Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1. No one said 'shut up.' Phillips was using Morse shorthand, and probably actually sent 'DDD' which had a number of meanings, including 'clear the frequency.' Evidence subsequently given by Californian's operator, that he did not regard Phillips' signal signal as insulting, is confirmation of this.
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  2. If that has been said, it was said by someone ignorant of the facts. Olympic had been in one collision, when her starboard quarter was pierced by the bow of HMS Hawke. Olympic returned to Southampton for temporary repairs, before being sent to Belfast for complete ones. At the time, Smith was indeed captain of Olympic, but he was not 'in charge.' Olympic was in the Solent, and under the command of a Solent Pilot, as the subsequent court case made clear.
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  3. You sure of that? Smith had one daughter. She had twin sons, one of who died of polio and the other in WW2. Neither son had any children.
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  4. How is sinking an armed naval auxiliary in time of war, especially one carrying troops and U-boat crews as well as refugees, a 'war crime?' The criminals were those who allowed refugees aboard a warship in the first place.
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  5. J. P. Morgan did not give any free tickets to anyone. Where do you get this nonsense from, unless you simply made it up?
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  6.  @thegreatdanetrain342  There was a small fire in a bunker, which was extinguished a day or so before the collision. The softened steel of the hull is a myth.
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  7. No. The lesson from 1945 is that a Soviet submarine sank an armed auxiliary warship, carrying troops and U-boat crews as well as refugees, in a time of war.
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  8. A lot of tragedies occurred prior to the two world wars.
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  9. 'Half the facts in this are wrong Olympic was not sailing at the time it was in port.' Incorrect. Olympic was around 500 miles away from Titanic, on her way to Southampton from New York. She even received Titanic's distress signals. This is simply to check. A shame that you didn't bother.
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  10. Largely because they weren't. The idea is simply a myth of recent origin, invented by people who think that they are making a political point.
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  11. Nonsense. The problem with believing conspiracy videos is that, when you repeat what they claim, it makes you look such a fool.
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  12. Why should someone who sank an enemy auxiliary warship in wartime have been punished?
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  13. There weren't 'only civilians' on board.
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  14. Rather difficult whren you are in the Baltic.
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  15. Odd that Olympic, presumably also, in your opinion, a victim of 'shoddy worksmanship' was a successful ocean liner until 1934, don't you think?
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  16. This is nonsense. The supposed recently discovered photographs were nothing of the sort. A journalist found a mark on a single photograph, and drew a whole series of questionable conclusions from it. It did, of course, help to sell a book. The same journalist never actually explained why a similar mark was not visible on any other photographs of course. Nor did he consider that it might, had it really existed, have been the result of a close encounter with a harbour fender, or if it didn't, might have been a smudge on the negative. The mark does not show any deformation in the hull, and it is well forward of the coal bunker. Indeed, there was a fire in one of Titanic's bunkers, but this had been extinguished around 24 hours before the collision. The affected bunker was positioned directly below the ship's swimming pool, yet there were no reports of the pool beginning to boil, or the metal distorting. Just ask yourself this. Does it make any sense whatsoever that, after the (imaginary) fire had been reported to Captain Smith, he would have said 'Never mind, we'll sail anyway. It is only the North Atlantic in April. What could possibly go wrong?'
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  17. The actual signal Philips send was morse shorthand. DDD, which simply meant 'clear the frequency.'
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  18. Who do you think said Titanic was unsinkable?
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  19. Don't be a fool.
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  20. Smith never made any such comment. I assume you have a credible source? If so, what is it?
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  21.  @newellcornesio428  All I asked was that you provide a credible source. It seems that you cannot. I think that that says it all. Apart, of course, from your total lack of knowledge of Smith's life & career, of course.
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  22.  @freegamer4549  Originally it had been, but she had been assigned to the Kriegsmarine since November, 1940, and based at Gdynia as a U-boat support ship. In 1945, she was fitted with an armament of anti-aircraft guns, and put into service as an armed auxiliary warship.
