Posted on 02/22/2022 11:06:13 AM PST by Buttons12
An excellent film about the sinking of the Titanic from the perspective of the firemen below decks. Film is titled "Saving the Titanic" but I have used the title seen at youtube. Because they soon knew the extent of the disaster, the dread and horror of the event is conveyed with much greater realism and intensity.
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No surprise, working class working to save their fellow man. While above decks the elite were all about saving their own skins.
Nothing has changed, as a rule those who work for a living live by their convictions, the elite live for themselves alone.
I wonder why they didn’t take the hours before she sank to make life rafts out of wood etc.
Mattresses....................
I have never heard women complain about the sexism displayed aboard the Titanic.
That was a dumb and extremely liberal comment. The workers took on the jobs to run that ship. Passengers can hardly be expected to run down to the bowels of the ship to work; they wouldn’t even know what to do.
Grow up.
It was not liberal at all. Have you never read about the upper class on the titanic and how they behaved? The whole Molly Brown story would not have happened otherwise.
The people below decks worked for a living and showed it. My comment had nothing to do and said nothing of the people they considered “steerage” who were literally locked below decks so the elite could get off.
I suggest you read a little of the history and culture of 1912 and what the Titanic changed after the accident!
I suggest you join reality
#2. Absolutely correct. Many were Irish immigrants.
Iceberg arrives around 40 minutes into the story. The engineers are men of science. They know how fast the unforgiving sea is coming in, and how long the ship will stay afloat. They know all is lost, but they do all they can to delay the inevitable. It’s hard to watch.
Bookmarked.
CodeToad, I took Skwor’s comment to indicate that the workers stood by their posts, knowing their fate. They resigned themselves to that fate and went down with the ship. It was a very courageous act on their part. No one would expect the passengers to go into the bowels of the ship to help those men. Likewise, no one would have been surprised if some of the workers had sought to save themselves.
If you have difficulty with the accents, close captioning helps a lot!
In the same era— the casualty rate for British officers in WW1 was notably higher than the rate among enlisted soldiers. Something like 20% of Eaton students who served in the war died, an even higher rate than officers as a whole and almost twice the rate of the regular troops. The idea that “elites” of the period were inferior to working class does smack just a tad of Bolshevism.
The people who kept the lights on on the Titanic did so because they were men, nothing to do with upper or lower class.
Bkmk
Absolutely right
The red-bearded officer is Joseph Bell, chief engineer.
BFL
Me too,
When DeCaprio sunk was
My Favorite part.
bm
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