Continued from the September 22, 2011,, Spec.com "The truth about the Titanic's sinking."
I wrote about this Aug. 8, 2012 and continued the story Oct. 19th. I promise to finish it before 2013.
This from Wikipedia.
Charles Lightoller commanded the last bridge watch on the doomed Titanic and was the most senior officer to survive. Lightoller was very strict about "women and children first" and only went overboard as the ship slid beneath the waves and survived on an overturned lifeboat.
He was decorated for gallantry as a naval officer in World War I and commanded one of the "little ships at Dunkirk in World War II. Quite a life.
After the Titanic, he became a mate on one of the Titanic's sister ships, the Oceanic. In World War I, the Oceanic became an armed merchant cruiser and Charles was a lieutenant on it. Later he commanded the torpedo boat HMTB 117 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for engaging the Zeppelin L31.
As a result of that action, he was appointed to command the HMS Falcon, a C-Class Torpedo Boat Destroyer. It sank April 1, 1918 after a collision with the trawler John Fitzgerald while both were escorting a convoy in the North Sea. You had to wonder what Lightoller was thinking as his second ship went down.
Then, he was given command of the destroyer HMS Garry and received another Distinguished Service Cross for ramming and sinking the U-boat 110.
And Amazing Life and a Lot of History for One Man. --DaCoot
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