Titanic anniversary: Titanic survivor's lost interview from 1987 | 7NEWS
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- It's been 108 years since the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on it's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. William Hall was one of the 710 survivors that night, and spoke with the 'Willesee' program in 1987. Subscribe to 7NEWS for the latest video » 7news.link/YTSubscribe
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I believe Mr Hall. Sorry you lost your mum to the Titanic. You were very brave to tell your story. Rest peacefully Mr Hall. 🌹
Over a hundred years later and It never stops being fascinating. the unsinkable ship that sunk, the whole idea that people didn't even want to get into the life boats because the ships captain didn't even tell the passengers the ship was going to sink. and some of the life boats left half full. and now in 2023 we lost five people who wanted to see the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean to witness history. but instead they became part of history. personally I don't think there is anything wrong about visiting the ship if you have the guts to do it. I think if their are spirits down there that they would be happy that people are still thinking and caring about them all these years later. and willing to risk there lives to visit them.
it was a myth that circulated about Titanic being unsinkable. The only known statement from the company brochure was "practically unsinkable" meaning they did what could be humanly done at the time to ensure that it can keep itself afloat. "Practically unsinkable" was a term often used by shipping companies at the time to boast about their ships engineering and design. After the Titanic's sinking, they actually increased the number of water tight compartments (previously, they only installed 6 at the front but all were breached in the Titanic) on the remaining ships Olympic and Brittanic. They also raised the water tight seal from up to a much higher deck (up to deck C if I remember). Following the disaster, a law was also passed mandating all ships to have enough lifeboats for its maximum capacity.
That said, it was impressive for the Titanic to keep itself afloat for so long. It took roughly 3 hours before it eventually went under.
Nothing is unsinkable and should be illegal to state so.
@photographerjonathan, 😒😒🙏!👍
@@DibIrkenIt wasn't a company brochure. White Star Line never proclaimed the Olympic Class to be unsinkable.
It actually came from a publication called The Shipbuilder.
In the 1911 edition, it listed specifications of the ships and how the watertight doors functioned. Detailing that by virtue of the doors being closed in the result of an accident, damaged sections were sealed off making the ships "practically unsinkable."
The press took that quote and ran with it, and the rest is history.
You're quite right about how well Titanic performed. She managed to stay on an almost even keel as she went down. Only listing around 8 degrees to port.
This man was pure Gold! He is walking history! Love his soul.
He was also proven to be a fraud.
What a fortunate child to have been "pushed" into a lifeboat, it saved his life. I worked in the shipyard in Belfast in the 1970s were the Titanic was built. Today though it is a pale shadow of itself during its heyday. An amazing Titanic tourist centre is there now. Visitors to Northern Ireland should not miss the opportunity to visit this site!
Well H&W is gone now?? That’s good. It was a sectarian’s workplace as no catholics were welcome.
Great advice, thank you. It must have been an eye opening and profound experience working there. I would bet it helped to shape the man you grew to be, God bless.
That's one beautiful interviewer
She ok
i'm glad to see gary bussey got his act together and is now walking down the straight & narrow path of sobriety
grandpa still has a solid hairline and thick hair while i'm balding at 24
Uhh I know right!😭
This interviewer is BEAUTIFUL
I was looking for this comment! She really is!
Yeah shes a pornstar😂😂
I bet she can cook a great sheppards pie
A 5 out of 10 at best.
@@original.dwornboywe could say the same about you, perhaps a -5 if we are being generous. Anyways she’s beautiful 10/10
Contrary to the some of the commentors, Mr. Hall never claimed to be a crew member. In fact, he said he was a child on board with his mother. I don't know if he's genuine or not, but he didn't represent himself as a crew member.
There is no doubt that he was where he said he was, the experience emanates from his very soul.
There's no record of a William Hall ever being on the Titanic and no mention of the him being on the survivors list either.
My god he looks like he's about to make me an offer I can't refuse.
😂😂😂
Some say Marlon brando used this guy as inspiration for his character in the godfather
I was going to comment something like this lol
Thankyou! Very interesting to hear survivor stories!
