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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.
03:31So…
03:32…
03:33…
03:34…
03:38...
03:39…
03:44…
04:18Titanic.
04:20Largest ship the world had ever known.
04:24The last word in luxury.
04:27The ship, palatial.
04:29The food, delicious.
04:32The rudder alone weighed 100 tons.
04:37I sailed, first class, from Southampton.
04:41We called at Cherbourg, and from there to Queenstown.
04:46Everyone was counting the days till we'd see the Statue of Liberty.
04:53My father and mother were invited to dinner that night, so I dined alone.
05:00Afterward, I took a few turns around the deck.
05:05Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
05:13The Titanic is a ship of dreams.
05:16The 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.
05:35Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:39She is absolutely huge.
05:41Ten decks.
05:42Eight hundred and forty cabins.
05:44An absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:49I had never been on an ocean voyage.
06:04I was afraid of the sea.
06:21But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and I decided to go to America that way.
06:29The first few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:46But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:51After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while, then I went back to my cabin.
06:57There was no moon.
07:11A brilliant, starry night.
07:14I'd never seen the sea smoother.
07:19It had become much colder.
07:24It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cozy thoughts.
07:38How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:45At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:52I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:56The first three days were very calm.
08:01We were another three days before we would reach New York.
08:05It was a pleasure to go to bed.
08:10My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
08:20I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
08:23Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:32Everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:41It's a Sunday.
08:44First class passengers have probably spent the day enjoying themselves.
08:49They had eaten roast duckling and sirloin of beef and foie gras and truffles and lamb with mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
09:00Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
09:09Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room.
09:12They'd had a cigar, a pipe.
09:13They'd played a round of cards.
09:16Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet.
09:23They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
09:25They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York in two or three days' time.
09:31It's been the perfect day.
09:55That's a great day to see you.
09:56My name is Steliny Yazbek.
10:02My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
10:10He'd been to America before where he had a business.
10:12It's a misconception that Titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship.
10:23and foremost a luxury ship, Titanic was primarily an emigrant ship and it was to
10:29ferry people, working people, from Europe to America. About three-quarters of the
10:36Titanic's passengers are in second or third class and it's really not
10:41surprising that people do not want to go to bed.
10:44This might be the first time they've been away from home and maybe it's the
10:49first taste of freedom, from very oppressive environments. They are young
10:56people embarking on a new life to a new world. It would have been wonderful.
11:03I was a bride of 50 days.
11:14By collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship, memories that
11:18could easily have been lost to history, that's the way in. That's how we
11:22understand the story of the Titanic.
11:48Why the impacted theADA?
11:49Why the
12:17I joined her in Belfast, while she was still in the builder's hands.
12:47The biggest and finest ship 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.
13:14As 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,
13:30and went below.
13:32It 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.
13:49The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:56The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just keep
14:01the ship moving.
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.
14:36I didn't have much to do about it, except to relieve Philips, a senior operator.
15:01I went to bed.
15:03And I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams.
15:07From leaving Southampton, we'd got through about 250 telegrams.
15:10sit down and going to bed.
15:17I got through, and he told us, I found you.
15:23I saw this guy in the middle of the whole house, and it was never funny.
15:29It seems to be incredible.
15:30He's right, and he's flicking his mind to us today.
15:32I have to do that.
15:33I don't know.
15:34We're going to have to do the next few weeks.
15:35I'm not going to have to do this.
15:36I don't want to do that.
15:37I'm not going to have to do that.
15:38It'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.
16:14It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night had never been delivered to the bridge.
16:44Walling all ships of heavy ice in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:52And what was still worse, not far away.
16:55Lighton was trying to say, I knew this was important, it should have gone to the bridge and it didn't and it's the wireless operator's fault.
17:08But that's not true because the message didn't have the crucial prefix of MSG, Master Servicegram, which would have meant that Jack Phillips would immediately have prioritized it and sent it up to the bridge.
17:22That didn't happen.
17:23We have this unique opportunity to understand the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective of those who were actually there.
17:33We're starting to piece things together, but we're working with people's memories.
17:36In reality, memories are going to distort.
17:40And there might be a bit of a bias where 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, it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:55You're not looking for the stone-cold truths.
17:59We need to bring together all of those memories, see what seems to be consistent through it all, but also to recognize that every individual has a different experience.
18:11We have to respect that.
18:25Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man, Southampton, England, 25th next October.
18:38We are there to report anything we see.
18:44A ship or anything.
18:48Watch was nearly over.
18:51I had done the best part of two hours.
18:55A ship.
