Frank Lucks Towers

A budding seaman, Frank Towers applied to White Star Lines as a coal stoker. He was assigned to one of their new ships to be launched out of Belfast. The ship was called The Titanic.

April 14, 1912
In the early morning hours of April 14th, RMS Titanic struck an iceburg off the coast of Nova Scotia and sank. As one of the surviving crew of The Titanic, Frank's problems were just beginning. RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912. ...

May 28, 1914
Two years later Frank found himself aboard yet another ill fated ship, the RMS Empress of Ireland when it collided with the Norwegian collier Storstad. She rolled on her side and sank quickly into the Saint Lawrance River. Although this disaster was considered the worst peacetime maratime disaster in Canadian history, amazingly he managed to escape. Of the 1477 aboard, only 465 would survive. The RMS Empress of Ireland was a transatlantic ocean liner owned by Canadian Pacific that sailed between Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and Liverpool, England. ...

May 7, 1915
During WWI, Frank was serving as a crewmember aboard another transatlantic ship, the RMS Lusitania. In the early afternoon of May 7th, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 and sank 18 minutes later. When the torpedo struck the side of the ship Frank was heard to have exclaimed "Now What!". He escaped the sinking ship, and swam to a nearby lifeboat, vowing with every stroke that he would make land and take up farming. The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, and launched on June 6, 1906. ... Unterseeboot 20 (U-20) has been the designation of two submarines of the German Navy. ...

Epilogue

The story of Frank "luckless" Towers was to serve as the inspiration for a young writer who would write a teleplay entitled "Lone Survivor". The teleplay was considered so innovative that a series was born. The young writer's name was Rod Serling and the name of the new series was The Twilight Zone.
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Her Name, Titanic by Charles Pelegrino Rodman Rod Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone. ... The Twilight Zones original opening The Twilight Zone was a television anthology series created (and often written) by its narrator and host Rod Serling. ...