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0-3:41 Credits  
3:41 - 5:10 Train
  • Gossip of the unsinkable Titanic
Herbert Lightoller

Mrs. Lightoller

5:10 - 8:33 Office and Houses
  • Checking supplies and passengers
  • People leaving for the voyage
company employees

various passengers

8:33 - 9:36 The Lightoller’s Bedroom
  • Discuss job position on the Titanic and the trip to New York
Herbert Lightoller

Mrs. Lightoller

9:36 - 11:00 South Hampton, England -- April 10,1912
  • Discussion of voyage
  • Titanic departs
Thomas Andrews

Chairman

Captain Smith

11:00 - 11:39 Captain Smith with Second Officer Lightoller on watch.At sea -- April 14,1912
  • She’s as steady as a rock
Captain

passengers

11:39 - 12:43 The Californian
  • Ice warning
  • Discuss location of ice
Crew
12:43 - 13:29 First Class Dining Room
  • Message for Captain - "Ice warnings"
Captain

passengers

13:29 - 14:29 The Californian Radio Room
  • Send message to all ships - "Ice reports"
Radioman
14:29 - 16:10 Steerage
  • Sing and dance
third-class passengers
16:10-

17:05

First Class Dining Room
  • Eating dinner
first-class passengers
17:05 -

17:32

Engine Room
  • Any troubles?
Thomas Andrews

crew

17:32 - 19:11 Titanic Communication Room
  • Receives but disregards ice reports with other messages
 
19:11 - 21:21 Deck
  • Keep eye on fresh water tanks
  • Keep watch for ice
Captain

crew

21:21 - 22:18 The Californian
  • Stop engines
  • Field ice: report it to Titanic
crew
22:18 - 25:29 Ligfhtoller makes the social rounds.Titanic - In lounge playing poker
  • Lightoller makes rounds
  • Wager on her speed?
Lightoller
25:29 -

26:37

The Californian Communication Room
  • Attempts to give message to Titanic
  • Titanic responds "keep out"
crew
26:37 - 27:27 Thomas Andrew’s cabin
  • People first, things second
Thomas Andrews

Doctor

27:27 - 28:23 Titanic
  • Engine room working
  • Staff cleaning up and going to bed
Lightoller

crew

28:23 - 29:44 The Californian (11:30 P.M.)
  • Ship 10 miles away
Captain
29:44 - 30:48 First Class
  • Night-time
  • Rooms are lavish
First-class passengers
30:48 - 36:46 Titanic - Bridge and lookouts
  • Ice-berg dead ahead
  • Close water tight doors
  • Skids by ice-berg
Crew

passengers

36:46 - 38:55 Smith and designer Andrews assess the damage on the ship plan.Thomas Andrew’s Room
  • Gash 300 ft long
  • She has another hour and a half
Captain

Thomas Andrews

38:55 - 40:48 Bridge
  • Be prepared to abandon ship
  • Assigns duties
  • Lightoller gives directions
Captain

Lightoller

Officers

40:48 - 41:20 Titanic Communication Room
  • Send out regulation distress call
Captain

Radio Operators

41:20 - 43:04 The Californian
  • Tries morse-code but no answer
  • Listens to radio but can’t make out the message and disregards
crew
43:04 - 43:57 Titanic
  • Tells the passengers to put life-vests on
passengers
43:57 - 44:19 Deck (near life-boats)
  • Every boat must be manned by a seaman
Herbert Lightoller
44:19 - 46:09 Titanic
  • Everybody is up preparing
  • Flooding fast
passengers
46:09 - 48:20 The Carpathia
  • Informs the Captain of Titanic’s S.O.S.
  • We’re on our way
Captain

crew

48:20 - 50:05 Bridge
  • Getting life-boats ready
  • receives message from Carpathia
  • Fill the boats and fire the rockets
Captain

Lightoller

50:05 - 52:40 Deck
  • Women and children loading boats
  • Still playing poker in the lounge
Passengers
52:40 - 53:53 The Lucas family.Mr. And Mrs. Lucas’s cabin
  • wake kids and get in boat
Mr. Lucas

