A baker from Birkenhead survived hours in freezing waters after the sinking of the Titanic.
Charles Joughin, born in 1878, was a chef from Birkenhead who worked as a chief baker on the historic RMS Titanic boat. The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after crashing into an iceberg during its first voyage from Southampton to New York City in the United States.
When the ship hit an iceberg on the evening of April 14 1912 at 11:40pm, Joughin was off-duty and resting in his bunk. Once the news of the collision broke, he immediately got to work and sent his 13 men up to the boat deck with supplies to the lifeboats, consisting of over 50 loaves of bread.
