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00:00I was afraid of the sea but I listened to the people who said take the new
00:16Titanic she cannot come to any harm new inventions have made a safe
00:30he told me that apparently we'd struck something
00:50I didn't become alarmed there was no danger they said
01:04I told her to come at once we were sinking
01:11you can imagine the chaos and the fear and the terror of finding water in your cabin and your
01:19in the bowels of the ship it makes me panic just thinking about it the story of the Titanic is
01:26the human condition spread out pinned on a board for us to examine then came the terrible cry
01:35women and children women and children two men lifted me up and put me in a boat
01:42it's these small decisions these little butterfly effect moments that change the outcome
01:48it really was every man for himself
02:04my heart stood still
02:08if we're gonna die that's to die gripping something
02:25it's a split-second decision what would you do what would I do
02:31it was a terrible sight men swimming and sinking
02:43had been brought up to believe in a hell after death
02:56for now I think I went through a hell that night
03:05alone
03:23you
03:25and
03:29I don't know.
03:59Mr. Harvey ordered me to fetch some men down.
04:13I got between 15 and 20.
04:22The engineers put the pumps on.
04:24They also would have gone off to UT's stairs on.
04:33Right now on the Titanic, there's a red alert emergency.
04:40Down below in the boiler room, all the crew, the firemen that would normally be down there,
04:46have been called back on ship to try to pump out the water that is flooding into the compartments.
04:55Imagine it, there's steam everywhere.
04:57There's the groaning, creaking, splitting sounds of the ship itself.
05:03It's terrifying.
05:04They are like soldiers going into battle.
05:12With five compartments flooded, the Titanic is going to sink.
05:16They have around an hour and a half until it's going to disappear below the waves.
05:20They're never going to get all of the water out of the ship,
05:23but can they hold it back just a little bit longer in order to try and save everybody on board?
05:28What I think is unfortunate in Titanic
05:51is that the captain had not established a mechanism whereby he was getting information
05:57about what the actual damage was in various parts of the ship.
06:02This is something that there should have been being worked on much earlier.
06:06As a result, time was lost.
06:10Once you begin to understand that you are really up against it in terms of time,
06:15it goes from, we can't save the ship, but can we get the passengers,
06:19from the Titanic to a rescue ship before the Titanic sinks.
06:25The captain knows that the decisions that are made in the coming minutes, hours,
06:30ultimately, that will be the decider on how many people will make it off of the ship alive.
06:49Send a call for assistance.
06:51Send a call for assistance, ordered the captain.
06:56Which call should I send?
06:58The Regulation International Call for Help.
07:01Just that.
07:03And the captain was gone.
07:07The next moment we sent an urgent distress call.
07:09So in the radio room, right now, it's a race against time.
07:20The operators must send out the distress signal.
07:23It's the standard Morse code signal that will tell shipping in the area
07:28that the Titanic is in trouble and needs help.
07:33These two young men, they're in their 20s,
07:37and now are responsible for seeking rescue for the unsinkable ship Titanic.
07:44My boats were along the port side.
08:09My idea was that I'd lower the boats and transfer passengers.
08:14They would be perfectly safe in that smooth sea until another ship picked them up.
08:19All right, gentlemen. You know what to do.
08:21Up to this time, we hadn't had a chance for a boat drill,
08:25beyond just lowering some of the boats in Southampton.
08:30The crew of the Titanic had been put through a fine sieve
08:33and caretaken that there were no misfits.
08:39A tap on the shoulder and indication with the hand
08:41was quite sufficient to set the men about the different jobs.
08:45Clearing away boat covers,
08:47hauling tight the falls,
08:49ready for lowering.
08:52We're not going to see hysteria.
08:54We're not even going to see anxiety at this point,
08:56not least because the information is distorted and fragmented.
09:00Nobody is thinking that the ship is going to sink.
09:04Only Captain Smith really knows the extent of what is happening.
09:09The water, having reached F deck, showed me she'd been badly hulled.
