RMS Titanic

I prefer warships really, much more interesting for me personally.

Anything from M. Rose up I am interested in really, Hood is interesting just for how people over rated it for almost a decade, flagship that was ten years out of date as our flagship, cost a lot of people their lives because of a ship that was a nations favourite.

Explains the extra ordinary hunt of the Bismarck after Hoods sinking, Battle Cruiser that was the nations favourite and a icon of the Empire, sunk in combat by a battleship (as it would be) so we had to get the Bismarck then and then for national pride.

In one go in that combat it secured the death of the large warship as the frontline of combat, Arc Royal launching swordfish resulting in the disabling of the multi million mark Bismarck, first ever fully combat ready capital ship to be beaten by air power.

Italians got a trouncing by air on their navy too, and the Japanese super battleships got taken out aswell by air, seiling the death on big ships.

Hood was a case of a nations love affair with it though, no way should a Battle Cruiser should have been in that situation in a straight out firefight with a ship like Bismarck, HMS Belfast for example was a far superior ship of war than Hood, yet was smaller. Think it had a hand in the destruction of the other big German warship of the time; Scharnhorst.

I know it is slightly off topic, but ships in general and the world wars were mentioned with Olympic afterall. I think I have gotten all the info right, is 2:00am afterall!
 
Wren said:
I goofed on the RMS, it stands for Royal Mail Service. I confused it with Her Majesty. :D Didn't the Olympic get torpedoed? I seem to remember hearing something like that.
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Royal Mail Ship (commonly called Royal Mail Steamer) is the correct meaning.
 
Look at the picture posted... See anything out of the ordinary?
The Titanic had four funnels, and yet you'll only ever have seen smoke come from the front three. This is because the rear fourth was... a fake. Semi-useless, it was a construction made to increase the grandeur of the ship (my pen0r is bigger than yours, style thing). Itw as used for venting the engine room and kitchens, but not as an exhaust.
 
Looking at the list of sea disasters, a lot of ships seem to sink, there was one that sank this year with 1,800 deaths which is even more than the Titanic.

Is there any colour photographs or video footage anywhere?
 
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My Great Grandad worked for Whitestar line he was the Chief Engineer on one of the sister ships to the Titanic think it was the Olympic or something, anyhow due to a problem the night before he never got transferred to the RMS Titanic which he was going to be stationed on. Little random and weird when you think about it as I wouldn't have been here if he had.

We have the employment papers and even a photo of the ship he was stationed on at home. Kind of scarey to look at, plus the photo is probably worth a bit.
 
But was it really the titanic that sunk to the bottom of the atlantic, did the ship really get hit by an iceberg.......
 
eXSBass said:
The sheer SIZE of the thing does it for me!
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By today's standards, it's not too impressive. But you don't hear people going "oh, its so many times bigger than the titanic" because people are superstitious :)
 
Spacky said:
My Great Grandad worked for Whitestar line he was the Chief Engineer on one of the sister ships to the Titanic think it was the Olympic or something, anyhow due to a problem the night before he never got transferred to the RMS Titanic which he was going to be stationed on. Little random and weird when you think about it as I wouldn't have been here if he had.

We have the employment papers and even a photo of the ship he was stationed on at home. Kind of scarey to look at, plus the photo is probably worth a bit.
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If thats true, its really quite impressive. I am a 2nd Engineer (soon to be Chief) for Shell. :)
 
I was quite into the Titanic and its sister ships a good few years ago, its quite a facinating subject.

Theres even some good conspiracy theories that it wasnt the Titanic that sunk in 1912, that there was problems on its sea trials, so they switched ships, switched the Olympic with the Titanic, indeed many pictures of the titanic are actually pictures of the Olympic. There is also conspiracy theories that the ship was actually sunk on purpose, that it wasnt sea worthy and the insurance policy more than made up for it, theres evidence to suggest its true, the owner of the white star line who went on all maiden journies, backed out at the last minute, a few other high profile white star line employees wouldnt travel on it either.

If i remember correctly the Britannic was a hospital ship in the second world war, the Olympic was taken back to liverpool after also working in the war and broke down for scrap, which is a bit of a shame.
 
There's a superb Titanic museum in Las Vegas. They have the largest piece of the ship anywhere in the world that was recovered from the bottom. Well worth a look..
 
eXSBass said:
The sheer SIZE of the thing does it for me!
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Why? the Titanic is tiny compared to the cruise ships floating around today. The Titanic is no bigger than the DFDS ferry that sails from Newcastle to Amsterdam.

I hate it when you talk to people and they think the Titanic was the biggest ship ever built.
 
I was into the Titanic when I were a wee lad. I'm going to admit to something now - I never in my wildest dreams believed it would ever be found and when they did find it I cried. Even now I find it hard to believe they found it.

I'm also with the conspiracy theorists and think that it wasn't terrorists but America did it.
 
Doorman80 said:
Why? the Titanic is tiny compared to the cruise ships floating around today. The Titanic is no bigger than the DFDS ferry that sails from Newcastle to Amsterdam.

I hate it when you talk to people and they think the Titanic was the biggest ship ever built.
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Exactly, RCI's new Freedom Of The Seas is 60 metres longer and double the width!
 
Not really fasniated in the Titanic as such but anything MASSIVE like boats, planes etc really intrigues me :)

I also like conspiracy theories too, and the one surrounding the Titanic is very interesting :)
 
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