I recall being at a National Maritime Historical Society meeting in Peekskill, NY when an expedition to the RMS Titanic wreck site was recovering a large piece to study, which very dramatically slipped back beneath the sea and then recovered again later. They had left I believe from New York City, to have been the Titanic's destination to the site. More recent researches, as to the strength of metallurgy used in its constructi
on have been very interesting. There was a coal bunker fire as it left port, a somewhat fairly common occurrence in coal powered vessels, testified to at the later hearing. Further research to a similar report, place perhaps the causes of the sinking of the USS Maine in the Havana harbor, in Cuba to a coal bunker fire next to a powder magazine, a dissenting opinion once reported by military research after the USS Maine exploded and sunk. However, nothing like that happened on the RMS Titanic, the fire was extinguish
ed. I wonder though if they had stopped to put it out they might have had a different attitude in the command, maybe even getting another pair of binoculars
! Thanks for the "footage" my significant other's birthday is April 14.
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