They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men. - Steve Turner

The musicians had played on the deck as the ship went down. They had forfeited their lives for the sake of others. They had played the tunes of hymns to induce a spirit of peace and calm. They were heroic.

“If any glory at all attaches to the awful tragedy of the sea about which the world is still talking, it circles round the heads of these heroic bandsmen who played the mighty vessel to its doom

It was 11:45 at night according to ship’s time when the Titanic grazed along the iceberg that would send it to the ocean bed.