Titanic Survivor Frank Prentice - BBC Great Liners Interview (1979)

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Frank Prentice, a storekeeper on the Titanic, tells of the Titanic's voyage, loading the lifeboats and surviving in the frigid water after being one of the last people to leave the sinking Titanic.
Portions of this interview were originally aired on BBC2 on October 27, 1979 as part of the special, “The Great Liners." This interview was pieced together from a combination of archival video footage and audio clips from the BBC Archive. This interview reflects the known contents of the interview between those two sources.
Read the full annotated transcript of this interview: titanicarchive...
Film Sources:
- A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
- Titanic (1996), dir. Robert Lieberman / Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
- Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
- Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV
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@ricklynn6176 Месяц назад

“You’d think I’m too old for nightmares. But you’d be amazed.” chilling statement right there.

@3UZFE 8 месяцев назад

You can sense the emotion & conviction when he tells his account of that night. He is reliving those moments which only makes it more powerful to listen to, and 67 years later. Incredible.

@AnthonyPoschet Месяц назад

@@3UZFE what I actually like about these interviews is that emotions are really not in play here. He tells us what he has seen.

@siddharthnaagar7028 5 месяцев назад

For him to remember an incident which took place 67 years ago, moment by moment, piece by piece just shows his intelligence and the horrors of that tragedy

@melindamercier6811 3 месяца назад

In psychology, it’s memory from an Impact Event. These type of events engrain themselves in people’s minds and the people can recall even the most minute and insignificant details at the time of the event. It’s why so many people can remember where they were, what they were eating for breakfast, or learning in class, or what they had on their minds when 9/11 happened.

@peteleoni9665 9 месяцев назад

The most comprehensive testimony imo.

@FannyShmellar 9 месяцев назад

You are dead right. Unbelievable account and no bullshit

@carpediem4887 7 месяцев назад

@@FannyShmellar look for the recorded account of Joseph Groves Boxall and Eva Hart also Charles Lightoller and Edith Russell All very good listens

@talkaboutwacky 7 месяцев назад

9:27 Seeing the tears in his eyes as he recollects that horrible night makes me so sad.

@drumgk 6 месяцев назад

Frank Prentice gives a chilling and accurate testimony. Seems like the type of man you could sit down by the fireplace with and just listen for hours. I imagine that he has many stories to tell.

@DannyBoy777777 3 месяца назад

Well, duh. He was there. Why wouldn't it be accurate.....

@Janillo2782 27 дней назад

he had

@Janillo2782 27 дней назад

I totally agree

@kmalcolm5352 6 месяцев назад

'and the whole thing comes around again' - understatement of the year. That poor man. Dignified to a fault but that man is haunted.

@Herblay63 4 месяца назад

Joined the Royal Tank Regiment in WW1, became a Major and went on to win an MC. I'm not surprised he tells us that he occasionally has a nightmares. He has lived through a lot.

@PeachesMagee 5 месяцев назад

Such a very humble and gentle man xxx

@notsheepish8304 7 месяцев назад

They don't make watches like they used to

@Mattygoupil-i2t 2 месяца назад

He must of been close to dead, spending about 20 minutes in the freezing 28 degree water.

@davidkariuki-e7h 9 месяцев назад

Sad rip Frank Prentice

@brynteelingtheriverthieves3266 9 месяцев назад

I don’t think he has passed .

@TorontoJediMaster 9 месяцев назад

@@brynteelingtheriverthieves3266 He died in May of 1982, at the age of 93. He was the second last surviving member of the crew.

@RailPreserver2K 4 месяца назад

Did any crew live long enough to see ballard find the ship in 85? @@TorontoJediMaster

@johngunne3327 Месяц назад

@@brynteelingtheriverthieves3266 🤣🤣🤣 for crying out loud it was 112 years ago 🤣 (112: that's one hundred and twelve), you REALLY think someone, especially an adult from that era, would still be alive? 🤣 🤡

@rambler123 Месяц назад

I can’t imagine. Bless his soul. He was haunted. See the tears in his eyes

@jeffscomp 2 месяца назад

It’s amazing he survived and that anybody survived in the cold. The titanic held up for a couple of hours which was a blessing from God to spare some people.

@joedimauro1065 6 месяцев назад

He didn’t know it was just a few plates that separated not the whole double bottom

@KhalidKhan-wr2ne 4 месяца назад

At the time of interview, there had been 67 years of the incident. Had he been 23 yeàrs of age then he would be roughly 90 years of age in 1979. But he seems much younger than his age and the way he is recalling the moment by moment development, shows his extraordinary intelligence.

