Phillips did his job unconditionally to the end, the passengers loaded him with silly messages, made him ignore ice warnings and he called for help until the power gave out. What a legend.
Matt Ward Sorry to disagree,but hitting the berg head on would have caused lesd damage and she probably wouldnt have sunk,ships are designed to take a frontal impact,by trying to avoid it,the massive tear in her side did more damage
Ann Mitchell Apparently it is unsure what would have saved the ship or less damaged. I believe the decision was made so to avoid the iceberg without damage/hitting the iceberg and continue the mayden voyage and not arrive with a damaged ship on her mayden voyage. They hoped and thought it could make the turn and imagine how honorable it would have been for the crew becuase of their quick and professional reaction avoiding the iceberg. The passengers and newspapers would go crazy about it
@@TechnologicallyTechnical ....the titanic was going 23 knots..... full speed was 24 knots. Ignoring ice warnings, leaving the binoculars locked up, canceling evacuation drills. These were all screw ups. I’m not blaming anyone. Especially not John who was a hero. I’m just saying there were many screw ups. Saying a head on hit to the iceberg would have killed more people is saying it would have also sunk the ship. I’m not saying this is untrue I’m just saying with over half the ships passengers dying. Saying something would cause more his saying alot
@rented identity Third class wasn’t locked down. This was showed in the movie titanic and I liked it. It makes good drama for a movie but it wasn’t true. We have no accounts of this that I know of. As for the life boats. It’s extremely sad and stupid but the titanic did have more boats then they legally needed to have. The idea at the time was that in a evacuation life boats were used as charters from the sinking ship to a rescue ship and would be reused during the evacuation. Fortunately after the titanic many strikes took place by marine workers for more life boats. The titanic changed this old idea
The Californian message really wouldn't have made much difference as the Bridge already knew about the Icebergs in the area and carried on at full speed (which was standard procedure at the time).
@@xyleblack2545 To an extent he did. However, there weren't many regulations about how to handle messages in those days (the aftermath of the sinking changed that), so consequently, sometimes they took the messages directly to the bridge, other times handed them to any officer who happened to be passing by, and sometimes messages were left with the rest and forgotten. On that Sunday, they were more concerned with getting through the backlog of passenger messages they had to send out than passing on yet another ice warning to a crew who had already been warned. Part of the problem was the wireless operators weren't trained in navigation, so the locations given on the ice warnings meant nothing to them. So they had no way of realizing the extent of the ice flow these warnings conveyed and therefore didn't always see the need to send them to the bridge, so the people who could have realized the extent were uninformed of it.
It was admirable the way he stayed at his post to the end, but let's be honest here. Phillips failed to deliver probably the most important message from the steamship Mesaba to the bridge, and ignored transmissions from the Californian (the closest ship) because he was busy transmitting passenger telegrams. His exact words to the Wireless Operator on the Californian were "Keep out; shut up, I'm working Cape Race"
@@errolpletcher9186 It's unfair to blame him for that, he was nearly deafened by her signal since he had the volume on maximum for Cape Race. The message surprised him. And then later Californian doesn't do anything thanks to that coward Captain of theirs. They've brought plenty of other Ice Warnings to the bridge, so he has no fault in the disaster.
@@Firemarioflower Can we really call the Captain of the Californian cowards here though? When they saw the Titanic launch flares, they tried communicating with her using Morse lamps but the Titanic didn't respond (the signal may have been complete gibberish to those aboard the Titanic due to refraction and also probably because of the fact that Titanic had shifted from broad-side to being tilted away). Even assuming that they somehow understood that the Titanic was in peril, they had already shut off for the night several hours prior. By the time they could reignite the boiler room and get ready to sail, they would probably take 4-4.5 hours at the earliest. Of course, I'm not going to say that the Californian is not to be blamed at all but people need to stop being so harsh with them.
I just cannot fathom the courage and sacrifice of Jack Phillips. 25 years old, knowing he was probably going to die that night. Even though it was not his fault for ignoring the Californian's message (it wasn't properly addressed to the bridge by Californian's operator, and in any event the bridge officers already knew about ice and continued going full speed ahead anyways, the Californian message wouldn't have changed anything), he still felt tremendous guilt forr it and tried to save as many lives as possible.
Exactly, people are blaming Phillips for the Titanic sinking because he ignored that message, but the crew have already been given hundreds of messages about ice warnings, if Philips actually listened to the Californian message and brought it to the Bridge, it still wouldn’t change anything as the crew would have just shrugged it off.
I don't think he felt guilt about what he wrote to the Californian. I think it was more of the fact he knew that as a wireless operator his chances of surviving the night were slim to none, especially with the cold water. I think hearing the other operators saying they were coming was keeping hope alive. I also always thought people blaming him for the Californian not responding has been unfair. I think it wouldn't have mattered if he told the operator to shut up or said "received." the operator was going to go to bed anyway. 1912 law actually didn't require certain ships to run operators on a 24-hour basis. If I actually remember correctly the Carpathia was also another ship that didn't have an operator on 24 hours. I heard that the Operator of the ship before turning in decided to turn on the wireless before turning in and happened to hear Cape Race reporting Titanics CQD, Ironically the spark was so faint he asked the Titanic "Did you know Cape Cod is sending a CQD for you?" If anything the Californian Captain is actually to blame for the lack of response from the ship.
