A Historian Reacts - TITANIC by Simple History

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[kylegoodwin]

The Titanic was actually constructed so well, that to this very day, the swimming pool still holds water.

[willslattery]

Something that I recently learned is that the Second Officer, Charles Lightoller, was the highest ranking surviving crew member and he later went on to participate in the evacuation at Dunkirk in WW2. He was the inspiration for the character Mr Dawson in the movie "Dunkirk" who sails his own boat across the channel to rescue soldiers.

[HavocParadox]

honestly its the best part when you say something that then just so happens to be said in the video.. Makes me feel confident in your knowledge.

[VloggingThroughHistory]

Since I seem to get comments on this constantly, let me address something real quick. Yes, port is left and starboard is right on a ship. However, the order given by Murdoch was indeed "hard a starboard" while reversing the engines to turn the bow to the left and avoid the iceberg. He then did indeed attempt to "port round" the iceberg which means to swing back to the right so the stern of the ship swung around it. It sounds wrong but it isn't.

From Lightoller's testimony: "the ship appears to have run on, on the same course, until, at a little before 11:40, one of the lookouts in the crow’s nest struck three blows on the gong, which was the accepted warning for something ahead, following this immediately afterwards by a telephone message to the bridge "Iceberg right ahead." Almost simultaneously with the three gong signal Mr. Murdoch, the officer of the watch, gave the order "Hard-a-starboard, " and immediately telegraphed down to the engine room "Stop. Full speed astern." The helm was already "hard over, " and the ship’s head had fallen off about two points to port, when she collided with an iceberg well forward on her starboard side."

[DJUSMC]

Things to note. The requirement of lifeboats for a ship of Titanic's size was 16 (She had 20). Also, the Wireless radio went out and they had spent a day and a half to get it back running and that's why there was a backlog of messages. Also, The coal fire that the Titanic had on board (They put out) actually contributed to the slow sinking. This was because to put out a coal fire it required moving coal to another coal bunker so the coal was shifted to the Starboard Side (Tiller Command) or Left Side of the ship which gave the Titanic a 3 degree list to Starboard and helped offset the water that was flooding in on the Port (Right - Tiller command) side. Initially Thomas Andrews though the Titanic had 1hr and 1hr 30min to sink because he had calculated that the Titanic would roll over (Like most ships that sink do) however, due to the weight of the coal it actually took the Titanic longer to sink. They also had many experienced crew (Guarantee Group) who job it was to make sure Titanic had a problem free Maidan voyage as possible. It really is because of this Guarantee group (Which included Thomas Andrews) that as many people survived as they did. Also, there was a woman who worked for White Star Line named Violet Jessop who survived Olympic collision with HMS Hawke, the Sinking of the Titanic and lastly the sinking of the Britanic. Yikes!

[PACKERMAN]

Love it when people forget that your job is to already know the things in the video that they're talking about

[bob]

The reason I love this guy and his comment section is that he explains it very well and barley anyone fights in the comment section and even if they do they do it CIVILIZED not just yell at each other and call them selves the f word

[ayyebreh]

This is the best community to be a part of 💯

[annieblancken]

I think Murdoch’s family objected to his portrayal in Titanic- in the movie I believe he shot someone trying to board a lifeboat and then shot himself. James Cameron ended up apologizing to his family.

[Laurentus]

Just some little additions:
-The fourth funnel wasn‘t a total dummy, it was used for storage and ventilation.
-Some years ago a navy yard in the US did a study on the frontal collision theory, and they came to the conclusion that Titanic would have sunk within 30-45 minutes because of multiple cracks in the hull. It would simply have broken her back.
-The Californian most likely wouldn‘t have made it to Titanic (even if they would have recognized the distress), because the engines were shut down and low on steam. To build up enough pressure for the steam engines takes hours, there was no way to just head full ahead towards Titanic.

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[DominionSorcerer]

About the lifeboats, there's another detail I feel a lot of people also tend to overlook when it comes to whether or not more people might have been saved if the ship had more of them; the time in which the Titanic sank. It took the crew an hour before they discovered / realised the damage was so severe the Titanic would sink, and they barely had enough time to lower all twenty lifeboats on the ship. The last two literally floated off of the ship's deck during her final plunge beneath the waves.

But that nearby ship, if it was the California, probably couldn't have gotten to the Titanic in time. Even if they had heard that S.O.S message, her engines were completely turned off and its boilers extinguished. It would have needed 40 minutes at least to get enough steam to start moving, then they would have to carefully move across the field of ice surrounding them lest they be another sinking ship that night.

[mccabber]

"He won't react to a video about the Titanic. It's too well known"
"Ey! She's made of History, I assure you, he will!"

[nocx]

My favorite story about the titanic is the story of John Harper. He was a Baptist preacher from Scotland aboard the titanic traveling to America to preach. When they started loading the lifeboats, his sister and his daughter were aboard and as his 6 year old daughter's only surviving parent, he was allowed to go on the lifeboat with her, but he just sent her with his sister. After that he walked around the ship preaching and at one point urged "(get) on the lifeboats, women, children, and the unsaved". When the ship sank he jumped in the water and continued preaching until he succumbed to hypothermia. The last man Harper was preaching to when he died got rescued by one of the lifeboats that hadn't been completely filled and at a reunion of titanic survivors years later spoke about John Harper and said "As far as I know, I am the last known convert of John Harper.".

[jaycehelms]

Honestly I love the fact that I'm able to get my sources backed up by a polite intelligent, and respectable historian, thank you for being so dedicated to your channel.

[gamingxmachina]

The titanic movie was the very first movie in theater's that I was taken to. I was six years old, sat and watched the entire movie with my family, and still remember it.

[tom-lojf]

Wow 400 views in 8 minutes? Finally a history react/vlogging channel with many viewers. Congrats.

[Tbone-bvwg]

Violet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an Argentine ocean liner stewardess, memoirist, and nurse who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916. In addition, she had been onboard RMS Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship, HMS Hawke, in 1911.

[emilhuseynov]

I just love this Channel the moment I discovered it. Such a great guy!! Keep on this great work. Can’t wait for your travel videos ⭐️

[codex]

When I was 4, my parents were watching the Titanic and one of the first things I said about the ship was "It's fake, a boat doesn't have 4 chimneys". It was probably because the boat of Sinterklaas (Dutch version of Santa Claus) only had 3 chimneys. When I was 14 I started reading up on the titanic and found out one of them was actually fake, I mentioned this to my parents and they told me that it was the first thing I said about the Titanic when I was four.
I won't ever forget the fake chimney of the titanic because of this.

[kreedur]

It's been said that to have an iceberg of that size so far south in the Atlantic is extremely rare.