Titanic sinking in real time on the 112th anniversary

The reality was somewhat different.

[quote] Can you believe it was 112 years ago tonight?

Yes. I can believe it. Why wouldn't I?

Gee, OP, feels like it was just last week.

I remember the bitchy Datalounger that night who posted, "While you are talking about souffles and gossiping, let me inform you that the Titanic is sinking."

Of course in those days we used Morse code on ticker tape machines.

I remember I watched it on CNN.

Will the lifeboats be seated according to class?

I hope they’re not too crowded!

Yes I was around in 97' and remember it well.

I made it out of steerage by the skin of my dick.

John Jacob Astor IV is fine. He sends his love.

[quote]I remember the bitchy Datalounger that night who posted, "While you are talking about souffles and gossiping, let me inform you that the Titanic is sinking."

That was the first night a DLer ever posted, "What was on their Victrola?"

[quote]I made it out of steerage by the skin of my dick.

Pics please!

It had a hot stern but it couldn’t float forever.

These people are really talented. The details are incredible.

What's so special about a 112th anniversary of anything?

"What's so special about a 112th anniversary of anything?"

Everything i$ $pecial when your loved one$ are involved.

I have actual little pieces of coal that I got directly from the downtown NY office of the guy who found it. It's the only thing that can be sold and he financed his trips back down with it. It was when the movie was released at Christmas and my friends went and after the movie I gave them each some. Best Xmas gift I ever gave. Mary! I know

I thought about this last evening, too, OP.

And 68 years later, it was raised!

[quote] I’m sure some of you were alive and remember it.

But we still look 24.

I just heard a terrific 5-part series on Titanic on the British podcast The Rest is History. I had seen quite a few documentaries about it, but they had a lot of information I didn't know, including overturning a number of the well-worn myths. There are hundreds of episodes of the podcast, but the Titanic series aired during 2024 so you should be able to find it easily.

Watch TASTING HISTORY with Max Miller. He has a few videos on YouTube that looks at how the passengers and crew dined onboard. He even makes a couple of recipes. He’s so adorable too.

R20 there are 6 parts

Oops, sorry and thanks, R22.

The sky was so clear that night.

R20, i heard it too and it was really great, until rhen i

Too soon, i was going to say until then I hadn’t much interest on the subject. One thing that was horrible and I didn’t realize was how many of the lifeboats were not filled to capacity.

Agree with r21's recommendation of Max Miller's videos.

He combines recipes with historical facts. Very interesting. The families of the orchestra members were sent bills for their deceased relatives' uniforms. He has a lot of info about what took place before and after and about the passengers who lived. He has a Titanic Playlist with six or so videos.

....and Max is very nice to look at.

Erna was on the Titanic.....

Rose you're so stupid!

Max Miller should be the top for the skinny baker twink who bakes all the old shit from old cookbooks.

I was but a wee little lad when the ship went down.

My 50th high school reunion was ruined!

Hardeeharhar. Some of you are a gas!

Wall to wall coverage on CNN for days!

Meanwhile Fox News said it was a conspiracy theory and the ship had really been torpedoed by Teddy Roosevelt followers.

Rose was such a greedy slut. She cheated on her fiance and then had the nerve to keep his necklace. I always thought the ending of that movie was so tacky.

[quote]Rose was such a greedy slut.

Is 4chan down today?

We were not pleased when our waiter informed us that Margaret Brown had ordered the last of the Red Dragon Cheese. She was much fatter and uglier than the lovely Miss Debbie Reynolds' film portrayal of her.

Do you think that there were any gays onboard, who understanding the gravity of the situation, decided to go down with the ship while fucking their brains out one last time.

Statistically speaking at least a 100 of them, R38

Clinch Smith and Colonel Archibald Gracie. They vowed to go down together but were separated by a wave that broke over the ship. Gracie survived the sinking but died eight months later.

[quote] I remember the bitchy Datalounger that night who posted, "While you are talking about souffles and gossiping, let me inform you that the Titanic is sinking.

Was the thread titled "Titanic is an insatiable bottom"?

[quote]Can you believe it was 112 years ago tonight?

That’s it? Seems like that movie was 112 years ago.

[quote]Was the thread titled "Titanic is an insatiable bottom"?

No, because the Northern Atlantic was the insatiable bottom in that encounter.

[quote]No, because the Northern Atlantic was the insatiable bottom in that encounter.

No, the Titanic was begging for more iceberg.

Were there gays on the Titanic?

Whoops, ignore the post at R45 since someone JUST asked it.

[quote]Clinch Smith and Colonel Archibald Gracie. They vowed to go down together but were separated by a wave that broke over the ship. Gracie survived the sinking but died eight months later.

There was another Archibald, an aide to President Taft, Archibald Butt (seriously) and his lover, the painter Francis Millet. They both died.

The abject terror of the darkness, the freezing water, that massive ship slowly sinking and then suddenly appearing to 'stand' upright in the water.. It doesn't bear thinking about.

Washington insiders were aware of Butt and Millet's relationship. The Butt-Millet fountain in Washington DC was built in their honor. Very progressive for 1913!

The ocean temp was around 28 degrees in that area when it happened. Brrrrrrrrrrr!

R40 There's no proof that either of those men were homosexual. Sounds like a whole fantasy you created in your mind.

Several of the passengers and at least one of the crew members were suspected of being family.

Here’s the animation without the commentary in full quality. It’s in 4K if your phone, tablet, or computer gives you the option.

I couldn’t believe she sank, and on the anniversary of Lincoln’s death, too! DataLounge was a telegraph service in those days. We thought ol’ Abe would pull through and then the dot, dot dash of a shriek was read….

The passengers didn't drown. They were killed by vaccines!

[quote]I couldn’t believe she sank, and on the anniversary of Lincoln’s death, too! DataLounge was a telegraph service in those days. We thought ol’ Abe would pull through and then the dot, dot dash of a shriek was read….

I was working the DL Marconi room the night Titanic sank...

This book actually has an interesting chapter on passengers who may have been gay

Here's some more info on Butt & Millet

I'm still here!

[quote]There was another Archibald, an aide to President Taft, Archibald Butt (seriously) and his lover, the painter Francis Millet. They both died.

According to the podcast, the President was inconsolable. No indication he was inappropriately involved with Archibald, just that he liked him tremendously and thought he was great at his job despite (by the standards of the day) most likely knowing he was gay. I guess add to that the horror of the event itself.

Frank Millet was definitely in the Datalounge Marconi room back in 1912. This is from a letter he posted from the Titanic:

[quote]There are a number of obnoxious, ostentatious American women, the scourge of any place they infest and worse on shipboard than anywhere

Ah, those Titanic days.

R62 what a strange song. Even stranger that the singer died in a boating accident.