Titanic Fitting Out Engineering
Continues technical work while Titanic is fitted out at Harland and Wolff.
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Engineers, firemen, trimmers, boiler-room work and engineering operations during Titanic's voyage and disaster.
These records are rendered directly from the current World History Database Titanic archive. The unrelated 2003 Edmund Hillary row remains excluded from the Titanic collection.
Continues technical work while Titanic is fitted out at Harland and Wolff.
Is on duty in boiler room 6 when seawater enters rapidly after Titanic strikes the iceberg.
Dies with the ship after remaining below with members of Titanic's engineering department.
Leads Titanic's engineering department as the crew works to maintain power and pumping after the collision.
Escapes Titanic in lifeboat 13 after leaving the engineering spaces.
Escapes in emergency lifeboat 1 with other crew members and first-class passengers.
Escapes in lifeboat 13 and helps manage the heavily loaded boat after it reaches the water.
Sends an urgent engine-room order explaining that Titanic is in distress and that maximum speed is required.
Gives evidence about his engineering duties and lifeboat 13 during the British investigation.
Begins giving evidence about boiler-room flooding, watertight doors and his escape from Titanic.
Gives evidence about engineering conditions and the conduct of emergency lifeboat 1.
Gives evidence about engineering work, the evacuation and his escape from Titanic.
Gives evidence about the evacuation and his escape in emergency lifeboat 1.
Describes flooding in Titanic's boiler spaces during testimony taken aboard Olympic in New York Harbor.
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