Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "The Drydock - Episode 031" video.

  1. Another illustration of what emergency power meant was the the 3.5 hour dash of the RMS Carpathia to reach the sinking RMS Titanic. Captain Roston ordered all possible steam diverted to the engines, including most of the steam for heating the ship, collecting passengers to several of the public rooms that remained heated. Carpathia made 15.4 knots on trials in light condition but had never exceeded 14 knots at full load. According to the chief engineer, Carpathia actually ran at 17.2 to 17.5 knots for the final two hours of the dash. The engines were more or less wrecked, with the ship only able to make nine knots to New York City. After emergency repairs in NYC, she was able to limp back to Liverpool for a complete engine rebuild. Sailors who served on her after the epic race to save lives said the ship had developed a persistent starboard side vibration and the engines never quite ran right again. Unfortunately, she was sunk by the U-55 only six years later. However, 218 of the 223 aboard made it into the lifeboats and survived, partly due the additional lifeboats required in the wake of the Titanic tragedy.
    126
  2.  CommandoDude  A couple passengers were interviewed when Carpathia got to port and commented that coffee cups and saucers wouldn't stay on tables due to the vibration. Still, they were all kind of excited to be part of rescuing the passengers of the Titanic, so there really weren't much in the way of complaints. No one told them they were racing through the same ice field that sunk the Titanic or they probably would have been really scared about that. Captain Roston had every man he could spare to stand as lookouts, and Carpathia managed to avoid all the bergs during the 58 mile run.
    12
  3.  @BrassLock  Thanks. I like all naval history, but I have made a particular study of the Titanic and all the events surrounding her.
    7
  4. Well, there goes another 49 minutes of sleep shot. :-)
    5
  5. 0200 CST squad here, and like two minutes before I was about to shut things down and hit the rack.
    2