I watched the mini-series on ABC Saturday & Sunday. It was mentioned that 5 compartments flooded. If 4 compartments had flooded she probably would have stayed afloat. At least until Help could get there.
Old-Biscuit wrote: ... Mankind in all it's glory & wisdom still continues to make stupid mistakes.
I prefer to think of it as this: No matter how enlightened that man thinks of himself, there is always something of which is unaccounted and perhaps overlooked that will eventually humble him.
knesdad wrote: I just read an interesting article in a local newspaper that dedicated one of its stories to a local doctor that perished on the Titanic. It was told by his wife, who survived the accident. It was so addicting to read her words and hear her talk of her husband and how he helped load the lifeboats and how they said their good-byes. It was very, very touching... I even know where the town road is that is named after him, just never knew who he was until now... If I can find it I'll post some of the article.
If anyone is interested in reading this article, send me your email address via PM and I will send you the pdf format of the article. Like I said, it's very interesting!
Mountain Jack wrote: I watched the mini-series on ABC Saturday & Sunday. It was mentioned that 5 compartments flooded. If 4 compartments had flooded she probably would have stayed afloat. At least until Help could get there.
Saddest part was the steamship California was within visual distance of the Titanic the whole time. Saw the distress rockets fired, but had shut down its wireless for the night. Never heard or responded to calls until the next morning, when it was too late.
But it was never advertised as "Unsinkable". The media of the day coined the "unsinkable" phrase onto the Titanic in its news stories, not the ship builder or owner. And the Titanic had two sister ships, the Olympic which was already sailing before the Titanic and the Britannic which was launched after the Titanic disaster.
Britannic is sitting at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. Used as a hospital ship by the Royal Navy during
WW I, she struck a mine off a Greek island and sank quickly.
There was a lot of tales told among sailors that those ships, including the Olympic, were jinxed.
Mountain Jack wrote: I watched the mini-series on ABC Saturday & Sunday. It was mentioned that 5 compartments flooded. If 4 compartments had flooded she probably would have stayed afloat. At least until Help could get there.
Saddest part was the steamship California was within visual distance of the Titanic the whole time. Saw the distress rockets fired, but had shut down its wireless for the night. Never heard or responded to calls until the next morning, when it was too late.
X2. The sinking of the Titanic would never have been a tragedy of this magnitude had the Californian - less than 10 miles away - come to the rescue.
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