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Titanic Basics: Crew
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2024
- Who makes up the Titanic's crew, and what is the duty of each other jobs? What do the jobs mean?
NOTE: Some of the photos of the officers are miss-identified, specifically the photo of Officer Wilde. Sorry about that!
Crew Discussed:
Captain
Commodore
Staff Captain
Chief Officer
First Officer
Second Officer
Third Officer
Fourth Officer
Fifth Officer
Sixth Officer
Quartermaster
Boatswain
Out of all the stories of the lives lost, I always get the most choked up when hearing about the electricians and engineers. I just find that part of the story to be so heroically tragic and beautiful. I hope they're given due respect in game and, knowing this team, I'm sure they will be.
Me too press F for respect
A woman praising men for sacrificing themselves, in the false belief that their lives held less value than the women on board. Hold my beer while I adequately express my shock and awe at the obvious gynocentrism. Men don't need to throw their lives away for the worthless praise of women. There's nothing respectful about your condescending pat on the head for their genuine (albeit misguided) sacrifice.
Same here!
@@udurSdj don't be ridiculous. They died to save EVERYONE on board and they did save a lot of people. They're heroes, end of story.
Bethany E - My late neighbour, Clement Ervine, lost his uncle Albert Ervine who was a "volt worker", ie an electrician. He was only 18. Clem had a letter and photo that was sent by his uncle Albert to his mother. It said don't worry about your boy going to sea. We have installed doors that will close if there is any damage to the ship. Clem's father, Albert's brother was on the construction crew that helped build the ship. I also knew the Mellingers, a mother and daughter who survived and eventually lived in Ontario, Canada. The daughter (her married name was Mann) died in the 70's and was predeceased by her mother. Both are buried close to where I live. The daughter Madeleine has Titanic survivor on her grave but the mother did not want that.
Though everyone regards Titanic as a blunder in technology, honestly she was marvel in her sinking. To not capsize during a sinking is nearly unheard of. To be illuminated until the very end and also the 2 hours and forty minute to finally sink out performed even Andrews expectations. Had Lightoller not ordered the port side gangway door open, I’m sure she would have lasted another half hour or a bit more. History doesn’t give Titanic the credit she deserves. She really put up a fight.
@@randomrazr It was a big door quite lower down in comparison to the rest of the ship. Anthony is totally right. I don't know too much about Titanic, but if she was designed not to capsize, I'm sure I would've heard about it, therefore she was not given any exceptional anti-capsizing measures but was lucky enough to stay upright. Titanic is such a weird mix of good and bad luck. Mostly bad though. Mostly bad.
Perfect!
TBH not even a single survivor mentioned any gangway door open on the Titanic during the sinking, especially survivors from lifeboat 6 which was lowered right in front of the door.
@@iknowyou389 Officer lightoller reported opening the doors, and I trust the H&G team in their assessment that the opening of those doors accelerated flooding.
The Britannic capsized so yeah it's interesting!
An interesting little fact about the crew is that one of the Trimmers was a young Irish Guy named Joseph Dawson, he perished in the sinking but is often mistaken for Jack Dawson from the Titanic film and lots of people leave flowers and gifts at his gravesite! :)
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All those flowers and gifts are because they think its Jack from Titanic smh. Its also the most visited grave among all the other graves of those who perished on the Titanic...
@@heatherchandler724 yep, when you think about it, it's kinda sad
And what’s funny is when people finished watching the movie they thought the J Dawson was jack dawson
@@stopzthegreat He is referring to people who don't know. It's true though, people do visit Joseph Dawson's grave actually thinking it to be Jack Dawson. He clearly states Joseph Dawson not Jack Sawson. So I dunno why you'd say "Don't you know that story of Jack and Rose is fictional..." because he didn't say it was anything but fictional but was referring to people who visit a grave marked J Dawson thinking it to be Jack Dawson. Andrew himself doesn't believe it, he is just referring to the large number of people who ignorantly do.
I love the way Tom Lynskey delivers, talking like a well-educated professor teaching or presenting to students, making a well-informed presentation. He could make a great documentary narrator :)
I imagine the Quartermasters survived because they were ordered to man the lifeboats.
