Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "How Did the 'Unsinkable' Titanic End Up at the Bottom of the Ocean? | National Geographic" video.

  1. OOOH! A switcher! How amusing.
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  2. You obviously aren't aware that both of the Olympic class liners were at sea, on Atlantic crossings, when Titanic sank. I will therefore leave you to the comforting warmth of your own ignorance.
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  3. The 'unsinkable' tag appears to have originated in a small Engineering magazine from the time. It is not a comment a shipowner, shipbuilder, or still less a mariner, would make.
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  4. Which, of course, is why no one in authority actually did.
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  5. Morgan didn't invite anyone aboard Titanic, the financiers who died had never expressed opposition to the Fed., (indeed, one had previously spoken in support), and Morgan never planned to be aboard, as he already had a previous engagement in Venice. Congratulations! Three wrong 'facts' in one sentence.
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  6.  @joedirt6073  This may shock, you but there are such things as archives and records. There is, for example newspaper reports of Straus' speech in support of the Federal Reserve from October, 1911, just as there is of Morgan's intention to be in Venice, from a report in a March, 1912 newspaper. Would you demand that all history since about 1950 be abandoned on grounds of non-attendance?
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  7.  @joedirt6073  Perhaps you feel a sense of inferiority at communicating with someone who knows more actual answers about Titanic than you can think of questions? Or perhaps you are regretting posting facile comments after viewing a conspiracist video or two without checking the allegations contained therein for accuracy?
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  8. No, he didn't. Wherever do you people get this idea from?
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  9. No. Talk about nonsense. The Olympics were designed to carry additional lifeboats in the vent of Board of Trade Regulations being changed, but they actually carried more than the current regulations required.
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  10. Portugal transported far more slaves to the New World than the English/British ever did. Live them, they purchased the slave from their African overlords or Arab slave traders, in exchange for European trade goods, How is it, then, that slavery didn't really help to establish Portugal? Your entire analogy is a false one. The Industrial Revolution established Britain. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, the slave trade had already been largely eradicated. By the British Parliament & the British Royal Navy, in point of fact.
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  11. No. They didn't.
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  12.  @JackieOlantern  Good of you to mention Old Reliable. A magnificent liner with an illustrious 23 year career, in peace & war.
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  13. Andrews never said anything remotely like that.
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  14. It was dar from the biggest disaster in history, although it was bad enough.
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  15. Which is why no-one did.
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  16. Titanic builders- this ship is unsinkable. Why do you people insist on clinging to the belief that H & W officials said such a thing, when they didn't?
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  17. You mean the people on the ship who have been labelled as opponents of the Federal Reserve? Despite the fact that two of them never expressed their opinions, whilst the third can be shown to have been a supporter? Those people?
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  18. No one in authority even said Titanic was unsinkable. The claim that someone did only started, ironically, after she sank.
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  19. No. No-one from Harland & Wolff ever said such a thing. Shipbuilders like H & W were well aware that a ship displacing over 50,000 tons was quite capable of sinking.
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  20. No, it doesn't. The belief at the time was that the davits could not cope with the weight of an unsupported fully laden lifeboat. The procedure was that the boat would be launched and then, when supported by the sea, would return to fill up.
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