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Robert Hichens (sailor)

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Quartermaster turned the wheel to port, tiller went to starboard and the ship turned to port. This was a hangover from the old days when ships were steered with tillers, steering oars etc. The change in steering orders did not occur until the 1930s. Sally Nilsson's biography on the life of Robert Hichens was published in 2011.
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to row to where a light could be seen (a steamer they thought) on the port bow, drop off the passengers and return. Later, it was alleged that he complained that the lifeboat was going to drift for days before any rescue came. At least two Lifeboat No. 6 passengers publicly accused Hichens of being
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for four days before the collision and would not have made such a glaring error. As to the steering orders, in 1912 they were as follows: There was only one way of giving steering orders. The order was always given with reference to the tiller. To go to port the Officer ordered starboard. The
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accent, when in fact he was 5' 6", had a stocky build and spoke with a pronounced Cornish accent. He was also depicted saying "if you don't shut that hole in your face" to Molly Brown, but in fact those words were spoken by a steward in lifeboat 8. Unused footage from
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to hit an iceberg in 1912. Patten's allegation that Hichens caused the disaster by turning the ship's wheel the wrong way is not supported by testimony at both the British and US enquiries, which established that the second watch officer, Sixth Officer
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The claim was also disputed by Hichens' great-granddaughter on Channel 4 News. Sally Nilsson explained that Hichens was a well-trained Quartermaster with years of experience steering large vessels. He had been responsible on his watch for steering the
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told the others to start rowing to keep warm. After a last attempt by Hichens to keep control of the lifeboat, Brown threatened to throw him overboard. These events would later end up being depicted in the Broadway
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s survivors, he said that the ship was not there to rescue them, but to pick up the bodies of the dead. By this time, the other people in the lifeboat had lost patience with Hichens. Although Hichens protested,
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struck the iceberg. He was in charge of Lifeboat #6, where he refused to return to rescue people from the water due to fear of the boat being sucked into the ocean with the huge suction created by
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that he had never used the words "stiffs" and that he had other words to describe bodies. He would also testify to have been given direct orders by second mate
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and later by the fact that being a mile away from the wreck, with no compass and in complete darkness, they had no way of returning to the stricken vessel.
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off the Coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, at the age of 58. It was thought he was buried at sea until his grave was discovered in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2012
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wherein he was portrayed refusing an order to return to the sinking Titanic, stating "It's our lives now, not theirs".
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He died of heart failure possibly resulting from stomach cancer or a gastric ulcer in 1940 aboard the ship
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Hichens' negative attitude was further depicted in Diane Hoh's 1998 romance novel
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that featured Brightwell as Hitchens was also used in Cameron's documentary film
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On 23 September 1940, at age 58, Hichens died of heart failure aboard the ship
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The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens
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Mike Collett-White (reporter), Paul Casciato (editor) (22 September 2010).
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during World War One; by 1919 he was third officer on a small ship named
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In September 2010, Hichens' name was brought back into the limelight by
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Hichens gained notoriety after the disaster because of his conduct in
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Spignesi, Stephen J (2011). "Surviving the Sinking of the Titanic".
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101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic...But Didn't
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Hichens' conduct was also depicted in the 1996 miniseries
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United States Senate Enquiry: Testimony of Alfred Olliver
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Hichens' conduct was featured in the 1997 blockbuster,
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