TITANIC: Survivors and Lost Souls

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Part 3/3. News of Titanic's fate sent shockwaves around the world; stories and illustrations of that fateful night splashed across newspaper stands on every corner. One town was affected more than most: Southampton. It's said everyone in the Southern English port knew someone who had perished on the Titanic.

In today's episode, Dan travels to the Southampton SeaCity museum to meet with Andy Skinner, Learning Engagement Officer and Titanic expert to discover what happened to survivors after the Carpathia arrived in New York and the effect on the town. You'll hear the stories of the crew who survived and had no choice but to go back out to sea, of artefacts rescued from the ship, like a watch that stopped at the moment its owner plunged into the freezing Atlantic and the fate of the unsinkable stoker' Arthur John Priest 'as Dan and the History Hit team search for his grave.

Listen to part one of this series TITANIC: The Unsinkable Ship here and part two TITANIC: A Night to Remember here.

This episode was produced by Mariana Des Forges. Mixed and mastered by Dougal Patmore. The Assistant Producer is Hannah Ward.

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0:00.0	Hi buddy, welcome down to Snow's History. This is part three of a mini series about Titanic,
0:06.0	one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. It happened 110 years ago this April.
0:12.2	Parts one and two of the series follow the maiden voyage, a blow by blow account for
0:16.4	the collision with the iceberg and the sinking of the ship.
0:20.0	But this, part three, I'm visiting a city that was uniquely affected by the tragedy.
0:25.2	Of the 685 crew members who perished when Titanic sank, 549 were from Southampton.
0:32.6	So I'm heading to the Sea City Museum in Southampton. I'll be meeting Andrew Skinner,
0:36.9	he's a learning engagement officer at that wonderful museum, and he'll be talking to me through
0:40.9	the stories of survivors. He'll be showing me items rescued from the ship that made it back.
0:46.5	We're also going to be finding out the astonishing fate of Arthur John, priest, the so-called
0:52.6	unsinkable stoker who you'll have heard about in parts one and two. And we'll be hearing about all
0:57.4	those whose lives were changed forever. If you want to watch a documentary about Titanic as well as
1:03.4	listen to wonderful Titanic content, you can do so at History Hit TV. It's the world's best
1:06.8	history channel for a very small subscription. It's yours. It's yours for taking. You just follow
1:11.3	the link in the description of this podcast and you get two weeks free when you sign up today.
1:16.2	But now join me as I had the beautiful Southampton to check out the Sea City Museum.
1:24.6	Andy, you're in your wonderful museum now. There's the sound effects of the world's greatest
1:28.7	Sea City Southampton. I was surrounded by images of the port at its peak, beautiful posters,
1:35.6	advertising exotic locations. We should be travelled to from here. And you've got models of
1:40.7	some of the ships that would apply the sea routes to Southampton. And as part of that, Titanic,
1:44.7	the greatest ship then a float was here as well. Absolutely. But the story of the Titanic and South
1:48.6	ampton really begins in the 1840s when the docks are first built. And over the course of the sort of
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