(texting in a group chat)
Pitman: (posts a super low-quality image)
Lightoller: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image, I'd have 15 cents.
Lowe: If I had a dollar for every ounce of rage I felt in my body after I read this text, I would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you.
Boxhall: Actually I did the math, Lights would have $225, not $0.15.
Pitman: I'm right here....
Moody: If I had a dollar I would buy a can of soda :)
Lowe: While you're there could you buy me an apply juice please?
Moody: Sorry, I only have a dollar.
Lowe: :(
Boxhall: WAIT Lights would have $22,500 because it's a dollar for every pixel, not a cent.
Moody: If I had $22,500 I would buy a can of soda and an apply juice.
Wilde: You can buy anything you want with $22,500.
Lightoller: Yeah and he wants soda and apply juice.
Murdoch: Apply juice to what?
Lowe: Directly to the forehead.
Captain Smith: Great chat everyone.
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You're in Washington, D.C., capital of a foreign country. You're being questioned by a hardass Senator who doesn't know stem from stern. Your boss is boring holes into you from nearby (above, far left, pen to his mouth). You're surrounded on all sides by company officials, politicians, reporters, their wives--all of whom want to see heads roll. Your head, in particular. Your senior officer is sitting beside you for "moral support" (below, circled), but he would rather be anywhere but here. You don't blame him. It's claustrophobic. The wind outside is whistling like the howls of the damned.
The hardass Senator asks you to describe the screaming.
Titanic sank a week ago. You're Herbert Pitman, her third officer, and you really, really don't want to describe the screaming.
But before that, he asks you about your fellow officers.
Sen. SMITH: "You, of course, knew Officer Murdoch?"
PITMAN: "Well, sir."
Although you had never been assigned the same ship before, you knew him as regulars of the Atlantic run, and considered him a good friend. Titanic would be the first and last time you served with him.
Sen. SMITH: "And but four of the officers of the Titanic survived?"
PITMAN: "Four. That is correct, sir."
Sen. SMITH: "Three besides yourself?"
PITMAN: "Three besides myself."
The Senator harasses you about icebergs for what feels like hours. You give as short answers as possible to get it over with quicker. The papers will describe you as stolid.
Focus shifts to the day of the collision--April 14th. Word among the officers was that you might come upon ice during Mr. Murdoch's watch. You hadn't paid it any mind then; you just went to bed. You only had four hours to sleep between watches and you intended to use every bit of them.
You had this odd dream that the ship was coming to anchor, or so you believed, until Boxhall told you you'd struck an iceberg, that there was water in the mail room, and Moody told you there was ice on the well deck, and the fleeing firemen told you their cabins were flooding, and you replied with "That is funny."
Even as you swung out and loaded a lifeboat, you didn't think Titanic would sink. Murdoch told you to man the boat and come around to the after gangway. You thought you were better off on the ship.
Murdoch shook your hand-
"Goodbye, old man, good luck."
You pause, the color draining from your face. He knew. He knew, and he sent you away, so you would live.
"I never saw him again."
Your low words do not make it onto the inquiry transcript. You go on to tersely describe what you saw of the sinking, until suddenly the question returns:
Sen. SMITH: "When you shook hands with Murdoch and bade him goodbye, did you ever expect to see him again?"
PITMAN: "Certainly, I did."
Sen. SMITH: "Do you think, from his manner, he ever expected to see you again?"
PITMAN: "Apparently not. I expected to get back to the ship again, perhaps two or three hours afterwards."
Sen. SMITH: "But he, from his manner, did not expect that?"
PITMAN: "Apparently not."
It is all you can say. The Senator asks why Murdoch ordered you to go to the after gangway. You did not know then--you did not think the ship would sink then, you did not think to pick up more passengers then. You didn't go back. You should have. You should have listened.
The Senator asks you to describe the screaming. You didn't go back. He asks you to describe the screaming. You tell him you'd rather not speak of it. He asks you to-
PITMAN: "I would rather that you would have left that out altogether."
Sen. SMITH: "I know you would; but I must know what efforts you made to save the lives of passengers and crew under your charge. If that is all the effort you made, say so-"
PITMAN: "That is all, sir."
Sen. SMITH (cont'd): "And I will stop that branch of my examination."
PITMAN: "That is all, sir; that is all the effort I made."
You choke on your words. The silence that follows is deafening, and damning, broken up only by the moaning wind.
You should have listened.
