Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall was on watch on Titanic's starboard side, approaching the bridge, at the time the Titanic struck the iceberg and he did not understand where the scraping noise that he heard had come from.  The ice did not extend up high enough for Boxhall to see it.  Fourth Officer Boxhall survived the Titanic's sinking and attained a command in the Royal Navy, although Boxhall never made captain in the merchant service.   He left the sea in 1940.  In 1958, he served as technical advisor to the movie version of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember .  Fourth Officer Boxhall died in 1967 and his ashes were scattered over the Atlantic ocean in the vicinity of the Titanic's sinking in 1912.