VinnyS914 Quarter master Hitchings who was at the helm survived, but I think in the chaos of it all who ever the highest ranking officer at the scene chose who to accommodate that lifeboat, as trying to find a quartermaster might have wasted time
@@udurSdj It was 'Women AND Children First', not 'Women First'. The order was to get as many of the vulnerable off the ship as possible. Men, at the time, were considered hardier than women and children and thus why evacuation orders on ships tended to have women and children off FIRST.
@@udurSdj - You really have a problem with women don't you? I will repeat what I said elsewhere....more first class MEN survived than 3rd class CHILDREN who died. Children had their whole lives to lead but men came before them simply because they were rich. As well, women were let off in part because they were considered the primary care givers for the children.Why don't you bitch and whine about the many rich MEN who got off off? I suppose that doesn't fit your agenda. Your language is disgusting and shows your insecurity and lack of civility and intellect. :)
@@udurSdj - I will not respond further to someone who cannot be civil. How old are you, 16, 10?
I'm 69 and could be your mother or even grandmother. You should be ashamed calling anyone a "C***". It just indicates insecurity and ignorance. Now why not make fun of my age? Go for it. You have no power over me or my self esteem that I will not give you and I give you none. So much for being a "powerful" man. Grow up.
FYI - One first class child died.
FORTY NINE 3rd class children died. FIFTY FOUR 1st class MEN survived. - titanicfacts.net. First class men survived because they were rich. Any steerage children who could make it to a lifeboat did so by sheer luck. Many 2nd and 3rd class women also died and even a few voluntarily gave up their seats to children, younger women and even, in some cases, to men who were fathers so they could be with their children. I guess they were courageous weren't they? What would you or I have done? Nobody knows until in the circumstance. 39% of 1st class died compared to 76% of 3rd class.
As for the crew - First Officer Murdoch loaded his boats regardless of age, sex or class.
Unfortunately for the crew it was part of their duty to help passengers to safety first. This video is about the crew and their bravery and devotion to duty.
Sayonara :)
I see 2udur7 S7d83j3 has deleted his posts, hopefully due to the realization of how senseless and immature unnecessary vulgarity and insults are. Either that or they have been removed. Regardless, it's an improvement. Points can be made without being vile.
I love the community here, so intelligent, knowledgeable and caring. This is probably the only channel where I enjoy the video and comments equally! The Titanic is truly coming back to life, increasing with each video and game update. It’s great being (tiny) part of such a monumental, cool and important thing :-)
trust me, you wont find such a good comment section anywhere else
Rumor has it that the Titanic's wreck is only in such good condition today because the guarantee group still does their best to fix things that break. They were all in the bow section during the sinking though, hence the terrible state of the stern.
Mikosch2 I love this, only if they could help the stern.
Hopefully when we see her next summer that she is still holding strong, if so it helps give more time to help and preserve her, if anyone is willinh enough to help
Fingers crossed. Actually that is one of the things that shocked me the most during THG's Atlantic week recently. The state of the wreck. It's not THAT much older than the Titanic after all, and if her condition has anything to say about Titanic's future, we should all mentally prepare to lose her even sooner than we expected anyway. @@POOLIEY
@@Quasihamster Just remember that Atlantic sank in shallow waters with the tide beating it to pieces. Couple that with more oxygen-rich water, and that would explain why it rotted away so quickly.
@@jimmiles33 An example of that is the SS American Star
Strong currents on the shallow waters and more oxigen. Titanic lies at near 4 km depth and in this place there is almost no oxigen in water, so the wreck is not decaying so fast. In the other hand Britannic have 'living armor' of... corals! And they protect wreck even better than lack of oxigen. Sorry for grammars. @@Quasihamster
I feel so much for those crew who lost their lives to save the passengers and tried their best to keep running the Titanic during her final hours, God Rest Their Souls :(
Fun Fact! The early telegraph machines were sold in 3 versions with different ranges. The machines all used the same parts just how they were wired was what set the range! One telegraph operator noticed the machines were wired different for ranges not parts!
Phillips and Bride stayed up half of the night before fixing the equipment
Glad to see new content all the time.
What a great channel and project you have. Since I've been following your project I have become a big fan.
