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Titanic Sinks Tonight - Season 1 Episode 1 -
The Unsinkable Ship
The Unsinkable Ship
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00:01Everything I touched seemed to be woman's hair.
00:10Children crying.
00:12Women screaming.
00:15Their hair in my face.
00:18My God, if only I could forget those hands and faces.
00:30You told me that apparently we'd struck something.
00:46Iceberg, down ahead!
00:55I didn't become alarmed.
00:57There was no danger, they said.
01:04I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
01:10You 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.
01:17It makes me panic just thinking about it.
01:19The story of the Titanic is the human condition spread out, pinned on a board for us to examine.
01:28Then came the terrible cry.
01:31Women and children, women and children.
01:34Two men lifted me up and put me in a boat.
01:37It's these small decisions, these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome.
01:43It really was every man for himself.
02:00My heart stood still.
02:03We're gonna die.
02:18Best to die gripping something.
02:20It's a split second decision. What would you do? What would I do?
02:27It was a terrible sight.
02:36Men swimming and sinking.
02:38I've been brought up to believe in a hell after death.
02:52For now, I think I went through a hell that night.
03:00The End
03:22Titanic.
03:51Largest ship the world had ever known.
03:54The last word in luxury.
03:57The ship, palatial.
03:59The food, delicious.
04:02The rudder alone weighed 100 tons.
04:07I sailed, first class, from Southampton.
04:11We called at Cherbourg and from there to Queenstown.
04:16Everyone was counting the days till we'd see the Statue of Liberty.
04:21My father and mother were invited to dinner that night.
04:26So I dined alone.
04:29Afterward, I took a few turns around the deck.
04:34Being 17 years old, I was all over the ship.
04:42The Titanic is a ship of dreams.
04:45The epitome of modern technology, of luxury and opulence.
04:52It looks like a cross between the Ritz and an English grand country house.
04:59Titanic was the showpiece for the shipping line.
05:05Built by Harlan and Wolfe, the famous shipyard in Belfast.
05:10She is absolutely huge.
05:1210 decks, 840 cabins.
05:14An absolute masterpiece of human engineering.
05:19I had never been on an ocean voyage.
05:32I was afraid of the sea.
05:33It's done.
05:34But Harvey, my husband, and our eight-year-old daughter Marjorie and I decided to go to America that way.
05:45The first few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
05:51The first few days, I was a bit seasick.
05:55But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
05:56After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while.
05:58The first few days, I was a bit seasick and kept to my cabin most of the time.
06:16But on Sunday, April 14th, I was up and about.
06:20After I'd eaten, I listened to the orchestra for a little while.
06:25Then I went back to my cabin.
06:38There was no moon.
06:40A brilliant, starry night.
06:47I'd never seen the sea smoother.
06:51It had become much colder.
07:03It was indeed a night for bed, warmth and cozy thoughts.
07:08How good it was to be in my bunk at last, devouring magazines.
07:15At 23, I was the youngest stewardess on the ship.
07:19I was enjoying the trip tremendously.
07:27The first three days were very calm.
07:31We were another three days before we would reach New York.
07:34It was a pleasure to go to bed.
07:35My pretty little cabin with its electric heater and pink curtains.
07:47I hadn't meant to sail on the Titanic.
07:53Urgent business in New York forced me to take the first available boat.
08:02But everything aboard this lovely ship reassured me.
08:06It's a Sunday.
08:07First-class passengers have probably spent the day enjoying themselves.
08:18They had eaten roast duckling and sirloin of beef and foie gras and truffles and lamb with mint sauce and stuffed zucchini and chocolate eclairs.
08:30Maybe they've gone to the sauna in the Turkish baths.
08:34Or they've played a round of squash or gone to the gym.
08:39Perhaps the men had gone to the smoking room.
08:42They'd had a cigar, a pipe.
08:44They'd played a round of cards.
08:46Maybe the women had gone to the reading and writing room to have a moment of quiet.
08:53They've had a joyful, relaxing day.
08:56They're full of anticipation that they're going to be arriving in New York in two or three days' time.
09:01It's been the perfect day.
09:15And they've had also been the best in the best in the excitement of life.
09:24I mean the best in the world.
09:26It's a great day.
09:28I'm not sure how many people are going to live in New York if they get married in New York.
