1979: Frank Prentice on how he SURVIVED the TITANIC | The Great Liners | BBC Archive
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- Frank Prentice, an assistant purser on the Titanic, describes how he survived the sinking of the ship.
“I was gradually getting frozen up, and by the grace of God I came across a lifeboat and they pulled me in.”
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What a time to be alive. We can just log onto RUclips and hear FIRST HAND, from a gentleman that survived the sinking of the Titanic 111 years later!! Remarkable.
If loving RUclips is wrong, then I don't want to be right. It's like a time machine.
@@lilytyler80 Pretty good way to put it. RUclips is a time capsule for sure.
@@BezmenovDisciple yes! We're watching a 44 year old interview about a disaster that happened 111 years ago in our hands.
@@lilytyler80 I saw somewhere on here an interview with a guy who had allegedly witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Wild!!
@@BezmenovDisciple on my way to watch that now.
I love the way people from that era talk. No overuse of slang, no swearing and very proper and to the point. Not to suggest that people today talk badly or anything, but it was a different time.
They do talk badly today
Genuinely, every time my sister opens her mouth something's wrong with her grammar
Not one “like” in his vocabulary
@@sheteg1 I like, know bruh, like, blood.
@@sheteg1YES! YES! He sounds like a "grown-up. "
I've thought the same thing, they spoke very well very descriptive.
*FRANK WINNOLD PRENTICE:*
(17/02/1889 - 19/05/1982)
On the 15th of April 1912, he was on the Titanic when it sunk. Just three months later, he would sign on to work aboard The Oceanic, and he carried on working on boats until the 1920s. He also went to war in the First World War.
In 1919, he got married, to Mabel Riley, and they had 3 children.
He filmed this interview in 1979, and passed away just a few years later in 1982, aged 93.
There are still gentlemen today, but they don't make them quite like this anymore...
*Rest in Peace, Mr. Frank Prentice* 🙏
AMEN!.
Thankyou so much this absolutely priceless
From Australia
Amen.
@Orange300
Mr Prentice was a gentleman. You probably wouldn’t have been able to stop him.
thanks for posting this, fascinating
The way he describes these events is so calm. What he saw must've been utterly horrific. His generation were made of some seriously strong stuff
Exactly what i thought watching it. He never complained once.. must of been a haunting experience
The interview is decades after the horrific incident, he must have had received all the comfort and recognition before this...
well i mean i feel like it would be like someone who experienced 9/11 telling the story 65 years later.
They were made of the same stuff they just weren’t allowed to show emotions so carried baggage with them until their deaths
He still went thru a lot after that, 1st and 2nd world were far worse.
He saved her life, and in turn she saved his. What an amazing story.
How moving. He survived, but never really escaped.
I doubt any of them did. I've heard some ptsd stories that helped me understand this event better... I doubt something like this could ever be escaped really. Horrtifying to see so many lost.
You can see it in his face, and hear it in his voice.
Well said
Nicely expressed
The Titanic sank because people stole the mummy. The mummy is an alien reborn (an alien soul in a human body) who died during a human-made nuclear wipeout. Alien came to rescue the mummy to put it back into the Pyramid for healing. Flying saucer span above Titanic, Titanic followed the spinning. Titanic is too weak. As soon ask the flying saucer tried to pick up the mummy, the Titanic broke in half. It broke in half before hitting the iceberg. The iceberg was a coincidence. It blocked the water from passing through. It caused more friction and contributed to the disaster.
The Sphinx is an alien nuclear detector after Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. The Pyramids on Earth are emergency hospitals for lightly injured alien reborns (human body with alien soul) who died during the Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. Their souls were in fragments. Aliens recover the soul and put it into mummy. They brought alien skeleton mold. Because human-made nuclear wipe out was so catastrophic. Many alien reborns died. That is why there are so many Pyramids in Egypt. Heavily injured alien reborns were immediately brought back to alien planets for more advanced treatment.
guestbook.lingpai.org/d/30-move-the-himalayas-to-the-pacific-ocean-to-build-et-base-island
guestbook.lingpai.org/d/93-the-project-of-changing-heaven-and-earth
"I shall probably dream about it tonight, Have another nightmare. You think I'm too old for that, but you'd be amazed". No sir, no I would not. I cannot begin to imagine the nightmares you had. I would love to thank this man for giving his account, I could have listened to him for hours. Rest in peace.