Thank you.
ranks:
Ordinary Seaman
Able Seaman
Deckhand
Quartermaster
Bosun/Boatswain
Master At Arms
Officer ranks:
Junior Officer
Senior Officer
High Command:
Chief Officer
Staff Captain
Captain
Commodore
*A piece of Titanic story I'm always proud of; My Auntie Tess in the Philippines used to run a Framing shop for 32 years and her late husband do the framing of photographs and paintings, they once had a client an old man asked them to frame some big old photographs of him when he was younger, standing next to a huge ship I don't remember what's the connection of the man with the ship but turned out it was the RMS Titanic behind the man.*
*Back in that time Captain always sunk with the ship as they are true to their Oath and Musicians play music till the end till they die (even in war) and to all we lost in the sea, we salute you. May you all rest in peace.*
My great great great uncle Harry Coe was a trimmer, seems amazing to be able to go and see exactly where he did his work, when I play the demo :)
What ship or ships did he work on?
@@Daniel_Huffman titanic, of course
Capt. Smith was a seasoned captain... that's why he had a salt-and-pepper beard
My great great gran Uncle was a quarter master on the Titanic. He lowered lifeboats. And was on one of the last life boats to get off before they started using the collapsible lifeboats.
Interesting that you mention the Trimmers were the least paid but they had one of the most important jobs on board.
Isn't that usually the case?
One of the most important jobs is the least paid?
@@florjanbrudar692 Shoving coal with a shovel isn't hard, nor requires any skill.
They themselves were not monitoring the “trim”
Engineering officers would have been responsible for that
@@florjanbrudar692 they weren’t the ones really monitoring the “trim”
Engineering officers were. The trimmers simply moved what and from where they were told
I think out of all the crewmen on the ship that night, William Murdoch is the most interesting to me. Maybe because he was on duty when the berg hit, maybe because of the nature of the starboard evacuation. Most likely though, it’s because of the mystery surrounding his death.
ethan hatcher - Most likely it is because he saved 75% of those rescued by loading his lifeboats quickly and with no regard for sex, age or social class. First class was no more important to him than saving lives. He was also an excellent mariner from a long line of seamen who did the right thing in trying to avoid the iceberg but no one had encountered such a catastrophe with a ship that big and what would have worked with a smaller ship did not work. It was too large to turn in time. It is also very likely false, according to testimony at the time, that he shot anyone, including himself and witnesses said he was washed off the ship while trying to free the last collapsible, doing his duty to the end. James Cameron apologized to his family for portraying him as shooting himself or anyone else.
@@susieq9801 Hi Susie you seem to know a lot about this vessels history. I have a question in the movie Titanic why do they have Murdoch shoot the passenger then himself ? I doubt he killed anyone did he shoot himself or parish in the ice waters like all the rest would love to know ?
@@littlejimmy8744 - That was for drama based on a claim at the time that "someone" fired shots and an officer "might have shot himself". I suppose he randomly used Murdoch because he was a prominent character. Second Officer Lightholler testified at the inquiry that Murdoch was washed off the deck trying to free the last collapsible and his body was never found. No bodies were found with a gunshot wound so it could never be certain that he or anyone was shot. Of course there would have been massive confusion that night. Survivor Ruth Becker testified that Officer Lowe tried to stop a stampede by firing two shots down the side of the ship as his lifeboat was lowered but it was never proved that any person was shot..
My interest began when I was nine (I'm 69) when Elizabeth and Madeleine Mellinger, a mother and daughter, lived in my town in Ontario Canada. They were in Lowe's lifeboat that went back for survivors and pulled out Lightholler. Elizabeth, the mother, gave him her cape to keep warm and he gave her his officer's whistle which Madeleine donated to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich when she died. Both are buried near where I live in Stevensville, Ontario. The mother did not like to talk about it but the daughter attended some reunions. Another neighbour Clement Ervine's father helped build the ship in Belfast and he lost his uncle Albert, an electrician, who was 18 years old at the time. James Cameron, who made the movie, was from nearby Chippewa, Ontario and used to go to school with my cousin. Several coincidences. Cheers.
