It was an almost physiologically impossible feat of survival. Contemporary etching of the British Titanic inquiry.
After being fished out by a lifeboat, he was back at work within days. Then, as 1,500 screaming, panicked souls drowned and froze to death around him, Joughin calmly paddled around until dawn. The baker had nonchalantly stepped off the stern of the sinking liner. “I think his getting a drink had a lot to do with saving his life.”īefore the inquiry sat Charles Joughin, the chief baker of the RMS Titanic and one of the most remarkable survival stories of that fateful night.
“This is very important,” said the questioner, shushing the wigged Wreck Commissioner when asked the purpose of this booze-related interrogation. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