Very nicely done and extremely valuable for the sake of history. The footage from "A Night to Remember" movie was excellent. It is by far the best movie done to date.
Nicely done, Mr. Hall. A shame that even a cursory check showed that you were never aboard Titanic.
Great interview 👍👍
Good lord the interviewer is BEAUTIFUL! ❤️
I was thinking the exact same thing , couldn't take my eyes off her.
Even hotter 36 yrs later
Very baby faced.
To quote from the 'Encyclopedia Titanica.' - One of many people that falsely claimed to have survived the sinking of the Titanic. Mr William Hall, was never on board.
That's what I thought just listening to him.
Mrs H 🇬🇧 ... A traumatic experience for a child takes years to talk about.. Children soak in many things adults dont it's only many years later ( Cos it's so painful to talk about ) that these memories surface and with help they are able to talk about it.. I noticed the fast talking and stutter which tells me it still effected him but again traumatic experiences does last a life time ... Losing his mother at such a young age would of left mental scars BUT add the way he lost her and his age makes me wonder if any child could EVER recover?? I don't think so.....💔
I am still amazed with this even after so many years it was supposed to be unsinkable in 1912 I was born 1956 but this was always told to us young children even after all those years
@@Purple___ yes.. it's called an urban myth. No1 from the White Star Line or anyone associated with the construction of the ship boasted that it was unsinkable or that God himself couldn't sink it. But amazing how such things get a foothold and become part of folklore.
Naming itunsinkable is a two way road,first it sank in it's maiden voyage,second till today it is as much researched as if it never sanked it is very much alive and all the people who lost their lives are kept alive in the memories of uncountable people .People who never knew them,some of them born decades after the tragedy happened.
Many here saying he is not on the passenger lists, but he said he was a child and he was pushed onto a lifeboat thinking his mom was on it...but found out later she was not among the survivors. If he was orphaned he could well have been adopted and now uses the last name of his adoptive family....so his new last name would not be on the lists.
Oh stop
@@staceyrogers5711 Ha...You're not the boss of You Tube....who do you think you are? The thought police?
@@staceyrogers5711 stop spouting facts?
Exactly what I was thinking Gerry.
Also he said on the Carpathia boat he witnessed everyone mourning their loved ones&when they did a roll call his Mom wasn't there. He is a Titanic survivor.
True British gentleman. God bless you and your mum.
Unfortunately, he was a fraud.
incredible.
Just can’t imagine it - so much loss of life
He was a child and was somehow more aware than that other 16yrs old passenger who thought that this was all a part of the journey
I imagine she was tired, didn't speak English... Had rough life, like ok this must be my stop. 🥱😴💤
@@rs3007 oh my.
Traumatic events can be remembered with extreme detail even in young survivors. The more traumatic the even the more “sharpe” it can remain in someone’s mind (sometimes it’s the opposite).
@@rs3007She was Irish.
His destiny, love this man.
Amazing
Either this man was actually a survivor. Or he talked to the survivors of the Titanic. That is why he knows all the information. He is speaking correct facts.
You wasn’t there so how do you know fact from fiction?
My primary reason for not believing this chap is his non-appearance in any of the books I've read about Titanic and her survivors and that's a pretty BIG objection. The most specific thing he described was seeing stokers coming up and out of the 'fiddley' "....right at the bows of the ship". The fiddley was a vertical vent leading up from the boilers to the boat deck located directly in front of each functional funnel and - according to modern 3D reconstructions - it had ladders up the side. A child wouldn't know of the existence of the fiddley, wouldn't even know that name and would have no idea that the bare-chested men emerging through what would be a very small, nondescript door had come from the boilers and from far back in the ship. To call the forward funnel "...right at the bows of the ship" seems odd; the furthest forward is 3/4 of the way to the bows. Considering that the Titanic was going down by the head there is also no way that escaping boilermen would be running forward (downhill) to emerge at (or near) the bows. Accurate accounts tell how the boiler men remained working the boilers long after the ship struck the iceberg, so the head-first attitude of the ship would have been MOST evident to the men fleeing the water rushing up over the bulkheads section-by-section. There's no way they would have rushed forward; they would have run uphill towards the rear of the ship. The rear-most funnel was a dummy funnel i.e there was no boiler beneath it and served primarily as an air vent for the first class dining rooms... They might have emerged from that fiddley (assuming there was a connection between the 3rd boiler room and the base of the dummy 4th funnel) but it's at the opposite end to Mr. Hall's recollection. It's possible that a stoker, faced with a rush of water into the first boiler would have made his way vertically up the fiddley and emerged at the base of the forward-most funnel... but that would place the young Mr. Hall at the front quarter of the ship (with its head going down) to witness it.
