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Post by Winter_King on Apr 14, 2022 14:46:40 GMT
The ocean liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and it would sunk the next day killing around 1500 victims. Last photo taken on April 12:  |
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Post by yggdrasil on Apr 14, 2022 15:27:23 GMT
First rule of shipbuilding, never call a ship "unsinkable".
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Post by Winter_King on Apr 14, 2022 16:20:10 GMT
First rule of shipbuilding, never call a ship "unsinkable". To be fair, that reputation came more from the media than the engineers who build it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2022 5:23:17 GMT
First rule of shipbuilding, never call a ship "unsinkable". Captain Smith and chief engineer Joseph Bell may have been pressured to go faster by J. Bruce Ismay. |
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Jun 13, 2022 2:25:00 GMT
If I remember right, Orwell said he found the sinking of the Titanic more shocking than anything that happened in the First World War, a feeling that was widely shared.
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Post by PaulsLaugh Thought Mountie on Jun 15, 2022 10:56:23 GMT
If I remember right, Orwell said he found the sinking of the Titanic more shocking than anything that happened in the First World War, a feeling that was widely shared. There is an old TV mini-series set on the Titanic and at the end the survivors, mostly wealthy women, are seen on the deck of the Carpathia. A middle class couple obverse the different between the stunned silence of the first-class passengers vs the steerage-class who talking about what had just happened, bustling around, even assisting the crew with the other survivors. The man comments how the people in steerage understand the world is cruel and capricious and they are simply getting on with their life. But for the upper-class, the sinking of the Titanic has destroyed their illusions of their comfortable existence as a given. Had the Titanic happened after WW I, though sensational, it probably wouldn’t have taken on a mythos and pop-cult. Looking back from a post-WW I perspective, the disaster can be seen as a portent for how the war will sent entire nations into existential crisis. |
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