Titanic survivor’s tragic tale resurfaces after Titan sub implosion
Orders came to take the lifeboats out, with women and children getting on first.
As Prentice was about to put his lifejacket on, he met a young couple who had just honeymooned in France. Prentice noticed the woman was having trouble with her life vest, so he helped her. “Then I picked up my own life vest and put it on,” Prentice said after leaving Clark to go on her way. He then noticed the third-class passengers filling the decks. He said he helped them the best he could.“I thought, now I will go up and get out of all this scrumming and go on the poop deck [a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or ‘aft,’ part of the ship].
“So I thought, ‘Well, now I’m going to leave,’ and I was hanging on to a board — we had two boards, starboard and port, which said, ‘Keep clear of propeller blades.’ And I was hanging on to one of these, and I was getting higher and higher in the air, and I thought, ‘Well, now I’ll go,’ and I dropped. And I hit the water with a terrific crack. Luckily, I didn’t hit anything when I dropped in.AP
Prentice said he spotted a man, who seemed to have been traumatized, trying to leave the safety boat, but others were holding him down.He said he then realized he was sitting next to Clark, the woman he had helped into the lifeboat. He said she asked about her husband, Walter, as she wrapped him in a blanket. It would be discovered later that Walter had died.
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