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Patricia Bowman Rogers Winship
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Username: pbowman
Post Number: 147
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 5:31 pm: | 
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My library has just received the Facts On File publication Man Made Catastrophes, Revised Edition by Lee Davis. I was scanning the Titanic article, to see how much Mr.Davis had gotten wrong, then noticed a strange picture in the section on the Lusitania. (p. 261) It shows a drydocked ship with a large hole in her port bow, and is identified as a picture from the Illustrated London News showing the torpedo damage to the Lusi. Ummmmm... Riiiiiiight! Have any of you seen it? |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 4907
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 5:53 pm: |
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Never saw anything like that myself. Did they explain how a ship sitting on the bottom of the ocean could be in a drydock at the same time?
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Adam Leet
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Username: leet
Post Number: 296
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 6:14 pm: |
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I'm sure the Lusitania was actually the prototype ship used in the Liverpool Experiment, the British counterpart to the later Philadelphia Experiment. 
-Adam |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 4908
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 6:32 pm: |
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The "Truth" is out there! 
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Remco Hillen
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Username: remco_hillen
Post Number: 202
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 8:41 pm: |
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Perhaps that was Lusitania, being patched up like Mauretania for an insurance sca...uhm...nahhh!  |
Michael Cundiff
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Username: robin
Post Number: 320
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 3:15 am: |
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...must have been another Lusitania...another WAR...another time...far away from the IRISH SEA.
And such a fitting epitaph payed by E. Sauder at the closing of his and Marschall's fine LUSITANIA book.
Michael A. Cundiff
USA
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Patricia Bowman Rogers Winship
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Username: pbowman
Post Number: 148
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 3:30 am: |
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Hi, guys!
Laughing my head off. It does look like a fine opportunity for conspiracy theorists. No clue as to the name of the drydocked vessel, but she sure had a helluva hole in the port bow. I'll see if NPL has the Illusrated London News of 1915, find the picture, and see what it really is. In the meantime, we can all write stories for the Weekly World News...
Pat W. |
Patricia Bowman Rogers Winship
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Username: pbowman
Post Number: 150
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 4:34 pm: |
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Hello, again.
Sometimes working in a library is a really cool thing. I just went down to our basement, elbowed the rats out of the way, and fished up the Illustrated London News for May 15, 1915. As it happens, the picture of the drydocked ship with the hole in the port bow is right on the front cover.
The caption reads: "THE FORCE OF A TORPEDO OF THE KIND WHICH SANK THE "LUSITANIA": DAMAGE DONE TO A SHIP BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE"
"This photograph, showing the damage done to a ship's side by a torpedo from a German submarine, makes it possible to realise the injuries which caused the sinking of the "Lusitania". The vessel in the photograph (taken in a graving dock at North Shields) is the Norwegian oil tank steamer "Belridge", which was similarly torpedoed by a German submarine a few weeks ago, but was able to keep afloat, as the damage was well forward, in advance of the foremost bulkhead. The explosion tore rents right across the ship and through the plating on the opposite side of the bows. The whole hull was severely shaken, rivets were everywhere displaced, and nearly fifty skin-plates along the sides were damaged. The Schwarzkopf 21-inch torpedo, used by the later German submarines, is charged with over 2 1/2 cwt. of high explosive."
And on the same picture, slightly cropped, in Man-Made Catastrophes, Revised Edition by Lee Davis for the Facts on File Science LIbrary, 2002, we get: "The gigantic hole ripped in the hull of the Lusitania by a torpedo from a German U-boat on May 1, 1915. (Illustrated London News).
Methinks the Revised Edition needs to be revised again.
Pat W. |
Mindy Deckard
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Username: ag_outlaw
Post Number: 37
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 11:17 pm: |
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I don't know why but this reminded me of that WSL rumor that the Olympic was the one that actually hit the iceberg and the Titanic was the only one that didn't sink. Strange is all I have to say. |