The British have the loveliest way of speaking about the most horrific things. What a gentleman.
That’s because we keep calm & carry on. As we’ve journeyed through the ages, we’ve survived incredible events and get stronger with each one. Stoic is in our DNA
RIP frank. He died 3 years after this interview at 92 years old.
It's a shame he never saw the pictures of the wreck . Also imagine frederick Fleet seeing the crows nest in 1986 .
@@stevenwade7466damn imagine
I hope allah make me live to a long life ....
do the math, he was 18 in 1912 on titanic, take 1912 and minus 18 you get the year 1894. he died in 1982, take 1982 and minus 1894 u get 88. he was 88 when he died, ppl keep getting his age wrong, he was 18 in 1912!!
Frank suffered for the rest of his life, nightmares galore, he escaped the titanic but the titanic stayed with him, he also gave speeches to school children too, God bless him, an absolute gentleman.
😢
I wonder how horrible it was for it to never leave them
I can feel his pain just watching this. He was holding back tears through a lot of it .
Human bless him
@Yedolf_West he was on the boat till the very end i think, Like many other survivors he had to grab onto debris. Part of his story mentions 'being pulled out of the water and wrapped in a blanket'.
The fact that his watch froze when he went in the water and he held onto it is amazing. And it says 2:20 which is exactly when the ship took its final plunge. Absolutely incredible.
What an absolute gem this man is. A class act.
Something society doesn’t have now days .
also, he served & survived the great war and was decorated. talk about luck.........
@@siggifreud812He survived more than many people today can fathom. Real life nightmares that i myself wouldn’t want to envision. A graceful man who was fortunate to see a full life after such terrible experiences.
@@DevZant indeed. we owe him, and all the others like him, a lot !
My thoughts
too!
You can see the tears swelling up in his eyes as he relives his nightmare..R.I.P to you old fella and to all the others who perished that awful night 🙏🙏🙏🙏
The Titanic sank because people stole the mummy. The mummy is an alien reborn (an alien soul in a human body) who died during a human-made nuclear wipeout. Alien came to rescue the mummy to put it back into the Pyramid for healing. Flying saucer span above Titanic, Titanic followed the spinning. Titanic is too weak. As soon ask the flying saucer tried to pick up the mummy, the Titanic broke in half. It broke in half before hitting the iceberg. The iceberg was a coincidence. It blocked the water from passing through. It caused more friction and contributed to the disaster.
The Sphinx is an alien nuclear detector after Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. The Pyramids on Earth are emergency hospitals for lightly injured alien reborns (human body with alien soul) who died during the Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. Their souls were in fragments. Aliens recover the soul and put it into mummy. They brought alien skeleton mold. Because human-made nuclear wipe out was so catastrophic. Many alien reborns died. That is why there are so many Pyramids in Egypt. Heavily injured alien reborns were immediately brought back to alien planets for more advanced treatment.
guestbook.lingpai.org/d/30-move-the-himalayas-to-the-pacific-ocean-to-build-et-base-island
guestbook.lingpai.org/d/93-the-project-of-changing-heaven-and-earth
Talking about it helps I'm sure
@@ghostproxy11It's called showing a bit of empathy and humanity. Yes this is footage from 1979, but no need to be like that to people who want to express these views.
All its making you out to be is a horrible person.. soo think before you send.
To have a crystal clear memory of an event of your life that took place 67 years ago just shows the horrors of that event
He was 90 in 1979. So healthy, great memory, surprise to learn he died three years later.
He even has a full head of hair 😅
I think he wanted the nightmares to be over.
How could he ever forget?
I bet he wished that he didn’t have such a good memory. That poor man saw such unbelievable horror. 😔
HE saved her life and she saved his, what a lovely, brave,kind gentleman
I’ve always gotten goosebumps when he said “and she was sinking fast then” as he described climbing the sloping poop deck. He was probably one of the last men to still be physically on the Titanic up towards the final plunge and he still survived despite landing in that freezing water. Amazing
Damn man that’s the part that got me too when he said she was sinking fast then 😥🤦🏾♂️
@@derekduram4514For me, it was him saying that “everything moveable was crashing through her” (when it lifted up fast). Anyone on board must of suffered horrible trauma.
Sad when he said there were bodied everywhere
@@Sunflower00001 and the bodies were all men , talk about equality, we men still must fight for our rights even today.
