WHAT WOULD U HAVE DONE ON THE TITANIC? (page 4)

Athanasius

When the Titanic stopped at Queenstown in Ireland I would have left the ship and avoided sailing into history.

Gizmo

When the Titanic stopped at Queenstown in Ireland I would have left the ship and avoided sailing into history.

LOL...another prophet amongst us....hehehehhe good one

Robdar

Waygooder64, you said:

Mary, where did you dream up this stuff?! No one has ANY proof whatsoever that the baker was actually in the water for 2 1/2 hours and that drinking hard liquor helped in his survival.And to rely on a movie for your conclusions is just silly!

Mary got her story from the Titanic Historical Society. I attended their showing of the movie and before hand they had an hour discussion revealing little known facts about the Titanic and the survivors.

Robyn

Edited by - robdar on 28 December 2002 4:25:48

Simon

I do remember reading something about alternative theories, one of which was that there was a fire onboard in the coal store or engine room and this is why they were going so fast (to get to port to put it out). It does seem a bit unbelievable that an experienced captain, in charge of the pride of the fleet would be so irresponsible.

Another thing is that the ship (built in Britain?) was ... well, ... crap. The analysis of the rivets and such showed that they were badly smelted and constructed so the ship suffered much more damage than it should have.

ballistic

Do you remember they said NOT EVEN GOD COULD SINK HER.

Well when I was a sick witness with a revengeful God, I remember thinking "yeah, that told them."

expatbrit

I think Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast, wasn't it?

Anyway, returning to the booze, if wine freezes but spirits don't, this is yet another good reason to drink your martinis dry.

Expatbrit

maximumflash

WHAT WOULD U HAVE DONE ON THE TITANIC?

Put my head between my legs and kissed my a$$ goodbye!

Then I would have gone to the bar with all my friends!

Mary

Waygooder64 said: Mary, where did you dream up this stuff?! No one has ANY proof whatsoever that the baker was actually in the water for 2 1/2 hours and that drinking hard liquor helped in his survival.

Waygooder, maybe you should get YOUR facts straight before you start to attack a theory of which you know nothing about. I did not "dream up" any of this. It is a historical FACT that the baker was in the water for this amount of time. His own testimony at the British Inquiry after the sinking, plus eyewitnesses who were on the overturned lifeboat all confirm that he was in the water for about 2 1/2 hours.

As for what helped him survive, well, I hardly think that being overweight is going to prevent anyone from freezing to death in 28 degree water. Alcohol acts as a natural antifreeze in the body.....if you don't believe me, put a bottle of whiskey or rye in your freezer and watch how long it takes to freeze. You'll be waiting a long time, because it DOESN'T freeze - end of story.

Obviously, if someone had enough 'natural antifreeze' in their body, this would prevent them from dying of hypothermia. Seeing as how he is the only recorded survivor of that night who spent such a long time in the water and didn't perish, whereby 1,500 other people (some of whom I'm sure were also overweight) died within a half an hour, then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the large amount of alcohol in his body, saved his life.

And by the way, I didn't "rely on the movie" for my conclusions; my great aunt was one of the 705 people who survived that night (steerage). Needless to say, I grew up listening to the stories about what happened that night from a person who was there.

Edited by - Mary on 28 December 2002 16:2:16

expatbrit

my great aunt was one of the 705 people who survived that night (steerage).

Did she do all that funny Irish dancing and have steamy nookey in a quaint old car on the way over ?

Expatbrit

Mary

Geeze, not that she ever told me!!

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