A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's s...
A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star
Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from
the standpoint of 2nd Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the
most senior of the ill-fated ship's Deck Officers to survive the
disaster. (Lightoller later went on to distinguish himself as a line
British Naval Officer during the First World War and served as a Senior
Naval Staff Officer (convoys) during WWII. Between wars he owned and
operated a successful family business producing pleasure craft.) His own
survival of the sinking, along with several others, is shown atop one
of the liner's two "collapsible" lifeboats which was capsized in
floating off the liner as it sank. The picture depicts then known facts
(c1958) as reported after the sinking; such as the woeful lack of
adequate lifeboats, the ship's band playing true to the very end, White
Star's co-owner Bruce Ismay's somewhat less than chivalrous departure
from the sinking vessel -...
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