Resurfaced witness account from Titanic survivor tells horror of sinking
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Although she was supposed to be unsinkable with the double bottom, the iceberg had cut her from forward on the starboard side to the engine room, right through her two bottoms,” Prentice said. “We had 16 lifeboats and each carried 50, and if they’d been filled we could have saved 800, whereas we only saved 500,” Prentice added. “She was sinking fast then, and all of a sudden she lifted up quickly and you could hear everything crashing through her,” he said. And then she went down and seemed to come up again, so I thought, ‘Well now I’m going to leave.’” Prentice hung onto a board and felt himself getting higher and higher as the boat capsized before he fell into the water “with a terrific crack”.
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