09:19Although I knew it was serious,
09:21I'd not have thought that it was likely to prove fatal.
09:23I figured that she'd go so far until she balanced her buoyancy
09:29and there she would remain.
09:31The captain doesn't share the information he has with all the officers,
09:36that the ship is going down and precisely why he hasn't shared it remains a mystery.
09:42It may be a strategy he doesn't want them to panic.
09:46It maybe reflects an internal chaos.
09:48He doesn't know who to tell or when.
09:50The reality is, for the crew in the Titanic at this moment,
09:55they have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
09:58They just know they have a job to do.
10:00They have no idea what level of catastrophe they're in.
10:31There are 2,208 passengers on board.
10:34They won't all fit in the lifeboats.
10:36So the lifeboats will have to do shuttle runs,
10:38take passengers to the rescue ship,
10:41come back and then take the next lot of passengers.
10:45It's physically possible for them to save all the passengers,
10:48but they have to do it in an orderly fashion.
10:51And the people who are going to go first
10:53are those whose rooms are closest to the boat deck
10:55and those are the first-class passengers.
10:57In this emergency plan,
11:00the wealthy and the powerful have an innate advantage.
11:03They are top of the list.
11:05Suddenly, orders came down.
11:12Everybody to the boats.
11:14All stewards and stewardesses were on duty in their sections
11:23to assist and direct people.
11:25I continued through my section,
11:30trying to reassure,
11:32reminding people to put on warm clothing,
11:35take blankets and valuables.
11:37Violet Jessup is a first-class stewardess.
11:43She's 24 years old.
11:45She's the youngest stewardess on board.
11:47The first-class stewards and stewardesses
11:49really are the ones who are responsible
11:52for making this evacuation process happen.
11:55They have to demonstrate extraordinary self-control
11:58and put these other people first.
12:01Of course, we reiterated from room to room
12:08that it was just precautionary measure.
12:12Everywhere I found...
12:16extraordinary calmness.
12:19People who'd been asleep were dressing,
12:23fumbling, sleepy-eyed with buttons.
12:26They were...
12:29They were unemotional.
12:34Probably thinking, as I did,
12:37that it was all too fantastic.
12:43The first-class passengers have invested financially.
12:46They've spent a lot on their tickets.
12:48They've invested psychologically
12:49in this being safe and luxurious.
12:52and they therefore cannot believe
12:56that it can be anything but that.
13:00It's such a leap of imagination
13:02to go against everything they've internalised
13:05about this experience
13:07and start to believe
13:08that something might be going wrong.
13:15Stuart knocked at the door.
13:18Sorry to alarm you, madam,
13:20but the captain's orders are that
13:22all passengers should put on life-belts.
13:27He laughed and joked as he helped us.
13:31Wrap up warmly,
13:32for you may have a little trip
13:34for an hour or so
13:34in one of the lifeboats.
13:38Cosmo was so brave
13:39to try and keep us in good spirits,
13:42making a bad jest
13:43as to how unappetising
13:45we both looked
13:46in those sickly white life-preservers.
13:49Lucy Lady Duff Gordon
13:55is one of the most prominent
13:57people on board.
14:00After divorcing her previous husband,
14:02she managed to build up
14:03her business,
14:04which is a fashion design house,
14:06into a multi-million pound enterprise.
14:09And this is a time
14:10when many women
14:11don't even have bank accounts.
14:13So she's obviously extraordinary.
14:16She's very resourceful.
14:17And that will come to be important.
14:21I put on a heavy crepe scarf.
14:24I wore the big squirrel coat.
14:27Bought my little velveteen ring bag.
14:31It all looked so pretty.
14:33Just like a bedroom on land.
14:36It didn't seem possible.
14:38There could be any danger.
14:39A bit of vase of flowers
14:43on the washstand
14:44slid off
14:45and fell to the floor.
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14:48It's hot.
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15:12it's still
15:13in the
15:14Slowly people started, some joking, taking their time about it.
