- Jim Maloney is in charge of completing the electrics on the Titanic. He is offered free passage on the ship's maiden voyage, for himself and his family, if he can get the work completed on time. He accepts but the ship strikes an iceberg.
- Jim Maloney is in charge of completing the electrics on the Titanic. He is actually an engineer but being a Catholic in West Belfast, working as an installer is the best job he can get. The work is falling behind schedule and he is offered free passage on the ship's maiden voyage, in steerage, for himself and his family if he can get the work completed on time. He accepts but finds a way to get a cabin in second-class. John and Muriel Batley row after their tea with Lord and Lady Manton. After striking the iceberg, they reconcile and decide that their lives are worth fighting for. Jim is able to get his family onto one of the boats.—garykmcd
- The ship's architect Thomas Andrews is dismayed when his uncle, Lord Pirrie, Harland and Wolff chairman, and White Star chairman Ismay fail to respond to his view that there are insufficient lifeboats on board. He also gives steerage passage to Catholic engineer Jim Maloney in return for work done on the ship so that Jim can escape sectarian prejudice and take his wife Mary and their four children to America. Following the ship's sea trials, Captain Smith dismisses Second Officer Blair, who by chance takes the key to the lookouts' binoculars with him. Following incidents of anarchy in the Balkans, Ismay is wary of foreign workers, such as Italian stoker Mario Sandrini and his waiter brother Paolo, who is attracted to Annie Desmond while Jim befriends mysterious Latvian Peter Lubov. Muriel Batley once more berates her husband for condemning her to a boring life in England and his servility to Lord Manton, letting slip that she knows Georgiana is not Louisa's daughter but the result of an illicit affair. When she upbraids the countess while waiting for the lifeboats, she tells her that she knows this secret. After the ship hits the iceberg, Smith seems to break down and Lightoller takes charge of evacuation. Accepting that they may perish, the Batleys reconcile, declaring their love for each other and determine to go down fighting.—don @ minifie-1
- With the work in crucial parts of the Titanic falling behind schedule and its designers arguing over the ship's lifeboats, White Star Line chairman Bruce Ismay refuses to share naval architect Thomas Andrews' concerns. As Catholic engineer Jim Maloney talks his concerned wife Mary into following him to the United States of America as a third-class passenger, the prospect of a new life and a bright future unfolds. However, a mysterious steerage traveller unsettles Mary. Then, the passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an immense iceberg on its maiden voyage, and innocents find themselves trapped below decks.—Nick Riganas
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