@levent.a.7280 these days i think it's worse.
I love these old style interviews, the way people calmly took their time. Everything is so fast paced now.
Love them too! Hate how interviewers nowadays keep rushing and interrupting people.
Love the old ones too hun. These new skool interviews suck x
So detailed too. The way he tell it can make one envision themselves there.
My grandfather spoke the same way when we would ask him about his time in the war and the ship he was on was hit by a torpedo. Slow, calm Answers with Few words.
@mainlymusicman I love this! ❤️ although it was probably a traumatic story, fascinating the way its told
He said he went into the water around 2 AM, but if the propeller was already up in the air, it was likely almost 2:20 AM. That watch just about captured the very moment he went in the water.
This man was nearly 90 in this interview and looked so amazingly young and sharp. Truly a different breed his generation was
"You lie in bed at night, and the whole thing comes round again." Even decades after, it was still so vivid in his mind, he could see it so well, it was like he was reliving it over and over. The amount of ptsd you can see in his eyes, and hear in his voice. He carried all of this with him for the rest of his life with no treatment is unreal to fathom.
He suffered an unspeakable trauma.
A us navy fighter pilot had a conversation with a then 90 year old WW1 fighter pilot. “I bet you had nightmares from that experience.” “Oh yes”. “When was the last time?” Last night.
The last 10 seconds brought a lump to my throat, what a lovely gentleman.
I cried 😢
@@bassnbrass9272I pray your dad has peaceful nights rest from time to time 🙏🏾
@@redbone8844 so did i 😭😭🙏🙏
Men like this,classy and distinguished,are a forgotten breed now.
He tells his horrific story with so much grace and calmness. One incredible man. RIP Frank.
All those decades later and you can still see the pain and trauma in his eyes. I can't even begin to grasp what this man went through. He has my utmost respect.
English Gentleman in the truest state!
God Bless and R.I.P. 🙏
The poor man was probably never given any support in dealing with the ordeal he had gone through, and neither were probably any of the other survivors. For the women and children it would have been more socially acceptable to talk about it, but the men must have had to just stay calm and carry on. Can only imagine how hard such an experience must have weight on them all, throughout their lives.
None at all, he was straight away put to work on the RMS Oceanic and was onboard her when only weeks later they found lifeboat Collapsable A from the Titanic while on a voyage. Poor man must have felt haunted.
No such thing as counciling in those days or any compansation ! I was just researching the Titanics sister ship " The Olympic suffered from the same problem lack of life boats , so after the sinking of the Titanic they fitted out more life boats but second hand collapsible many werent even sea worthy had rotting canvas So the crew decided to go on strike White Star fixed the problem by replacing many of the crew !
Even decades later during WW2 > for merchant seaman as soon as the shipping company got word there ship had been sunk the seamans pay was imediatly stopped.. the survivors and the family's then had to rely on the red cross !
Imagine all the boys and men who came back from the wars. None of them had help either. It's very sad.
It was 1912 there was no help for stuff like this in those times
@@sheepsfoot2 that's a stone-cold employer there. That's awful, but unfortunately many companies conducted business just like that in that era & even before then. That's the way they did things. Horrible...& to have to go to red cross for charity.
6:27 damn that hit hard when he casually laughed off “have another nightmare”, but also at the same time it’s not like he’s trying to hide that it haunts him, and it’s so heavy in his eyes.
He’s haunted by that night but was from such a tough generation that he found a way through. Very touching to see and hear him talking about that faithful night. He’ll always be a hero for doing what he did.
*fateful
yes .. no help with PTSD in those days. No counselling. No group therapy. No support groups. Just "It's over now - get on with it !"
Cause he didnt have social media telling him to go to therapy and how he should feel bad forever lol. Yall let the internet tell you how to feel after certain incidents
@@booth2710 yes indeed. And a really good percentage of them did just that....they got on w/the business of life.
@@kimmuckenfuss2284 with Great difficulty and numerous health problems
It’s so crazy the clock froze at the exact same time they said the ship actually sank. It’s all so sad, Rest In Peace to all those that lost their lives from this tragedy and Rest In Peace to this beautiful soldier here.
