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comment by Choice City (U6187)
posted 4 months ago
Out situation is precarious. You know the money's gone.
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1912

Bruce Ismay

1912 on Black Friday

533333 comments before next year and then hover on that forever

Five threes.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, the RMS Titanic was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster.

Under the command of Edward Smith

who went down with the ship

Titanic carried some of the wealthiest people in the world

as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe

seeking a new life in North America

A high-power radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use

After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France

and Queenstown!

(now Cobh)

before heading west to New York.

They have evidence (testament and photographs) about a major fire in one (then a 2nd) of the main coal bunkers, when it left Belfast. Most of the original firemen/stokers left the ship when it arrived in Southampton from Belfast. The Public Enquiry was advised of the fire by the leader of the Fireman Union (Thomas Lewis). The fire damaged the bulkhead (why she sank so quickly as the bulkhead failed), and she was running at full speed into the iceberg area to avoid running out of coal!

They have evidence (testament and photographs) about a major fire in one (then a 2nd) of the main coal bunkers, when it left Belfast. Most of the original firemen/stokers left the ship when it arrived in Southampton from Belfast. The Public Enquiry was advised of the fire by the leader of the Fireman Union (Thomas Lewis). The fire damaged the bulkhead (why she sank so quickly as the bulkhead failed), and she was running at full speed into the iceberg area to avoid running out of coal!

They have evidence (testament and photographs) about a major fire in one (then a 2nd) of the main coal bunkers, when it left Belfast. Most of the original firemen/stokers left the ship when it arrived in Southampton from Belfast. The Public Enquiry was advised of the fire by the leader of the Fireman Union (Thomas Lewis). The fire damaged the bulkhead (why she sank so quickly as the bulkhead failed), and she was running at full speed into the iceberg area to avoid running out of coal!

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Ship’s officers were reportedly under strict instruction from J Bruce Ismay, president of the company that built the ship, not to mention the desperate situation to any of the Titanic’s 2,500 passengers.