Titanic: Untold Stories Page #4

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piling the people into helpless heaps

around the steep decks and by the

score into the icy water.

Second Offiicer, Charles Lightoller.

As she swung out, her lights, which had

shown without a flicker all night,

went out suddenly.

Came on again for a single flash

and then went out all together.

Second Class Passenger,

Lawrence Beesley.

The stern stood for several minutes

black against the stars

and then the boat plunged up.

Then began the cries for help

which seemed to go on forever.

First Class Passenger,

Mrs. Emily Ryerson.

As Titanic plummets to the ocean floor,

the most beautiful liner the world

every saw shatters into pieces.

On the surface, the human drama continues.

Charles Lightoller manages to climb

atop an overturned lifeboat.

Some thirteen men struggle here

to keep their balance,

to prevent slipping into the icy water.

Wireless operators, Bride and Phillips

are among these men.

Phillips will die of exposure

before morning.

The Lindells manage to find a lifeboat

but the boat overturns sending

them helplessly back into the sea.

For how long a time I was away

from the boat, I don't know.

When I came back to the boat,

it was filled with water.

My friend, Edvard Lindell

had also got aboard.

I saw Mrs. Lindell in the water

and clasped her hand. I didn't have

the strength to pull her aboard.

Mr. Lindell looked straight ahead.

Never made a move or said a word.

I realized that he'd frozen to death.

After a half hour, I lost my grip

and saw Mrs. Lindell disappear

into the sea.

Third Class Passenger,

August Wennerstrom.

More than one thousand, five hundred men,

women and children perished this night.

Relics of their lives are strewn

along the ocean floor.

Artifacts like these provide

the last clues to their stories.

Among broken plates and debris,

Haas makes a discovery.

He finds and retrieves a device called a

telegraph that was used to signal the engines.

Your emotional attachment to a particular

object eventually evolves into a great

deal of anxiousness about its future.

And when you see the artifacts being

brought up and in particular when you see

them being conserved

that anxiousness is replaced by a great,

great deal of happiness that you've

preserved them for the future.

After a day of exploration, Nautile

returns to the surface with precious cargo.

On the fantail of Nadir, the newly

discovered artifact is shared with the crew.

You know, history's progressed

another notch there Charles.

I'm really quite overwhelmed by that.

In a warehouse in Hamburg, Germany,

people line up to visit an extraordinary

exhibit of Titanic artifacts.

Historians Charles Haas and Jack Eaton

and expedition leader, George Tulloch take

in the emotional display.

They have come to see fragments of history,

some of which they have helped to

rescue from certain oblivion.

Certain objects here played a critical

role during Titanic's final hours.

The giant wrenches used by the men

in the boiler room remind us of those

who struggled to keep Titanic afloat.

Men like Frederick Barrett.

Barrett survived the disaster

and continued to work most of his life

out at sea.

One of Titanic's brass bells,

a symbol of her elite offiicers,

including Second Offiicer Charles Lightoller.

Lightoller was the only senior offiicer

to survive Titanic.

He retired unceremoniously.

During World War II, he used his yacht in

daring missions to aid the British

war effort.

This claim check, number two, oh, eight,

belonged to Lawrence Beesley

and it was retrieved from the

ocean bottom.

Beesley lived to be eighty-nine

and write one of the most significant

accounts of the Titanic tragedy.

Women's jewelry, reminds us that many of

Titanic's survivors were widowed that night.

When Mrs. Ryerson arrived in New York,

she would bury her son who was killed

in a car crash

and mourn her lost husband.

Mrs. Ryerson died at the age of

seventy-six.

Masabumi Hosono lived reclusively

and rarely spoke of Titanic.

His rare written account has now

become a part of history.

Hosono lived to be sixty-nine and died

in Japan.

August Wennerstrom survived Titanic.

He spent most of his life in America

and died in Culver, Indiana.

This is the wedding band of Gerda Lindell.

It was retrieved from the lifeboat where

both she and her husband lost their lives.

These objects are the last remnants

of the Titanic disaster.

They forge a link across a century

to a vanished time.

This clarinet and these letters of love

found in a man's suitcase

give us an intimate glimpse into a life

we would have known nothing about,

a life like many others forever

changed by Titanic.

Of the two thousand, two hundred and twenty

- eight individuals aboard Titanic,

we only know the experiences

of perhaps half.

Some of their stories have been told

and fully developed.

But even to this day, most of Titanic's

stories still remain untold.

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