I hope he got it authenticated and handed it down to his family cause it would be worth a pretty penny today
@@oneway4667yes but something like that is priceless
Imagine how much that watch would go for in auction given that not only did he have it during the time of the titanic sinking but it also froze at the time it happened and hasnt moved since. That is such a rare watch, bet it would sell for over a million or close to it.
@@Lysergic98 it wouldn’t surprise me and at the right auction I could see it going for much more if you get the right people bidding against each other
Did a bit of reading on Frank. The poor man was put straight back to work on RMS Oceanic and only weeks after the Titanic sank they came across lifeboat Collapsible A in the Atlantic with a few rotting bodies in it. Can't blame him for having nightmares.
The Titanic sank because people stole the mummy. The mummy is an alien reborn (an alien soul in a human body) who died during a human-made nuclear wipeout. Alien came to rescue the mummy to put it back into the Pyramid for healing. Flying saucer span above Titanic, Titanic followed the spinning. Titanic is too weak. As soon ask the flying saucer tried to pick up the mummy, the Titanic broke in half. It broke in half before hitting the iceberg. The iceberg was a coincidence. It blocked the water from passing through. It caused more friction and contributed to the disaster.
The Sphinx is an alien nuclear detector after Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. The Pyramids on Earth are emergency hospitals for lightly injured alien reborns (human body with alien soul) who died during the Earth’s human-made nuclear wipeout. Their souls were in fragments. Aliens recover the soul and put it into mummy. They brought alien skeleton mold. Because human-made nuclear wipe out was so catastrophic. Many alien reborns died. That is why there are so many Pyramids in Egypt. Heavily injured alien reborns were immediately brought back to alien planets for more advanced treatment.
guestbook.lingpai.org/d/30-move-the-himalayas-to-the-pacific-ocean-to-build-et-base-island
guestbook.lingpai.org/d/93-the-project-of-changing-heaven-and-earth
How would that happen?
@@westaussie965 collapsible boat soaking wet they die of hypothermia that night drift off in the Atlantic current few months later just bones an rags would be left
Jesus.. I've read EVERYTHING about 4/14/1912 and never heard about this man OR.. your commentary! It seems incomprehensible on the surface. How could one of the collapse able lifeboats survive the heavy seas that were reportable following the sinking? I'm gobsmacked..
@@christopherfritz3840 The seas during the sinking were not heavy, they were so calm you wouldnt notice an iceberg, as no waves were breaking over it.
I live in an age where this footage is avail on demand - mind blowing. I worked in a film archive in the late 80s and people from all over the world would come to have private viewings of footage like this or pay us to have it transferred (which was often more expensive than traveling).
This interview is amazing. What a feat of a life.
you are not wrong we live in age where for example no one is currently alive who was was alive before the year 1900 as a random example. and we can record and even experience things most humans in the 1800s might see once in a lifetime if they were super mega lucky and weathly or at the right place at the right time.
oh please share some more, that is so intriguing.
He is tearing up at the end of the video 😢
Carried himself with perfect dignity, R.I.P old timer
Im surprised he kept his composure so well for this interview. Can tell round 5:00 he really started reliving it. Terrible scenario beyond words to be in.
He was squirming like a toad. Poor man.
People back then were much better behaved than many today.
@@georgialee6755 Because they were forced to, mental health care wasn't a thing until really the late 1900s. If a man broke down or showed really any negative emotions they were ostracized, if women displayed "too much" emotion then they'd essentially be smacked around and considered to be having a manic episode.
It'd absolutely kill me to have to face Mrs. Clark after that. I think he had the right of it in convincing her to get to safety but of everything this guy went through I believe that's what would haunt me the most.
@@dragonace119 You can show emotion, at least in our societies, but don't let it overtake you to the point of breaking down. Mental health issues exist obviously, but the skyrocketing rates that are happening recently are mainly in the secular atheistic societies. Not believing in God has severe mental consequences.
111 years today.R.I.P all who perished 🙏🏻
To relay such a terrifying experience in such a soft and gentle voice.
Poor guy!
He lived through one of the most significant disaters in history. But he still has to see it all when he goes to sleep.
I hope you have found peace when you got to your destination.
His watch may have stopped, but you can almost feel his heart beat quicken as he recalls the horror of that fateful night to remember. The silence at the end is powerful and moving. There are no words needed. The fact that he is so honest and so down to earth only adds to the poignancy.
What a strong man. Mentally and physically. Pains me to see any older person going through any ordeal. He's clearly still fighting his memories. Hopefully he's resting well knowing he did all he could.
