The “real” truth about the titanic that the government doesn’t want you to know.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af07
There’s videos and everything. Even a “scientific” experiment.
Second posting of this today.
Many prior FReeper posts pointed out the obvious — that ‘sailing vessels’ (think the USS Constitution and the Charles W Morgan) had ship’s wheels way back in the early 1800s. Tillers had been out of use on ships of any size for generations.
Sorry, but this story doesn’t pass the smell test.
Take a left, right here.
Something odd about this story. The the first steam ship crossed the Atlantic in 1837 and the definitive transition from sail to steam occurred at roughly the same time as the American Civil War, although there were a few sailing ships around until the turn of that century. The Titanic went down in 1912.
-PJ
I can’t speak for Hitchin’s actions, but Charles Brown wrote a great book about how the ship was well and truly sunk when Ismay ordered Smith to steam for Halifax, NS-in essence, driving the ship under. This is proven by the fact that Ismay ordered trains to pick up passengers in Halifax.
No, the sinking of the Titanic was George W. Bush’s fault.
The usual order would be “hard a (to) starboard” or “hard a port” in such an emergency. Meaning turn right or turn left.
With a tiller, it would be understood that you shove the tiller to starboard in order to turn to port, and vice versa. With a wheel, you move the top of the wheel to port to turn to port, as in a car.
But large sailing ships often had wheels, and as far as I know they were hooked up as they are today.
So, this may be barely possible, but it seems very doubtful to me.
I recall reading years ago that Titanic’s wheel worked like a tiller in that to go left you had to turn right. I remember wondering WTH?