Nadine CHERUBINI
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Tad, it's very interesting.
That's not easy to know the truth.
But Lightoller said :
"Phillips, the senior wireless operator, standing near me, told me the different ships that had answered our call . . . . poor old Phillips did not live to benefit by it. He hung on till daylight came in and we sighted one of the lifeboats in the distance . . . . he suddenly slipped down, sitting in the water, and though we held his head up he never recovered. I insisted on taking him into the lifeboat with us." [Lightoller, pp. 252-3.]
Whiteley said the same thing. Why would they have lied ?
In any case, I think that Jack died at sea of hypothermia and exhaustion and you must be right if he didn't recover it's certainly because of problem on the life jacket. It was not very tough.
That's not easy to know the truth.
But Lightoller said :
"Phillips, the senior wireless operator, standing near me, told me the different ships that had answered our call . . . . poor old Phillips did not live to benefit by it. He hung on till daylight came in and we sighted one of the lifeboats in the distance . . . . he suddenly slipped down, sitting in the water, and though we held his head up he never recovered. I insisted on taking him into the lifeboat with us." [Lightoller, pp. 252-3.]
Whiteley said the same thing. Why would they have lied ?
In any case, I think that Jack died at sea of hypothermia and exhaustion and you must be right if he didn't recover it's certainly because of problem on the life jacket. It was not very tough.