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The Amazing Story of Charles Joughin
Charles Joughin worked as a chief baker on RMS Titanic. He led a team of thirteen bakers and took care of Titanic always had fresh bread available. He earned 15 British pounds per month which would roughly equal 1500 pounds today.
At the time Titanic crashed an iceberg, at 23.40 on the 14th of April, 1912, he was in his room, drinking whiskey. When orders for evacuation came, he summoned his team to supply each boat with bread.
Joughin helped children and women get into lifeboats. After a while women panicked and refused to enter lifeboats, claiming it was safer to stay aboard of Titanic. He forcibly threw them in boats.
Although he was assigned as captain of lifeboat 10, he refused to enter and left his place to another lucky passenger.
Realizing Titanic was out of lifeboats, he went back to his room and drank as much whiskey he could, preparing himself to die.
A deleted scene from movie Titanic (Image:20TH CENTURY FOX)
Passengers started to panic, yet Joughin remained calm (and drunk). He threw around fifty wooden chairs into the water hoping they would help those already in the freezing water to hang on them.
Charles Joughin was the last man who left the Titanic and he got off with style.
In Hollywood blockbuster movie Charles Joughin is portrayed hanging on rails next to Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet, while Titanic is vertically sinking. This actually happened. Not Leonardo and Kate part. Of course.
Joughin recalled he rode the ship like an elevator, not even getting his head wet. It was 2.20 in the morning.
Joughin calmly paddled around for the next two hours until the dawn around 4.30 AM. He saw an upturned lifeboat with 25 people standing on it, he paddled towards the boat, but there was no space for him.
A cook, Isaac Maynard, recognized him and extended his hand to support him. Luckily, another lifeboat came by and Joughin was taken aboard. After two hours in freezing water, he just complained about his swollen feet. He stayed there until being saved by HMS Carpathia.
After surviving the Titanic disaster, Joughin went back to work on the various ships. He also baked bread for soldiers on transport ships during World war II.
With a colorful life under his belt, he died because of pneumonia in 1956 at the age of 78.