@@susieq9801 I got into the Titanic at age 6 or 7 i can't remember now I'm 16. But i have not been reaching it for years as I'm into WW2 now but i found this channel and I'm returning to my old interests. I live in Toronto Canada so maybe when i have enough money ill go visit these museums.
@@littlejimmy8744 - The woman I spoke of lived in Toronto for a while. Her married name was Madeleine Mann. I'm in Fort Erie so we're practically neighbours! If you want to see a contemporary of Titanic built in 1908 and the last surviving Edwardian era packet steamer, go to Port McNichol outside of Midland and see the Keewatin. It was built in Glasgow but did cruises in the Great Lakes until the 1960's. Although much smaller, you can get an idea of what the Titanic looked like but in miniature....and of course not nearly as luxurious. They are restoring it and you can tour it. It was built of overlapping plates riveted together like Titanic but when it got to the old Welland Canal it was too big to fit so they took out some rivets to separate the plates and disassembled it in the middle and rejoined it in Buffalo. You can find photos of it on line.
PS - A Night to Remember is probably a more complete movie about the Titanic disaster and it's on You Tube.
Wonder how many people would do today what her engineers did then, to willingly sacrifice their own life's in the hole that those above could be saved. What many people don't consider is the men in the boiler rooms, who has to keep feeding the boilers to keep steam up, right till the end, while at the same time trying to cool others to prevent them exploding. It's beyond comprehension.
2:25 Whoops. Made an innocent mistake there. I know that photo, its from 1911 and its of a few of the officers on the Olympic's bridge. But thats not Wilde, the man to left with the mustache is Wilde. Like I said, innocent mistake. These things happen, even I make innocent mistakes so its not a big deal. Still a great video anyway. I really love how we all learn something new everyday. Keep up the good work guys!
Shoot- it’s so easy for these to slip by! Thanks for catching
The officer with the mustache does have 3 sleeve stripes, but Wasn't Wilde a few inches taller than E.J. Smith? This officer appears to be somewhat shorter.
The officer with the moustache is Chief Officer Jo. Evans. he served on the Olympic.
That's correct- Smith was about 5'8 while Wilde was 6'1 (making him the tallest officer on the Titanic).
I work at a shipyard that builds massive cruise ships. By massive, I mean the biggest in the world. Each ship bigger than the previous one. It is amazing to see how they managed to put so much in to a *small ship* like titanic, and how many people they had on it. When I consider that they made the damn thing out of rivets and had steam engines.
But to build a ship like that. Materials and technology might have changed, but one thing will never change. You need people. Lots of people. I think the yard I am at has up-to 5000 people in it daily. This is yard's staff, sub-contractors, the whole lot. And the whole "cluster" of sea tech, 40.000 people daily.
And managing it all is a chore and difficult even with all the tech we have now, So I can't even imagine the logistical clusterfuck that it was back in the day.
Very interesting point of view, thanks of sharing!
I have always had a fascination with the engineering crew being a mechanic (hardly worth the title of "engineer") myself. I can only imagine the amount of profanity that was uttered as the ship sank. "Well boys, looks like those inexperienced suits got us into one f&$% of a pickle this time. Go see what you can do to keep this 'ol gal afloat. Goddamn pencil-pushin' desk jockeys..." If any of the crew knew the real score, it was the engineering department.
hopper1 having been through a grounding caused by deck officer incompetence, I can confirm that sounds about right!
2:33 Hey! I know that guy!
William Murdoch Wh- Wh- !!!!
Murdoch you survived the titanic
Hes my Idol
HEY ITS MURDOCH
@@DukeofWellington677 No, he didn't.
A very informative video which has been nicely put together. Just a small point, the Titanic’s bandsmen were eight in number, not nine. They played on board as a quintet and a trio.
Wow so many crew-man on the Titanic and it was amazing how they were able to keep the power on during the sinking.
The young lad with the gray hat in 8:38 is Georges Krins (left of Hartley) and was one of the 27 Belgians on board the Titanic. Only 7 survived. He was 23 years old, from Luik (Liege).
He knows the names of all deck guys till even 6 th officer, but no detail mention of ships second engineer, third engineer and other engineer s apart from chief engineer.
