Titanic Tropes: Radio Operators' Last Moments (1912-1997)

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Scenes depicting Titanic's radio operators in the ship's last moments.
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@MightyMezzo Ай бұрын

Something really heartbreaking about the closeup of Jack Phillips’ face in “SOS Titanic.”

@FFFFilms662 7 күн бұрын

Really shows How determined Phillips was to get a ship close enough to save everyone…

@trustno173 Ай бұрын

Never forget the 96' Jack Phillips is played by Matt Hill, the voice of Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy!

@NorthWestern1919 Ай бұрын

Well... the more you know!

@CaptainJZH Ай бұрын

Phillips: "The Carpathia will tell the Olympic and the Olympic will tell Cape Race and Cape Race will just sit there and watch TV!!"

@randomlyentertaining8287 Ай бұрын

"The first wireless officer remains unshaken at his post." Umm, they look very shaken and panicked lol For any that somehow don't know, the last anyone heard from Titanic's wireless was; SOS SOS CQD CQD TITANIC CQD THIS IS TITANIC CQD THIS IS

@chadbrown748 Ай бұрын

The part of Captain Smith telling the wireless operators, Bride and Phillips to "abandon [their] cabin" is quite accurate, according to many books about the Titanic"

@Rudnaz_127 Ай бұрын

"Blimey you've killed him!" "Well he didn't deserve to die like a sailor." Phillips gave no sh*ts.

@Silver_Owl Ай бұрын

1:54 David McCallum. Such a great actor, and only in his mid twenties here.

@deweymartin678 Ай бұрын

He sadly passed away on Sept. 28 I think

@Silver_Owl Ай бұрын

@@deweymartin678 Yes - September 25th last year.

@deweymartin678 Ай бұрын

He was one of my favorite British actors Philips, Kenneth griffin

@deweymartin678 Ай бұрын

Died 10 years ago

@aidandunn1009 Ай бұрын

I hope the bird That Harold Bride rescued in the 1943 version somehow made it 2 land.

@NorthWestern1919 Ай бұрын

It's possible, not certain, but possible, that after Bride last saw Phillips, Phillips actually went back to the wireless room and stayed at the key until the very end. There's no concrete evidence, of course, but it's possible, and it seems like something Phillips would have done. Not to downplay the other heroic actions of that night, but perhaps the greatest heroes of the Titanic were John Phillips and Harold Bride. Were it not for the Marconi operators, Carpathia wouldn't have arrived on the scene and even the fate of those in the lifeboats would have been uncertain.

@CaptainJZH Ай бұрын

There is some indirect evidence of that; according to the radio logs Titanic's last two messages were at 2:10am and 2:17am respectively, and it was after 2:10am that the forward boat deck became flooded and Phillips & Bride abandoned the wireless room - meaning that unless there was a mistake in transcribing the times when messages were received, someone would have had to have been in the wireless room at 2:17am to transmit that message and the fact that the last message cuts off mid sentence ("CQD THIS IS TITANIC, CQD THIS IS") is particularly telling

@NJPurling Ай бұрын

The scuffle with the crewman attempting to steal the lifejacket : Was it from the testimony of Harold Bride?

@CaptainJZH Ай бұрын

@@NJPurling yes I believe so

@NorthWestern1919 Ай бұрын

@@CaptainJZH Yes, that's right! I wanted to mention that, but I didn't want to make any concrete statements. Walter Lord said it himself in A Night to Remember; only a fool would state themselves to be "final arbiter" on all that happened the night the Titanic went down. But that certainly gives some credit to the possibility that Phillips returned to the wireless room at the very end.

@jodij2366 Ай бұрын

@@CaptainJZH, in saying that, Lightoller claimed the senior wireless operator (i.e. Phillips) made it to Collapsible B, but later perished when he fell off into the water.

@jazdajazda2191 13 күн бұрын

Where did 1996 Phillips get that pipe from?

@William_Fred_James Ай бұрын

You forgot about "The Last Signals" which is a independent film made by Part time explorer

@CaptainJZH Ай бұрын

True, although I was mostly focusing on major film adaptations

@germanname1990 Ай бұрын

I’m not the kind of person who believes in giving up even when there’s not much of a choice. In addition, I tend to have a case of tunnel vision when handling certain tasks because I’m very keen on getting them done. That said, I very likely would’ve done the same thing as Phillips did. He kept going even after he was told he could do no more. Now some of you may notice just by looking at my avatar just how big of a game show fan I am. I remember a few years ago, there was this Final Jeopardy! clue in which the category was about the Titanic. The answer was in regards to many people saying that 700 people lived because of “this Italian.” I didn’t get the correct question because of the way the clue was written out, but for those who want to take a jab at it, this heroic Italian was alive at the time of the disaster but was not on board.

@CaptainJZH Ай бұрын

Guglielmo Marconi?

@germanname1990 Ай бұрын

@@CaptainJZH Yep. Who is Guglielmo Marconi?

@frankrtwiw Ай бұрын

Why did the 1943 radiomen have a canary?

@endermanwithalowercasee 20 күн бұрын

Probably the least egregious inaccuracy in that one honestly, if you've never seen it it was a Nazi propaganda movie made during World War 2. As for why, the writers probably just liked the idea so they could have the touching final the scene we saw in the video

@CanalPSG Ай бұрын

Is there any historical truth in the sailor trying to steal the life jackets?

@dogman15 Ай бұрын

It was in Harold Bride's testimony, so that's kind of the only source we have. The knocked-out sailor (who was either killed then or died while unconscious) would be unidentified among the hundreds of male crew members who perished that night.

@WeaselKing1000 Ай бұрын

Harold Bride described a man who he thought to be a fireman (stoker) coming in and trying to steal the lifejacket, and then the two operators knocking him out. As dogman15 says, it's the only source we have (Phillips didn't survive and the fireman certainly wouldn't have), but there's no particular reason to disbelieve it that I can see.

@CanalPSG Ай бұрын

Thank you both!👍

@FFFFilms662 Ай бұрын

Harold Bride Said there was so much coal Dust on his face he thought he was African at first.

@dogman15 14 күн бұрын

@@FFFFilms662 I suppose that makes the depiction shown here to be slightly inaccurate. How much coal dust did that actor have on his face?

@William_Fred_James 29 күн бұрын

Yea, you also forgot Atlantic, it also features the marcroni officer.