Comments by "timothy reed" (@timothyreed8417) on "Free Documentary - History" channel.

  1. The “Olympic” class design had 20 life boats for both the RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.
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  2.  @malecadam8182  seamen are taught to try to avoid collisions. Turning and stopping the engines was the correct solution. Hitting the iceberg head on, the titanic would have crushed the first 80 to 110ft of the bow section and most likely survived. BUT the bow section contained the off duty firemen and trimmers (2/3 of the them) most likely killing most of them….
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  3. No the scariest part would be when people stop calling for help…..
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  4.  @napalmstickylikeglue  news flash: Binoculars were never issued to lookouts. Binoculars don’t work at night. Lookouts job is to spot with naked eye any object, then report it to the bridge. The bridge officers evaluate the object.
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  5.  @annalopez2548  22 knots or 25 mph is NOT very slow. It wasn’t the top speed of Titanic but it was close….what is your source…..the “real” story?
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  6.  @Bella.216  californian
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  7. Maybe she should have stayed in port....
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  8. Do you really think god would sink a ship and kill thousands because someone hurt his feelings?
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  9. Some of what was said in this “documentary” was not 100% correct. They did use the best rivets of the time. There were NO metallurgical labs at the time to do analysis at the time. The same rivets were used in the bow section of the ship and it is still intact on the ocean floor. The rivets were subjected to stresses WAY beyond anything that could be imagined. Some in sheer and some in elongation…..
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  10. The coal bunker fire had nothing to do with weakening the steel of the hull. It was a smolder not a fire. Not hot enough to cause any structural changes in the steel.
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  11. Look up “tiller” commands...
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  12.  @kellingtonlink956  don’t tax your brain. There was no swap….
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  13. They would need a full boat crew with an officer in charge, not just 4 men.
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  14. But wait.. but…LOL….
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  15. The fire had nothing to do with the sinking. A lot of crew was there only for the sea trials, not for the sail to new york.
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  16. The engine room was not on fire. It was a coal bunker in br 5. The fire was out on the 13th.
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  17. Binoculars don’t work at night….
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  18. Do you fly?
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  19. The. Keel section..the bottom of the ship was 5 ft deep (thick). The grating was 2 feet above the tank top (top of keel section). Water coming in above the tank top but below the boiler room floor grating.
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  20. Were the same “corners” cut on the RMS Olympic also?
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  21. What evidence? What photographs? What testimony?
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  22. Titanic was launched May 31,1911. The coal bunker in question was under the first funnel, not the fourth and they didn’’t pour water on it.
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  23.  @michaelderenne9838  WHAT is your proof? … buddy
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  24.  @michaelderenne9838  ……enlighten the world ….tell us what you know…..
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  25. I have a spare roll of “tin foil”
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  26. Lights of any type would have caused “Night Blindness.
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  27.  @jameshennighan8193  any kind of white light causes “Night Blindness” thats why there are no “headlights” on ships. Contrary to all the animations of titanic shown, there would be no lights of any kind showing forward of the bridge at night. (Except the mast head light which was shielded), NO side lights (port holes) on the side of the ship, NO bright deck lights, etc. this was to prevent “night Blindness” Any kind of search light would bob up and down with the ships motion. You could be pointing at the sky one moment and down into a swell the next moment. Binoculars do not work at night. The naked eye is better. Consider the optics of the time. No CAD designed lenses, no special coatings, no light amplification electronics. Most lookouts relied on visual contact with the eyeball first. Then they would define the object with binoculars. All the bridge officers had binoculars. The best thing for the lookouts that night would have been some form of eye protection. Try driving at 25 mph and look forward into the wind. Now imagine it is freezing temperature. They had to do that for several hours at a time.
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  28.  @jameshennighan8193  SO why wasn’t all shipping equipped with a searchlight at the front of the ship.(or in the crows nest) as a precaution against trouble. White light causes the iris of the eye to contract, reducing its light gathering ability. Why are plane instruments lit with colored lights. Usually red. Not white. Why when the watch goes on duty they come from a room lite with red light not white. What type of search light? It would have to have a range of say 2500 ft. What would power it? What type of bulb? What type of focus lenses? Thinking outside the box. Seamen know what works and doesn’t. May things have been tried before. So all the transatlantic lines should have fitted searchlights to their ships as a precaution? Going at high speed was standard procedure in those days to avoid trouble. Binoculars don’t work at night. Even Lightoller in his statements to Board ofTrade stated he would use his naked eye to spot objects first, then use binoculars to further define it.
