So I only learned recently that the RMS Carpathia was sunk by a German torpedo during WW1. Even more eerie is that she sank the exact same day that the Romanovs were murdered, July 17th, 1918. They’ve found her wreck off of the cost of Ireland, but no one has done a deep dive to investigate her since she was found in 2000. She’s only 500 feet under, so she’s easy to access…someone needs to start that mission!

The RMS Carpathia unloads the salvage from the Titanic  

RMS Carpathia changed into a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship constructed through Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of their shipyard in Wallsend, England. The Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston and persisted in this path earlier than being transferred to the Mediterranean carrier in 1904. In April 1912, she have become well-known for rescuing survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after the latter struck an iceberg and sank with the lack of among 1,490 and 1,635 human beings withinside the North Atlantic Ocean.

Around 12:20 AM on April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic despatched out a fateful misery call.

The deliver had simply made touch with an iceberg all through its maiden voyage. The catastrophe had already begun when the close by RMS Carpathia obtained the messageclose by RMS Carpathia acquired the message, the catastrophe had already begun. However, the Carpathia nevertheless arrived in time to store over seven hundred passengers and group participants from the Titanic carpathia wreck.

The Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Carpathia spent over eighty years at the lowest of the ocean after an come upon with German submarines in World War I. Only inside the final twenty years has the Carpathia again to the world. Now, a choice of salvaged artifacts from the RMS Carpathia’s watery grave will come to public sale with Ahlers & Ogletree on January 15th, 2021.

The RMS Carpathia break become quickly received via way of means of Premier Exhibitions Inc., an American corporation that still manages relics from the Titanic. A 2007 excursion retrieved artifacts from the Carpathia. The upcoming Ahlers & Ogletree RMS Carpathia ship public sale gives ninety four objects from that trip, together with numerous tableware objects and portions of the ship. Leading the catalog is a exceptional soup plate from the rms Carpathia (estimate: USD 700 – $900). This signature blue-and-white ‘Ormond’ sample is specific to Cunard ships. It indicates vegetation and leaves wrapping round the threshold of every dish with the corporation emblem withinside the center. The ambitious sample set those dishes other than the third-elegance dinnerware, which lacked all ornament and color. Several other ‘Ormond’ portions might be to be had withinside the public sale, together with cups and saucers.

The sale can even consist of portions of the Carpathia spoil itself. One of the salvaged portholes (estimate: $700 – $900) nonetheless consists of the unique glass in a brass and bronze frame. Collectors can even discover a pair of binoculars with glass lenses, numerous linoleum tiles probable from the third-magnificence eating room, and a coat hook. Those seeking out greater uncommon Carpathia artifacts will discover unmarried portions of coal recovered from the engines. Bidding begins offevolved at $25 apiece. Other Carpathia objects have come to public sale withinside the years when you consider that its discovery, on the whole memorabilia stored earlier than its sinking. The highest-profile portions are the ones referring to the Titanic wreck, together with a navigational sextant used at some point of the rescue. The pinnacle lot of the sale became a salvaged porthole with partial timber from the Carpathia. It offered for $13,000 after attracting 28 bids. Close in the back of became a salvaged engine telegraph from the ship, which achieved $12,000 in opposition to a presale estimate of $500 to $700. The RMS Carpathia public sale became out extra sturdy expenses for a salvaged engine order telegraph ($12,000), a salvaged deck mild with globe ($12,000), a salvaged marine chronometer ($9,500), and an iron drain grill from the ship ($4,250). One of the maximum hotly expected lots, a salvaged exceptional soup plate, delivered in a modest $2,500. After the bidding concluded, the public sale obtained complaint from the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA), an worldwide advisory frame on troubles of underwater archaeology. The organization issued a letter after the sale to explicit competition and problem over the non-public sale of excavated objects.

I lied, I am making one more post about the OceanGate discourse because I am tired of the dehumanization and jokes.

I decided to look into two of the people on board that sub because I knew nothing about them and everyone keeps saying its just a bunch of rich tourists who deserved to die.

Today we are going to talk about Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet. -------

Hamish Harding: What did he do during his life? Is he just some rich asshole? -In 2017, Harding worked with Antarctic VIP tourism company, White Desert, to introduce the first regular business jet service to the Antarctic using a Gulfstream G550, landing on Wolfs Fang Runway, an ice runway. Harding also visited the South Pole several times, accompanying Buzz Aldrin in 2016 as he became the oldest person to reach the South Pole (age 86) -In 2019, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Harding, along with Terry Virts, led a team of aviators that took the Guinness World Record for a circumnavigation of the Earth via North and South Poles in a Gulfstream G650ER in 46 hours 40 minutes. The One More Orbit mission launched and landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility (Space Florida) at NASA Kennedy Space Center, US. Harding was the mission director and led a team of over 100. -In 2021, Harding and Victor Vescovo dived to the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep at a depth of 36,000 feet (11,000 m), in a two-person submarine, setting the records for greatest length covered and greatest time spent at full ocean depth. -In 2022, Harding's aviation company Action Aviation supplied a customized Boeing 747-400 aircraft to transport eight wild cheetahs from Namibia to India to launch the reintroduction of the cheetah to India project of the Indian Government and the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia (CCF). Cheetahs have been extinct in India since independence in 1947. This conservation project was designated a "flagged expedition" by the Explorers Club with club members Harding and Laurie Marker, founder of the CCF, carrying the flag on the flight to India.

------- Paul-Henri Nargeolet: What did he do during his life? Is he just some rich asshole?

