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Titanic survivor Major Frank Winnold Prentice recounted his harrowing survival of the Titanic crash and sinking in a 1979 interview

Prentice was just 23 when he jumped from the boat’s stern as it sank into the water, just barely missing the propellers

Prentice, who died in 1982, was the second-to-last surviving crew member from the catastrophe

A Titanic survivor recounted his incredible jump off the ship into the freezing waters — which ultimately saved his life.

Major Frank Winnold Prentice was the assistant storekeeper on the Titanic during its maiden (and famously doomed) voyage in 1912. He opened up about his experience and how he survived in a 1979 interview with the BBC . Prentice, who died in 1982 at 93, was 23 on the April 1912 night the ship sank . Around 700

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