Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Engineers Who Died To Keep The Titanic's Lights On | Saving The Titanic | Timeline" video.

  1. No, she wasn't. You shouldn't believe everything you see in unsubstantiated Switcher videos.
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  2. Where exactly did you get this nonsense from. White Star was a thriving Company in 1912. In the last financial year it had made just over £1 million in profits. Work out for yourself what that is in modern money. Would a company in financial difficulty commit to the construction of three of the finest, most luxurious, and expensive ships on earth? Which 'huge' ships have you seen colliding with icebergs, as a matter of interest? The bunker fire, by the way, played no part in the sinking, despite the amateurish claims of a modern journalist, Senan Molony. The locked up binoculars claim is a myth of recent invention. Simply read the evidence of the 1912 US Inquiry for proof of this. Titanic carried 36 Board of Trade sanctioned explosive Socket Signals. They were white, because white was the accepted colour for distress flares. Some ships did have differently coloured flares, but these were for signals between ships of the same company. You do seem to be interested in the subject. A shame that you appear profoundly ignorant of the facts.
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  3. I doubt God was confused by the false claims by some that Titanic had been so named.
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  4. No. Most were recruited locally from the Southampton area.
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  5. He had more pressing things yo concern him than details.
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  6. Congratulations! One of the least well informed posts I have ever seen on the subject. I assumed that you had done much detailed research when you managed to get the name of Olympic wrong. Oh, by the way. Two of the three financiers who died had given no opinion on the Fed., whilst the third had spoken in favour. Titanic cost $7.5 million to build, yet was only insured for $5 million. The Olympics did not carry nameplates. The names were engraved in the hull, and overpainted in white. If Ballard had found the (incorrect) name of another ship, don't you think he might have mentioned it? These truths have been known for years, except by gullible switcher fools.
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  7. Touted by whom? Not by White Star or Harland & Wolff, that is for sure.
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  8. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. 1). Her sister, built of the same materials, was a successful liner for almost 25 years. 2). Lookouts generally did not use glasses, except to identify objects already spotted by the Mark 1 eyeball. Acting in such a manner might actually have delayed the warning being given 3). Californian's operator in subsequent evidence said that the Morse Shorthand message he received from Titanic was merely a request to clear the frequency. It was not offensive, nor did he take it as such.
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  9. Steerage passengers were not locked below. The evidence is in the testimony given by steerage survivors at the US Inquiry. A pity people would prefer to believe such false claims.
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  10. What do you suggest the designer did wrong? The Olympic's were the safest passenger ships at sea at the time. Olympic came through a collision with a Royal Navy cruiser with no risk of sinking. No ship, however, could be expected to survive the damage Titanic experienced.
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  11. No you don't. There is only about 40 seconds actual newsreel footage of Titanic, showing her changing her berth in Belfast in early 1912 before her final fitting out. All the rest is of Olympic.
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  12.  @Mittens0407  Her research is on a similar level to that of most switch enthusiasts. They view a switcher video, swallow it unquestioningly, and appoint themselves instant experts.
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  13.  @VashStarwind  Apart from the fact that the wreck's B deck forward matches the pattern of Titanic, which was different from that of Olympic, for a start? Your comment, to be honest, is so foolish as to be unworthy of further comment.
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  14.  @VashStarwind  No. But I know of a man called Ballard who did.
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  15. Headlights? Nonsense. Fitting them in New York? Even more nonsensical nonsense.
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  16. Well, your details are wroing for a start. Titanic was a British ship. The phrase "full reverse both" would never have occurred to a British officer.
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  17.  @dredd1981  But you didn't write “full astern both.” You wrote "full reverse both." Don't you remember?
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  18.  @dredd1981  That isn't the point. A British officer would, for example, no more use the term 'fantail' than an American one would say 'quarterdeck.' You say details matter, you get a simple one wrong, and you can't bring yourself to acknowledge the fact. Sad.
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  19.  @dredd1981  As I wrote earlier, SAD. Made even sadder by your use of the asinine LOL.
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