Don't need nothing like people today would be screening for a Disability Check for life.Then you see them playing golf and surfing fishing ect
Remember he was an early 20s young guy when it happened in 1912. This was filmed in 1979.
@@John-ct9zs also remember he served in the great war (obviously survived) and was decorated. he basically survived 2 lightning strikes.
Those last words he said about the thoughts and memories coming back in the night when he goes to sleep... Omg. R.I.P. to this brave and courageous gentleman. They don't make people like this anymore.
❤
From a generation who knew how to be brave and how to behave in a civilised way. I salute him.
Oh, yes.
Exactly! Unlike today where most people can’t handle much!
@@georgialee6755 This is the generation that gassed millions of jews, lynched black people and beat gays for being gay.
Didn’t World War One happen like a year or two after? Stupid comment haha.
not every shipwreck went down like the titanic. for every story of gentleman wearing their sunday best and going down with the ship there are stories of ships going down with men being the only ones to survive. want to take a guess how that played out? and to tell the truth you'd be a fool and a loser to give up your shot at survival for a woman you don't know or kids who are not your own.
Bless him, what a sweet guy. No doubt had PTSD, but not recognised then .
Frank’s watch really got to me,and when he talked about the woman wanting to know where her husband was , you could see he still had that helpless feeling in his eyes.
His experience was, somber and frightening.
I could sit for hours and listen to this man share more of his experiences while on the Titanic.
@@texassuxs WHATTTTTTTT
I have such respect for this man.
So sad this poor man went through during that horrible night. Thank goodness he survived to tell the story.
@@bernardmontgomery4924 You must have little idea what a great many are going through at this moment to so blithely label them as weak.
@@bernardmontgomery4924 You aren't seeing interviews from all the people that experienced horrible events like this and killed themselves or ended up in some asylum. To use an analogy: you might look at a 100-year-old house and think "Wow, they really built houses sturdily back then for it to last so long." But that isn't considering how many houses built a 100 years ago collapsed that you never got to see.
@@Trip_Fontaine People didn't just collapse without good reason like the snowflakes of today.
WIsh there were more gentlemen like Him, such a honest and real man to be back then and that I had come to meet him. He was a hero onboard. Rip, honor and glory to you, Sir Frank Prentice.
Lovely person.
Stoic. But his eyes, you can see the pain.
He is so polite - trying to keep the horrors he saw to himself.
Very moving. Quite extraordinary to hear someone describe that event as a real witness. Seeing the ship lift into the air, what a sight
He is long gone now may God rest him, but how terribly fascinating listening to his story a man who was actually on this famous boat and witnessed her going down with his every eyes, you can see the pain he has carried from it all them years later, I was hanging on his every word.
RIP Mr Prentice. I wish the world was full of men like you these days. This video makes me cry. Such a classy, honorable man. Surviving a horrible event like this, I don’t think he ever got over the pain.😢
There is but women don’t appreciate these days anymore
The screams would haunt you forever.
people back then were so much tougher.
I cannot believe he was 90 years old here that is crazy! He seems so much younger
You can see the heartbreak and grief in his eyes . I’m sure he is long passed now . I really enjoyed listening to his account on that horrific day . May god have mercy on him and let him rest truly and peacefully now .
Passed 41 years ago.
Yeah, it sounds like it stayed with him his whole life. He said he was stilling having nightmares. I guess everyone handles things differently. My Dad was shot and killed in front of me and died in my arms when I was a teenager, but I don't have nightmares about it. Everything is in God's hands is the way I look at it. As you know, we are all gonna go into eternity someday.
@@guncontrolisusingbothhands2331 Sorry that happened to you. You're a strong person.
@@Dallas_K 1982
@@guncontrolisusingbothhands2331wow. I’m so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine the trauma you must have went through
After all those years, you can still see the pain in his eye's when he talks about titanic.
What a delightful gentleman.
Truly fascinating, to hear the accounts of actual survivors. It almost brings the whole tragedy to life, as if it had happened just days ago.
What those poor souls must have experienced must have been utterly terrifying, not least because they were in the middle of a huge ocean, in the dead of night, bitterly cold temperatures, and no rescue vessels in sight. And once Titanic slipped beneath the surface, they would have been in almost complete darkness, except for the dim light of the stars. There was no moon that night, apparently, so no way of seeing anything around you, and hundreds of miles from the nearest shore.
