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Joćo Carlos Pereira Martins
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Username: keen_on_titanic
Post Number: 13
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 2:19 pm: | 
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I'm only 15 and I think I would be accepted in one of Murdoch lifeboats, the first ones. I wouldn't leave the ship until my mother was safe in a boat. If the other men of my family stayed behind, I would face my fate. But if one officer gave us the opportunity to get on a lifeboat and help manouvering the oars, I would take it.
If I was an adult, I would help to put women and children in the majority of the lifeboats. However, when it started getting close to 2am I would return to my stateroom, get a lifevest and then I would go near to one of the last collapsibles (A or B) and try to save myself. If I could't reach none of them, I would die in the freazing water or I would come back to the interior of the ship and kill myself. It would be a more honourable death. |
George Pastarmatzis
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Username: fm123sparti
Post Number: 284
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 9:17 pm: |
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What exactly would you do if you were a first class passenger on the Titanic and heard the iceberg hit the ship? I mean, one moment you are comfortable in your stateroom and suddenly you are all up and alert. What do you do then? Personally, I would probably dress up warmly and go outside to check things out. I would never think everything is all right and go back to bed! Any other ideas?
George Pastarmatzis
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Joćo Carlos Pereira Martins
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Username: keen_on_titanic
Post Number: 70
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 - 9:22 pm: |
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Well, I would do the same as you, George. When I was sure of what was happening I would consider to get on a lifeboat. |
Royal Mitchell
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Username: royal880
Post Number: 9
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 1:35 am: |
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I would have jumped overboard and got into a lifeboat. Or I would have went to bed and died by drownding.
I could imagine both.
1. I go to bed if i couldnt get in a lifeboat by deck. I lay down and an hour later I wake up, Its dark and I feel water creep up into my bed. It rises I gasp for breath. I hear the ship groaning, its cold. Then I cant breath no longer, and that all she wrote.
2. Jumping over board immediately I would catch hypothermia and quickly drown because I cant swim. |
Vitezslav Ivicic
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Username: gilderoy
Post Number: 208
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 1:46 am: |
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I think that if i couldn't get in a lifeboat I would jump in the water and swim (I can swim very well) to a lifeboat and be pulled in. |
David G. Brown
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Username: brown
Post Number: 1880
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 3:02 pm: |
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Remember, if you were on Titanic, you would know nothing about the sinking, nothing.
As late as 1:15 or 1:30 a.m. you would still think the ship was a safer place than a small boat on a dark ocean. You would still be warm and comfortable inside the brightly-lighted public spaces. You would still believe that wireless and the design of the ship would protect you until help arrived.
If you were in third class, you would expect that those people in first and second class had first claim on the lifeboats. That wouldn't bother you too much, life had been that way for hundreds of years before you were born. And, you would believe that the ship wasn't going to let you down, anyway.
After 1:30 a.m. all of what you believed about class rank, lifeboats, the invulnerability of technology, or even the rest of your life would have been brutally snatched away. Titanic was visibly sinking and there were obviously not enough boats.
What now? a private Birkenhead Drill? Panic? Don't be foolish that you can predict your own actions when you can almost reach out and touch the end of your own life. Do you believe in your abilities to survive? are you a fatalist? Do you matter more than your spouse? your children?
--David G. Brown |
Roy Kristiansen
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Username: whh
Post Number: 729
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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Hi, David!
What you've suggested above is a very difficult world-view for many latter day people to put into practice, but absolutely essential, IMO, to understanding the actions of 2200 people that night. Titanic hadn't happened yet. Thank you for a very insightful post.
Roy |
David G. Brown
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Username: brown
Post Number: 1897
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, December 1, 2006 - 2:53 am: |
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Roy-- thanks for your kind comments.
-- David G. Brown |
kammi jo casci
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Username: titanic_enthusiast
Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 1:20 am: |
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well, I'd wake up, after the collison, and get dressed in warm clothing. then i'd find my family, and i'd try to convince them to come up to the boat deck. my mom, sister, and I (being a 13 year old female), would probably be allowed in a lifeboat. as for my dad, I couldn't say. it would be the night of my birthday (after midnight) on April 15th. i'd probably sound paranoid to some of the others, but i could tell that something was wrong, since i'd go see what it was, after i got out of bed. |
Robert T. Paige
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Username: jnb
Post Number: 557
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 2:02 am: |
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Just a note on Titanic (1912) -vs - Queen Mary (1936) .
From the souvenir copy of "The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder", June, 1936.:
RMS Queen Mary (Page 56) :
20 Motor lifeboats- 2,900 persons
2 Motor lifeboats with wireless- 272 persons
2 Motor lifeboats (accident boats)- 94 persons
Grand total- 3,266 persons
(Page 192)
Grand total on board on maiden voyage, May 27-June 1, 1936- 2,906 persons
Respectfully,
Robert T. Paige
"The best I've seen, ma'am....Hardly any rats."
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Stanley C Jenkins
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Username: stanley_c_jenkins
Post Number: 81
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 1:17 pm: |
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It is true that, once all of the lifeboats had been launched, feelings of terror would have started to appear among those left aboard the sinking ship. HOWEVER, everybody was equipped with substantial cork life jackets and these must have engendered an illusion of "safety". Many people must have assumed that they could have stepped gently into the water and awaited the rescue ships - not realising that the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic can probably extinguish life in about fifteen minutes. |
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