Sidney J. Brooks was a Trimmer on the Titanic.
Background[]
Not all details are known about this crewmember and his origins, but Sidney J. Brooks had come to life in about 1889 in Hampton, London. He had 4 siblings, likely all begotten before him by Albert Brooks and Harriet Maria Elizabeth Moore. Albert had started out his life in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, while Harriett was viable for the first time in Middlesex, Greater London.
They got hitched on the 15th of March, 1876. Vincent Francis was the first of their off-spring, in 1878. Then, there was Claude Neville showing up in 1880, before it was the turn of Albert Harry to reveal himself in 1882 while Victor D. was dropped next, probably in 1887, but it's unclear. They were all boys.
One source says that Sidney was from the Amersham Parrsh in Buckinghamshire. The local newspaper, the Bucks Free Press of Friday 26 April, 1912, mentioned him as their had been a conference of the Amersham Union's Board of Guardians, which took place every year. The wrecking of Titanic was discussed and they connected Brooks to the disaster as he was known in the congregation, having been one of their citizens, although they labeled him as a Fireman.
Titanic[]
Sidney was however a Trimmer, who last lived in Southampton when they took him onboard for the Maiden Voyage of Titanic in the early days of April 1912. Brooks was listed for the third watch of the Trimmers. This group of 22 men worked from 8:00 till 12:00 A.M, every 12 hours.
An iceberg on her route hadn't been discovered in time by April 14, in the last hour of the night. She scoured against the iceberg despite the efforts of her crew trying to dart it around the iceberg on portside with reduced speed, at 11:40 P.M, but this wasn't achieved without sustaining some scars. She had parts of her hull sliced open. The pierced segments were doused in water, which rose very fast in the next minutes.
The water would conquer the Titanic, as stated by Thomas Andrews. He had envisioned and drawn out the Titanic long before she was built and he had examined the visuals he had gotten from monitoring the dribbling saltwater in the core parts of the lower deck and integrated it in his thoughts with the capabilities of her design, of which he had blueprints. The ocean would exceed those limits as their were too many punctures on the wrong, crucial places. This would leave the Titanic with just an hour or two hours as she was going to sink away by the bows. Captain Smith, with the knowledge of Andrews in his mind, administered an evacuation from that point onwards. It was 12:05 A.M. when the crew were solicited to start the process. There were 20 lifeboats.
The window for Titanic was more than Andrews had given her and she was stable for most of the time. Yet, it had still come to it that her last two boats were not in place when a vortex came over the top deck, where the boats were dragged by a bustle of people, who then got swept away with the boats itself.
This was the beginning of Titanic’s epilogue, as the water had reached a point were it became more violent and stormed through the unflooded areas. Her beak portion was quickly waded.
On the other side, the opposite took place. It got drier and drier. This is the part where most fled to when the deluge swamped the first 8 davits and the first funnel, which came tumbling down. Water must have still been dripping down from the prodigious rudder and equally hulking propellers, as it took her just a few minutes to get to a bearing, tilted at more than 45 degrees outward.
There were boats for only 1200, but only more than half of that actually got in when the dry section of the ship loomed over the water. The rest were destined to either fight and swim to get to a boat, while 1503 people could not find away out of either the ship or the water that had.
There were Trimmers that had made peace with the unavoidable fact that this was their last night and spent it helping the system of the levithian to be as long-lasting as humanly could be. At some point, it was no longer sustainable as nobody could walk at this inclination. The lights faded into nothingness. Titanic got very dark. It was very hard to see her in her last two minutes.
Her upper decks amidships were compressed when the breech tore itself off and was soon back on the surface. The keel that rested inbetween the forefront and the rest, had a keeling effect on the derriere, which then was hauled up even further than she had been before the break-up. Like a tower that is methodically demolished, she calmly shoved down.
Sidney was a victim as the large vessel met her doom at 2:20 A.M. No body would come to light, thus his chronicles onboard are clouded in roun.