Mr. Hall's testimony also differs from all other child-survivor's accounts I have read. Those accounts all centre on their parents; their experience is always attached to the decisions and interactions of their parent(s). This isn't surprising since the threat of being separated from parents would be uppermost in the child's mind. Mr. Hall tells us nothing of the traumatic suffering of his mother or the way in which he was parted from her.
Sorry Mr. Hall, it doesn't make sense.
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars don’t read much but your basing this guy is lying because of what he possibly saw and described after dropping into the ice freezing sea awatching the ship he was on snap in half and then sink in pitch black with only moon light? Because you feel it’s not 100% accurat about the fiddley? Ok how’s about, at his age now , and I’m sure he has studied what happen to the titanic more then most…..just maybe as an adult he found out that it was called a fiddley? Maybe? And I’m also double shocked that your on top of that, basing it upon a 3d modern computer graphic design of the titanic? Hahaha you even say “according to” 😂 😂 personally from hearing the dude in the video, and reading your opinion as to why you object to beliving him………I believe him 100% over you. Cheers pal
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars I tell you what, your assessment made total sense!
@@leonleon2276weren’t grammar
all the other survivors i listen to are calm and collected when talking about the titanic, his stuttering aside he seems to be really pushy and swift
That could be PTSD from the tragedy ?
@@stephenperkins5644doubt it
Pushy, are you an idiot? How would you know? Gawd some people.
Hope he's at peace
He's still alive
Just kidding
1:00 oh Man❤❤❤❤
Every survivor tells the true story with disasters.
Amazing story
I once read about a survivor who lived near a stadium, had PTSD when hearing the crowd roar. Cant find the story now, could've been total fabrication
I think that was Frankie Goldsmith, he was 9 when the ship sank and ended up living near a stadium in Detroit from memory and the cries of the crowd used to haunt him as it sounded like the people on the ship when it went down.
I actually filmed this interview
My god😢
109 years ago, RMS Titanic 1912 - 2021
Interviewer is 😍
Wow never seen this one before this man sounds like he is or was suffering from PTSD from that tragic night God bless all the souls lost it maybe hundred and 2 years ago that this happened but I don't blame the captain for the accident but the builder's and the ships company owner Mr ismay and the builder's blunder for making a massive ship with a too small of a rudder for it's size but either way I hope all who was lost is at peace even though there graves keep being disturbed by people who just don't care it's a historical grave site it should have been protected like our Navy's around the world protect there sunken war ships graves but that's just me and my opinion
It wasn’t too small of a rudder. It was the worlds largest rudder. There were many factors leading to the ship hitting the iceberg but the rudder wasn’t a factor. Sure if there was a bigger rudder maybe it could have turned sooner but that doesn’t mean the existing rudder was unsafe. Ship was going too fast for the conditions because icebergs were harder to see.
Giving the watch binoculars and the captain not ignoring the iceberg field warning would certainly stopped this tragedy.
yea well keep it to yourself then !1/ The captain knowing there were icebergs still ordered full steam ahead ! 2/ He did virtually nothing towards organising the evacuation of the ship ! 3/ when he reached safety on another vessel he went to a cabin and sulked ! not as a captain is supposed to be nor even a man for that matter > just a useless coward !
You nailed it for sure, people can be the worst and dumb as posts. Heavenly peace for all those who returned home earlier than expected. Amen.
The proper number of life boats needed is what gripes me&the lack of communicating the state of the sinking ship¬ filling up the life boats properly gripes me. Life matters!
