I Was There - The Sinking of the Titanic by Commander Lightoller (BBC, 1936) @TitanicsOfficers

Titanics Officers "I Was There - The Sinking of the Titanic" is a radio broadcast by Titanic's senior surviving officer, Charles Herbert Lightoller, heard on the BBC in 1936.

24 years after the sinking of the Titanic, Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller recounted his experiences for a 1936 BBC broadcast, allowing us to hear him describe his experience in his own words.

For a full transcript check here: http://www.titanicofficers.com/article_13.html

For more information on Second Officer Lightoller check here: http://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic_04_lightoller.html

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I Was There - The Sinking of the Titanic by Commander Lightoller (BBC, 1936)

Titanics Officers 2019-07-11 | "I Was There - The Sinking of the Titanic" is a radio broadcast by Titanic's senior surviving officer, Charles Herbert Lightoller, heard on the BBC in 1936.

24 years after the sinking of the Titanic, Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller recounted his experiences for a 1936 BBC broadcast, allowing us to hear him describe his experience in his own words.

For a full transcript check here: http://www.titanicofficers.com/article_13.html

For more information on Second Officer Lightoller check here: http://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic_04_lightoller.html

Titanic: The 1912 History Edition (Trailer)

Titanics Officers 2023-07-12 | Titanic: The 1912 History Edition - Trailer

Find out more:
http://titanicofficers.com/titanicmovie.html

Note: Only available to those who own a legal copy of the original film on Blu-ray or the digital equivalent.

You Are There - The Sinking of the Titanic (1955/HD)

Titanics Officers 2023-02-25 | Can you imagine what it would be like to have a reporter onboard with a camera during the sinking of the Titanic? In 1955, Walter Cronkite did just that, interviewing key characters such as Captain Smith, Bruce Ismay and First Officer Murdoch. In a documentary style that pre-dated the publication of Walter Lord's book "A Night to Remember" by six months, it is a fascinating blend of fictional dramatisation and historical accuracy.

Broadcast: 22 May 1955
Season 3, episode 38

Samuel Scott Murdoch - First Officer Murdochs Nephew (1998)

Titanics Officers 2021-05-15 | Samuel Scott Murdoch was interviewed outside the Dalbeattie Memorial tablet dedicated to his great uncle - the Titanic's First Officer Murdoch. More information here: williammurdoch.net/articles_03_dalbeattie_apology.html

The Mystery of Don Smith - Was he really Captain Smiths great nephew?

Titanics Officers 2020-08-03 | During the 1990s and early 2000s Don Smith appeared on TV and at Titanic conventions claiming to be Captain E.J. Smith's great nephew, even though Edward Smith only had a half-brother who was named Hancock from his mother's previous marriage. After Don Smith died in 2017, the mystery could finally be solved by looking into his family tree.

More information here: www.titanicofficers.com/article_29.html
Music: Incompetech "Decline"

Pitmans Titanic Artifacts (2016) trailer

Titanics Officers 2020-07-17 | In 2016, the BBC's popular television program, the "Antique's Roadshow," had a special guest - a descendant of Titanic's Third Officer Herbert Pitman, with three artifacts. The BBC removes any uploading of this segment on YouTube, despite its historical significance. However, an excerpt can be viewed at the following link:

titanicofficers.com/article_28.html

1962 BBC Broadcast: Titanics Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

Titanics Officers 2020-03-27 | 1962 BBC Broadcast: Titanic's Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

Originally broadcast 22 October 1962, when Fourth officer Boxhall had retired and was 78 years old. He died five years after this broadcast in 1967.

A full transcript and further information can be found here:
http://www.titanicofficers.com/article_24.html

And a detailed biography: http://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic_06_boxhall.html

Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall - A Night to Remember (1958)

Titanics Officers 2020-02-28 | Titanic’s Fourth Officer Boxhall on the set of “A Night to Remember” (1958). Footage shot by William MacQuitty (Producer)

For more information on Fourth Officer Boxhal check here: http://www.titanicofficers.com/titanic_06_boxhall.html

Sylvia Lightoller - A Night to Remember (1958)

Titanics Officers 2020-02-28 | Sylvia Lightoller, wife of the late Second Officer Lightoller on the set of “A Night to Remember” (1958) with actor Kenneth More who played her husband. Lightoller had died 6 years earlier in 1952 aged 78. The footage was shot by the film's producer William MacQuitty.

For more information check here: titanicofficers.com/titanic_04_lightoller_15.html

Titanic: The 1912 History Edition - Trailer

Titanics Officers 2019-11-04 | Titanic: The 1912 History Edition - Trailer

Find out more:
http://titanicofficers.com/titanicmovie.html

Note: Only available to those who own a legal copy of the original film on Bluray.

Titanic (Germany, 1943) - HD/English subtitles

Titanics Officers 2019-08-01 | Titanic is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin, commissioned by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels with the intent of showing not only the superiority of German filmmaking but also that British and American capitalism was responsible for the disaster. The addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer to the ship's crew was intended to demonstrate the superior bravery and selflessness of German men as compared to the British officers.

The film's original director, Herbert Selpin, was arrested during production after speaking out against the Nazi regime – he was later found hanged in prison – and the film was completed by Werner Klingler, who was not credited.

Dunkirk - A Personal Perspective - Interview with CH Lightoller (BBC, 1950)

Titanics Officers 2019-07-11 | Second officer of the Titanic, Charles Herbert Lightoller, was involved in a dramatic sea rescue during World War Two with the evacuation of soldiers from France. Code-named Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, took place between 26 May and 4 June 1940. Ten years later, and only two years before he died, Lightoller described his experiences in a BBC interview, broadcast on the 24th of May 1950.

In Night and Ice (In Nacht und Eis 1912) - Remastered English version of Titanic film

Titanics Officers 2019-06-26 | Only a few months after the sinking of the Titanic, an epic 40-minute recreation of the disaster was produced in Germany by 24-year-old Romanian director Mime Misu, entitled "In Nacht und Eis" or "In Night and Ice". It is the earliest surviving Titanic film, which has now been remastered, translated into English and re-released with a new score by Swiss composer Christophe Sturzenegger.

For more information on the film see this article here:
http://www.titanicofficers.com/article_12.html

For licensing information please contact the Deutsche Kinemathek: https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/

Captain Smith on the Olympic, New York (1911)

Titanics Officers 2019-04-06 | Captain EJ Smith, in summer uniform, on the starboard wing bridge of the R.M.S. Olympic in 1911. The name on the bulkhead has been later inked out frame by frame to suggest it was filmed on Titanic. Smith is noticeably uncomfortable about being filmed and wanders around nervously, smiling at the camera at the end.

Also a medium close up of Captain Smith with the bridge and wheel house behind him and to his left is a pedestal for a pelorus, a dial with a sighting device on top enables one to sight an object and determine what angle it is to the bow of the ship.

More information: www.titanicofficers.com

Monument to Captain EJ Smith (Lichfield, UK) July 1914

Titanics Officers 2019-03-09 | A statue, sculpted by Kathleen Scott, wife of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, was unveiled in July 1914 at the western end of the Museum Gardens in Beacon Park, Lichfield. The pedestal is made from Cornish granite and the figure is bronze. Lichfield was chosen as the location for the monument because Smith was a Staffordshire man and Lichfield was the centre of the diocese. The statue originally cost £740 (£70,000 with inflation) raised through local and national contributions.

More information: www.titanicofficers.com