I also remember reading that the Californian made an error when Jack told him to shut up. When contacting the Titanic, he came through very casual and didn't get to the point right away. Many wireless operators would from time to time casually talk to one another to get information and just say hello. Phillips took it as a casual conversation going through and nothing important. It really wasn't until the inquiries that it was revealed The Californian was trying to send an ice warning. As far as Philips was concerned the last Ice Warning happened While Smith was still on duty. He probably died never realizing the error he made.
Apparently Phillips was in even worse shape than he appears in this scene. He was in this sort of dazed state of mind. The captain had ordered him and Bride to abandon their station and the ship could barely transmit, but Philips was in such a daze that he kept tapping out calls for help. Bride (his assistant) was literally screaming at him to leave the wireless room, and he didn't seem to either notice or care. Eventually he left the room and made it onto one of the collapsible boats, but died later that morning. Apparently his last words were "There she is (referring to Carpathia), right on time..."
Matt W A lot weird stuff was happening in those final moments as well!! Bride said there was a woman passed out on a chair in their wireless shack after she fainted. She sat down for sometime as he and Phillips got her some water. Also right before they left Phillips was still desperately tapping the key even though there was no signal and a stoker snuck into their cabin! Bride who was busy gathering their belongings in their adjoining cabin came out and saw the man trying to steal Phillips' life belt off of him. Disgusted, Bride started beating the man, Phillips jumped up startled and beat the man as well. After this Phillips told bride "let's clear out" and they shut down the power and exited the room ( I believe through their skylight on the roof ). They were on the roof of the officers quarters where they could see men struggling to push collapsible B off. Bride went to assist and Phillips ran aft according to Bride.
Matt W I've always believed one of the key reasons Phillips died was because he was basically operating on no sleep. Earlier that night before the incident Bride told Phillips he would relieve him early because earlier the wireless apparatus had broken down and it took about 6 hours to repair and Phillips was already exhausted when he resumed working. Unfortunately Jack never got his rest as the accident happened right as he was getting relieved. What followed were the most stressful 2 hours of his life, then having to escape the ship, swim in FREEZING water to collapsible B, an upturned boat that could sink any moment and was barely out of the water. It was just too much and he didn't have the energy. He stayed alive until he knew carpathia was there, and the survivors would be rescued. Then he silently collapsed and died, his last words as u said "there she is right on time". Jack Phillips has always been one of the people I connected with from the titanic. His bravery and how he stayed at his post is why he's remembered as a legendary hero from that tragic night. I wish we could know more about him.
can I know the source from where u heard of his last words? jack Phillips is the man I will always look up to in hard times. the guy's an inspiration and its a great deal the way he stood by the key while the ship sank. had he not fixed the apparatus titanic would've sunk with 2200 lives. however, I researched about his death for a long time and I could not find any solid proof of how this hero died. some say he went down with the ship. some say he made it to the upturned collapsible B but died of hypothermia just before dawn and was buried at sea by carpathia. also his last words u mentioned in your comments are very new to me...
@@eshaharshad9642 Lightoller said he found himself sitting with one of the wireless operators on B. He said the poor chap died of hypothermia later. So it must have been Phillips. He asked Phillips about the possibility of a rescue, and Phillips said Carpathia was coming but wouldn't be there until dawn. So he made it to the Collapsible.
It’s so unfortunate. Phillips did everything he could for the good of EVERYONE on the ship until the power gave out. He even had enough time to get out and on a life boat. It’s a shame that hypothermia had to get him.
Yeah, it was just so sad they didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone and only 18 of the 20 lifeboats were properly launched. Harold Bride had just barely managed to survive since he had fallen into that frigid water and only made it onto the upturned bottom of the Collapsible B lifeboat which was barely enough to help him and a couple dozen other people survive until they were rescued.
And that poor guy was running on 36 hours with no sleep. Because the radio signal had broken and was really weak, so instead of following the Marconi manual and waiting for a repair man, he stayed all night to fix it. It's believed if he hadn't have done that, the signal would have been too weak to reach the Carpathia.
Kinda scary to think how things would turn out had he not fix the radio. Good chance all the survivors would've succumb to the elements before anybody realized what happened.
Actually, there was more to this scene than this. When the power to the radio had cut out, Captain Smith came in and relieved the radio operators, saying their job was done. Philips refused to leave his post. Bride attempted to persuade Philips to come with him, but Philips fruitlessly tried to keep sending distress signals. Then, a stoker attempted to steal Philips' life-jacket, which outraged Bride, and he knocked the stoker out cold. When the wireless room started to flood in, both the operators closed up and ran out of the wireless room, with Bride going forward, and Philips heading aft. After this, there are conflicting records about the death of Philips: 1. Some say he made it to upturned collapsible lifeboat B, where, exhausted and overcome by cold, Philips succumbed to hypothermia. 2. Others say that Philips couldn't make it to a lifeboat, and either drowned or succumbed to hypothermia.