Horrifying, his account is fascinatingly, and tragically etched in his soul. Most certainly makes the shallow complaints we whine about in our daily lives, so very pathetic now doesn't it?
When people realized that there was something wrong on the ship what happened then?
Titanic survivor... why all hell broke loose then!!
Nailed it, now didn't he. It emanates from his very soul.
0:05 I remember that shot among others from "A Night to Remember" and that I think is actually the Lusitania?
William Hall still has a full set of hair at his age.
This is Gareth Bale in 50 years
Kkkkkkkkkk verdade meu amigo parece demais
I find this interview fascinating.... William 'Willie" Hall was off and on in the press it seems about the Titanic. He claimed to have been aboard the ship with his mother who perished, but there is no record of him on the lists of either passengers or crew. I'm not saying perhaps history overlooked him... but he definitely speaks with a certain believability in his language and mannerisms. It's a curiosity.... Does ANYONE have anything on this guy? Or is he just a fantastic storyteller? Guy deserves an award for acting if he's making this up.
There was a few people on there that was on the list that why they will never know the real number of people that didn't make it
Lol well it sure seems like this guy lacks credibility based on the majority of the comments feedback. I have never heard of him
There were people traveling who were not on the list without tickets period.
It was the time of immigration, everything was a mess.
What in God's name would make you believe they kept accurate records here? Who knows how many people were really on that ship? If anyone believes that there were not tickets sold under ground, so to speak, then it's time you woke up. Having said that, this man was on board as he stated period.
I believe him whole heartedly. The way he spoke of witnessing everyone mourning their losses on the Carpathia ship&his Mom wasn't there.@@cgordon1386
All the genuine survivors are well documented, and he wasn't one of them.
He’s a scam artist I no him he has also pulled this scam for world war 2 he charges money for interviews
Do we know his mother's name?
Depends, if he was a child and orphaned as he said, was he adopted and changed his last name to the new family?
Who are you?! No one is asking you!!
You're an idiot, who are you to question anything here.
First time I have heard of bodies being removed from the lifeboats…
I read that in the survivor stories at my local library. It's true. Some froze to death. It was very freezing&icy.
Where was this interview held at Scottland or Ireland because he sounds like he speaking a Irish or Scottish Accent or is this in America?
He does sound Irish to me.
Amazing. He is still alive.
Not anymore tho.
He's superman!!! Have a look at that epic huge jaw
No this is an old interview
Unfortunately this looked like it was filmed in the 70’s so he’s most likely gone now.
Would be lovely but this interview was in 1987 RIP
William Hall does not appear to be on the official passenger or crew lists. This interview was done back in 1987, just a couple years after Ballard discovered the wreck. From the story he recounts, it sounds as though Mr. Hall claimed to be a crew member. But all of the known Titanic crewmen are known to have died prior to 1984. The last ones alive were Frank Prentice and Sidney Daniels. They never saw any footage of Ballard exploring the wreck with the little robot camera, Jason Junior. There is no chance he could be traveling under another name, like a passenger might, these crewmen had to sign ship’s articles and provide convincing identification when they returned, or they wouldn’t get paid for their work. They had to be able to prove they were actually there. The fact that Mr. Hall is not on the list of men who signed their names before embarking on the ship is very telling.
I noticed that too, maybe his name was spelt incorrectly or maybe he was never on there
Lots of nut jobs out there...a lot.
Didn’t he claim to be a child with his mother rather than crew?
Obviously wasn't paying attention. He mentioned early in the interview that he was a child and also mentioned his mother a couple of times. If he was a child chances are his name was not registered
There were some crew changes done at the last moment before departure as ordered by captain Smith
So hard to listen to
My same thought
3:56 😞
The “Oh, S#*t!” Moment!
William Hall is not on the list of pple on the ship or the survivors, who is he..was it a skipped name
not if he was a child and he was pushed onto a lifeboat because he thought he saw his mom on it....then on the Carpathia she was not among the survivors...so if he was a child orphan he could well have been adopted and now use his adopted last name....so his new name would not be on the lists.
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William Hall is not listed on the survivors list of the Titanic. Neither as a passenger or crew member.
