Posted on 04/15/2025 6:00:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL TITANIC REMEMBRANCE DAY
On April 15th, National Titanic Remembrance Day remembers the lives lost when the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic's icy waters in 1912. We remember the more than 1,500 people who died that day.
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Known as the “the unsinkable ship,” the Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912, on her maiden voyage from England to New York City. Later, in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, on April 15, the Titanic sank. Those who perished did so mainly due to an insufficient number of lifeboats onboard the ship.
Since that time, journalists, engineers, ocean explorers, historians, survivors, and descendants of those lost have been trying to piece together the events leading up to that night. Countless hours of documentation, salvage expeditions, and interviews all record the perspectives of those involved. Every angle and myth has been considered from the investors to the designers, the builders, and the sailers, right down to the communications and those left behind. And to this day, it still is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story no matter where you begin.
HOW TO OBSERVE TITANIC REMEMBRANCE DAY
As you sail through the history of Titanic, learn more about its secrets, people, and myths, too.
Read about the building of the Titanic and follow its timeline.
Discover the survivors' stories.
Watch a documentary, movie or take a virtual tour of the ship. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From by Richard Davenport-Hines Titanic directed by James Cameron starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DeCaprio Waking the Titanic (2012) directed by Francis Delany Secrets of the Titanic (1986) by National Geographic
Use #TitanicRemembranceDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL TITANIC REMEMBRANCE DAY HISTORY
The day commemorates the date of the Titanic's sinking in honor of those who lost their lives aboard the Titanic in 1912. While each year since its sinking, memorial events are dedicated to remembering the tragic loss, no one person or entity has proclaimed the observance.
Titanic FAQ
Q. Who built Titanic?
A. The Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland built Titanic for the White Star Line.
Q. How long did it take to build Titanic?
A. Titanic took about three years to build.
Q. Who was Titanic's architect?
A. Thomas Andrews was the chief naval architect. He died aboard Titanic.
Fenway Park opened 3 days earlier!
Thank you for that information. I was unaware of that drill.
Watched a new documentary on National Geographic last night. It’s titled: “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.” Over two years they sent down two submersibles to take thousands of pictures of the wreck and the debris field, then pieced them all together for a life-size image of it all. It was pretty interesting. I would have liked to have seen more of the debris field, which they said is over a 15 mile area. From the debris field images, they were able to find outside parts of the ship, from both sides of the ship, and piece them together to find out where they had been on the ship before it went down.
All 35 ship engineers were lost that night. They’d relived the men in boiler room 2, and continued shoveling coal into the last boilers working. It’s the reason the power stayed on so long while the ship was sinking. The ship broke apart at boiler room 2, which is visible in the new National Geographic program “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” that I watched last night.
I did too. I went to a Titanic exhibit in Boston several years ago. They had a side panel of the ship on display that they had retrieved from the ocean floor. It was in an outside tented area. Still had water being washed over it for preservation purposes. It clearly had a sign on it not to touch it. A guy next to me said: "Oh go ahead, touch it. You know you want to." So I did. Didn't get caught thankfully.
I watched the “Mystery Solved” episode yesterday.
They recreated a section of the hull to test the rivets. They applied pressure to the recreation to see if the rivets “unzipped” therefore opening up the hull.
I see a flaw in the testing procedure. The pressure applied to the test piece was done slowly. I’m not a professional engineer (I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night) but I call BU££$}{!T !!! The ship didn’t slowly move up against the iceberg. That would be like putting your fist on a wall and pushing as hard as you could.
The Ship impacted the iceberg. That means that the impact would be like punching a wall with your hand.
I await Y’All to present an opinion on My analysis of the test.
Correct. The impact would have created Pressure Points that would have been more powerful than a slow application of pressure at one point.
Plus, analysis of the rivets with modern technology found that they were sub-standard and brittle. The sister ship Britannic sank in 1916 during WWI in the Mediterranean after hitting a German mine. The other sister ship, Olympic, had been in a collision with HMS Hawke, seven months prior to the Titanic sinking, though neither ship sank, SAME CAPTAIN!
Another odd thing:
ONE PERSON had been on ALL THREE SHIPS, at the time of their accidents, a lady named Violet Jessop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
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Same here, in Boston.
I mentioned this a few years ago here and was berated by a fellow freeper for doing it.
See post 26 from mass55th.
Same exact story same place..
Well, I don't think that either of us committed a mortal sin by touching that piece of the Titanic. Plenty of other people touched it too, I'm sure.
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