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Recommended and highly on topic: Titanic: The Mission
The new BBC 4 TV program _Titanic: The Mission_ is about a small crew of
metalworkers in Belfast reproducing portions of the Titanic at full scale using sometimes original technology and sometimes more modern methods. http://www.channel4.com/ http://binsearch.info/index.php?q="titanic.the.mission"&max=25&adv_age=7 30 |
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Recommended and highly on topic: Titanic: The Mission
Why? Don't they have something better to do?
Steve "Richard J Kinch" wrote in message . .. The new BBC 4 TV program _Titanic: The Mission_ is about a small crew of metalworkers in Belfast reproducing portions of the Titanic at full scale using sometimes original technology and sometimes more modern methods. http://www.channel4.com/ http://binsearch.info/index.php?q="titanic.the.mission"&max=25&adv_age=7 30 |
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Recommended and highly on topic: Titanic: The Mission
Richard J Kinch wrote:
... http://www.channel4.com/ http://binsearch.info/index.php?q="titanic.the.mission"&max=25&adv_age=7 30 Neither of those links return anything about the subject. Are further clicks/search needed? Bob |
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Recommended and highly on topic: Titanic: The Mission
Bob Engelhardt writes:
Neither of those links return anything about the subject. You have to search for the program on the BBC Web site. This will provide general information. The binsearch.info link is to download the .avi video file from alt.binaries.multimedia. You'll need a newsreader capable of using .nzb files, and likely a Usenet service provider you pay for. This is the only way to watch TV nowadays. |
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Recommended and highly on topic: Titanic: The Mission
On Sep 28, 11:53*am, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Richard J Kinch wrote: ... http://www.channel4.com/ http://binsearch.info/index.php?q="titanic.the.mission"&max=25&adv_age=7 30 Neither of those links return anything about the subject. Are further clicks/search needed? Bob Here are the American and British inquest transcripts: http://www.titanicinquiry.org/ in which the accounts verified by the wreck are mixed with other conflicting ones that became the accepted truth. The captains' testimony from Carpathia and Californian is interesting for several reasons, mostly ignored in the legends. Smith diverted so far southward to dodge the ice, well before reaching the area, that rescuer Carpathia had been sailing toward Gibraltar. The latitude of the wreck (42N) is south of Monaco (43N). Carpathia was headed for Titanic's erroneous reported position, about ten miles west of the actual sinking site, but luckily grazed near the field of lifeboats and heard a dog barking. She had raced through the same ice without hitting or even seeing it, until dawn revealed icebergs VERY close all around. When Californian's radio operator came on at 6AM they didn't connect the SOS position to the west with the big ship seen earlier to the south, which looked like it had sailed away over the horizon, and they raced off at nearly a right angle to Titanic's lifeboats. Shortly before the 11:40 PM collision Titanic's radio operator was sending a backlog of passenger messages and told Californian's operator to shut up, so he did and went to bed. Titanic's crew had many stewards but few able seamen and the lifeboats weren't handled well. We know the exact extent of the tear because a stoker from the flooded forward boiler room was drafted to operate a lifeboat. Even if another ship had responded quickly it's doubtful the crews could have transferred everyone fast enough. The overlapping plates and protruding rivet heads tended to catch and spill the lifeboats. This may be the reason some were launched partially full, with the intent to pick up more people from the boarding hatches low on the hull. Titanic wasn't quite at full boiler pressure (speed) and was several knots short of being able to set a record. jsw |
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