He was a child and lost his mother, so would be an orphan. If he were adopted his last name could have been of the adoptive family.
And you would know right? Like the rest of the brilliant people who are so shallow, or naive to believe they ran by the books.
I think this guy is a fantasist but the interviewer is pretty tidy so might as well watch to the end 😀
how terrifyingly hot is that interviewer..
Smokin' hot
People actually refused the life boats
It sucks that just to avoid a panic most were not told soon enough that the ship would sink. Lives matter&they all deserved to know. I wish someone would've gotten the attention of the Californian ship somehow. Captain Stanley Lord had the log paper missing out of it's pages of the night Titanic sunk. I can't stand that man because outside of his working crew he had an empty ship&that's why in the survivor story books it says he could've saved one or even all from losing their lives but he stayed in bed&neglected his duty of investigating a ship sending off distress rockets. I hate him because he was so close&stayed in bed yet other Captain's from miles away were willing to change their course of plans&rush to the scene as quick as it was humanly possible. I read it in the survivor stories at my local library. Stanley Lord is a big loser&should've never been the Captain of any ship imo!
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It would of been better to just use footage of Titanic's sister ship the Olympic instead if using footage of the Lusitania Class ship at 0:06.
What difference would it make here, the Titanic is at the bottom of the ocean.
R those real video of 1912 plz do let me know🙏🏼🙏🏼
No
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Geez if this was 1987 how old was he in this interview coz he must have been a child on the titanic
He literally said he was a child on the titanic
He's only 28!
"a child" just like he said he was...
I thought none of the crewmen from the bottom deck came up. They all stayed down there to keep the lights on 🤷
Is this the real footage of the ship?
No
This isnt real. He isnt even on the passenger list…
A young child would not have been thrown into a lifeboat. What boat number was he on?
actually there are several who said they were thrown on near the end, one girl was 12 and the last boat was leaving and she was left behind when her mother and younger sister were put on another boat....the one crew member declared the boat full and began to lower, when another saw her and scooped her up and said you can fit one more and dropped her in.
Good grief some of you people are so extraordinarily naive.
The Grim Reaper had a job to do
Maybe the Titanic really was a ship of dreams, and its dream was to be a submarine.
Is this Guy for Real?
Evidently a scammer.
@@sislertx Hmm... I have had that feeling.
Incredible luck they had the foresight and the film crew there to capture the whole thing.
Lol that’s the 1958 film A Night to Remember
Nah, this guy was a chancer. Can smell the BS through the screen.
Oh and you would know, good grief.
That dudes chin could sink the titanic
😂
You're a disrespectful idiot.
Is it me or did he come out of it looking like a Barracuda?
Lost interview or last interview.
We all want to know? Did he know Joseph Dawson? And his thoughts on Rose drinking beer and standing on her toe tips?
You're an idiot.
Wait there's more flim of the Titanic?
Yeah 1958 a night to remember, it’s regarded as the most accurate depiction of the sinking
@@darthmickey005 that's not at all what I meant
@@darthmickey005 well, apart from the ship not breaking it's accurate. I still prefer the book through, it's much more detailed and intimate than the movie based on it.
What a head of hair
Isn't it funny how they come up with someone every couple of years and say they found the last one. It's like w war 1 diggers,every year they announce the last surviving one and then BINGO, next year there's another one. I think they wrote the script for this guy.
i believe this is old.
Oh aren't you the brilliant one dough head.
One of many people who falsely claimed to have survived the sinking of the Titanic. Mr William Hall, was never on board.
and of course you were and knew absolutely everybody on board by name and sight.....
@@fiachramaccana280 He was not on the list. You can google his name and see for yourself. I wasn't there so I have no idea, I can only base an answer by what I read and how many articles say this is true.
@@lindamcclain5569 looks like you are correct. The lists are not 100% foolproof of course as its possible somebody sneaked on board or more likely used somebody else's ticket ( if you recall this was the premise for Leonardo's charachter in Titanic). Nonetheless this is an unlkely scenario. I apologise for my hasty response.
