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The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« 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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0K-P9hSSWM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJTI-yhenbc

The mystery that surrounds the presence of the steamer Californian so close and yet...

http://www.atlanticliners.com/Images/Other%20Images/PDF/Article%20Titanic%20Mysteries%20the%20Californian%20Incident.PDF

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.

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« Last Edit: August 09, 2009, 00:27:45 by playmovictorian »
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #1 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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu_qYA2El14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OguQcRw-TA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLRkDC2yS4&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDRpRrlOm4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1KRV8YP1g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5no362qlzQ&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEMwIuvp8Ps&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zt8IDlD38Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPIEjHRbzls&feature=related
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 22:50:09 »
And for those who are "crafty" why not trying to build a model replica of the legendary liner in....toothpicks ???

Yes, you have heard it allright, 75 000 toothpicks and mountains of patience and talent for a 10 foot model of Titanic made by Wayne Kusy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JItH24uUxAk&feature=PlayList&p=2B5F33607D017818&index=18

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
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #3 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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHH1g0co6kM&feature=rec-HM-r2
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #4 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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj-FIXlTPIo&feature=related
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2009, 08:53:39 »
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2009, 11:26:54 »
On Sunday, April 14th 1912, the Chefs presented the Guests from the First Class to the Third Class with unsurpassed Menus on the Atlantic Journey



First Class Dinner Menu



First Class Lunch Menu



Titanic Second Class Dinner Menu



Third Class Breakfast



Mind you the Menus could be crafted with the passengers having paid in today's money their one way passage to New York as follows  :

First Class Parlour Suite : $4.350 ( 1912 ) - $50.000 ( Today )

Second Class : $12 ( 1912 ) - $690 ( Today )

Third Class : $3 to $8 ( 1912 ) - $172 to $460 ( Today )

Specificiations :

Costs:

Cost to build Titanic:
Then: $7,500,000
Now: $400,000,000

Linen:

6,000 table cloths
45,000 table napkins
4,000 aprons
3,600 bed covers
800 eiderdown quilts
15,000 single sheets
3,000 double sheets
7,500 blankets
15,000 pillow slips
7,500 bath towels
25,000 fine towels
3,500 roller towels

Tableware:
57,600 items of crockery
29,000 pieces of glassware
44,000 pieces of cutlery

12,000 dinner plates
2,500 breakfast plates
2,000 dessert plates
5,500 icecream plates
4,500 soup plates
1,500 coffee saucers
3,000 tea saucers
4,500 breakfast saucers
1,000 finger bowls
500 salad bowls
45,000 table napkins
40,000 towels
4,500 breakfast cups
3,000 beef tea cups
3,000 tea cups
1,500 coffee cups
1,000 cream jugs
1,000 champagne glasses
2,000 wine glasses
1,500 cocktail glasses
1,200 liquor glasses
300 celery glasses
1,200 pie dishes
1,200 pudding dishes
400 fruit dishes
400 butter dishes
400 entrée dishes
1,500 crystal dishes
400 meat dishes
400 vegtable dishes
1,500 souffle dishes
3,000 beef tea dishes
8,000 cut glass tumblers
1,200 teapots
2,000 salt shakers
500 flower vases
1,000 oyster forks
8,000 dinner forks
1,500 fish forks
1,500 fruit forks
400 butter knives
1,500 fruit knives
8,000 dessert knives
1,500 fish knives
3,000 dessert spoons
6,000 teaspoons
1,500 mustard spoons
1,500 salt spoons
2,000 egg spoons
300 nut crakers
100 grape scissors
400 asparagus tongs
400 sugar tongs
400 toast racks
400 sugar basins
300 claret jugs
1,200 coffee pots
2,500 water bottles

Provisions:
(food & drink)
Fresh Meat - 75,000 lbs
Fresh Fish - 11,000 lbs
Salt & Dried Fish - 4,000 lbs
Bacon & Ham - 7,500 lbs
Poultry & Game - 25,000 lbs
Fresh Eggs - 40,000
Sausages - 2,500 lbs
Potatoes - 40 tons
Onions - 3,500 lbs
Tomatoes - 3,500 lbs
Fresh Asparagus - 800 bundles
Fresh Green Peas - 2,500 lbs
Lettuce - 7,000 heads
Sweetbreads - 1,000
Ice Cream - 1,750 lbs
Coffee - 2,200 lbs
Tea - 800 lbs
Rice & Dried Beans - 10,000 lbs
Sugar - 10,000 lbs
Flour - 250 barrels
Cereals - 10,000 lbs
Apples - 36,000
Oranges - 36,000
Lemons - 16,000
Grapes - 1,000 lbs
Grapefruit - 13,000
Jams and Marmalade - 1,120 lbs
Fresh Milk - 1,500 gallons
Fresh Cream - 1,200 quarts
Condensed Milk - 600 gallons
Fresh Butter - 6,000 lbs
Ales and Stout - 15,000 bottles
Wines - 1,000 bottles
Spirits - 850 bottles
Minerals - 1,200 bottles
Cigars - 8,000



With the compliments of PlaymoChef
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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #7 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.").



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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #8 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 :






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Re: The Titanic story by those who experienced it
« Reply #9 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.
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