Story about A Night to Remember / 铭记的夜晚 / 冰海沉船记 / 难忘之夜 / 冰海沉船
An account of the ill-fated maiden voyage of RMS Titanic in 1912. A successful attempt at an even-ha...
An account of the ill-fated maiden voyage of RMS Titanic in 1912.
A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from the standpoint of 2nd Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the most senior of the ill-fated ship's Deck Officer to survive the disaster. (Lightoller later went on to distinguish himself as a line British Naval Officer during the Firt World War and served as a Senior Naval Staff Officer (convoys) during WWII. Between war he owned and operated a successful family business producing pleasure craft.) His own survival of the sinking, along with several other, is shown atop one of the liner's two "collapsible" lifeboats which was capsized in floating off the liner as it sank. The picture depicts then known facts (c1958) as reported after the sinking; such as the woeful lack of adequate lifeboats, the ship's band playing true to the very end, White Star's co-owner Bruce Ismay's somewhat less than chivalrous departure from the sinking vessel -...