@@Firemarioflower Bride kinda did, he said he hit him with an object and was left there in the ground, he hoped he killed him so he did not drown alone. It what is is, at the end is any man for his life
I wish this movie had scenes of the Carpathia’s wireless operator Harold Cottam too. He was the one who picked up the Titanic’s distress call and got the Carpathia into action to save all of those people who survived the sinking. He was also good friends with Jack Phillips and Harold Bride and I can’t imagine how Cottam and Bride must have felt to have been seeing each other again after that tragic sinking. It was also great of Bride to have been working together with Cottam to transmit messages about the Titanic’s sinking during their journey to New York City, even though he had badly injured his feet in the disaster.
Yup, and he and Bride escaped from the room once the water started coming in and made it to deck, though they both ended up going into the frigid water which Jack Phillips froze to death in.
@@oodango3961 Because he sprained his ankle in the disaster, had to swim in that frigid water for a short time and then had to balance himself on the upturned Collapsible B lifeboat with several dozen other men and with his feet still in the water for a few hours. He was just barely lucky enough to have been able to climb up the Carpathia’s rope ladder with his feet hurting that terribly.
What many of the movies about the Titanic fail to mention in regards to the Marconi operators is that both Jack and Harold were very tired by the time the ship hit the iceberg due to having been working to fix a problem with the equipment. On April 13th, Jack and Harold noticed that there was a decrease in the power output. Now they both knew the Marconi company policy was that the operators were not to try to fix the machine on their own and the manual instructed that they were to wait until they arrived at port so that a Marconi engineer could come to fix it. However, both of them made the call to try to repair it and worked through the day, overnight and into the morning of the 14th. Once they got it going, Jack apparently told Harold to go to bed and that he would work on sending the now sizable backlog of messages with the plan being that Harold would take over that night. In fact, Harold was just getting ready to do so when the Captain arrived to the Marconi room to tell them to call for help. Instead of relinquishing the telegraph key to Harold, Jack stayed where he was, frantically sending messages while running on fumes. Based on what Harold later said, Jack hardly paid attention to anything else that night save for the updates that Harold brought back from the bridge as the night wore on. He didn't even notice Harold putting his life jacket on him and was so intent on his work, he was unaware of the stoker that tried to steal his lifejack until Harold started fighting with him. Even after that Harold pratically had to drag him away from the room. After they left the Marconi room, there's not much info about where Jack was in the final moments of the ship, but according to Harold and several others, he possibly made it to Lifeboat B and then died during the night. Harold later said that be believed Jack's exhausted condition was a contributing factor in his death. This makes sense as anyone who has ever been tired and stressed out knows that those two things can certainly impact your health, your stamina, your ability to think clearly and to recover from injury or illness. He basically had nothing left in him to get him through the night after swimming in freezing water & then sitting in cold air, in a wet uniform on an overturned lifeboat. It also explains his irritability with the Californian & other ships that interrupted him while he was sending messages. I mean who hasn't snapped at someone after pulling an all-nighter? Was it unfortunate that Jack cut off the Californian before the operator gave his full warning about the ship being surrounded by field ice that Titanic was heading towards? Yes, but it would have been far more unfortunate if Jack and Harold had decided not to fix the machine. If that had happened, the Titanic would have continued on its journey with an underpowered wireless that could have had limited range or outright died by the time they hit the iceburg & their ability to call for help would have been severely compromised or nonexistent. And without the ability to effectively call for help, there might not have been a ship that knew to come to the rescue, leaving the passengers in the lifeboats to slowly succumb to exposure. Would another ship have come upon them? Possibly given that they were in the shipping lanes, but with the boats drifting and the continued cold weather, I think there would have been even fewer survivors left once another ship found them. In the end, those guys the right thing, but I just wish the movies would have called attention to how above and beyond they went.
Even after being released from duty Jack Phillips continued to send distress calls until the end. Bride practically had to drag him away from the wireless set. Phillips would later lose his life that night but he died a hero.
He didn’t really drag him away, Phillips eventually ran along with Bride when the water was just starting to flood their radio room and once on deck, they split up which was the last time they saw each other and of course Phillips died while Bride strugglingly survived with his feet terribly injured.
Even if Titanic is going more out of range due to loss of power when Phillips was still getting attention to every ship they were sinking fast he never gave up trying getting assistance immediately. Bride wanted Phillips to get out even if the Captain gave permission to leave their post, but Phillips wasn’t going anywhere until a ship was nearby. Just when every last inch of power was gone with Carpathia and Californian as the last ships to be within range before he still wanted to keep sending messages with an inoperable telegraph.
There were other ships within range too. They weren’t as close as the Californian, but definitely closer than the Carpathia, though they missed the Titanic’s distress calls since their radio operators had shut down their radios and gone to bed for the night. The Carpathia was the closest ship to respond only because radio operator Harold Cottam had stayed up later than usual and wore his headphones while on no official duty, just in the process of getting undressed for bed when he suddenly heard the Titanic’s distress call.
Jack Phillips Basically Stayed In The Wireless Room Till 2:17AM And The Time When It Sank He Made It To Collapsible B With Harold Bride But Phillips Then Starts Freezing To Death. Bride Mentioned That There Was A Dead Man In Boat B And When He Boarded The Carpathia He Saw That The Dead Man Was Phillips
Really great idea they had, to cut out just 18 seconds of a great clip that highlights the strong will of crewmen aboard this ship! Awesome choice! Yeah! (Sarcasm.)
i know why this got deleted. by timeline Bride was supposed to be trapped under the overturned boat. but that overturned boat scene was before this scene.
