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RMS Titanic & Other Ocean Liners

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Jimmy I have been interested in the Titanic for as long as I
can remember. Before the wonderful movie. I have a site for
you that I think you will totally like.
It is encyclopedia-titanica.org/
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
shea (*8*)
 
I've been fascinated by the Titanic since I was seven. I think the movie helped bring the disaster into pop culture, but it also left people with a lot of misconceptions. Cameron took a lot of liberties with things, especially with real-life characters.

As for other ocean liners, I've always been fascinated by that whole era of the great steam ships in the early twentieth century. I've read extensively about not only the Titanic but also her sister ships, Olympic and Britannic, as well as the Lusitania. It's always been an interesting point how the Lusitania and Titanic's histories were intertwined. The Olympic-class ships were built as a direct response to the success of the Lusitania and her sister, the Mauritania. They competed against each other for years and then both the Titanic and the Lusitania became the two most infamous maritime disasters in history.
 
Here's a little known fact:

Margaret "Molly" Brown was never called Molly until after her death. So the line "but we all called her Molly." in the movie is wrong. No one ever called her Molly.


My biggest problem with the movie was that it looked as if the lookouts missed the iceberg because they were too busy watching Jack and Rose kissing.

Also, the show-stopping scene where the ship breaks in two was most likely very exaggerated. It's true that the ship broke into pieces on the surface. However, it remained one of the most hotly-debated topics until the discovery the shipwreck in 1985. Many survivors claimed the ship sank intact while others witnessed it breaking in two. There was a rumor that the White Star Line instructed their officers to lie about it during the US and British inquiries so it wouldn't appear as if they had built an inferior ship. However, there were many non-official persons who also disputed that the ship broke apart. If the ship had broken in the manner shown in the movie, no one possibly could have missed it. It's more likely that it wasn't a dramatic and instantaneous breaking and happened more slowly. It was almost universally testified by both sides of the argument that the ship settled back into the water before making its final plunge. This was most likely the moment of breakage, but given the chaos of the scene and the near pitch-black darkness, it's entirely possible that witnesses could have missed the slower, more gradual breakage.
 
A note about Jack Thayer...

He said that he witnessed the bow of the ship appear above the surface, but the filming of the movie actually shed some light on that. While they were filming the scene in which the Grand Staircase (which was an exact replica, right down to the type of wood used) was flooding, the set broke loose and rose with the water. It is now believed that this also happened on the real Titanic. It's possible that what Jack Thayer saw was the Grand Staircase rising to the surface after water crashed through the dome and flooded it.
 
There was a Discovery Channel documentary about the Titanic some years ago in which they investigated the way in which the ship sunk. They did scale model tests and found that the bow section of the ship sunk in the same manner every time. As it sunk, it rocked back and forth until it plowed into the bottom. The reason it sunk upright has something to do with the way the watertight bulkheads allowed the water to distribute in the ship. I can't remember the details but the only test in which the ship DID capsize and and landed on its side was the one where they saw what would have happened if the watertight doors hadn't been shut. The ship sunk much faster and immediately started listing and eventually flipped over. It was always a theory that it may have been beneficial if the doors hadn't been closed...the thinking being that water would have entered the ship more evenly and it would have sunk on a more even keel, allowing all of the lifeboats to be launched properly. They proved that this actually would have been the most chaotic and deadly scenario.
 
doctorsun said:
My biggest problem with the movie was that it looked as if the lookouts missed the iceberg because they were too busy watching Jack and Rose kissing.
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Considering that Jack and Rose were fictional characters, that's kind of a silly point. Cameron intentionally made the movie to blend some true historical facts with a fictional story.
 
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