-In the 1970s, he was appointed Commander of the Groupement de Plongeurs Démineurs de Cherbourg, whose mission was to find and neutralise underground mines. -In the 1980s, he was transferred to the Underwater Intervention Group (GISMER), where he piloted intervention submarines.  During this time, he travelled the world retrieving submerged French planes and helicopters, including the individuals and weapons upon them.  Through this work, he found an Roman wreck, located at a depth of 70 metres. He also located a DHC-5 Buffalo that crashed in 1979 with 12 people on board, including several members of the Mauritanian government. -Nargeolet piloted dives to the Titanic wreck site in 1987, 1993, 1994 and 1996.  His 1987 expedition was the first to collect artifacts from the wreckage. -In August 2007 RMS Titanic, Inc., owned by Premier Exhibitions, a company that organises travelling exhibitions, commissioned Nargeolet to locate RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of RMS Titanic but was torpedoed in 1918. -Nargeolet worked with RMS Titanic, Inc. to recover artifacts related to the Titanic as the Director of the Underwater Research Program. His work has included utilizing remotely operated vehicles (ROV), as well as piloting dives to the wreck site. His work has resulted in recovering nearly 6,000 artifacts over the course of 35 dives. In 2010, he was part of a mission to 3D map the wreck site and determine levels of deterioration using ROVs and autonomous underwater robots. -In 2010, he participated in the search for the flight recorder of Air France Flight 447, which crashed the previous year while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris

------- TLDR: They may be a couple of rich dudes, but they were more than that. They were actually qualified to be in such a vehicle with actual experience diving in real submarines and had reason to be there. They were not just some tourists. They did a lot more than any of you are ever going to do, but sure, lets dehumanize them and see them as just a bunch lazy rich people who deserve to die simply because they are rich.

My little career school has all the students do a Pechakucha presentation, and I did mine on the RMS Carpathia (huge thank you to @eelhound for finding the post I needed!)

I had the opportunity to have some face-to-face time with the CEO of my career program, and he wanted to know what my presentation was about. After filling him in briefly on my personal history (mental health struggles, adopted kid struggles, financial struggles) I described to him the story of the captain of the Carpathia - how this man defied the laws of science to save people from the wreck of the Titanic when no other nearby ships would find any survivors. How this man roused so many people to action, to selflessness, to fight for those struggling to stay alive, pushing a ship 14 knots past its top speed knowing that lives were on the line. 700-some people lived, because this man took action.

And the CEO asked me about my career plans, and asked me to consider the story of the Carpathia very carefully, telling me, "I think you could be the captain of the Carpathia."

And, I don't know, it's hitting me for real tonight. I want the beautiful future that I have worked so, so goddamn hard to build for myself, to be of service to others who are struggling. I want to make the world better, even if it's just one life at a time. I want to be a beacon of hope over frigid, icy seas. I know the pain of the storm at sea, I know the fear of insurmountable waves, I know the dead emptiness of endless dark, and I want to ease that for people. I want to be a life preserver, a lighthouse shining through the clouds. I have put on my own oxygen mask and I'm ready to assist the people around me.

I dont think anyone else has noticed this tho im sure you have (namely the people acting like clowns in the titanic tag, not you) but the 19yr old did not want to go on that sub, he was terrified and only did it to make his dad happy..idk.. it is very tragic and upsetting and even more so that people seem to ignore this and keep going on their weird jokes about the entire thing, saying how they all wanted to go when no, the 19yr old did not want to at all. I think going down was totally uncalled for, I think stock rush got four people killed and he is terrible for that and deserved what happened to him, i think it is sick he turned a mass grave site into a tourist attraction for bored rich people..but I think people just heard the word rich for these other four and just right away assumed they deserved to die when idk...I did some reading on each of them and they, aside from the obvious ick of being rich, seemed like decent people who made a very very poor choice and trusted the wrong person which led to them dying. the paul guy was (correct me if im wrong) a well respected titanic researcher for over 30yrs, the british man was trying to make flying more sustainable for the planet and such (again correct me if wrong) and the dad and son seemed to do a lot of charity work and were overall kind people..but yeah they seemed like far better people then most celebs people love so the entire thing rubs me wrongly, two things can coexist, the entire thing was wrong and not ok and stock was sick for what he did and his death was justified, but I also have a hard time believing the other four truly deserved to die (Sorry this is random just wanted to hear your thoughts!) :)

ive written the reply to this about five times now because i also struggle with my feelings based around what happened.

on one hand, i do genuinely feel for them, especially suleman dawood who was a 19-year-old kid. i think youd have to lack a heart to not feel for him.

on the other, i fully understand where people are coming from when they dont give a shit about them. two of them were billionaires and the other two were multi-millionaires. i come from a working class background and a single-parent family so it is difficult to feel bad for someone with that much money dying because of a decision they made.

but that doesnt mean i dont feel bad for them, because i do. five human beings died and i just naturally feel for them even though my conscious brain struggles to keep up with that emotion.

and as youve said, some of them seemed to genuinely do good things.

sulemans father shahzada funded mental healthcare for pakistani citizens during covid-19 and was looking into renewable energy.

paul-henri nargeolet had been involved in underwater searches for rms carpathia as well as a flight recorded from a plane that crashed though both were unsuccessful. hed also found a roman wreck as well as an aircraft that had crashed in 1979, giving some closure to the families of those who had perished. he has done a lot of important research on the titanic.

iirc hamish hardings company action aviation has helped the indian government and a namibian cheetah conservation company to reintroduce cheetahs to india, which is objectively a very good thing.

its difficult to parse through how you feel about the disaster because people are messy, and they do both good and bad things.

