe rushed among the passengers and ordered the women into the boats. Many of them followed him in a dazed kind of way.
06:39And others stayed with their men. A sailor caught Marjorie in his arms, tore her away from me and threw her into the boat.
06:54I was crying for my doll. Then two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
07:07She was not even given a chance to tell her father goodbye.
07:12You too, a man, yelled, you're a woman. Take a seat in that boat or it will be too late.
07:24I heard my husband say,
07:29Go, Lottie, for God's sake, be brave and go.
07:35And saw my husband's back as he walked steadily down the deck and disappeared among the men.
07:47If they'd not wrenched Marjorie away from me.
07:58I wish I had gone with him.
08:05The Kircher's deferential veneer is not there anymore.
08:11The officers will pull apart women from their men and make them go into the boats
08:16whether they want to or not.
08:18This is new in the course of the night and it's frightening.
08:31There's a really stark disadvantage facing third-class passengers from the beginning.
08:38They are stuck in the bowels of the ship trying to get to where the lifeboats are.
08:46I had been seasick the whole trip.
08:59All I wanted was to be left alone so I could lie down.
09:02Anna Heerblom is a teenager from Finland. She's a Swedish speaker.
09:07A third of steerage passengers on the Titanic were from Nordic countries.
09:15There were so many people who did not speak English.
09:17They spoke Spanish, Arabic, Swedish.
09:20Swedish is the second most spoken language.
09:22When the boat struck the 14th of April, which was my birthday.
09:31I was 18.
09:35I didn't become alarmed.
09:37I just couldn't believe that this wonderful ship could possibly be in trouble.
09:43There are 14 stewardesses in first class to help those passengers leave the ship.
09:52In third class, there's only one.
09:59There was no tannoy system or announcement of what was going on, of what to do.
10:04They had to work it out themselves.
10:23A crash woke me up.
10:27Nearly jolted me from my bed.
10:29I put on my trousers and shoes and got up.
10:40Eugene Daly is a 29-year-old textile worker from County Westmeath in Ireland.
10:46After years of saving, he's immigrating to America along with his cousin Maggie,
10:51her friend Bertha and his beloved Irish pipes.
10:54The stewards came through and told the passengers that they shouldn't be frightened.
11:03There was no danger, they said.
11:07Everything was all right and that I might go back.
11:10The third class passengers don't know what's going on because they're not being told.
11:23And there's nothing worse than having an idea that something's really wrong,
11:27but not knowing exactly what it is.
11:30Above deck, the first and second class passengers and the crew,
11:34they can all see there aren't enough boats left and there are hundreds of them on deck.
11:45I stood at the bulkhead with the other stewardesses.
11:48A ship's officer ordered us into the boat.
11:50Some lifeboats are only at half capacity.
11:55Now, there's fear everywhere, so they're filling them up as quickly as they can.
12:01Looking along the length of the ship,
12:06I noticed the forward part of her was lower now.
12:11Much lower.
12:12My heart stood still.
12:21You know, in the military, this is what we talk about, triaging.
12:24This is a case of thinking, how many people can we save at this point?
12:41There's only room for 800 people in the lifeboats that remain.
12:45So that's best case scenario.
12:47But in crisis situations, you're not getting the best case scenario.
12:50Within the panic, the confusion.
12:55The boat was full now.
13:01As the boat was being lowered,
13:04the ship's officer called,
13:06here, Miss Jessop,
13:08look after this baby.
13:15Someone had dumped it on the deck beside his feet.
13:18At this stage, Violet is handed a baby that has been sort of separated from their family,
13:29or whoever was caring for them at that point.
13:32It's hard to fathom that.
13:36That panic beginning to spread,
13:38it's making their circumstances worse.
13:41It's making everybody's chance of survival worse.
13:44But it's such a natural reaction.
13:45I could hear the commotion overhead increasing.
13:46I decided to go up, even though I still felt very ill.
13:47I was fully closed.
13:48I could hear the commotion overhead increasing.
14:09I decided to go up even though I still felt very ill.
14:13I was fully clothed and I had a life belt.
14:21My railroad ticket to Tacoma and a small amount of money were sewed in a little bag and hung
14:27around my neck so that I couldn't lose it.
14:32I went down into the room where Maggie Daly and Bertha Mulvill Hill were.
14:38The men and women in third class are separated.
14:41So for Eugene to find Maggie and Bertha he has to cross from one end of the ship to another.
14:47No one is guiding them.
14:48No one is saying this is the best way to get around the flooding.
