Ah, no but I vaguely remember going to something similar during school - but think that was in the black country somewhere.
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If not I'm sure you could tell me who is in the gif
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If not I'm sure you could tell me who is in the gif
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The builders and owners of the Titanic never actually claimed the ship was unsinkable, it was claimed to be “practically unsinkable” by a trade publication - The Shipbuilder - the media picked up on this and omitted the practically bit, much as they still embellish stories to this day.
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I don't need to be told 3 times, it's not a magic number.
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Sounds like Blists Hill.
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The shipbuilder responsible for overseeing the design of the Titanic (Thomas Andrews) had made two vital recommendations that were not implemented:
* 46 lifeboats (Titanic ended up with just 20)
* a double hull with watertight bulkheads up to B deck (rejected)
The first of these would have saved many more lives; the second would have ensured the ship did not sink at all.
Andrews was on board when Titanic struck the iceberg. He assessed the damage, and immediately informed the captain that the ship would sink within 1 hour.
He spent the rest of his time warning passengers and instructing them to put on lifebelts and make their way to the top deck.
Andrews drowned while attempting to escape the ship during its final moments.
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Been there a couple of times, absolutely love it!
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Actually, it was Alexander Carlisle who was responsible for the number of lifeboats on the Titanic during its design and construction phase, he retired in June 1910 and his place was taken by Thomas Andrews.
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/carlisle-retirement-separating-fact-from-fiction.html
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Thanks, nice catch. Wikipedia says Andrews is the one who recommended 46 lifeboats instead of 20.
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Golden rule of researching things, Wikipedia is full of entries often made by people who don’t really know their subject, and the Titanic disaster is one such subject where infamy - and numerous films and books - over the years has very much blurred the line between perception and reality.
(I’ve been an amateur Titanic historian for over 30 years now
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Again, that was initially Carlisle who recommended 46 boats (and included the davits capable of carrying them) but Andrews went along with his uncle’s (Pirrie) preference for fewer, a view not helped by Bruce Ismay (The White Star Lines Chairman) opinion that lifeboats would clutter up the boat deck.
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Its both, its a chinese cannon captured by the Russians subsequently captured by the British during the Crimean War.
www.beamish.org.uk
Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
The British Empire ended modern slavery.
A large (significantly large) Royal Navy squadron was stationed for decades off the coast of Africa and intercepted a huge number of slaves en route across the Atlantic Ocean. The slaves were set free and the slaving ships were confiscated or sunk. At its height, the squadron represented an entire sixth of the Navy's power (at that time the largest military force on the planet). Meanwhile, the government used political and economic means to force European nations to outlaw slavery too. You hear constantly about how evil the British and the Empire was yet the many good facets are conveniently forgotten.
A large (significantly large) Royal Navy squadron was stationed for decades off the coast of Africa and intercepted a huge number of slaves en route across the Atlantic Ocean. The slaves were set free and the slaving ships were confiscated or sunk. At its height, the squadron represented an entire sixth of the Navy's power (at that time the largest military force on the planet). Meanwhile, the government used political and economic means to force European nations to outlaw slavery too. You hear constantly about how evil the British and the Empire was yet the many good facets are conveniently forgotten.
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Mostly true, but it wasn't only the British Empire for the whole time. Modern slavery only officially ended in the 1960s - the Islamic slave trade was far longer lasting and far larger in scale than the Atlantic slave trade, but we're not supposed to talk about that because Islam has an extremely high status and vast amounts of power.
It is. Returning the rescued people to where they were taken from was both impossible and a bad idea, since they'd been enslaved from there and would be enslaved again if they went back. Some somewhere new was required and the British empire built Freetown as a new home for rescued ex-slaves.
It wasn't perfect(*), so even that won't be good enough for a racist and/or nationalist scum who seek power by villifying everyone who is "white" and/or British. Despite the fact that Britain even went as far as fighting a full on war against slavery, a literal war in which many Britons died.
* The legal basis for the British Empire claiming the land is dubious and the scale of the atlantic slave trade was seriously underestimated so Freetown wasn't big enough quickly enough.