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David Hudson
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Username: superliner
Post Number: 443
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 5, 2002 - 6:44 pm: | 
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How many 1st Class public rooms were open when the Titanic stuck the berg? We've gone over public room hours before, but published closing times contradict survivor accounts. The only rooms that I know of that were still catering to passengers are the Cafe Parisienne and the Smoking Room. The Dining Saloon still had its lights on but only stewards occupied it at 11:40. What about, say, the Reading and Writing Room? Was it open? If not, were the doors locked and the lights out? Or what about the Verandah Cafe? or the Lounge? Would the Gym have been closed? I know that it was later open during the sinking, but what use could a gym have had the passengers after dark? Certainly the spa complex was shut down for the night.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
David |
Nathan Lee Casteel
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Username: titanicexpert
Post Number: 32
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2002 - 3:16 pm: |
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Nope the passengers went into the Gym to stay warm from the cold. |
Matthew O'Brien
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Username: mcob1026
Post Number: 18
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 4:42 am: |
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Nathan,
I would guess that the Reception Room out side of the Cafe Parisienne was still occupied as the cafe was still open. Also, the Grand Reception room was probably still "open" because passenegers housed on D Deck would need to pass through it to get to their cabins, so we know that at the lights had to be on. I would imagine that the Verandah's may have been open because the Smoking Room was, and they ajoined that room. I am not sure about the lounge, but then I have never heard any accounts of it being used at the time of the collision, I think that it was re opened though when the evacuation procedures came under way.
Hope this helps,
Matt |
Matthew O'Brien
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Username: mcob1026
Post Number: 19
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 4:42 am: |
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Sorry, I mean to direct that last post to David.
~Matt |
Jason Marcotte
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Username: marcotte
Post Number: 16
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 13, 2002 - 5:06 am: |
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According to the "First Class Passage Rates" for the Olympic/Titanic, the following rooms were in use at the following times:
A la Carte Restaurant: 8a11p
Turkish Baths: (10a1p Ladies), (2p6p Gents)
Swimming Pool: (10a1p Ladies), (6a9a/2p6p Gents)
Gymnasium: same hours as the Turkish Baths/Pool
Lounge: closed at 1130p
D-Deck Reception Room: closed at 11p
There is no mention made of the Smoking Room, main Dining Room, the Cafe Parisien or the Verandah Cafes.
I do recall Dorothy Gibson's bridge party (consisting of herself, her mother, William Sloper and Fred Seward(?)) persuaded the Lounge attendant to keep the Lounge open a little longer than 1130p while they finished their game.
The Cafe Parisien also must have been open after 11p because I seem to recal Lucien Smith, Pierre Marechal and Ferdinand Omont playing brigde there during the collision.
Everyone knows that the smoking room still had visitors after 1130p. The Cafe Parisien could have as well, but I've never heard of anyone being in there during the collision.
I hope this is of some interest.
Jason |
George Pastarmatzis
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Username: fm123sparti
Post Number: 274
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 1:30 pm: |
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Hi all! Just another question? I have read in many books and accounts that it was not "proper" for ladies in first class at least to be awake and about so late in the night aboard a ship! Was that true? Also, some women were dressed in evening clothes in the boats and I recall reading that it was far too strange for others to see them attired in that manner!!! (perhaps some other "explanations" are hidden there?) Any thoughts about it? Thank you !!!
George Pastarmatzis
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George Pastarmatzis
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Username: fm123sparti
Post Number: 290
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 9:28 am: |
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Anyone else on the above matter? Thanks ...
George Pastarmatzis
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Samuel Halpern
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Username: cmdrsam
Post Number: 1212
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 7:18 pm: |
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Lights in third class accommodation and in the forecastle were to be put out at 10 PM every evening. The Saloons, libraries, on deck and in companion ways at 11 PM except for emergency lights. Smoking room lights were put out at 12 AM. These according to WSL rules in effect at the time. Late at night the ship was not ablaze with light.
There are no Unsinkable Theories.
Sam Halpern
40° 23' 50'' N, 74° 13' 55'' W.
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Tad G. Fitch
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Username: tad_fitch
Post Number: 128
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 8:06 pm: |
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Sam, this definitely happened as per routine that night. Eugene Daly and some others had been playing music and were forced to retire when they shut out the lights. They stayed up talking in their rooms for a time afterwards. |
Samuel Halpern
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Username: cmdrsam
Post Number: 1213
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:06 pm: |
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Well there were rules and then there were rules. It seems that some leeway was given at least in some 1st class rooms. Edith (Rosenbaum) Russell wrote that she went to the "drawing-room" (the reading & writing room by the 1st class lounge) at 9:30 to write some letters, and at 11:30 a steward called out, "Lights out, it is 11:30." She immediately left at that time with two borrowed books to go to her cabin A-11 which was right down the corridor forward. As soon as she got there and put on the light, the collision came. The smoking rooms were a popular place for men to hang out and set their watches to the correct ship's time which was adjusted every night at midnight. Going westward the clocks went back. Going eastward the clocks went ahead.
There are no Unsinkable Theories.
Sam Halpern
40° 23' 50'' N, 74° 13' 55'' W.
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Vitezslav Ivicic
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Username: gilderoy
Post Number: 268
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 1:31 pm: |
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Does anybody now, if the reading and writing room was later opened and if the lights were lit? |
George Pastarmatzis
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Username: fm123sparti
Post Number: 328
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 6:32 pm: |
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Nice question! I think it must have been a nice place to spend time later on and not freezing! Thanks!
George Pastarmatzis
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Samuel Halpern
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Username: cmdrsam
Post Number: 1643
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 10:17 pm: |
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My guess Vitezslav is that it wasn't. The order was given for everyone to put on lifebelts and get up to the boat deck. Many people however found warmer places to stay like in the 1st class entrance way or a few other places that offered some warmth. I don't think the crew would have turned the lights back on in places like reading and writing room when they were trying to get the boats filled. They had emergency lighting all over the ship in crew and passenger spaces, and at end of all the corridors, in stairways, etc. that were on all the time from dusk until dawn every night. So these places were not totally dark.
There are no Unsinkable Theories.
Sam Halpern
40° 23' 50'' N, 74° 13' 55'' W.
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Vitezslav Ivicic
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Username: gilderoy
Post Number: 270
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:49 pm: |
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I though so too, but I wanted to be sure. I am searching for mistakes in the Cameron's movie, and this is another one. Thank you. And by the was, notice, that in most (if not all) Titanic movies are always all lights lit. |
