Countdown https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/t672 Runboard| Countdown en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:12:15 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:12:15 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11905,from=rss#post11905https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11905,from=rss#post11905This thread has expired from the time in titanic rms. if used it will be reinstated date moved 01-08-04 time 12-07 by Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Sun, 01 Aug 2004 11:20:36 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11904,from=rss#post11904https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11904,from=rss#post11904HI TTF I will also find the info I said I would post here as well Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:35:53 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11903,from=rss#post11903https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11903,from=rss#post11903quote:Graham 01 wrote: Hi TTF I am glad to see you still posting this here and thank you, Like Wills's thread it is a asset to the board Graham thank you graham glad you feel that way. ttf... this is a very good thread i really enjoy reading it. thank you for continuing to post. i too will post soon. willsnondisclosed_email@example.com (wills)Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:25:53 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11902,from=rss#post11902https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11902,from=rss#post11902Hi TTF I am glad to see you still posting this here and thank you, Like Wills's thread it is a asset to the board Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:31:17 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11901,from=rss#post11901https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11901,from=rss#post11901Despite the magnificence of the caucus Room, Senator Smith (wisely) decided that perhaps acually being able to hear the witnesses was a tad more important, so he had the hearings transferred to the Committee on Territories Conference Room, as this was another committee he headed. The matrons of Washington, after having caused such a hulabaloo on Monday, subsequently overran the hearing room when the doors were open at 10:30, knocking furniture out of the way and terrifying committee members. After they refused to leave,Smith was forced to call the Capitol Police (the sergeant-at-arms force was too small) and have them politely ejected two at a time - not so politely on some of the women's parts. After all this, the main witnees was Frederick Fleet, who described his sighting the iceberg along with Lee, his telephoning the news down, and the subsequent collision. The committee then adjourned until the next day. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:07:06 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11900,from=rss#post11900https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11900,from=rss#post11900HI TTF Dont you dare stop posting your countdown, And Wills you as well. They are both read. Now we all see the main problem with not been able to move posts from out of threads, It would be a lot easier and a simple ting to keep the thread the way it should be. I know How much work Lee and Wills have put into there work so I for one apreciate it and do think they are both worth reading. Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:34:57 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11899,from=rss#post11899https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11899,from=rss#post11899quote:teamtunafish wrote: Just wondering if anyone was really reading the darned things. yes mam. i am . i was wandering the same thing about my thread though. hmmm. please keep posting ttf i am reading them and i like it very much you are doing a good job. willsnondisclosed_email@example.com (wills)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:28:59 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11898,from=rss#post11898https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11898,from=rss#post11898Just wondering if anyone was really reading the darned things.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:42:45 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11897,from=rss#post11897https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11897,from=rss#post11897quote:teamtunafish wrote: Hmm, maybe I just can the countdown. what are you saying ttf? oh by the way great job so far. i really need to get to work on mine. willsnondisclosed_email@example.com (wills)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:29:09 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11896,from=rss#post11896https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11896,from=rss#post11896Hmm, maybe I just can the countdown.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:19:37 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11895,from=rss#post11895https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11895,from=rss#post11895we got one where i live and even a kids r us . dont go to either very much. willsnondisclosed_email@example.com (wills)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:15:33 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11894,from=rss#post11894https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11894,from=rss#post11894quote:wills wrote: geofrey. yep he is cool. toys r us is a great store. wills Yeah, Geofrey, his name. I only wish that there could be a Toys 'R' Us store where I live. MA nondisclosed_email@example.com (MurdochsAid)Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:09:24 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11893,from=rss#post11893https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11893,from=rss#post11893geofrey. yep he is cool. toys r us is a great store. willsnondisclosed_email@example.com (wills)Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:16:38 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11892,from=rss#post11892https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11892,from=rss#post11892quote:Graham 01 wrote: Hi TTF I am still searching my end for the info I said about, Had to go toys r us though in the middle and lets say got distracted a bit. I love that place:-) Graham Hi Graham! Speaking of Toys 'R' Us, I get such a big kick out of the talking star giraffe, we see in their commercials. Don't you!? MA nondisclosed_email@example.com (MurdochsAid)Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:26:01 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11891,from=rss#post11891https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11891,from=rss#post11891Monday April 22, 1912 The subcommittee came into the brand new caucus room of the Senate Office Building at 10:30 in the morning, only to discover there was no room for them - apparently every fashionable woman in the Capitol, dressed to the nines and carrying a sack lunch, had descended en masse into the chamber, leaving no room for anyone else with the exceptions of a number of news reporters. He attempts to make an announcement, but can't hear himself, due to the fact that the chamber acoustics are so terrible, the reporter's writing sounds like a hoard of locusts (the room, done in full lavish Victorian splendor, still has the reputation of the worst acoustics in the building). Light explosions from the photographer's cameras and hand-cranks from a cinematic camera add to the din. Senator Smith immediately goes to get the sergeant-at-arms and some assistants, who eject all the photgraphers (and the cinematographer), a good many protesting ladies (some of who used "extremely inappropriate language, given thier age and apparent station" ), and move the newsmen back so that the official visitors, including many ambassadors, British Naval Attache C.F.G. Sowerby, Rep. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Roosevelt's husband), and Captain John Knapp of the U.S. hydrographic Office, among others. Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall was the big witness of the day, and he described how , in Southampton, only two lifeboats had been tested, and also how he was responsible for noting on the chart all iceberg warnings, yet was completely ignorant of most of the ones heretofore mentioned - and that of the ones he did remember, none were near the ship's track, or he would have made a special note to tell the captain. He also mentions the 'mystery ship" about five miles away. At the conclusion of testimony, it is this last which creates the most discusion among the committee members.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:36:42 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11890,from=rss#post11890https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11890,from=rss#post11890Hi TTF I am still searching my end for the info I said about, Had to go toys r us though in the middle and lets say got distracted a bit. I love that place:-) Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:12:33 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11889,from=rss#post11889https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11889,from=rss#post11889I'm doing a bit of local snarfing around, by the way, so will be checking to see exactly what I can find out. At the moment, the interesting news is that it looks like the Willard merged with the Continental some time go - so they were all staying in the would-be-same hotel anyway!nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:08:37 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11888,from=rss#post11888https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11888,from=rss#post11888Hi TTf I heard the story a slightly different way will post later as I want to make sure i get the source and story correct, I often wondered though onit and think yours sounds the more acurate one Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:31:37 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11887,from=rss#post11887https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11887,from=rss#post11887Additionally, there was a dust-up going on at the Continental Hotel, where Second officer Lightoller was insisting that the officers and crew should not be sharing the same hotel. Lightoller had his eye on the brand-new Willard Hotel, the poshest in town, where Franklin and Ismay were staying. Eventually, he agreed to stay at the Continental (one of the arguments used against him was that his Captain now slept with the remainder of the crew beneath the waves) as long as the officers were on different floors and were given different seatings at meals.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:47:54 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11886,from=rss#post11886https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11886,from=rss#post11886Sunday April 21, 1912 A quiet Sunday for most concerned. In practically every church, the sermon is upon the hubris of building an "unsinkable" ship, and the hymns include "For Those In Peril On The Sea" Senator Smith and company return to Washington, D.C. Accompanying them is a rather put-out J. Bruce Ismay, who has done his part in the Inquiry as far as he is concerned, and wishes to return home. Al though he says he has "the utmost respect for the Senate of the United States...the inquiry as it is proceeding now may wreak great injustice rather than clear up points in question." Upon return, Senator Smith discovers that his office in the Senate has been overcome by mail - more than ten bags a have been brought in, and more is arriving by the minute. Eventually, any visitors from the state of Michigan who drop by the Senator's office will be roped into helping with the extraordinary flood.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:23:34 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11885,from=rss#post11885https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11885,from=rss#post11885Hi Titanica You are a star my friend, You have just won the "graham through coffee over the board award" Once again my friend great :-) Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:19:35 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11884,from=rss#post11884https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11884,from=rss#post11884  Oh that's just "too" funny for words!!! Good show, Titanica!!! Good show!!!nondisclosed_email@example.com (MurdochsAid)Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:17:35 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11883,from=rss#post11883https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11883,from=rss#post11883and what was that about the Titanic cat? You said it got off the ship just before it sailed?? So when that Cat is away, the mouse will play?? I think I can see one mouse playing here: nondisclosed_email@example.com (Titanica)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:31:34 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11882,from=rss#post11882https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11882,from=rss#post11882LOL, Titanca. We know that Captain Smith had an abnormality to one of his appendages...a little thing called a lead foot.nondisclosed_email@example.com (MurdochsAid)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:54:12 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11881,from=rss#post11881https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11881,from=rss#post11881quote:MurdochsAid wrote: .....I would like to add something here, TTF, if it's OK with you. It wasn't Captain Smith who provided a hint of power to the reverse of engines.... No Tammy, I have to disagree with you here. If you read Captain Smith's lips in this video clip: you could almost hear him saying "reverse engines...reverse engines...reverse engines" No I was just kidding nondisclosed_email@example.com (Titanica)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:32:00 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11880,from=rss#post11880https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11880,from=rss#post11880You're