Titanic Survivor Frank Prentice - BBC Great Liners Interview (1979)

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Titanic Survivor Frank Prentice - BBC Great Liners Interview (1979)

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Frank Prentice, a storekeeper on the Titanic, tells of the Titanic's voyage, loading the lifeboats and surviving in the frigid water after being one of the last people to leave the sinking Titanic.
Portions of this interview were originally aired on BBC2 on October 27, 1979 as part of the special, “The Great Liners." This interview was pieced together from a combination of archival video footage and audio clips from the BBC Archive. This interview reflects the known contents of the interview between those two sources.
Read the full annotated transcript of this interview: titanicarchive...
Film Sources:
- A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
- Titanic (1996), dir. Robert Lieberman / Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
- Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
- Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV
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@3UZFE 6 ай бұрын

You can sense the emotion & conviction when he tells his account of that night. He is reliving those moments which only makes it more powerful to listen to, and 67 years later. Incredible.

@AnthonyPoschet 6 күн бұрын

@@3UZFE what I actually like about these interviews is that emotions are really not in play here. He tells us what he has seen.

@siddharthnaagar7028 4 ай бұрын

For him to remember an incident which took place 67 years ago, moment by moment, piece by piece just shows his intelligence and the horrors of that tragedy

@melindamercier6811 2 ай бұрын

In psychology, it’s memory from an Impact Event. These type of events engrain themselves in people’s minds and the people can recall even the most minute and insignificant details at the time of the event. It’s why so many people can remember where they were, what they were eating for breakfast, or learning in class, or what they had on their minds when 9/11 happened.

@ricklynn6176 12 күн бұрын

“You’d think I’m too old for nightmares. But you’d be amazed.” chilling statement right there.

@drumgk 4 ай бұрын

Frank Prentice gives a chilling and accurate testimony. Seems like the type of man you could sit down by the fireplace with and just listen for hours. I imagine that he has many stories to tell.

@DannyBoy777777 2 ай бұрын

Well, duh. He was there. Why wouldn't it be accurate.....

@peteleoni9665 8 ай бұрын

The most comprehensive testimony imo.

@FannyShmellar 7 ай бұрын

You are dead right. Unbelievable account and no bullshit

@carpediem4887 5 ай бұрын

@@FannyShmellar look for the recorded account of Joseph Groves Boxall and Eva Hart also Charles Lightoller and Edith Russell All very good listens

@talkaboutwacky 6 ай бұрын

9:27 Seeing the tears in his eyes as he recollects that horrible night makes me so sad.

@PeachesMagee 4 ай бұрын

Such a very humble and gentle man xxx

@kmalcolm5352 5 ай бұрын

'and the whole thing comes around again' - understatement of the year. That poor man. Dignified to a fault but that man is haunted.

@pumpkensdiapers1417 6 ай бұрын

My God. I couldn’t imagine. I could really see his story. Bless him for saving Mrs. Clark

@talkaboutwacky 6 ай бұрын

By saving her she saved him. When he saw her face as he was pulled into the lifeboat it must've blown him away that it was the same woman he had gotten onto that lifeboat earlier.

@KhalidKhan-wr2ne 3 ай бұрын

At the time of interview, there had been 67 years of the incident. Had he been 23 yeàrs of age then he would be roughly 90 years of age in 1979. But he seems much younger than his age and the way he is recalling the moment by moment development, shows his extraordinary intelligence.

@ArronP 2 ай бұрын

he was 18 on titanic, ppl say he was older, 2 docs said he was 18 on titanic

@user-oo5zb3ww6s 8 ай бұрын

Sad rip Frank Prentice

@brynteelingtheriverthieves3266 8 ай бұрын

I don’t think he has passed .

@TorontoJediMaster 8 ай бұрын

@@brynteelingtheriverthieves3266 He died in May of 1982, at the age of 93. He was the second last surviving member of the crew.

@RailPreserver2K 3 ай бұрын

Did any crew live long enough to see ballard find the ship in 85? @@TorontoJediMaster

@johngunne3327 8 күн бұрын

@@brynteelingtheriverthieves3266 🤣🤣🤣 for crying out loud it was 112 years ago 🤣 (112: that's one hundred and twelve), you REALLY think someone, especially an adult from that era, would still be alive? 🤣 🤡

@redriver6541 3 күн бұрын

This was AMAZING. Thank you so very much for putting this up here. Love from Western Kentucky.