15:30To those few who showed concern, a reassuring answer was, there are plenty of boats in the
15:36vicinity, they'll be with us any moment now.
15:53I heard the crow's nest report a light on the bow.
15:57I went on the bridge right away and found this light.
16:08It was two masthead lights of a steamer just below the horizon.
16:15You could not only see her lights with the naked eye, you could see the lights of her
16:19portals.
16:20The Boxall can see the nearest ship to the Titanic, which is the California.
16:27She's very close by, about 14 miles.
16:31The Californian had already communicated with the Titanic earlier that evening, that she
16:38was going to spend the night in the ice flow because it was too dangerous to continue.
16:43But the Californian would be able to reach Titanic before she sings.
16:49Captain Smith, we've spotted a steamer on the horizon.
16:56I told the captain about this ship.
16:58He said, tell them to come at once.
17:01We are sinking.
17:02We are sinking.
17:03We are sinking.
17:08We are sinking.
17:29After the signal had been sent out, the ether seemed to be dead.
17:41No reply came through.
17:47Californian isn't picking up any signals.
17:49The radio operator has gone to bed, not because he's negligent, but because he's allowed to go to bed.
17:54There's no duty to stay in the radio room all night.
17:56And many ships did not ask this of their operators.
18:06But then, suddenly, a chance message comes in from a wireless operator on another ship, the Carpathia.
18:17I was about to retire. I'd taken my coat off.
18:22I should have been turning in in about ten minutes.
18:25Called the Titanic.
18:33And his only answer was, struck a berg.
18:37Come at once.
18:41We told her our position and said we were sinking by the head.
18:44I asked him if he intended me to go get the ship turned round immediately.
18:52And he said yes.
18:54Quick.
18:57The operator went to tell his captain.
19:02The Carpathia is a transatlantic steamship.
19:04She's fast, but she's going in the other direction.
19:09Jack Phillips hears that the radio operator is going to tell the captain that Titanic is in trouble.
19:16The captain of the Carpathian will then make the decision about what to do.
19:21And that usually means to turn your vessel towards the ship that is in distress.
19:26That's the rule of the sea.
19:29So here is a chance of rescue.
19:32As long as Carpathia is able to get there in time.
19:37As long as Carpathian is able to get there in time.
20:07As long as it happened by the stewards to be going away in a boat,
20:10it didn't seem possible that all this could actually be happening.
20:19It was the strangest scene.
20:22People bundled up in old clothes, boarding lifeboats in the night.
20:32Few seemed to want to brave the dark sea in an open boat.
20:35And it was only after considerable coaxing that many went at all.
20:44People don't want to get in.
20:46Why would you want to get out of your warm bed and go in a lifeboat into the freezing water when there's no problem?
20:51You wouldn't.
20:52This is like a really annoying fire drill at school.
20:56And everybody says, no, I'll just stay here until it's finished.
20:59At that point in time, the general public weren't really trusted.
21:05Keeping people in ignorance was considered better.
21:07And we know today that actually people will respond much more sensibly in an emergency if they do have some information.
21:14That information was completely lacking at this point on Titanic.
21:18We were just walking forward when a sailor tried to drag me away from Cosmo.
21:46The officers called for women and children.
21:52So Captain Smith has ordered that women and children should be evacuated and they should be prioritized.
21:58On the port side, the second officer, Officer Lightoller, interprets it as women and children only.
22:07The consequence of this is that if you are a family turning up on the port side, you will be separated and the men will not be allowed on the lifeboats.
22:21Saving the lives of women and children comes from deep in the Edwardian mindset.
22:30Women at the time are seen as having a kind of childish status.
22:34I mean, this is before they've been allowed to vote.
22:37And they are perceived to have a physical and mental weakness that means that men have to be their protectors.
22:45Please step back, sir. Please step back.
22:47I have no such ideas about my husband.
22:53It would have been too awful to have been alone.
22:55Every time Officer Lightoller prevents a man from getting into a lifeboat, there is the possibility that his wife won't go, that they will stay on board the ship.