very welcome, TTF. I only wanted to give credit where credit is due, and that is to Will Murdoch, that's all. BTW Lill, that "Titanicat" poem is sooo cute! That reminds me of another feline story that involved Will, this time. You can title the story, "The C-A-T That Done Him In". I told Lights the story, and it "really" made her day. And TTF, you're doing a great job! Keep it up! OK!?nondisclosed_email@example.com (MurdochsAid)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:42:27 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11879,from=rss#post11879https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11879,from=rss#post11879Yea, Graham, but mine are funner. Thanks, Tammy, did not know that. Saturday April 20, 1912 Although the hearings are schedualed to begin at 10, a confab among the committee makes them show up in the meeting room a half-hour late. The testimony today begins with Thomas Cottam, the telegraphist of the Carpathia, describing his receipt of Titanic's Messages, and the subsequent mess-up when all kinds of messages were sent, overlapped, and confused, so that the false reports of Titanic being safe emerged (Senator Smith was apalled at the lack of regulation in the telegraph industry). Then Harold Bride will be called to testify about his experiences. During his testimony, a woman in near hysterics will fly into the room, weeping copiously, and demand everyone near her give her information about Chief Officer Murdoch. Senator Smith will assign officer Lightoller to take care of her - he speaks quietly to her on the far side of the room for a while, and she leaves. During the lunch break, Sherriff Bayless reveals to Smith that a good number of the people he was to have supeonaed have made a break for it on the Lapland - Senator Smith, with all the power in his hands, simply dispatches a message to the U.S. Navy that has her stopped by wireless, and Bayless is sent out in a tug to intercept her. After the lunch break, Smith reads a statement that reveals the results of this morning's discussion among the members of the committee; there will be no further testimony taken in New York City; the committee will continue Monday in Washington, D.C.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Teamtunafish)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:45:50 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11878,from=rss#post11878https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11878,from=rss#post11878quote:teamtunafish wrote: On April 10, 1912: At approximately 7:30 am Captain Smith comes aboard and relieves Chief Officer Henry Wilde, recieving the sailing report from him. Those trimmers, greasers, firemen, and others hired yesterday begin to straggle aboard. The President of the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay, accompanied by his family, boards after breakfast at the Southwestern Hotel, where many of Titanic's First-Class Passengers have stayed overnight, and immediately starts a tour of this great, new ship. At approximately 11:20, Captain George Bowyer, Pilot, boards and the Pilot's Flag is immediately run up. Amid the confusion on the docks, a group of workmen who have been hired for the "Black Gang" sit drinking in a pub near the docks named "The Grapes". At 12 noon, the great ship's horn blows, heralding her immediate departure. They run to the ship, only to be repulsed at the gangway. As the Titanic builds up speed, there are a sudden series of what sounds like pistol shots to those observing on the quai. A ship left bereft by the ongoing coal strike, the New York, suddenly drifts closer and closer to the mighty leviathan. At the last moment before colision, Captain Smith provides a hint of power to the reverse engines, and Titanic is at last left to her destiny. At 5:30, she enters the harbour at Cherbourg, France, there to pick up the last of her continental passengers. At 8:30, her anchor is raised and she begins her overnight journey to Queenstown (Cobh) Ireland. I would like to add something here, TTF, if it's OK with you. It wasn't Captain Smith who provided a hint of power to the reverse of engines, but Will Murdoch, himself, aft on the Docking Bridge. Read on... quote:It is generally believed that Captain E.J. Smith reacted instantly by ordering the port engine a touch astern thus reversing the suction and pushing the New York away. But was it really Smith who executed this manoeuver? The same man who had not reacted to the Hawke but merely watched her shortly before the collision? The same man who had left everyting to pilot George Bowyer on that encounter with the Hawke? There was somebody on the Titanic who had a much better position to observe what was going on and bound to happen if nobody reacted - the same chap who had also been able to observe the collision with the Hawke quite closely although he denied it before the inquiry...2nd Class passenger Lawrence Beesley, usually regarded as a reliable observer, recalled: A first all appearance showed that the sterns of the two vessels would collide; but from the stern bridge of the Titanic an officer directing operations stopped us dead, the suction ceased, and the New York with her tug trailing behind moved obliquely down the dock, her stern gliding along the Titanic some few yards away. The officer stationed there was nobody else than 1st Officer Murdoch. His instant reaction to the developing situation shows that he had learned a lesson from the Hawke and that he indeed had observed how the cruiser had been sucked into the Olympic. Murdoch acted without receiving any order from the bridge as they had their own engine room telegraphs - the aft bridge had all the gear (telegraphs & wheel) in case of an emergency which should cause the vessel to be steered and directed from there. On this occasion the 1st Officer had been in the best position to see a stern to stern collision coming - and he had reacted by using the emergency gear without any further delay and without awaiting any orders from the bridge. ~ William McMaster Murdoch:A Career At Sea by Suzanne Stormer So you see--it was Will who heroically kept New York from colliding with Titanic. Tammy nondisclosed_email@example.com (MurdochsAid)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:25:11 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11877,from=rss#post11877https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11877,from=rss#post11877HI Titanica The whole reports of the inquiery's both are at the following link: http://www.titanicinquiry.org/ Grahamnondisclosed_email@example.com (graham 01)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:06:40 +0000 Re: Countdownhttps://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11876,from=rss#post11876https://btomdyerstitanicsitecommunity.runboard.com/p11876,from=rss#post11876Hi TTF, and well done, enjoyed reading them....please keep us updated with how the enquiry goes!! nondisclosed_email@example.com (Titanica)Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:01:14 +0000