Titanic Survivor | Frank Prentice: "I thought I was going to die" 

his way of surviving the sinking he jumped off the stern when it was almost vertical totally... that drop would of been imo 200ft cause it was half in water and half out..Titanic was 882 feet long, so it would of been a hell of a ways down,. when the ships in port the boat deck to the water was what 60ft? so Imagine the stern rising high out of the water getting higher and higher above that usual height. frank said 100ft...I say higher, like way higher 200ft plus......I cannot imagine doing that...anyhow he's never said that it broke in half, he would of known by being where he was, so it's like why doesn't he say it broke? Eva hart watched it and said that it broke in half...Ruth Blanchard nee Becker said the same.... but when they found the wreck in 1985 it was in 2 pieces on the ocean floor. another topic, what don't make sense to me is that in James Cameron's Titanic he has the ship breaking in two between the 3rd and 4th funnel which is what I always thought and the world did, but recently in a quick run down of the sinking in an animation James has it breaking between the 2nd and 3rd funnels,. so it's like wtf?? if ur doing that then ur movie is wrong...but there's lots of errors in the 97 movie....

@@ArronP To be fair, the interview wasn’t very long. There wasn’t time to tell the whole story in detail here. He mentioned the band because the interviewer asked about it, and might’ve not mentioned it if he wasn’t asked. He wasn’t asked about the ship breaking apart. And he was at the stern, maybe he didn’t see the ship breaking from there. Maybe there was too much I. The way of his view from holding onto the stern, maybe he was more preoccupied by trying to hold on for as long as he could before making the jump down. We can’t possibly know. James Cameron is aware that many things must be inaccurate, but they tried their best back in 1997 with what was known and thought to be known. I just watched a documentary about the sinking with James Cameron in it, and he said that there are some things that are just impossible to know for sure. All we can do is do tests and come up with possibilities but there are so many variables. I think you’d need something like a modern podcast with Frank that would last for hours to get a more detailed account of his time on the Titanic. Back in the 70s there wasn’t enough time for them to do that on TV. Frank would’ve had to write a book. But maybe it was such a traumatic experience that he didn’t want to write a book about it. But there are books by survivors. I still haven’t read any. I really really should. Anyway, I’m glad Frank made it. He was so young too at the time, glad he lived a good long life afterwards

Big YOLO moment.

He jumped with two other fellows. The other two died.

@@lassesuurmunne8340 very well put

A true gentleman

not like the soy boys we sadly have today or the trans :(

@@GrandMasterKai dude why do you care if people are trans. Doesn’t effect you

@@carterreid9869 same logic "dude why do care of people are pedophiles, it doesn't effect you" lol childish logic... They are mentally ill not amount of faith will make a man into a woman 😂😂😂.. Grow up

No ghettoness- eloquent, verbose, confident. We need more men like this in 2023.

I think they were "mesmerised," but I get your point.

@@Beckford4000 thanks for the correction. Have edited now.

@@Beckford4000 you’re very smart… I’m sure no one would of understood what he meant if it wasn’t for you!

@@_Matthew_21 *Would've. There is no such grammatical construction as "would of".

@@Beckford4000 🤣 Thanks! I’m sure your mother is very proud of you!

@@ComteDeGracey he's gone now

@@white_star_line0760 good. thx. will delete my comment now

@@ComteDeGracey ok

Who is gone?

​@adamshaw8214 frank died in 1982

🤦🏻‍♂️ The whole thing is FAKE. Jesus tap dancing Christ.

Very tough , and the fact just months later went onto work titanic’s sister ship Oceanic - and then world war 1 just 2 years later. Very tough very tough indeed.

Toughest

frank was 18 on board Titanic, that puts his birth year as 1894! go watch Titanic a question of murder from 83 they say his age, and he's interviewed alot..shortly before he died I believe it was 1982 when he died, that's prob his last interview he gave Titanic's sister ship wasn't oceanic. there was the first one, the Olympic and after Titanic the britannic...which was originally going to be named gigantic but after Titanic sank they changed it

@@SuperNano2020wow. What a badass

Everyone was tough then. No one today would survive.

Well, he was right about that. Ismay may have been an idiot, but the captain didn't have to listen to him.

He sounded absolutely furious nearly half a century later

​@@isaacurban1163nearly 70 years later actually.

