Did they know help was coming?

[robert warren]

Aside from Harold Bride who may have told the men on the overturned collapsible some time during the night, very few people in the boats would have known what kind of help if any was on the way.As far as the body warmth issue goes only a couple of boats were loaded to the gills to generate body heat. All accounts I've read all had survivors talk about what a miserably cold night it was. One thing that no one has ever touched on is the fact that the massive terror and stress these people just endured could have played a part in just how cold they were.Think about other accounts of people who have gone through hellishly scary stuff, they start shivering and everything. Maybe it's happened to some of you out there.I'd also be willing to bet that some people were even more miserable in the fact that some of them had to use the bathroom,or in some cases of extreme fright, had butterflies and gurgles in their stomachs signaling the start of something bad. No funny stuff intended, but stress can affect people in many many ways, and with 712 people I'm sure some of them had the aforementioned stuff to deal with.

 

[Kyle Naber]

Aside from Harold Bride who may have told the men on the overturned collapsible some time during the night, very few people in the boats would have known what kind of help if any was on the way.As far as the body warmth issue goes only a couple of boats were loaded to the gills to generate body heat. All accounts I've read all had survivors talk about what a miserably cold night it was. One thing that no one has ever touched on is the fact that the massive terror and stress these people just endured could have played a part in just how cold they were.Think about other accounts of people who have gone through hellishly scary stuff, they start shivering and everything. Maybe it's happened to some of you out there.I'd also be willing to bet that some people were even more miserable in the fact that some of them had to use the bathroom,or in some cases of extreme fright, had butterflies and gurgles in their stomachs signaling the start of something bad. No funny stuff intended, but stress can affect people in many many ways, and with 712 people I'm sure some of them had the aforementioned stuff to deal with.

I agree. I feel like I'd want to throw up just witnessing it all.

 

[Aaron_2016]

Witnessing the Titanic going down must have been a very traumatic experience. Survivor Edith Rosenbaum was in a terrible car crash in which several people died. She said when the Titanic went down the memory of that car crash flashed through her mind and she could remember the most horrible and gruesome details. It must have been a temporary state of mind that only exists when the mind is put in that situation again. When I watch news footage of 9/11 my adrenaline goes up as I observe what happens and there is nothing I can do to stop it. The survivors may have seen the stern pointing in the air and anticipated she was about to go down with their loved ones still aboard and there was nothing they could do except watch.

Survivor Albert Pearcey was asked: Q - What did you next see happen to the stern? A - She went down, you see. It upset me, and I could not exactly say.

Abraham Hyman said: "I tried to close my ears, but there was some mysterious attraction and I had to hear that cry."

Charlotte Collyer said: "Cries more terrible than I had ever heard rang in my ears. I turned my face away, but looked round the next instant and saw the second half of the great ship slip below the surface as easily as a pebble in a pond. I shall always remember that last moment as the most hideous of the whole disaster."


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[Question_asker]

All these replies have been very helpful thank you.

 

[Scott Mills]

Before Titanic sank, a light from another vessel was seen about 5 to 7 miles away on the port bow. As they were filled and launched, some of the boats rowed toward that light but never got there before it disappeared.
About 4 boats tied-up to each other on the port side. Others rowed directly out from the sides of the sinking ship and stopped between half to a mile away and watched her sink. About an hour after the ship had finally sunk, the lights of the Carpathia were seen by some people in the life boats. At 4 pm, just as dawn was breaking, Carpathia arrived on the scene. Her captain described seeing all the survivors in an area of about 4 miles and the eastern edge of an ice barrier between 3.5 to 4 miles to the westward. A few minutes before she arrived at the No, 2 lifeboat...the first one...Carpathia had to swerve to avoid an iceberg. Given the evidence, that must have been the one which Titanic hit.

Hope that helps.

I am just curious about the last comment that the iceberg avoided by Carpathia was the one who doomed Titanic. Was there any evidence for this noted at the time, like paint on the ice or 'damage' to the berg.

I guess I am curious as to why that iceberg would still be so close. Assuming that Titanic came to a complete stop immediately after the impact and that she did not make way again--which we know she did, what is in question is for how long--it seems to me that it would take a considerable distance for Titanic to drift to a halt. And then, of course, both Titanic and the berg would continue to drift...