One of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912,
Lawrence Beesley wrote a successful book about his experience, The
Loss of the SS Titanic (June, 1912), published just nine weeks
after the disaster. He saw two second class women who tried to get
on a lifeboat, who were told to go back to their own deck, and that
their lifeboats were waiting there. At the time of Lifeboat No.
13's launching on the Boat Deck, no women or children were in
immediate sight, but it seemed there was room for more. As a
result, Beesley was ordered to jump into it just before it
launched. He managed to survive a subsequent incident, where
Lifeboat No. 15 nearly came on top of No. 13. A stoker managed to
cut the ropes connecting the boat to the falls at the last minute,
and those in both boats emerged unhurt. Beesley and the rest of the
survivors were picked up by the RMS Carpathia early morning on
April 15. During the filming of A Night to Remember (1958), Beesley
famously gatecrashed the set during the sinking scene, hoping to
'go down with the ship' that time. But he was spotted by the
director, Roy Ward Baker, who vetoed this unscheduled appearance,
due to actors' union rules. These events are parodied in Julian
Barnes' novel A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters, where
Beesley makes a brief appearance as a fictional character. Beesley
was portrayed by actor David Warner in the 1979 dramatisation of
the voyage and sinking, S.O.S. Titanic. He is the grandfather of
New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade.
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