19:25It was now very large when I first saw her, a black mass.
19:33It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer there.
19:45I was fourth officer.
19:48I was just coming along the deck
19:49and almost abreast of the captain's quarters
19:52when I heard the report of three bells.
19:55That signifies something's been seen ahead.
20:00I struck three bells first, then I went straight to the telephone
20:03and rang them up on the bridge.
20:09Iceberg, get ahead!
20:11Then I heard the first officer give the order.
20:15The wheel was put to starboard.
20:20She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
20:25My mate saw it and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:33They swung the ship's bow away from the object.
20:37Yes.
20:37Because we were making straight for it.
20:46What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:48You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:51It's a split-second decision.
20:52And there's just a cliché, isn't there,
20:54in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:56You can't turn this giant boat in time.
21:06And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
21:22This red light came up.
21:31Shut all dampers!
21:33And I'm the man in charge of the watch,
21:35so I shouted, shut all dampers.
21:38It shut the wind off the fires.
21:40Shut all dampers!
21:42Shut all dampers!
21:43The crash came before we had them all shut.
22:05I didn't even feel the shock.
22:07I hardly knew what had happened.
22:08There was no jolt whatsoever.
22:10I was about to step into bed
22:14when I seemed to sway slightly.
22:18If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand,
22:21not a drop would have spilled.
22:28I was soon awakened by a long, grinding shock.
22:32There was a backward jerk, followed by a shorter one.
22:50And the ship started to back, like a train.
22:54Then, uh, a low, crunching, ripping sound
23:06as Titanic shivered.
23:11I was fast asleep.
23:21It almost threw me off the bed.
23:30Suddenly, I heard a tremendous noise.
23:32Immediately, I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:41When we were alongside her,
23:56it was...
23:58..a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
24:02Like, 50 feet, I should say.
24:06Was there much of a jar to the ship?
24:08No.
24:13Just a slight grinding noise.
24:16Did it alarm you when it struck?
24:19I thought it was a narrow shave.
24:21You thought it was a narrow shave?
24:25Yes.
24:25You know, up on the top deck,
24:32people are thinking to themselves,
24:34wha, that was close, but we got away with it.
24:36You know, it's just a near miss
24:37that somebody writes down in a log.
24:40But they don't know that this iceberg
24:42had a very large section jutting out of it
24:44underneath the water.
24:46Water came pouring in about two feet from where I was standing.
25:09The ship's side was torn
25:12from the third stockhold to the forward end.
25:23Open the door!
25:25The door's dropped instantly, automatically.
25:39Hurry up!
25:40We got through into the next section.
25:44Then the watertight compartment closed up.
25:46As the iceberg strikes,
26:00the rivets give way.
26:03And the water starts pouring
26:05into boiler room number six.
26:07That's on the starboard side of the ship.
26:10But Titanic is designed
26:12to have watertight compartments
26:14in the event of an emergency.
26:15There's 16 compartments
26:19and the doors do what they're supposed to do,
26:21come down, seal off the compartments
26:24and protect the rest of the ship.
26:28Fred Barrett and his boys
26:30escape this wall of water.
26:33At the moment, they are safe.
26:37But the thing about the Titanic
26:39is nobody had thought
26:41to put in a direct communication system
26:44between the boiler rooms
26:46which could flood
26:47and the bridge.
26:52But equally,
26:53it's not just a case
26:54of sending somebody up quickly.
26:57A lowly boiler operator
26:59or stoker
26:59goes up and tells the captain
27:01what's happened.
27:02There is a chain of command.
27:03So there was no way
27:06that Fred Barrett
27:08could tell the captain
27:09straight away
27:11what was happening
27:12and that lost time.
27:15The captain said,
27:38what have we struck?
27:39Mr. Murdoch,
27:42the first officer,
27:43said,
27:43we have struck an iceberg.
27:47I put her hard to starboard,
27:48but it was too close
27:49she hit it.
27:51He also said,
27:52I intended to port around it,
27:54but she hit
27:54before I could do any more.
27:59We walked out onto the bridge
28:00to take a look
28:02at the iceberg.
28:11It seemed to be
28:13a small black mass
28:15not rising very high
28:17out of the water.
28:18The ship was past it then.
28:20It couldn't have extended
28:22above the ship's rail.
28:25Captain Smith,
28:30the captain of the Titanic,
28:31was a very experienced seaman,
28:33a very highly respected seaman.
28:36He'd served in the
28:37Royal Naval Reserve
28:38as well as in the
28:39Merchant Navy.