23:08So he's actually potentially endangering the lives of the precise people he's been told to prioritize to save.
23:15In a great emergency like that, where there were limited facilities, could you not have put more people into boats?
23:44I did not know it was urgent then.
23:50I had no idea it was urgent.
23:54You did not know it was urgent?
23:57Nothing like it.
24:08Lightoller wants to do a good job, clearly.
24:10Maybe if he'd known the ship was sinking, he would have allowed men in to fill up the spaces in the lifeboats.
24:19But because the captain is withholding information, people like Lightoller can't do their job properly and this will have disastrous consequences.
24:27What one wants is to have a very good relationship, a band of brothers, and when you've got that, you must keep them informed of what's going on and what we call nowadays mission command.
24:42In other words, you let them know what you want to achieve overall, you tell them all the facts, and then you let them get on with it.
24:49I think that Captain Smith was overwhelmed by the enormity of what was happening and was not really grasping it and taking charge.
24:58I think that there was a kind of continual, you tell them all the facts and the fact that they had done.
25:06I think that there is no problem with anybody else.
25:08I think that there is no problem, but the fact that this guy is not too bad, I don't even care if he is a officer and a assistant how I did not believe it, I would not tell them the fact that this guy was on my other side of the former organization.
25:13The operator returned and told us that Carpathia was putting about and heading for us.
25:34Our captain had left us at this time. Phillips told me to run and tell him what the Carpathia had answered.
25:50I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin. The decks were full.
26:01I came back and heard Phillips giving the Carpathia full of directions. He told me to put my clothes on.
26:10Until that moment, I forgot I wasn't dressed.
26:15I went to my cabin and dressed and brought an overcoat to Phillips.
26:20It was very cold. I slipped the overcoat on him while it worked.
26:27Imagine the relief in the radio room. Carpathia has answered the distress call, is coming their way.
26:37But although she's going as fast as she can, she's having to go through the same ice field where Titanic has floundered.
26:45She's four hours away and Titanic isn't going to stay afloat that long.
26:54The nearest ship to Titanic is the Californian. But the radio operator is still asleep.
27:10Nobody is aware of any problem on the Titanic.
27:15The crew of the Titanic have to think on their feet.
27:20So they start to use Morse lamps and send a signal using light rather than a sound.
27:27The ship was close enough, I thought, to read our electric Morse signal.
27:32So I signalled her.
27:38I told her to come at once. We were sinking.
27:43The captain was with me most of the time we were signalling.
27:46I would signal with the Morse and then go back and look at the ship.
27:49I cannot say I saw any reply.
28:06In a crisis, you just have to increase your chances of survival.
28:10Survival is all about probability.
28:12You know, throwing as much muck at the wall as possible and seeing what sticks.
28:16Then we started sending off these distressed rockets.
28:22The quartermaster and I on the bridge.
28:30They go right up into the air and throw stars.
28:46The St. Louis is a great power station.
28:50They go right up into the air.
28:52The St. Louis is another one.
28:54The St. Louis is a great power station.
28:56How are you within the air?
28:59The St. Louis has very close.
29:03The other one who is a great power station.
29:04The St. Louis were so advanced and harrowed.
29:07There were so many more signals.
29:10The St. Louis has a great power station.
