The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style by Veronica Hinke

Author:Veronica Hinke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Food, Maritime, Food & Drink, Recipies, History
ISBN: 9781621577690
Publisher: Regnery History
Published: 2019-04-01T13:00:00+00:00

Edith Rosenbaum Russell was outspoken in her contention that the ship’s band did not play “Nearer My God to Thee,” and that it did not continue playing as the Titanic sank. “When people say music played as the ship went down, that is a ghastly, horrible lie,” she told the BBC.

Third class passenger Gherson Coen agreed that the band did not play as the ship went down. He said he heard the band playing when the boat struck the iceberg, when he was trying to get on deck, but when he decided to jump, he saw the musicians standing back, holding their instruments.

Other survivors told a different story.

Colonel Archibald Gracie said he heard a cheerful tune he couldn’t recognize. He said he surely would have recognized “Nearer My God to Thee.”

“I assuredly should have noticed it and regarded it as a tactless warning of immediate death to us all and one likely to create panic,” he said. Some recalled that shortly after 1:00 a.m., the band, each member now secured in his life vest, switched from the ragtime tunes they had been playing to an Episcopal hymn, “Autumn”:

Shall we all meet in the Autumn?

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