WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:05.679 Fed up with the everyday grind, tied up from the 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.199 summer heat, I want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:10.800 We offer you. 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:20.800 Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.559 of today, for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:31.640 You are trapped aboard an ill stated ocean liner captained 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:36.600 by a dying man, while a mysterious stranger haunting you, 8 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:42.840 menacing you, seems intent on sending you to destruction. 9 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.039 Tonight, we escape to mid ocean and to the strange 10 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:59.759 passengers aboard a stranger ship. As James Gould Cousins tells 11 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:20.760 it in his gripping story s s. San Pedro, Right, 12 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:32.400 Becky Hurway, it was hot. 13 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.480 The heat rolled up from the Hoboken water punt and 14 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.920 drifted in waves across the open bridge deck where I stood. 15 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:43.359 The last few loads of passenger's luggage were being hoisted aboard. 16 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.599 Thirty minutes the whistle on the forward stack would sound off, 17 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:51.280 and the cargo liner San Pedro, carrying one hundred and 18 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.439 seventy two passengers and two hundred and the crew with 19 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.200 nose away from the pier and start the long run 20 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:02.480 south to Buenos Aires. Then she'd become the great living 21 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.120 animal she was meant to be no longer something built 22 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.599 of paint and steel and tied to a pier. You 23 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.439 get to feel that way after you've been a while 24 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.199 at sea. You feel that your ship is a live thing, 25 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.479 and that you're part of it. The captain is the 26 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:20.159 biggest part, of course, the brain of the ship, the 27 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.639 mentality that keeps her from turning idiot and dashing herself 28 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.719 to pieces in her madness. The officers are the nerve centers, 29 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.960 and the crew the hands and fingers and the twin turbines. 30 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:34.840 Far down in the whole are the great driving muscles 31 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:38.840 of the legs and silly maybe that you can feel it. 32 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:43.479 And the passengers, well, to most of us officers, the 33 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:45.719 passengers are the parasites of the ship. 34 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.479 My, but you look confident, h I said. I'm glad 35 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.960 you look confident, but you don't have to look so serious. 36 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.000 I'm sorry, miss. The passengers are not allowed on the bridge. 37 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.199 I know that I've been on ships before, and I've 38 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:02.960 never been thrown off a bridge yet. 39 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:05.439 I have no intention of throwing you off, but I 40 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:06.039 must ask. 41 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.759 My name is Merrilee. 42 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:09.960 How do you do Are you the captain? 43 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:10.599 No? 44 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:12.280 No, I'm Briddell the first officer. 45 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.360 Oh, the captain's right hand man. 46 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.479 You might put it that way now, if you'll. 47 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:18.319 Please merrily is my first name? 48 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:20.639 I assumed as much. 49 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.759 Oh, well, I'll just call you Briddell. Then maybe you'll 50 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.120 loosen up when we get further south. At least you 51 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.159 have to dance with me in the evening. It's part 52 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:31.800 of your duty. 53 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:34.240 Well, i'll be I'll be happy to in the line 54 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:35.439 of duty a. 55 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.759 Regular machine, aren't you. I think this is. 56 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.199 Going to be fun well in the meantime, please be 57 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.560 kind enough now, yes, mister driscool, what is it? Captain's compliments? 58 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.080 Sarry like to see you in his cabin. Run away, 59 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.080 I'm good. Take charge of the bridge, mister DRIs schools. 60 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.159 The luggage is already a board, and Packe is on 61 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.439 the wind. She's pretty drunk, but myro seems to be 62 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.520 able to handle them. All right, mister Bredell, I'll watch him, 63 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.520 and please make sure the young lady finds so way 64 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.199 back to the passenger deck. 65 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.199 Don't worry, Braddell, I know how to get any place. 66 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:06.039 I won't get. 67 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:13.439 You. 68 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:18.000 Our tech officers get all the breaks. There's your little friend, Briddell. 