09:30My name is Celine Yazbek.
09:33My husband and I were on our way to America to make our home.
09:37He'd been to America before where he had a business.
09:41had a business it's a misconception that titanic was first and foremost a luxury ship titanic was
09:56primarily an emigrant ship and it was to ferry people working people from europe to america
10:03about three quarters of the titanic's passengers are in second or third class and it's really not
10:11surprising that people do not want to go to bed this might be the first time they've been away from
10:16home and maybe it's the first taste of freedom from very oppressive environments
10:25they are young people embarking on a new life to a new world it would have been wonderful
10:34i was a bride of 50 days
10:44by collating all of these memories from different parts of the ship memories that could easily
10:49have been lost to history that's the way in that's how we understand the story of the titanic
11:03so
11:16I don't know.
11:46I joined her in Belfast while she was still in the builder's hands.
12:16The biggest and finest ship in the world.
12:23On that night of April 14th, the first officer took over from me.
12:28We both remarked on the ship's steadiness, how comfortably she was slipping along.
12:38We knew perfectly well we were entering the region where ice might be sighted and had
12:44taken precautions.
12:46As none of these bergs lay on our course, well, they didn't directly concern us.
12:55I passed on course, speed, weather conditions, wished him joy of a few perishing cold hours
13:01and went below.
13:02It doesn't matter whether it's a ship all the way down to a section of marines in my circumstance.
13:10There is a system and command structure.
13:13Everyone had a job to do.
13:14And this is the point where the ship just begins to take over.
13:20The navigation crew that are at the top of the ship are settling into their evening routine.
13:26The engineers that are down in the boiler room are working on a four-hour shift to just keep
13:31the ship moving.
13:33The captain is retired to his cabin, you know, comfortable that his crew that ultimately have
13:37been at work since the ship left Belfast are very much in control.
13:42Really it's the beginning of what should be another calm night on the Titanic.
13:46I joined the Marconi staff last July and was transferred to the Titanic at Belfast.
14:06I didn't have much to do with all except to relieve Philips, a senior operator.
14:15I went to bed.
14:33I was conscious of waking up and hearing Philips sending telegrams.
14:37From leaving Southampton we'd got through about 250 telegrams.
14:43Bye thanks very much!
14:45My team has arrived.
14:46All right I can tell you around you.
14:58Bye.
14:59I found a lot of things coming.
15:00In Underwater meeting the country we hadlk nation, I'd tell you about웁!
15:04MUSIC PLAYS
15:29It's a tense situation in the wireless room
15:32because the equipment broke down the day before.
15:34And so he's got this great backlog of work to do.
15:38And he's focused on it, he's concentrating on it.
15:40The last thing he wants is new information coming in.
15:44MUSIC PLAYS
16:02It came out that vital messages received in the wireless room that night
16:11had never been delivered to the bridge,
16:15walling all ships of heavy ice
16:18in an area right ahead of the Titanic.
16:22What was still worse, not far away.
16:25MUSIC PLAYS
16:27Lytol is trying to say,
16:33I knew this was important, it should have gone to the bridge,
16:36and it didn't, and it's the wireless operator's fault.
16:38But that's not true,
16:40because the message didn't have the crucial prefix
16:43of MSG, Master Service Ground,
16:46which would have meant that Jack Phillips
16:47would immediately have prioritised it and sent it up to the bridge.
16:52That didn't happen.
16:53We have this unique opportunity to understand
16:58the sinking of the Titanic
16:59from the perspective of those who were actually there.
17:03We're starting to piece things together,
17:05but we're working with people's memories.
17:07In reality, memories are going to distort,
17:10and there might be a bit of a bias
17:11where people will try and make sense of what was going on.
17:16There are people who will deliberately distort and mislead,
17:20but mostly, you know,
17:22it's just that people do remember things differently.
17:26You're not looking for the stone-cold truths.
17:29We need to bring together all of those memories,
17:33see what seems to be consistent through it all,
17:36but also to recognise that every individual
17:39has a different experience.
17:41We have to respect that.
17:43MUSIC PLAYS
17:45Frederick Fleet, sailor, lookout man, Southampton, England.
18:0425th next October.
18:08We are there to report anything we see.
18:11A ship or anything.
18:18Watch was nearly over.
18:21I had done the best part of two hours.