14:52They have to work it out themselves.
14:56Come with me.
14:59Come with me.
15:01The ship is sinking.
15:02There's hundreds of third class passengers trying to navigate the warren of corridors,
15:11hallways, staircases and they're trying to get to a part of the ship, the boat deck, that
15:16they've never been allowed onto before.
15:18It's difficult to convey the size of a ship like the Titanic.
15:25It took me 14 days before I could find my way from one part of that ship to another by the shortest route.
15:32Eugene, Maggie and Bertha must navigate up several decks to the boat deck.
15:39It's now a very challenging situation and the feeling of a loss of control on the part of the crew is getting stronger and stronger.
15:46It was about this time that the chief officer came over from the starboard side and asked, did I know where the firearms were?
15:54I told the chief officer, yes, come along and I'll get them for you.
15:58Come along and I'll get them for you.
16:01Drawing weapons is very unusual.
16:05The officers clearly were aware of how panic was setting in and order and discipline amongst people were falling apart.
16:15There are guns on board the Titanic.
16:19Like the lifeboats, nobody expected to ever have to use them.
16:28Into the first officer's cabin we went, the chief, Murdoch the captain and myself.
16:36I hauled them out, still in all their pristine newness and grease.
16:42I was going out when the chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands with a handful of ammunition.
16:56That said, here you are.
16:59You may need it.
17:01The fact of the matter is there are far more passengers than crew.
17:06British and American society at this time is hierarchical and it's rules based.
17:12People will do what they are told, but not when their lives are at stake.
17:17This is what the officers fear.
17:19But you know, Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it.
17:24Third class passengers naturally gravitated towards the aft well deck, which is the outdoor space they've had use of.
17:45But it is still three decks below the boat deck, where the lifeboats are.
17:52There was a lot of confusion with people running around, crying, swearing and praying.
18:12Since I couldn't speak English, I hardly knew what was happening.
18:19I had to push people apart to find a place to walk.
18:24She doesn't speak English.
18:29There's no one experienced to advise her.
18:32So she's working this all out with so much against her.
18:36There's a sea of passengers already gathered there.
18:39So Eugene and Anna are joining this throng of people.
18:43I went up on deck.
18:46People were running around.
18:48The Titanic being an immigrant ship must conform to American and British immigration laws.
18:56And one of those laws is around quarantine.
18:59Maintaining steerage class passengers in areas separate from the first and second class passengers to stop the spread of disease.
19:08Before the third class passengers have even boarded Titanic, they've had to be subjected to medical examinations.
19:15They're hemmed in by locked gates.
19:18And these same gates that were meant to prevent ill health are now blocking their access to the lifeboats.
19:24Eugene's cousin Maggie tries to go back to her cabin.
19:27But that corridor is under five foot of water.
19:31There's no chance she can make it.
19:33And she turns back.
19:35All this time we knew that the water was coming up and up rapidly.
19:39To know that safety is on the other side of that locked gate, it must make them despair.
19:46The boat was practically full and there were no other women anywhere near it when Fifth Officer Lowe jumped in and ordered it lowered.
20:15Lower the boat.
20:16A young lad, hardly more than a schoolboy, was standing close to the rail.
20:25Now, realising he was to be left behind, he leapt down into the boat and crawled under a seat.
20:34But the officer dragged him to his feet and ordered him back onto the ship.
20:47We begged for his life.
20:48Please give him a chance.
20:49The officer drew his revolver and thrust it into his face.
21:02I gave you ten seconds to get back onto that ship before I blow your brains out.
21:08Please.
21:09Please.
21:10Please.
21:11Please.
21:12The lad only begged harder.
21:13Please.
21:14Please.
21:15Please.
21:16Please don't.
21:17My mother said I called out.
21:18Don't shoot!
21:19Don't shoot!
21:20The officer suddenly changed his tone.
21:32He lowered his revolver and looked the boy squarely in the eyes.
21:38For God's sake, be a man.
21:43We have got women and children.
21:45For God's sake.
21:46We have women and children here.
21:49The little lad turned round and climbed back without a word.
21:55He was not saved.
22:00Load the boats!
22:03To avoid another occurrence of that sort, I fired my revolver.
22:12As I was going down each deck.
22:15Because the boat wouldn't stand a sudden jerk.
22:18She was loaded already with people and would not stand anymore.
22:25Actually, drawing the gun shows that the ship's officers realized that things were very, very desperate indeed.
22:33And, of course, we did not have enough lifeboats for everybody on board.