69 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:23.680 Uh passenger cock eyed nuisance. You can have her sparks. Good. 70 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.560 Maybe I can teach you the cold I doubt it. 71 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.439 Well, you get a lot of the captain's visitors. 72 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:47.040 Brace yourself, boy. 73 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:42.639 I understand you sent for me, captain. 74 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:48.639 Oh, mister Ruddell, Hey, yes, I did my boy everything 75 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:49.639 in order on deck? 76 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:52.600 Yes, sir, we'll say in about twenty minutes. Good good, 77 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:53.639 mister Rudell. 78 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:59.560 Oh, i'd like to present a friend of mine, doctor Percival. 79 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:05.600 How do you do, mister Braddell. I don't wonder at 80 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:12.879 your surprise my appearance is somewhat strange. I'm sorry, sir. No, no, 81 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.560 I'm quite used to such a reaction. I am well 82 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.639 aware that I closely resemble a corpse. 83 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:26.199 Well, mister Raddell, I wonder if you'd mind showing doctor 84 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:27.920 Percival around the ship and. 85 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:30.600 Captain clintonning we sail in twenty minutes. 86 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:32.480 A very brief tour will show me all I weave 87 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.160 to see, mister Riddell. 88 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.120 Well, maybe after we get under way. 89 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:40.720 I can't No, doctor Percival isn't sailing with us, mister Raddell. 90 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:45.040 It shouldn't take more than a few minutes. I'd show 91 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:49.279 him around myself. But I'm I'm not feeling too well. 92 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:56.600 The man wears out, I guess starts to break down 93 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:01.519 like a machine machine. 94 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:07.560 That's what she said. What's that, mister, h Nothing, nothing, sir, Well, 95 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:20.399 Shall we get started, doctor Percival. I showed him through 96 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.800 the empty dining salon, along the boat deck and the promenade. 97 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.040 We opened the bulkhead door and looked down through the 98 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:32.560 gratings into the engine room, and everywhere we walked, people 99 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.959 drew back and stared silently until we passed, and then 100 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.439 whispered together behind us. We met merrily, and she started 101 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:43.439 to speak, and then her face turned white, and she 102 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.959 passed us without a word. Doctor Percival paid no attention 103 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:51.040 to any of them. His gaunt, gray face never changed expression, 104 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:56.399 and those dark, hollow eyes stared straight ahead. His twisted 105 00:06:56.519 --> 00:07:00.399 hands were covered by gloves made of soft gray leather, 106 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.600 and he reached out with him from time to time 107 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:09.279 and touched things as we passed, almost caressing them. It 108 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.600 was almost repulsive for some reason. Finally we wound up 109 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.839 at the port rail of the offices deck, and I 110 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:21.199 showed him how to reach the gang plank. I presume 111 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.040 these are the offices quarters along here. 112 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:24.759 Mister Bridell. 113 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.120 Yes, that's right. The port cabins here, and the same 114 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.319 thing over on the starboard. There are a few spares 115 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.319 we use for a sick base when we have to. 116 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:39.160 I see nearly four hundred people on board. Quite a responsibility, 117 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.639 especially for the captains. 118 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.000 Yes, he has his hands full, right, and if something 119 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.199 should happen to him, oh well I'm next in charge. 120 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:57.720 Only nothing will happen. What causes that sound? Right? Myra? 121 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.279 Oh they're the ship's engines, will be here, bring them 122 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:01.839 for the next ten days. Hmm. 123 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:07.839 Mister Bdell, have you noticed that your ship is not 124 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:09.560 floating level? 125 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:10.360 Huh? 126 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:14.000 This side of the deck, the port side. I think 127 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:17.279 you said. It's a good deal lower than the other. 128 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.920 Yeah, yes, we do have a slight list of port 129 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.000 hadn't noticed it? Well, it's nothing serious. Will corrected with 130 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.160 the ballast tanks as soon as we're underway now, sir. 131 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:34.679 If the captain is an old man, he's in bad shape. 