Titanic's Second Officer, Charles Lightoller - BBC Radio Interview (1936)

In this detailed narration, Charles Lightoller, the Second Officer of the Titanic gives his account of the Titanic's maiden voyage and sinking. As one of the senior officers of the ship and one of the last survivors to leave the Titanic, Lightoller's account is a great companion to his testimony at the inquiries and his memoir, "Titanic and Other Ships" published in 1935.

This interview was originally aired by the BBC on November 1, 1936 as part of the series, “I Was There.”

Read the full annotated transcript of this interview: https://titanicarchive.org/collection...

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - The Maiden Voyage
01:51 - The Night of April 14th
04:53 - The Iceberg
07:40 - All Hands on Deck
08:40 - Loading the Lifeboats
09:25 - The Californian
11:06 - Continuing to Load the Lifeboats
15:03 - Collapsible B
16:05 - The Final Plunge
17:00 - In the Water
18:21 - Titanic's Final Moments
19:37 - On the Upturned Boat
21:04 - The Carpathia

Film Sources:
- A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
- Titanic (1996), dir. Robert Lieberman / Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
- Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
- Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV

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