@Herblay63 3 ай бұрын

Joined the Royal Tank Regiment in WW1, became a Major and went on to win an MC. I'm not surprised he tells us that he occasionally has a nightmares. He has lived through a lot.

@benjiarehart2878 3 ай бұрын

So glad he survived, after helping others. It's crazy that he glazes over when talking about being in the freezing water. That's the kind of man that he was. Not a complainer, or victim. Just a strong, good human being. Once, when my water heater broke, I had to take a very cold shower. I thought about him at that very moment. How he was in way colder water than I was temporarily experiencing. R.I.P. Frank Prentice. You are my hero!

@macflod Ай бұрын

Yeah! He is of the stoic generation, the stiff upper lip era. He does not complain but does his job. Sad at the end when he mentions he will probably have a nightmare that night! He basically is suffering PTSD but probably does not know that and he didn’t make a big deal of it but simply says that he is not too old for that. Im so glad he survived and that mrs Clark who he helped was able to help him after he was rescued!

@ruthhaynes1104 10 күн бұрын

So thankful he survived and helped so many

@abigailisvirtual3358 6 күн бұрын

Poor man, only a miracle saved this poor man. Absolutely terrifying listening to what he has been through.God rest his soul.

@rambler123 10 күн бұрын

I can’t imagine. Bless his soul. He was haunted. See the tears in his eyes

@jocelynastheart2732 8 ай бұрын

It been said truly the night lives on!

@jeffscomp Ай бұрын

It’s amazing he survived and that anybody survived in the cold. The titanic held up for a couple of hours which was a blessing from God to spare some people.

@KhalidKhan-wr2ne 4 ай бұрын

Simply a great hero.

@andrewmacdonald4833 2 күн бұрын

A very brave man...like so many of his generation, he served in the Great War and was awarded the Military Cross.

@tomjones4105 5 ай бұрын

It's interesting to hear how the experienced sailors increased there chances of survival as the ship went down.

@joedimauro1065 5 ай бұрын

He didn’t know it was just a few plates that separated not the whole double bottom

@notsheepish8304 6 ай бұрын

They don't make watches like they used to

@Mattygoupil-i2t Ай бұрын

He must of been close to dead, spending about 20 minutes in the freezing 28 degree water.

@LiaBunny93 22 күн бұрын

omg he still has nightmares about it!! 😢

@pumpkensdiapers1417 6 ай бұрын

😢❤

@cste1845 4 ай бұрын

9:30 When he's talking about having nightmares 😥

@ArronP 4 ай бұрын

*only saved 500? could of saved 800? they saved 705...idk what hes talking about ...**03:40** even if they were filled to capacity close to idk 900-1000 ppl saved..the loss of life would of still been high....but I'm wondering if he's talking about how much crew were saved? alot of the crew went down with the ship.. cause he surely must know that 705 were saved in all and 1500 lost and to say there was only 4 ppl when he went up to the stern?? really?? 2200 ppl on board and only 4 were there?? huum....anyhow I bet this interview was done years before 1979* can someone answer this question. it was listing to port? it hit the ship on the starboard side, why was it not listing on the collision side?

@emospiderbutton 4 ай бұрын

correct, but any life saved is better than a life lost.

@esv5182 3 ай бұрын

So he had the numbers off a bit. He was 90 yrs old at the time of this interview. Cut the man some slack..lol

@titanicarchive Ай бұрын

The numbers varied over the years, and only within the last decade or so has a consensus been reached by historians that 712 survived the sinking. As to the Titanic's list during the sinking: There was an initial 5-degree list to starboard shortly after the collision, then due to several factors, the ship listed to port before its final plunge. There are many accounts of passengers having to jump across a large gap into the lifeboats on the port side late in the sinking.

@cordwangle19 Күн бұрын

Prentice was quite correct about a list to port later in the sinking; many survivors reported it. There was a working corridor running much of the length of the port side of the ship on a lower deck, and it’s thought likely that it provided easier ingress to the water even though the ship struck on (and at first listed to) the starboard side.