The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice. - Steve Turner

Not only had they behaved dutifully and without apparent concern for their own safety, but they also offered the hope that not all of the younger male generation were venial, lazy, proud, irreligious, inconsiderate, self-indulgent, weak-willed, and timorous.

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.

[Bandleader Hartley] apparently believed that music could be more powerful that physical force in bringing order to chaos.