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Description: | The engineers memorial was unveiled April 22nd 1914 in front of a crowd of nearly 100,000 people. It is dedicated to the 'heroic engineering staff',. They were called heroic because throughout the time the ship was sinking, they kept the furnaces alight so that the lights on the ship stayed on. This was very important as the passengers and crew were able to see what they were doing whilst they were abandoning the ship.. It also allowed any passing ships who had come to help to see where the ship was in the sea.
As a result the engineering department suffered many more losses of life than any other on the ship. Many did not have enough time to go up to the top deck to either board a lifeboat to find a raft which they could float on when the ship finally sunk. | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | disaster iceberg memorial death White Star Line Titanic Engineers memorial | Temporal: | start=2004-08-09; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Zoe Darani, Hampshire Library and Information Service | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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