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David G. Brown
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Username: brown
Post Number: 1860
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 9:44 pm: | 
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Paul-- On what did this person lower himself down? Serious question. A ship Titanic's size doesn't have coils of line suitable for the purpose just lying about like an old Spanish galleon. Again, not to question August Wennestrom's desire to tell the truth, just to point out there is something within his story that requires explanation before the story can be used as proof of anything.
-- David G. Brown |
Tad G. Fitch
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Username: tad_fitch
Post Number: 161
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 2:53 am: |
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I don't know what to make of the accounts from those on Collapsible B, they could very well have been telling the truth as they saw it, regarding the stern looming overhead, or they may have been intentionally, or unintentionally exaggerating as David suggested.
Either way, we really only have their accounts to go on given the lack of data and gaps in the forensic evidence, so this would be worth a closer look, just for curiosity's sake. I do know that Daly gave at least one public account and a couple of private ones mentioning this detail and that he thought the stern would fall down on top of them, so he at least believed it to be what really happened. Whether he was correct is subject to interpretation.
Take care guys,
Tad |
Michael Poirier
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Username: mike_poirier
Post Number: 408
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 3:16 am: |
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I am not sure if the boats would have been specifically to the front of the superstructure. They were in and about the vicinity of the davits for 2 and 1. I don't think the wash of the Titanic taking a dive would send the boats out ahead of it. I am not saying it sent the boats all the way to the stern, but the initial wave sent them outwards. With the ship diving forward, I imagine the boats having already drifted out, watched the Titanic sink past them, rather like a car driving by.
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Joćo Carlos Pereira Martins
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Username: keen_on_titanic
Post Number: 356
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 2:35 pm: |
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I completely agree with Michael! I don't think that a semi-flooded collapsible would get so far away from his original point, and you should remember the confusion, the ropes and pieces of wreckage which were already in the water, making difficult to boat A to drift away from the ship, even more to get close to the stern... it just wouldn't have enough propulsion for it, and in my opinion neither the collapse of funnel 1 or 2 or the waves or the "rough" waters would send the boat to such a distance.
Regards, Joćo |
john paul
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Username: japee12
Post Number: 3
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 11:57 am: |
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I read that Collapsible A was swamped and half-flooded and some passengers managed to get into Collapsible A(one of them is Rosa Abbott, the only woman to survive after Collapsible D was lowered.) Collapsible D was the last lifeboat to be lowered. |
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