this piece.
Trick question. The Titanic never hit the iceberg. The Olympic did.
Well, in the next few weeks every channel with Learning, History, Hitler, Knowledge, National, or basically every channel that runs some version of “Storage Wars” or “Pawn Stars” will be running about a bazillion hours of programming on the Titanic.
It will be in there somewhere...
Actually they should have been using Greenwich mean time, in order to navigate. They should have had at least one ships clock set to that time, it is essential to knowing exactly where one might be when on the ocean, no GPS in those days.
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Very interesting. And thanks to stylecouncilor for the courtesy of this ping.
Later tonight, I'll remind all of those on the Titanic ping list about the showing of A Night to Remember on TCM this weekend. Based upon some of the times indicated in this article, it appears that the film will be broadcast very close to when the berg was struck 100 year ago. It will be shown at 10 PM on Saturday night, April 14, 2012.
Read an interesting and in depth piece this week (though written some time ago) that suggested that the titanic actually briefly beached on a submerged part of the iceberg below the ship, breaking rivets (substandard anyway?) and pulling off hull plates from the bottom of the double bottom, in fact causing some or all of the flooding to be from that angle. The piece cited one piece from the inquiry board with one seaman describing active air venting from a (dry) top of the double bottom vent hole in the bow just after the incident, implying that air was being forced out below. The piece suggested that the total ventable area from the double bottom to the above area would equate to the 12 ft sq. otherwise described.
There was considerable more detail in the piece, beyond my mechanical ability to easily explain at this late hour.
The author described where such plates would be found relative to the wreck, and it is worth reading imho. The author knows a lot more than me about the wreck in general.
I think it was a little while before it sank.
I am puzzled why there was any reference to New York time as the use of GMT was a standard and it was created by the British. As a communications tech in our military, we always used “Zulu” time which zero hour reference to GMT. Whenever we made any entries into a log or teletype communications, we had to log it in Zulu time. So my view is that the logs of the radio operators on the ship would have ended their transmissions with the GMT or Zulu time. Since they were telegraphed, the written logs of other ship that received the transmissions would be key to answering your question.
The following was copied from an on-line reference explaining the history of GMT.
As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees (this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884). Note that the synchronization of the chronometer on GMT did not affect shipboard time itself, which was still solar time. But this practice, combined with mariners from other nations drawing from Nevil Maskelyne’s method of lunar distances based on observations at Greenwich, eventually led to GMT being used worldwide as a reference time independent of location. Most time zones were based upon this reference as a number of hours and half-hours “ahead of GMT” or “behind GMT”.
Wrong, you are certifiable. ;^)
Thanks. I had the same question.