Absolutely horrific to think about what must have been going through the minds of the 1200 or so souls who lost their lives.
R.I.P.
He clearly didn't realise it broke but described it pretty well without knowing.
He obviously couldn't see it being onboard.
poor buggers face at the end....something got to him.... ....nightmares and trauma....
probably all the wailing and screaming as the titanic broke in half and sunk.... R.I.P. to all of them.....
At 3:38 this moment he mentions shows the time when the ship broke into two close to the waterline of the sinking ship.
After all those years you still saw the pain and sadness in his eyes bless him and all the other survivors and those souls lost rest in eternal peace ❤
Old Brits of that era are the best.
Amazing …God bless him. That stopwatch … stopped at 2:20 am..holy moly😮
Awww Frank… Rest in peace
Such a stoic gentleman. It must have simply been horrific for the survivors. God bless you Frank and Rest In Peace.
You can see the pain in his eyes remembering that horror.
Idk why I'm in tears watching his interview!! 😭
What a gem of a man. In another interview, you can tell he was still very angry that this incident could haven happened. He blamed the captain and the desire to throttle ahead no matter what.
God Bless that man. He survived by luck. His interview is a piece of history. A first hand account of history.
Wow, amazing he spent 20+ minutes in the unfathomably cold water and still lived. What a great interview.
That's amazing...I believe the water around that time was -2 degrees Celsius.
4 hours he was in the water
@@reaceyNo that's not survivable. You have 5 minutes until paralysis and then you sink if you have no vest or freeze within 10-20 minutes. One guy was in longer but not fully, he had his body out of the water balancing on all fours on a table. So his core was out of the water. It's not know how long exactly Chief Baker Joughin was in the water but it was some time. He was picked up by the capsized Collapsible B under the command of the SO, Lightoller, who himself had been fished out.
@@reacey Would have been impossible to be 4 hours in that water, would have been impossible to survive much more than an hour. Lifeboat 4 returned immediately to rescue people after the Titanic sank.
@@lula4148 its well documented head chef charles joughin was in the water 2 hours so not impossible.
Bless his heart. I can't imagine living with those memories and the guilt and everything else that goes through a person's mind. I wish men like this were still around.
God bless you Frank Winnold Prentice, I couldnt help but cry, Im so sorry for what you went through all those years ago and I have deep respect for you and your bravery.
you should also well consider what he went thru in the great war just a few years later. the Titanic was a picnic, in comparison. If you look up the definition of the "greatest generation" in the dictionary, this chaps story and picture appear. just saying.
I really appreciate this man giving his account of what happened. It makes you feel as if you were right there with him. This is why I love interviews and documentaries. Bless this man. RIP
Just looking at this man, the old photos behind him and the way he carry’s himself is just a lost generation of a wonderful time to have lived. A time where effort was made, loyalty and love lasted. Heartbreaking and moving but I think this is the perfect example of stiff upper lip.
May god bless them all in their next journey.
Its crazy they wouldnt find the ship until 1985....
It's hard to see how his voice breaks at the end, 😢😢 I will be honest I cry every time I see this video
The look on his face at the very end of the video is both haunted and haunting
Thanks to these interviews, future generations will be able to understand the events of the Titanic. The last survivor died in 2009 and now there is nobody left to add anything more. Luckily what we have is on videotape and many of the interviewees gave compelling and intricate accounts from that night.
No, they will portray him as black in years to come.
Rest in peace Frank prentice you're a man that was way ahead of your time. Your descendents ought to be proud thanks you tube for the memories.
how sad and yet amazing he survived. such an elegant man
Mr. Prentice is telling us in his gracious way that he has lived haunted by that trauma and tormented by dreams all his life. "You lie in bed at night and the whole thing comes around again". This is chronic PTSD, but somehow that clinical label doesn't capture the injury done to one's spirit over the course of a lifetime, living with intrusive memories and survivor's guilt. This is a top man.
His description of the disaster is the best I’ve ever heard/seen. RIP to him and all the others
They don't make men like him anymore. A very remarkable and great man..
I was enraptured listening to Mr. Prentice. Truly a heroic gentleman. Our world certainly has a shortage of them. Thankfully there are still men like him…. Bless you, Mr. Prentice. I imagine your family is very proud of you.
