They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.
Steve Turner
The ship's orchestra of eight young men were standing knee deep in water playing.
men
The band played marching from deck to deck, and as the ship went under I could still hear the music.
music
I could hear the band playing a cheery sort of music. I don't like jazz music as a rule, but I was glad to hear it that night. I think it helped us all.
rules music
The notes of this music were the last thing I heard before I went off the poop and felt myself going headlong into the icy water with the engines and machinery buzzing in my ears.
When everything on the ship was being turned upside down, the music remained the same. In the midst of mind-jarring abnormality, it was the one thing that retained its familiarity.
mind music
As the screams in the water multiplied, another sound was heard, strong and clear at first, then fainter in the distance. It was the melody of the hymn Nearer, My God, To Thee, played by the string orchestra in the dining saloon.
sound distance
If any glory at all attaches to the awful tragedy of the sea about which the world is still talking, it circles round the heads of these heroic bandsmen who played the mighty vessel to its doom
glory circles
Shipwreck was an ever-present possibility in 1912.
shipwreck
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