18:24MUSIC PLAYS
18:26It was...
18:46It was...
18:47..gibberish...
18:51..gibberish...
18:51It was not very large when I first saw it.
18:59A black mass.
19:02It kept getting larger as we were getting nearer to it.
19:15I was fourth officer.
19:18I was just coming along the deck
19:19and almost abreast of the captain's quarters
19:21when I heard the report of three bells.
19:26That signifies something's been seen ahead.
19:30I struck three bells first,
19:32then I went straight to the telephone
19:33and rang them up on the bridge.
19:39Iceberg, get ahead!
19:41Then I heard the first officer give the order.
19:45Harder stop!
19:47The wheel was put to starboard.
19:50She started to go to port whilst I was on the telephone.
19:56My mate saw it and he told me he could see the bow coming round.
20:03They swung the ship's bow away from the object?
20:07Yes.
20:07Because we were making straight for it.
20:16What do you do if you're trained at sea?
20:18You try to avoid the obstacle.
20:21It's a split-second decision.
20:22And there's just a cliché, isn't there,
20:24in the way we talk about trying to turn the Titanic.
20:26You can't turn this giant boat in time.
20:31And a red light goes up when the ship is supposed to stop.
20:52This red light came up.
21:01Shut all dampers!
21:02Shut all dampers!
21:03When I'm the man in charge of the watch,
21:05so I shouted,
21:06Shut all dampers!
21:08They shut the wind off the fires.
21:09Shut all dampers!
21:11Shut all dampers!
21:13Shut all dampers!
21:13The crash came before we had them all shut.
21:35I didn't even feel the shock.
21:37I hardly knew what had happened.
21:38There was no jolt whatsoever.
21:40I was about to step into bed
21:44when I seemed to sway slightly.
21:48If I'd had a brimful glass of water in my hand,
21:51not a drop would have spilled.
21:58I was soon awakened by a long,
22:01grinding shock.
22:08There was a backward jerk,
22:10followed by a shorter one.
22:20And the ship started to back,
22:23like a train.
22:24Then, uh...
22:26Then, uh...
22:31a low...
22:33crunching, ripping sound...
22:37as...
22:40Titanic shivered.
22:46I was fast asleep.
22:51Almost threw me off the bed.
22:52Suddenly, I heard a tremendous noise.
23:08Immediately, I knew the ship had been hit hard.
23:11When we were alongside her,
23:25it was...
23:27a bit higher than the forecastle heads.
23:32Like, 50 feet, I should say.
23:34Was there much of a jar to the ship?
23:41No.
23:43Just a slight grinding noise.
23:46Did it alarm you when it struck?
23:49I thought it was a narrow shave.
23:51You thought it was a narrow shave?
23:55Yes.
23:55You know, up on the top deck,
24:02people are thinking to themselves,
24:04oh, that was close,
24:05but we got away with it.
24:06You know, it's just a near miss
24:07that somebody writes down in a log.
24:10But they don't know
24:11that this iceberg
24:12had a very large section
24:13jutting out of it
24:14underneath the water.
24:16Water came pouring in
24:37about two feet
24:39from where I was standing.
24:40The ship's side was torn
24:42from the third stockhold
24:45to the forward end.
24:54Open the door!
25:02The doors dropped
25:04instantly, automatically.
25:08Hurry up!
25:10We got through
25:11into the next section.
25:12And in the watertight compartment,
25:16closed up.
25:27As the iceberg strikes,
25:30the rivets give way.
25:33And the water starts pouring
25:35into boiler room number six.
25:37That's on the starboard side
25:38of the ship.
25:40But Titanic is designed
25:42to have watertight compartments
25:44in the event of an emergency.
25:47There's 16 compartments
25:49and the doors do
25:50what they're supposed to do.
25:51Come down,
25:53seal off the compartments
25:54and protect the rest of the ship.
25:58Fred Barrett
25:58and his boys
26:00escape this wall of water.
26:03At the moment,
26:04they are safe.
26:05But the thing about the Titanic
26:09is nobody had thought
26:11to put in a direct communication system
26:14between the boiler rooms,
26:16which could flood
26:17and the bridge.
26:22But equally,
26:23it's not just a case
26:24of sending somebody up quickly.