The Titanic tragedy will never be forgotten…..
Omg his watch is still frozen at 2:20am. That gave me chills.
Just to think, them eyes saw everything!!
The last line is so chilling. Gave me goosebumps.
What an absolutely dignified man. RIP
Intelligent, brave hero. I hope he had a fulfilling life after surviving the tragedy, Rest in Paradise 🙏
He described what happened at collision and the damage that caused the sinking. Over the decades the “experts” dismissed professional witness accounts and came up with their own theories, until wreck was found .
A tear along the side, and the ship indeed broke in two
He even described the ship breaking in two in a way. He heard everything crashing through her at once, which was most likely the ship breaking apart, and he says it bobbed up and back down again
It wasn't a continues tear, she would have sunk in minutes it was a series of 6 gashes that pushed the overlapping hull plates apart by half to two inches depending where.
The entire surface area of the roughly 100 m long series of openings was 1.2 m^2. Same as a small door. But it was over 6 compartments. The last gash opened the last two. Without that she would have floated. Badly damaged but she would have offloaded the passengers and sailed into port for repairs. One gash did open compartment 5 (Boiler Room 6) but it was very small. If only that the pumps could have handled it.
At 21 knots it took approximately 300 milliseconds to make it.
So Titanic came within 1/3 of a second of making it. They very nearly avoided fatal damage. It's just unfortunate. Everything that could possibly go wrong did.
Even the radio broke the day before and the Marconi company instructed operators to not attempt repairs at sea but to have a technician come aboard in port.
Harold Bride and Jack Phillips went against the order of the Marconi Wireless Co. and repaired the radio at sea, since they had a huge backlog of private messages.
And so a day later the radio was fully operational and Carpathia could be raised. She almost blew her boilers racing to the site and dodged an iceberg but it was too late. Still found the boats 10 miles fro. Titanic's last position.
They fired rockets and the survivors lit flares and several hats and Carpathia found them. Quite close to death from the cold. I forget the number but at least a dozen died in the boats during the night and they only spent 4-5 h in the boats.
So with no one aware they would have died. Titanic gone, no one knows anything and weeks later dead people wash up in boats.
It would be the biggest mystery of all time and we would never have found her. We knew her position by 10 miles and it took until 1985 to find the wreck.
In the new 3d scan we can see a huge hole on the right side. What caused that?
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Yeah this is the hole I meant. The estimated speed for the bow is 35 mph and not 50. This is very slow and I can't see why it would create a hole of that size.
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4 lengthy paragraphs to convince me. Why you put so much effort?
THE TITANIC CONSPIRACY - THE GREAT DECEPTION [JOHN HAMER]
“And then she went down and seemed to come up again”
This is the first time I’ve heard Frank discuss what sounds like the moment the ship broke in two. I had seen another interview from a documentary where he did not discuss it and always wondered had he been under the impression that it didn’t happen. It appears that in the manner he described it, it can be implied that the break was certainly noticeable, but still was gentle and shallow enough an angle to not be very obvious to him at his vantage point. I had assumed he had left the ship before the break but now it would appear he was holding on the entire way through and then left after it began to rise up again.
My thoughts exactly
And this was in 1979, before the wreck was discovered in 1985, which confirmed the break up. Before then it was debatable. Very informative interview.
Plenty of survivors (I think I remember reading around 100 of them?) mentioned in their statements that the ship broke apart, but for some reason they weren't believed. A number of them changed their stories later on, I suppose when other people denied it they may have thought their mind was playing tricks on them due to everything else going on that night.
Another little detail to that was when he heard "everything crashing through the ship all at once." That most certainly was the moment the ship broke apart
@@JKPlastic oh that would make sense. I'm sure he could hear the furniture and such moving around too, especially after it shot up
The watch stopped 20 minutes after going dow. 🙏Rip sir. Most respect
RIP Sir..
the last of the era of Gentlemen..
This must be really scary to go to sleep and replay all the traumatic and scary experience all over again
He’s such a well spoken man, who dealt with a horrific situation that he just survived. He puts some of the people walking around today to shame. They are traumatised when their Starbucks is too cold.
PTSD is a hell of a thing. God bless him.
sad but beautiful.
we get to hear an interview from a survivor... and see the time his watch stopped on that night. just amazing
“And the whole thing comes ‘round again” And he handled himself so well!