22:37There are ten lifeboats left on deck now.
22:41And 1,960 people still to save.
22:45Titanic now was so low in the water that iconic areas like the grand staircase and some of the luxury staterooms were flooding.
22:54There's no doubt at all that this was unstoppable.
22:57It was merely a question of time.
22:59Phillips told me the wireless was growing weaker.
23:15Jack Phillips has spent the last few hours trying to communicate with other wireless operators.
23:25Carpathia is sailing at full speed towards Titanic, but she's still two hours away.
23:32On the nearest ship, the Californian, nobody recognized or responded to the distress flares.
23:41But Phillip still believes that as long as he can get signals out, he may be of some use.
23:47But now the electricity is starting to fail.
23:51Then he does get a message from his sister ship, Olympic.
23:56But she seems not to understand at all what is happening to Titanic and thinks Titanic must be limping along, sailing towards them.
24:13The frustration here is now clear because the messages are not getting through.
24:20For this young man in his mid-twenties, I think this is the place of utmost distress.
24:27Right now, it's clear on board ship that no rescue vessel is going to reach Titanic before she sings.
24:44Third-class passengers are at most risk at this moment.
24:47There's the language difficulties.
24:49There's probably a bit of aggression, I think, that's setting in annoyance, frustration.
24:55We had quite a number of hot-headed Italians and other people who got crazy and made for the stairs.
25:05These men tried to rush the stairway, pushing and crowding and pulling the women down.
25:11At this moment, we would expect the adrenaline to kick in.
25:18The body wants to survive and it gives us some sort of innate choices.
25:22You might fight your way to the front physically.
25:24People might freeze where they're just stuck, they're in terror, they don't know what to do.
25:29We also see people who are turning inward and that would be turning to God as well, making the sign of the cross and so on.
25:36The first-class deck was higher up than the steerage deck and there were some steps leading up to it and a gate at the top of the steps.
25:45They tried to keep us down at first on our steerage deck at the back of the ship.
25:49They're trying to keep order, but by doing so in such a chaotic way, they probably contribute to a greater loss of life than they realised.
26:01I can't say who they were. I think they were sailors.
26:08They didn't want us going up to the first-class place at all.
26:13Even though there's no direct policy preventing third-class passengers from accessing lifeboats,
26:21it's clear from their testimony after the sinking that there was not a level playing field.
26:27The third-class were left marginalised and endangered by cruise actions.
26:37There was no help of any kind to reach safety.
26:42So time is ticking down, the water's rising, they're sandwiched in between the sea and the locked gate.
26:56They're having to make life or death decisions in moments with very little information.
27:02I got talking to a young Swedish girl returning to the United States.
27:14She knew about an emergency stairway to where the lifeboats were.
27:24Anna's interesting because she's come from a different environment.
27:27She's come from Finland, where the social strata isn't quite as defined as it is in England at the time.
27:34Perhaps she has a little bit more leeway to not rely on following the authority figure's orders.
27:41We climbed the ladder up to the first-class deck.
27:46And then an officer saw me and dragged me up to the next deck.
27:57We passed a window.
28:01And we looked into a beautiful room.
28:05The tables were so beautifully set.
28:09The silver and all the furniture.
28:16The other girl, she wanted to kick the window out and walk in and help ourselves.
28:23I told her that they might make us pay for the broken window, so we didn't.
28:35There's some evidence that growing up in adverse situations actually gives you a kind of cognitive toolkit to be able to get through those situations.
28:43All kinds of skills where you've needed to survive and depend on yourself.
28:47And that translates really quite well to an emergency scenario.
28:51The third-class passengers have survived so many different challenges already.
28:57They must have felt their confidence and trust in the crew and officers had gone.
29:07I think these are people who are not taking no for an answer.
29:12They couldn't keep them down.
29:18The gate was broken.
29:22All the storage passengers went up onto the first-class deck.
29:28They're going to take fate into their own hands and they will get to those boats.
29:33In the same way that I think when Officer Lowe fired his gun, he changed the terms.
29:38By breaking the gate, they changed the terms.
29:39I rushed to the lifeboats.
29:46There seemed hundreds of people around me.
29:52Half the lifeboats have already gone. They're in the water.
29:55There's only four lifeboats at this end of the ship and the others are hundreds of yards ahead.
30:03Seeing only four lifeboats available and nearly 2,000 people trying to get into them.
30:10There is such panic in that crowd.
30:13Everywhere, everybody was confused.
30:19I saw a lot of people, Catholics, make the sign of the cross.
