Many of the life boats were never lowered because the people didn’t believe the ship was sinking!
If anyone is interested in an excellent documentary (A & E) made a couple of years before Cameron’s 1997 movie, here are the links:
Part I
Titanic - The Complete Story; Part 1 - Death of a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC_xDKMKl9w
Part II
Titanic - The Complete Story; Part 2 - The Legend Lives On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANS0hunKMKU
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104 years later, a reminder to all of us how precious and fleeting life is. I was walking today and smelled the smell of grass - just waking up this spring from its winter dormancy. It just triggered memories of playing in the grass as a child, decades ago, and how the grass smelled then, and just how new the world was to me then. Never take a moment for granted.
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*** Gerda’s father Nils Persson was eventually given his daughter’s wedding ring, but only after he had shown proof of his right to have it. ***
My Great Grandfather in Sweden was named Nils Persson. That name is probably like John Smith is here, or probably these days, like the name Achmed Mohammad is there.
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The Titanic second officer, Charles Lightoller, survived after being washed off ship and getting onboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat.
Lightoller would later survive being shipwrecked during WWI.
rescuing over 130 British soldiers off Dunkirk in his personal motorboat while being strafed!
This guy had more lives than a cat!
“Sadly it is not know who the Oceanic passenger was who wrote the ghoullish accompanying statement, but on May 13th, 1912, he wrote:”I crossed the Atlantic one month after the Titanic catastrophe. We picked up one of the lifeboats with two n****r-like unrecognisable corpses of a passenger in evening dress and two firemen, wedged below the seats.”
Probably a good thing for him as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be shaking him down for some serious money right about now.
Interesting, for historical records are they “survivors” of the Titanic sinking, or “victims”? I mean the boat was found a month after the sinking, and apparently they were alive after the sinking.
As an interesting footnote, the lifeboats from Titanic were taken aboard the rescue ships (mostly the RMS Carpathia) or towed with her back to New York where she delivered the survivors. Those lifeboats, bearing the ill-fated cruiser’s name, had the name sanded off and were then hauled out to sea and used for gunnery practice. No one wanted the grim reminders bobbing at the dock.
Can you imagine how much one of Titanic’s lifeboats would be worth today?
Sends chills up my spine.
What a coincidence. Brian Williams once had a Titanic career, now he is clinging to life and wasting away on the MSNBC lifeboat. ;-)