Comments by "BunzeeBear" (@bunzeebear2973) on "The Engineers Who Died To Keep The Titanic's Lights On | Saving The Titanic | Timeline" video.

  1. Doing some research on Titanic lifeboat capacity= of 1178 people when full. Capacity on the maiden voyage was close to 3000 on the ship of passengers. A lifeboat could carry 70 people. One lifeboat had only 5 people in it when it was lowered(because no one believed it could sink, another only 22 in it. The bow of the boat started to dip down which means the lifeboats were not coming down so they could be filled with people. The collapsible lifeboats could not be opened properly because of the angle. The crew was not fully instructed on how to load the boats, so some became unhooked at one end and all the people dumped out. into the propellers (so spinning propeller came to the surface and chewed up the odd lifeboat). (There is about 6 different versions on the Titanic sinking, each with a different story angle. Some old black& white movies so closer to the event. . "Social Standing" in society put you in different parts of the ship. Those with money, fame, fortune got to sail on the uppermost decks AND THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO THE LIFEBOATS FIRST -many did not believe the ship was sinking so refused to don on a lifejacket or get into a Lifeboat. They were so insolated from the ship (or drunk) that they did not feel the collision with the iceberg. So they went back to the party. The band played on. The ship COULD NOT SINK & they believed that. It had 11 decks(floors) There were 5 classes of passenger. First class, first & second class, third class, 4th class and 5th class. While 1,2,3 had access to a window, 4 & 5 were closer to the center of the ship, so no fresh air for the entire journey. None of the classes MIXED. 5th class is poor people who just could afford the boat ride. So, this class distinction was even amongst the crew. The guys shoveling the coal for the boilers never intermingled with the passengers. Only the captain and First Mate could do that. Communicating was through a hollow tube, so Captain could ask for more steam or stop the engines. . The Lifeboats were electrically driven motors. No electricity means no life boats being lowered down.(something I did not know before this version of Titanic. The crew were not practiced, so "abandon ship" is not a practiced procedure. Women and children of first class first. This was at night as well. . Many of the 4th & 5th class were locked into the bowels of the ship by a wire cage. There is no way for them to get out until the lock was unlocked by the Purser. It wasn't. They are still in the ship. These would mainly be Irish as the English treated them as second class people and there was that "coal shortage issue" so they were going to go to the U.S. and start life anew mining for coal in the U.S. Once a miner, always a miner. . the sinking of the Titanic and loss of life is not the worst naval disaster. I believe it is the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military "transport ship" out of Germany with Polish & German refugees was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine cause the loss of 9400 lives near the end of WW2 in the Black Sea. Making it the worst. . The Brits and the U.S. also sunk refugee ships (they are keeping quiet about it as "Top Secret fluck ups") The Poles and Germans that survived because they were on "other boats" know about this. . It is about 6500 lives lost. The people don't know the name of the ships because they were not on them and spoke German or Polish(not English) so they forget...as they are in their 80's.
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