Creative => Story-Telling => Topic started by: playmovictorian on August 09, 2009, 00:16:14
Title: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmovictorian on August 09, 2009, 00:16:14
I have chosen Joseph Bruce Ismay - chairman of the White Star Line - as my avatar for his incarnation of the exagerations, triumphes and tragedies of the Victorian industrial era.
The ship associated with his name was said to be the largest moving object ever built by man, the most luxurious liner of all times. Her maiden voyage's passengers list can be read like a who's who of Victorian Society and the world thought she was the safest ship afloat, the "unsikable"...
Until she met her fate at 11.40pm on April, 14th 1912.
Here is her story in the words of those who experienced it and a rare footage of her sistership Olympic as there is no existing footage of Titanic...
And the last ever picture of the legendary liner as she is seen slowly steaming from the Queenstown harbor after gaining passengers, mail, and raising anchor. The time was shortly after 1:55 p.m. on April 11, 1912.
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmovictorian on August 10, 2009, 21:10:10
"Titanic...Death of a Dream"
An amazing documentary about the splendours and arrogance of an Era that ended on a fateful Sunday night, April 14th 1912...
This will take you into a captivating journey through the last years of the glorious Victorian Era to meet the real Joseph Bruce Ismay and all the actors of the most famous maritime disaster of all times...
This really is a one of a kind documentary with stunning period pictures and atmosphere that will take you back to the best and worst of Victorian Era...
And as Wayne has a fondness for famous liners, here are a 16 foot Lusitania made of 194 000 toothpicks and a 25 foot Queen Mary made of no less than 814 000 toothpicks :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ODPEavGbUA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj4xdzMX2h4
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmovictorian on August 12, 2009, 20:15:42
1912 was also the year of another maritime disaster...almost disaster...well, can a disaster have a happy ending ? Anyway, here are the tribulations of the Tripolitania Steamer who arrived in England in the most peculiar way on Christmas day 1912...
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmovictorian on August 12, 2009, 20:23:19
1907 saw the launching of a beautiful liner named Principessa Jolanda, but unlike Titanic did not even wait until her maiden voyage to meet her untimely fate...someone get me the Ship designer right now and I do not care if his plate of Spaghetti Bolognese turn cold as we have just experienced a "problem" at launching...
With the compliments of PlaymoChef(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5821/playmochef.jpg) (http://img222.imageshack.us/i/playmochef.jpg/)
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: Gepetto on September 14, 2009, 15:24:35
Thank you Karim, this is very interesting and of course I love the menus and provisions list!
I find the Titanic story almost too tragic to read about, not just the passengers (who always get the majority of attention) but the crew and how poorly they were treated by White Star. I appreciate this was a different time but even so feel the sacrifice and suffering of the crew goes unappreciated (White Star calculated the crews pay to end at the time the ship started sinking "They were paid to work, they can drown on their own time.").
Gepetto
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmovictorian on April 13, 2010, 22:57:47
Today, 14th April 2010 marks the 98th Anniversary of Titanic's tragedy :'(
The last S.O.S / C.Q.D sent by Titanic's Marconi Operators :
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: Justindo on April 14, 2010, 02:54:30
This is all very interesting, Karim. Thank you for finding and assembling all of these fascinating facts about the Titanic for the anniversary of her death.
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmo1989 on April 14, 2010, 16:37:22
very intresting :camera: did jack dawson and rose dewitt bukater really existed or they were imaginated charackters because i've seen their real photos in one of the links not the ones you posted it was on the side karim??
Title: Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
Post by: playmo1989 on April 14, 2010, 22:43:16
very intresting :camera: did jack dawson and rose dewitt bukater really existed or they were imaginated charackters because i've seen their real photos in one of the links not the ones you posted it was on the side karim??
forgot my heart will go on.........enjoy :wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU