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"Steve B" wrote:

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Mark wrote:

One hundred years ago today, the Titanic was launched in Belfast at
the Harland and Wolff shipyard.



I've always wondered,

after the collision, if the captian had elected to keep the ship
alongside the iceberg, if the passangers could have climbed onto the
iceberg and used it as a life boat.

Mark
Hi,
His only concern was keeping the schedule arriving on time at NYC.
If he slowed down or altered the course to avoid the iceberg disaster
could be averted. Sad history. Mother nature is merciless.

IIRC, the course took it into an "iceberg field", or an area where multiple
icebergs had been reported. As you say, a small alteration in course would
have taken it south of the "field", and things may have turned out
different.

Of course, corporate would not have been pleased, and I'm sure the captain
would not have made the return voyage.

It was one of the most avoidable accidents in history.

Steve

Wikipedia says Titanic's radio operators rec'd iceberg reports from
other ships, but were too busy handling passenger "correspondence" to
bother relaying those warnings to the bridge. Here are a couple of
quotes from wikipedia:

"Sunday at 1:45 pm,[note 2] a message from the steamer Amerika warned
that large icebergs lay in Titanic's path, but because wireless radio
operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride were employed by Marconi,[48]
and paid primarily to relay messages to and from the passengers,[49]
they were not focused on relaying "non-essential" ice messages to the
bridge.[50] Later that evening, another report of numerous large
icebergs, this time from Mesaba, also failed to reach the bridge."

and

"Just before the Californian's wireless operator had gone off-duty at
around 23:00, he attempted to warn Titanic that there was ice ahead, but
he was cut off by an annoyed Jack Phillips. Occupied with sending
backlogged passenger messages, Phillips fired back an angry response,
"Shut up, shut up, I am busy ..."