i dont think i know enough about any of the four adults aboard to say whether the good theyve done outweighed the bad, and whether other people even care about that when it comes to their feelings about this.

the one i know for sure that i dont feel bad for is stockton rush because this was entirely his fault.

im not gonna get into the weeds as to why exactly titan was badly designed, but to save money and for "simplicity", he employed some experimental techniques like the use of carbon fibre and the pressure pod (i hope i have the right word here) being cylindrical. he ignored regulations and laws, he used expire carbon fibre, and he turned a mass gravesite into a tourist spot.

and i hate him even more for how he designed oceangate. the way they work is that each dive would technically be research-based, but to fund it (even though rush is a multi-millionaire), they would allow people to buy tickets to come along. and i hate this more than if it was just tourism because the way hes tied them together has made it harder to criticise the dives because they have done important research.

i definitely he misled people because if you dont know about this sort of vessel, youre likely to defer to someone who helped to develop it.

however, i would err on the side of both harding and nargeolet knowing how unsafe it was. nargeolet had done countless dives just like it and he was in this world where people were saying this isnt safe. we also know that harding knew because his friend victor vescovo, who found the deepest shipwreck in the world (the samuel b roberts), told him that it was unsafe, but harding went anyway.

ive kinda just been rambling in my reply because i do feel torn about it. people died and i struggle not to feel for them, even if my logical brain is arguing with that. i think many people struggle to believe anyone deserves to die because were humans and we are meant to care about each other. its how we survived as a species for so long. but there are people in this world where if they died, the world would objectively be a better place.

at the end of the day, im not the authority on how anyone feels about this and i dont begrudge anyone for their feelings. the world is not black and white, and so much exists in the morally grey area.

youre entitled to feel however you do, anon. dont let others make you feel bad about it.

17 please!

17. Describe a fic that is still in the ‘ideas’ stage.

Oh you just want me to talk about my Titanic AU!

I HAVE started writing this, but the outline is currently longer than the fic. So this started with my being sad the other day, and my roommate sent me a photo of Freddy Carter to cheer me up, which reminded us of the boys we used to lust over when we were wee young things, and she said it reminded her of Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic, and that set off a now week-long obsession.

I LOVED the movie when it came out, saw it several times (ruined it for some people), MY HEART WILL GO OOOOONNNNNNN. I loved RMS Titanic since I was young, when the discovery of the wreck made the news and there were documentaries and publications about it, my dad got them all. It was very relevant to my interests, throw in a young Leo, and Kate Winslet (probably one of my first girl crushes, though I didn't know it at the time) and the schmoopiest romance ever, I was thoroughly sold.

And now, obviously, I have to write the Kanej version. Some obvious deviations - Jordie lives (for now), Kaz is not quite the hardened criminal we know and love, Inej has not been trafficked in the way we think of trafficking. I have an excuse to write about period clothing, something I didn't know a lick about in 1997. Otherwise I plan to follow the story of the movie relatively closely.

(spoilers, there's room on that door for two! Kaz's leg is broken in the sinking and somehow he manages to survive all that. Our idiots never formalize their marriage, but they're registered as such and they live long mostly happy lives until 1971!)

There's a post on here about the Carpathia, you know I have to throw my girl some love. She did not sustain a ridiculous speed for four hours just to be forgotten to history!

Ask me things!

The Mysteries of the Carpathia Wreck: A Titanic Hero's Final Resting Place.

Introduction:

The Carpathia Wreck , forever etched in maritime history as the valiant vessel that raced to the aid of the sinking Titanic in 1912, met its own tragic fate years later. The Carpathia, once a symbol of heroism and rescue, now rests at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, its wreck a silent witness to the passage of time and the perils of the sea.

The Titanic Rescue:

In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the Carpathia, under the command of Captain Arthur Rostron, received distress signals from the ill-fated RMS Titanic. Without hesitation, the Carpathia altered its course and steamed full speed ahead towards the disaster site. Carpathia's crew worked tirelessly to rescue over 700 survivors from lifeboats adrift in the icy waters.

The Wreck:

Decades after its heroic rescue mission, the Carpathia met its own tragic end during World War I. On July 17, 1918, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-55 off the coast of Ireland. The once vibrant vessel, celebrated for its role in the Titanic rescue, now lies in a watery grave at a depth of approximately 500 feet.

Discovery of the Wreck:

For years, the location of the Carpathia wreck remained a mystery. In 1999, a team of deep-sea explorers led by Dr. Robert Ballard, who famously discovered the Titanic wreck in 1985, located the Carpathia resting on the ocean floor. The discovery shed light on the final chapter of a ship that played a pivotal role in one of the most infamous maritime disasters in history.

The State of the Wreck:

The Carpathia wreck, much like the Titanic, has succumbed to the harsh conditions of the deep sea. The vessel, lying on its starboard side, is partially buried in sediment, and its once majestic structure is now a haunting silhouette against the darkness of the ocean depths. The impact of the torpedo is evident, with sections of the ship showing signs of extensive damage.

Exploration Challenges:

Exploring the wreck of the Carpathia presents unique challenges due to its depth and the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic. The extreme pressure and limited visibility make it difficult for researchers and deep-sea explorers to conduct comprehensive studies of the site. However, technological advancements in underwater exploration have allowed for the collection of valuable data and images that provide a glimpse into the current state of the wreck.

Preserving the Legacy:

As with any underwater archaeological site, the Carpathia wreck serves as a time capsule, preserving not only the physical remnants of the ship but also the stories and memories of those who sailed aboard it. Efforts to document and study the wreck contribute to our understanding of maritime history and the challenges faced by seafarers in the early 20th century.