29:11right now the water is rising up through the body of the ship
29:20the waterproof bulkheads only went up to a certain level and by this stage water was
29:27tipping over bulkheads and cascading into the next compartment so compartment after
29:33compartment was being filled by water and as this mass of water breaches the bulkheads it
29:43starts flowing back on itself making cascades and waterfalls coming down the narrow staircases
30:03third-class passengers in the bowels of the ship are at most risk they were really left in the dark
30:11they are wading through water they're not aware of what's going on the rescue mission going on
30:19in the upper decks had to work it out themselves
30:22my husband had left some money in our cabin and there were all our clothes
30:32and things that we were taking to america
30:36salini is from hardin which was in lebanon and she's a newlywed bride and her older husband is
30:52taking her to live with him in america they are caught between going up to the higher decks
30:59and the desire to keep their belongings
31:01it's easy to underestimate just how important things are to a migrant to someone who's leaving
31:11home forever do you want to arrive in in new york destitute with nothing to your name
31:17nothing to pay for a room of course not
31:21we returned to try and get our clothes money and jewelry we started down for them
31:36but the water on our deck was waist deep we never got there
31:46depending on where you are in the ship right now you're going to start seeing a lot of water
32:03water in any quantity is terrifying because you can't push it away you can't fight it
32:14people are now seeing evidence with their own eyes it's not rumor it's not gossip it's not even
32:20that they're waiting to be told they can see feel that there is a problem
32:25by this time the ship seemed to have tilted forward a little
32:40and we heard queer noises as if the ship was being pulled about
32:48charlotte collier is a second class passenger she's traveling with her husband harvey
33:03and her eight-year-old daughter marjorie charlotte has health issues she has tuberculosis
33:07so she's eager to find a new climate for her health as well as whatever economic benefit they
33:14might get from migrating
33:15whilst this whole hour has passed in which the first class passengers are being evacuated
33:27they were told to stay in their cabin
33:30they are sitting there and worrying and no one is telling them anything
33:37suddenly we heard people running along the passageway in front of our door
33:46their feet reminded me of rats scurrying i could see my face had grown very white
34:00my husband stammered when he spoke to me he said we had better go on deck and see what's wrong
34:10for anyone that was feeling confused or was just following the rules
34:22it's very clear something major is now happening it's going to be terrifying especially if you're a parent
34:32with a young child
34:33when we went on board the titanic every possession was with us
34:43neither of us took any belongings from the cabin
34:48my husband even left his watch lying on his pillow
34:52i had a big dolly that i got two christmases before
34:59and we were in such a hurry that i i left it behind
35:05i cried for my dolly but we couldn't go back
35:09when we reached the deck there was a great many people
35:24some of them were crying
35:35i was crying for my doll but nobody could go back and get her
35:42an officer said you should put on life preservers
35:51so mother put one on me and then fastened one around herself
35:57papa put one on two
35:59my husband stepped over to an officer
36:07and asked him a question
36:10excuse me
36:11yes sir what's going on
36:12i heard him shout back
36:14keep calm there's no danger
36:17nobody's telling anybody what's going on
36:23the captain knows a few of the officers know
36:26but it's important to keep this away because of panic
36:30but now because of the noise the tilt
36:33people are realizing that something is wrong
36:36all the water that had been thrown on the furnaces
36:54just making the stock all thick with steam
36:56mr shepherds was walking across in a hurry to do something
37:02and he fell down the hole and broke his leg
37:11he lifted him up and carried him
37:16there was a knocking noise
37:29all at once i saw a wave of green foam tearing between the boilers
37:36a rush of water came through
37:39i never stopped to look
37:45i just jumped for the escape ladder
37:47a huge wave of green water comes flying through into the room
38:04because the coal bunker has been gradually filling up and filling up and filling up with the pressure
38:10and then it bursts and suddenly it's all over them
38:14another engineer jonathan shepard has already slipped and broken his leg
38:19so he can't escape this wall of water
38:23and he's the first casualty to die on the titanic
38:32i went up the escape
