100th Anniverary of the Sinking of the Titanic

[CrosbyStriper]

is coming up very soon, anyone doing anything in memory of this famous vessel?

[Bobcat]

Yes, I intend to avoid icebergs.

[Duncan S]

Yep, next parish east of you

http://www.mayo-titanic.com/Titanic_...fault.949.html

[Gerarddm]

"She was built of good Italian iron, good Italian lumber, they said she'd never go down".

-Jaime Brockett, Legend of the USS Titanic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4jliLONDAc

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Yes, I shall continue to reflect upon the entirely sucessful career of the RMS "OLYMPIC", known to her passengers and crew as "Old Reliable" from 1917, when, as a troopship, she first gained the nickname, to 1935, when she was scrapped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Let's also remember little sister, 101 this year:

http://www.nomadicbelfast.com/

[Bob Adams]

Let's also remember little sister, 101 this year:

http://www.nomadicbelfast.com/

It reads H&W are rebuilding the superstructure? I thought they were defunct.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Nope:

http://www.harland-wolff.com/

[rbgarr]

I shall rearrange the chairs on our deck!

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

"She was all rght when she left here!"

Harland and Wolff comment on the TITANIC


"Never mind that - look at the paintwork!"


Dr John Parker, Chairman of Harland and Wolff, when the wreck was discovered and photographed.

[BETTY-B]

So, my best friends grandmother and her parents were aboard that night. I have been very near a first hand account of what happened that evening and early day. I've loaded her Canadian three "export a" slicing cigarette machine as she told us to scram many times! She was peeved any time people came asking questions. We now know that they entered the lifeboat after being persuaded from a purser. They landed in the boat halfway to the water.

This is a shot of Titanic's lifeboats. She said the one in back was some sort of colaspable. And it didn t have any power and trhat's why the other one went back to tow it. The photos were shot in the morning from the deck of the RMS CARPATHIA

[S.V. Airlie]

There was a very old man in Cooperstown who was a child on it. He died about 1995. He was a bit crusty. Personally, I sense that he never wanted to be asked to talk about it. Regarding two thing: never assume something is unsinkable and secondly, have ample life boats.