Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Big Old Boats" channel.

  1. Carpathia was only around five knots faster. She was hardly an ocean greyhound herself. I suspect most of the dead would have preferred the 'poorly ventilated bunks' of Californian to the freezing Atlantic, especially since other ships would be arriving in a matter of hours. You seem to think that Titanic & Californian were the only ships in that particular area at the time.
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  2.  @jeffelmore5614  Many of the sentiments expressed about Mauretania at the end of this video also applied to Old Reliable. I hesitate to use her actual name, as doubtless it will provoke comments from the loons raving on about the celebrated and totally fictitious 'switch!'
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  3. @user-sf5vs1mc1f My reply was to a post suggesting that the mystery ship allegedly near to Titanic was the sealer Samson, not to the sinking of Carpathia.
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  4.  @ablestarofficial8117  Californian was close enough to observe Titanic's rockets, even if Captain Lord chose not to investigate.
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  5.  @willbreckinridge8010  Acquitania, Mauretania's half-sister did. She was scheduled for withdrawal in 1940 when replaced by Queen Elizabeth, but 'events' spared her until 1950.
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  6.  @billyholiday4947  No she wasn't & no she wasn't.
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  7.  @willbreckinridge8010  She was slightly newer than Olympic & Mauretania, and refits had kept her in reasonable condition. She also had somthing of a following, and was known as 'The Ship Beautiful.' The decision was made to keep her going until QE was ready to replace her.
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  8. The sealer, Samson, has been proven by reference to Lloyds' Shipping Register not to have been near Titanic on 14/15 April.
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  9. The records of the Samson actually state that she was nowhere near Titanic at the time. Titanic was 400 miles from Newfoundland when she sank. Exactly how far into the Atlantic do you think seals venture? Oh, and as to your imaginary 'death bed confession :- The Samson's captain, Carl Johann Ring, never passed comment on the story. He died in the North Sea on 22 June 1918, the day after his ship, the Eglantine (built in 1866), was torpedoed by a German submarine, SM U-86. Despite having made it onto a liferaft with two other survivors of the sinking, Ring did not take the opportunity to confirm or deny the story as he lay dying of his injuries. Making things up when they are easy to check is never a good idea.
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  10. Odd, then, that no-one mentioned this possibility until the appearance of social media in the 1990s, isn't it?
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  11. @user-sf5vs1mc1f 'This however has never been proven.' Actually, it has. Proven false, that is.
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  12. @user-sf5vs1mc1f Quite agree. My posts occasionally disappear into the ether as well.
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  13. What has being from Belfast to do with yout idiotic belief in the idea of a switch. The one invented by Robin Gardiner in the 1990s.
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  14. And 'Old Reliable' didn't?
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  15. So, you believe that the ship scrapped in 1935 was dismantled to do away with the evidence for a devious and nonsensical scheme which was first suggested 60 years after the scrapping? What do you think happens to old ships when they are withdrawn from service?
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  16. Using an exclamation mark doesn't make your comment any less daft.
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  17. No it wasn't and no she didn't.
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  18. Isn't it fortunate that Captain Rostron chose not to hide behind such excuses?
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  19.  @marhawkman303  Carpathia made the effort, and didn't sink in the process. Captain Lord presumably either didn't undertand, or chose simply to ignore, the Tradition of the Sea. Good seamanship generally doesn't mean leaving fellow seafarers to die.
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  20. Why would there be? The Samson has been shown to have been nowhere near Titanic by reference to Lloyds' records and those of the port of Isafjordur.
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  21. How was it then that Californian's officers reported a 'large steamer' firing off rockets to Captain Lord. Can you name any other liner of the period with bulkheads extending up to the top deck. That was why they were liners, not Dreadnoughts. The Switch Theory was invented by an author, Robin Gardiner, in the mid 1990s. No one with any actual knowledge of the subject takes it remotely seriously, perhaps because of the mountain of evidence disproving it. Samson was built in 1885 as the 'City of New York.' She was a sailing ship with an auxiliary steam engine, capable of 7 knots, 148 feet long and displacing 506 GRT. Anyone mistaking her for Titanic ( 882 feet long and displacing 46,329 GRT) ought not to have been standing a watch at sea! Additionally, official Lloyd's and Icelandic records claim that the Samson docked in Isafjordur on 6 April and 20 April 1912, making it impossible for her to have encountered the Titanic given her speed. It has also not been explained why the crew of the Samson would be concerned about legal issues 500 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in international waters, or what seals would have been doing so far out to sea.
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  22. There had been a lifeboat drill in Southampton before Titanic sailed. I assume you know that such drills involved the crew only, not passengers?
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  23. Californian's second officer, Stone, took over the watch at midnight. Although Californian was stopped, during the course of his watch, her heading changed by almost 180 degrees from NE to SW. On a moonless, calm night this would make the lights of a stationary ship on the southern horizon apparently move from right to left. Without noting how Californian’s heading was changing, Stone could have just ‘eyeballed’ the other ship and come to the conclusion that it was slowly moving to the southeast - an impression that would be heightened by the lights growing less distinct, as if she was sinking below the horizon. In fact his own ship was swinging beneath him.
