Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. Nothing much to say. Titanic's number on Titanic's propeller. That's all.
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  2. In the real world, everyone knows that it is. You should try visiting the real world, as it is an interesting place.
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  3.  @johnsmith-rs2vk  It appears that your attempt to insult another commentator rather lost credibility when you demonstrated your inability to spell the word 'stupid.' Unless 'stuid' means something to you unknown to the world at large?
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  4.  @johnsmith-rs2vk  It did the job, though, didn't it? You have deleted your two word, wrongly spelled, insult, I observe,
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  5. Both ships cost £1.5 million to build, and both were insured for £1 million. White Star received £1 million from Lloyds when Titanic sank.
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  6. Would you like me to send you details of a factchecker site which proves with an idiotic comment that is?
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  7. No, there weren't.
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  8. FUN FACT: Bruce Ismay, or indeed anyone at the time, never said anything of the sort.
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  9. Sorry, but simply not true.
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  10. Not really. The first German boat with a diesel engine, U 19, only commissioned in 1913. Previous boats had unreliable paraffin engines, and were unsuitable for anything other than short range voyages.
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  11. Idiot. Did you enjoy your fact-free switcher video? Much better than the mundane facts, wasn't it?
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  12. Yes. Look at the windows, and especially the forward end of 'B' deck. Symptomatic of the modified Titanic windows, and different from the Olympic's window pattern in 1912.
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  13. Because the stern imploded during the sinking process, whereas the bow, which had filled with water, didn't. A few survivors claimed to have heard 'rumblings' rather than explosions, possibly pieces of machinery breaking loose. However, the vast majority reported the iceberg.
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  14. Watch it, indeed. Then actually check the claims, and be shocked to discover that it is nothing but nonsense and falsehoods.
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  15. Ocean liners continued to be built, generally larger, ending with Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth, etc. With the later widspread availability of air travel, cruise ships, much larger than the Olympics were, and continue to be built instead.
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  16.  @bottomrung5777  'A pic of her leaving Port had a close up of the coal bin area and it was quite dark. Actually, the picture of what appears to be a smudge, is well above the waterline and well forward of the bunker which was affected. Moreover, it is in the vicinity of the third class accommodation. As far as I know, no third class survivors ever reported seeing anyone burned alive. Do try to think. Had there really been an serious fire at all, would the captain, officers, & crew have sailed? They were White Star employees, not members of a crazed suicide cult.
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  17.  @bottomrung5777  Where did I use the phrase 'foregone conclusion' out of interest? I have stated proven facts. If you think I haven't, please show me where. As your first post read 'If the decision was to embark knowing the fire would destroy the hull causing catastrophic failure, then mass murder was committed to benefit from an insurance payout rather than abort the voyage leaving many aristocrats upset and having to do major repairs or even trashing the Titanic before it's first voyage,' you are hardly in any position to suggest that anyone else 'take it easy.'
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  18. Oh dear. Another fan of switcher videos. Olympic had been repaired by late November, 1911, and back on her Atlantic run since then. The claim from insurance following her accident was because she was deemed at fault, although in the charge of Solent Pilot. That was water under the bridge, and Olympic was fully insured when she returned to sea in November, 1911. J.P. Morgan did not 'jump ship.' He never intended to board, as he intended to attend an event at St. Mark's in Venice on 23 April. This intention had already been announced in a newspaper in March, 1912, and the announcement may still be read. The supposed opponents of the Fed. have never been demonstrated to have been anything of the sort. Straus had publicly announce his support, again in newspaper articles which may still be read, whilst Astor & Guggenheim had never spoken about their views. Read Robin Gardiner's book, certainly. Just check every false 'fact' proclaimed within it.
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  19. Indeed. A successful liner scrapped in the mid 1930s, after being known as 'Old Reliable' for years. Deserves an honourable mention, even if not relevant to this item.
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  20.  @Qskeeee-Q  Ever thought of trying to communicate in some form of known language?
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  21. Morgan never intended to sail in Titanic as he had a prior appointment in Venice at St. Mark's. It was actually in the newspapers in March, 1912. The Federal Reserve myth was invented in the 1990s. Did you enjoy the conspiracist video you swallowed whole?
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  22. You refer to a smouldering fire in one of 19 bunkers? Already being addressed by the engineers & stokers, and extinguished some 24 hours before the collision? The fire which damaged nothing except paintwork inside the bunker? That fire?
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  23. You mean where the name Titanic was still faintly visible?
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  24. The damage was below the waterline and is not visible. Nothing funny about it.
