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Message: [QUOTE="James Eldridge, post: 87509, member: 197806"] Greetings, I just joined the forum and enter these waters with fear and trembling after reading many previous posters messages here. Let me preface my questions with the qualification that I am not a Titanic scholar but an interested lay person and have not been ordained into the canon of orthodoxy about what is or isn't accepted facts and methods of research. With that caveat offerred here's my humble question for the forum: I always wondered if Captain Smith had continued steaming ahead if the flooding would have been reduced and have allowed the RMS Titanic more time to reach the ship showing lights before sinking. Of course I don't know whether or not the 'lights' were visible at the time the Titanic hit the berg or they appear later in the tragedy, but it seems to me that given the inhospitable local of the accident that steaming as far toward rescue as possible under the circumsatnces might have been a better idea than stopping. What do you erudite folks think? Eldridge [/QUOTE]