@ArronP 3 месяца назад

he was 18 on titanic, ppl say he was older, 2 docs said he was 18 on titanic

@aydancasey1953 22 дня назад

@@ArronP docs say Captain Smith was 59 - he was actually 62.

@benjiarehart2878 4 месяца назад

So glad he survived, after helping others. It's crazy that he glazes over when talking about being in the freezing water. That's the kind of man that he was. Not a complainer, or victim. Just a strong, good human being. Once, when my water heater broke, I had to take a very cold shower. I thought about him at that very moment. How he was in way colder water than I was temporarily experiencing. R.I.P. Frank Prentice. You are my hero!

@macflod 2 месяца назад

Yeah! He is of the stoic generation, the stiff upper lip era. He does not complain but does his job. Sad at the end when he mentions he will probably have a nightmare that night! He basically is suffering PTSD but probably does not know that and he didn’t make a big deal of it but simply says that he is not too old for that. Im so glad he survived and that mrs Clark who he helped was able to help him after he was rescued!

@andrewmcnulty6815 Месяц назад

The karma of Mrs Clarke saving him with her blanket. After he saved her. Harrowing testimony.

@andrewmacdonald4833 Месяц назад

A very brave man...like so many of his generation, he served in the Great War and was awarded the Military Cross.

@tomjones4105 6 месяцев назад

It's interesting to hear how the experienced sailors increased there chances of survival as the ship went down.

@jocelynastheart2732 9 месяцев назад

It been said truly the night lives on!

@KhalidKhan-wr2ne 5 месяцев назад

Simply a great hero.

@LiaBunny93 Месяц назад

omg he still has nightmares about it!! 😢

@MarkAllanMr 13 дней назад

Incredible recollection, so viivid in his mind (and dreams clearly). Poor guy must have suffered over the years, I agree with @riclynee6176 , the nightmare statement is a reminder that he'll never forget, and neither shall we.

@KellyMcRae-o8e 9 дней назад

His account is the one that struck me the most. He was in the water and truly was a survivor

@ArronP 5 месяцев назад

*only saved 500? could of saved 800? they saved 705...idk what hes talking about ...**03:40** even if they were filled to capacity close to idk 900-1000 ppl saved..the loss of life would of still been high....but I'm wondering if he's talking about how much crew were saved? alot of the crew went down with the ship.. cause he surely must know that 705 were saved in all and 1500 lost and to say there was only 4 ppl when he went up to the stern?? really?? 2200 ppl on board and only 4 were there?? huum....anyhow I bet this interview was done years before 1979* can someone answer this question. it was listing to port? it hit the ship on the starboard side, why was it not listing on the collision side?

@emospiderbutton 5 месяцев назад

correct, but any life saved is better than a life lost.

@esv5182 4 месяца назад

So he had the numbers off a bit. He was 90 yrs old at the time of this interview. Cut the man some slack..lol

@titanicarchive 3 месяца назад

The numbers varied over the years, and only within the last decade or so has a consensus been reached by historians that 712 survived the sinking. As to the Titanic's list during the sinking: There was an initial 5-degree list to starboard shortly after the collision, then due to several factors, the ship listed to port before its final plunge. There are many accounts of passengers having to jump across a large gap into the lifeboats on the port side late in the sinking.

@cordwangle19 Месяц назад

Prentice was quite correct about a list to port later in the sinking; many survivors reported it. There was a working corridor running much of the length of the port side of the ship on a lower deck, and it’s thought likely that it provided easier ingress to the water even though the ship struck on (and at first listed to) the starboard side.

@cste1845 5 месяцев назад

9:30 When he's talking about having nightmares 😥

@redriver6541 Месяц назад

This was AMAZING. Thank you so very much for putting this up here. Love from Western Kentucky.

@abigailisvirtual3358 Месяц назад

Poor man, only a miracle saved this poor man. Absolutely terrifying listening to what he has been through.God rest his soul.

@ruthhaynes1104 Месяц назад

So thankful he survived and helped so many

@mehmetokay7073 4 месяца назад

We went flat out for New York.

@pumpkensdiapers1417 7 месяцев назад

My God. I couldn’t imagine. I could really see his story. Bless him for saving Mrs. Clark

@talkaboutwacky 7 месяцев назад

By saving her she saved him. When he saw her face as he was pulled into the lifeboat it must've blown him away that it was the same woman he had gotten onto that lifeboat earlier.

@pumpkensdiapers1417 7 месяцев назад

😢❤