James Cameron's commentary;; Lead-in to a short scene to Marconi operators; Jonathan Phillips and Harold Bride in the last moments. They stayed until the boat-deck was awash. In fact Bride escaped just before trying to put a life-preserver on. Phillips did die so we only have his testimony.
I think some scenes should've been kept like when Californian warned Titanic about the icebergs and also this one because it actually happened on the original disaster.
i read that he send out the wrong morse code to the frankfurt which was really close and could make it in time...But since its been a german ship and he considered the situation as not so serious in the beginning he thought he was having the luxury of deciding wether theyll be rescued by germans or a brithish ship, he contacted the much futher away Carpathia and told the frankfurt to keep away and called them fools...
ITacHiUcHiha that’s not what happened, read the transcripts. The German ship kept asking “what’s the matter?” When titanic has already answered a million times, and blocking other more helpful messages. I think the German ship was having problems receiving and translating their signal. That’s why Jack called their operator a fool.
@@thelouisfanclub There were a lot of miscommunications. Frankfurt was the first ship to get the distress call, but (perhaps because the wireless operators were from a different company) didn't even realize that it WAS a distress call, but thought it was merely a routine check-in. They got their location for Titanic anyway. When they finally responded, Phillips realized they didn't understand the situation and sent a more detailed message about the ship "taking water by the head" and urging the Frankfurt operators to alert their captain. After that, Frankfurt immediately rushed at full speed towards Titanic's reported location. The given location was wrong, but Titanic was losing power and couldn't send messages any more except in a very limited range, only receive them. Frankfurt tried to get back in contact with Titanic but got no response. Phillips just thought Frankfurt was wasting time and clogging the airways, and sent them a very rude message essentially telling them to fuck off (which they never received).
Well, he made it out of the wireless room before the water completely flooded it, but he never managed to safely escape from the sinking ship and froze to death.
Titanic (1997) would have been a better movie with a lot less Rose and more of Phillips & Bride, and a few scenes from the bridge of the SS Californian.
@@adamwentz8518 I’m confused was Phillip on collapsible B or not? I was under the understanding that he was because Bride wrote he saw him in the boat in his book. Bride wouldn’t mistake him.
Bride never said he saw Phillips. He said he had to step over a body and that the body was Phillip. At the US inquiry he said he was only told Phillips was on collapsible B. I surmise someone thought Bride was the senior wireless operator and when Bride heard that the Senior Wireless Operator was on board Collapsible B (not realising that they were referring to him) he assumed Phillips was the body he stepped over
What in the world?! Harold bride was already engaged once ne got on titanic and why the heck would they fall in love? They did become good freinds for the few days they worked together
@@Dreamer10888 Np! Their story is actually pretty crazy, if you wanted to know there is a short film someone made called "The Last Signals" and it tells exactly everything they did
Phillips did his job unconditionally to the end, the passengers loaded him with silly messages, made him ignore ice warnings and he called for help until the power gave out. What a legend.
Matt Ward Sorry to disagree,but hitting the berg head on would have caused lesd damage and she probably wouldnt have sunk,ships are designed to take a frontal impact,by trying to avoid it,the massive tear in her side did more damage
Jack filiphs die in a lifeboat. Bride saw his body.
Ann Mitchell Apparently it is unsure what would have saved the ship or less damaged.
I believe the decision was made so to avoid the iceberg without damage/hitting the iceberg and continue the mayden voyage and not arrive with a damaged ship on her mayden voyage.
They hoped and thought it could make the turn and imagine how honorable it would have been for the crew becuase of their quick and professional reaction avoiding the iceberg. The passengers and newspapers would go crazy about it
@@TechnologicallyTechnical ....the titanic was going 23 knots..... full speed was 24 knots. Ignoring ice warnings, leaving the binoculars locked up, canceling evacuation drills. These were all screw ups. I’m not blaming anyone. Especially not John who was a hero. I’m just saying there were many screw ups. Saying a head on hit to the iceberg would have killed more people is saying it would have also sunk the ship. I’m not saying this is untrue I’m just saying with over half the ships passengers dying. Saying something would cause more his saying alot
@rented identity Third class wasn’t locked down. This was showed in the movie titanic and I liked it. It makes good drama for a movie but it wasn’t true. We have no accounts of this that I know of. As for the life boats. It’s extremely sad and stupid but the titanic did have more boats then they legally needed to have. The idea at the time was that in a evacuation life boats were used as charters from the sinking ship to a rescue ship and would be reused during the evacuation. Fortunately after the titanic many strikes took place by marine workers for more life boats. The titanic changed this old idea
Despite his error for ignoring the californian's Warning, he decide to take resposibility for his actions, he may even knew he would die trying.
I thought, he just gave the information about the ice warnings to the bridge crew...
@@xyleblack2545 that was after.
The Californian message really wouldn't have made much difference as the Bridge already knew about the Icebergs in the area and carried on at full speed (which was standard procedure at the time).