30:27I had to step on many of these people to reach the side of the deck.
30:36The crying of children and the screaming of a woman, you know, these are terrifying sounds that we are programmed to have a sort of visceral reaction to.
30:51I remember from living through my trauma, my wounding in Afghanistan, sounds stay with you far more than sights.
30:58That is a powerful thing for the senses to take on board and for ultimately you to then have to live with.
31:03I tried to get into a lifeboat and I was pushed back.
31:14It seemed as though I would go down with the ship.
31:20Ideas about self-control and stoicism and self-sacrifice are celebrated as forms of gentlemanliness as well as manliness.
31:38These are the values that they've been told to hold to.
31:55And it means putting yourself second.
31:59That is the ideal as far as Edwardian society is concerned.
32:02Bruce Ismay, who is the managing director of the White Star Line, his father had founded the White Star Line.
32:12And the Titanic is basically his idea.
32:15This is the crowning achievement of his career, the creation of this amazing, opulent ship.
32:20And now he can see that it is all going to the bottom of the sea.
32:28Did you think it was in a very serious condition?
32:41As time got on, I did.
32:45And that the ship was sinking?
32:46I did.
32:51I helped for nearly two hours, as far as I can judge, at the starboard boats.
32:56Helping women and children enter the boats and blurring them over the side.
32:59I think the sense of responsibility for Bruce Ismay must have been huge.
33:07And we see this in the fact that he spends time patrolling the boat deck, putting people into boats, instructing crew how to behave.
33:17But he knows that there aren't enough lifeboats on board.
33:20He knows by this point that there's no rescue ship coming any time soon.
33:27These lives are on his conscience.
33:41The ship was listing heavily in the bow.
33:45Somebody gave me a push towards the boat.
33:54I got in.
33:55That girl and I went together.
34:02The lifeboat was so crowded.
34:15When I got to the deck, a lifeboat was hanging from the davits.
34:22Number 13 boat.
34:25It was pretty well filled when I got there.
34:28Fred!
34:32The boatswainer knew me, as I'd sailed with them and other ships before.
34:36Said to me, you get on this boat and pull an oar.
34:38Fred is in the lifeboat because, you know, he's one of those strong enough to be able to row it.
34:47And at this stage, the crew is now starting to really fill the lifeboats.
34:52So I took his orders and I got on as she swung from the davits.
34:58We had women, men and two little babies.
35:03One two months old and the other ten months old.
35:07There is no real order.
35:11People are sitting on top of one another and, you know, you're sort of being crushed underneath this mass of people.
35:17It's suspended by davits off the side of the ship at this point.
35:23It's about 18 metres above the water.
35:26But every person that gets in adds that weight, adds that movement, adds that risk.
35:31And so there has to be a point at which you say, that's enough.
35:33About three more people get in after I did.
35:38And then the orders were given, let no more on that boat or the falls will break.
35:44That means looking into the whites of people's eyes and saying, there's no more space.
35:50Donovan!
35:51Donovan!
35:52Donovan!
36:05The boat was being filled with women.
36:09Donovan!
36:10Donovan!
36:12Maggie and Bertha got in.
36:14And I got in.
36:18Come in here.
36:19the officer called me to go back but i got in life was sweet to me and i wanted to save myself
36:34it was the early hours of the morning the lifeboats are being filled to the broom now
36:39overfilled naturally some male passengers want to get in they want to be with their loved ones
36:44and they just want to save their lives as any of us would they told me to get out but i didn't stir
36:52then they got a hold of me and pulled me out
36:58eugene's testimony makes me like him i think he's honest he's frank he's not trying to put a spin
37:08on his own behavior or anyone else's i get the feeling of a real historical account in its
37:14watson or attitude what's sad about this story is that most of those officers knew the people that
37:21they were turning away in the sense that they were from the same class the same kind
37:25well if i didn't save myself at least i saved the two girls
37:33captain smith had severe doubts about whether a fully laden lifeboat
38:03could be lured properly he knew there are a lot of people waiting down at the gangway doors to get
38:08into boats and therefore he thought how can i manage to get these boats full how can i save
38:14as many of the people whose lives i am responsible for as is possible
38:19the captain came and said mr boxall you go away in that boat pointing to boat number two
38:27i tumbled into this lifeboat and started to lower up and the captain looked over and told me
38:36go around to the starboard side which was practically on the opposite side to where i was lower
38:44so boxall's lifeboat was only about 45 full was meant to go around to the starboard side of the ship
38:54to take on more passengers
38:56i had great difficulty in getting that boat around there
39:02there was suction
