How two men helped save over 700 lives from Titanic! (Jack Philips and Harold Bride episode 2)
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- In this video we conclude the story of Jack Philips and Harold Bride and tell the story of how these two men helped saved over 700 people on the night the Titanic went down.
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Alongside Frederick Barrett, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride are among my favorite Titanic figures in their story and their respective valiant efforts.
Love that you discussed the crew member who attempted to steal the life jacket. Such attention to detail.
Poor Harold Bride. 1st he had to deal with Philips going though tunnel version, not realizing that there's nothing more that they can do (& by this point in the sinking of the Titanic, power is so low, that the wireless no longer works.) Then deal with someone trying to steal Philips' life jacket (who I assume was still knocked out when water finally enters the wireless room. & let's not talk about having a lifeboat landing on top of him!
He & Lightroller went through heck during Titanic's final moments- & live to tell!
And then after making onto that upturned lifeboat, he had his feet still in that frigid water which badly injured them, thus making him barely able to climb up the rope latter onto the Carpathia by himself. Then while on the Carpathia, he had his feet bandaged up and rested for a while, then worked together with Harold Cottam to transmit official messages about the sinking to other ships in the area. He and Jack Phillips became good friends with Harold Cottam long before the Titanic’s sinking happened and I can’t imagine how Bride and Cottam must’ve felt to have been seeing each other again after that awful disaster.
It is thanks to Bride surviving that we have so much knowledge of what had happened in the Marconi Room throughout the sinking. Anyways, this has been a great series and I'm looking forward to Lusitania part 5.
Great video, Sam; honestly, I do feel sorry for Harold too but I have massive respect for Jack because sacrificing your live to try and save more than over 2,200 people (even though over 700 survived) is more heroic than a fictional superhero could do. You never need powers to save people because the true powers are human instincts, a feeling of care and a sense of duty (or at least in the 1910’s period when it comes to the rules of the sea).
But honestly, I think if it weren’t for the two men, more lives could’ve been lost.
Jack Phillips and Harold Bride only met each other at the start of the voyage. They worked so well together to say they hardly knew each other.
No, they had met and became friends before the voyage and they had also previously met and befriended Harold Cottam the Carpathia's wireless radio operator who had picked up the distress call they had sent.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY Watch Saving the Titanic about the engineers trying to save the ship . Thats where I got that information from it literally reenacts them meeting on the bridge and not having met before. I'm not saying you are wrong but if I'm wrong which is absolutely possible, I got it off that documentary. This is a quote off Google
In 1912 Bride joined the crew of the RMS Titanic as the junior wireless operator and assistant to Jack Phillips at Belfast, Ireland. Stories have appeared that Bride knew Phillips before the Titanic, but Bride insisted that they had never met before Belfast.
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Hey Sam, where is the the sinking episode of the Lusitania? You do a great job with these videos. I went to Cobh, Ireland on a cruise out of Southampton three years ago. I visited the Old Head of Kinsale, near where the Lusitania went down.
Your channel is honestly incredible!!! I found you only 3 weeks ago and I have almost watch every video. Including joining your Sunday live stream at 1.30am uk time 🇬🇧. Your passion for this topic is just amazing and I hope you continue. The way you can talk so fluidly and comfortably is a great talent.
Also the finger point is iconic x
Loving the channel just got into Titanic history and can't seem to get enough info. I have learned a lot rom your videos and want to thank you for the abundance of info you have put out.
Watching ur videos for a while now has taught me so much about history and what happened on titanic the night it went down and among others things
I’ve gotta say this is a awesome channel, content I didn’t know I needed! Can’t stop bingo e watching 🔥🔥👍👍
My kids are watching this and my oldest Jason Jr was like yayy new video hi Sam his words they love you man
HI JASON JR! Enjoy the video!
I love Titanic and I love learning all this new information from you😁. Keep up the amazing work👍
You should do a video on how the Carpathia's wireless radio operator Harold Cottam gave in to saving the lives of those people too! He had worked a little later than usual and was just in the process of getting ready for bed when he suddenly picked up the distress call Jack Phillips and Harold Bride had sent and his decision to awaken Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and inform him that the Titanic was in distress and needed their help is what got the Carpathia to arrive at the sinking location hours before any other ship and save all of those people. Harold Cottam also happened to have been good friends with Jack Phillips and Harold Bride before the voyage and I can't imagine how Cottam and Bride must've felt to have been seeing each other again after such tragedy and how it was their work along with Jack Phillips work together that helped save the lives of those people.
that model of the engine and boilers was impressive, you definitely are a true historian!
Great video. Almost makes one feel like they were there.
I always thought he was called Harold McBride, for many years. Thanks to this channel, little details like that are clarified for me.