@@xyleblack2545 To an extent he did. However, there weren't many regulations about how to handle messages in those days (the aftermath of the sinking changed that), so consequently, sometimes they took the messages directly to the bridge, other times handed them to any officer who happened to be passing by, and sometimes messages were left with the rest and forgotten. On that Sunday, they were more concerned with getting through the backlog of passenger messages they had to send out than passing on yet another ice warning to a crew who had already been warned.
Part of the problem was the wireless operators weren't trained in navigation, so the locations given on the ice warnings meant nothing to them. So they had no way of realizing the extent of the ice flow these warnings conveyed and therefore didn't always see the need to send them to the bridge, so the people who could have realized the extent were uninformed of it.
He didn't ignore any messages
Those two were heroes.
Tell him to sod of
It was admirable the way he stayed at his post to the end, but let's be honest here. Phillips failed to deliver probably the most important message from the steamship Mesaba to the bridge, and ignored transmissions from the Californian (the closest ship) because he was busy transmitting passenger telegrams.
His exact words to the Wireless Operator on the Californian were "Keep out; shut up, I'm working Cape Race"
@@errolpletcher9186 It's unfair to blame him for that, he was nearly deafened by her signal since he had the volume on maximum for Cape Race. The message surprised him. And then later Californian doesn't do anything thanks to that coward Captain of theirs. They've brought plenty of other Ice Warnings to the bridge, so he has no fault in the disaster.
@@errolpletcher9186 that was common lingo back then.
@@Firemarioflower Can we really call the Captain of the Californian cowards here though? When they saw the Titanic launch flares, they tried communicating with her using Morse lamps but the Titanic didn't respond (the signal may have been complete gibberish to those aboard the Titanic due to refraction and also probably because of the fact that Titanic had shifted from broad-side to being tilted away).
Even assuming that they somehow understood that the Titanic was in peril, they had already shut off for the night several hours prior. By the time they could reignite the boiler room and get ready to sail, they would probably take 4-4.5 hours at the earliest.
Of course, I'm not going to say that the Californian is not to be blamed at all but people need to stop being so harsh with them.
I just cannot fathom the courage and sacrifice of Jack Phillips. 25 years old, knowing he was probably going to die that night. Even though it was not his fault for ignoring the Californian's message (it wasn't properly addressed to the bridge by Californian's operator, and in any event the bridge officers already knew about ice and continued going full speed ahead anyways, the Californian message wouldn't have changed anything), he still felt tremendous guilt forr it and tried to save as many lives as possible.
Exactly, people are blaming Phillips for the Titanic sinking because he ignored that message, but the crew have already been given hundreds of messages about ice warnings, if Philips actually listened to the Californian message and brought it to the Bridge, it still wouldn’t change anything as the crew would have just shrugged it off.
I don't think he felt guilt about what he wrote to the Californian. I think it was more of the fact he knew that as a wireless operator his chances of surviving the night were slim to none, especially with the cold water. I think hearing the other operators saying they were coming was keeping hope alive. I also always thought people blaming him for the Californian not responding has been unfair. I think it wouldn't have mattered if he told the operator to shut up or said "received." the operator was going to go to bed anyway. 1912 law actually didn't require certain ships to run operators on a 24-hour basis. If I actually remember correctly the Carpathia was also another ship that didn't have an operator on 24 hours. I heard that the Operator of the ship before turning in decided to turn on the wireless before turning in and happened to hear Cape Race reporting Titanics CQD, Ironically the spark was so faint he asked the Titanic "Did you know Cape Cod is sending a CQD for you?" If anything the Californian Captain is actually to blame for the lack of response from the ship.
I also remember reading that the Californian made an error when Jack told him to shut up. When contacting the Titanic, he came through very casual and didn't get to the point right away. Many wireless operators would from time to time casually talk to one another to get information and just say hello. Phillips took it as a casual conversation going through and nothing important. It really wasn't until the inquiries that it was revealed The Californian was trying to send an ice warning. As far as Philips was concerned the last Ice Warning happened While Smith was still on duty. He probably died never realizing the error he made.
Sad
he fkd up minutes before the first collision
Apparently Phillips was in even worse shape than he appears in this scene. He was in this sort of dazed state of mind. The captain had ordered him and Bride to abandon their station and the ship could barely transmit, but Philips was in such a daze that he kept tapping out calls for help. Bride (his assistant) was literally screaming at him to leave the wireless room, and he didn't seem to either notice or care. Eventually he left the room and made it onto one of the collapsible boats, but died later that morning. Apparently his last words were "There she is (referring to Carpathia), right on time..."
Matt W A lot weird stuff was happening in those final moments as well!! Bride said there was a woman passed out on a chair in their wireless shack after she fainted. She sat down for sometime as he and Phillips got her some water. Also right before they left Phillips was still desperately tapping the key even though there was no signal and a stoker snuck into their cabin! Bride who was busy gathering their belongings in their adjoining cabin came out and saw the man trying to steal Phillips' life belt off of him. Disgusted, Bride started beating the man, Phillips jumped up startled and beat the man as well. After this Phillips told bride "let's clear out" and they shut down the power and exited the room ( I believe through their skylight on the roof ). They were on the roof of the officers quarters where they could see men struggling to push collapsible B off. Bride went to assist and Phillips ran aft according to Bride.
