Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "LiveNOW from FOX" channel.

  1. Concensus among whom? Have you thought of asking a few naval architects?
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  2.  @thegoodguy44  Presumably you agree with comments from people who agree with you. Very impressive. In actual facts, 'Would haves' count for nothing, but I know of no professional who would go on record supporting such a claim It is academic in any case, an d an obvious example of someone trying to be wise after the event. I suspect I have studied the events surrounding Titanic in rather more depth than you have, if you will pardon the pun.
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  3. I assume you are able to present your proof? What's that? You haven't any? How sad.
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  4.  @davidvanhansen  Sorry, but you are wrong. From September 1939 to November 1940, Wilhelm Gustloff did serve as a hospital ship, officially designated Lazarettschiff D. However, from 20 November 1940, medical equipment was removed from the ship and she was repainted from the hospital ship colours of white with a green stripe to standard naval grey. As a consequence of the Allied blockade of the German coastline, she was used as a barracks ship for approximately 1,000 U-boat trainees of the 2nd Submarine Training Division (2. Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision) in the port of Gdynia, which had been occupied by Germany and renamed Gotenhafen, located near Danzig (Gdańsk). She carried 11 anti-aircraft guns, by the way, which single fact rendered any claim to hospital ship status invalid. Late in the war, she was allocated to Operation Hannibal. As Wilhelm Gustloff had been fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and the Germans did not mark her as a hospital ship, no notification of her operating in a hospital capacity had been given and, as she was transporting military personnel, she did not have any protection as a hospital ship under international law. As Gunter Grass was later to write "One of the many reasons I wrote Crabwalk was to take the subject away from the extreme Right... They said the tragedy of Wilhelm Gustloff was a war crime. It wasn't. It was terrible, but it was a result of war, a terrible result of war."'
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  5. To me, the most astonishing thing of all is that the American Democrat Party would ever allow this drunken ramble to see the light of day. Have their leaders no common sense at all?
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  6. The ship didn't have 'plates' but her name, TITANIC, engraved in the metalwork.
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  7. Very good. Now, where did the U-boat come from, and how did it get to Newfoundland?
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  8. Good heavens! As an observer from across the Atlantic, I simply cannot believe that you think that was really genuine.
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  9. Actually, most survivors saw the iceberg. What makes you think that they didn't? The ship was designed to float with four watertight compartments compromised. Unfortunately, at least five, and possibly even six, were damaged.
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  10. Perhaps because Gustloff was an armed auxiliary warship, carrying troops & U-boat crews as well as refugees crammed aboard at the last minute. In fact, a warship sunk in time of war.
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  11.  @davidvanhansen  Good idea. You clearly find the facts of the Gustloff sinking unpalatable, however accurate my statement of them might have been. Had you not falsely sought to portray her as a mere passenger ship, then equally falsely tried to claim that she was a hospital ship, I would probably not have bothered to bring your errors to light in the first place. Wasn't Gunter Grass German, by the way?
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  12. Which is why that is actually a lie, dating from the mid 1990s, of course.
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  13. Abandoned a while ago. May well have been something of a con in any case.
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  14. Glasses would only have served to delay the alarm being given, as they were used to identify objects which had already been spotted.
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  15.  @russcooke5671  Indeed, they did. Short range ones with unreliable paraffin engines. The first diesel engined U-Boat, U19, was commissioned over a year later. You could have looked this up for yourself. It is hardly difficult.
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  16.  @Mike-we3rb  My old tutor (First in Modern History, by the way), had a number of pertinent maxims with which he used to regale us. One was 'Those who urge others to 'do their research' are invariably the ones who have done little or none themselves.' Thank you for proving his point so well.
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  17. Whereever did you get that drivel from?
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