Never Heard Tales From The Survivors Of The Titanic Disaster

6 Harold Bride – Marconi Wireless Company

Harold Bride was employed by the Marconi Wireless Company along with a co-worker to help on passing telegraph messages between the mainland and the ship. He was also responsible for passing off warning messages from other ships to Titanic. When the ship struck the iceberg, they were allowed to leave their posts and save themselves, but both Harold and his colleague decided to stay on and kept relaying messages for help.

Both made it to the last lifeboat after their room filled up with water. Harold’s feet were so frozen, that he had to be helped on the ladder up the Carpathia. However, his collegue Philips was not so lucky and had passed away.

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7 Charles Lightoller – 2nd Officer

Charles Lightoller was a lifetime marine worker as he started working on the sea at the age of 13 and was the 2nd officer on Titanic on that fateful day. Before working on Titanic, he had already survived a shipwreck in Australia, a cyclone on the Indian Ocean, and had to hitchhike all the way from Western Canada to England, as he had gone completely broke.

He was the first person to start and lowering the lifeboats at 2 am, about 20 mins before sinking. He even refused to get on a lifeboat, despite being ordered by his superior officer. He jumped in the water and swam to Collapsible B and kept it from submerging in the Ocean by keeping the occupants calm. Charles Lightoller was the last person to be rescued by Carpathia, four hours after Titanic sank. And also witnessed the congressional hearing, as he was the highest and senior-most officer to survive.

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8 Frank Prentice – Crew (Assistant Storekeeper)

You must have seen the movie Titanic and the scene where the stern of the ship breaks and raises perpendicular to the water and then starts to sink. Yeah, Frank Prentice is the real person who was at the top and who jumped off with two of his co-workers. Frank Prentice hit the water 100 ft clear off the ship and waited to be rescued in the water along with one of his comrade, as other had died after hitting the propeller on the way down. Even Frank Prentice’s watch stopped at 2.20 am, the time when Titanic sank.