The Sinking of the RMS Titanic: Part Four - Cherbourg

Episode 4 of our series on the Titanic Disaster picks up where Southampton left off — Titanic steaming across the English Channel toward Cherbourg, France, where the Continental passengers are waiting. The ship can’t enter the harbor (too shallow for a vessel drawing 34 feet), so she anchors offshore and sends tenders. Two ships: Nomadic for first and second class, Traffic for third. Within two hours, 174 new passengers are aboard, including some of the most famous names on the manifest. Then it’s overnight to Queenstown, Ireland — the final port, the last link to land, and the last chance anyone has to get off.The free episode covers the Channel crossing, the Cherbourg boarding, and the first formal dinner at sea — ten courses in first class, roast beef and accordion music in third — with the ship performing flawlessly and everyone aboard convinced they’re on the safest vessel ever built.The full premium episode goes deep on the people who boarded at Cherbourg, what was really happening in the wireless room that first night, and what the class divide looked like not just socially, but structurally — built into the steel of the ship itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.