39:05i was using the stroke horse standing up and there was this lady helping
39:14she was steering around the ship's stern
39:17when i passed around the boat to get to the gangway door on the starboard side
39:24her propellers were out of water
39:27but when i did eventually reach there
39:32i found that there was such a mob standing at the gangway doors
39:38if they jumped they'd swamp the boat
39:58i didn't go alongside she was only a small boat
40:05boxall should have made sure that he filled the lifeboat up
40:14and take necessary action to make sure he wasn't swamped
40:17he was in a position to do that and he didn't
40:20and it's a really tricky one because yes crew should follow orders and the structure of discipline
40:28is how you can try and create some form of order in moments of chaos
40:33there is a good reason why you know in circumstances we are not question orders
40:40having said that it's all well and good one of your superiors giving you an order
40:45but they're not seeing the circumstances that you are witnessing
40:52i pulled off and laid off
40:56until i pulled away about a quarter of a mile i suppose
41:03so the instinct to row away is very normal very human
41:18everybody wants to get away from the scene of an accident or disaster and this ship is huge
41:37people have never seen anything this big
41:40captain smith is out there with his megaphone barking orders
41:49bring those boats back
41:51for the lifeboats to come back and pick up other passengers
41:55it's almost instinctive and it's driven into you from the day you join the royal navy or the merchant navy
42:10that you obey your captain and do as he says he is god in a sense
42:14and therefore not to do as you're told is a heinous crime
42:21quartermaster hitchens who is in command of one of the lifeboats said it's our lives now not theirs
42:30i find that quite extraordinary the bottom line should be i want to save as many as i can
42:35it's our lives now not theirs this is the moment of mutiny this is when all order has broken down
42:46we are not going to stand by anymore and drown because you tell us to
42:51fair enough
42:56we had gone perhaps half a mile when the officer ordered the men to cease rowing
43:11no other boat was in sight we didn't even have a lantern to signal with
43:19we lay there in the silence and darkness of that calm sea
43:31no sound reached us
43:35except the music from the band
43:38which i was aware of for the first time
43:44those
43:45those
43:46those
43:47those
43:48brave musicians
43:49they were playing
43:53lively tunes
43:54ragtime
43:56i will never forget the terrible beauty of the titanic at that moment
44:05i started to count the rows of lights
44:20one
44:23two
44:26three
44:28four
44:30five
44:32i stopped
44:37surely i i had miscounted
44:41i
44:46went over them again more carefully and i'd made no mistake
44:51there are only five decks now
44:55as if all could read my mind the women in the boat started to
45:01weep
45:03some silently
45:05some
45:06unrestrainedly
45:08just before launching the last lifeboat
45:17i'd made my final hurried visit to the emergency stairway
45:22to gauge how quickly she was going down
45:24it was then conclusively evident that not only was she going but she was going very soon
45:43even in pants and sweater over pajamas alone i was in a bath of perspiration
45:47if we were to avoid the disgrace of going down with lifeboats still hanging to the davits there wasn't one moment to lose
45:54the forward well deck was under water
46:01i saw philips still sending away
46:02i suspect many people on the ship by now are in an altered state which we know is what happens when people are facing death
46:08jack philips won't leave his post
46:15it is a clear single focus on what you believe to be right
46:19and he believes the right thing to do is to stay there until it's all over
46:23again philips called cqd and sos for nearly five minutes and got no reply
46:38philips called cqd and sos for nearly five minutes and got no reply
46:52we now realized the awful state of affairs
46:55the ship listing heavily to port and forward
46:59i thought it was about time to look about and see if there was anything that would float
47:03i remembered that every member of the crew had a lifebelt
47:06and then i thought how cold the water was
47:10i remembered i had some boots and i put those on
47:13and an extra jacket
47:14we picked up the olympic and told her we were sinking by the head and we were about all down
47:20philips is leading from the front
47:23he's a hero
47:25it's easier to understand
47:28fear and self-interest
47:31than it is to understand
47:34sacrifice and heroism
47:36especially now in our world
47:38we think that everything is about greed and me first
47:42that generation did not
47:45as philips was sending the message i strapped the lifebelt to his back
47:49i'd already put on his overcoat
47:51wondered if i could get him into his boots
47:53just at that moment the captain came into the cabin
47:56and said men you have done your full duty you can do no more
48:02the man in your cabin
48:04now is every man for himself
48:07i release you
48:11every man for himself now
48:12in the conflicts i trained for
48:13in the conflicts i trained for