26:27A lowly boiler operator
26:29or a stoker
26:29goes up and tells the captain
26:31what's happened.
26:31There is a chain of command.
26:35So there was no way
26:37that Fred Barrett
26:38could tell the captain
26:39straight away
26:41what was happening.
26:42And that lost time.
26:45The captain said,
27:08what have we struck?
27:11Mr. Murdoch,
27:12the first officer,
27:13said,
27:13we have struck an iceberg.
27:17I put her hard to starboard,
27:18but it was too close.
27:19She hit it.
27:21He also said,
27:22I intended to port around it,
27:24but she hit
27:24before I could do any more.
27:29We walked out onto the bridge
27:30to take a look at the iceberg.
27:33It seemed to be a small black mass
27:45not rising very high
27:47out of the water.
27:48The ship was past it then.
27:50It couldn't have extended
27:52above the ship's rail.
27:55Captain Smith,
28:00the captain of the Titanic,
28:01was a very experienced seaman,
28:04a very highly respected seaman.
28:06He'd served in the Royal Naval Reserve
28:08as well as in the Merchant Navy.
28:11He was coming to the end
28:12of his career
28:13and he must have been
28:14very, very proud
28:15that he was taking Titanic,
28:17this world-beating ship
28:19across the Atlantic,
28:19and that would be
28:21a wonderful end
28:22to what was
28:23a glittering career.
28:25And suddenly, of course,
28:27there's a collision.
28:28It's the last thing you want.
28:30He would have been annoyed
28:32as well as keen
28:34to solve the problem
28:35as quickly as he could.
28:47The engine stopped.
28:50The sudden quiet
28:52was disturbing.
28:58When there's that
28:59sudden cut of the engines,
29:02it's going to be
29:02really noticeable.
29:04Something's going on.
29:05Something's not right.
29:06Something's not
29:07as it should be.
29:09I lay still.
29:11I waited for Anne,
29:13my cabin mate,
29:14to speak for...
29:16I knew she was awake.
29:19I looked over the side
29:21of my bunk at her
29:21and she returned
29:24by saying in her calm way,
29:26sounds as if something
29:28has happened.
29:31Passengers were really
29:32left in the dark.
29:33There was no tunneling
29:34system or announcement
29:35of what was going on,
29:37of what to do.
29:38They had to work
29:39it out themselves.
29:40I could hear the footsteps
29:46of people on the deck
29:48above my head.
29:49There was some stamping
29:56and queer noises
29:58as though the ship's tackle
30:00was being pulled about.
30:02My husband said
30:06there must have been
30:07some slight accident
30:09in the engine room.
30:12He put on his coat
30:14and left me.
30:18Different people
30:19will react to this situation
30:20in different ways,
30:21but a number of passengers
30:22have no qualms at all
30:24about going up
30:25onto the boat deck
30:25and finding someone
30:27to inquire
30:28what's going on.
30:29It was bitterly cold.
30:43I moved around the deck
30:44trying to discover
30:45what had happened.
30:49There were quite a few
30:51people standing around
30:53questioning each other
30:54in a dazed kind of way.
30:59There were many
31:04prominent people
31:05on the passenger list
31:06and because it was
31:07for Maiden Voyage
31:07those responsible
31:08for building the ship.
31:11Tommy Andrews.
31:14Designer for Harland & Wolfe.
31:17He was respected
31:18by everyone.
31:21A great ship builder
31:23and a real gentleman.
31:25a perfectionist.
31:34Thomas Andrews
31:35was a highly respected,
31:37in fact,
31:38probably the most respected
31:39ship designer
31:40in the UK at this time.
31:42Titanic
31:43was the pinnacle
31:44of Andrews' career.
31:46He'd been building up
31:47to this moment,
31:48this amazing liner
31:49that was going to win
31:50all these different prizes
31:51that was the queen
31:52of the seas, really.
31:53He knew a great deal
31:57about ship design.
31:59He understood
32:00buoyancy, stability,
32:02all of these issues.
32:05He's got 16
32:06watertight compartments.
32:07That's far more
32:08than most of the liners
32:09that were steaming around.
32:11And of those 16,
32:12four of them
32:13could be flooded
32:13and the ship
32:14was still stable
32:15and would stay afloat.
32:17And that's why
32:18Titanic had been
32:19built as
32:20an unsinkable ship.