The Carpathia wreck stands as a testament to the cyclical nature of maritime life – a vessel celebrated for its heroic actions in one moment and consigned to the depths in another. It serves as a poignant reminder of the fragility of maritime endeavors and the indomitable spirit of those who sailed the seas, both in triumph and tragedy.

Conclusion:

The Carpathia wreck, hidden beneath the waves for over a century, continues to captivate the imagination of maritime enthusiasts and historians alike. As technology advances, further exploration and documentation of the wreck will unveil new insights into the final moments of this once noble vessel. The Carpathia's legacy, intertwined with the tales of the Titanic and its own tragic demise, remains a compelling chapter in the annals of maritime history.

Captain Arthur Henry Rostron

Quote from The 1912 Inquiries by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commission:

“The committee deems the course followed by Captain Rostron of the Carpathia as deserving of the highest praise and worthy of especial recognition. Captain Rostron fully realized all the risk involved. He doubled his lookouts, doubled his fireroom force, and notwithstanding such risk, pushed his ship at her very highest limit of speed through the many dangers of the night to the relief of the stricken vessel. His detailed instructions issued in anticipation of the rescue of the Titanic are a marvel of systematic preparation and completeness, evincing such solicitude as calls for the highest commendation.”

Captain Rostron —who was sufficiently anonymous at the time for many newspapers to misspell his name as “Rostrom”— would go on to receive many notable commendations, including a Congressional Medal of Honor from US President William Taft, and have a highly decorated career.

(I have been reading the inquiry report made after the sinking, and while some information changed later as more was learned, it is an extremely interesting insight to the days following and what was maintained as to have happened.)

Does Dragonis have any thoughts on Carpathia? Sorry if this has been asked already tumblr's search system is wack

Oh, the Carpathia. The Little Liner That Could.  She was small, but scrappy. The Little Lady never gave up, no. She pushed and pushed.

She was the rescuer, hope for survivors. Carpathia’s claim to fame is Titanic’s claim to infamy. That night as dark and dangerous, but Carpathia managed to push herself beyond her intended limits to save at least some of those people in the lifeboats.

Then, as it did for so many liners, came the war. Carpathia didn’t have Olympic’s fame or Mauretania’s records or Aquitania’s service, but  she had something in common with one giant.

Britannic.

Neither of them survived the war.

Britannic sadly was the instrument of death for some of those who escaped her sinking, her propellers still in play.

But Carpathia?

She managed one more miracle.

Carpathia, like her fellow Cunarder Lusitania, was struck by a torpedo. There were five causalities. But that July morning, those were the only five deaths in the sinking. It was the Little Lady's last miracle.

When she slipped beneath the waves, she spent years a mystery. The Titanic's rescuer, the Little Liner That Could, she wasn't found for almost a century. Then came 2000. Her wreck was found in remarkable condition. She's not preserved like Britannic, but she has a longer future than Titanic.

That’s the miracle of the Little Liner That Could, the Little Lady, RMS Carpathia. She lives on.

- Dragonis

for those in peril on the sea [maritime disasters] ☸ The R.M.S. Titanic

At the time of their construction, the luxury ocean liners that made up the White Star Line’s Olympic class were the largest ships ever built. The Titanic, the second of these three nautical sisters, set out on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City on April 10, 1912. It flirted with disaster before leaving port when it nearly collided with a smaller liner. The remainder of the Titanic’s departure was uneventful, however, as were its first four days at sea. It passed through a cold front early on April 14 and began receiving numerous ice warnings from other ships in the vicinity.

Despite these warnings, the Titanic continued sailing at full speed--then a common practice--in order to arrive in New York at its scheduled time. At 11:40 p.m., lookout Frederick Fleet rang his bell three times and reported to the bridge: “Iceberg right ahead.” The night was very dark, and the iceberg that now loomed directly in the Titanic’s path had been invisible until it was almost on top of them. First Officer William Murdoch had less than a minute to act. Though he attempted to steer around the berg, ice below the waterline scraped along the ship’s hull. The steel plates that made up the hull buckled and split upon impact. Freezing seawater immediately gushed in through these openings.

Murdoch ordered the doors connecting the Titanic’s sixteen watertight compartments closed. The ship was designed to withstand flooding in four of those sixteen compartments--fatally, six of them were now compromised. Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, grimly warned Captain Edward Smith that the Titanic had only hours to live. Just after midnight, Captain Smith ordered passengers to be alerted and the lifeboats prepared. The wireless operators sent out distress signals, including the relatively new “SOS.” Meanwhile, confusion reigned on the boat deck, with many passengers and even some of the crew unable to believe or take seriously the dire situation.

The Titanic, like most British liners of its day, infamously lacked enough lifeboats for the estimated 2,224 people on board. Many of the crew were unsure how to properly lower the boats, and skeptical passengers were reluctant to board them. The first lifeboats, each less than half-full, were launched about an hour after the collision. Distress flares were fired from the deck--likely sighted by the crew of the nearby Californian--and the wireless operators continued to work at an increasingly frantic pace, pleading for assistance. By 2:00, as the final lifeboat was being launched, water had risen to the boat deck. Much of the ship’s bow was already submerged.

Flooding intensified so that, around 2:15, the stern rose much more steeply and rapidly out of the water. Eyewitnesses heard a great noise. Afterwards, the ship’s lights went out, and it split dramatically down the middle. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, the last remnants of the Titanic slipped beneath the waves. Most of the some fifteen hundred people still aboard were now plunged into the frigid North Atlantic. In spite of their lifebelts, almost none of them would survive until help arrived in the lethally cold water.

