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Last Log Of The TITANIC
In an Effort to bring more kultcher to TDTSC...I would like to open a discussion on LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC by Capt. David Brown...all comments--good, bad, ugly...erm, indifferent are welcome...(though as always, management reserves the right to make writers of posts it doesn't like WALK THE PLANK...LOL)
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May/15/2004, 1:51 am
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Re: Last Log Of The TITANIC
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Lights wrote:
In an Effort to bring more kultcher to TDTSC...I would like to open a discussion on LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC by Capt. David Brown...all comments--good, bad, ugly...erm, indifferent are welcome...(though as always, management reserves the right to make writers of posts it doesn't like WALK THE PLANK...LOL)
i myself have yet to read it...
i have heard good things about it though and as well bad things so ... it is really a toss of a coin...
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May/15/2004, 3:22 am
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Lights
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Re: Last Log Of The TITANIC
Well, Wills, it explains the whole thing from the perspective of someone with experience of shiphandling...and it is explained in a forthright easy to understand style...a real "plus" when things get "tchy"...he is a little brutal on Smith and Ismay...a shortcoming Capt. Brown has admitted, and has promised to rectify in subsequent editions...
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"What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
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May/15/2004, 4:38 am
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graham 01
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Re: Last Log Of The TITANIC
Hi lights
Personally I like the book, Like you say he is heavy on Smith and Ismay and a few other points but other than that it is a good read.
Graham who is hoping not to have to walk the plank
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No indeed, Graham. You will live to write (and fight) another day! 
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May/17/2004, 5:19 pm
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Hi Lights
The way today is going I am not so sure my friend,
Graham
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There was a certain amount of discussion on this other places as well. From what I understand, the general consensus is whether or not she continued steaming, chances are she was wounded beyond repair period. The steaming-ahead may have caused extra strain on the commpartment walls, but not enough to actually do enough damage to change the equation - she was mortally wounded by the ice and that was that. At most it made the ship sink a bit more quickly, but that would have been it.
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Hi TTF
I know this is the wrong thread for this but lets look at another little posser. What if titanic had carried on steaming in reverce
I have played with a model in the tank and yes I kow that a model reacts totaly different to the real thing, but the entering water did not come in half as fast in reverce as it did in forword.
I wonder if she could of closed the gap a lot had she reverced, I know I do not believe that the titanic would of stayed afloat regardless what they did but it is a point worth bringing up I supose.
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Re: Last Log Of The TITANIC
We;ll, my only comment is that it worked with HMS Garry...depends how far she had to steam...Lightoller managed it for about a hundred miles, but Smith would have had at least 300-400 miles to the closest port.
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Hi Ligts
It would of only been a first aid sort of thing, But as the bottom of Titanic was holed it may not of made a difference anyway
Graham
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