Comments by "TombWraith" (@Tomb-Wraith) on "Oceanliner Designs" channel.

  1. I think you are confusing the Titanic with the Lusitania.
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  2. The Californian actually did contact the Carpathia, to which the Carpathia responded that Titanic was gone and they should continue their business.
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  3. And yet there are dozens of other testimonies that say otherwise. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
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  4.  @nikosatsaves3141  What are you on? The Lusitania was not a sister ship to Titanic. That would have been the Britannic, which was not torpedoed. It struck a mine.
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  5. Its almost like we have historical survivor testimony, and that is what is being used.
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  6. @pedrovillafan  We as in the historic community. Like...do a little bit of research.
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  7. Was never said.
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  8.  @nickidrew5113  No, only in headlines. Her crew did refer to her as "practically unsinkable" but the tired "God himself could not sink this ship" was never said.
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  9. ​ @DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY Physics don't work that way. Not only are icebergs near impossible to scale without correct equipment, that would not have helped the hypothermia issue.
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  10. Ismay survived. Titanic was literally his idea.
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  11. Untrue. Astor and Guggenheim had no opinion of the Federal Reserve and Strauss was openly in favor of it.
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  12. Titanic had more than the required number of lifeboats than needed. That has nothing to do with hubris. More lifeboats would not have saved more lives. Wow, the amount of misinformation here is staggering. Ismay never pressured Smith to alter speed and Titanic never even hit her top speed. It was common at the time to only slow down in thick fog or visual impairments. Binoculars would not have helped. Binoculars are useful for resolving details on things you've already spotted, but they're not useful for actually spotting things in the first place because they narrow your field of vision quite significantly. So binoculars wouldn't have helped the lookouts see the iceberg sooner - if anything they might have hindered things. Stop applying today's knowledge to 1912. While no one is saying there weren't mistakes made, the crew is not to blame for the disaster.
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  13. No it didn't, and no it wasn't. The Olympic's collision with the HMS Hawke did about 125,000 in damages, damages that were repaired before Titanic was even launched. Also, makes no sense when you under insured your ships. They would have been out millions of dollars.
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  14. In Titanic's case, more lifeboats would not have helped. Therey didn't even have time to launch the ones they had.
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  15. I...I don't think I've ever read two more idiotic comments. Its quite clear neither of you have an basic understanding of how physics works. First off, in regards to "rushing to another ship" that is what caused Brittanic to sink FASTER. Which is NOT what you want. The Titanic would have went down in HALF the time she did had she kept moving. Secondly, this has been debunked numerous times. Very few pieces of furniture that went into the sea would have been buyoant enough to keep people out of the water. No, you wouldn't have survived. You still would have frozen to death.
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  16.  @majorwedgie8166  The problem isnt about buyoancy. The problem is the weight of you would still cause your body to be mostly in the water. The problem wasn't drowning. The problem was hypothermia. Its not me "believeing" anything. Mythbusters even tested this.
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  17. Jacob Astor was not opposed to the Federal Reserve. He had no opinion on it one way or the other. Isidor Strauss, another victim on the Titanic, was also radically in favor of the Federal Reserve.
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  18. If it were actually true. But it's not. Neither Astor nor Guggenheim had an opinion about the Federal Reserve, and Strauss was an avid supporter of it. One of these days, you people will have to live in reality...
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  19. That line was never said. It was a fabrication made up from the movie.
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  20.  @Mark16v15  Show me research that shows evidence that line was ever mentioned. Because a simple google search will literally tell you it's not.
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  21. ​ @crowbar_the_skull Kinda falls apart when no one (other than media) claimed Titanic was unsinkable.
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  22.  @crowbar_the_skull  Its not untrue. The line "God himself cannot sink this ship." has no historical truth behind it. The closest thing was her builders calling her "practically unsinkable."
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  23. I would love the article to that, because all of that is nonsense.
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  24. I think they meant the closest ship that responded to the wireless.
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  25. We now know that isn't true. While it is true that the Californian was the closest ship, she was still 12 miles from Titanic. By the time Lord saw the flares (around 1 a.m.), the Californian simply wasn't close enough to help. Lord, on top of not being entirely clear at the time if what he had seen was distress, decided not to put his crew in danger for a fruitless endeavor.
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  26. You would have died long before you made it
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  27. Several things. Lord did not receive word about rockets until 1:00 am. The few rockets that were seen from Titanic were neither the correct color nor fired in the correct intervals to signal distress. No. They could not see each other. In reality, while it was the closest ship, the Californian was nearly 15 miles from Titanic. The lights that were supposedly seen was nothing more than a mirage caused by the conditions.
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  28. The Californian had shut off its wireless. They did not ignore Titanic. They were confused by the flares and would not have been able to help anyway.
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  29.  @pc_buildyb0i935  Thank you for the correction!
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  30. No. No it wasn't.
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  31. No. More lifeboats would not have mattered. Titanic didn't even have time to launch all the lifeboats she did have.
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  32. That line was never said. Sounds like your God is a pretty vile and petty person.
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  33. Kinda hard to put people on lifeboats...when they refuse to get on. Also, floating on something wouldn't have mattered. The main issue was hypothermia, not drowning.
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  34. In real life, this was never said.
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  35. That's not what happened. They didn't deny anyone who wasn't first class. First class was just closest to the boat deck, so they got the first seats. Loading them half full was a combination of a) passengers refusing to get in them and b) the time it took to lower each boat.
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  36. Yet it sits broken 600 feet apart, and physics, not to mention other testimony, disagree. There is absolutely no way a nearly 900 foot long ship would go down whole.
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  37. No idea where you got that information. Titanic was, by all accounts, the safest ship of the time. Not to say there weren't problems, but they were relatively few compared to most ships.
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  38. Icebergs don't work that way.
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  39. This was never said.
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  40. The problem was the series of slits, not one gash or hole.
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  41. @Sepl12345  How about you do yours? Olympic was even out the night Titanic sank. She responded to her distress
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  42.  @Sepl12345  Ridiculous
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  43.  @Sepl12345  Insurance fraud for a ship that was $2 million under insured? Sounds like bad fraud to me.
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  44. Because that would have made the Titanic sink faster.
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  45. No...Titanic was most certainly an accident.
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  46. Riviting was the most common technique of the time and the rudder was not too small. This has been thoroughly debunked. Also, the captain was NOT going full steam (Titanic never even hit her top speed) and more lifeboats would not have mattered.
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  47. "In it for greed" Kinda hard to do when Titanic was under insured, and thus would have cost more money. Do you idiots really believe the nonsense you say?
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  48.  @almightywhitey6955  Show me one source that says that. Oh right. They didn't. That line was supposedly said by an officer, but no one has ever been able to corroborate it. Because it never happened
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  49. That's strange considering the last survivor of the Titanic died in 2009.
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  50. This tradition relates to the idea of a female figure such as a mother or goddess guiding and protecting a ship and crew
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