The RMS Carpathia reached the wreck site about two hours later. It carried the seven hundred survivors of the Titanic into New York on April 18. The Titanic disaster cost an estimated 1,1517 people their lives and quickly became the best-known shipwreck in the world. It inspired new safety measures, such as regulations regarding the number of lifeboats a ship was required to carry and the formation of the International Ice Patrol, as well as numerous books and films. In 1985, the wreckage of the Titanic was discovered, bringing back to life the legend of the “unsinkable” ship and the tragic stories of its lost passengers and crew.

Broo you gotta explain how you thought of that unique style for your ship humans!! The only unique ones i have seen are by Dewa-Chan and you :O like what inspired you to make their hair like that and so on :O

I mainly base it on the ship themselves. For example, Titanic has a railing keeping their hair up because the RMS Titanic had one, while the Carpathia didn’t. The hair was to make them seem bigger aside from height, as well as making them seem more egotistical, which they were before their wreck

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I did some research for most of these but the ones I didn’t fact check are noted as such-

The ships profile has four smokestacks, but only three were necessary because of the ship’s advanced engineering. The fourth was there for the ✨aesthetic✨ (like,,,, actually for the aesthetic-)

There’s a book called The Wreck Of The Titan, written by Morgan Robertson, which came out in 1898. In the book, a British Ocean Liner called The Titan sinks after hitting an iceberg. And guess what, in the book the ship sinks in April somewhere in the North Atlantic, just like the titanic did. Other similarities include the similar sizes of the ships, and the shortage of life boats.

The ship was considered “unsinkable” (how ironic) for a lot of reasons, most of which make sense because it was extremely well engineered. Iirc, the doors on the lower levels were water tight and designed to close if there was too much water to prevent flooding from spreading (don’t quote me on this-)

You probably already know this but a major factor that contributed to how many lives were lost is the lack of life boats. There were 16 wooden lifeboats and 4 collapsibles, which could only carry 1,178 people (about one-third of the Titanic’s total capacity). What’s kinda sad is that this was actually above the legal requirement for British vessels as ships the size of the titanic (along with the rest of the White Star Line) were only required 16 lifeboats with a capacity for 990 people.

The RMS Carpathia was the ship that answered to the Titanic’s distress calls. There was a ship that was much closer (I don’t remember what it was called but I’m pretty sure it was a White Star Line ship) but iirc their radio operator was off duty and didn’t receive the calls (Don’t quote me on this-)

The sinking of the Titanic caused a lot of changes when it came to ship operation. Ships are now required to carry enough life boats for every passenger, the Radio Act of 1912 was passed to regulate the use of certain bandwidths among the navy and amateur radio operators, and the Ice Patrol was created to monitor the movement of icebergs

THIS IS DELIGHTFUL (the knowledge, not the facts because... sad) THANK YOU 

Huh I learned a lot out of this, who knew? (also... I find it so funny that the fourth smokestack was genuinely there for the aesthetic-) 

The Titanic and the Paranormal

There are many supposedly haunted places in this world, and most of us may think that these spectral forces gravitate towards dilapidated old houses or scary forests in the middle of nowhere. We have this image of what haunted should be, and most often it all comes down to a place or thing with a tragic history and death orbiting it, through whatever means producing these alleged haunted phenomena. The seas also have plenty of this, and there is perhaps no greater tragedy on the ocean than the deadly sinking of the now infamous Titanic. Here thousands of people died a horrible death, and it should go without saying that this doomed vessel has generated its fair share of strange phenomena over the decades.

When the RMS Titanic set out on its maiden voyage it was considered to be a grand wonder of engineering and the pinnacle of passenger liners, unparalleled in opulent luxury and comfort for its time. A British ship operated by White Star Lines and designed by the architect Thomas Andrews, the RMS Titanic was the largest ship on the seas at the time, just about the largest ship ever, and had the most cutting edge technology and facilities ever seen on a passenger liner. The colossal ship was fitted with all manner of bells and whistles, including fancy radio transmitter equipment, and it was actually one of the fist ships ever to start using the new SOS distress signal, which would replace the signal CQD (come quick, danger). The imposing ship featured revolutionary safety features for its time, including an ingenious system of interlocking compartments and remotely operated watertight doors, among others, and when it inexorably set out from Southampton to New York City on its very first voyage the Titanic was widely touted as being wholly unstoppable and “unsinkable.”

When this behemoth of a ship departed on April 10, 1912, under the command of a Captain Edward Smith, it was to much joyous fanfare and publicity. The Titanic departed with over 2,200 passengers, many of them some of the wealthiest people in the world, and others were emigrants from all over Europe eager to go off to start a new life in the faraway, promised land of the United States. It was a truly historic event, demanding attention, and at the time no one would have thought anything of the fact that despite its advanced safety features it was woefully short of lifeboats, with only enough to carry around 1,178 people under ideal conditions. After all, the lifeboats were just a formality, right? Surely nothing could ever sink the mighty Titanic. Or so they thought, and the rest is history.

On April 14, 1912, the Titanic was making its way through the Atlantic at high speed around 375 miles from the coast of Newfoundland in the early hours of morning when it struck an iceberg that promptly robbed the ship of its popular title of “unsinkable.” Many of the watertight compartments that had been hailed as groundbreaking technology immediately were smashed wide open, and the crippled giant began to sink at a steady rate. In the ensuing panic and chaos, the problem of the lifeboat shortage became painfully apparent, and many of these had the added problem that they were difficult and time consuming to launch. Indeed, many of the scant lifeboats went out into the frigid seas only partially loaded, leaving others to their impending doom. Eventually the gargantuan ship broke apart and plunged down below the waves with an estimated approximately 1,500 people still aboard.