32:21She was
32:26a fabricated
32:27steel vessel
32:28of gigantic
32:31dimensions.
32:32We're just stopping
32:33precautionary,
32:34just making a few checks
32:36and we'll be
32:36on our way
32:37to New York here.
32:38Please, you know.
32:40She was a wonderfully
32:41safe vessel.
32:42In answer to many
32:51questions,
32:51Mr. Andrews
32:52assured everybody
32:53that we were
32:54absolutely safe.
32:58She would stay
32:59afloat indefinitely.
33:00The ship
33:02is on sick.
33:05Sit down.
33:09This one man
33:10had a piece of ice
33:11and I took it
33:12out of his hands
33:13wondering where
33:13he'd got it from.
33:15Tried to make him
33:15understand that
33:16there was nothing
33:17the matter.
33:18Go down to bed
33:18and go to sleep again.
33:20I didn't take it
33:21very seriously.
33:22After what seemed
33:28a few moments
33:29my husband
33:30returned
33:31and he was
33:33quite excited.
33:34He exclaimed,
33:36we have struck
33:37an iceberg,
33:38a big one,
33:39but there's no danger.
33:41An officer
33:41just told me so.
33:44This story
33:45reassured me.
33:47If these people
33:48weren't worried,
33:50why should I be?
33:52At that particular
33:57time,
33:57we know in England
33:59certainly,
34:00there's a strong,
34:01very hierarchical
34:02class system
34:03getting the message
34:04from authority figures
34:05that everything's okay.
34:07Even though the ship
34:08is stationary
34:09and they're out at sea
34:10and it's dark
34:11and it's cold,
34:12for most people
34:13that's enough.
34:17There had been
34:18an accident,
34:18a collision,
34:19and yet there was
34:20a sense of complacency
34:21rather than a sense
34:23of urgency
34:23to discover
34:25what exactly
34:26has gone wrong.
34:28Thomas Andrews
34:29was saying to people,
34:30everything's fine,
34:31it's all safe,
34:32when he didn't have
34:33any data
34:34about what the damage
34:35to the ship was
34:36and that was not
34:38a clever thing to do.
34:39There are eight firemen
35:01in the number six section.
35:03The second engineer
35:03shouted,
35:04all hands,
35:05stand by your stations.
35:06that's for the men
35:08that stand by the fires.
35:11For Fred Barrett
35:12and his crew,
35:14they need to manage
35:15the fire in boiler room six
35:17and he's worried
35:18that there's going
35:19to be a minor explosion
35:20because the freezing water
35:21is hitting the hot coals.
35:25Fred Barrett
35:27is in the boiler room
35:28next door
35:29and the only way
35:30to assess the damage
35:31is to climb out
35:33of boiler room five
35:34to this overhead gangway
35:36that's above boiler room six.
35:41He went up and escaped
35:42and down to the boiler room.
35:47But
35:48he couldn't get in.
35:50It was eight feet
35:56of water in it.
36:00When he tries
36:01to get back down
36:02into boiler room six,
36:03he can't
36:04because there's
36:05eight feet of water
36:06in there
36:06and the whole place
36:07is already filled
36:08with steam.
36:11But
36:11I think when Fred Barrett
36:12saw the situation,
36:15he would have been
36:15still feeling
36:16that everything
36:17could be contained.
36:18This is how the ship
36:20was sold
36:20to passengers
36:21and crew alike.
36:48Captain Smith looked
37:02at the inclinometer,
37:03which is a sort of
37:04spirit level type gauge
37:05which shows
37:06whether the ship
37:07is stable or not
37:08and realised
37:09there was a five degree
37:11list in the ship
37:12to starboard.
37:13Captain Smith
37:21knows that
37:21probably is water.
37:23The problem is
37:24where is this water
37:25coming from
37:26and what the hell
37:27is going on?
37:30Titanic,
37:31of course,
37:31was a massive ship
37:32with a huge number
37:33of compartments.
37:35Therefore,
37:36finding out
37:36what's happened
37:37is a difficult
37:38and complex task
37:40because the ability
37:41to communicate
37:42between parts
37:43of the ship
37:43was very,
37:44very poor indeed.