Mrs. Lucas

53:53 - 54:10 Engine Room
  • The bulk-head is going
crew
54:10 - 56:29 Titanic
  • Women trying to get jewels from the safe
  • Steerage being denied access to deck area
passengers
56:29 - 57:14 The Carpathia
  • We must go faster
  • Prepare for the survivors
Captain

Crew

57:14 - 59:06 Deck
  • Lower the first life-boat
  • Keep firing rockets
Lightoller
59:06 - 59:50 The Californian
  • Tries lamp signal to Titanic
Crew
59:50 - 1:03:06 Titanic
  • Keep loading boats
  • Steerage passengers found way up
  • water up to E Deck (push them in if they won’t go)
Crew

passengers

3:06 - 5:14 Deck
  • "I don’t want to go"
  • Lower boat with Mrs. Lucas and her children
Mr. Lucas

Mrs. Lucas

Lightoller

5:14 - 6:03 Steerage
  • Passengers getting out
  • There’s a confrontation
steerage passengers
6:03 - 8:13 Deck
  • Man tries to sneak on boat
  • Still playing poker
passengers
8:13 - 9:17 Captain Smith with the radio operators.Titanic Communication room
  • Message from Carpathia
  • Keep trying for other ships
Captain

Radio Operators

9:17 - 15:24 Deck
  • Commotion
  • Steerage makes it
  • Mr. And Mrs. Isidor Straus stay
  • Guggenheim gets ready
Lightoller

Mr. And Mrs. Straus

Benjamin Guggenheim

15:24 - 16:20 Titanic
  • Steerage break through to first class
  • Officers arm themselves
steerage passengers
16:20 - 19:56 Deck
  • Fire the rest of the rockets
Captain
19:56 - 22:30 Titanic
  • Man jumps in boat
passengers
22:30 - 23:18 The Carpathia
  • Making accommodations for survivors
  • Another two hours
Captain

Crew

23:18 - 24:52 Deck
  • Near riot-Everybody is panicking
Lightoller
24:52 - 25:36 Life-boat
  • Row away from the ship
life-boat passengers
25:36 - 27:43 Deck
  • Sinking fast
  • Only two collapsible left
Lightoller
27:43 - 30:24 Lounge
  • Advice-put on life-vest, lower yourselves with rope, wear white
Andrews
30:24 - 31:20 Deck
  • Everybody on deck
passengers
31:20 - 32:39 Titanic Communication Room
  • Time to go
  • Wrestle for life-vest
Captain

Phillips

32:29 - 34:24 Deck
  • Mayhem - "Abandon ship, it’s every man for himself
Captain

passengers

34:24 - 36:44 The band plays until the last.Deck
  • The band plays on
Band
36:44 - 38:12 Water
  • Jumping off the ship
Passengers

crew

38:12 - 38:54 Lounge
  • Aren’t you going to try?
Andrews
38:54 - 42:55 About to go under.Deck
  • Stern rises
  • Lights out
Lightoller

passengers

42:55 - 44:25 Water
  • Titanic goes under
  • Prayer
Passengers
44:25 - 46:59 Life-boat
  • Let’s go help survivors
life-boat passengers
46:59 - 47:59 The Californian
  • Where did that ship go?
Crew
47:59 - 51:13 Capsized Lifeboat
  • Help people up
  • Stay afloat
Lightoller

Crew

51:13 - 51:49 Another Lifeboat
  • Passengers mourn
life-boat passengers
51:49 - 52:27 The Carpathia
  • We should be there by now
  • fire rocket
crew
52:27 - 53:45 Lifeboat
  • It’s a rocket
lifeboat passengers
53:45 - 55:08 Lightoller’s Boat
  • It’s the Carpathia
  • Only if …..
Lightoller
55:08 - 56:32 The Carpathia
  • Survivors now on ship - praying
survivors
56:32 - 58:11 Lightoller abaord the Carpathia.Deck of the Carpathia
  • 705 survivors
  • 1500 lost
  • Message from the Californian
Captain

Lightoller

 

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