28:41He was coming to the end
28:42of his career
28:43and he must have been
28:44very, very proud
28:45that he was taking Titanic,
28:47this world-beating ship
28:49across the Atlantic,
28:50and that would be
28:51a wonderful end
28:52to what was
28:53a glittering career.
28:55And suddenly,
28:56of course,
28:57there's a collision.
28:58It's the last thing you want.
29:00He would have been annoyed
29:02as well as keen
29:04to solve the problem
29:05as quickly as he could.
29:17The engine stopped.
29:20The sudden quiet
29:22was disturbing.
29:25When there's that sudden
29:30cut of the engines,
29:32it's going to be
29:32really noticeable.
29:34Something'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,
29:43my cabin mate,
29:44to speak for...
29:45I knew she was awake.
29:47I looked over the side
29:51of my bunk at her
29:51and she returned
29:53by saying in her calm way,
29:56sounds as if something
29:58has happened.
30:01Passengers were really
30:02left in the dark.
30:03There was no tunneling system
30:05or announcement
30:05of what was going on,
30:07of what to do.
30:08They had to work it out
30:09themselves.
30:10I could hear the footsteps
30:16of people on the deck
30:18above my head.
30:19There was some stamping
30:26and queer noises
30:28as though the ship's tackle
30:30was being pulled about.
30:32My husband said
30:36there must have been
30:37some slight accident
30:39in the engine room.
30:42He put on his coat
30:44and left me.
30:48Different people
30:49will react to this situation
30:50in different ways,
30:51but a number of passengers
30:52have no qualms at all
30:54about going up
30:55onto the boat deck
30:55and finding someone
30:57to inquire
30:58what's going on.
31:02It was bitterly cold.
31:13I moved around the deck
31:14trying to discover
31:15what had happened.
31:19There were
31:20quite a few people
31:22standing around
31:23questioning each other
31:24in a dazed kind of way.
31:32There were many
31:34prominent people
31:35on the passenger list
31:36because it was
31:36for Maiden Voyage
31:37those responsible
31:38for building the ship.
31:41Tommy Andrews.
31:44Designer for Harland and Wolf.
31:47He was respected
31:48by everyone.
31:51A great ship builder
31:53and a real gentleman.
31:57A perfectionist.
31:59Thomas Andrews
32:05was a highly respected,
32:07in fact,
32:08probably the most respected
32:09ship designer
32:10in the UK at this time.
32:12Titanic
32:13was the pinnacle
32:14of Andrews' career.
32:16He'd been building up
32:17to this moment,
32:18this amazing liner
32:19that was going to win
32:20all these different prizes
32:21that was the queen
32:22of the seas, really.
32:26He knew a great deal
32:27about ship design.
32:29He understood
32:30buoyancy, stability,
32:32all of these issues.
32:35She's got 16
32:36watertight compartments.
32:37That's far more
32:38than most of the liners
32:39that were steaming around.
32:41And of those 16,
32:42four of them
32:43could be flooded
32:43and the ship
32:44was still stable
32:45and would stay afloat.
32:47And that's why
32:48Titanic
32:48had been built
32:49as an unsinkable ship.
32:55She was
32:56a fabricated
32:57steel vessel
32:58of gigantic dimensions.
33:02We're just stopping
33:03for precaution now.
33:04Just making a few checks
33:05and we'll be on our way
33:07to New York area.
33:08Please, you know.
33:10She was a wonderfully
33:11safe vessel.
33:12In answer to many
33:21questions,
33:21Mr. Andrews
33:22assured everybody
33:23that we were
33:24absolutely safe.
33:28She would stay afloat
33:30indefinitely.
33:30The ship
33:32is on sick.
33:35Is it time?
33:39This one man
33:40had a piece of ice
33:41and I took it
33:42out of his hands
33:43wondering where
33:43he'd got it from.
33:45Tried to make him
33:45understand that
33:46there was nothing
33:47the matter.
33:48Go down to bed
33:48and go to sleep again.
33:50I didn't take it
33:51very seriously.
33:57After what seemed
33:58a few moments
33:59my husband
34:00returned
34:01and he was
34:03quite excited.
34:04He exclaimed
34:06we have struck
34:07an iceberg,
34:08a big one
34:09but there's no danger.
34:11An officer
34:11just told me so.
34:14This story
34:15reassured me.
34:17If these people
34:18weren't worried
34:19why should I be?
34:26At that particular time
34:27we know in England
34:29certainly
34:29there's a strong
34:31very hierarchical
34:32class system
34:33getting the message
34:34from authority figures
34:35that everything's okay
34:37even though the ship
34:38is stationary
34:39and they're out at sea
34:40and it's dark
34:41and it's cold
34:41for most people
34:43that's enough.