38:40and into the main alleyway
38:42satanic was sloping down by the head
39:01water was coming down the alleyway from forward
39:06now that boiler room 5 is filled with water
39:15the engineers realise that all their efforts are futile
39:19there's no point pumping it out anymore
39:21it's coming in faster than anyone can manage it
39:25this is a moment of terror
39:32and certainty
39:34perhaps this is the first moment
39:37where these brave men realise
39:40that the ship is going to go down
39:42all passengers upstairs
40:01at last
40:02i
40:03i returned to my room
40:07i began tidying up
40:15folding my nightgown
40:18putting everything in its place
40:20there was
40:23there was no sound
40:24titanic
40:27might have been in dock
40:29and all the crew gone home
40:30i saw stanley at the door
40:43watching me
40:44and he
40:46he almost shouted at me
40:49as he seized my arm
40:50my god
40:52don't you realise this ship will sink
40:54you have to follow the rest upstairs
40:56as quickly as possible
40:57sinking
41:03sinking
41:03sinking
41:03sinking
41:04sinking
41:07the word
41:08repeated itself
41:11without fully
41:13fully entering my understanding
41:16my mind
41:21could not accept that
41:22the super
41:23perfect creation
41:25was to do so futile a thing
41:28as sink
41:29sink
41:31of course
41:32of course
41:32titanic
41:33couldn't be sinking
41:35suddenly
41:51there was a commotion near one of the gangways
41:56and
41:56we saw a stoker
41:59come up from below
42:00all the fingers
42:04of one hand
42:05had been
42:06cut off
42:07blood was
42:10running from the stumps
42:13and was spattered
42:15on his face and clothes
42:17it
42:19it brought up a picture of
42:22smashed engines
42:24and
42:25mangled
42:27human bodies
42:28i went over to speak to him
42:31i asked him
42:33if there was any danger
42:35danger
42:37danger
42:37i should say so
42:40it's hell down below
42:42this ship
42:45will sink
42:46like a stone
42:47at this moment i
42:53got my first
42:56grip
42:57of fear
42:58those in charge
43:15herded us
43:16towards the nearest boat
43:18then
43:22above the clamour
43:24came the
43:25terrible cry
43:26lower the boat
43:28women and children
43:30someone was shouting
43:37these last few words
43:38over
43:39and
43:40over again
43:41women and children only
43:44women and children only
43:46women and children only
43:49it might be that
43:53Lightollar
43:53has this kind of rigid view of the world.
43:56He's come in with a set of rules.
43:58It might be that under this stressful situation,
44:01it's the only way he can function.
44:03He can't cope with more information and more decision-making,
44:06so he just sticks to this one option.
44:23Cosmo pleaded with me.
44:26Well, three or four boats were launched, but I refused.
44:31I only said, promise me that whatever you do,
44:34you will not let them separate us.
44:38And I clung to him.
44:40He saw that there was no use resisting me.
44:49We'll go round to the starboard side, Cosmo said.
44:51It might be better there.
45:04One of the pivotal facts about the loading of the lifeboats is this.
45:08There are different protocols on each side of the ship.
45:13On the starboard side,
45:15Officer Murdoch's approach is more pragmatic.
45:19It's more flexible.
45:21It was better.
45:24For although there were crowds, there was no confusion.
45:32The lifeboats were being quietly filled.
45:34If you emerge on the starboard side, then Officer Murdoch might well allow the men to join the women
45:45and their children if there are spaces left.
45:49So there's Murdoch allowing men to fill up the spare places.
45:54Why not?
45:55Murdoch doesn't want to split families up.
45:58Murdoch, I think,
46:00Murdoch, I think,
46:01Murdoch, I think, probably had a sense of wanting to preserve life.
46:08And Light Hollow had a stricter, more patriarchal view, perhaps, of men should sacrifice themselves for women and children.
46:15But the fact that it was happening on the same ship at the same time shows just how vague this policy was.
46:24So it matters very much which side of the ship you're on if you're a man.
46:30You're a man.
47:00I was walking up and down the bridge, saw white lights in the sky in the direction of this other steamer.
47:15I thought perhaps the ship was in communication with some other ship,
47:19or possibly signalling to us to tell us she had big icebergs around her.
47:24Didn't occur to me the ship was in distress.
47:26I just thought there were white rockets, that's all.
47:30It might have been anything.
47:35We called her up repeatedly on the Morse lamp and received no answer whatsoever.
47:46Some people say she replied to our rockets and our signals, but I didn't see any of them.
47:52We'll never know why there was miscommunication between the Californian and Titanic.
48:00There seems to have been some confusion about the colour of these rockets.
48:04Were they distress signals?
