The Titanic
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ridewv
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Tonights dinner will be as offered, Please dress accordingly
What's with the 2012 date on the menu?
That was a reprint of the actual meal held that night onboard ship that someone gave as a dinner on the same night that date.
I know locally there is a Bed and Breakfast that has sponsored Titanic dinners as such held on the day of its sinking.
I missed that when I posted this.
I know locally there is a Bed and Breakfast that has sponsored Titanic dinners as such held on the day of its sinking.
I missed that when I posted this.
If it happened today:
Either that or a bunch of selfies with the boat behind them.
Either that or a bunch of selfies with the boat behind them.
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While doing duck face.If it happened today:
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Either that or a bunch of selfies with the boat behind them.
I touched....
I touched a guy(handshake) of a man that flew on the Hindenburg before the disaster. He was Navy Medical Corp and was at Lakehurst and he was asked to tend to a crewman that had injured his hand. To return the favor the captain asked if he wanted to take a 'hop'. They flew around the NE on their 'day trips'.
PS: I don't know what made me do this. I definitely know better, but I very lightly touched a Van Gogh in the MOMA. I'd probably been arrested had I been caught. It kind of called me......the texture.....
I guess the statute of limitations is out on that. I hope. You guys don't tell anybody.
I touched a few Hindenburg items at one of the two museums they have f it in Germany. One museum was owned by a surviving crewmember of that airship. If ever in Meerberg,it's located steps away from Meersburg Schloss. I had touched one of the ships captains caps and coats--though the signs say not to. Typical Ami I am.
I touched a guy(handshake) of a man that flew on the Hindenburg before the disaster. He was Navy Medical Corp and was at Lakehurst and he was asked to tend to a crewman that had injured his hand. To return the favor the captain asked if he wanted to take a 'hop'. They flew around the NE on their 'day trips'.
PS: I don't know what made me do this. I definitely know better, but I very lightly touched a Van Gogh in the MOMA. I'd probably been arrested had I been caught. It kind of called me......the texture.....
I guess the statute of limitations is out on that. I hope. You guys don't tell anybody.
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calmex
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If it happened today:
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Either that or a bunch of selfies with the boat behind them.
Your post, and one of my employees (with whom I was reminiscing this afternoon about the time we tied Guadalupe in a Titanic lifejacket and had her stand at the curve of a stairway with bannister in the house we were in like she was in the main gallery) reminded me of another thing the Titanic Art Director had with her: hundreds and hundreds (thousands?) of Polaroid instamatic shots of the filming of the movie.
This was a type of technology almost out of existence (if not out of existence) at the time, and I remember her explaining to me that she needed to be able to take of photo of something "exactly as it was" at the point of Scene 1 so that for subsequent "takes" it could be completely recreated "as it was" and what they had used was a Polaroid. I guess Cameron got it for her -- she idolized Cameron (who, like myself, was a fellow Canadian).
One scene in particular that comes to mind was when Leo was handcuffed to the pipe below decks. I guess they had to film that scene through many different takes due to various problems, and Leo was almost frozen. She told me that everytime he rattled the cuffs, the paint came off the pipe and she had to wade in the repaint. Time after time.
"But," she told me, with her come-hither ... don't-stand-so-close-to-me ... smile and batting eyes, "I had a set of hip-waders that James had gotten for me. Leo had nothing but his clothes. He was almost frozen." At least when they filmed the Canadian movie Passchendaele, most of those actors laying in the mud had wet-suits under their uniforms but I guess Leo didn't in that long below-deck scene.
Anyway, just some things I remembered from that night after writing it up made me think about it.
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Generally speaking...
Generally speaking, transport ships are hell. A friend that was on one told me every was shuffling around with their bottom eyelids blue and drooped over their jowls with a half full puke bag.
The crowning touch was the 'head' that had long trough toilets with holes to sit on. When the ship pitched, the contents would slosh up out of one end and on the next it would slosh out the other end.
Generally speaking, transport ships are hell. A friend that was on one told me every was shuffling around with their bottom eyelids blue and drooped over their jowls with a half full puke bag.
The crowning touch was the 'head' that had long trough toilets with holes to sit on. When the ship pitched, the contents would slosh up out of one end and on the next it would slosh out the other end.
THE PILGRIM
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On the Queen Marie- they were jammed in like cordwood.
The ship went high speed and zig-zagged.
They were fed 2 British meals a day On a rotating schedule.
Most all of our GIs were seasick from takeoff to landing.
What I find amazing is that few people have ever heard of The Sultana, which exploded 7 miles north of Memphis Tennessee on April 27, 1865. 1700 plus people died, 200 more than perished on Titanic, mostly just released Union P.O.W.s. What is left of her now rests in a soybean field on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River.
Surviving the Worst: The Wreck of the Sultana at the End of the American Civil War | Mississippi History Now
Surviving the Worst: The Wreck of the Sultana at the End of the American Civil War | Mississippi History Now
Some of the music you may have enjoyed whilst sailing upon Her Royal Majesty's Mailship Titanic...
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCJEnw67K4[/ame]
And the Band played on!.... And to the bitter end they did play!
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCJEnw67K4[/ame]
And the Band played on!.... And to the bitter end they did play!
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Brave crew
They certainly behaved a little differently then the crew of Oceanos in 1991
""Most of the crew commandeered a lifeboat at 3 A.M. and disappeared," he said. "The captain leapt onto the first helicopter out this morning."
and interestingly enough:
" the ship's hero was its entertainment manager, Robin Boltman, who assembled the guests in the lounge, played music to calm their fears and was the last person to be lifted off by the helicopters. "
They certainly behaved a little differently then the crew of Oceanos in 1991
""Most of the crew commandeered a lifeboat at 3 A.M. and disappeared," he said. "The captain leapt onto the first helicopter out this morning."
and interestingly enough:
" the ship's hero was its entertainment manager, Robin Boltman, who assembled the guests in the lounge, played music to calm their fears and was the last person to be lifted off by the helicopters. "
Today its.....
Blood pudding and spam, tomorrow kidneys and spam, day after, laverbread and spam. Sunday we have a special. Bubble and Squeak and Spam.
Blood pudding and spam, tomorrow kidneys and spam, day after, laverbread and spam. Sunday we have a special. Bubble and Squeak and Spam.
And you could tell them....
And you could take the bottle and tell them to put the brandy on your tab and you'll settle with them when they disembark in NY..
I think, would have headed to the bar ordered some Louis X111 Brandy https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-1771.aspx ( booked it to the room of course) and reflected on life. Plus that Brandy would have kept me warm 20 or 30 seconds longer
thewelshm
And you could take the bottle and tell them to put the brandy on your tab and you'll settle with them when they disembark in NY..
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