Charles Joughin’s Baffling Titanic Survival Story
Charles Joughin, Titanic’s Chief Baker is one of the rare survivors who went down with the ship and lived to talk about it. He had been busy with filling the lifeboats, putting soft loaves in the lifeboats for extra supplies beyond the pre-stocked hard biscuits, and throwing deck chairs over the side as floatation devices.
Joughin braced himself for what came next with a taste of liquor. He got caught in a crowd headed toward the rear of the ship. Finding the railing at the rear (now top) of the ship, he climbed onto it as Titanic slid underwater. He simply stepped off as she went down. His head barely got wet, and no suction pulled at him. He tread water until he came across a collapsable boat, transferred to another lifeboat, and despite the freezing cold and wet, pulled himself up the rescue ship’s ladder.