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  23.  @freegamer4549  Then the blame lies squarely with the German authorities who loaded civilians onto a warship in a war zone, not with a submarine commander who did his duty.
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  24. J. J. Astor IV didn't.
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  25. Canada was a self-governing Dominion, not a colony.
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  26. Then, as now, people needed villains. A wealthy British businessman (Ismay) and the British captain of a nearby ship (Californian) were ideal for the American politicians running the US Inquiry.
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  27. Olympic was a successful liner until withdrawal in 1934. The scrapping of 'Old Reliable' saddened many.
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  28.  @maximilianodelrio  The bomb was made by scientists from a number of countries, Canada and Britain being the most prominent.
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  29. It was not an innocent ship. Gustloff was an armed auxiliary, carrying troops and U-boat crews as well as civilians.
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  30.  @nathanholton5335  Actually, 52 third class children (i.e., under 14 years of age) died. There were 109 children in total aboard the ship. There are detailed records for passengers and crew, and for survivors and those lost. The claim that more 3rd class children than first class men died is not borne out by the records.
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  31.  @nathanholton5335  When did I make any reference to a video? I simply referred you to actual, verifiable, facts. Oh, and my knowledge of the events surrounding the sinking of Titanic is based on far more than the internet. I actually read books, and have access to many archives from the period. If you wish to maintain you claim, kindly provide a credible source.
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  32. You mean King, the Anglophobe who allowed over 600 merchant ships to be sunk during Operation Rheinubung, rather than set up convoys, because they were a British idea. Admirals such as Nimitz, Spruance & Halsey, were happy to have the BPF with them.
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  33. The ship was an armed naval auxiliary. Some of those on board were troops, whilst others were U-boat crews.
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  34.  @Xpwnxage  Gustloff was carrying troops and U-boat crews. The civilians were crammed on board by the German authorities at the last moment. I assume that these authorities knew exactly what the Germans had done in the East, and anticipated retribution.
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  35. Gustloff was an armed auxiliary warship carrying troops and U-boat crews. If it was a war crime, the crime was committed by those (German) authorities who loaded civilians onto a warship in a war zone.
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  36. No one told Californian to shut up. At least, not according to Californian's marconi operator, that is.
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  37. You think that ships, as a matter of routine, set out to cross the North Atlantic with damaged hulls? You have been misled.
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  38. Odd that the same 'enlightened' opinion is never applied to people like Winston Churchill, isn't it?
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  39. He attacked an armed enemy auxiliary warship in time of war.
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  40. Indeed. Apparently he was a great painter. He could do an entire apartment in a week-end. Two coats!
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  41. No, it doesn't. A combination of factors were involved.
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  42. No.
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  43. @Paul Allen Nonsense. Whrn do you think Smith ever made so asinine a comment? Please provide a credible source.
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  44. @Paul Allen If you are unable to give a proper answer, why bother replying?
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  45. @Paul Allen Your source is NBC news? MON DIEU!! Well, here on earth I can absolutely guarantee that Smith never said anything quite so cretinous. NBC is not, by the way, a source. Where did NBC get this nonsense from?
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  46. Seafires were used aboard Implacable & Indefatigable. They were used to carry out CAPs over the fleet because of their short range, but were very successful in this role.
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  47.  @thepotato1178  Because they operated from aircraft carriers. A Seafire was simply a navalised Spitfire, with a strengthened rear fuselage to accommodate an arrestor hook.
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  48. They weren't actually slower, but the armoured flight deck meant that they carried less aircraft. An Essex carried 90-100, a Formidable around 60.
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  49. Who would you bribe? The ship was sinking.
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  50. Titanic's indeed White Star's bread & butter was the carriage of Third Class passengers across the Atlantic. Passenger capacity was : First class: 735 Second class: 674 Third class: 1026
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