@@fiachramaccana280 =) np I have read so much on the Titanic, I was obsessed for a while. I think I have read almost everything about it and maybe twice. Of all the stories, Jenny the cat turned out to be my favorite, and although it isn't proven I loved it the most and would like to think it's true. Oh, and they should make The cook, Charles Joughin his own movie.
@@lindamcclain5569 likewise obsessed. Sigh.
His features must have closed people’s ears when watching this! He said he was a child
I remember things as a child, guess I am 1 in 2, good grief. Your comment is?
this is convenient timing
He’s as interesting looking as his story telling. Because the majority seems to believe he’s didn’t board that ship lol
his name would be different if he was adopted as a child orphan after the sinking...his last name would change.
Dumb as posts , you who even to dare question survivors stories, careful here for your own karma will no doubt have people questioning your authenticity along the way. Sheep, if the majority jumped off a bridge, I guess you would too.
Reporter is beautiful!!! What’s her name??
Dunno but I love the 80s Aussie female accent
@@nickypoundtown9568 I think she is British
@@raptorgator it's an Australian accent, they just had pronunciation back then
@@nickypoundtown9568 To me it sounds British but with some other hints of an accent
@@raptorgator that's just how Aussies on tv sounded back then, ofcourse it has British in it because that's where we came from
Compared to today's trying to sound American Aussie accent I guess you're right
Bs
How
He is not on any titanic list. I don't believe he was actually on the titanic.
They said the same about rose Dawson. But we all knoe she was there and survived
@@theballq bro Rose Dawson is a fictional character that James Cameron made up for the movie
@@Ben-js9fg lol It was a joke
@@theballq Oh sorry, I thought yoy were for real, a lot of people after watching the movie think she was a real person 😅
His name could be changed...if he was a child as he said and his mother died, he would have been an orphan...if he was adopted he probably took the last name of his new family.
the mom was gone?? she didnt hold him?! he was a child!
Listen to Ruth Becker Blanchard...she was 12. Her mother sent her back to the stateroom to get some blankets, and while she was gone, her mother, little brother and little sister got on lifeboat 11 without her, and by the time she got back up on deck, the lifeboat was being lowered....she went up to a crew member and asked if he could get her on a lifeboat, and so as they were getting ready to lower lifeboat 13 as it was full, the crew member scooped her up and said make room for one more and tossed her into the boat....it happened. Another steerage family the mother was allowed on with her 3 youngest kids, ages 1,3 and 5.....but the 5 year old girls twin 5 year old brother, and their other kids aged 7, 9, and 11 were left behind with the father to die.
They got separated from each other.
Cannot believe the incompetence of all the titanic interviewers.
I STILL THINK THAT STEVEN SEGAL SHOULD OF PLAYED JACK IN JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC.
Serious that would have been dope
You spelled Chuck Norris wrong 😂
If chuck norris was on the titanic there wouldn't have been an iceberg
Kaka de shreck
Don't know if he was for real or not. One thing is for sure, nobody today is claiming to be a Titanic survivor,
I'm a Titanic survivor
I'm a Titanic survivor and a doctor trust me 👍
Fishy...
God is good he gives you a next chance
Too distracted by his great set of hair
poor guy shaved half his mustache off
'When did you know something was wrong'...."when i was in the lifeboat and the ship was up on its end"!!!!!???😅 nutter
Lol the most apparent bogus statement!!! 😂
Beauty and the beast 😂😂😂
If you reading this, Repent of your sins and trust in JESÚS NAME
No thanks I don’t believe in imaginary friends 😂
..and satan 666
Oh shut it. When he answers all of my questions I might but after 34 years and still nothing. No thanks.
Guys, I really think someone needs to tell you this, but God's just ghosting us. That's why he never answers your prayers. He wants to move on with his life without us and well, we need to stop trying to communicate. He just doesn't want us in his life.
In fact, he's probably redirected his mailbox to his buddy Lucy...
@Ashley Dell
Including the bits about how to treat my slaves?
Have you stoned anyone wearing clothing made of two different cloths?
Jimmy hills brother
If only mcGyver board on the ship .. maybe remedy is around... RIP to 1500+ soul