132 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:38.759 Not according to the ship's doctor. I am his doctor now, 133 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.879 and I don't believe I care to discuss it, sir, 134 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:47.120 nor I I only mention it. Thank you, mister Braddell 135 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.440 for showing me what I wish to see. I'll be 136 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.840 going now, fine, fine, fine, glad I've had your born. 137 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:12.519 Now straight down that ladder now. By dinner that evening, 138 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.039 we were one hundred and forty miles at sea. The 139 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.039 sun dropped behind a red haze and brought out a clear, 140 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:23.039 starry night sky. Merrily had somehow wangled a place at 141 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.399 my table, but held herself down to an occasional knowing 142 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:32.120 grin that the other passengers probably misinterpreted. I dodged her afterwards, 143 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.519 checked over the cargo plant for a while, trying to 144 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:37.559 find some reason for the strange port list that was 145 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.240 getting a little more pronounced, and finally dropped into the 146 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:49.000 wireless shack aw hyeb down. Get bored with social life? Yeah, yeah, 147 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:53.200 it's not the heat, it's the femininity. You should squawk. 148 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:55.480 The only time I see a girl on board this 149 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:57.240 tub is when they come into wire for money at 150 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.279 the next port. Well, I know one you can have, 151 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.360 and that's just the one i'd take too. 152 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:08.440 You're crazy, Briddell. Maybe you picked up anything. No, I've 153 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:09.559 been talking to the Toledo. 154 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.480 He's about a hundred miles ahead of us, making seventeen knots, 155 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.480 so we'll probably tailor all the way south. 156 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.080 Mm yeah h she. 157 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.559 Started hitting some bad weather about an hour ago. Guys, 158 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.919 we'll be getting it too. Probably make all your lady friends. 159 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:23.879 See good and see if you can hurry it up. 160 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:26.080 Here's the captain in the chart room. 161 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.840 Yeah, call from here ten minutes ago. A. How'd you 162 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:34.000 like that character that came aboard to see Oh, doctor Percival? 163 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:38.320 Uh huh you can have him too, eh, see you later. 164 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.200 Alright, I'll let you know if I get any more 165 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:52.799 in the storm, right sung, Oh, mister Bridell, right, all 166 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:53.240 for it. 167 00:10:53.320 --> 00:11:02.799 Wait a minute, I wanted to no, wait, wait, and. 168 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:03.679 Good evening, captain. 169 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:09.440 Oh er, mister Riddell, I've been writing up the night orders. 170 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:13.360 Who has the first watch? Riscal? Yes, sir, then everly 171 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:13.960 and good. 172 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:14.639 Uh. 173 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:18.000 By the way, mister Riddell, I appreciate your showing. 174 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.919 Doctor Percy will around this afternoon. Oh, I'm glad to 175 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.360 do it, Captain say, is he nah an old friend 176 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:24.799 of yours? 177 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:30.000 No? No, I met him quite recently. Uh, mister Briddell, 178 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.480 what's this port list? It's getting worse? Shows eight degrees 179 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.919 on the klinometer now, uh, I've had one pump on 180 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.200 the ballast tanks in three o'clock. I better put on 181 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.799 another one. It worries me. Bad weather up ahead, you know, Yes, 182 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.039 I just talked to Morris. Wonder if we're making any water? 183 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.200 H I I don't think so. I'll check with the 184 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:49.039 engine room if you like. 185 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:54.600 Yes, I wish you would. Canton fought to take any chances. 186 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.480 Bdell, here we go. Riad captain wants your film soundings. 187 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:02.360 Call him back right trot room. 188 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.639 I'm I'm tired tonight, mister Bludell. Don't feel so well. 189 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.879 M I guess the man's bound to get old sometime. 190 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.399 Well, that's still some years ahead of you, sir, I 191 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:21.679 doubt it, doubted very much. Well, can't do much about it. 192 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:23.879 Oh I I meant to tell you. 193 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.120 The steward reported this afternoon that he couldn't get into 194 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.559 number seven port cabin in the office's deck. 195 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:30.519 And you couldn't get into it. 196 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.600 The door seems to be stuck. Don't know what's wrong. 