Beat that stoker!

I think what I find most absurd is towards the end, when the electricity is failing and therefore the efforts in the wireless room, a "stoker" comes in and tries to steal Jack Phillips' life jacket. It appears that Harold Bride strikes the would-be thief with some sort of billy club. Why would a wireless room be equipped with such a thing?

Also, it's nice to think that Jack Phillips died in the arms of someone on overturned collapsible B, but in this case it seemed to be a man working in the engine room who would not have been able to identify Phillips by name, unless he told him who he was, which is doubtful.

The truth is Phillips worked through three shifts before the ship's communications failed. His assistant, Bride, saw him walking aft. Bride was later prodded by the media to create a story in which he saw Phillips dead, but this has never been verified. Phillips probably died alone in the water, buoyed by the life jacket that Bride put on him. Given how tired he was and how cold the water was, I can only hope his suffering was brief.