[NRx]

From the front page of the New York Tribune 105 years ago today.

[bigbob]

they had no idea how badly it sucked

[ilgipper]

I didn’t check the date at first and thought “what kind of moron would name a giant ship the Titanic.”

[NRx]

A potentially serious accident narrowly averted.

[carolinablonde]

That is fascinating to look at the actual pages of the paper.

"Women's Suffrage Party"

The ads too - "One-way settlers fares to the Northwest".

[Vendome]

Miss Jennie Black demands men be home by 9pm so women and children can have the streets to themselves...

Funny...

[Batman11]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting!

[Jagermonster]

I skipped ahead a few days to the 15th of April. Fascinating to see how the disaster was reported as it played out.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1912-04-15/ed-1/seq-1/

The PR guy quoted at the bottom of the article shows how little has changed in that line of business in the last 100 years.

[Portcall24]

Sometimes God tells you something, but you just don’t listen!

[BitWielder1]

Is it possible the Titanic was going too fast and too close under the circumstances, the same mistake that was repeated a few days later?

[Cold Heart]

Been there, done that, couple of times. Always when most of the crew was ashore.

[Gamecock]

I remember reading that inAstonishing Tales of the Sea!

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[dangus]

White Star. Our voyages suck before we even leave port.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

the new White Star liner Titanic, the largest vessel afloat, sailed on her first voyage for New York.

Semantics, I know. But the New York voyage was not her first. She sailed first from Belfast, Ireland to Southampton.

[Ozark Tom]

In confined waterways a surge displaces water in one direction, which then reverses as the vessel proceeds. This process is exaggerated by vessels having little clearance under the keel, thus creating a restricted movement of the water.

Applying more power to overcome the bow surge which is retarding progress of the vessel underway, exaggerates the effect. Also, suction at the stern created by the propellers operating in a restricted water flow, tends to abruptly draw down water levels near the shore.

This is one way to damage property in a No-Wake! zone, while moving no faster than a slow jog pace.

[NRx]