197 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:35.960 We should look into all. 198 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:38.080 Right, sir. I'll have myro look into it. I think 199 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:38.559 he's up. 200 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:43.159 An nuh, that must be the injured room. But Dell 201 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:49.559 right right, alright, thanks, I mean Gilbrey says all the 202 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:50.240 builders are. 203 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.360 Dry, sir, good I I well, I guess there's no 204 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.039 reason why they shouldn't be that. 205 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:02.480 A man gets old. Well, I'll go to speak to 206 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:04.679 myro captain and see about putting another pump on the 207 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:05.519 ballast tanks. 208 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:10.200 Good good, I'm I'm going to turn in in a 209 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:10.879 few minutes. 210 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.519 Good night, mister Briddell. Good night Captain. 211 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:24.080 Well, I knew you would have to come out sometime. 212 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:24.799 Ah. 213 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:29.960 Look, miss relaxed Braudell, you have a terribly romantic profile. 214 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.720 We're getting closer to the tropics. 215 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:35.399 All the time I've been there before. I'll bet you 216 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.639 have I listen if you want to. 217 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.759 Why don't you be human for once? You keep on 218 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:42.799 and you'll end up looking like your ghoulish friend you 219 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:44.320 were showing around this afternoon. 220 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:45.320 He was no friend of mine. 221 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:47.759 It should be a rule against taking passengers who look 222 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.440 like that. It gives me the creeps. 223 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.399 Well, for your information, we we didn't take him. He 224 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:54.039 went ashore. 225 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.000 Oh you'd be a good liar, Briddell if I hadn't 226 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.720 seen him myself a half an hour ago. Uh where 227 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:01.799 you went into one of those cabins right down there 228 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:02.159 ahead of. 229 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.399 Us on the on the office's deck. You you didn't 230 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:06.279 notice which one? 231 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.000 Yes? I did, as a matter of fact, was number seven? 232 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.799 Seven? Man? All right, come on now. 233 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:15.200 Look, Bridelle, I don't want to meet the guy. I 234 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.039 don't want to have anything to do with him. Gave 235 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:22.799 me the shivers just to look at him. 236 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:24.879 Is this the one number seven? 237 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:25.399 Yes? 238 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.799 You notice a little crossbar on the door handle. Yes, 239 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.120 it's turned straight up and down. Yes, that means the 240 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:34.200 door's unlocked. 241 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:39.720 Now all right, but it doesn't open. 242 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:44.039 That's right, because it's jammed. The steward reported it this afternoon, 243 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:45.840 not a half hour ago, so you're not much of 244 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:47.080 a liar yourself. 245 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:48.679 But I saw him go in this door. 246 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.600 Sure tell you I did. 247 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:51.879 I saw him? 248 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.039 Oh Myron, no, no, no, thing's wrong. This door is 249 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:56.799 apparently jammed. We should try to get it open to 250 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.759 when you have a chance, all right, sir, and myro 251 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.879 when you do, please please ad bias this young lady. 252 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.679 She's very curious about what's inside the cabin. 253 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:22.679 Uh, good night, mister Bridell. 254 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:30.200 Mister wake up? Oh my, what's the matter, mister Risker? 255 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:32.720 Once you on the bridge, sir, we've got some pretty. 256 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.080 Bad weather and I can feel it how long has 257 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.679 it been this way? Since midnight? But it's getting worse. 258 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:40.799 The stewart says, some glass broken the promenade deck. 259 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:43.279 We've shipped water in the forward hole. All right, myro 260 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.159 tell Driscllann'll be on the bridge in five minutes. Get going. 261 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.399 It was fairly bad on deck. Dawn was just breaking 262 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.679 with light enough to make out the long, high swells 263 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.240 charging into us one after another, the tops of their 264 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.080 crests ripped and torn by the driving wind. We were 265 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.399 taking them on the quarter, rolling pretty badly, and shipping 266 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.759 water on the port bow at every roll. And if anything, 267 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.279 that list had grown worse during the night. 268 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:33.000 Oh bad you're here, mister Brittell having a rather bad gulvid. 