minute and a half [after the collision]. They [then] went slow astern ... about a minute and a half [later for] about two minutes."
Greaser Thomas Ranger: "We turned round and looked into the engine room and saw the turbine engine was stopped...There are two arms [that] come up as the turbine engine stops... [that was] about two minutes afterwards...[after the jar.]"
1st Class Passenger Henry Stengel: "As I woke up I heard a slight crash. I paid no attention to it until I heard the engines stop...[They were stopped] I should say two or three minutes, and then they started again just slightly; just started to move again. I do not know why; whether they were backing off, or not."
1st Class Passenger George Rheims: "I did not notice that the engines were stopped right away; they were not stopped right away; of that I am positive.
[I felt a change with reference to the engines] a few minutes after the shock, possibly two or three minutes; might have been less."
2nd Class Passenger Lawrence Beesley: "There came what seemed to me nothing more than an extra heave of the engines and a more than usually obvious dancing motion of the mattress... and presently the same thing repeated with about the same intensity...I continued my reading...But in a few moments I felt the engines slow and stop."
The engines did not stop nor reverse until some short amount of time after the ship struck the iceberg.