Titanic Survivor Frederick Dent Ray - BBC Radio Interview (1958)

Frederick Dent Ray, a first-class saloon steward on the Titanic, tells of the the iceberg collision, and the procedure of loading and lowering the Titanic's lifeboats before getting into a lifeboat himself near the end.

This interview was originally aired on the BBC Home Service on January 6, 1958 as part of “Childrens Hour."

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

Film Sources:
A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
S.O.S. Titanic (1979), dir. William Hale / EMI Films
Titanic (1996), dir. Robert Lieberman / Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV

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