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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Those who did were allowed to drown.
Also there were a lot of immigrants from other European countries.
My maternal Grandfathers family emigrated from France in April 1912. He was 8 y/o at the time. They were scheduled to take a connecting steamer from France to Southampton to rendezvous with, as he described it, a great brand new liner making its 1st voyage. They would have been steerage passengers
Their emigration papers weren't in order so they missed their connecting voyage and were delayed a week. The family took the next transatlantic steamer. My Grandfather said he was disappointed that they missed the big new boat. It was the Titanic.
He had a great time as an 8 y/o on the voyage over. He said the Captain even pointed out the iceberg that did the Titanic in. It had a large red streak down its side. But for some clerk in France he and the family would have been on that ship.
I’m sure they were heros.
His observation is still true.
Lighten up.
Well said. In Great Britain, at the time, men were expected to fufill their duties. It was the duty of the engineering staff to keep the Titanttic afloat as long as possible, just as it was the duty, a decade later, of infantry officers to lead their men in combat.
ping for later
I’m watching it right now. Pretty good.
Such an unbelievable tragedy. So many mistakes.
They wasted so much time because the men in command did not believe it would sink. Reminded me of the “important” people in the towers telling everyone to go back to their offices, it was no big deal.
Yes, I want to watch this.
#19 His girlfriend who was on the raft found out that Dicrapio character did not have any money and they would be poor if she married him so she pushed him off the raft into the freezing water and lived happily after ever.
A personal example: My Dutch mother (she was legally deaf, but could talk and read lips) was the daughter of secular Jews. Just before the German invasion, her father decided to send her to friends in Switzerland. She was aided by long-time friends, who were German. My mother was from Heerlen, NL, on the border with Germany.
When they tried to cross from Germany into Switzerland, the border guard was raising questions and asked for assistance from a superior officer. That officer, though German, was born in Heerlen, NL.
As my mother would tell the story, after the officer said he too was born in Heerlen, he simply looked at her, smiled and let them pass.
My mother always said that the guard new she was fleeing, and that the smile was a smile from God.
What are the odds that a German officer, on duty at that moment, would be from the same small Dutch town as my mother?
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