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  29. NO!
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  30. The captain had the final say as to how the ship was run…
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  31. They broke because of faulty welds.
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  32.  @NorceCodine  Yes, there was no welding on the titanic. Yes, the liberty ships were welded.
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  33. NO. Lights. Wold have caused “night blindness” then you couldn’t see anything….it was required that ALL the lights forward of the bridge be darkened at night. This included all the sidelights (portholes) be darkened on the front of the ship. The movies always show them lit which is. Incorrect.
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  34. NO!!
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  35. The WSL was very sound financially sound. They financed the building of the 3 ships thru english bonds and english money….
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  36.  @richardcline1337  and how manny life boats did the olympic have? And how high did the bulkheads go up in olympic? So olympic was a doomed ship also?
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  37.  @carolynwarner1469  and you need to stop judging people!!!….
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  38. The RMS Olympic was built the same way….it had the same number of lifeboats….the Lusitania and Mauretania, had the same number of lifeboats. Lifeboats were thought of as a means of transporting passengers from a ship in distress to a rescue vessel.
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  39. Spotlights would have blinded everyone. Binoculars would not have helped….
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  40. It is called “tiller commands”. They got it right…
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  41. And WHO repaired the wireless, against company orders, to sent out distress calls?
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  42. It was like a side swipe.
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  43. There were too many differences between the two ships to make a switch possible….
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  44. There were many external differences between the 2 ships to make a switch possible…when the Olympic was scrapped, the back of the wooden panels about the ship had the number 400 marked on them…..
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  45.  @richardcline1337  william murdoch was 1st officer. Far from a junior officer. It was a number of small and insignificant events, taken all together, that caused the sinking.
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  46. He changed directions to miss the ice fields…..
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  47. Coal bunkers were below the waterline..
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  48. The rudder was of a correct size for this ship. No they did not reverse the engines. They were rung up to stop…
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  49.  @Stings2pee  you can’t apply current design standards to those of 1900 period. You have to use the best technology you have at the time.if you design for the 1 in a million accident the ship would never have sailed nor would we have landed on the moon. Check the testimony of Board of Inquiry. The engine room signaled the boiler rooms with a red light to shut down the dampers to reduce the steam output. (Testimony of Leading Fireman Barett) You do not to shut down the dampers if you are going to put the engines in to reverse. Even if the signal had been given to reverse the engines, (as some believe) it would have taken 30 or more seconds for that to be done. And up to 2 minutes to get up to full speed (in reverse)…remember the iceberg was only 2 boat lengths away.
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  50. Binoculars do not work at night…
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  51.  @richardcline1337  lightoller didn’t order anything…..he was not in charge of the bridge….
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  52. The Olympic had the legal amount. The Lusitania and Mauretania had the required amount of life boats…..
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  53.  @watchgoose  TOO many differences, interior and exterior, between the ships to make a switch possible..
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  54. The fire hadn’t been ‘Raging” for 3 weeks. It was a smoulder. Very common on coal fired ships of the time. All bunkers are inspected at specific time during each watch period and the conditions of each are noted in the engineering log book. Any problems are passed up to the Captain The smolder was in the bottom of bunker “W” on the aft side of E.
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  55. So wrong….
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  56. The coal bunker fire was out on the 13th…
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  57.  @xtevetyler5332  so what are the citations…..
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  58. No!!!
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  59.  @Ridesharereflections  it was RMS TITANIC…..no question about it….
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  60.  @sallykohorst8803  the bunker smolder (fire) had nothing to do with the sinking of the RMS Titanic….it never got that hot. Nor did it effect the integrity of the steel of the hull. All the riveting was inspected by the board of trade. Any bad riveting was replaced.
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  61.  @kirkcaricosr5382  it was NOT the engine room that was on fire. It was a coal bunker in boiler room 5. Bunker “W”. It was a smolder. Very common on ships of that time period.
