Saved From the Titanic (1912) | The Titanic as Entertainment

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A metal version of ‘My Heart Will Go On’ was not something I expected to hear today but here we are. 🤣 Thanks for the video.

[@EveryFairyDies]

🤣 Just when I thought I couldn't love DragonForce more, I found that cover!

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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@fmyoung]

Thinking about the lifeboats' role as "ferries" between the stricken ship and the rescue ship (so that there was "no need" for a full lifeboat complement) I think the trouble with that is by the time the "ferries" made one trip and came back the stricken ship might've been in a far more precarious situation if not already beneath the water. So with a full lifeboat complement and a properly trained crew it would've all been more effective and faster everyone would've been evacuated at the same time. The normally stormy North Atlantic is no place for such "ferries" especially if the crew had to row (the boats weren't motorized) the crew would've for sure been exhausted from rowing in choppy waters. That night the sea was most unusually calm and it seems largely forgotten that this is really the exception on the North Atlantic. (And the very fact that it was so calm makes it very easy for people now to think of lifeboats as "ferries") Also the word was spread at the time that the North Atlantic run was so busy "there were always other ships nearby if anything happens." The Titanic was really no exception as the Californian was only 10mi away or most probably less than that (donkey boilerman Ernest Gill and carpenter James McGregor saw the Titanic's distress rockets very plainly as did the officers), but then (a) she was the one and only ship really close and (b) Cpt Lord just wouldn't bother helping. And then apart from the Californian all the other ships contacted by Phillips and Bride were much further away. After all, the Carpathia was no fewer than 58mi away so she needed 3.5hrs to make it to the scene and she didn't get there until 1h40min after the Titanic slid beneath the water. In closing what's the use of a nearby ship if the captain doesn't go help?

[@EveryFairyDies]

All very valid points.

[@fmyoung]

@@EveryFairyDies thx

[@fmyoung]

Ismay did technically supply more lifeboats than the Board of Trade required (though just a handful more) but then there's Google which still says that he was the one who "in a move that would become highly controversial" decided to limit the number of lifeboats on the Olympic and Titanic to 16, even though the davits could accommodate 48 (the number strongly advocated for by Alexander M. Carlisle of Harland & Wolff). Ismay justified his decision by saying that the ship itself was a lifeboat so there was no need to clutter the deck. (How did he know that his ship was its own lifeboat if he wasn't the shipbuilder I wonder.) And then Walter Lord said that the Board of Trade section responsible for lifeboat capacity was dominated by the shipowners themselves they wanted to utilize the space for more 1st-class amenities (instead of "cluttering it with - of all things - lifeboats."). With that, Lord said, the shipowners "knew exactly where they stood on the issue, and they didn't want boats for all."

[@EveryFairyDies]

Sounds like a lot of post-disaster passing the buck, but it's very interesting, thank you!