269 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:35.799 Yeah, well we've seen worse. As the captain been called, 270 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:37.759 Oh sir, I thought i'd better wait for you, right, 271 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.679 No need to call them. Where's Ebery? Took some men 272 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:41.639 down to the forehead hole. 273 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.639 We're shipping water on the port side every time. 274 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.759 With yeah, I know, I know a miro. See if 275 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:52.799 you can get them on the phone. Good lord. We're 276 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.639 listing eleven degrees now. Those pumps still going in the 277 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.960 ballast tanks all night, sir. The tanks are two thirds empty. 278 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.240 Now I understand it. I think the coon is dead 279 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:03.039 in the forward holding. 280 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:04.680 Mister, I can get enough signal. 281 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:06.880 All right, myro, you go on down there and see 282 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:16.200 what the trouble is. Report back, yes, sir, h eleven degrees. 283 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:18.960 Can't see any reason moment. 284 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:24.240 Oh, I'll take it there, risk go ahead, Yes, I know, 285 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.279 I know, all right, I'll. 286 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:29.720 Speak to him. 287 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.440 Mcgilbury says, they're taking quite a beating in the engine 288 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.759 role months and know if we can't slack off. 289 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.039 This roll, Yeah, yeah, I think we better. It's no 290 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:42.880 use beating ourselves to death against those swells. Bedell, captain, 291 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.200 sorry to bother you. It's all right boy. 292 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:46.680 What is it. 293 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:47.960 Permission to change courts? 294 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:48.119 Sir? 295 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.759 We're taking a bad swell in our quarter. Grab whatever 296 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:53.680 you think best, Thank you, sir. 297 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:55.799 Uh need me for anything? 298 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.559 No, no, sir, I'll report later, all right, mister dresscool 299 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:03.240 new course. He's off fourteen degrees and then hold due south. 300 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.240 He's off fourteen degrees. Hold those south, sir. I'm going 301 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:09.680 to the wireless room, all right, sir. We ought to 302 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:21.200 be out of this by afternoon. It's windy, isn't it, Merrily? 303 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:22.599 What the devil? Are you doing on. 304 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:23.799 Deck getting rained on? 305 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.319 Mostly? Haven't you got me? Since we're shipping water on 306 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.160 the fore deck? You want to get washed over? Would 307 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.480 you care? Bredell? Look, it costs money to stop a ship. 308 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.119 Now listen, get below. 309 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.880 I'm still waiting to see inside number seven caviny. 310 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:42.759 Oh, Burdell. 311 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:47.200 They're kind of shaking us well before using, aren't they. 312 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:47.720 Yeah? 313 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.119 Yeah, just changed the course. Should ease this roll a little, Maurris, 314 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:53.759 what's the nearest chip to us? 315 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:58.240 Still at Toledo, about seventy miles south. They say it's 316 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:59.160 raining down there. 317 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:03.319 Can you imagine there's nothing any any closer? Well, nothing 318 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.960 that I've been able. Hey, you don't figure, No, no, no, 319 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:10.440 there's no danger, Morris, just just routine. 320 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.240 Well, I'll see what I can pick up statics not 321 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:17.960 making it, Oh Maris, Yeah. 322 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:22.720 He's here. It's feel thanks. But the speaking dress, sir, Yeah. 323 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.119 The Guildridge just called, wants permission to put all pumps. 324 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:27.640 To work on the build on the bilge. 325 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.960 But four as we're making water from somewhere, he's got 326 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:32.440 forty inches in the stokehold. 327 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.440 It's probably coming from that forward hole. As soon as 328 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.960 everyone gets the bulkhead closes, we'll be able to wait 329 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.359 a second hold on. Myro just came in. What do 330 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:40.799 you find out? 331 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.599 Mister Reblin needs more men, sir. Some of those big 332 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.039 great shifted. They knocked out most of the forward bulk 333 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:46.720 hit knocked out. 334 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.759 Mister discom yes all the captain and ask him to 335 00:19:49.759 --> 00:20:06.079 meet me on the bridge immediately. Next hours were a nightmare, 336 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.839 and all through the day inn of the evening, terrified 337 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:13.160 passengers huddled in the lounges in the salon, not knowing 338 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:17.119 just how great the danger might be. Fearing the worst. 