Titanic Original Survivors Interviews from 1956 & 1970 *Must See*
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- BBC Archive - OnThisDay 1956: Two survivors of the Titanic disaster told their incredible stories of being saved from the sinking ship.
BBC Archive - OnthisDay 1979: Frank Prentice, an assistant purser on the Titanic, described how he survived the sinking of the ship.
The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New Your City. There were 1,514 people that drowned in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. "The Unsinkable Titanic" sunk and today the story lives on in fans of those who love this great ship and it's history.
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Lilian Asplund lived a long life, was old enough at age 5 to have real memories of the Titanic sinking. Imagine going from the Titanic sinking, witnessing two world wars, witnessing the moon landing and witnessing 9/11? That's a lot in 100 years.
Not to mention the fall of the Berlin wall and the fall of the Soviet union
Too bad she missed the amazing piece of history called COVID
I think you guys haven't seen the lady survivor interview who was 8 months old on the titanic ....
Did you just skip both world wars?
@@keepitup5766 why?, it was a turning point in history just like ww1 & 2.. so why be pissed about 9-11 and not ww1 and 2?, ww2 especially where millions upon millions lost their lives.
"You lie in bed at night, and the whole thing comes round again." What a perfect description of trauma.
OMG yes. I have experienced enough trauma in my life to relate to that. What a perfect description.
The past never leaves you, to lesser and greater degrees of course.
I live the pain of my past everyday
PTSD before they had a real name for it. Doesn’t matter how much therapy you get. Your body and mind will remember in your most vulnerable state (sleeping).
Subtitles for the the person I can most understand 😂
So so sad to go that long still having the nightmare..not ever healed if it. Oh if only he found the Lord as his Daviour & Lord who he acknowledged as 'saved by the grace of God' in one interview.
The way he saved the young womans life by getting her on the lifeboat and then for her to return the favour later by keeping him warm with her cloak is truly poetic.
Life is larger than Life 🪽⛲️
This sound like for a movie
She lost her husband most likely. Just recently married.
Well it sucked that most men were not allowed to get on the lifeboats but I guess by the time this last one came around there was no chance of really saving anyone else so they saved him… I think of the agony they had go trough to leave their love ones and family behind knowing they probably never see them again…😢
@@lyndieskurry2379 i think men werent allowed on lifeboats because they kept trampling over children and women rushing to get saved first thats what i heard
The elderly man who spoke distinctly and clearly ( beautiful English ) was the best storyteller . RIP all Titanic passangers
Passengers*
Also- one doesn't need to space in parentheses. (Beautiful English).
@@user-il6sp8os7b you guys are bunch of tight asses
With no more titanic survivors left in the world, these interviews will be replayed for years to come!
This makes me so sad I’m only 21 and learning about titanic in school as a child & then watching the movie I always wanted to know each persons story on that ship I never want to forget these people existed
Brilliant observation…
in 100 years people will be watching interview with 9/11 surviviors
I’m right here as one of Em
The second lady of the interview was handed a baby, that baby was Eliza Gladys Dean; the last surviving passenger of the titanic. Eliza was only 2 months old and the youngest on board the entire ship. She died 31st of may 2009 age 97.
That old man nearly died in the sinking. He actually went down with the ship and was in the freezing water. By pure luck a lifeboat that had room for him passed by him and pulled him on board. I believe there was only a total of 6 survivors rescued from the water after Titanic went under. He was one of them. Absolutely incredible.
What? I'm pretty sure there's more survivors
@@ItsFerdiNah only a handful of people survived more than a few minutes in the water. I believe one boat recovered 3 and two other boats 1 and 2 a piece.
@@ItsFerdiNah about 706.
@@meorjibatheanimeotaku2651 Yeah! 6 is nothing compared to that number
They also saved Rose
You can tell that the old man has PTSD. He looks like he's right back there still reliving it all those years later. It was very brave of him to give this account for history.
They didn't psychologise so much back then...
@@VingulJust because they didn’t talk about mental illness doesn’t mean they weren’t mentally ill. Nightmares reliving a traumatic event is literally a symptom of ptsd and he alludes that it happens often.
@@Vingul no they just bottled it and didn't show emotion as that was expected of men. INSIDE he was suffering like any human in that situation. Please try and use your brain just a little bit
@@sallyj3552 LOL, is what I said wrong? Is it?
@@Vingulyes
Good God. That 3rd interview! With the man. Staying on the Titanic till the very last moment when it already was half sunken. Nearly frozen to death in the water after he had jumped, and by a miracle getting to sit in a lifeboat right next to the woman who's life he had just saved.
Very few people have such an unthinkable experience. So impressive.
There is a special place in heaven for those musicians who played till the end. They knew what that would mean for them but still tried to use their craft to help calm a terrifying situation. I think about them every time I see or hear something about Titanic.
