This post will focus on her experience late in the sinking when she witnessed the launching of lifeboat 4 from the port side of A Deck forward, when Col. A past Titanic Piano post related May Futrelle’s account of the trio’s performance in the restaurant’s Reception Room on B Deck early in the sinking, just after passengers had donned lifebelts.
One passenger seems to have heard both bands perform during Titanic’s final hours. The present discussion will explore survivor accounts that describe the last moments of performance, in the attempt to explain the approximate time the band(s) stopped playing. The theory the bands played separately could explain why there was conflicting information on when the musicians stopped playing. Most passengers would have heard only one band, or believed there was only one, and therefore referred to the band in singular form, “the band.” This can be misleading.įor example, survivor Washington Dodge said in his account that five musicians had been lost, a sure indication that he did not know there was another band performing on the ship, with a total of eight musicians lost. The performance locations were quite far apart, one at the top of the forward Grand Staircase, and the other on B Deck of the aft Grand Staircase. The main gist of the last few posts has been to explore the likelihood that Titanic’s bands did not perform together as Titanic sank.
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