Matt W I've always believed one of the key reasons Phillips died was because he was basically operating on no sleep. Earlier that night before the incident Bride told Phillips he would relieve him early because earlier the wireless apparatus had broken down and it took about 6 hours to repair and Phillips was already exhausted when he resumed working. Unfortunately Jack never got his rest as the accident happened right as he was getting relieved. What followed were the most stressful 2 hours of his life, then having to escape the ship, swim in FREEZING water to collapsible B, an upturned boat that could sink any moment and was barely out of the water. It was just too much and he didn't have the energy. He stayed alive until he knew carpathia was there, and the survivors would be rescued. Then he silently collapsed and died, his last words as u said "there she is right on time". Jack Phillips has always been one of the people I connected with from the titanic. His bravery and how he stayed at his post is why he's remembered as a legendary hero from that tragic night. I wish we could know more about him.
+Mackenzie Mitchell Yeah, his body couldn't have had much energy left to keep him warm/alive after that night.
can I know the source from where u heard of his last words? jack Phillips is the man I will always look up to in hard times. the guy's an inspiration and its a great deal the way he stood by the key while the ship sank. had he not fixed the apparatus titanic would've sunk with 2200 lives.
however, I researched about his death for a long time and I could not find any solid proof of how this hero died. some say he went down with the ship. some say he made it to the upturned collapsible B but died of hypothermia just before dawn and was buried at sea by carpathia. also his last words u mentioned in your comments are very new to me...
@@eshaharshad9642 Lightoller said he found himself sitting with one of the wireless operators on B. He said the poor chap died of hypothermia later. So it must have been Phillips. He asked Phillips about the possibility of a rescue, and Phillips said Carpathia was coming but wouldn't be there until dawn. So he made it to the Collapsible.
man these left out snippets of the real characters make me tear up
Jack turned 25 just a few days earlier on the 11th
Wow
It’s so unfortunate. Phillips did everything he could for the good of EVERYONE on the ship until the power gave out. He even had enough time to get out and on a life boat. It’s a shame that hypothermia had to get him.
Yeah, it was just so sad they didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone and only 18 of the 20 lifeboats were properly launched. Harold Bride had just barely managed to survive since he had fallen into that frigid water and only made it onto the upturned bottom of the Collapsible B lifeboat which was barely enough to help him and a couple dozen other people survive until they were rescued.
@@jorgerosario3308 No, he didn't. Just his assistant did.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY oh sorry my mistake
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACYI heard that more lifeboats wouldn't have made a difference.
@@youtubeaccount5356 That’s just a theory. Just because many believe it doesn’t mean it’s definitely true.
And that poor guy was running on 36 hours with no sleep. Because the radio signal had broken and was really weak, so instead of following the Marconi manual and waiting for a repair man, he stayed all night to fix it. It's believed if he hadn't have done that, the signal would have been too weak to reach the Carpathia.
Kinda scary to think how things would turn out had he not fix the radio. Good chance all the survivors would've succumb to the elements before anybody realized what happened.
Actually, there was more to this scene than this. When the power to the radio had cut out, Captain Smith came in and relieved the radio operators, saying their job was done. Philips refused to leave his post. Bride attempted to persuade Philips to come with him, but Philips fruitlessly tried to keep sending distress signals. Then, a stoker attempted to steal Philips' life-jacket, which outraged Bride, and he knocked the stoker out cold. When the wireless room started to flood in, both the operators closed up and ran out of the wireless room, with Bride going forward, and Philips heading aft. After this, there are conflicting records about the death of Philips:
1. Some say he made it to upturned collapsible lifeboat B, where, exhausted and overcome by cold, Philips succumbed to hypothermia.
2. Others say that Philips couldn't make it to a lifeboat, and either drowned or succumbed to hypothermia.
So they basically killed the fireman?
@@Firemarioflower Bride kinda did, he said he hit him with an object and was left there in the ground, he hoped he killed him so he did not drown alone. It what is is, at the end is any man for his life
I wish this movie had scenes of the Carpathia’s wireless operator Harold Cottam too. He was the one who picked up the Titanic’s distress call and got the Carpathia into action to save all of those people who survived the sinking. He was also good friends with Jack Phillips and Harold Bride and I can’t imagine how Cottam and Bride must have felt to have been seeing each other again after that tragic sinking. It was also great of Bride to have been working together with Cottam to transmit messages about the Titanic’s sinking during their journey to New York City, even though he had badly injured his feet in the disaster.
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Philips was a true hero. He stayed on the ship until the very end.
Yup, and he and Bride escaped from the room once the water started coming in and made it to deck, though they both ended up going into the frigid water which Jack Phillips froze to death in.
The man convincing him to go was Harold Bride, who did survive the shipwreck.
Yeah, with terribly injured feet that is.
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@@oodango3961 Because he sprained his ankle in the disaster, had to swim in that frigid water for a short time and then had to balance himself on the upturned Collapsible B lifeboat with several dozen other men and with his feet still in the water for a few hours. He was just barely lucky enough to have been able to climb up the Carpathia’s rope ladder with his feet hurting that terribly.