Being on a sinking ship is no time to be calm. It's a time when you need to figure out what floats that can carry you.
@@samcarter2371 - Yes, agreed.
They acted so bizarre... 😕
Other testimonies say that they didn’t actually play music as the ship sank.
@@stephensniff They definitely played as the ship sank, but the debate is whether they played till the very end. There’s conflicting accounts on whether they did.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 nope. Other survivors have said that they played on the ship for a little while but not to the end and not as it went down. They have ALL said that is insane to think they would have and that it would have been possible for them to.
The old man broke my heart... a distinguished Brit, in a time were you weren't able to show too much emotion as a man, no matter how gruesome it may be. You can literally see hem tearing up when the interviewer asks him if he has a hard time talking about it. I did too.
He saved her life. Such an amazing gentleman.
“Talking about it? I should probably dream about it tonight…have another nightmare.” His face after saying that… That gave me chills. I can’t imagine the horror.
Yeah, it's called courage, buddy
I think he changed his story to look like a hero. What a dramatic fall to the ocean he tells... then lucky to find a lifeboat. He most likely jumped in a lifeboat right at start....but that makes him look bad.
You never know he could have killed someone to survive. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them used live people to float once they hit the water.
His description of holding onto a piece of the ship as it rose high into the air and then couldn't hold on any longer and thought "I guess I'll go (die) now" and let go, and then hit no part of the ship, missing the gigantic rudder and both screws, or anything in the water on his way down is a miracle. Just an absolute miracle. I cannot fathom what that long harrowing fall, in absolute darkness, must have been like.
😢😢
@@dreamchaser2003Not to mention, then after the fall coming across a life boat, the same one with Mrs. Clark
this is literally how Gods works. What a beautiful yet sad reminder.
And then he pulls out the watch and says I suspect it froze up as I had . Crazy. And his well that's that I've done all I can do to help others I suppose I'll go in now, chilling
@@MB-gd6be yes and in his frozen state to have the wits to still keep her at ease by saying I'm sure he's fine in another boat Mrs Clark knowing full well he's probably in the drink with most of the other men. Makes ya wonder what happened to Mr Clark and Mrs Clark also .
12:09 that was truly extraordinary. Not only his story was really moving (I saved her, she saved me) but having a clock frozen at that exact time is breathtaking
It should be in a museum somewhere
It was good karma for what he did for her and to only be next to her again on the boat is amazing
Is not , because if you look he seemed very anxious ,and looked like he tried to move the clock hour when he kept the clock in hand ,i think without his own knowleage bue stress.
@@earthgoddesssubliminals985 I feel bad for her husband.
@@edub9930I’m sure it is, or it’s a highly treasured family heirloom. I know if it was it my family, I’d be sure to keep it handed down
It’s 2022 and just listening to them. Especially the man talking about how he still had nightmares. Absolutely traumatizing and heartbreaking.
Fr
It will come out in disclosures soon and those in the patriot/truth community know this, but it wasn't an ice berg. JP Morgan (banker) wanted the Astor millionaire dead and there was a bomb on board. JP Morgan was cabal/illuminati/deep state/globalist elite - and you will know what I mean by that very soon.
Amazing
ys
When after while he learn that boats were for women and children only.
This is why the highest respect should be shown towards the elderly. We do not know what life they have experienced....they were once young and free spirited and have survived disasters like this, still showing grace and empathy years later.
they has a lot less than we did. They just had to get on with it !!
Agreed ❤
Imagine walking past him & having no idea what he had seen, nay, lived!
Yes and no , most of them are racists
@@joycegibbs5267 Now they have a lot more than we do, younger generations will never afford a home and countries are going through rental crisis
I was always wondering why there were so many people reluctant to go on lifeboats but instead went back to their rooms, but I starting to really feel it now. Imagine you don't feel anything when it hit the iceberg, you are in a comfy warm room that you've been enjoying for 4 days and in the middle of the night they ask you to go out in the freezing cold on a tiny boat for almost no reason. The lights are still on, the room still warm, the bar is still open, the music still plays in the common spaces, the sea is calm and weather is clear, what could be even wrong?
If i were there, I am pretty sure I would have waited a long time until I see something was really wrong before deciding to go.
Even if you were in the first lifeboat, the reassuring feeling of safety wouldn't have hit until the very last few minutes when the Titanic broke in half and everyone fell into the water. Basically you'd be sitting on a tiny boat for 1-2hours in the dark, freezing your arse off without much food, supplies or space to move around and only thinking of going back to the ship for a whole hour until the last minute where you are glad you didn't
It was dumb they shoulda got on boat to survive stfuuuuuuuuuuu
food is the last they were thinking
True
Well if you are in the middle of nowhere you should follow the instructions at least.
Same Jean. ❤
The musicians deserve a posthumous award for sacrificing their lives in order to try and keep people calm. It breaks my heart when I watch the film and see them.