​@@alitanicholas9579Ismay had nothing to do with where they were. All the movies made him look like a villian but the truth is, he never even spoke to Captain Smith during the voyage. At least that's what he said at the inquiry.

Yeah that particular old couple from the movie was real...the wife refused to leave her husband alone... It was Strauss and his wife (owner of Macy's)...we don't know if they were on the bed or deck

It's bittersweet

And he was a staunch supporter of trans rights back in 1948. Amazing guy

"First of all my good fellow, my pronouns are they/them!"

Frank suffered nightmares about this for the rest of his life, absolutely terrible for him.

I'm sure all the survivors did, for the rest of their lives.

@@benfisher1376 Maybe not the one that was 8 weeks old, but yes everyone that was able to form permanent memories at that time probably suffered for the rest of their lives reliving it.

Traumatic experiences stick with you for the rest of your lives. I was 2 when I witnessed my first, and I remember it vividly.

He was 85 at the time of the interview-and 18 in 1912 when the ship sunk. Amazing though watching him in color Tv.

@@AhmedSaid-cc3xb no, he was 90 when this interview was taken (born in 1889, interview in 1979). He died 3 years later in 1982 at 93 years old.

,@@victorpopa8969 You're correct but in my calculation, the interviewer said to him "you were 18 at the time"-meaning in 1912. But in fact, he was 23 when the ship sunk.

@@AhmedSaid-cc3xb yes i think the interviewer was wrong lol

@@AhmedSaid-cc3xb I'm 23 right now and all I do is eat and watch interviews like this lol

Yes a reminder of the tragedy that happened 🤍

No he said it kept going for 20 mintues

​@@grantmctaggart9942Yes and the Titanic sank at 2:20

@@grantmctaggart9942that’s what he always said, not knowing the ship sank at 2:20 and he dropped off right before the poop deck actually sank. Seems he never knew what time it sank.

in Titanic a question of murder they said he was 18 when Titanic sank.... he died in 1982. he was born in 1894 so he died at 88. in this interview he was 85. the interviewer said here he was 18 when it sank...

Everyone ages differently. There were seniors then who were demented, and there are seniors now who are lucid. Cut the "back in those days" crap.

That was before the government started putting shit in our food.

Are you seriously a younger person yelling at old people “seniors these day!” Gtfo

Everyone age diferently but he must have been physicaly strong to survive that event which is cool and he was still strong with 90 years old to be able to tell us his story. Some people are Lucky like that and have a strong health all their life. So Lucky!

Well he ain't live through Covid

​@@JuneGirl35he lived through the Spanish Flu

​@JuneGirl35 Covid will never compare to the Spanish flu and the other events that he went through.

Right? And people today have PTSD from a cat scratch 😑

Amen❤️✝️

im surprised it didnt suck him down

I’m pretty sure in another interview Frank said he was the last to jump. Ricks went first, followed by Michael Kieran, and then Frank jumped in after both of them. He only found Ricks half dead in the water, he never saw Kieran again.

When the guy falls and hits the propeller. I think everyone in the theatre screamed at that scene. So horrific

Nearly 100 years

I think it's bc it's a short video. I was thinking the same thing

Completely agree. His interviews are my best. Paints the best picture. Describes the horror with such grace. It’s a miracle he survived. Rip Frank

Hi James... fascinating story. Please DM us on Instagram if you'd like to share your family history.

Wow!

That's truly amazing, thank you for sharing that information.

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Good Grief! I've gone to find a grave and read some obituaries and historical literature. I know surviving family were paid out very little. Awful!!!

AND they stopped paying them the MOMENT the ship started sinking. (Found that out recently)

Wow…..

I’m so mesmerized by this interview! I wish it were longer

Well, I don't think we can discount the testimony of various witnesses who said that J Bruce Ismay exerted pressure on the captain. Yes, Edward J Smith WAS captain but I don't think we can discard the influence of the Chairman of the White Star Line entirely. I get that the propaganda machine was at work to discredit Ismay but witnesses did testify to say he had urged Smith to speed. Another factor we cannot discount in the sinking is the conduct of Jack Phillips, who ignored a crucial warning at 22.50 hrs and then again from the Californian. He was specifically asked by the wireless operator in the former instance to report the message to the bridge and he didn't.

