The Titanic

[loknload]

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Dinner is now being served in Third class
Looks like a pretty interesting meal on tonight's menu

The ships cook staff is hard at work

 

[internet troll]

If you do a google search you will find there was a book written about an unsinkable ship 14 years before the Titanic set sale with quite a few coincidences. Relative size, speed, suposedly unsinkable luxery liner, lack of lifeboats, hitting an iceberg 400 miles off the coast of NewFoundland, etc...

The name of the ship in the book was off though...... the name of the ship in the book? The Titan.

Here's one of many links with the story.

6 Insane Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened | Cracked.com

 

[M E Morrison]

Most think Astor was killed by the collapse of the false funnel. The federal court here in Norfolk is currently the custodian of the recovered artifacts. The Mariners Museum in Newport News displayed them a few years ago, people came in, chose a name of a passenger and at the end of the tour learned their fate. My mother who was a docent there at the time soon tired of explaining to people there was no Jack or Rose.

HMMM, my wife & daughter did that; they STILL insist on watching the re-runs whenever they come on TV.

 

[loknload]

Maybe all will have a quiet evening back in their staterooms

First Class

Second Class

Third Class

 

[loknload]

Maybe all will have a quiet evening back in their staterooms

First Class

Second Class

Third Class

 

[loknload]

Used the lift to get to the Barber Shop

Headed to the Barber shop before dinner, received a very good haircut and a smooth and proper shave
The barber I might add was quite the conversationalist

 

[Squarebutt]

Very interesting topic. Thanks for posting. I have Dr. Robert Ballard's book "Explorations" where he describes the discovery of the wreck. He says he considered it a grave site that should never have been disturbed, and he didn't remove one item. Had he done so, he could have claimed all salvage rights and prevented the later looting of the artifacts.
I'm glad that my grandmother left Ireland a few years earlier and on a different ship - the Lusitania.

 

[loknload]

Went by the Pursers office earlier to pick up on some valuables.
Seems they weren't having a good day since they couldn't open one of the safes!

 

[jlrhiner]

Here's the Book;

 

[jlrhiner]

And here's the copyright;

 

[loknload]

Washing up before bedtime, these bathroom facilities are so luxurious,
there is never a lack of hot water

There are some issues with the plumbing tonight though!
I hope the Engineering staff can have them corrected by morning.

I've even heard rumors on deck that the Captain is experiencing these issues as well.
So I'm sure he will make sure the repairs are made in QuickTime!

 

[jlrhiner]

And according to Mrs. W.J. Douton, A survivor who's husband drowned, "We rowed frantically away from the TITANIC and were tied to four other boats. I arose and saw the ship sinking. The band was playing "Nearer my God to Thee".

This is on page 94 of the above referenced book.

 

[loknload]

I'm sure none of them could be found in the ships library.

 

[loknload]

While roaming the ship today I was able to get a glimpse where some of the crew stays.
These are quarters of the ships stokers.
This is where they can be found when not tending to the ships boilers

From the bottom to the top, these are the quarters of Captain Smith

 

[loknload]

Breakfast is being served

Titanic has received several messages from other ships in regards to ice being spotted.For the most part though the ship is sailing in calm seas but the temperature is starting to drop.

 

[the ringo kid]

There is a traveling exhibit of artifacts from Titanic. Oh, by the way, they get really torqued if you say "The" Titanic.
We saw it a few years ago. You weren't supposed to touch anything but I reached out and touched a section of the hull, with my left hand, which has my Great Grandfathers wedding ring on it. He was married in 1913, so I thought it was appropriate.
They have a lot of stuff they picked up off the ocean floor. Dishes, dolls, glasses etc. It is really interesting. I encourage anybody interested in the wreck to see it.
Jim

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.

 

[rwsmith]

Fascination....

My pleasure!
Since the day I learned about this ship and it's name I've had an infatuation with it. I was even kind of sorry that it was found.
I think that back in the day I may have sailed on it had I lived back then!

I study disasters closely. The question I have is. What went wrong where? Often it isn't one thing but a list of failures. Hitting the iceberg was just the first failure. In my work I've done a lot of logistics as to what has to be done before everything else that needs to be done or it will 'stop the show'. I've had smaller disasters in my own life where I can see that a series of of small events led up to a big problem. The last time it was "none of this would have happened if somebody had closed the gate like they were supposed to".

 

[M E Morrison]

I study disasters closely. The question I have is. What went wrong where? Often it isn't one thing but a list of failures. Hitting the iceberg was just the first failure. In my work I've done a lot of logistics as to what has to be done before everything else that needs to be done or it will 'stop the show'. I've had smaller disasters in my own life where I can see that a series of of small events led up to a big problem. The last time it was "none of this would have happened if somebody had closed the gate like they were supposed to".

Steel got brittle in the cold
watertight bulkheads didn't go all the way up

 

[Comrad]

Finding the Titanic was made possible by the technology and the search for the wreckage of the U.S.S. Thresher and U.S.S. Scorpion. During the search for those subs the cover story was they were searching for the Titanic and only after the subs were found was the actual search for the Titanic begun. I was fortunate to work on and with some of that technology used in the search in the early 1970s at the AUTEC base on Andros Island. The good old days.

 

[loknload]

It was a cast of errors and in the long run it all resolved around money!
Cutting back while building the ship
Cutting back on the safety features
The Captain going to fast for conditions and not heeding the ice warnings.
It was just a list of things that caused the Titanic's demise. I believe if the Captain would have heeded warnings and changed course it would not have happened.
But the ship itself would have had problems later on in time.