Saving the Titanic

2012 Irish TV series or program

Saving the Titanic
Written by	Colin Heber-Percy Lyall Watson
Directed by	Maurice Sweeney
Starring	Liam Cunningham David Wilmot Ciarán McMenamin
Music by	Louis Febre
Country of origin	Ireland Germany
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Keith Farrell
Cinematography	Stephen McNutt
Editor	Barry Zetlin
Running time	104 minutes
Production companies	Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Tile Films
Budget	€1,600,000
Original release
Release	13 April 2012 (2012-04-13)

Saving The Titanic, aired in Germany as Die Helden der Titanic, is 2012 Irish-German television docudrama directed by Maurice Sweeney, and written by Colin Heber-Percy and Lyall Watson. Unlike most films and series depicting the ship's passengers and senior crew, Saving the Titanic dramatizes the engineers and the boiler room crew who kept the furnaces and generators running as the Titanic sank, facilitating the survival of others.^[1]

"Based on eyewitness accounts, this is the remarkable story of nine men from the engineering crew who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and keep the power systems running, even when they learned that all was lost. The engineering crew consisted of fireman and stokers, who shoveled coal into the ship’s 29 boilers that powered its two massive steam engines, and engineers who made sure the engines and other mechanical equipment functioned smoothly. A memorial to commemorate their bravery was erected in Liverpool, England and unveiled in 1916."^[2]

Cast

Liam Cunningham - Narrator
David Wilmot - Chief Engineer, Joseph Bell
Ciarán McMenamin - Leading Fireman, Frederick "Fred" Barrett
Owen McDonnell - Trimmer, Thomas Patrick "Paddy" Dillion
Hugh O'Conor - Junior Assistant Second Engineer, Jonathan Shepherd
Andrew Simpson - Assistant Electrician, Albert George Ervine
John Byrne - Assistant Electrician, Alfred Pirrie Middleton
Chris Newman - Assistant Electrician, William Kelly
Paul Kennedy - Junior Assistant Second Engineer, Hubert Harvey
Douglas Rankine - Greaser, Alfred White
Stephen Hogan - Thomas Andrews
Conor MacNeill - Frank Bell
Ciaran O'Grady - Leading Fireman
Owen Roe - White Star Lawyer
David Heap - White Star Official
Dermot Magennis - Tailor
Johnny Eveson - 2nd Officer
Helen O'Reilly - Female Passenger

External links

Saving The Titanic at the IMDb database

References

^ "Saving the Titanic". 4 April 2012.
^ PBS Review

Titanic

Sinking

Deck officers

Edward J. Smith (Captain)
Henry Tingle Wilde (Chief Officer)
William McMaster Murdoch (First Officer)
Charles H. Lightoller (Second Officer)
Herbert Pitman (Third Officer)
Joseph G. Boxhall (Fourth Officer)
Harold G. Lowe (Fifth Officer)
James Paul Moody (Sixth Officer)
Joseph Bell (Machine Room Manager)

Crew members

Musicians

Passengers

Fatalities	Allison family Thomas Andrews John Jacob Astor IV David John Bowen Archibald Butt Thomas Byles Roderick Chisholm Walter Donald Douglas Annie Funk Jacques Futrelle Sidney Leslie Goodwin Benjamin Guggenheim John Harper Henry B. Harris Wallace Hartley Charles Melville Hays Ann Elizabeth Isham Edward Austin Kent Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche Francis Davis Millet Harry Markland Molson Clarence Moore Eino Viljami Panula Emily Ryerson W. T. Stead Ida Straus Isidor Straus John B. Thayer Frank M. Warren Sr. George D. Wick George Dunton Widener Harry Elkins Widener Duane Williams George Henry Wright
Survivors	Rhoda Abbott Trevor Allison Lillian Asplund Madeleine Astor Ruth Becker Lawrence Beesley Karl Behr Dickinson Bishop Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson Elsie Bowerman Francis Browne Margaret "Molly" Brown Helen Churchill Candee Charlotte Drake Cardeza Lucile Carter Gladys Cherry Millvina Dean Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Dorothy Gibson Archibald Gracie IV Frank John William Goldsmith Edith Haisman Henry S. Harper Eva Hart Margaret Bechstein Hays Masabumi Hosono J. Bruce Ismay Eleanor Ileen Johnson Louise Kink Louise Laroche Margaret Mannion Michel Marcel Navratil Alfred Nourney Arthur Godfrey Peuchen Jane Quick Winnifred Quick Edith Rosenbaum Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes Emily Ryerson Agnes Sandström Beatrice Sandström Frederic Kimber Seward Eloise Hughes Smith Jack Thayer Marian Thayer Barbara West Ella Holmes White R. Norris Williams Marie Grice Young

Fatalities

Survivors

Monuments
and memorials

Australia	Bandstand (Ballarat)
United Kingdom	Engine Room Heroes (Liverpool) Engineers (Southampton) Musicians (Southampton) Titanic (Belfast) Orchestra (Liverpool)
United States	Straus Park (New York City) Titanic (New York City) Titanic (Washington, D.C.) Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain (Washington, D.C.)

Popular culture
(cultural legacy)

Books	The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility (1898) A Night to Remember (book) Polar the Titanic Bear
Films	Saved from the Titanic (1912) In Nacht und Eis (1912) Atlantic (1929) Atlantik (1929) Titanic (1943) Titanic (1953) A Night to Remember (1958) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) Raise the Titanic (1980) Secrets of the Titanic (1986) Titanica (1992) Titanic (1997) The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997) The Legend of the Titanic (1999) Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000) The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2000) Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) Tentacolino (2004) Titanic II (2010) The Six (2021) Titanic 666 (2022) Unsinkable (2024)
Television	"A Night to Remember" (1956) S.O.S. Titanic (1979) Titanic: The Complete Story (1994) Titanic (1996 miniseries) No Greater Love (1996) "A Flight to Remember" (Futurama) (1999) Titanic (2012 miniseries) Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012) Saving the Titanic (2012) Titanic: The Aftermath (2012)
Theater	The Berg (1929) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960 musical) Titanic (1974) Titanic (1997 musical)
Music	"The Titanic (It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down)" (folk song) The Sinking of the Titanic (music composition) Titanic (soundtrack album) Back to Titanic (soundtrack album) "My Heart Will Go On" (song) "Nearer, My God, to Thee" (song) Titanique (musical parody) "Dance Band on the Titanic" (song) "Titanic" (song) Titanic Requiem (music composition) "Tempest" (song) Titanic Rising (album)
Video games	Search for the Titanic (1989) Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (1996) Titanic: Honor and Glory (TBA)

Museums
and exhibitions

SeaCity Museum (Southampton)
Titanic Museum (Branson, Missouri)
Titanic Museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee)
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Halifax)
Titanic Belfast

Places

Titanic (Canada)
Titanic Canyon
Titanic Quarter, Belfast
Cape Race, Newfoundland
Fairview Lawn Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Arrol Gantry
Titanic, Oklahoma

Ships	RMS Baltic RMS Olympic HMHS Britannic SS Mount Temple RMS Carpathia SS Californian CS Mackay-Bennett SS Birma SS Frankfurt Replica Titanic Titanic II Romandisea Titanic
Law	RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic
Others	White Star Line David Blair Harold Cottam Herbert Haddock Stanley Lord Arthur Rostron Titanic Historical Society Titanic International Society Encyclopedia Titanica Halomonas titanicae Women and children first Robert Ballard La Circassienne au Bain Titan submersible implosion