Captain Stanley Lord
Appearances
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
6. Save Our Souls
They'd been sold a ticket on an unsinkable ship and here they were being told, it's sinking.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
6. Save Our Souls
This can't possibly be happening. You know, we're not going to sink. This is the Titanic. It's the biggest ship in the world. There's no way it's going to sink. So, yeah, you can understand why it took some time for passengers to realize the gravity of the situation and realize, yeah, we actually do need to get off onto a lifeboat underway.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
6. Save Our Souls
They were cradled in what are called davits, so a cradling and lowering mechanism. It was basically chain-based, so you lowered them down using a chain system.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
6. Save Our Souls
Was it women and children first or women and children only on those lifeboats? And the unfortunate thing is that the instructions were so unclear and the captain was being so, he was just, he just didn't take control of the situation. The captain did not step in and say, okay, here's what we need to do. He left it to his senior officers to get on with loading those lifeboats.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
6. Save Our Souls
So very unclear about how these lifeboats should have been loaded and just such bad leadership by Captain Smith.