13757. When you came out on deck was the ship already stopped or slowing down through the water? - [Lightoller] She was proceeding slowly, a matter of perhaps six knots or something like that.
13758. Were the engines still stopped? - I could not exactly say what the engines were doing after once I got up. It was when I was lying still in my bunk I could feel the engines were stopped.
13759. Can you help us as to whether the engines were put full speed astern? - No, I cannot say I remember feeling the engines going full speed astern.
13760. When you looked over the side you thought she was going through the water about six knots? - Yes, four to six knots. I did not stay there long.
Lightoller would know what full astern from full ahead would feel like since he took part in that very test during the trials. Descriptions of people like Poingdestre, who was asked a very leading question by the way, is that of the allision that took place with the berg and last just a few seconds.