White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Sidney Daniels, survivor

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Sidney Daniels, Third Class Steward and survivor of the disaster, seen here in old age, pointing at a picture of the ship. In newspaper accounts he explained: I held onto a boat davit ready to jump overboard and I jumped into the darkness and swimming away as far as I could for how long I don't know but I found a life buoy with a man clinging to it. I held on to that for a while and as I turned back to look I could see the stern of the Titanic standing almost straight up in the air. I knew the suction could drag us down and I suggested to the other man that we moved away. He did not answer and away I went. Eventually I saw a capsized lifeboat with several men clinging to it. Standing on this I pulled myself up on the keel and sat there just out of the water

Accounts Addressed Answer Buoy Capsized Clinging Daniels Davit Descent Direct Documented Drag Escaped Eventually Examples Explanation Faded Immersed Jumped Keel Knew Lifeboat Moved Myself Offer Onto Overboard Portsmouth Postmarked Provenance Pulled R.m.s Staining Stern Steward Stewards Suction Suggested Survived Surviving Survivor Whilst

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