Great Video... 🤩 you can really see how much work is in all your Videos.⚓
Greetings from Germany . I hope my sentence is right.😆
Please do a video on the Titanic's crew in the mailroom, they lugged 200 bags of mail up to save them until they couldn't any more & had to abandon them
I really like your little titanic collection behind you im very jealous. Also get and informative video
I love that huge Titanic model. It's awesome! Great video as always 🙂
Have you considered looking into the S.S. Pendleton story? The story of the tanker was adapted in the film “The Finest Hours” by Disney. The story is highly overlooked and underated. Cheers!
I watched that the other day. Excellent film !
@@iangarner8857 It really is, through there is a few historical inaccuracies. Mostly these were just to make the movie more intense. Still a good film either way!
Can’t wait for next Lusitania video.
Sam - I love all your models that you use! Great video again!
I’ve been anticipating this one since I finished part one!! I can’t wait to watch.
Great video I enjoyed it thank you
I loved this video and it is sad to hear the story of these two and I felt bad for harold but them two where heroes and as a video suggestion I would love to see a video on the HMS Victoria and its wreck
Great video keep going 👍
I always learn a lot with you, Sam! Thank you for this!
Great video as always! And I do play Titanic SOS! So I definitely need to come back to the game :)
This is so fun to watch
Your videos are so good and interesting dude! Keep up the good work!
I reacted very much when you started talk about the Roblox game Titanic SOS because I'm playing it sometimes.😅
Hey Sam I just got myself a Marconi key picked it up for like 400 Rand (25USD)
Very interesting Sam👍🇬🇧
Good work and carry on making awesome and interesting content as always and shame that they separate after spending all time in same room practically but they both heroes who did their duty to last minute like all the officers onboard the RMS Titanic
Hello, found your channel recently, I wondered if it'd be possible to have a discord invite that work, when I click on the previous one it doesn't. Thanks for the answer!
Hey Sam, great video. I have a question for you that I hope you could make a video of. It's about searchlights. I know searchlights existed in Titanic's day, but I don't know if the ship had any. Did the Titanic have searchlights, and if it did, would they had spotted the Iceberg in time?
It'd be great to see a video on the topic. Now, I'm not a native English speaker, but I think that "searchlight" is pretty much the same as "spotlight". If that's true, then I think it would not have been very useful, because you can only see a small point with the light, while everything outside the lightened area would be harder to spot. I found a video with a simulation on that. I'll provide the link: ua-cam.com/video/RoL7s_qV04w/v-deo.html
Anyway, I'd love to see Sam's take on the topic
@@carlosadriantinajerovelazc4338 ah well. How about if they put a giant drill on the front ship and turn it on when there about to hit the iceberg?XD
@@Leesoldier12 that'd be awesome XD
From an engineering point of view
The Titanic film seems to mix up the two. The guy who looks like Bride is working the radio (and in a deleted scene tells Californian to shut up) but this was actually Phillips
Hearing the bit about 4 hours made me think, what was the longest sinking in history? Potential video idea for slowest and quickest sinking in history maybe?
If those watertight compartments were only actually watertight i believe they all would have survived. At a engineering outlook I still can't believe the weren't actually watertight, I would call it cutting corners, but we can't do much but learn from our mistakes, such a human tragedy.
Great video Sam! Also I got a question, what if the carpathia never came to save the survivors?
The next ship in route would have picked them up there were other 🚢 ships but unfortunately they were further away hours away I believe it would have maybe ended a few more peoples lives,there were quit a few that jumped ship and were in the water before they got into a lifeboat,can you imagine being soaking wet with 31 degree sea water then exposed to 30 degree air temperature while your soaked, they had a real ruff 4 or so hours exposed to the raw elements, it must have been miserable to say the least,cant imagine
What about a new "what if" video - if Californien react to distress signals - in 2 scenarious. 1) Radio operator stays online and heard first distress from Titanic. 2) The crew on Californien decide to wake up radio operator after they saw a few rockets from Titanic.
They were so young almost kids😢😢😢
Bro I joined at the end
Let’s get sam to 100k subs by the end of the year
Great video sam hi olivia we love you
I wonder if Jack Phillips would have been able to survive if he left the wireless room at 1:57 am when Captain Smith relieved them of their duties instead of 2:09 am. I feel like if Jack didn't stay for another 12 minutes then he could have helped lower the last few collapsible lifeboats instead of running to the stern as the water wasn't on the bridge yet.
If they exited the officers quarters on the port side at this time (which they did later anyways), that would mean that collapsible D would have still been there. Of course Lighttoller wouldn't have let them in but Jack perhaps could have stayed behind and had a shot at surviving on collapsible B instead of moving to the stern and dying for certain.
