Last Night on the Titanic: The Bakers

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode we are looking at the life of Charles Joughin, a colorful character who has appeared in both film version of the Titanic. After the sinking, Joughin claimed he knew it was an iceberg that struck the ship because he saw a polar bear— and it waved to him (although, it should be noted, he told this story to nieces and nephews largely to mask the horror of that last night aboard the Titanic).

At around 12:15 a.m. Joughin began rousing his kitchen staff. Six of his men were already working, and the others he got up out of their beds. “All hands out. All hands out of your bunks.” He directed each of them to take four loaves up for the life boats, fifty-two loaves in all. Joughin’s staff consisted of ten bakers, two confectioners, and a Vienna baker. Of the fourteen of them, ten had worked on the Olympic, the Titanic’s sister ship, and many of them had worked together.

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1:02.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
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1:17.0	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:20.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to our series on the last night on the Titanic.
1:29.0	We are looking at the cast of characters that made up the fateful night for when the ship went down.
1:34.0	Joined as always by my co-host on the series, Veronica Hinky.
1:38.0	Veronica, how are you?
1:39.0	Hi Scott, I'm well and looking forward to talking with you.
1:43.0	Yeah, we set the things up in our previous episode where we introduced what the series was going to be about
1:48.0	and trying to get out of the simple narrative that most people would know about the Titanic,
1:54.0	probably because they just saw the movie in 97 and just think about things in terms of first, second, and third class.
2:00.0	But there's way more to it.
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