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  25. No. H & W records say three. Olympic had four, and H & W were trying an alternative to see which configuration was more efficient. Olympic was later fitted with a three blade prop. for a time, befor switching back to four. Britannic had four from the state, so the evidence must have favoured a four bladed centre prop.
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  26. It was on the Hull of RMS Olympic until she was scrapped in the 1930s.
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  27. Don't be an idiot. Bombed with what, and from what? A black ops Wright Flyer, perhaps?!
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  28. Indeed, Titanic's eminent older sister. She had a long and illustrious career before being scrapped in the 1930s when White Star & Cunard were merged.
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  29.  @stephenbate933  Brilliant! Pay £1.5 million to build a ship, then claim back £1 million when it sinks. Thus, you lose £500,000, as well as your record for safety. Who came up with that one? Baldrick from Blackadder?
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  30. No, he didn't. You have a source for you claim? No, of course you don't.
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  31. Presumably you are very young, very stupid, or very gullible. Perhaps a combination of these three?
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  32. Idiot.
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  33.  @eliel_360  After a while, I begin to feel a degree of sympathy for these people. They watch a switcher video or two, pronounce themselves instant authorities on the subject, but run for the hills when presented with actual facts. It seems to be an issue of faith, not one of knowledge.
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  34. They won't, because there was no explosion and Titanic was not Olympic.
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  35. No, it wasn't sabotage.
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  36. 'Those who know.' You mean those who look at the actual evidence, and not at half-baked switcher videos, and know that Titanic sank in 1912, whereas Olympic was scrapped in the early 1930s? Those people?
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  37. Oh dear. Doubtless another Russian scientist will tragically fall out of the window of a high rise building in the next day or so.
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  38. Astor & Guggenheim never expressed their opinions about the Federal Reserve, whilst Straus was known to be a supporter. You have been fooled by a myth created in the mid 1990s.
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  39. They disappeared long ago.
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  40.  @Twiddlers  Olympic had the original, square, evenly spaced windows of the original design. Titanic had been modified with extra cabins and a cafe, resulting in an uneven pattern of rectangular windows in the same location. The same pattern as can be seen on the wreck.
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  41.  @jasonyap6494  Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. Try to break your programming and think instead. In WW2 2.5 million Indians joined the allied armed forces. Was Churchill really likely to risk driving them into mutiny by acting as your indoctrinators have suggested? I am sorry if trying to reason for once might make your brain throb! I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  42. Don't worry. He will not be asked to give evidence. His defense team will cite mental incapacity.
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  43. Of course not. The images, however interesting, simply record the current condition of a 110 year old shipwreck. Anyone who suggests anything more is simply misleading people.
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  44.  @eyeamgod2734  Seriously, don't be a fool? Titanic is only where she is because she sank in the first place. She is in several pieces, and is 13,000 feet down. Had she sunk last week, modern technology wouldn't be able to raise her. How could Lloyds claim anything back in any case, as the ship did sink, didn't it? You cannot possibly be as stupid as you present yourself as being, surely?
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  45. Instead of googling, why not read a few facts about Titanic, to disabuse yourself of this strange delusion?
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  46. Yes dear, of course we do. Now take your medication and stop annoying normal folk.
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  47. Swallowed the 1990s myth on the switcher videos, have you? How saidly naive.
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  48.  @djp1lly830  What we actually know is that Olympic was returned to Harland & Wolff in Belfast, fully repaired in about seven weeks, then returned to service in late November, 1911, when Titanic was still several months away from completion. By the way, Olympic was not on trials, she had been in service since June, and was setting off for New York. Although White Star lost their claim in court, they were not required to pay for HMS Hawke's repairs either. At the time, they were a very successful & profitable company, as demonstrated by the fact that, at the time Olympic was being repaired, they also ordered the third Olympic, RMS Britannic, from Harland & Wolff. I have never understood why people who claim a switch are blissfully unaware of the fact that this nonsensical claim dates from 1995, or that they cannot be bothered to find out the actual facts for themselves.
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  49. Oh look! An idiot. The name 'Olympia' has never been seen on the Titanic. Her sister was actually called Olympic, by the way. 14 tons of coal? Another demonstration of idiocy. The Olympics burned 600-800 tons of coal per day. 'little cargo & no pasengers.' Apart from 3,500 bags of mail and 750 packages bound for the United States. Also headed to America was a vast array of goods, including five grand pianos, 1,500 bottles of wine, 800 cigars and 50 cases of toothpaste. That is a sample, not a complete list. Not bad for a ship which was not primarily a cargo carrier. Oh, and 1316 passengers. I fear you are either very young or very stupid. Or both, perhaps?
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  50.  @oliverpohlproductions8291  No need to prowl. There are hordes of them!
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