Fascinating to hear these first hand accounts.
There is different forms of heroism, what the musicians did to try and calm the passengers is nothing short of amazing. Fascinating interviews
Hello Elaine, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
I agree.
In response to your comment on the musicians on the Titanic, were you aware that their uniforms had been given to them on credit? After the shop didn't receive their promised payments they billed the widows and the families of the musicians. It took a while but eventually the shop retracted their demand for restitution. Accounts only see numbers and seldom see the whole picture.
@@nschlaak yes I was aware of this as it was on a UK documentary a couple of years ago. Humans never cease to disgust me at the treatment of others and their suffering. I wish more people had empathy and understanding and then the world might be a better place,
It’s crazy what Frank Prentice went through. He was on the stern of the ship as she went down during her final plunge. He went into that horrifically cold water. And he survived. An amazing man
Yyy
I must say my Danish grandmother missed taking the Titanic when it sank on MY birthday (April 1953) and their ship passed over where the Titanic sunk a few days later. If she had been on the ship, none of us would be here, y kids and grandkids, my sister and her family!
And a great war veteran too. Badass as it gets.
I thought that the Director Cameron's version of Titanic where they jumped off the stern was pure Hollywood fiction. To think of someone actually living that experience....horrifying.
Yes,I do think Mrs Clark saved his life with her coat
Pretty understandable why he has some fairly stark PTSD from that experience.
Man, the 1910's were one of the darkest decades in history! There was the Titanic tragedy in 1912, then World War 1 from 1914-18, then the extremely deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19! So many historic but horrific events in the span of 10 years!
And yet everyone thinks the 2020s have been bad
@@kellogscornflakes2430 the 2020s have only just begun. Let's hope this decade is not as dark as the 1910's but we have no way of knowing yet
2001 also bad..
thanks, you just taught me something i didn't know!! i've never learned anything about the 1910s.. maybe it's time
Very good point
The last Gentleman has a rather amazing story. He helped a lady onto a lifeboat, and then later she reached out to help him when he went overboard.
That man's tale of what he went through was the most authentic of anything I've ever heard of what actually happened. My heart breaks for him ,he could never get over it.Totally incredible 💔
I agree
Survivors guilt.
He had the survivor count wrong. Understandable do to the trauma.
R.I.P. Frank Winnold Prentice (1889-1982)
May God be with you 🙏
That man, F.W. Prentice, is incredible. To recount such a traumatic event as calmly and as eloquently as he did in this interview. To say nothing of his heroic actions during the actual disaster - carrying out his duties with stoic professionalism - amazing. A true hero.
The First Lady speaking is incredibly dumb.
Poor man he had ptsd for the rest of his life....waking up probably screaming trying to save people in his sleep
Such a fine and poised gentleman
I’ve watched every interview I could find of his on CZcams. He seemed like such a genuinely nice and caring person. I felt so bad when he said he’ll probably have another nightmare later that night after recounting the story.
He was younger then.
Just an outstanding and regal Englishman recounting his experience with clarity and humility
The last interview with Frank Winnold Prentice was compelling. I watched it twice. Some of the comments were way off base and defamatory. This is a rare gentleman who did his best and wound up surviving a tragedy. He went on to serve on other ships. He was highly regarded within the “titanic society” of survivors. He was a a humble hero.
❤this channel should have given this mans name- it’s a shame we see these interviews without their names, it’s a sign of respect to know their names. Thank you for saying who he was
God bless him
That man at the end so visibly haunted all those years later, so sad.
Hi 👋 how are you doing?
The last gentleman moved me literally to tears. I usually don’t get too emotional while hearing things like this, but it was too real. The fact that decades after the sinking he’s still being haunted by nightmares says a lot about the horror of that night.
The man who said "for gods sakes let the women out"....bless his heart 🙏 whoever he was
In 2023...
What's a woman?
@@TheSaintFrenzy An animal species that went extinct last decade.
@@goldman77700fr tho😭
It was Jack Dawson
It must have been the start of toxic manhood!! you know taking charge in a dangerous situation, not thinking about men,s safety, only thinking about woman and children,s safety first, knowing death was coming but facing it anyway, and now in 2020 woman from the Ukraine leaving the country they were born in and leaving there mem behind to face certain death ,while they party hard in Sweden, yeah aren't woman wonderful
Frank Prentice the third man, I just looked him up and he died around three years after this interview. His birthday was February 17th 1889. My birthday is February 17th 1988. Crazy
Amazing man!! 93 years old when he died. 23 yrs old when he survived the Titanic sinking on April 12, 1912. He lived another 70 years with this trauma. God bless him and all the survivors souls as well as those that died.
My birthday is Feb 17 too 😮
My dad worked with a man at NCR in Dayton, Ohio, whose sister was on the Titanic and had survived. The man said she “lost her mind” afterward and was never the same the rest of her life…
That is so sad, how do you recover from such a thing.
