Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Weird History" channel.

No one from H & W or White Star ever made any such remark.
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Whereas other survivors from the engine room staff didn't consider the fire to have been significant, especially since it had been extinguished in the usual manner, by using up the coal from the affected bunker, around 24 hours before the collision. Moreover, this bunker was directly below the first class swimming pool. If the heat was so great, wasn't it odd that the water in it didn't begin to boil, or the metal surrounding it didn't heat up significantly?
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It wasn't an insurance scam, and the supposed last minute cancellations by 'the wealthiest men in the world' is a conspiracy theory myth, as the list of people who did actually cancel makes clear. Nor, as the evidence given to the Inquiry by the lookouts proved, were the 'glasses' purposefully out of reach. The lookout replaced by Fred Fleet had asked Lightoller if there were any glasses available, and was told that there were not.
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Rubbish.
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Not really. There was a fire in a bunker which was dealt with by the day before the collision. The picture showing supposed 'scortch marks' might just as easily be a mark on the negative. Moreover, the mark is well forward of the affected bunker. Do you really think that, had the ship actually been seriously damaged before leaving port, she would have sailed? Just because these people lived over 100 years ago didn't make them stupid.
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@willchaney8931 Not really. I simply derive pleasure from educating people.
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Who would have though J.P. Morgan was so stupid? Spend $7.5 million to build a ship, then sink it in order to claim $5 million on the insurance. At the time he was 75 years old and in declining health, but I don't think that dementia had been diagnosed.
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What 'design flaws?'
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@TwinsBigLikeTia What a confrontational and choleric reply. 1). The internal bulkheads were superior to those of any liner, other than Olympic, in service at the time. No vessel could be expected to survive the level of damage Titanic received. 2). I dealt with the nonsense about the rudder. Perhaps your attention span is inadequate, and had waned by the time I got to it.
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@TwinsBigLikeTia I am sorry that the length of my reply offended you. I didn't realise that you required answers to be restricted to fifty words only. Thanks for mentioning the lifeboats. You might care to read the Board of Trade regulations in force at the time. They are quite long, however, which might cause you further distress. In fact, the Olympics carried more lifeboats than these regulations required. They also each carried four more lifeboats than the Lusitanias, by the way. I have responded to what you perceive to be design flaws where the bulkheads are concerned. Perhaps you didn't read far enough. The bulkheads were there to ensure that the ship would float with four bulkheads flooded. Five bulkheads were penetrated by the iceberg. The damage was totally in excess of anything which could have been predicted. When Olympic had collided with HMS Hawke, she had had two bulkheads penetrated, and the damage she suffered was minimal. Presumably, you understand that people needed to be able to move around within the ship? If the Olympics had been built with a whole network of sealed impenetrable boxes, then certainly they would have been harder to sink, but they would also have been of no use as carriers of large numbers of passengers to and fro across the Atlantic.
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@TwinsBigLikeTia Evidently, you didn't read my long reply in full, or you would have spotted this comment :- 'There are many mistakes in this video, and it is possible that, as I slowly found my wish to live ebbing as I watched it, I may not have mentioned them all above.' First you whinge about the length of the reply. Now, it seems, you complain because it wasn't long enough.
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The mark on the negative is well forward of the affected boiler, and could just as well, unless viewed with the eye of faith, be simply a smudge on an early negative. There was no attermpt to 'race' across the Atlantic. Indeed, all Titanic's boilers were never even connected up. The bunker fire was dealt with in the normal manner, by using up coal from that bunker first, and the fire had been extinguished around 24 hours before the collision.
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Perhaps because it didn't? This is a modern myth.
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What basic safety was overlooked? Titanic was barely half full when she sank.
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@thesella There were actually four more lifeboats on the Olympics than there were on the Lusitanias. Both classes complied with Board of Trade regulations, or they would not have been certified to sail.
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How would he do that, in a ship powered by two reciprocating engines and a low power turbine, when Cunard's Lusitanias, with four turbine driven propellers, were at least three knots faster?
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@plawson8577 You shouldn't confuse the movie with the reality.
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@MsUltrafox Perhaps you would explain how 'Prestige and bragging rights' would enable Titanic to beat the record set by a faster ship built to a more advanced design?
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White flares were used for distress signals, coloured ones as company signals. Titanic carried 36 distress signals.
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Indeed. Do the research. You will then realise that this sort of switcher nonsense borders on the idiotic.
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Perhaps because there were 324 1st class, 284 2nd class, & 709 3rd class, passengers aboard?
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@jpharleyd9325 The Olympics carried four more lifeboats than the Lusitanias did. They also carried more than Board of Trade regulations required.
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@jpharleyd9325 Which doesn't alter the fact that the Olympics were soundly designed and built ships, and met every requirement of BoT regulations.
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@Naldito15 Don't be a fool. Titanic was actually slightly larger than Olympic. The two ships were built by the same company in the same yard at the same time, using the same materials. 'Im not gonna dive into the whole thing. I would have to write a whole essay..' I don't blame you, if you are as ignorant as your post suggests.
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Yet her sister, built in the same yard of the same materials at the same time, was a successful transatlantic liner until 1934. Odd, that.
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