Titanic's Grand Staircase Photos

[Aly Jones]

Well yes,they were taking there time. Still a German man film the two Olympic class liners from the start while being built. Why can't the English take photos of there own ships from the start? lol.

Anyways michael. When you qoute me,do you write out my post again and then you just stick >> << on the end?
Or is there more to it?

 

[Michael H. Standart]

What I do is cut and paste and put the quote between the >> <<

>>Why can't the English take photos of there own ships from the start?<<

They do. But like I said, with the Titanic, it wasn't seen as being anything urgent. She wasn't even the star of the show, as the lead ship, Olympic was. Nobody cared a great deal about the second sister.

 

[Aly Jones]

True, i forgot that no one care about Titanic back then. Since she famous now, i automatic think she was famous back then.

How do you Quote me? How do you do it?

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>How do you Quote me? How do you do it?<<

By cutting and pasting the quote to my message. Your computer manual should tell you how to do it.

 

[Aly Jones]

Um. How do i cut and paste?

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Highlight the text you want to copy, hit the ctrl and C keys, move cursor to the block you're writing in, hit ctrl D.

 

[Aly Jones]

>>Highlight the text you want to copy, hit the ctrl and C keys, move cursor to the block you're writing in, hit ctrl D.<<

I done by it. wwwoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Thanks Micheal!

 

[Jeremy Aufderheide]

I agree with Michael. I don't think she was as big of deal as myth has made her out to be. I think that the media was pretty much a "meh"...like Apollo 12.

Wasn't the media's unsinkable claim for the entire Olympic class, not just the Titanic? Was she *really* the largest moving object made by man? Was she really the most luxurious? Especially when the Olympic was basically the same ship with nearly the same interiors and nearly the same weight/length.

 

[Aly Jones]

>> Was she *really* the largest moving object made by man?<<
Just barley. >>she really the most luxurious?<< No she was not, more plainer.I learnt that of these guys on here.

I agree with you about the Media.

 

[Matthew Newman]

And since White Star Line already had plenty of interior photos of Olympic to use for their catalogs and advertising, they probably saved a few bucks by using some of the same images for their Titanic ads.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>Wasn't the media's unsinkable claim for the entire Olympic class, not just the Titanic?<<

The term mooted in the technical press such as The Shipbuilder was "practically unsinkable" and it wasn't applied to just the Olympics. It was applied to just about every new liner of the period. I've read similar claims in The Shipbuilder articles for the Lusitania, the Empress of Ireland and so on.

The qualifyer "practically" was dropped by the rest of the press and the legend has since taken on a life of it's own.

 

[Aly Jones]

>>The term mooted in the technical press such as The Shipbuilder was "practically unsinkable" and >>it wasn't applied to just the Olympics. It was applied to just about every new liner of the period. I've read similar claims in The Shipbuilder articles for the Lusitania, the Empress of Ireland and so on.<<

Did it not *Unsinkable ships* start from the Oylmpic class ships Oylmpic and Titanic when they were built?.Man really thought that they coqured Mothernature with these two ships,so other ships followed suit?
After Titanic sunk, no ships were ever classed as unsinkable?

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>Did it not *Unsinkable ships* start from the Oylmpic class ships Oylmpic and Titanic when they were built?.<<

Nope. The claim "Practically unsinkable" was used in reference to a lot of ships before any of the Olympics and it never really went away either. The term was kicked around even for the Andrea Doria, albit in the popular media rather then the technical press.

 

[Aly Jones]

Michael. These days ships are built to last long enough to get every life boat of safely before the ship flounders.
Therefore ships were not built to be unsinkable in the modern world.
I thought that the designers change the way of thinking after Titanic. Is that the case?
Therefore no ships were ever class as unsinkable after.
Well you have to admit that Titanic did change so many other things.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>Therefore no ships were ever class as unsinkable after.<<

They weren't classed as unsinkable in 1912 either. Note the qualifyer "Practically unsinkable. The difference may look like an arguement in semantics but there is a difference. Whatever the public may have believed, shipbuilders and naval architects had few illusions on this score.

>>I thought that the designers change the way of thinking after Titanic. Is that the case?<<

Not really. The designers are always trying to make it a little bit better and a bit tougher then what came before. Shipbuilding is nothing if not evolutionary. What they don't do and have never really done...for the most part anyway...is work on the assumption that any militarily or commercially useful vessel can be made completely unsinkable.