48:15it's unimaginable that we would never find ourselves in a circumstance where it was every man for themselves
48:19all of the order has been lost
48:20and actually trying to maintain that order whether it's you know pointing a gun at a crowd or you know screaming at the top of your voice all you're doing in that circumstance is wasting energy
48:32the last of the hard hulled lifeboats have been dispatched but there is still two collapsible lifeboats left on the boat deck
48:54they're a little bit more flimsy but they still are a lifeline
48:59there was some disturbance loading the last two forward boats
49:06a large crowd of men were pressing to get into them
49:11though there were many crew and men lined up with apparently not a thought at attempting to board the boats without orders
49:19orders
49:24i saw bruce ismay who
49:27had been assisting
49:28in loading the last boat
49:31push his way into it
49:39really was every man for himself
49:45bruce ismay decides to save himself
49:49he is about the only man on board who can't be ordered out of that spot by any of the remaining crew
50:02you were one of those as the managing director responsible for determining the number of lifeboats
50:08yes in conjunction with these shipbuilders
50:11when you got into the boat you thought that the titanic was sinking
50:16i did
50:18did you know that there were some hundreds of people on that ship
50:20yes
50:22who must go down with her
50:24yes i did
50:25has it occurred to you that you
50:33as the responsible managing director
50:35deciding the number of boats
50:37owed your life to every other person on that ship
50:40it has not
50:42i have searched my mind with the deepest care
50:46i'm sure i did nothing that i shouldn't have done
50:48my conscience is clear
50:51i took a chance of escape when it came to me
50:55i did not seek it
50:57it is true i am president of the company
51:01but i didn't consider myself any different from the rest of the passengers
51:05i took no other man's place
51:07i took no other man's place
51:16i took no man's place
51:19this is palpably untrue
51:22but i think he must believe it
51:25i think that bruce ismay comes from a class of society
51:28who believes that they have everything they have because of grit and character
51:36i mean it's like being a billionaire today in a world of hungry people
51:41the only way you can live with yourself is to imagine that you deserve it in some way
51:46and so i think that bruce ismay believes contrary to all rational fact that he hasn't taken someone else's place even though he really must know internally that he has
52:01there was a terrible crowd standing about
52:19the officer in charge pointed a revolver waved his hand and said that if any man try to kill him
52:30tried to get in
52:32he'd shoot him on the spot
52:34if anyone tried to enter i will shoot them
52:36two men tried to break through and he shot them both
52:41i saw him shoot them
52:51i saw them lying
52:54one seemed to be dead
52:56the other was trying to pull himself up at the side of the deck but he couldn't
53:03i tried to get to the boat myself
53:08but was afraid i would be shot
53:11and stayed back
53:13when we rode away from the titanic my face was towards the sinking steamer
53:34my face was towards the sinking steamer
53:45the things i saw i'll
53:48never forget
53:51i saw an officer
53:56shoot himself
53:57through the temple with a revolver
53:59the story of the officer shooting himself is contested even the name of the officer is in dispute
54:07you're meant to help others not shoot them and you're certainly not meant to shoot yourself when you make a mistake
54:24i saw the officer himself lying on the deck they told me he shot himself
54:38it's not a line of inquiry that is pursued and i think that is because in edwardian society there is such a taboo around death by suicide
54:46it looks like the easy way out though it can hardly have been so
54:56it suggests that the people who did it have failed that test of being an edwardian man which is to demonstrate heroicism and courage and stoicism in the face of disaster
55:11of disaster
55:36death
55:37death
55:38death
55:39death
55:40death
55:41death
55:42death
55:43death
55:44death
55:45death
55:46death
55:47death
55:48death
55:49death
55:50death
55:51death
55:52death
55:53death
55:54death
55:55death
55:56death
55:57death
55:58death
55:59death
56:00death
56:01death
56:02death
56:03death
56:04death
56:05death
56:06death
56:07I learned to love him that night.
56:18I suddenly felt for him a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to his work.
56:26While everybody else was raging about.
56:28I will never forget the work of Philips for those last awful minutes.
56:47He was a brave man.
56:54People find themselves facing this life or death moment together.
56:58A titanic broke in two before my eyes.
57:02Striking water was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body.
57:08To die slowly within a shot of people who might save your life.
57:14There's a particular cruelty to that.
57:28It's just my favorite hope.
57:30It is my favorite Jake's depois ofendar to see him standing there.
57:34I really don't know.
57:35Ok.
57:35Transcription by CastingWords
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