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Sotheby's To Sell a Rare First-Hand Survivors Account of the Sinking of the Titanic
“ … I shall never forget the sight of that lovely big ship goin down and the alfull crys of the people in the water and you could hear them dying out one by one it was enough to make anyone jump over board and be out of the way... one boat picked up one of the sailors and he went mad in the boat and wanted to go overboard again but he died in the boat.”
(Archie) Jewell was the first survivor to give evidence at the British Inquiry into the sinking at Buckingham Gate, during which he was interrogated mostly about his role in the manning of lifeboat no.7, the first to be lowered from the ship. Remarkably, Jewell’s evocative and moving accounts also include the description of his later survival of the sinking of the Titanic’s sister ship HMS Britannic, which made him one of only three survivors of both sea disasters.
The Brittanic ship is more easily forgotten to the whims of story and history. That there were some who managed to survive both sinkings is extraordinary.
- Jonny O
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