the troubled life of quartermaster Robert Hichens
Robert Hichens gave the famous order "Hard-a-Starboard" in a desperate attempt to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg. Two and a half hours later the ship sank and Hichens rowed a lifeboat with Molly Brown in it and his sharp retort to her, together with his command on the ship, branded him a coward and a bully and he found his name forever tarnished. After his testimony, which led to the accepted sinking of the Titanic for more than 100 years, he returned to the sea and had a long career despite the fact that the dark memories of the Titanic were never far away. Using unpublished material from the family archive, Sally Nilsson, his great-granddaughter, seeks to reveal the true character of the last man at the wheel of the Titanic.