48:07It's also possible that Boxall didn't see Californian's Morse lamp reply,
48:12because there's something strange about the atmospheric conditions that night.
48:16You've got this weird effect of warm air underneath and colder air on top,
48:22which is creating a kind of mirage effect.
48:26Shapes are being distorted in the darkness.
48:28What a chance her captain missed.
48:41He could have laid his ship right alongside the Titanic and taken practically every soul on board.
48:46However, he didn't.
49:00This must be the bitterest blow for those people who could see the ship nearby.
49:07I don't think it was bad faith. I don't think it was negligence.
49:10I think everything conspired that night to go against Titanic's chances of safety and salvation.
49:40I don't think it was a good thing to do, because the early lifeboats went out half full,
50:00there are now only about 900 places left on the lifeboats and more than 2,000 people on board the ship.
50:08If people don't get onto a lifeboat, they will go down with the Titanic.
50:21Suddenly, we saw some sailors who were launching a little boat.
50:25It was a captain's special boat.
50:31Lucy Duff Gordon knows that she needs to get off the ship.
50:36This is the moment to take one of those spaces.
50:45My husband asked the officer if we might get into it.
50:57We were helped in, followed by two American men who came up at the last minute.
51:02There is something here about being in the right place in the right time, but also seizing the
51:12opportunity and having the confidence to do so.
51:16I think that class probably had a huge impact on people's sense of entitlement to safety, to rescue.
51:27You probably did assume that if you bought a first class ticket, then that would buy you survival.
51:36They are people who are important in the world.
51:39They see themselves as having more value than people in steerage.
51:43And there they are as a couple sitting safely in a lifeboat.
51:56I shall never forget how black and deep the water looked below us.
52:01The men standing nearby joked with us because we were going out on the ocean.
52:09You'll get your death of cold out there amid the ice.
52:21I found myself clinging to my husband's arm with little Marjorie beside me.
52:51I did not want to leave him.
52:58Charlotte knows she'll be separated from her husband.
53:00Not knowing if and when they'd be reunited, I think she probably was just thinking,
53:04please, no, not this.
53:06I want to survive, but not at this cost.
53:10Dilemmas that you just have to accept in that moment.
53:14Dilemmas that you have to accept in that moment, those are, yeah, those are heavy.
53:19Dilemmas that you have to accept in that moment.
53:20Officer Lytola, you know, the man's been at sea since he was 13.
53:29He doesn't have that understanding of what it means
53:32when a woman is clinging to her husband,
53:34when a child is crying for their father.
53:37He just goes ahead with what he believes to be right.
53:42But it's not objectively right.
53:46From what you have said, you discriminated entirely
53:49in the interest of the women and children
53:51in filling those lifeboats.
53:53Yes.
53:56Why did you do that?
53:57Because of the captain's orders
53:59or because of the rule of the sea?
54:02The rule of human nature.
54:09The deck seemed to be slipping under my feet.
54:13And I hung onto my husband's arm.
54:16And although he was very brave
54:21and not trembling,
54:25I saw his face was white as paper.
54:32Port, all-star board.
54:36That sliding doors moment will determine
54:38who survives and who doesn't.
54:39Keep moving along the deck.
54:41We are coming to lifeboats.
54:43Women and children only.
54:44That's women and children only.
54:46Women and children.
54:47Women and children.
54:51They struck utter terror into my heart
54:53and now they'll ring in my ears till I die.
55:20Bye.
55:22Bye.
55:22Bye.
55:22Bye.
55:23Bye.
55:25Bye.
55:26Bye.
55:27Bye.
55:27there was a lot of confusion people crying swearing and praying there's a really stark
55:53disadvantage facing third-class passengers chief officer shoved one of the revolvers into my hands
56:00Chekhov said you can't put a gun in the room and not use it all of the order has been lost
56:07I called out don't shoot
56:10a new ghost story for Christmas from the macabre mind of Margatis press red to watch the room in the tower on BBC iPlayer
56:40you
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