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  62.  @kirkcaricosr5382  and who wanted whom “killed”?
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  63.  @kirkcaricosr5382  so you can’t or will not identify the people. The “who”…. was it really the Titanic…..??? …and the “Band played On”…..
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  64. The board of trade inspected the ships, the materials, the construction methods almost on a daily basis. There are still many record’s from that time period.
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  65. If spot lights worked all ships would have them..
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  66.  @michaelderenne9838  didn’t burn for 3 weeks. Started in Southhampton after coaling. Didn’t’ affect the strength of the steel of the hull. Fire (smolder) was out on Saturday….
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  67. No way the ships could have been changed. Too many differences on the outside and inside.
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  68. You would have to have 15,000+ ship workers, office workers and others to keep mum about this. Highly unlikely It WAS Titanic that sank…
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  69. It was not inch and half steel. It split at a seam between 2 plates…..
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  70. Where on the plans are the sea cocks located?
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  71.  @Rubin_Schmidt  what part of the wreck were the sea cocks located?
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  72. Failed what sea trials?
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  73. J P Morgan did not finance the construction of the olympic ships. WSL financed there construction.
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  74. He turned the wheel to the left. To port….
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  75. Tiller comands. Hard a starbord means turn to port..
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  76. The rivets were fine. The bulkhead hight was fine. Traveling at high speed was the accepted practice of the time…
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  77. What costs were cut? What was fatal wrong turn?
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  78. There were many years of experience amongst the officers. How do you make the best technology of the time better? Rivets were fine. The coal bunker smolder had no effect on the strength of the ship. What ice crusher front end? The size of the “drive” system (power plant) was fine….if you mean rudder that was of the right size….
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  79. Officer Murdoch DID NOT put the engines into reverse. He called for ALL stop.
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  80. @Stella Jones no one forced the captain to do any thing…
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  81. So if the “radio boys” didn’t fix the wireless, against company policy, what would have happened?
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  82.  @loveywilliams4276  could you clarify please. What machinery was melting and overheated. What should have been the right flares? What safety measures were not put on?
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  83.  @aldenunion  the seam that was opened up was 25 feet below the surface….
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  84.  @mandamank6846  fire “smolder” had no effect on the hull strength…
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  85. Don’t hurt yourself
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  86.  @loveywilliams4276  there were NO stowaways aboard the Titanic
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  87.  @loveywilliams4276  there were NO stowaways on board… none…
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  88.  @Woodman-Spare-that-tree  there were ships officers stationed at each boarding point checking tickets….where would a stowaway stay? How would they eat? Room stewards knew what rooms were occupied what weren’t…where would you hide? … you needed tickets for the food service…even in 3rd the stewards knew their passengers….
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  89. Not even remotely possible…way to many differences between the ships exteriors and interiors
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  90. No one was locked below…
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  91. NO! Coal smolder had nothing to do with the sinking…
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  92. Had nothing to do with Murphy’s law…. Nor any of the above.
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  93.  @exileayahika  first off, not this documentary is NOT 100% accurate. All rivets were tested after they were placed..(sounded with a hammer) nothing was rushed. The men took pride in the work they did. Not like today. There was no tweaking of rivets before the crash. So the temperature made them shrink on one side and the heat made them ??? On the inside…..
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  94. Fire had nothing to do with sinking….
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  95.  @proseache  they steered by “tiller” commands...hard a starboard would turn the ship to port.....very old terminology....
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  96. Olympic had the same number of lifeboats. The lusitania and Mauretania had same number of lifeboats..
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  97. Saving money? What money was saved. For who? The olympic was built to the same standard….and she lasted how long?
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  98.  @thatguyinelnorte  it WAS the Titanic. How do you account for the many differences between the ships
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  99. Binoculars would have been of no use.. It was standard practice to stop the engines
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  100.  @Shadow0fd3ath24  read Dillon’s testimony, someone working in the engine room at the time, 3715–3729… about how the engines stopped then reversed. Read the Captain’s testimony about the use of binoculars by the lookouts… …all available online…
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  101. The ships were not switched…the exteriors and interiors were different. There was no insurance fraud. You would have to have 15,000+ dock, office and other workers sworn to secrecy.
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  102. I heard it wasn’t an insurance job…..
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