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If Aquitania never meet that storm she could have hit the mine.
I've often wondered if a row boat with a strong crew could of gotten to the California ang asked for help ???
My great great uncle was in the Royal Canadian artillery. He took Aquitania in 1917 to France and then home in 1919.
All the Californian had to do was wake up their wireless operator and they would have known what was going on within minutes. Said the crew on watch, "Maybe they're company rockets. Maybe they're signaling for something else. Maybe they're setting off fireworks for the passengers." Said nobody, unfortunately, "Hey, maybe we should turn on the radio and find out for sure, since that's why we have one in the first place."
Great video! Just found out that My grand parents travelled on this ship in 1955 and now your video brought me back in time to see part of what they saw and experienced on this ship. Thank you.
The lack of pvt toilets on Olympic was one factor in the decision to scrap the ship in 1935. Yes, she had undergone several upgrades over the years and more private toilets were added but more modern ships had these in every cabin.
1:35 for #9 Carnival Sunshine. She was the only cruise ship that took the title of the worlds largest passenger ships until 1998.
So interesting
A video about my favorite ship
I assume you didn't classify liners as cruise ships, otherwise the QM2 would be way up this list. Also Pinnacle class aren't bad looking
No, QM2 was not considered for this list.
Knowing what was behind the actual sinking of the Titanic, 3 of the richest people, plus 1 certain person who cancelled his own, ticket and took a later ship. Then put into effect the Federal Reserve act. I'm not sure how easy it would be to start the ship's engines, or why shut them off in the first place. It doesn't seem like a wise choice especially when there are icebergs in the area. You need some control over the movement of the ship. He definitely dropped the ball, ships firing off flares don't do it for grins and giggles.
Knowing what was behind the actual sinking of the Titanic, 3 of the richest people, plus 1 certain person who cancelled his own, ticket and took a later ship. Then put into effect the Federal Reserve act. I'm not sure how easy it would be to start the ship's engines, or why shut them off in the first place. It doesn't seem like a wise choice especially when there are icebergs in the area. You need some control over the movement of the ship. He definitely dropped the ball, ships firing off flares don't do it for grins and giggles.
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I come from the point of view of capacity. Californian had room for a few hundred passengers. If you cram as many people as it could be considered safe as possible on Californian, you could MAYBE get to 1000, most likely 500. The lifeboats didn't have enough capacity nor Californian combined so save everyone to point blank, people were going to die regardless.
Well, the Californian could’ve at least held a great majority of those people on board until the other ships that came dashing to the rescue arrived.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY It's one of those hindsight in 20/20 situations. They technically didn't break any laws or procedures and only found out afterwards that they screwed up. I think their inaction is what helped change the laws and procedures for naval aid.
Aquitania: Since I was damaged by the storm, why not send Mauretania instead. She also had a similar navigator and not sail into the booby trap.
Let's get the true facts. At the time of the collusion, CALIFORNIAN was hove to (that means stopped on the other side of the massive pack ice field). She was, by plotting the three fixes taken by prifessional officers, some 25nm from TITANIC to the South East. She was NEVER closer than 20nm. Other ships were in the general vicinity and we are pretty certain of the identify of the ship underway sighted about 5nm from TITANIC, going by the standard distance for a port side light. Lord had been on the bridge for almost 24 hours navigating the increasing ice pack and icebergs and effectively collapsed in his day cabin. The officer of the Middle Watch and Apprentice sighted white flares (TITANIC was not carrying red distress flares as someone forgot to load them). White flares were not emergency flares but used to hail other ships of the same line or ships nearby. The Apprentice reported the sighting to Lord who asked the colour. As white was not a distress flare, he could ignore them. The Apprentice also stated that they seemed to be from a ship beyond the one underway - the same ship TITANIC saw. Lord instructed him to call him if necessary. Next day, when the ship received the message TITANIC had sunk, Lord had steam raised and got underway. It took CALIFORNIAN more than FOUR hours to traverse the pack and she then headed for the wreck site where CARPATHIA was recovering the survivors. Lord asked if he could assist but CARPATHIA said they didn't need any help. At the COI, Lord stated that even had he known of the disaster, had he tried to navigate the ice tyat night, he "would probably have joined TITANIC on the bottom." I agree his decisions. He was responsible for the safety of his own ship and the tradition that rescue of ships in distress involves 'everyone', that does not mean risking your own safety as circumstances indicate and possibly adding to the emergency. In short, like Ismay, a competent ship's Master is pilloried by media and false claims that he deliberately ignored a distress warning. As I have said elsewhere, in the 1990s (I dont have the date to hand), he was exonerated by a BOT BOI comprising a professional Master. Oh, if anyone still wants to run the bs, I suggest you go either to those waters or look at footage of pack ice, growlers and bergs. This aint a skating rink.