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  24. There is no such confession. Samson's captain died in WW1 after his ship was torpedoed. As he expired a day later in a lifeboat, he forgot to make any such confession. Perhaps because Samson was proven to have been nowhere near Titanic years ago?
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  25.  @Halfabajablast2  No. SS Californian... She was not a Royal Mail Steamer.
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  26. Steaming into the sea when you are sinking by the bows is not recommended. I refer you to events surrounding Britannic for further enlightenment.
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  27. What 'abuse of technology'?
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  28. Or, simply post nonsense, as you have done.
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  29.  @merafirewing6591  Don't you mean 'if Samson had been near Titanic when she sank, could she have docked in Isafjordur on 20 April?' Titanic's resting place is around 2782 kms. from Isafjordur. Or around 1500 nautical miles. Samson was an old ship, built as the 'City of New York' in 1885. She had a single screw engine, capable of seven knots. So work it out for yourself.
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  30. 'Opposition billionaire businessmen murdered?' Who were they? Don't say Astor, Guggenheim, or Straus, by the way, as it has been proven over and over again that the first two never voiced their opinions, and the third supported the Fed. 'Insurance Fraud?' When White Star lost £500,000 a major asset, and their safety record? Some fraud that was. 'Whitewashed hearings?' You obviously haven't read the minutes of either. 'Government blame?' How was any government to blame? Stokers didn't refuse to board. The passage crew of Belfast men simply returned to Belfast after arriving at Southampton, where they were replaced by the deep-sea crew , mainly recruited from the Southampton area. Just as had happened with Olympic, in 1911, by the way. 'Catholics turning down work?' Whereever did you get that nonsense from? Which 'books' do you mean? The two ships had a number of obvious differences. In short. Don't be a fool.
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  31. Olympic had been fully repaired, and had returned to sea, from 20 November, 1911. When Titanic was still some five months from completion. She had made five further transatlantic round trips, and was in New York, halfway through her sixth, when Titanic left Southampton. There were no opponents of the Fed. aboard. The 1990s conspiracy myths about Astor, Guggenheim, and Straus have long since been proven false. What was 'whitewashed' about the Inquiries? How was any government involved? Perhaps you should read the actual minutes, instead of pontificating from Conspiracy Theorist ignorance? No 'coalmen' refused to re-board at Southampton.The delivery crew of Belfast men simply returned to Belfast, to be replaced by a deep sea crew of men from the Southampton area. Exactly as had happened with Olympic in 1911. What leads you to claim that Catholics turned down work on Titanic? What sort of insurance fraud is one which loses the perpetrators a major asset, their safety record, and £500,000 or one third of Titanic's building costs? Which books?
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  32. 'You don't do that during a voyage Capt you do that during sea trials; that's what sea trials are for.' No. That is exactly what you do.
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  33. Only if you believe a myth from the 1990s.
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  34.  @of1300  Some Titanic survivors reported seeing a ship in the distance. Just as officers in Californian reported seeing a large steamer firing rockets. As Mount Temple was around 60 miles away, the ship could not have been Mount Temple.
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  35. Only if you believe Senan Molony's imagination, of course. Still, it helped sell a book or two.
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  36.  @samiirai  Where the 'Federal Reserve' nonsense is concerned, we already know the opinions of Astor, Guggenheim, & Straus. Newspapers, archives, documents, minutes of meetings etc., all existed. The world did not begin with the invention of social media.
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  37.  @brendanward2991  Samson is not so much a theory as a fantasy.
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  38. Titanic. Deyond any doubt.
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  39. There was no argument. Harland & Wolff fitted the number of lifeboats required by Board of Trade Regulations. In fact, two more than the requirement.
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  40. When you grow up and learn to read, you will realise that you are wrong.
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  41. Nonsense. Lloyds' records, and the records of the harbour at Isafjordur, have long proven this to be a false claim.
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  42. With the greatest of respect, Eva Hart was seven years old at the time. Many of her memories were doubtless coloured by what she later read.
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  43.  @mariamatheson5300  In point of fact, nothing wrong. The original comment is perplexing.
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  44. Yes, they were. Titanic carried state-of-the-art Socket Signals, which were white with explosive heads.
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  45. Ah well. Another day, another ignorant fool.
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  46. 'Obviously?' Only if you believe a myth invented in the 1990s. As, it seems, you do.
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  47.  @evanlundgren3039  Oh well. Ignorance is a sad thing. You have my sympathy.
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  48. Daftest comment so far today, but it is still early.
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  49.  @Embracing01  You keep turning up with increasingly bizarre claims. Exactly what is motivating you to keep this nonsense up?
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  50. There was no 'raging fire.' You should read the stoker survivors reports in the minutes of the Inquiry. There was a smouldering fire in one bunker, well under control and dealt with some 24 hours before the collision. According to stoker reports, the only damage was to paintwork in the affected bunker. Seriously, had there been the kind of fire about which you fantasise, would Smith really have sailed? Those old mariners were not fools. Although it seems that, given your comment, people in 2024 might be.
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