Joseph Jago was a Greaser on the Titanic.
Background[]
Joseph Jago had the same name of his father Joseph Jago, who had conceived him with Matilda Jane White, two English people. While Joseph senior dawned in Cornwall, Matilda had emanated in Plymouth, where she agreed to stick together with Joseph through the good times and the bad in 1846, also the place where Matilda saw her son appear in 1853. Joseph was the first son but 4th child out of a litter of 9. His elder sisters were Caroline, who commenced eartly life in 1847, Matilda, who showed up in 1849 and Ellen, who livened up the Jago family in 1851. Following Joseph were two brothers named Thomas and William, dropped in 1856 and 1859 respectively.
In 1861, Father Joseph was a vessel builder and repairman. They had their stead in Portsea, Hampshire in that year. Joseph and Matilda continued to create progeniture, with a girl given to them in 1861, carrying the unique name Philadelphia. Alfred was present since 1864 and Charles Matthew expanded the family lineage in 1867. Albert Richard emerged next in 1871, with 1873 seeing Sarah Jane for the first time. Their last child was Mary. She made her appearence in 1883. By the time of the arrival of Albert Richard, Joseph junior was no longer abiding in his elders’ home.
Later, Joseph was attained by the Royal Navy and in 1881, he was on the HMS Hector, which lay idle in the harbour of Valetta in Malta, a small country under Italy. He was used as a Fireman.
Joseph made things happen with Mary Ann Jane Hallam. The matrimony took place in 1885. No dependants were brought forth. In 1891, they had nested in Saint Mary's, Southampton. They got by through Joseph’s further activities as furnace operator on steamers and Mary was a corsetier.
Two decades later, in 1911, Joseph and Mary inhabited Southampton. Joseph was a matlow and he allowed other people to stay in their house, to get extra fees. By April 1912, he was under the flag of White Star Line, having done a passage on their latest flagship, the Olympic. This ship was the epitome of luxury and safety.
Titanic[]
A smiliarly sized, new sistership would offer a lot of work as well. With the national coal strike, many ships were unable to sail out, but the White Star Line made sure that there was enough coal for Titanic, which was their greatest ship until then. She would set new standards and have a few improvements over her sister. On April 4, they hired many Southampton men as Greasers. Joseph also became a Greaser that day.
Titanic’s passengers would have a last look at Southampton before the first ever voyage of this mammoth was initiated on the 10th of April, being towed away from the piers. Joseph would be busy supplying the engines with enough oil, so they could work seamlessly.
When it was Sunday, April 14, Titanic had a brisk, windless air surrounding it. No moon would dim anyone’s view of the incredible amount of stars that were showing. Nobody had also ever seen the ocean so still. With the way that the climate was on that day in the icey area that Titanic had entered by 10:00 P.M., the icebergs were masked in color by the horizon and the water itself. The lookouts found out at 11:39 P.M, with an iceberg exposing itself when Titanic was at a short distance from it. One lookout chimed the bell and rang the phone in the crow’s nest, alluding to the fact that they were on collision course. The First Officer had seen it too by now and tried to move around it. The telegraphed ringed as the Officer urged the Engineers to stop and back up. Two of Titanic’s triple screws were sent in the other direction. The central blades remained still and Titanic only edged to port slightly, moments before they were on top of the iceberg. The front of the ship was spared of impact, but with the manouvre, Titanic clipped the iceberg crabwise, with over 200 feet of her starboard getting small areas slit open. The damage was spread out in such a way, that 6 of her subdivisions had water sprinkling and gurgling through. It gushed up fast and soon, a few feet of water was on her lowest deck.
Captain Smith made his way to the bridge looking for answers, as he knew that something had been hit. Officer Murdoch filled him in and Smith wanted reassurance. He pressed the carpenter to bring measurements from down below to see how fast water entered the ship. Fourth Officer Boxhall was also directed to have a scan of the lowest decks but came with no results somehow, before one of the men from the Post Office, that she was making tons of water and their Mail Room had to be abandoned. Smith then left the bridge and scoped at the stricken compartments himself, along with Titanic’s chief designer Thomas Andrews. Andrews was on the bridge with the Captain by midnight, April 15, to extrapolate to the captain that this inwash could not be stopped and would be lethal for her seaworthiness.
Smith had no way out of it, when Andrews surmised that hey would have 2 hours to evacuate before the liner would be consumed by the Atlantic entirely. This is what Smith did and the promulgation came at 12:05 A.M, with the crew being in charge of synthesizing the of lifeboats and the garnering of passengers to the highest decks.
At 12:25 A.M, the first lifeboat finally departed, with 17 others following in the next one and a half hour.
By 2:00 A.M, the water had dowsed the whole Forward Well Deck and Forecastle and was now surrounding the bridge rails. Two lifeboats were yet to be sent off but the process of getting it to the davits was a hustle. At 2:07 A.M, they still hadn’t managed to get it to the Boat Deck, which was now slogged by the water which continued to accelerate afterwards and shove the Titanic’s forward end further down.
Seven minutes later, the bottom of Titanic’s stub was no longer supported by the surface and edged ever higher. The water was at the base of the second funnel. Within 3 minutes, her tail extended itself well over 80 feet. The shear inertia of it all meant that Titanic sundered. The sternthen crashed back down and the saturated front part kited down on a journey to the ocean’s seabed, dragging the stern, which had only been linked the forward end by the keel, upwards. This eliminated the aft section’s last chance to stay buoyant. Within minutes, it was gone too.
All that rested of Titanic was wreckage spilled by the break-up and close to two thirds of her population fighting hard for their lives, screaming for help as they suffered intensly in these waters, which were anything but warm. Most of the lifeboats didn’t respond, leaving many to die.
Where Jago was situated or what he had been doing is an empty part of his biography. His body would be lost forever, so that could not provide any information either. Only 4 Greasers escaped with their lives intact. Some Greasers could’ve been in the bowels of the ship, doing their duties to the last to keep the energy running and to pump out as much water as possible.
After his death[]
Mathilda Jago, his mother, didn’t make it through 1912 either, entering the afterlife only months after Joseph.
Annie would only be the wife of Jago. No other man would walk her down the isle since. She was always in Hampshire.
By the age of 70 in 1930, she had lived her life for the last time, as citizen of Romney.