34:47There had been
34:48an accident
34:48a collision
34:49and yet there was
34:50a sense of complacency
34:51rather than a sense
34:53of urgency
34:53to discover
34:55what exactly
34:56has gone wrong.
34:58Thomas Andrews
34:59was saying to people
35:00everything's fine
35:01it's all safe
35:02when he didn't have
35:03any data
35:04about what the damage
35:05to the ship was
35:06and that was not
35:08a clever thing to do.
35:09there are eight firemen
35:31in the number six section
35:32the second engineer
35:33shouts it
35:34all hands
35:35stand by your stations
35:36that's for the men
35:38that stand by the fires
35:39for Fred Barrett
35:42and his crew
35:43they need to
35:45manage the fire
35:46in boiler room six
35:47and he's worried
35:48that there's going to be
35:49a minor explosion
35:50because the freezing water
35:51is hitting
35:52the hot coals
35:53Fred Barrett
35:57is in the boiler room
35:58next door
35:59and the only way
36:00to assess the damage
36:01is to climb out
36:03of boiler room five
36:04to this overhead gangway
36:06that's above boiler room six
36:07he went up and escaped
36:12and down to the boiler room
36:14but
36:18he couldn't get in
36:20there was eight feet
36:26of water in it
36:27when he tries to get back down
36:32into boiler room six
36:33he can't
36:34because there's eight feet
36:35of water in there
36:36and the whole place
36:37is already filled
36:38with steam
36:39but
36:41I think when Fred Barrett
36:42saw the situation
36:44he would have been
36:45still feeling
36:46that everything
36:47could be contained
36:48you know
36:48this is how the ship
36:50was sold
36:50to passengers
36:51and crew alike
36:52and crew
37:20and crew
37:20and crew
37:22Captain Smith looked at the inclinometer,
37:33which is a sort of spirit-level type gauge
37:35which shows whether the ship is stable or not,
37:38and realised there was a five-degree list in the ship to starboard.
37:45We're taking on water.
37:47Captain Smith knows that probably is water.
37:53The problem is, where is this water coming from,
37:56and what the hell is going on?
38:00Titanic, of course, was a massive ship
38:02with a huge number of compartments.
38:05Therefore, finding out what's happened
38:07is a difficult and complex task
38:10because the ability to communicate between parts of the ship
38:13was very, very poor indeed.
38:15Therefore, you have to send a person, a runner,
38:19to go down and look,
38:20and then come all the way back to the bridge
38:22to tell you what on earth is going on.
38:35I went right down below.
38:37Into the lowest steerage as far as I could go
38:44without going into the cargo portion of the ship.
38:48And I inspected all the decks as I came up
38:51in the vicinity where I thought she'd struck.
38:57I couldn't hear any noise.
39:00I couldn't see any damage.
39:02Remember, the mindset is,
39:06this ship is unsinkable.
39:09If you believe a ship is unsinkable,
39:13you're not looking for trouble.
39:17Imagine it,
39:18wandering about this vast ship,
39:22looking for water.
39:23He's not going to find it
39:25because he doesn't go down to the boiler rooms.
39:27I boarded a Titanic in Queenstown.
39:46I'm 21 years old.
39:48I wanted to come to America to make some money.
39:52There were three other boys from the same place
39:54sleeping in the same room with me.
39:57I jumped on the floor.
40:13First thing I knew,
40:14my feet were getting wet.
40:17I told the other fellas to get up,
40:18that there was something wrong.
40:21Get back to bed.
40:24They only laughed.
40:27One of them says,
40:28get back to bed.
40:29You're not in Ireland now.
40:32Go back to bed, Daniel.
40:33I really understand where that voice is coming from.
40:37Something that I hear from immigrants nowadays
40:39is this belief that you've entered a world of order
40:43and 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,
40:55but it's so wrong in this context.
41:01I turned on the lights.
41:02And to my surprise,
41:07there was a stream of water running along the floor.
41:10The fact that water was seen on the deck
41:27at the level where Daniel Butney had a cabin
41:30was seen to indicate
41:31that a second watertight compartment
41:34had actually gone as well as the boiler room.
41:37And the water was rising up the bulkhead
41:39in that compartment.
41:41And that, of course, is extremely worrying.
41:44But who exactly knew that
41:46is a different issue.
41:47I met the carpenter coming up.
42:15Absolutely out of breath.
42:16And he said,
42:18she is evidently making water fast.
42:20Number one tarpaulin is ballooning.
42:23Go tell the captain.
42:29At last, Boxall gets himself some concrete information.
42:34The carpenter he meets
42:36is talking about one of the tarpaulins
42:38up on G-deck that's covering a cargo hold.
42:41The air in there is being pushed out
42:44at speed, at pressure.
42:46By the volume of water coming in.
42:52In the cargo hold,
42:54there's all the passengers' luggage.
42:57There's goods that are being shipped
42:58from companies across the Atlantic.
43:01There's a Renault car
43:02all boxed up belonging
43:04to one of the first-class passengers.
43:06There's cases of feather boas.
43:08There's all kinds of crazy things in there.
43:10But it is the entirety
43:12of everyone's possessions.
43:20Then, on his way to investigate,
43:23Boxall gets some more news.
43:25I met the mail clerk coming up.
43:33And he said,
43:34Mr. Boxall,
43:35the mail room is filling.
43:36I got back to the boat deck,
44:04and I saw the captain.
44:05The mail room is filling, sir.
44:06And I said,
44:07The mail room is filling, sir.
44:10What did he say?
44:15He walked away and left me.
44:20He went off the bridge,
44:22as far as I remember.
44:24He didn't say anything to you?
44:26No.
44:27The captain goes down to inspect,
44:37accompanied by Thomas Andrews.
44:39Here, they can see with their own eyes,
44:42the 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,
44:58and there are about 3,500 sacks of mail on board.
45:02Already, 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.
45:15Seeing 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.
45:36He 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.
47:56I rushed to my husband.
48:02Go up on deck and see what has happened.
48:04He got out of his bed rather unwillingly.
48:20On board the Titanic in first class
48:23are American millionaires.
48:25There are people like Colonel John Jacob Astor IV,
48:29who is an American business magnate.
48:31He's one of the richest men in the world.
48:33And Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon
48:35sees Astor stride 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 lifeboat, sir.
48:47The first-class passengers know Captain Smith.
48:49They are able to mix with the senior crew.
48:52They have exclusive access.
48:55It means that they're part of the inner circle
48:57and other people are not.
48:58From the get-go, first-class passengers
49:01are in a kind of chumocracy with the senior crew.
49:05And that means that they get the information
49:07immediately when others don't.
49:09They have a distinct advantage from the word go.
49:12My husband was back, looking rather grave.
49:29I've been up to the bridge and 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, my secretary, Miss Francatelli,
49:49came into the room very agitated.
49:52I woke up with my own accord.
50:21I promised to relieve Philip's 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.
50:39Suddenly, the captain put his head in the cabin.
50:47Struck an iceberg.
50:50We've struck an iceberg, the captain said,
50:53and I'm having an inspection made to tell what he's done.
50:56He'd better get ready to send a call for assistance.
50:58But don't send it until I tell you.
51:06The captain went away.
51:09Philip's resumed the phones.
51:10We'll see you next time.
51:11We'll see you next time.
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51:25because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship captain
51:45smith and others still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship
51:50during 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
52:10when 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
52:32nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve
52:37he'd put all of his knowledge into titanic to make her as safe as she could be
52:43but unfortunately the ship was doomed
52:53you're now at a point where it's 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 bulk
53:05heads
53:10picture an ice tray you start filling it at one end and eventually it will you know rise up over the
53:15line in the next compartment in the next compartment and it just continues to fill and fill and that
53:21is ultimately what is going to draw this ship to the bottom of the ocean
53:35the water will start pouring over the ocean into the ocean into the ocean into the ocean
53:43my husband and i jumped up and ran out to see what had happened
53:48we were still wearing our night clothes
54:02i can imagine them in my mind middle of the night they wake up and then suddenly there's
54:07the terror of finding water and you're in the bowels of the ship
54:11you are not being told anything there's no announcements you're left to work out what's
54:18going on and how that impacts on your own safety it's such a jarring break from this very beautiful
54:28experience i think they must have been having up until this point
54:34we walked around to the port side
54:35and the ship had then a fair list
54:45we stayed there looking over the side for about five minutes
54:51the list seemed very slowly to be increasing
55:01thomas andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge with a
55:05with a look of terror on his face no doubt he realized the first time my god we can't save the ship
55:16his unsinkable ship was going to sink
55:25i saw the captain
55:29it was then i realized it was serious
55:31the captain looked over and he said we are sinking
55:44the captain looked over and he said we are sinking
55:48the the captain looked over and he said we did not fall in the house
56:10it's just precautionary
56:13suddenly 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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