339 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:20.119 At eleven a m one of the pumps broke down, 340 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.720 and the san Pedro settled a little lower as the 341 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:27.079 water gained in the bilges. At one thirty pumped back 342 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:29.680 in operation, and for a while we held our own 343 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:32.960 down on the forward hole. Men fought a heart breaking 344 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:36.200 battle and water up to their arm pits, and tried 345 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:39.720 to throw up a temporary bulkhead. The five point fifteen, 346 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:44.279 a heavy sea crashed through the steward's pantry. Six men 347 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:48.400 vanished overboard in a smother of foam. All night long 348 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:51.640 we fought the sea and lost the battle foot by foot. 349 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.519 A strange list of port grew worse by dawn. We 350 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:59.160 were leaning over eighteen degrees, shipping tons of water with 351 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:12.680 every roll. Riscal here right, all right, hold on, what 352 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:12.960 is it? 353 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:15.759 DRIs Gil on the phone, Sir says he's had to 354 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:17.559 pull the fire in one boiler. He's going to do 355 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.119 in the second one once and know if you reduce 356 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:22.920 speed to steerageway otherwise he hasn't got steam enough for 357 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:27.079 the pumps. All right, tell him yes, gel right bright 358 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:33.079 else says, okay, take it now, one third speed, all right, 359 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:39.720 helm straight to one third. Unfounded, Sir, captain ought to 360 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:41.640 be here in the bridge, been at this. 361 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:42.839 Cabin for the last four hours. 362 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:48.519 He's got no business to still do, mister Drisco. Oh yes, sorry, sir, 363 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.119 uh forget it. You're right at that. You haven't got 364 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:54.319 much time to make up our minds. Now, how are 365 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.319 the passengers my row? Film or answer? The stewarts are 366 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:59.960 turned to keep him come, they're all in life. Preserve 367 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:02.599 the way we're healed over. We can't use the starboard 368 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:05.039 boats now, and in another hour there won't be enough 369 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:15.279 steam for the winches on the port side. Well, hello, hello, 370 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:17.480 now what the devil? 371 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:18.200 Now? 372 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.920 The Captain's phone's dead too. Myro got out to the 373 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:24.400 captain's cabin ask him to come up, Yes, sir, but 374 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:26.680 you can't chance it any longer, Driscoll. At least we 375 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:28.680 can start a call out while the captain's on his 376 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:34.119 way here, right Marris here, Ruddell and Bridge. You still 377 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:35.079 sending CQ. 378 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:38.000 Yes, sir, repeats it five minutes you picked up anything 379 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.359 the talte off as a Canard liner one hundred miles north. 380 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:42.480 That's not much help. 381 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:44.599 How bad are are we, sir? 382 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.559 Bad enough? You can start sending in SOS. Now give 383 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.839 me position and anything you pick up and stand by 384 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:54.359 for further orders. Right, this is it? Then what else, 385 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:55.000 mister Driscoll? 386 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:59.759 It may be too late as it is, mister Rudyes, 387 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.559 the captain, sir, he's in his BoNT dead. 388 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.279 Lord, well he was right there. Men get old machines 389 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:10.519 where off? I think he's been dead for some time. 390 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:14.839 It's probably so, Miro. Did you do you ever get 391 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:18.319 that port cabin door open? Didn't have any chance? But 392 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.160 what difference does it make now? None? I guess I 393 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:25.799 just wondered, all right, mister Drisco, Yes, sir, but a 394 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:28.759 general order on the PA emergency. All officers stand by 395 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:32.119 boat stations, prepared to abandon ship. Yes, Sir, now go ahead. 396 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:37.039 Attention. 397 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:40.119 All officers stand by boat stations. 398 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:41.599 Prepare to abandoned ship. 399 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:46.240 All officers stand by boat station, prepare to abandoned ship. 400 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:47.640 All officer. 401 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:02.680