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The Propeller Guy was a fictional passenger aboard the Titanic in the 1997 movie. He must have been born around 1885, had black hair and a light complexion.
During the sinking, he acquired a lifejacket and was wearing black slippers, a red pajama set and a brown topcoat. He either couldn't, wouldn't, or didn't get into a lifeboat when the ship was sinking.
As the stern began to rise well into the air after the bridge had been submerged, he ran to the stern, jumped off or fell off, screamed, and hit the massive propellers with both his legs, which must have been painful as they would have been certainly broken. The ship was at a high angle and the stern very high out of the water, so the fall would have killed him. After hitting the propeller, he fell in a very odd way, spinning around his axis many times before reaching the water.
Chief Baker Charles Joughlin looked on as this poor victim fell to his death.
Trivia[]
- Despite the horrible tragedy of the sinking taking place, many who watched the movie regard the propeller guy as a bit of unintentional black comedy in the unique way he dies.
- Similarly in real life during the sinking, a man named Cyril Gordon Ricks jumped off the ship, but plunged into some objects during the fall.