Frank Prentice, a storekeeper on the Titanic, tells of the Titanic's voyage, loading the lifeboats and surviving in the frigid water after being one of the last people to leave the sinking Titanic.

Portions of this interview were originally aired on BBC2 on October 27, 1979 as part of the special, “The Great Liners." This interview was pieced together from a combination of archival video footage and audio clips from the BBC Archive. This interview reflects the known contents of the interview between those two sources.

Read the full annotated transcript of this interview: https://titanicarchive.org/collection...

Film Sources:
- A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
- Titanic (1996), dir. Robert Lieberman / Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
- Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
- Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV

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