@@sayitlikeitis5026 hello, yes, and apparently he told the californian to 'shut up' too, the captain of the californian, Mr S.P.Lord, was very close to the titanic, saw the rockets, and ignored them, saying they maybe company rockets, in my opinion he should have been prosecuted, he sat by and watched it sink, even documenting the time the lights went out on titanic, I can imagine there is Alot more to this story, but it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth and probably other people's too, regards, Simon.

@@MrSimplesimon007 Captain Lord's reaction was very strange in that he didn't ask his wireless operator to contact the Titanic and just continued to signal it by morse lamp. My gut tells me the crew aboard the Californian and Titanic were not at all equipped for this situation and did not appreciate the gravity of the situation until it was too late. Lord strikes me as being somewhat lazy on that night. That said, he was a relatively young sea captain and being just a cargo ship, I don't think the Californian would have been able to save many lives.

@@sayitlikeitis5026 I know captain Smith carried the can as at sea he is in command, but ismay yes had a terrible influence over him, must have been very difficult for the captain having the ceo whispering down his ear... Bruce ismay interfered with the design of the titanic too, Alot of cost cutting, she was made from low grade steel, low grade rivits, the watertight compartments were not watertight, had trouble turning, rudder issue, ismay also personally had the lifeboats reduced from 48 to 16, plus 4 of the collapsible type, in his own words, 'people want to look at the view of the ocean not lifeboats' in a way it was almost murder, plus ismay survived, he got into one of the collapsible lifeboats, even to this day people leave notes and black flowers on his grave.

Not to mention someone I can't remember who accidentally took the key home with him the key for the binoculars so the lookouts that night I don't think had binoculars

@matthewjordan6957 LOL, you're an expert on turn of the century seamanship too?

@matthewjordan6957 I don't disagree that we're being exposed to harmful things compared to the past. But again, I don't think there's anything to show that people are aging worse now than in the middle of the last century. How is a lower body temp bad? Maybe 100 years ago it was higher than the ideal. Remember that 100 years ago you had a very good chance of dying in your first few years of life because of fevers and diseases. If you're going to bring it up to bolster your point, follow through with your it and explain what the reason is for it and what impact it has on aging. You're dodging, buddy. Prove your point.

@matthewjordan6957 I'm referring to the western world as well. As far as body temperature, you started out talking about body temp at birth and now you've shifted to seniors on meds. You're being inconsistent. What is the reason for the supposed lowering of body temperature over the last hundred years? I don't think you're getting any of this from a medical journal, but pulling it out of your rear end. If I have a temperature of 103 would you say that I'm the healthiest and most energetic I've ever been, or that I'm suffering from a fever? Again, you're just throwing mud at the wall and seeing what sticks. I've also been to Amish country and stayed at their houses. I don't believe that they age differently than anyone else, not accross the board. Like I said, everyone ages differently. Some are lucid and coherent at 85 like the guy in this video, and some are presumably much younger than that yet sound like they're demented (i.e. YOU). Again, none of what you're saying makes any sense. It's anecdotal and contradictory.

@matthewjordan6957 Well, I did stay at an Amish bed and breakfast. It's a pretty common tourist thing to do. Not saying I went to the moon. What BS have I been saying, BTW? That one YT video doesn't prove that "people back then" didn't age as fast as now? The body temperature thing was what you brought up, and I agree it doesn't make any sense. LOL. I meant to address your southern border comment too. What does that have to do with what we're talking about? You think the border being porous is because BP agents don't have enough energy to intercept aliens? LOL. Hey, feel free to address the inconsistencies I pointed out in your drivel. If seniors' medications lower body temps, why does it affect newborns???

It's in the sea city museum in Southampton, loaned by his family.

I wonder if the water absorbed some of the impact. Acting as shocks?

@@josephdockemeyer6782 probably the cold shocked him so much.

I think there is multiple aspects to consider 1. Other survivors were not focused on their surroundings and going for lifeboats 2. Nobody knows for certain how far the Titanic stern rose out of water but it was likely less than 100ft, also his fall would have been cushioned by his multiple life jackets Frank Prentice in another account mentioned how the ship started to break in two while he was still on it, a fact that wasn't known about the sinking until years later.

No wind, no moon.

Bruce ismay survived by getting in a life boat. he was deemed a coward till the day he died

yep. Crazy isn't it... All those lives lost pointlessly. Even babies/children. Crazy.