At the British Inquiry, Lightoller says very explicitly in response to question 14197 about why the iceberg wasn't seen earlier:
"It is very difficult indeed to come to any conclusion. Of course, we know now the extraordinary combination of circumstances that existed at that time which you...
Hello everyone!
I've just made this account, but I've been reading this forum for a long time.
There is one thing that seems quite odd to me.
Pitman said on his testimony that he knew Murdoch well. I might be wrong but I think they did not serve together before the voyage of Titanic. Is there...
There is a story about Officer Lowe told by Charlotte Collyer on his entry page, despite nearly every site except this one confirming that she wasn't even in the lifeboat and that story couldn't have happened. This seems like a huge oversight for an informative site like this one.
I looked to...
There were 705 survivors from the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In the days, weeks and years following the sinking, the survivors told their stories many times.
Two major inquiries with sworn testimony were held -- the U.S. Senate Inquiry and the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry. Other...
It's one thing to read the accounts of the survivors in their own words. It's something special though when you are able to actually listen to them recalling what they saw and heard that night.
How many survivors lived long enough to actually have their memories recorded on audio and/or...
Frank Prentice was one of the only survivors to experience the final moments on the stern of the ship. He is one of the best people to reference, in my opinion, because he was able to feel the movements instead of attempting to make out the activities of a dark mass.
In this 1966 radio...
I not to sure how to explain this but here we go...
I been thinking what would happen if we got people who never heard of Titanic to determine the sinking:
My hypnosis, is that if we got together a bunch of experts in ship structure who had never heard anything about the ship or seen any...