I have read that lamp trimmer Sam Hemming was asleep in his bunk very near the bow at the time of the impact with the iceberg. Some 7 to 8 minutes later he was woken up when he heard a loud hissing sound, which was produced by air escaping from the fore-peak locker where the anchor chain was
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