Nice video. The animation showing the boilers is missing the grate bars. Each of the furnaces in the boilers would have a grate dividing the furnace in half. The coal would be placed on top of the grate thru the small door. The opening for the bottom half would have a door that could be opened for removal of ashes and may have been provided with an arrangement for propping it open in varying amounts, so it could be used as a damper, or it was provided with separate damper openings. Firing the boilers was a continuous process, and the ashes would need frequent removal. When not actually adding coal, the small doors would be kept shut to prevent cool air entering above the fire. Air would be drawn thru the damper and then thru the grate and fire, this provides air for the fire and the cool air keeps the grate from overheating.
The crew did well that night. Many of them are heroes to this day.
Love how you used the footage of the 1903 "Great Train Robbery" in describing the Master at Arms. Good stuff!
She was a tough girl...so sad to see her back snapped
Fantastic and amazing use of Unreal Engine 4's engine to point out areas!
Thank you for sharing. This is so interesting. All these brave men, knowing they would die. The band kept on playing. I just cry, it's all so sad. RIP Titanic brave staff, and passengers. My heart breaks for you. ❤
Excellent pedagocical video, we comprehend much better the history of the RMS Titanic.
I remember getting invited to have dinner with the captain on our last cruise. I got to sit next to him and it did feel like an honor, but mostly I’m a nerd and had to hold back from how many questions I asked about all the workings of the ship and his job 😆
I'm late to the party but very glad to have discovered you. Really enjoyed this video.
Poor WSL Second Officer Cater....he's always misidentified as Lightoller. 2:42.
You guys are some of the greatest in the Maritime history community, god speed!
Very illuminating. Thanks guys!
Thank you guys so much for making these videos (and also especially the Live Q&A) and providing us with these fascinating pieces of information, and to learn more and more about all things Titanic every week.
You guys work so hard! It’s amazing. I can’t wait for Honor and Glory’s release!
Anyone notice how the real Harold Bride looks a lot like the Jack Phillips from the 1997 movie?
The same can be said about how the real Jack Phillips looks like the 1997 version of Harold Bride.
I wonder if that was a mistake by the James Cameron and the filming staff.
Btw: I love what you guys do with the channel, Tom. Keep giving the legend of Titanic life.
I keep saying the guy who played Phillips looked nothing like him. I almost thought it was just because I found Phillips good looking.
A wealth of great information. I did not know many of the facts about the crew. I does say much about their high loss in the attempt to keep the ship alive to the very last minute. Sometimes it is very difficult to find factual information on topics about all of the ships of the White Star Line. And I must admit it was first learning about the Titanic many years ago that started my life long fascination of these great ships. Your channel has been very helpful.
I am a titanic lover so every time you post a video i watch it till the end. Keep up the good work
Very interesting, thank you for this. Do you think you guys could do a video about the Officers? Which ones were where during the collision? Were in charge of what at the time, did what during the sinking, which ones survived?
Excellent explanation of the crew aboard a liner!
I finally payback the team for their work. Thank's to all of you guys. The "Crew" of Titanic Honor and Glory, deserve that money.
Fascinating insights. I particularly appreciated the colour highlighted ship components; t/y. And the length-wise blueprints as well.
Great video. One observation: you need to update your officers'pictures. Some of the pictures are from the Olympic's deseck officers. The ones who aee incorrectly identified are Wilde, Lightoller and Moody. Sorry to nitpick.
Great information and love the footage too. The crew were heroes.
There's so much information on Titanic today than ever before for film producers to produce a more realistic & advanced version of all Titanic movies so far.
Because of least audience in cinema today, producers may require public & private donation support to accomplish the task as good as possible. I hope they produce another landmark movie to honour Titanic again.
Jack Philips was the wireless operator on the titanic and when they were sinking he kept sending CQD and SOS signals until the electricity went out and once it went off he decided to go to the deck but the water was too high and he drank a bottle of alcohol until he drowned in the wireless room
This was very informative good job.
This is wonderfully done, I enjoy your channel so much. Thank you for all the hard work you guys do! 🚢
Just a little comment, "Master" rather than "Captain" would have been the title most used by the crew and owners when referring to the commander of a British merchant vessel as indeed is the case today and Smith would have signed himself as such. When directly addressing him however the term "Captain" would be used.
