Me and my brother (a Titanic fanatic) had this on VHS growing up and watched it quite often. One time, it got accidentally taped over for, like, 5 seconds with "Blue's Clues," so it's weird to see it in full without cutting to that 😆
The coal fire was inconsequential. Coal fires were common at the time. They were limited to the bunkers and there was no reason to alert the passengers and certainly was no reason to rush to NY.
Thank you, falcon664. You saved me from having to say the same thing. I stopped watching at that point because all but the sinking and the tragedy of it would be bs.
Inconsequential? I don't think so. Yes, there may have been small coal fires on ships around that time. But, the fire on Titanic was a whole nother story for several reasons. The fire started about 2 days before setting sail, and was still roaring when Titanic when down. Along with the firemen on Titanic's crew, there were also 20+ firemen from the surrounding area working alongside the Titanic crew, and even remained onboard and perished. The location the fire weakened not just the rivets, but the steel plates as well. Which was a major factor in the extensive damage the iceberg caused. The fire is a significant part of Titanic's story.
@@Nacho-Mamma The fire was inconsequential to the sinking and, in the context of this video, was no reason to speed to NY. The firemen on these ships were also known as stokers- the stoked the fires, kept the fires in the furnaces burning. They were not the firemen that we see putting out fires. There were no extra firemen- possibly one. The Titanic needed 162 firemen/stokers and 13 Firemen leaders/Stoker Foremen. There was 163 firemen and 13 leaders on board. At best, the fire may have weakened the bunker wall, but it did not weaken the bulkhead or hull. The bunker wall did fail after an hour or so of holding water back, possibly weakened, but that was certainly under more stress than it was designed to handle. Thomas Andrews was surely aware of the fire, and he gave the ship maybe 1.5 hours she lasted an hour more than that. While the fire is a part of the Titanic story, it is inconsequential to the sinking.
An astounding conclusion that all the rivets popped when the evidence is buried deep beneath the sea bed. The scuba divers were a little off key, too. Another great old documentary though.
I own this Documentary on VHS and this is one Titanic documentary I know of with several mistakes such as most of these footage are mixture of the Lusitania and Olympic. They don't even show the small real footage of the ship. Most of the wreck footage are of different shipwreck because you are not able to dive to the wreck of the Titanic. Some were between 12:40 and 12:56 it is mentioned that the ship had special features of inflatable life rafts but there were no life rafts nor were they around until world war ll but there were four collapsible boats which the documentary fails to mention.
The commentary makes the point that the ships navigator made a mistake in trying to slow the ship down in order to avoid the berg. I think this is faulty physics. I think he did the right thing and the only thing that he could have done given the ships speed and foward momentem; and he almost made it! Time is the critical factor in making a course change. foward speed and momentum are limiting factors on that critical time factor, not an advantage! And a bow collision with the berg was a huge unknown!
Thing is though research indicates that the engines never stopped let alone reversed before the collision so she was still clipping along at full ahead when the collision happened.
@@Milner62 Here's where a faulty design comes into play. The rudder was too small. I read that when they found the engine telegraph, it was in the full reverse setting.
@@imperiallebaron2391, first off her rudder was not too small that is a myth that has been disproven. As far as the order on the telegraph goes, that doesnt matter. Witnesses state the engines never were put in reverse before the collision.
It would have been much better if the crew had been given binoculars to watch for icebergs. They may have been able to initiate missing the iceberg had they been able to see it while at a further distance.
Maybe they should have stopped and reversed the engines towards the boat they seen off the port bow. Going in reverse may have slowed the water intake and possibly got them closer to another ship. Just a thought.
The commentary makes no sense about the ship having no choice but to race on once the berg was spotted because of the fire. The ship had to be known to be on fire at Cherborg! Why was the the ship not abandoned there? Everyone included all those third class people would have survived. And another thing about the commentary, it gave percentage survival stats for first class and second class,but only raw numbers for thirdclass. why
most images are olympic, there was little or no fanfare for titanics departure, it was the second ship. olympic had the limelight in 1911...the fire was of no interest.....thankfully most of the contents of this video have been corrected, and the contents of this vhs should be tossed on the fire....
its mad how many get Titanics weight wrong....Even James Cameron said Titanic weighed over 46,000 tons....and while she did weigh over 46,000 tons there are those who dont know the difference between a ton and a gross ton.................................................52,310
But they did. It was cheap to get steerage across the Atlantic in huge numbers with very low operating costs, unlike 1st Class. The other money-maker was the mail contract. The flash fittings and posh passengers were the selling point but the money was all in the mass market.