For a good reason .
Of course, I'm sure everyone had PTSD but at the time it wasn't as well recognized as now
That’s so sad how old was she when it happened
@@stefansnellgrove I believe she was a young woman in her 20s….
The old guy at the end.... Wow! I can't imagine what it was like for them all to live with those memories, and then have to go through two wars. Strong people! Amazing.
makes me cry when you see the idiots we have now !!
Marvelous interviews, so fascinating. Another story I read, one passenger, 50-year old Ann Elizabeth Isham, was said to have visited her Great Dane in the ship’s kennels daily (there were 12 dogs on the Titanic, only three survived). At one point, Isham was seated in a lifeboat, but when told that her dog was too large to join her, she exited the boat. Her body was found several days later, clutching onto her dog in the icy waters. That's true devotion. RIP, all who perished that cold April morning, man and beast.
Ann Isham has been my absolute hero ever since I read about her some years ago.
Aw that poor woman. Poor doggy!
I WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME FOR MY CATS.
I WAS UNAWARE OF ANY ANIMALS ON BOARD, IT'S MIRACULOUS HOW THE 3 SURVIVED, IT'S HEARTBREAKING TO TRY & PICTURE THAT.
HOW COULD THEY REFUSE THAT POOR DOG THOUGH, THEIR SIZE NO BIGGER THAN A HUMAN. I KNOW I WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE HEART TO LET THE DOGS DROWN.
Passengers on the German liner Bremen, westbound to New York, which transited the debris field a few days after the shipwreck, reported seeing the body of a woman in the water with her arms around the body of a large dog 🐕
Another story that could have been part of the movie, and the one including the pastor.
These actual interviews are invaluable. I can't believe they were not more well known and replayed. I had never seen these when growing up learning about the Titanic. Absolutely amazing to see and hear real survivors!
If the Titanic went down today, and survivors were interviewed, they certainly wouldn't be as calm and distinguished as these folks. My hat is off to them and their fortitude. We can certainly all learn a lesson from them.
I completely agree with you
There are still people with manners like that, it's just that our modern media doesn't give them any exposure - the media likes to cover the drama queens.
It was so good to hear how distinguished and articulate they were with out one time hearing any of them say “ You know “ or “ You know what I mean “ or “ Man , that was …..”. They just told it as it was and their words flowed with such a mild respectable manner ,but was chilling at the same time . What a traumatic event they had to go through and re live it through the rest of their lives and in their dreams. May they all RIP 🙏
@@titanicfilmsbymark thx for posting and showing us these peoples stories 😊
weird..
The old man is so casual about a brutal survival. It's almost unreal to listen to him describe everything. In fact, I probably never would have believed him if there weren't any documentaries on titanic. What a cool old man
Fr,he was so calm,but i think the moment he told us about the woman who put on a coat on him on the lifeboat,his expression almost gonna cry
There was no self pitying, no self- entitlement, no giving in. That's what made these people's generation, they just got on with it with what they've got, not wanting anymore just doing what they can. Hard times made stronger people.
@@thescrutineer7022 Absolutely, well said indeed!
@@nlcrme Thank you!
@@thescrutineer7022 there's nothing strong about suppressing emotions associated with trauma, but unfortunately they lived in a time when it was expected and mental health was not a priority
Mr. Prentice made you feel the tragedy. His statement that yes, he was still having nightmares about it after all those years was very touching. It must have been truly horrific to see the stern high up in the air and then to see the ship sink out of sight forever. "And then she slipped away" were his words. He had great dignity. The wristwatch which was stopped at 2:20 am was a treasured keepsake. I hope his family still has it.
The third class people didn't even get a chance, so heartbreaking.
Except jack, but hes special so
25% survived so not all. 38% of first class and 59% second class died. So there was a correlation but not 1:1. Also, wasn’t the first lady 3rd class?
@@matthewmcalister2165 75% of 3rd class is still insanely sad.
This is not entirely true. In the movie, it shows locked gates to keep third class down. This has been disproven by third class survivor witness statements. There were gates and usually a gate keeper but they were never locked. They were more of a psychological barrier to keep the steerage passengers from the first and second class decks because of any hidden diseases that could be spread. This used to be common practice and helped stop diseases from spreading around the world. There were one or two instances of a gate keeper trying to hold third class passengers back but they rushed past with relative ease. Many of the people who died either didn’t believe that the ship was going to sink or refused to leave their husbands. Lots of videos on YT to back up what I am saying.
Sucks to suck
Even to these people who had survived the tragedy of the Titanic, and in their old age, it remained sealed in their memory that accident on April 14-15, 1912.
To think of what they went through
@@titanicfilmsbymark Yes, it was the worst thing they could have experienced. It was the worst maritime accident in history.
They clearly have PTSD and not surprisingly
@@nikolinaradecic8807 theres more brutal accidents cuh
@@illuminatiking656 now there are, but back in 1912 that was the absolute worse one they could have been on so it would have traumatized them seeing their friends and family die.
All three of their stories are amazing but especially the man's story. Incredible that he was plucked from the water and that he found himself in the same lifeboat as the lady he saved. If he hadn't saved her he might not have survived.
The man story brought me chills.. he said “i’ll probably have another nightmare about it” whew 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
You know, you keep hearing about this dissaster, about the lives lost, about the tragedy and all, but it's never until you see the faces of those who were there that the reality of the whole thing sets in. When the victims gets a name and a face, it suddenly becomes so much more real.
I work in news and never mind covering shootings and accidents and stuff. But when we have to talk to loved ones and you realize it’s a person. That gets me
Trying telling that to the family members of the faceless squirrels that were massacred in 1934.
It's truly amazing. I love listening to their stories and their personalities. To us, we see a number of indistinguishable people with no faces or personalities. We see those who survived. Then again, we almost never see the faces of those who drowned in the waters with the final thought of how their family is doing
Cos of the movie people often forget it was a real event
Totally … absolutely heartbreaking 💔
That English guy, such a poignant story, he must have been one of the very few who fell into the water and survived. The sits next to Mrs Clarke who he pursuaded into a lifeboat. Powerful, just shows how truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Poor Mrs. Clark. I hope she had a good life after her tragic honeymoon.
The last man makes me so sad to listen to😢 I hope he had a good life
The Musicians were the greatest calibre of Compassionate Gentlemen. Their story and legacy truly is an immortal display of true humanity and kindness. The purity of their souls lives in a special place in my heart. Such kind and beautiful people
💜
This is amazing- how can anyone have lived through such a disaster and think it was routine??
It is completely amazing
I wonder if the fact that the Titanic was presented as "Unsinkable" may have somehow lowered the survival instinct. The two ladies at the beginning, say they have not made themselves count of the real danger. The crew was cheerful. They were probably thinking of a breakdown.
Maybe that's why they didn't worry / alarm right away. This, and many other reasons (for example the few lifeboats on the ship), may have been the cause of death for many people.
They didn't think the ship could actually sink.
What an absurd tragedy. It is very very sad :(
@@efthappinessandlove6785 Yes, but those who were drowning or left on the ship would have been screaming and struggling... It's quite stunning to think that even having gone through all that, the 1st lady didn't think it was serious until they reached land. :'/
@@yvonnezkea she might have just been a ding-bat, lol
Denial is powerful and very protective to one’s psyche
I've seen several Titanic survivor interviews, but I never saw this one. The old crewman spoke in such a detached way. I could hear the pain in his voice. Especially when he said he'd probably have another nightmare that night. After watching Old Rose in Cameron's film, Titanic describe her rescue from the water, it was amazing to hear a real-life survivor describe his own rescue. I got the feeling he'd been having nightmares since the sinking. No doubt many other people in the boats did as well.
Yeah it's such a stark contrast to Cameron's fictional world. Rose probably wouldn't have gone to bed smiling thinking about a man she'd known four days. She'd have gone to bed clutching her chest remembering the loud cries of 1,500 people dying all at once.
:( The last guy's testimony. I can only imagine the nightmares he must have had. But when he said "thank god he didn't hit anything" when he jumped into the water and said "there were bodies everywhere".... That's incredibly haunting and devasting to hear. Horrible incident and so sad.
The 16 year old thought it was a normal voyage when she got into the life boat, didn't realize what had happened until she reached America.
"Did you see the ship sink?"
"Yes."
🤔
I think because she had the belief the ship was unskinkable. could be cognitive dissonance, shock, disbelief. Sometimes thats how people react to trauma. :/
Probably in denial, either that or she was just plain stupid.
Yeah wtf is wrong with her
I couldn’t believe my ears when she said that. I have to wonder if she was developmentally (cognitively) impaired.
Proof teenagers can be clueless.
That older gentleman's story is amazing and heartbreaking.
Amazing interviews from actual survivors. Such history. The old man is humble and very much a gentleman and my heart ached for him as he still obviously gets effected all those decades later
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Guess he can't help but feeling humble at surviving while so many others perished. A close brush with death will change your outlook on life.
But can't believe the lady who spoke first here actually realised what happened only when she reached the US!! What did she make out of the long minutes of shrieks by desparate humans who couldn't be saved while she was in the boat? And she was 16 going on 17! Like seriously?!!! Did she pass out in the boat or where ladies of the time that dumb?!! Or is it her mind deceiving her to overcome the absolute shock of what happened before her eyes and ears?!!?
The musicians playing till the end brings tears into my eyes everytime
Watching this in 2024. I’ve always been obsessed with Titanic and the people aboard. I never mentioned this to my son age 7. All of a sudden he started obsessing over Titanic about a year ago after finding books in his school library. ❤️
What's the obsession with it??..why??
I remember reading in National Geographic about the man who went down to where the dogs were housed to be with them and comfort them as the ship went down. Bless him. I'd have done the same.
that breaks my heart
😭😭😭😭😭😭
I didn't know that. I hope he was able to calm there fear and stay with them to the end.
I'd let them out...I would be so distraught..I'd die too
@@jessicablum4096 He did die with them. Most of the men on board went down with the ship. Apparently people who were saved reported that is what he went to do before they departed on the life boats.
I'm a tad confused that the 1st lady didn't realise the severity of what had happened until she'd reached New York. But, she had said she'd watched the ship sink and she must have heard the distraught wives and mothers onboard the rescue ship as well as copious amount of conversations I'd imagine. I'm aware shock can do horrendous things to your mindset, perhaps denial was how it affected her.
Very true
@@titanicfilmsbymark
The mind can play awful tricks on us, especially with something as horrific and tragic as what she had to endure, who knows the thoughts of these poor souls.
I find it all very disturbing and nightmarish to say the least.
Coping mechanism, the brain does strange stuff under extreme stress.
@@titanicfilmsbymark Shock. She was very young.
It took me a whole lot of scrolling but alas, I found the other person wondering this. Surprised it's not higher because this literally makes no sense to me.
I tear up when I hear Mr Prentice talk about the newlywed lady Mrs Clarke, he got her onto a boat thereby saving her life and then she saved his by wrapping him up in her coat when he ended up frozen on her lifeboat - as he said - by the grace of God
Hello 👋how are you doing?
The musicians who played until the end were absolutely amazing. I always thought that was bad ass. 3 of them survived.
The old guy at the end tells his story with such dignity.
Dignity is not seen much in this day and age. God bless that older gentleman who kept the watch almost like a memorial to those who lost their lives. I have heard drowning is rather painless, am I incorrect? I heard it was similar to going to sleep
@@Smwilll6100 I think most victims died of hypothermia and it's effects rather than water in their lungs. The water of between 28 and 32 degrees Fahrenheit would have frozen them to death literally.
What a brave courageous elderly man!!!
Never too old for nightmares like he said at the very end of the video. PTSD doesn't have an age limit.
I don't get the first woman's mindset... 16 years old at the time, she said she saw the Titanic sink, but didn't relize it was so bad till she got to NY... "I thought that was part of the trip"...Oh, i thought that's a pretty hard way to get here." She watched the world biggest ship sink into the ocean, and thought like that' s a normal part of the trip.
Yeah, that was odd as hell.
Maybe she was in denial, a very very very odd form of denial of the terrible tragedy she was involved in
Totally weird.
If she was from a tiny village, she probably never saw a big ship. She was probably naive about all aspects of life.
It's kind of bizarre. was she trafficked ? 🙄
At the end, guy says; it all comes round again. Makes a face like, he can still vividly hear and see his memories of that night. He stared like he was right back there on the lifeboat. And think he been living with it his entire life. Gosh.
Tragic yet so dignified
I loved listening to Mr Prentice. I felt his pain during this interview. So heartbreaking seeing so many people dying and nothing you could do to save them. RIP to all the victims.
I can't comprehend and imagine those survivors in the lifeboats hearing all those screams in the sea by all people.
Just Imagine how Traumatizing it was for them.
Just Imagine the agony of those poor souls.
The elderly gentleman was right to be interviewed, what a marvelous escape he made. I think the ship could've pulled him down with it just as well, but he found a boat and got away with his dear life. Thanks to whoever recorded and uploaded this.
Old man made me cry. So glad he was saved and so sad for the rest of them. 😪 🙏🏽 God rest their souls.
You know I don’t think any survivor could deny nightmares. Hearing all the screaming at first then the silence must have been the spine chilling reality. God Bless them all. ❤
Lots of PTSD was thrust on most survivors. Some seem detached from the seriousness of the issue and it may be because of the trauma. It’s wonderful that we still have access to these remarkable survivors describing their views of what happened when the Titanic hit the iceberg, boarding the lifeboats and watching the ship sink. I would have been terrified at the events at hand. Thanks for sharing.
Thats the only thing i could think of as the first lady said she didn't knew it had any danger going on and thought it was all part of the trip but saw the ship sinking lol how could she not know something was happening? Trauma can do that.
People didn’t think of everything in terms of trauma in those days. People just got through things. Being obsessed with trauma is a thoroughly modern notion.
Some of them didn't talk about it for 40 plus years, even their families didn't know.
You can't help but think today it would be different, people today love to pubically wallow in their sorrows on TV and Social Media over really minor things. Saw a story the other day about a man who's in the papers that he's had to take time off work for stress over the cost of plastic bags in the shops.
@@lw3646 The pendulum has swung way too far.
@@Iiwii11 it’ll come back around, might be a minute, but it’ll be back
The old man has PTSD from that. He describes going into nightmares perfectly and the pause and lost look in his eyes at the end.😢
I’m really struggling to understand how the first woman didn’t understand that there was any danger or anything wrong, and that this was just part of the journey.
She says she saw the ship sink, and many first hand accounts describe the sound of the sinking to be full of extremely loud boilers exploding, metal creaking, people screaming, crying, wailing.
She wasn’t a toddler, she was 16. How could you think that was just part of the journey for them to sink a ship full of people while everyone around you is wailing and crying.
The only way I can make sense of it is that she was young and probably felt like the main character, like a lot of us did when we were young, and thought everything around her was for show. It makes her pretty self-centered but a wealthy 16 year old girl who was probably hyped up on fairy tales may have processed it in that way.
@@hayes2232 that has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life… and I once, sat through a trump speech, in it’s entirety
@@hayes2232she was not a wealthy 16 year old girl. She says that she was a steerage passenger (third class)
Why are yall so pressed?? I'm trying to make sense of something that doesn't have much logic behind it. Calm your tits
I think it’s because she was third class, they were being told everything would be alright as she stated. So she must have thought it was normal if the crew were telling them that. Don’t think the crew wanted to start a riot and tell the third class everything wrong. I think many people from all classes were just more calm in the initial part because how were they supposed to know there weren’t enough lifeboats, and of course first class probably barely seem bothered, after all they probably thought they’d be the first ones saved anyways.
But I’ll just stick with denial..well either that or she was plain stupid for a 16 yr old.
It’s terrible to think how many more lives could have been saved if they put more people on the lifeboats.
There were many things that could've been done differently, after this tragedy many marine rules and protocols were updated.
@@florance333 It seems unfair to say, but something like this was going to have to happen to make us actually see what devastation is caused with emboldened recklessness. Even though we still see a lot of over confidence, this is a stark reminder.
Many believed on the Titanic that it would not sink and all on board who didn't make it into a lifeboat would be fine. They all felt they would be reunited in NY. Ugh. So awful.
@@PetrolPatrol i lov your name lolzz
There wasn't enough life boats for them all...it was supposed to be unsinkable so they thought they wouldn't need them
So interesting listening to the survivors of the Titanic. First time for me to hear these testimonials from these survivors. Glad we still have their testimonials. Had to be hard for husbands to leave their families and vice versa.
Doesn't bare thinking about
I say the next time a ship sinks we leave all the radical feminists on the ship to prove how equal they are to men ! Who’s with me!
@@tula1433 the only women that would be scrambling to the ship like fragile selfless assholes would be you. Unlike feminist who believe they are capable of helping others out instead of acting meek and unable. Why do men have to be the only hero’s in history? You don’t think many women let other women with children take their places? Why would you assume that women aren’t courageous and selfless?
czcams.com/video/Z9xK5WcARhg/video.html Today I saw this she explains perfectly and her voice you would like to listen more
@@TheDelorean3 yeah it is. ❤️😘
You can see it in the eyes of the survivors!!! The pain they bear, their helplessness about not being able to save more people 😢. Very sad indeed.
The first woman.. she was 16 but did not know it was bad? That it was normal to have such a trip? I don't understand her at all...
Same. I’m just as confused as she clearly was
That last man was awesome. ❤️
I'm so glad to have these remembrances recorded from the survivors. None of us can even imagine the horror they went through and saw.
Depression, ptsd and probably a little bit of anxiety mixed in there. 😢
The last story really gave me chills. He said by the grace of God, he found a life boat. May those people continue to rest in heaven❤
I’m so surprised about how long it toke them to realize how serious the situation was. Of course being on a brand new ship that was said to be unsinkable has something to do with it.
I guess you haven't been on a boat or had sea legs. Those things move side to side, up and down. Not to mention the actual hit was so far forward and the crew did a job keeping the lights on.
Unless you see the water coming in, there really isn't much reason to worry in such a case.
Well that and the crew acting as if nothing was wrong as to not raise panic, was a good reason people didn't realize anything was wrong right away.
Also, even some of the crew didn't know how serious it was. There was one crew member who called the bridge about an hour before the ship went down, asking why he had just seen a life boat pass by. The captain did a pretty bad job informing the crew members.
It was quite late at night a lot of them had been woken straight out of bed. It’s similar to when you get woken up by your parents out of deep sleep and you feel very confused and think you’re still dreaming. I feel for younger survivors of the ship it would’ve made it harder to remember memories properly.
Find it hard to believe the old chap ended up in the same lifeboat as he helped Mrs Clark into,after falling into the water. It must have been chaotic and that is one hell of a coincidence. Did the chap definitely fall into the water or did he get into a lifeboat whilst on the ship? I guess we’ll never know.
The last survivor who was interviewed said that talking about it gives him nightmares even after all that time. I can relate to that because I still have lots of dreams about working in the WTC after all this time. Never had a nightmare, nothing scary, I just keep dream about working there, riding the elevators as if nothing ever happened. Makes me wonder if there really are parallel universes.
There are !
Me too. 2 etc guy carpenter and co. Lost 108 co workers. I survived because I had resigned after giving birth to my daughter in 1999
How can you relate? Did you work in the wtc?
@@alexvarnado530 Yes. PANYNJ
I’m so sorry.
The old man is fantastic to listen to, what a great story teller. Such a clear mind. May he rest in peace
God bless that dear man, what a story.
Thanks for listening
These are also a wonderful time capsule of these gallant survivors, that have gone silent over the decades, treasure these voices, their memory shall live on forever, long after we, ourselves will fall silent.
Take care, and all the best.
Amen Chris
God bless them all, survivors and those lost
The interview with Frank Prentice, the steward, is one of my favorites of all filmed / recorded interviews.
That older guy at the end was much more convincing than the others were. Can't even imagine what they went thru that night, seeing all the dead bodies floating around, watching a ship disappear then having to wait not knowing... no wonder he has nightmares.
It’s so eerie that he dropped into the water around 2:00 but his watch stopped at 2:20, the time the Titanic sank. These are incredible stories.
Rest in peace to all who died on the titanic and all who survived but had to live with the memories till they passed on 😢
What a lovely person this man seems to be...I so glad he was saved.
The first woman is a century older than me. I was 16-17 in 2012 like she was in 1912 and I couldn’t imagine being in that situation at all let alone at that age. God bless her
That last old man touched n made me tear my god the truama these people faced whole life 🥺
honestly heartbreaking, most survivor witnesses say they didnt feel any danger. imagine staying in your cabin not feeling any danger and you just see water creeping into your room
Its amazing that we have these interviews on tape and are on CZcams!!! Seems like like Titanic happened so long ago.
Because it did happen long ago, 1912? Were in 2022
@@LG-ro5le 110 years ago
It makes me wonder of all the disasters that wasn’t documented.
LOL
These interviews just tore at my heart. The man recollections were so painful to hear. You can feel the heartbreak of his words. Even though he didn’t mention it you get the sense of the guilt and grief he feeling. I hope that someone told him often,” It was for you to save everyone. You done all that you could the rest was up to God. We each come with and expiration date to which no one knows who, what, when, how nor why. I know what it’s like to live with survivors guilt. The nightmare comes when you least expect them. You try to tell yourself over and over again that you done all that you could do. It’s nice to hear it from someone else.
Hope ur doing ok the courageous are those who live on with the trauma , have a little cry and gentleness to heal oneself when the trigger happens . Kind regards 🙏😘
Incredible. The older gentleman is riveting. Replaying that fateful night over and over again. He must have had a degree of 'survivor's guilt' thinking about Mrs. Clark's husband and having to sit with her, knowing that Mr. Clark had perished. All those poor souls....Love, Light and Peace!
That older brit man is an amazing person, a hero in my book, thankfully he saved Mrs Clark's life, so she could save his.
I can't help but wonder what happened to Mrs. Clark after all this happened. Bless her heart. I guess her husband was never found. So very sad
That is very sad
I know google isn’t the most reliable source, but by google, only 340 bodies were recovered.
Of all the bodies, depending on the amount of decomposition, they were wrapped in a white sheet and buried at sea.
I could swear the old man looks like Douglas Fairbanks. What a kind gentleman. He saved a life and that life saved his. What an terribly, amazing experience. Glad he made it.
It’s really a miracle that anyone actually survived that frozen water for any amount of time.
More people than you think went into to the water and got out alive
I believe I read only 6 people survived who landed in the water the temperatures were so cold that you would
Have died in minutes l.
@@dbj1852 There were more like 80. The 6 is a myth that was cemented by the Cameron film.
The Mrs Clark the old guy describes is Virginia Estelle Clark, a first class passenger who had cut short a honeymoon in France with her husband Walter Clark to get home for their sons birthday. She remarried and died in 1958 aged 73.
God bless her 🙏
Beautiful & moving: the best 2 stories were the woman who found a baby and saved him or her on her way out, and the man at the end of the video who saved a woman and she saved him back on the boat, and his watch frozen on the time the Titanic drowned. Wow! No wonder James Cameron could build an Oscar winning plot around this incident.
The story of Mrs Clark made me cry. I can't imagine going through that and not having the person you love with you
Hello Andie, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
@@Trevorjennings679 I'm great!
@@andiewade5502 Okay😊. Hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today?
That was amazing when he pulled out the watch and showed us the time, amazing story
He gives a great description of the sinking of the ship.