How did things change on Olympic after her conversion to oil burning? I imagine the roles of fireman and trimmer became largely redundant but were there new roles created to replace them?
Finally a new Titanic Basic video, I've been waiting for this one 😆😆
You missed out the ships carpenter. Excellent video nonetheless.
Very good video, but here’s just a little tip, next time you make your b&w parts, add some grain, lower the frame rate and speed it up to make it look like old film
Lots of good info! It’s kind of interesting/odd to see clips of your game edited to look old.
Thank you. This was done so well, and with dignity.
Great video really enjoyed this found this channel just minute ago I’ve always been very interested in the titanic since I was little girl so I just sub to your channel thankyou for put this on here
Looks at you pulls out gun bang!!!
What an amazing beautiful video! Thank you so much!
There are some errors indeed: at 1:39 the Officer is Capt.Turner from rms Lusitania,not a Staff Captain.At 2:19 ,lto r.Murdoch, Chief Officer Joe Evans.4th Officer W.Alexander,Capt.Smith.The picture at 4:09 shows Rms Olympic Staff on may 28th 1911.I must add that no engine Officers are discussed,and that's a pity.They all perished in the tragedy and are seldom mentioned. In Southampton there's a Memorial to those brave men.
Paolo Piccardo was thanks for pointing that out, according to the description they are aware of the errors
This is great stuff! Thank you for the insight! As usual great job!
Captain Smith should've ordered Thomas Andrews into a lifeboat (At gunpoint if needed) because he knew that there'd be an enquiry into the Titanic's sinking and his testimony would've been critical.
J. Bruce Ismay was seemingly ordered into Collapsible C by Chief Officer Wilde for these very reasons. Also, if anyone was to force Andrews into a lifeboat at gunpoint, it wouldn’t be Smith, as there’s evidence to suggest that he had never handled a firearm in his life.
That's Captain William Turner of Cunard's Lusitania at 1:40.
Tank'you a lot: very interesting. Your 3D model is awesome! Can't wait for the game!
Fascinating and informative, thank you.
You know, I always remember the real time sinking live stream and how Tom said that Pitman didn't wake up Lowe and that it was a crewman banging his elbow into Lowe's window that woke him up. Could you imagine what would have happened if that didn't happen? Could you imagine if that crewman didn't bang his elbow into Lowe's window?
He'd be more than likely dead.
They also more than likely would’ve woke him up eventually anyways.
@@mackmitchell94 I don't think so. Because nobody realized Lowe was still asleep as far as I'm aware. In fact, after the collision Third Officer Pitman was ordered to wake the other officers, and he deliberately avoided awaking Lowe. It wasn't until Lowe actually got out of bed and went onto the boat deck that Murdoch realized Lowe wasn't woken up.
@@TheCAFProduction he didn't liked Lowe right!?
My Grandfather served under Capt Smith, on his previous boat.
I didnt know I was on the Honor and Glory channel until i rechecked the video lol
Please do one on the deck flares
Boxhall kinda looks like david tennant and lowe kinda looks like tim curry
Great job on the crew. I hope you will consider doing a Titanic University set on the radio operators and their equipment. Over the ocean airliners from the Thirties up to the mid Fifties carried a radio operator, many of the early hires were from shipping companies and contractors. Even after WWII this professional sent and received Morse on a key very much like those on the Titanic. My father had to get a third class radio operators license when he got his Captain's rating on being hired by Pan American. The requirement was to send 10 words a minute. It was not easy. He said he thought he passed because the inspectors felt sorry for him.
It was said if the porstside gangway door stayed shut the Titanic would have survived
Very Informative, keep up the good work guys!!!
We need more videos like this love the video.
2.26 that's not Henry Wilde it is Joseph Boxsall
Y’alls end card said October 2018
Just thought I’d point that out. :)
It´s a question of how many passengers and how many crew members are planned. The size of the ship is secondary. On a modern cruise ship you have about 2000 passengers and 800 crew members. That means that the service is mediocre. But on exquisite cruise ships you´d find for example 200 passengers and 300 crew members. Then you can expect a real good service - for a lot of money of course.