37:46Therefore,
37:46you have to send
37:47a person,
37:48a runner,
37:49to go down
37:50and look
37:50and then come
37:51all the way back
37:51to the bridge
37:52to tell you
37:52what on earth
37:53is going on.
38:05I went right
38:06down below.
38:07into the lowest
38:12steerage
38:13as far as
38:14I could go
38:14without going
38:15into the cargo
38:16portion of the ship
38:16and I inspected
38:19all the decks
38:20as I came up
38:21in the vicinity
38:22where I thought
38:23she'd struck.
38:27I couldn't hear
38:28any noise.
38:30I couldn't see
38:31any damage.
38:34Remember,
38:35the mindset
38:35is this ship
38:37is unsinkable.
38:39If you believe
38:40a ship
38:41is unsinkable,
38:43you're not
38:44looking for trouble.
38:47Imagine it,
38:48wandering about
38:49this vast ship
38:51looking for water.
38:53He's not going
38:54to find it
38:55because he doesn't
38:55go down
38:56to the boiler rooms.
38:57I boarded
39:13a Titanic
39:14in Queenstown.
39:16I'm 21 years old.
39:18I wanted to come
39:19to America
39:19to make some money.
39:22There were
39:22three other boys
39:23from the same place
39:24sleeping in the same room
39:25with me.
39:27I jumped
39:33on the floor.
39:43The first thing
39:44I knew,
39:44my feet
39:45were getting wet.
39:47I told the other fellas
39:48to get up
39:48that there was
39:49something wrong.
39:51You couldn't get
39:52back to bed.
39:54They only laughed.
39:57One of them says,
39:58get back to bed,
39:59you're not in Ireland,
39:59no.
40:01Go back to bed,
40:02Daniel.
40:03I really understand
40:04where that voice
40:06is coming from.
40:07Something that I hear
40:08from immigrants
40:09nowadays
40:09is this belief
40:11that you've entered
40:12a world of order
40:13and protection
40:16and security
40:17so you don't have
40:20to worry
40:20about anything.
40:21This is the safest
40:22ship in the world
40:23that's ever been built,
40:25but it's so wrong
40:26in this context.
40:31I turned on
40:32the lights
40:32and to my surprise,
40:37there was a stream
40:38of water
40:39running along
40:39the floor.
40:55The fact that water
40:56was seen on the deck
40:57at the level
40:57where Daniel Buckney
40:59had a cabin
41:00was seen to indicate
41:01that a second
41:03water site compartment
41:04had actually gone
41:05as well as the
41:06boiler room
41:07and that water
41:08was rising
41:08up the bulkhead
41:09in that compartment
41:10and that, of course,
41:12is extremely worrying.
41:14But who exactly
41:15knew that
41:16is a different issue.
41:38I met the carpenter
41:44coming up,
41:45absolutely out of breath
41:46and he said,
41:48she is evidently
41:49making water fast.
41:50Number one tarpaulin
41:51is ballooning.
41:53Go tell the captain.
41:59At last,
42:01Boxall gets himself
42:02some concrete information.
42:04The carpenter
42:05the carpenter he meets
42:06is talking about
42:07one of the tarpaulins
42:08up on G-deck
42:09that's covering
42:10a cargo hold.
42:11The air in there
42:12is being pushed out
42:14at speed,
42:15at pressure,
42:16by the volume
42:17of water
42:18coming in.
42:22In the cargo hold,
42:24there's all the
42:25passengers' luggage.
42:27There's goods
42:27that are being shipped
42:28from companies
42:29across the Atlantic.
42:30there's a Renault car
42:32all boxed up
42:33belonging to
42:34one of the
42:34first-class passengers.
42:36There's cases
42:36of feather boas.
42:38There's all kinds
42:39of crazy things
42:40in there.
42:41But it is the
42:42entirety
42:42of everyone's
42:44possessions.
42:50Then,
42:51on his way
42:52to investigate,
42:53Boxall gets
42:54some more news.
42:55I met the
43:01mail clerk
43:01coming up.
43:03And he said,
43:04Mr. Boxall,
43:05the mail room
43:06is filling.
43:25Captain Smith!
43:32I got back
43:33to the boat deck
43:34and I saw
43:34the captain.
43:35The mail room
43:36is filling, sir!
43:36And I said,
43:37the mail room
43:38is filling, sir.
43:40What did he say?
43:45He walked away
43:47and left me.
