I used to teach music at an elementary school and kids loved this song about the Titanic. It’s a popular campfire song for summer camps and scouting groups.
I found this rabbit hole when I visited the Titanic Wiki to read about the Grand Staircase, it has tons of articles about random individual passengers, facts about them, passionate debate about what happened to each one, ect
One of the lookouts reassigned last minute forgot to leave the key to the binoculars in the crows nest behind. One of the lookouts after said if they had them they would have spotted the iceberg earlier and saved the ship.
The only Japanese survivor of the Titanic was fired from his job and lived the rest of his life in poverty, because people in Japan thought that it was DISHONERABURR that he hadn't gone down with the ship.
Crazy Japanese troll logic. It's the same thing that lead to Japanese soldiers holding their WWII stations on some random Pacific island for decades after the war started, or random Samurais to accept ritual suicide as just 'one of those things', or that had senior officers and government officials arguing that Japan should keep fighting after getting nuked because "would it not be perfect for this nation to be destroyed, so that it may stand forever as a beautiful monument to our defiance?".
The lifeboats were equipped with sails that could be set up. Only one lifeboat availed of them, lifeboat 14 commanded by Fifth Officer Lowe, who was an experienced sailor before joining White Star.
When Lowe later testified at the inquiries, he kept reporting acts of cowardice from "brutish Italian looking men". This went on so much the Italian ambassador lodged a complaint and Lowe had to apologise.
Ironically, the lack of life boats on Titanic saved more lives than if it had enough for everyone. Due to how life boats of the era worked, that more lifeboats would have delayed the launch of the others by the time the call to abandon ship was made
Fact: people are unusually obsessed with its sinking with star-wars tier autism over learning the lore of its individual passengers.
Literally the most boring thing to be obsessed over.
Why is it so fascinating??
It represented the pinnacle of human civilization at the time and then nature just so casually swallowed it up.
Am i beta for crying during the 1997 movie??
a lot of school children seem to be fascinated by it
I used to teach music at an elementary school and kids loved this song about the Titanic. It’s a popular campfire song for summer camps and scouting groups.
I found this rabbit hole when I visited the Titanic Wiki to read about the Grand Staircase, it has tons of articles about random individual passengers, facts about them, passionate debate about what happened to each one, ect
link?
The key people who would have stopped the creation of the federal reserve died on it.....
>The key people who would have stopped the creation of the federal reserve died on it.....
True or false?
Really?
One of the lookouts reassigned last minute forgot to leave the key to the binoculars in the crows nest behind. One of the lookouts after said if they had them they would have spotted the iceberg earlier and saved the ship.
atmospheric conditions were playing havoc with visibility, unlikely binoculars would have helped them.
It was destined to sink??
How much did the fires have to do with it's sinking??
That sounds like an excuse that nobody would be able to check.
I'm not sure if it's just a rumor or not but I've heard it before..
As with many great disasters, any israelites who were supposed to board the ship had the sudden urge to be elsewhere
What about this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Straus
>tfw both of your younger sisters are bawds that get sunk early on in their lives
Olympic was the true legend of the sisters.
Gender was a better predictor of survival than class.
The only Japanese survivor of the Titanic was fired from his job and lived the rest of his life in poverty, because people in Japan thought that it was DISHONERABURR that he hadn't gone down with the ship.
What kind of insane logic is that?
Crazy Japanese troll logic. It's the same thing that lead to Japanese soldiers holding their WWII stations on some random Pacific island for decades after the war started, or random Samurais to accept ritual suicide as just 'one of those things', or that had senior officers and government officials arguing that Japan should keep fighting after getting nuked because "would it not be perfect for this nation to be destroyed, so that it may stand forever as a beautiful monument to our defiance?".
The moment the ship was declared to be sinking White Star stopped the payment of the crew as they were no longer operating a ship.
you gotta be kidding me?
The lifeboats were equipped with sails that could be set up. Only one lifeboat availed of them, lifeboat 14 commanded by Fifth Officer Lowe, who was an experienced sailor before joining White Star.
When Lowe later testified at the inquiries, he kept reporting acts of cowardice from "brutish Italian looking men". This went on so much the Italian ambassador lodged a complaint and Lowe had to apologise.
Ironically, the lack of life boats on Titanic saved more lives than if it had enough for everyone. Due to how life boats of the era worked, that more lifeboats would have delayed the launch of the others by the time the call to abandon ship was made