Henry Wilde almost a captain??? I hardly think so. He hardly had anything to say about the evacuation, Murdoch did one side and Lightoller did another.
The only thing that showed him of higher rank was the fact he answered Lightoller's question to begin lowering with 'No" up to three times.
Watch HEROES OF THE TITANIC ... the story of people below deck.
According to some sources the surviving Titanic officers were heavily grilled and scrutinize in the US inquiry. Add to that they also had a hard time to regain their careers from the scandal of the Titanic disaster especially Charles Lightoller who was said to never regain his career in merchant ocenliners after the disaster and the reports of his actions of misinterpreting the Captain's orders of Women and childrens first into women and children only.
The photo used at 2:32 is actually of the Olympic's officers, not Titanics. Charles Lightoller isn't in that picture, so the picture used for Lightoller at 2:34 is incorrect as well.
Yay new vid but at the worst time for me my I got the notification just as my school starting bell rang lol I'll watch it later
great detail some gave their lives.
David Blair (1874-1955) was originally the second officer (i.e. third in command) of the "Titanic", BUT Chief Officer Henry Wilde's appointment meant the ship suddenly had an officer too many. Thus White Star Line decided to let Blair stay behind during the first journey, while "bumping down" Murdoch and Lightoller to second and third officer, for the time being. He issue would be resolved in New York,
Blair was very disasppointed to miss this maiden journey. Blair was left behind in Southampton, for now, and when he disembarked in haste, he accidentally kept the key to a storage locker containing the binoculars for the lookouts. The absence of any binoculars within the crow's nest is believed to be one of the main contributory factors in the Titanic’s ultimate demise.Lookout Frederick Fleet was the first to spot the iceberg and raise the alarm.
During the later investigation he testified that had he and the other lookout had biinoculars, the ship would have had " time enough to get out the way!" Blair is not to blame at all though, as they locker with binoculars should just have been forced open.
Wow, the mistakes are plenty in this one. 1. David Blaire didn’t died in 1912 he died in 1955. 2. Murdoch and Lightoller were bumped to first and second officer not second to third. 3. It has been debunked for 108 years that binoculars would’ve helped. You don’t look for objects with binoculars, you use your naked eye first.
To correct the video….the chief officer didn’t have exclusive access to Titanic’s weapons. The firearms were the first officer’s job. That’s why Wilde went to Lightoller for the guns during the sinking. Lightoller was the original first offer so he knew here they were.
@@mr.balloffur Yes, David Blair lived 1874-1955. That is correct. Thanks for correcting that.
But it Fleet's testimony that the binoculats would have helped enough to "get out the way" is true. If he was right? Maybe not.
I've been in the Navy and been a lookout. As such you swich between looking with the naked eye and the binoculars all the time.
@@robynn144 Fleet was trying to save his own butt because he didn't see the iceberg. Fleet knows just as much as you (if you were in the Navy) that you don't look for objects with binoculars, you see them with the naked eye first and then raise the binoculars to identify. As Lightoller mentioned in his testimony, it wasn't the lookout's job to identify anyting, they were to notify the bridge immediately. Binoculars at night in 1912 were practically useless. Most of the captains that both inquiries said they'd never allow their lookouts to even use them.
2:20 That's Tony Blair by the way 😶, the Second Officer that got replaced as the others dropped in rank when Wilde came aboard
*David.
In my class we are learning the titanic and guess what I am
Sidney Holloway assistant clothes presser 3rd class
AND I NEVER GET MENTIONED IN VIDEOS REEEEEEE
What's the music playing in the background?
A piano!
Honor and glory... 535 passenger saved and 210 crew... how many women and children died?
This was great!
Rip Edward John Smith
Compare and contrast the crew of Titanic with the Captain of the Costa Concordia, Schettino who caused the sinking and was first off the ship and refused to return to his post despite the very stern orders of the Italian CoastGuard.
Is a "lamp trimmer" the same as a trimmer? And what was the job of the ship's carpenter on a steel ship?
I use these videos to get to sleep. They're so interesting, don't get me wrong, but .... his voice..... Try to sound more enthousiastic next time.
Well done, thank you so very much!
You know the rest of these crews of Titanic.
I love these videos.