They way Call just said 'there there' killed me
What many of the movies about the Titanic fail to mention in regards to the Marconi operators is that both Jack and Harold were very tired by the time the ship hit the iceberg due to having been working to fix a problem with the equipment. On April 13th, Jack and Harold noticed that there was a decrease in the power output. Now they both knew the Marconi company policy was that the operators were not to try to fix the machine on their own and the manual instructed that they were to wait until they arrived at port so that a Marconi engineer could come to fix it. However, both of them made the call to try to repair it and worked through the day, overnight and into the morning of the 14th.
Once they got it going, Jack apparently told Harold to go to bed and that he would work on sending the now sizable backlog of messages with the plan being that Harold would take over that night. In fact, Harold was just getting ready to do so when the Captain arrived to the Marconi room to tell them to call for help. Instead of relinquishing the telegraph key to Harold, Jack stayed where he was, frantically sending messages while running on fumes. Based on what Harold later said, Jack hardly paid attention to anything else that night save for the updates that Harold brought back from the bridge as the night wore on. He didn't even notice Harold putting his life jacket on him and was so intent on his work, he was unaware of the stoker that tried to steal his lifejack until Harold started fighting with him. Even after that Harold pratically had to drag him away from the room.
After they left the Marconi room, there's not much info about where Jack was in the final moments of the ship, but according to Harold and several others, he possibly made it to Lifeboat B and then died during the night. Harold later said that be believed Jack's exhausted condition was a contributing factor in his death. This makes sense as anyone who has ever been tired and stressed out knows that those two things can certainly impact your health, your stamina, your ability to think clearly and to recover from injury or illness. He basically had nothing left in him to get him through the night after swimming in freezing water & then sitting in cold air, in a wet uniform on an overturned lifeboat. It also explains his irritability with the Californian & other ships that interrupted him while he was sending messages. I mean who hasn't snapped at someone after pulling an all-nighter? Was it unfortunate that Jack cut off the Californian before the operator gave his full warning about the ship being surrounded by field ice that Titanic was heading towards? Yes, but it would have been far more unfortunate if Jack and Harold had decided not to fix the machine.
If that had happened, the Titanic would have continued on its journey with an underpowered wireless that could have had limited range or outright died by the time they hit the iceburg & their ability to call for help would have been severely compromised or nonexistent. And without the ability to effectively call for help, there might not have been a ship that knew to come to the rescue, leaving the passengers in the lifeboats to slowly succumb to exposure. Would another ship have come upon them? Possibly given that they were in the shipping lanes, but with the boats drifting and the continued cold weather, I think there would have been even fewer survivors left once another ship found them. In the end, those guys the right thing, but I just wish the movies would have called attention to how above and beyond they went.
Even after being released from duty Jack Phillips continued to send distress calls until the end. Bride practically had to drag him away from the wireless set. Phillips would later lose his life that night but he died a hero.
He didn’t really drag him away, Phillips eventually ran along with Bride when the water was just starting to flood their radio room and once on deck, they split up which was the last time they saw each other and of course Phillips died while Bride strugglingly survived with his feet terribly injured.
Even if Titanic is going more out of range due to loss of power when Phillips was still getting attention to every ship they were sinking fast he never gave up trying getting assistance immediately. Bride wanted Phillips to get out even if the Captain gave permission to leave their post, but Phillips wasn’t going anywhere until a ship was nearby. Just when every last inch of power was gone with Carpathia and Californian as the last ships to be within range before he still wanted to keep sending messages with an inoperable telegraph.
There were other ships within range too. They weren’t as close as the Californian, but definitely closer than the Carpathia, though they missed the Titanic’s distress calls since their radio operators had shut down their radios and gone to bed for the night. The Carpathia was the closest ship to respond only because radio operator Harold Cottam had stayed up later than usual and wore his headphones while on no official duty, just in the process of getting undressed for bed when he suddenly heard the Titanic’s distress call.
Jack Phillips Basically Stayed In The Wireless Room Till 2:17AM And The Time When It Sank He Made It To Collapsible B With Harold Bride But Phillips Then Starts Freezing To Death. Bride Mentioned That There Was A Dead Man In Boat B And When He Boarded The Carpathia He Saw That The Dead Man Was Phillips
That was just a legend actually, Philips never manage to go collapsible B, he just split up with Bride and went to Aft!
The Wireless Room was already flooded at 2:17. It was more around 2:00 he finally left the radio room.
Really great idea they had, to cut out just 18 seconds of a great clip that highlights the strong will of crewmen aboard this ship! Awesome choice! Yeah! (Sarcasm.)
Did he just said breakfast🤔
Yes
i know why this got deleted.
by timeline Bride was supposed to be trapped under the overturned boat. but that overturned boat scene was before this scene.
You mean this scene would’ve been shown after the collapsible B scene where Harold Bride got trapped under it if it didn’t get deleted?
This is one of the most important scenes from the Titanic and they just deleted it!😢
James Cameron's commentary;; Lead-in to a short scene to Marconi operators; Jonathan Phillips and Harold Bride in the last moments. They stayed until the boat-deck was awash. In fact Bride escaped just before trying to put a life-preserver on. Phillips did die so we only have his testimony.