43:51He went off
43:51the bridge
43:52as far as I remember.
43:53He didn't say
43:55anything to you.
43:57No.
44:05The captain
44:06goes down
44:06to inspect
44:07accompanied by
44:08Thomas Andrews.
44:09Here,
44:10they can see
44:10with their own eyes
44:11the mail room
44:12has been flooded
44:13and that means
44:14another compartment
44:15is gone.
44:23The Titanic
44:26was a ship
44:26designed to
44:27carry mail
44:27from Great Britain
44:28and there
44:29are about
44:30three and a half
44:30thousand sacks
44:31of mail on board.
44:33Already,
44:34these mail bags
44:35are beginning
44:35to float away.
44:36The mail clerks
44:37have tried
44:37to salvage
44:38some of them
44:38but they can't
44:40because the water
44:41is everywhere.
44:43This doesn't look
44:44good for
44:44rural Britannia.
44:45seeing the speed
44:49with which
44:49the water levels
44:50were rising
44:50must have been
44:52quite a sobering
44:52moment for both
44:54of them
44:54and of course
44:55this was not
44:56what the captain
44:57had hoped
44:57would be
44:58his final
44:59crowning glory
45:00in command
45:01of this splendid ship.
45:04This was going
45:05to be the ultimate
45:05test for him.
45:07He was going
45:07to have to prove
45:08himself as the
45:10sort of captain
45:10that he thought
45:11he was
45:11and that other
45:12people thought
45:13he was.
45:15But then
45:17the situation
45:18gets worse.
45:21The captain
45:21learns that
45:22a third compartment
45:23is flooded.
45:29The captain
45:30knows that
45:31this is a
45:31terrible circumstance
45:33but equally
45:34Titanic was built
45:35to endure that.
45:37There's 16 compartments
45:39four of them
45:40could be fully flooded
45:41and the ship
45:42was still stable
45:43and wouldn't sink.
45:44If another one
45:45a fifth compartment
45:47started to be flooded
45:48then that changed
45:49the equation
45:50completely.
45:53The captain
45:54is sitting right
45:55at the moment
45:55of what is known
45:56as event horizon.
45:57Once you tip
45:58over that precipice
46:00the ship
46:01is going to sink.
46:03Any captain
46:04worth their salt
46:05is ultimately
46:06going to prepare
46:07for the worst
46:07and actually
46:09not even expect
46:09the best.
46:10You have to be
46:11preparing for things
46:13to continue
46:13to worsen.
46:21Then came the order
46:22to clear the lifeboats.
46:24there was a frightful noise
46:41of escaping steam.
46:42Many first-class passengers
46:52report this
46:54unearthly scream
46:56that comes out
46:57of the funnels.
46:58It's the steam
47:00which has been
47:01diverted from the engines
47:03now emerging
47:04from the funnels.
47:05For those who
47:12have their rooms
47:13closest to the boat deck
47:15suddenly this is
47:16very alarming
47:18indeed.
47:19It's a moment
47:20where they realise
47:20that things are not
47:21as they should be
47:22and maybe they should
47:23be worrying.
47:25I was uneasy.
47:26I rushed to my husband.
47:32Go up on deck
47:33and see what has happened.
47:35He got out of his bed
47:36rather unwillingly.
47:50On board the Titanic
47:52in first class
47:53are American millionaires.
47:55There are people
47:56like Colonel
47:57John Jacob Astor IV
47:59who is an American
48:00business magnate.
48:01He's one of the richest
48:01men in the world
48:02and Sir Cosmo
48:04Darth Gordon
48:05sees Astor
48:07stride over
48:08to Captain Smith
48:09and have a private
48:10little word with him.
48:11I'm exactly
48:12going to say,
48:12Morgan.
48:14I would advise you
48:14to go and get your family
48:16into the lifeboats.
48:17The first-class passengers
48:18know Captain Smith.
48:19They are able
48:21to mix
48:21with the senior crew.
48:23They have
48:23exclusive access.
48:24It means that
48:26they're part of
48:26the inner circle
48:27and other people
48:28are not.
48:28From the get-go,
48:30first-class passengers
48:31are in a kind
48:32of chumocracy
48:33with the senior crew
48:35and that means
48:36that they get
48:37the information
48:37immediately
48:38when others don't.