Let's also discuss the scenario of them leaving the officers quarters on the starboard side at 1:57 am. Collapsible C would have been just about ready to be lowered and at this time Murdoch would have asked for any men to get onto the lifeboats since there were no women or children left at that part of the deck. In this scenario Jack and Harold would have been almost guaranteed to survive.
I always laughingly say that CQD was early morse shorthand for "come quick d@mmit!" LOL!
Nice that was interesting what if there’s one video that is about the sinking of the Bismarck german battle ship or the great molasses’s flood and my last suggestion is the SS Sultana those would be cool videos and I love your channel I learn a lot about the Dona Paz the Titanic the Wilhelm Gutloff and many more ship I just had to mention it ok cool video bug fan 👍.
Can you make Video Sinking of Carpathia
Could you make a video about Benjamin Guggenheim on the titanic and what happened to him on the titanic?
I understand that the engines working steam pressure was around 210 PSI
Can you make a video about titanic's unsinkable stocker? Earlier life, night of the sinking and later life.
the animations of the titanic in the video are really dark. was it actually like that or more like james cameron?
i think you should go down to the titanic and live stream it
Hey , Sam! I had an idea a few minutes ago that you can do a quick story on a famous shipwreck in my country , Romania. The ship was called "MV E Evanghelia" or "Evanghelia" as we romanians call it. It was a steam cargo ship build in Harland and Wolff in Belfast and launched on 28th of May 1942. The wreck happend on the 15th of October 1968 from a ship failure 1,5 km near Costinesti beach were it now lies , beached on a mound of sand. Aproxmatly 12 hours before the failure , the crew sent a SOS message with the message "Save our Soul" where the ship was in difficulties , the greeks (the ship's crew) got in touch with nearby help , they said their coordinates were somewhere on the Danube river where it was heading twords the shore very fast. The rescue ship "Voinicul" went to the rescue instanley , but when they got there , the ship was nowhere to be found . The full story is on Wikipedia , I'm writing this from the information given there , here is the link : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_E_Evangelia . I know it was not a sunk ship , rather a beached one , but I thought it whould be cool , since it kinda is like the Titanic in way. Hope you will cover this ship when you can.
Just looked it up, very interesting. There’s a possible insurance fraud mentioned as well. I find it amazing that it’s still beached there today, considering it ran aground in 1968.
@@mrkipling2201 But steel was stolen from it a couple of years ago , a giant hole on the port side is present , the wreck is In pretty good condition , besides the hole and the graffiti and the thick cut on it's bow section or around the funnel. Now the wreck is one of Costinesti's famous landmarks besides the Sphinx and what not. Also , fun fact , there was a rumour that the ship was transporting oranges , because locals said they saw a ton of oranges on the Black Sea.
@@thecommentingt34 really?? That’s interesting. Oranges would be transported on a ship like that so it’s possible.
@@mrkipling2201 Oh yes the steel was stolen,given by the giant hole you can see on wreck pictures of it,the oranges,well that's what rumours said,so yeah. I do love the fact it was build in the same exact shipyard as Titanic and her sister ships were built. If you want listen to her history in my native language to have a feel for it's current country,then search it like this(it's optional if you search in romanian or not,you may still find a lot of videos in my language so yeah) : Istoria navei Evanghelia. That's it,you may want to turn on English subtitles if the video lets you do that. I'm here every day if you need extra information,I'm willing to give my knowledge from my 2 visits to the wreck when I was young (now I'm 13 :D). Also,just looked it up even more it's starting to get eaten and get destroyed,oh well,just like Titanic,one day it will dissapear from the Costinesti beach for ever. It's still a mystery to us romanians who it got there in the first place,that's why a video from Sam on it would not be a terrible ideea,since her history is very weird and has quite a bit of mystery behind why the Greeks gave different coordinates every time and when rescue got there,the ship was nowhere to be found. Sam,if you are reading this, pictures for the video if you are planning to do it,this is a Google search method for finding both wreck and original ship images,here is my search,MV E Evanghelia 1942.
Like so Sam can see it.
@@thecommentingt34 absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the info. 👍👍
Lost ya for a bit (weeks) .. but found ya !
Excuse my ignorance if you've already covered it, but when you quote times what timezone was everyone using? Was there later any confusion with survivors using different times?
Sam covered this on the anniversary video a few weeks ago. I had often wondered. I am thinking it was two hours after London's and two hours before New York's actual time. However, now we have to adjust for daylight savings time if we want to mark the actual time.
I think he addressed this towards the beginning of the vid.
Its a shame that they had told the California to "shut up" Also wasnt a msg from the Mesaba not sent to the bridge?
Sam, @1:19, you say Murdoch commanded, to turn hard to starboard, which meant, to turn to port? You mean to starboard, correct 🤔?
Could you do a video about the sinking of the finnish ship HL Kuru in 1929?