ARRRRRRRGH MY EYES
Plus back then I believe men and women were strictly sexually segregated in their use of bathrooms. Now we see men invading women's spaces and people who are supposedly civilized peeing and pooping on the street in front of other people. (I lived in San Francisco until quite recently).
the Great Eastern is rolling in her grave with her double hull
id like to imagine the Great Eastern as iphone miraculously invented in the 70s
Who thinks its the titanics 's radio operates fault only if he listened
My then 6 year old husband sailed on her about 1954 when he and his mother were joining his father in England. He remembers walking up the gangplank with his teddy bear and watching their new Studebaker being lowered into the hold. We started watching "The Last Voyage", and at a scene in the dining room he suddenly shouted "I sat right there!" We had to stop watching when the destruction started, too painful .
agree with some but that funnel on Carnival Spirit bloody awful.
I found out not long ago that a distant relative was on the Adriatic in first class
Norwegian Prima: "looks like the Airbus Beluga" Icon of the Seas: exists
As tall as these modern ugly ships are, do they roll a lot in rough seas??
U PUT MSC WORLD EUROPE IN THE 3RD UGLIEST SHIP (get a life, it’s perfect in every way)
both... He could have made the wireless officer double check
That prank in Sydney Harbour is fantastic. The stones required to pull that off especially at the height of the Boer War are such you need them to generate gravity
The Californian wouldn't have arrived before she sank, at all. But would have likely gotten there within the hour of Titanic fully collapsing to the ocean. The temperatures of the water meant that many of those in the water (without being on top of any floating debris) would have still died. However, those who were on debris, those in collapsible boats, etc may have had better chances. So many things went wrong with Titanic, but the biggest thing was believing that steel and iron were more powerful than nature. They didn't build the bulkheads all the way up, they didnt have enough boats due to aesthetics, they didn't do drills, they didn't fully load boats, didn't slow down, etc. The only good that came from this tragedy is safety for future vessels. We have more than enough lifeboats, lifevests, we have a mandate that someone is on communications all the time, we have muster stations and drills. It is safe to say that the results of this disaster saved more lives than she took with her into the Atlantic.
I think more of the blame should be out on Titanics wireless operators. Have they conveyed the last message they received then there's a good chance the Titanic would never have hit that iceberg. There is plenty of blame to go around for that tragic event but a big majority of that blame should be put on the wireless operators
Not for nothing, while I'm not entirely familiar with early 20th century shipping procedure, how can one not see twelve rockets being fired from a ship and not think that this is clearly a distress signal!!!
The titanic disaster is ultimately Captain Smiths fault as he was the captain! Captain Smith could’ve stopped for the night, could’ve slowed way down, could’ve sailed farther south however, he choose to sail damn near full speed ahead right through a field of icebergs! With that said, the Californian is responsible for not following up on several cry’s for help!
He also could’ve ordered more lookouts to keep watch for anything in the Titanic’s path and with some of them using binoculars like Captain Rostron did during his mission to dash the Carpathia to the Titanic’s rescue because that’s how the Carpathia successfully dodged every iceberg in her path!
To actually assess whether or not the SS Californian could have saved the Titanic victims requires more information. How far away was the Californian? What time were the morse signals made? What time were the rockets fired? How fast was the Californian, including time to make steam from a stopped position? The video maker should have reported those numbers,
3rd class on titanic was very luxurious when it comes to 3rd class/steerage
This gets me wondering where they got their water for the steam from. Was it from the ocean?
Tbh youre basically just describing a shift in the back end of McDonald’s
Point of clarification - This narrator uses the term "Rudder" a few times when he is actually referring to the small, forward 'winglet.' Now-a-days, we would call that a Canard. Canards (like elevators) produce and control pitching movement of an aircraft. Later on, the Wrights also added a vertical control 'winglet' behind the main wings to control yaw. This is (technically speaking) now what the term 'Rudder' means.
Icon of the Seas....looks like the put a giant compound eye from a fly onto the top front of the ship.
All three, the Soviets, the Germans and the Western Allies should mark this day in mourning without blaming the other 2. All 3 were complicit in this tragedy.
I hope they rebuild The Big Four again
Imagine if somehow, this ginormous ship was actually saved and still around
P&o still have two grand class shopping carts 🤣🤣 the Encouter and Adventure, and I agree that having actually been on Encounter, I can say there is not a lot on the inside to redeem it.
AIDAnova looks more like a progressive rock album cover than a cruise ship
The Leyland Company didn't want to be associated with a Captain who to them was a loose Cannon, one, poor at using discretion when needed, using poor judgement and the lack of initiative. They got rid of him knowing he was a danger to their reputation going forward.
History to this day remembers Capt. Lord as the one who did absolutely nothing, when he could have done so much. Sadly the man is long dead, and I hate judging him over a Century later. However, History's future generations will always remember the ship Californian and it's Crew were the ones who left a series of tragic events to unfold on that dark, starry freezing April night.
Intuition should have told Capt. Lord nobody fires Rocket Flares in the middle of the Atlantic for nothing. he should have woken up his Marconi Operator to get a listen of what was happening around the area.
Hero and legend.
Fantástico video 👏🏻👏🏻
Californian was not ‘much slower’ she could do 13 it’s whilst Carpathia could do 15.5 it’s only 2.5 kts difference
But Californian was much closer, she was no more than 10 miles away whilst Carpathia was about 58 miles away.
It's subjective, but a 20% difference is significant in my opinion.
The ocean must have been so cold.
It was only 28 degrees where the Titanic sank and Charles Lightoller said that being in it felt like having a thousand knives driven into his body.