48:39They have a distinct
48:40advantage
48:41from the word go.
48:44Yes, my friend.
48:45What did you say?
48:46I would appeal
48:47to me.
48:47My husband was back
48:56looking rather grave.
48:59I've been up
49:00to the bridge
49:01and I've seen
49:02Colonel Astor,
49:03he said.
49:04He told me
49:05that he was going
49:06to ask his wife
49:07to dress
49:07and I think
49:09you better do the same.
49:11I hurriedly put on
49:12the warmest clothes
49:13I could find.
49:15As I was dressing,
49:17my secretary,
49:18Miss Francatelli,
49:20came into the room
49:21very agitated.
49:22I woke up
49:50of my own accord
49:51and I promised
49:52to relieve Phillips
49:53earlier than usual.
49:57I asked him
49:58how he was getting on.
50:00I think we struck
50:01something.
50:02He told me that
50:03he felt the ship
50:04tremble and stop.
50:07He thought she'd
50:08got damaged
50:08in some way.
50:12Suddenly,
50:12the captain
50:13put his head
50:14in the cabin.
50:17Struck a house.
50:18We've struck
50:20an iceberg,
50:21the captain said,
50:23and I'm having
50:23an inspection made
50:24to tell what he's done.
50:26You better get ready
50:27to send a call
50:28for assistance.
50:29But don't send it
50:30until I tell you.
50:36The captain went away.
50:39Phillips resumed
50:40the phones.
50:40Let's go.
51:10Because there's no instant communications between large parts of the ship,
51:15Captain Smith and others still did not know fully what the damage was to the ship.
51:22During his inspection, Andrews must have learned that a fourth compartment had flooded.
51:30But problems in the boiler room, he was still completely unaware of.
51:35When Andrews went down into the boiler room, he was horrified, horror-struck.
51:50Water was rising, and it was rising in spaces that they had not realized it would be in.
51:55Earlier on, Andrews had said about Titanic that she was nearly as perfect as human brains could achieve.
52:07He'd put all of his knowledge into Titanic to make her as safe as she could be.
52:13But, unfortunately, the ship was doomed.
52:23You're now at a point where it's mathematically certain that this ship is going to sink.
52:27Now that the front five compartments are flooded, the water will start pouring over the top of the bulkheads.
52:39Picture an ice tray.
52:41You start filling it at one end, and eventually it will, you know, rise up over the line in the next compartment,
52:47in the next compartment, and it just continues to fill and fill.
52:50And that is ultimately what is going to draw this ship to the bottom of the ocean.
53:13My husband and I jumped up and ran out to see what had happened.
53:18We were still wearing our nightclothes.
53:32I can imagine them in my mind.
53:35Middle of the night, they wake up, and then suddenly there's the terror of finding water,
53:40and you're in the bowels of the ship.
53:43You are not being told anything.
53:45There's no announcements.
53:46You're left to work out what's going on and how that impacts on your own safety.
53:53It's such a jarring break from this very beautiful experience I think they must have been having up until this point.
54:00We walked around to the port side.
54:10And the ship had then a fair list.
54:15We stayed there looking over the side for about five minutes.
54:20Thomas Andrews was seen by another passenger running up the bridge with a look of terror on his face.
54:37No doubt he realized the first time, my God, we can't save the ship.
54:46His unsinkable ship was going to sink.
54:49I saw the captain.
54:58It was then I realized it was serious.
55:04Captain looked over and he said, we are sinking.
55:08Look how the river I'm entering.
55:10Look what the existing.
55:15I thought the river was going up.
55:16I think that's very hard.
55:18We'll be able to go in.
55:22But there was things that might make it so necessary,
55:24so let's base it and see what other people are putting up.
55:31We they're going on.
55:31We never saw the river going there.
55:33Lem Chase at Lucy.
55:34I think that's very exciting.
55:35We're going to go to the river.
55:37We're going to try to getい.
55:38suddenly orders came down everybody to the boats we sent an urgent distress call
55:52and said we were sinking by the head
55:54if you are a family you will be separated nobody's telling anybody what's going on
56:04husband stepped over to an officer and asked him a question
56:10i heard him shout back keep calm there's no danger
56:34so
56:40so
56:44so
56:54so
56:58so
57:06so
57:08so
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