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Titanic Live: April 18th, 1912, late evening - As the last Titanic survivors who will be leaving Carpathia this evening straggle down gangways, a small number of high-profile guests are allowed to board the docked liner. Among them are Senators William Alden Smith and Francis Gri ffi th Newlands, here to issue subpoenas to a number of those on board, including Bruce Ismay. They find the White Star chairman broken and alone but agreeable, and still holed up in the surgeon’s cabin. Several Titanic crew members are also subpoenaed for the upcoming US Senate Inquiry, including the four surviving o ffi cers, Lightoller, Pitman, Boxhall and Lowe. Another famous arrival is Guglielmo Marconi himself, here to meet and question the two most newly high-profile wireless operators of his company. Marconi is as mystified as anyone else as to why his employees would ignore direct requests for information and intends to personally see to the issue. He softens however upon his arrival aboard the docked Carpathia. Harold Cottam has already left the ship, but Marconi finds Harold Bride still working to transmit the names of the saved in her wireless room. The by now severely fatigued, nearly emaciated Bride initially fails to realise who has come to see him, with the New York Times of April 19th describing the encounter as such: “Slowly the youth turned his head around, still working the key. The hair was long and black, and the eyes in the semidarkness were large - staringly large. The face was small and rather spiritual, one which might be expected in a painting. It was clear from the first tragic moment the boy had known no relief.” Nearby, Marconi and reporter Leland Speers notice a still untouched dinner plate sitting at the edge of a small cot, telling them “how he had eaten”. Remaining engrossed in his work, Bride seems almost unaware at first of the other two men who have entered the small wireless shack, and only removes his hand from the key at last after Marconi tells him quietly, “That’s hardly worth sending now, boy.” Now o ffi cially relieved, though still severely injured, Harold Bride will spend one last night below in Carpathia’s infirmary this evening before being carried o ff the ship tomorrow morning as the very last of the 712 saved Titanic passengers and crew to leave her. #Titanic #TitanicAnniversary #Titanic114 Inset portrait of Harold Bride via NMNI Portrait of Marconi from the collection of the National Archives (UK)
Maggie Marriott
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