Esther Hart (archive)
Appearances
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
5. The Moment of Impact
Had she been asleep, it wouldn't have wakened her. It didn't waken anybody else in the cabins round about there at all, but she was wide awake and she felt this bump. She said it was just like a train pulling into a station. It just jerked. It was very slight, but she said she knew that it was this dreadful something and she wakened my father.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
5. The Moment of Impact
She wakened me and my father said no if he wasn't going up on deck again. But she literally pulled him out of bed and made him go up. My father came back very quickly because he could get up to the boat deck in the lift very quickly from where Kevin was. And he came back and he picked me up and wrapped his blanket tightly around me as if I were a baby. And my mother said nothing to him.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
5. The Moment of Impact
And I used to say to her sometimes, years afterwards, I can't understand why you didn't say to him what was it. And she said, I didn't have to say what was it. I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was this dreadful something that I had to live with for months. There was nothing more I could say. So he put his very thick coat on her and put another on himself.
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
5. The Moment of Impact
And without any words at all, we went out of the cabin and into the lift and up onto the boat deck. Now, if we hadn't done that at that time, I pretty much doubt I'd be talking to you today.