(everything in this account is true. references:
https://strangeago.com/2017/07/14/third-officer-look-titanic-tell-sinking-great-ship/
https://www.titanicinquiry.org/USInq/AmInq04Pitman01.php
with images and further information from: https://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic_05_pitman_06.html)
Harold Lowe's is because of the infamous "why is everyone running around what do you mean we hit an iceberg no I didn't feel the collision I was busy sleeping" moment, and for the rest of them... um... just look at them
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Titanic Officer Barbie Movie Posters (and 1 fun fact about each of the officers!)
(Because why not)
Feel free to save as phone wallpapers š
Iāve decided to include our babeypurser McElroy because the role of Purser is sometimes regarded as an officer role. Among all the officers, Lightoller (B), Pitman (5), Boxhall (2) and Lowe (14) survived the sinking. McElroy was the only officer whose body was recovered and identified; he was buried at sea.
Now to the fun facts!
Henry Wilde: he was already captain and was set to command the SS Cymric for the Liverpool to Boston Route. Unfortunately, the coal strike happened and his first voyage with Cymric was delayed to presumably 1st May. White Star Line decided to put him in onto the crew of Titanic as Chief Officer.
As you guys may know already, Henry Wilde is my favourite officer so itās not surprising that I have been posting about him for this April. I also am currently doing a series of TikToks for his actions throughout Titanicās maiden voyage as wellš
Hereās my post about Wilde being made aware of joining Titanic
This is my post on the Crew Shuffle if anyone would like to read more about it
William Murdoch: Charles Lightoller thought his bestieās moustache make him look ugly so he grew his moustache so that Will could shave. Nevertheless, we all think otherwise.
Charles Lightoller: of course, his role as one of the captains of the little ships during the Dunkirk Evacuation. He saved around 130 lives in it with his family yacht, the Sundowner.
Side note: currently, the Sundowner is a museum ship in Ramsgate but sadly, the yacht is in a bad condition and we need money to repair. I know I donāt have much high opinions on the British (yeah except Henry Wilde), despite having been living in England for almost 5 years, but Lightoller has been one of the most intriguing figures to me; being through 4 shipwrecks and fire, also living through Titanic, WWI, and Dunkirk, his story of hope and survival is worth a movie. If you would like to help preserving a piece of history, please consider donate to help save this famous getaway yacht little shipš
Donate here
And hereās the campaign video by our TikTok Lightoller Fan Club President Melissa on saving the getaway yacht
Herbert Pitman: despite suffering from seasickness, this son of a farmer had a more than half-century long seafaring career, retiring in 1946. He started his career as an apprentice, then a deck officer and when he could not pass the eye test due to colour blindness at one eye, White Star Line made him a purser and he stayed in this position for the rest of his career. Pitman served in both world wars on troop ships; when he retired, he was a Lieutenant-Commander of the Royal Naval Reserves and was created an MBE in 1948, in recognition of his long service in the merchant marine.
Joseph Boxhall: he had a very happy marriage with his wife Majory and they were very fond of their dogs. This may be a substitute to children given that they do not have children together but anyways if anyone asked why you havenāt had kids yet, tell them about the Boxhalls and their doggos š¶
Harold Lowe: he was a hobby artist who works with watercolours, as well as wood carvings. This may come across as surprising but you should not be surprised given that his father was an artist. There are a few of Haroldās drawings exists today, including a sketch of Titanic (in which he messed up with the funnels). Oh yes, he was also in the church choir as well when he was young.
James Moody: During his South American runs, he would sometimes flirt with female passengers with his very patchy Spanish and well, sometimes he just dropped in some swear words by accident. Yeah, in case you wondered, heās not that shy as you thought after watching Edās portrayal of our daring Jim in the 1997 movie (the real Jim was quite cheeky actually).
Hugh McElroy: as the shipās purser, he was there to take care of passengersā needs (like heās basically the āmanagerā). From parrot-tending (yes, and he trained the parrot to do morse code) to organising marriage ceremonies for runaway couples, heās there to try to help. And as a result, he was a very popular man on the ship and passengers were honoured to share a table with him.
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Sources:
TitanicOfficers.com
@/Melissafairlady on tiktok (the revenge āstache fact)
Encyclopaedia Titanica forum (the discussion thread on Moody)
Why do I care so much more about the officers, who had a combined total of maybe 15 minutes of screentime in a 3 hour movie, than I do about Jack and Rose š¤£š¤£š¤£
At 12:05 AM--25 minutes after that bumping, grinding jar--Captain Smith ordered Chief Officer Wilde to uncover the boats ... First Officer Murdoch to muster the passengers ... Sixth Officer Moody to get out the list of boat assignments ... Fourth Officer Boxhall to wake up Second Officer Lightoller and Third Officer Pitman. The Captain himself then walked about 20 yard down the port side of the Boat Deck to the wireless shack.