Love the titanic videos I'm building a titanic model myself at the moment and I'd like to let you know about these titanic roll play games on roblox some are better than others but in my opinion the best one is titanic sos there's more than one with the same name but the right one is very realistic with real time sinking and exploring it has menny places on bord titanic to explore
Is ship time the same as Greenwhich Mean Time or Zulu time?
Hi Sam love your channel! I was just wondering if you have ever watched A Night to Remember ( the 1958 British version of the Titantic events). According to Rotten Tomatoes it’s 100%. Your thoughts?
I know I’m a bit late. But would it be possible to make a video responding to film theory’s titanic theory
They are indeed heroes. If they had not fixed the wireless there would be no survivors. They stayed until almost the end. Olympic did turn around and attempted to rescue but they were way too far away. Olympic was one her way to England.
Does anyone know if there is a video of all the pets on the titanic
We would love to hear your opinion and possibly a video about the Titanic and the Olympic being secretly switched. It's a crazy conspiracy theory!
Do you think that when Jack Philips was having those mental breakdowns, do you think a part of it could be because he was up for a while?
17:00 That’s false and a myth. Titanic wasn’t the first ship to use SOS, in fact, the first ship to do so was in 1909 when the SS Slavonia (ironically a Cunard linear). The SOS was sent when it struck something off Azores.
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Can anyone tell how many people survived on the overturn collapsible life boat?
It actually looks very close to the CG dramatization you're using for your video
Was it possible for the Titanic lifeboats to hold 64 plus a person on each lap? Could the boats, and davits handle this? Granted it would be extremely uncomfortable in the lifeboats, but could this method have been put into place, and worked?
They were said to hold max capacity in calm seas.
No. That estimate doesn't have much to do with how much room there is. It holds the *weight* of 64 people. If you doubled that, the lifeboat would be way over limit and would plunge and sink immediately.
I played that game 😅 lol
Are you aware of the Romandisea Titanic?
Originally the ship was supposed to carry 48 life boats which was more than enough to save everyone on board that night. But, would they have had enough time to launch all 48 had the carried them?
I think the ship was designed to carry 64 lifeboats. Thomas Andrews wanted all 64 but his vote was shot down as most feared that the deck would be too cluttered with boats. It's likely that there wouldn't have been enough time to lower all 48 lifeboats if the ship had them, Sam made another video describing that.
There were only 16 or 24 lifeboats? I am not sure, all I know is that there were not enough lifeboats
10/10😅
Would have never sunk if the had flex seal
I love ya sam
Poor Jack Philips =(
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I'm a patreon member, where's my name?
oh if you recently join the patreon I didnt see it. Sorry, I will add you in the next video.
I've heard some patreons aren't just doing that for their name in the videos... 😉
What if rock musicians used ships to carry their tours overseas instead of planes.
Riveting!
Well I mean you could make the argument they sealed the Titanic’s fate by pissing off the Californian’s wireless operator because he shut down after they told him to “shut up” and “keep out” while they were catching up on passenger messages. Which lead to the Californian wireless operator to shut down for the night.
But this night, the crew of the Californian saw the distress flares of un "unknow ship" (most probably the Titanic)... and the captain wouldn't do anything,
he didn't even want to wake up the radio operator to see if there was a call for help. So for me, it's 50/50 responsibility.
@@IsatisAngel Hell so many things went wrong from design, construction, British Board and trade regulations, even up to the last minute call to reverse the engine. Even at full speed she would have cleared the berg if the weren’t reversed.
@@V-max97 Are you sure of that ? They see the iceberg really late for escape it, especially at full speed. Murdoch had have the natural reaction : when you are in your car, and an obstacle appears beefore you, you hit the brakes and turn the wheel... As you said : factors are multiples in this dramatic event.
@@IsatisAngel she would have cleared at full steam because she would have had all the her momentum.
@@IsatisAngel even if she hit the berg head on she would have stayed a float but the people in the bow would have been crushed.
i have a question, what if they shot the iceberg with a gun, to try to break it before impact?
Don’t believe this. They wasn’t in charge of the titanics escape plan. Can’t wait to see this.
Wtf lol
How would they have found the survivors otherwise? You don’t have to be ‘in charge of the escape plan’ to save lives dude….all well and good getting people on boats if nobody Is coming to pick them up.
They wasn't was they?
@@crystalbethseizetheday8669 Are you mental? I'm talking about 700 live saved by just 2 men only. Ie no other influences at all.
@@crystalbethseizetheday8669 Thank you. The video starts with the words these 2 helped lol. They was not only ones. They just did there jobb
Hey someone is pretending to be you on Roblox. There user is realHistoricTravels
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@@HistoricTravels OOP
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Sam what is your email I couldn’t find it in your about page