Did Jack Phillips have any relatives when he went down with the R.M.S. Titanic while sending for help as much as he possibly can?
Mother and father plus twin elder sisters. :(
Never seen this scene, wow
I wish Harold Cottam had appeared in this movie too.
Yup, also why not reuse some scenes from A Night to Remember and colorize them.
there there
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He said 'we're gonna be eating sand for breakfast', meaning the ship will be on the seabed by tomorrow morning.
@@yamato6114 I see.
@@angieroxy7550 yea, his accent was hard to understand
@@galatheumbreon6862 british
@@yamato6114That kind of British sounds so beautiful, especially when it’s shouted
I think some scenes should've been kept like when Californian warned Titanic about the icebergs and also this one because it actually happened on the original disaster.
so what we got in the final cut was the cheesy shit jack-rose nonsense rather than the sinking of the titanic
Me when i call firefighter before people asking me to help them to grab a water from burning forrest
i read that he send out the wrong morse code to the frankfurt which was really close and could make it in time...But since its been a german ship and he considered the situation as not so serious in the beginning he thought he was having the luxury of deciding wether theyll be rescued by germans or a brithish ship, he contacted the much futher away Carpathia and told the frankfurt to keep away and called them fools...
ITacHiUcHiha that’s not what happened, read the transcripts. The German ship kept asking “what’s the matter?” When titanic has already answered a million times, and blocking other more helpful messages. I think the German ship was having problems receiving and translating their signal. That’s why Jack called their operator a fool.
Maybe that the reason why the British gone against the Germans in ww2.
@@thelouisfanclub There were a lot of miscommunications. Frankfurt was the first ship to get the distress call, but (perhaps because the wireless operators were from a different company) didn't even realize that it WAS a distress call, but thought it was merely a routine check-in. They got their location for Titanic anyway. When they finally responded, Phillips realized they didn't understand the situation and sent a more detailed message about the ship "taking water by the head" and urging the Frankfurt operators to alert their captain. After that, Frankfurt immediately rushed at full speed towards Titanic's reported location. The given location was wrong, but Titanic was losing power and couldn't send messages any more except in a very limited range, only receive them. Frankfurt tried to get back in contact with Titanic but got no response. Phillips just thought Frankfurt was wasting time and clogging the airways, and sent them a very rude message essentially telling them to fuck off (which they never received).
That’s a lie
@@thelouisfanclub glad someone read the transcripts
Dia bertanggung jawab atas perbuatannya
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Yo have to go Jack do anything with your life than being stuck on a ship!
Well, he made it out of the wireless room before the water completely flooded it, but he never managed to safely escape from the sinking ship and froze to death.
Titanic (1997) would have been a better movie with a lot less Rose and more of Phillips & Bride, and a few scenes from the bridge of the SS Californian.
Jack Phillips wasn't on Collapsible B it was a misunderstanding
But Bride said he was in his book
@@hunterlawson8889 at the US inquiry when asked if Jack Phillips was on collapsible B he said so I'm told or something to that affect
@@adamwentz8518 I’m confused was Phillip on collapsible B or not? I was under the understanding that he was because Bride wrote he saw him in the boat in his book. Bride wouldn’t mistake him.
Bride never said he saw Phillips. He said he had to step over a body and that the body was Phillip. At the US inquiry he said he was only told Phillips was on collapsible B. I surmise someone thought Bride was the senior wireless operator and when Bride heard that the Senior Wireless Operator was on board Collapsible B (not realising that they were referring to him) he assumed Phillips was the body he stepped over
Phillips was not on collapsible B none of the 4 bodies taken aboard Carpathia were of Phillips
If only we had a time machine? who agrees. I mean time machines can never be man-made. But imagine if god create one for us.
God won’t create one. What happens in the past will stay the way it was when it was the present and that’s just how everyone in Heaven wants it to be.
I can't stop playing this scene
What does that officer say about breakfast?
Daniel Liu ‘WE’RE GOING TO BE EATING SAND FOR BREAKFAST!’ I think! ❤️
@@dahlia6007 Thank you. I could not understand for the life of me what he said
@@dahlia6007 i heard he said insane
@@JohnBanana He was either English or Welsh
@@galatheumbreon6862 He sounds English ~
What breakfast are you talking about, Harold?
Maybe the breakfast he had on the Carpathia after it rescued him and all the other survivors thanks to his good friend, Harold.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACYI think he said "were gonna be eating sand for breakfast" since theyd be going to the bottom of the ocean if they didnt leave
@@deville6120 Yeah, I get that. I just enjoy adding a literal sense to things like that. 😁
Cockney accent wasn’t the best.
I wish the ending is the both of them fell in love, shouldn’t the love story be about them
What in the world?! Harold bride was already engaged once ne got on titanic and why the heck would they fall in love? They did become good freinds for the few days they worked together
@@deville6120 ok , it’s a no then. Thank you i didn’t know about their real life story.
@@Dreamer10888 Np! Their story is actually pretty crazy, if you wanted to know there is a short film someone made called "The Last Signals" and it tells exactly everything they did
wow thanks, I'm going to have to check it out. Sounds like they did their very best. @@deville6120
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