When the another ship called the RMS Carpathia came to the ship’s aid, it was able to rescue around 700 of the survivors, with the rest disappearing down into a watery grave to rest at the bottom down in nearly 13,000 feet of water, where the ship remains to this day. Indeed, for decades the exact location of the wreck remained a mystery in and of itself, with it not being discovered until 1985. The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the worst, most tragic maritime disasters in history, and at the time it shocked the world. Since that fateful morning, the Titanic has gone on to become one of the most famous ships to ever ride the seas, and has been the subject of countless films, books, and documentaries. It is by far one of the most well-known wrecks in the world, and it is perhaps no surprise that it has drawn its fair share of tales of the paranormal as well.

Weirdness seems to have hovered around the vessel even before it was even launched. According to an April 12, 2012 Associated Press article, in 1898 the American author Morgan Robertson wrote a novella called Futility, which features in its first half a ship called the Titan, and which besides the similarity of the names of the vessels displays a wide variety of spooky, seemingly prophetic details and uncanny parallels between the fictional Titan and the real Titanic. For instance, both were nearly the same size and could go the same maximum speed of over 20 knots, and both of the ships were deemed unsinkable and were subsequently sunk by hitting icebergs, in mid-April no less. In addition, both lacked enough lifeboats to save all of the passengers, and even the novella’s opening sounds as if it could easily be talking about the Titanic, saying:

She was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilization.

When Futility was first released, it was met with a resounding lack of interest, due to the fact that it is actually not seen as being very good, and Robertson was mostly considered a bit of a hack. The book itself mostly devolved into an improbable tale of survival for the alcoholic protagonist, with Titanic historian Paul Heyer saying of Robertson and his work, “He’s not exactly a great literary stylist. Moralistic tone, implausible situations, poor character development. The only saving grace of the novella is intriguing information about the ship and her fate.” Indeed, it was not until after the historic disaster that the book got any sort of fame or recognition at all. Considering all of these eerie details in a book written years before the real Titanic set sail, in the wake of the disaster it did not go unnoticed, and Robertson was widely hailed as having prophesied the sinking of the ship with some sort of precognitive abilities. This has been explained away by skeptics as being pure coincidence, as Robertson was an avid writer on ships and the sea and Heyer has said of this:

He was someone who wrote about maritime affairs. He was an experienced seaman, and he saw ships as getting very large and the possible danger that one of these behemoths would hit an iceberg.

Whether Robertson was really psychic or not is unknown, but what is known is that this is just the beginning of the weirdness surrounding the Titanic. Considering the sheer loss of life and the traumatic circumstances of the disaster, along with the fact that hundreds of these bodies were never recovered and remained lost at sea, it is perhaps no surprise at all that the very wreck of the Titanic is said to be haunted. There have been numerous reports of ships passing the area of the Titanic’s resting place off Newfoundland seeing glowing or flickering orbs of light both above the water and darting about beneath the waves. This phenomenon is reportedly often accompanied by inexplicable radio interference, and even submarines passing the area of the wreck have apparently had such interference, as well as phantom SOS signals that seem to come from nowhere.

One ship that was passing the site of the wreck even had a sighting of a ghostly apparition said to be a victim of the RMS Titanic. In 1977, the liner SS Winterhaven was passing through and on this evening Second Office Leonard Bishop was showing a passenger around the ship who seemed to be absolutely obsessed with every detail of the vessel. As the tour went on, Bishop noticed that besides this intense interest in his ship there was something off about the quiet, soft-spoken man he was guiding around, but he wasn’t sure what at the time. After the tour, he did not remember seeing the man again, but the strange aura of something not quite right made him memorable, and Bishop would not forget the mysterious stranger’s face. It would not be until years later when Bishop by chance saw a picture and claimed to know the man in it, much to the shock of the person who had showed it to him. It turned out that unbeknownst to Bishop the picture was of Captain Edward John Smith, the captain of the Titanic, who would have been long dead during their tour.

The ghost of Titanic captain Edward Smith actually seems to get around, as he has been reportedly seen from time to time on other vessels passing the area of wreck as well, and he is even said to haunt his childhood home in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England. The previous house owners, Neil and Louise Bonner, rented the house out for over a decade, and they say that there had been numerous reports from tenants over the years of paranormal activity at the house. Banging, whispers, and other anomalous noises were common, as well as roving colds spots, inexplicable floods in the kitchen, and most shocking of all a full-bodied spectral apparition of Smith himself seen in the bedroom.

In addition to the hauntings of the wreck site and the home of the Titanic’s captain are the numerous hauntings that seem to revolve around artifacts and relics from the wreck, and museum collections with such items tend to be magnets for inexplicable ghostly activity. One of the more active of these is the “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition,” at The Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, which houses a large array of over 300 items from the sunken ship and is ground zero for a whole plethora of unexplained phenomena. Visitors and staff alike supposedly frequently report strong feelings of being watched or followed, as well as disembodied voices or footsteps, or being poked, prodded, or pushed by unseen hands, in addition to sightings of shadowy apparitions lurking in the halls and corridors. The attraction’s artifact expert Joe Zimmer seems to be particularly tormented by these wayward spirits, claiming that he constantly experiences having his hair or clothes yanked on or his name whispered when no one is there, and he says he has even heard phantom music playing.

