Last Night on the Titanic: The Cooks

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The cooks and other support staff of the Titanic “drowned like rats” due to not being assigned a clear place in the pecking order of escapees. One who did survive was French cook Paul Mauge, who used his extraordinary wits to survive. This episode chronicles how cooks like Mauge arrived on the Titanic, how they survived (or didn't), and what it was like for the service personnel on the night the ship went down.

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1:05.8	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, myth busts historical lies,
1:11.5	and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world. I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:18.6	Hi everyone. Welcome back to our last night on the Titanic series where we're looking at the
1:29.5	very different and diverse set of lives that were on the Titanic that night it went down and
1:34.4	really made the Titanic so memorable. It wasn't just the aristocrats, it wasn't just third class,
1:39.5	but many people from many different backgrounds have many different stories to tell. We're trying
1:45.0	to do our best again into some of those stories. That's what this podcast is all about.
1:48.8	Join as always with Veronica Hinky, the expert on the topic. Veronica, how are you?
1:54.1	I'm well, Scott. I've been looking forward to talking with you about the cooks and the ice
1:59.3	cream makers. Yeah, I'm very interested in this because I enjoyed our episode talking about the
2:04.9	baker. You get people from very colorful backgrounds and I imagine cooks will be exactly the same.
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