The Survivors of The Titanic Disaster Essay Example

The sinking of the Titanic is something that will live with us forever. There are a lot of facts and storys that most dont know about. Most people know that the Titanic hit an iceberg making the ship sink. Knowing the storys from onboard survivors helped to piece together what happened, and give us the knolage that we know about the Titanic today. Some of the peoples storys most dont know about and they give a bigger picture to what happened to some of the survivors after the ship sank.

Masabumi Hosono is a little known name among the survivers of the RMS Titanic’s sinking. Masabumi was a second class passenger on the Titanic, and at the time of the ship starting to sink he was sleeping. He was woken up by a crew member, and at first he thought that it was a drill. Masabumi tried to head to the upper decks, but was mistaken for a third class passenger and was instructed to go to the lower decks and wait there for instructions. He managed to evade the instructions given to him and got up to the boat deck. When he got there he had realized upon the scene that there were not enough lifeboats for all of the people on the boat. Masabumi had written in the Titanic heading paper, “All the while flares signalling emergency were being shot into the  air ceaselessly, and hideous blue flashes and noises were simply  terrifying. Somehow I could in no way dispel the feeling of utter dread  and desolation…” He found himself not wanting to disgrace Japan, but in the panic of it all he still found himself waiting to survive. 

As Masabumi saw one after another lifeboat being launched he began to comtemple the inevitabliity of his death. For when an officer had shouted that there was room left for two more. He was not going to get on the boat, but then he saw another man jump onto the boat, and fearing that he would never see his wife and kids again he jumped into the lifeboat. When Masabumi was only 200 feet away from the sinking ship he could hear the screaming of people still onboard the ship, and the exploins that were happening as the ship broke up. He had grabbed a piece of Titanic heading paper out of his pocket and started to write down what had happened. The paper that he had used to write on is the only testimony that was writin on the Titanics stationary. When Masabumi had got to the United States his account of what happened ended up making him famous. In his case his fame did not last very long. For when he had got back to Japan a story of him and the other man that jumped on the lifeboat disguised themselves as women to survive the whole sinking of the ship. That did not end well for him because he was shamed out of his family, plus he had lost his job over it all too. In the eyes of Japan he had shamed his family and country. For the other men on the boat they gave their spots on a lifeboat to a woman or child. 

Charles Joughin is the head chef of the Titanic, but most dont know what he did or how he had survived the Titanics sinking. At the time that the ship was hitting the ship Charles was in the kitchen drinking whiskey. When they started to put people on the lifeboats Charles and the other chefs were assigned to bring food to put on the lifeboats. When he was up there he was helping women and children get on the boats. When a woman refused to go on the lifeboat because she thought that they would be safer on board the Titanic, he forced the women onto the boat. After he was done helping people he went back to his cabin and started to drink again. He was trying to get as drunk as he could before he died. After he had finished the rest of the whiskey that he had, Charles went to the B deck to throw chairs overboard to be used as floatation devices for the people in the freezing water. He then went to the front of the ship and held onto the safety rails and rode the ship like an elevator to the freezing water (he was the last person to get off of the Titanic.) He had then swam in the -2 degree Alantic ocean water for three hours until a lifeboat came and saved him. He had managed to swim in the cold water longer than the other passengers because of the amount of whiskey that he had coursing through him. The only thing that he came out of the water with was swollen feet. 

On another occasion is a woman who survived the RMS Titanics sinking. Violet Jessop is the world's most unsinkable woman. She was born in 1887, Violet came into the world fighting and beating every odd. She had survived tuberculosis as a child when no one said she would say that she would just die. Violet goes on to get on the RMS Olympic. Not too long after aboarding the ship the Olympic had hit the RMS Hawke. Never sank, and both ships managed to get back to the ports. You would think that would be enough for Violet here but you are wrong. She then had proseded to get on the RMS Titanic. Just five days after boarding the ship, the ship had ended up sinking in the Atlanic ocean. She had survived the Titanics sinking. Violet was boarded onto lifeboat number 16. Right before they launched the lifeboat a stranger's baby was thrusted into Violet's hands. At a certain point while on the lifeboat they were thinking about the baby and eating it. They had decided not to and shortly after that they got rescued by Carpathia. She then after all that survived the sinking of the Titanics sister ship the HMHS Britannic.

With all of the seven hundred survivors from the Titanic there are interesting stories that give the Titanic a better lighting onto what had happened the tragic night. Most don’t know some of the peoples storys. But I will find it enlightening to read about them. There are only three of the storys here but there are so many more to be told and read about.