One of the more well-known of the apparitions of the Luxor exhibit is apparently the ghost of Frederick Fleet, who was the lookout on the RMS Titanic who had spotted the iceberg that sank the ship and had warned the crew. Although Fleet was one of the survivors of the tragedy, he would forever have feelings of guilt afterwards, and this plus the death of his wife in 1964 drove him to commit suicide by hanging himself at his home in England. Fleet’s spirit has been reported as haunting the Promenade Deck of the exhibition, although why this ghost should appear all the way over in Las Vegas remains unclear. There is also the apparition of a young woman in a black old-fashioned dress and with her hair in a bun who is regularly seen on the premises.

A strange incident with a ghost allegedly happened on the very opening day of the exhibition, when a photographer was getting ready for the event. He claims that as he was setting up he was surprised to see a woman in period clothes come walking down the grand staircase, which was odd because as far as he knew, no one else was supposed to be there and he had not seen anyone else arrive. Thinking that perhaps it was an extra dressed up in period clothing for the purpose of the grand opening he asked her if he could take her photo on the staircase, but she did not say a word, merely standing there in an apparent trance before vanishing into thin air.

Some of the strange incidents at the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition have apparently been caught on film and audio as well. One example is a strange sequence of events concerning a photo of Bruce Ismay, who was the chairman and managing director of the White Star Line. One morning the staff opened the exhibition to find the photo inexplicably lying on the floor of the entryway and carefully propped against the wall, reportedly still pristine and undamaged. Baffled by how the photo could have possible gotten there during the night, surveillance footage was reviewed, which showed the photo appearing to shake on its own before being taken down and put against the wall as if by unseen hands. Paranormal investigators to the exhibit have captured orbs of light and shadowy images as well, and there have been several EVP recordings made of what appear to be the voices of Titanic victims.

Another collection of Titanic pieces that seems to be haunted is the Titanic Aquatic exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium, in the United States, which also has intense paranormal activity similar to what has been experienced at the Luxor exhibit, including ghost sightings, strange noises, period music from nowhere, and phantom hands grabbing, nudging, or pulling clothes or hair. Spookiest of all is a creepy ghostly old lady who is said to dwell within a replica of one of the Titanic’s cabins in the exhibit, and is not shy about suddenly appearing to startle visitors before blinking away again. Paranormal investigator’s and the Syfy Channel’s Ghost Hunters have examined the exhibit and found definite signs of paranormal activity, as well as made recordings of EVP phenomena at the site. As to why these ghosts should latch onto these relics from the Titanic, Dianna Avena, founder of Georgia Paranormal, has said:

It just makes sense that, especially with the Titanic exhibit, there would be residual paranormal energy. When you have a strong emotional imprint, there could be some energy attached.

Perhaps the strangest tale of a haunting related to the Titanic has to do not with any artifact from the doomed ship, but rather a replica of it. Retired architectural draftsman Wyatt Jason Moore, from Portsmouth, Virginia, managed to painstakingly build a 200 lb. model of the RMS Titanic over the course of 9 years and an estimated 17,368 hours of work, which was an ambitious project he became obsessed with after watching the 1958 film A Night to Remember. He began studying numerous old photographs of the Titanic, incorporating every detail he could into his grand vision, and he found himself spending hours and hours a day toiling away on his creation.

The end result was a lifelike replica of the famous ship, accurate right down to each individual stairway and hall. When his masterpiece was finished he decided to take some photos of it and that was when strange things began to happen. As he took his photos, he could hear anomalous noises coming from the massive model sitting in his home, and later mysterious entities began to appear in his shots. He would say of one of the startling images he took:

I couldn’t make it out until I looked at it very carefully and I found it was a bald headed man with a handle bar mustache, and I said to myself, what’s he doing there?

In addition to this creepy ghostly man were a spectral man and woman looking out of another porthole just above the lifeboats. At around the same time as these events, Moore says that doors around the house began to mysteriously slam shut or open even when no one else was there, but he says he is not scared of the entities, he just thinks they are lost souls, saying “Maybe it was someone that was aboard the Titanic that found a new home for himself.” Skeptics have been quick to point out that the photos are nothing more than a reflection and trick of light, but Moore insists that the portholes on his model don’t feature glass. Moore has tried to sell the haunted Titanic model on Craigslist, but found no takers, perhaps because of the exorbitant $263,000 asking price, but he hopes that a museum will take it at some point. They might as well, because it seems any museum with genuine paraphernalia from the actual Titanic is haunted anyway.

The fate of the RMS Titanic is one of the worst seagoing tragedies of all time, and it seems somewhat fitting that it too should have its own odd tales of ghosts and hauntings. It is an aspect of the tragedy that does not get much coverage but is nevertheless still out there, lurking in the shadows. Does the fateful sinking of this once glorious vessel and its rusted, decomposed remains infused with the paranormal just as any old haunted house would be? What is going on with these rumors and scary stories? These are perhaps mysteries that we will never really understand, confined to the dark just as the hulk of the Titanic lies sitting down in the murk beyond the light of day.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of modern history's deadliest commercial marine disasters during peacetime. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster.

Titanic was under the command of Capt. Edward Smith, who also went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, it only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—about half the number on board, and one third of her total capacity—due to outdated maritime safety regulations. The ship carried 16 lifeboat davits which could lower three lifeboats each, for a total of 48 boats. However, Titanic carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch during the sinking.

After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. The collision caused the hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; she could only survive four flooding. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a "women and children first" protocol for loading lifeboats. At 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors.

The disaster was met with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that led to it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to major improvements in maritime safety. One of their most important legacies was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety. Additionally, several new wireless regulations were passed around the world in an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications—which could have saved many more passengers.

The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 (more than 70 years after the disaster) during a US military mission, and it remains on the seabed. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (3,784 m). Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history; her memory is kept alive by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister HMHS Britannic, the largest ever sunk, although she holds the record as the largest sunk while actually in service as a liner due to Britannic being used as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97.

tell me titanic facts??

Okay I nearly squealed you have no idea how happy I am that someone asked me this! Literally while typing that tag I was thinking “pls someone ask me about Titanic facts”

Anyways let’s start here

1. So Titanic was actually a part of a series of ships all created by the same people (Harland & Wolff) they were known as Olympic-class ocean liners and there were 3: Olympic , Titanic, and Brittannic respectively. They were designed to be extremely large and luxurious passenger ships during the the early 20th Century. Titanic was the largest of the 3 and at the time of her voyage the largest ship in the world.

2. Although in most movie and tv adaptations the Titanic was portrayed as just a party ship for rich people (and that’s partly true), the Titanic was also carrying hundreds of emigrants from GB, Ireland, Scandinavia and other European countries, who were seeking new life’s in America.

3. This ship legitimately had a swimming pool and a gymnasium on it

4. Although supposedly the Titanic was supposed to be “the safest ship in the world” and it praised itself (or rather her makers praised themselves) for having many advanced safety features such as “watertight compartments and remote activated watertight doors” they actually only had about one third of their possible lifeboats stocked on board, because the regulations at the time didn’t require having the Full stock. The ship was capable of carrying 48 boats which could seat up to 2,300 people but they only ended up carrying 20, 4 of which were Non-operatable due to being collapsible and fairing too difficult to lunch.

5. The ship was designed to be able to survive 4 of her watertight compartments flooding however once the iceberg hit and the hull plates buckled onwards to the starboard it opened up 16 of her watertight compartments and at that point there was no way of saving her

6. Even with already having only a third of the lifeboats they could, that at full capacity would only fit about half of their passengers, they ended up launching many lifeboats only partially loaded. And there was a disproportionate number of men left on the ship because of the “women and children first” protocol.

7. 3 hours after the initial impact the ship broke apart nearly in half and sank with over a thousand people still on board. (In a timeline this was at about 2 am) and 2 hours after she sank the RMS Carpathia arrived as the first rescue ship to the scene and was able to save an estimated 705 people.

8. After her wreck and destruction her sister ship Olympic was announced the new largest ship in the world.

9. The wreck of the Titanic wasn’t discovered until more than 70 years after her sinking and she remains on the seabed gradually disintegrating at a depth of about 12 thousand ft.

10. Known as the final survivor Millvina Dean, who was 2 months old at the time of the wreck, was a third class passenger and was immigrating to Kansas from the UK. She was aboard with her mother, father and brother, tho they weren’t supposed to be on the Titanic at all but they’re ship ended up having a coal malfunction and they were transferred at the last minute. Her, her mother and her brother were of the first 3rd class passengers to be placed on a lifeboat and brought to safety however her father was left to die on the ship due to the women and children first rule and his body was never recovered. During her 70s Millivina started participating in Titanic-related events, such as conventions, interviews, exhibitions, documentaries, etc.. she refused to watch the movie Titanic as after seeing the movie A Night to Remember she had nightmares as she couldn’t help but imagine her father as one of those people. She died in 2009 at 97 years old and was cremated and her ashes launched from the docks where the Titanic set sail.

11. And now onto my favourite fact about the Titanic. That of one passenger (she wasn’t actually a passenger but an ocean liner stewardess) named Violet Jessop. Violet was an Irish argentine ocean stewardess and nurse who has quite a unique experience. In 1911, one year before the Titanic, Violet was working as a stewardess aboard the RMS Olympic (yes the same Olympic that was from the same line and makers of the Titanic) while aboard the Olympic collided with a British warship, HMS Hawke, thankfully there were no casualties and despite the damage to the ship it managed to make its way back to port safely. Nearly a year later Violet boarded the Titanic, again as a stewardess. She was put aboard lifeboat 16 during the sinking as she was to show an example to the non-English speakers what to do, upon being placed in the life boat she was handed a baby to take care of, while aboard the RMS Carpathia a women grabbed the baby she was holding and ran off without another word (we assume this was the mother). But wait there’s more, 4 years after surviving the Titanic, in 1916 Violet was a stewardess aboard the HMHS Brittannic, a white star liner that had been converted into a hospital ship during the First World War. Now if that ship name sounds familiar that is because, yes, this ship is the same Brittannic that was the third and final sister ship of the Titanic. While aboard the ship unexpectedly sank due to an unexplained explosion (it was later discovered in a diving expedition of the ship a century later in 2016 that The ship had struck a deep sea land mine.) the Brittannic sunk in 55 minutes, mich faster than the 3 hours it took the Titanic to sink, and killed 30 out of it 1,066 passengers. Violet made it onto a lifeboat, however she and other passengers were almost killed by the Ships Propellers that were sucking the lifeboats back under the sinking ship. Violet has to jump out of her lifeboat which resulted in a traumatic head injury however despite this and despite being apart of not one not two but three ship wrecks, Violet Jessop survived and even when back to work in 1920 where she continued to stewardess ships until she retired in 1950. She has been known as “miss unsinkable”. She died at 83 in 1971 due to congestive heart failure.

Okay that’s all I have! There’s so many more but this is already so long! I did go and fact check everything and make sure all of the information was as accurate as I could make it, but keeping in mind that as much information as we do know there’s also so much we don’t as the Titanic sunk in 1912 and it was very hard to fact check and keep records back then.

But thank you for letting me relive my special interest from age 11!