Shadows of the Titanic

Are you still going to Halifax? Take pictures please!

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:02:19 -0400

Yes! I will definitely be going to Halifax! Unfortunately, it will not be on the anniversary this...

Billionaire Unveils New "Titanic II

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:51:00 -0400

Billionaire Unveils New "Titanic II: NEW YORK — Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled plans...

Hey guys! Just wanted to welcome all the new followers and say thanks for taking an interest in our...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:37:56 -0400

Hey guys! Just wanted to welcome all the new followers and say thanks for taking an interest in our...

titanicrealtime: Water-stained violin proven to be the one that...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:30:05 -0400

titanicrealtime:

Water-stained violin proven to be the one that played Nearer my God to Thee by Wallace Hartley as the Titanic sank is found. [x]

It is the instrument that he played as the ship went down in the Atlantic, and that he later used as a buoyancy aid once Titanic went down.

The violin was discovered only by chance when the son of an amateur musician found it in his attic. It was given to his mother by her violin teacher and was left gathering dust.

The discovery was almost too good to be true, prompting experts to have the relic forensically examined by some of the most revered scientific bodies in Britain.

Now, after seven years of testing at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds, the water-stained violin has been proven to be the one played by Hartley on the night of the tragedy.

These pictures show how incredibly well-preserved the rose wood violin is despite its age and it being exposed to the sea for 10 days after the sinking.

There are two long cracks on its body that are said to have been opened up by moisture damage.

The photos also show the corroded engraved silver plate screwed onto the base of the fiddle that provided scientists with they key proof of its authenticity.

The historic violin, said to be worth a six figure sum, will go on public display at the Belfast City Hall, where Titanic was built, at the end of March.

Negotiations are also under way to exhibit it in museums around the world including America. It is likely to be auctioned off in the future.

Titanic experts have described it as the most important artefact associated with the infamous liner to have come to light.

honorgloryandsteel: Here’s a colorization I did last year of...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:06:54 -0500

honorgloryandsteel:

Here’s a colorization I did last year of RMS.Titanic in Southampton. This is the photo edit I am most proud of.

thats-not-titanic: The Aft Grand Staircase on Olympic....

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:08:00 -0500

thats-not-titanic:

The Aft Grand Staircase on Olympic. Titanic’s would have been almost identical, except on Titanic the lower level in this photo (B Deck) was a more open, white-paneled reception room for the A la Carte Restaurant. This room would later be added on Olympic in a different configuration, but in this photo you only see a corridor in the background.

titanic-honor-and-glory: Renders of the First Class Enquiry and...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:02:39 -0500

titanic-honor-and-glory:

Renders of the First Class Enquiry and Purser’s Office aboard the Titanic. This area is currently being placed in-game, and it will serve as an important area in Titanic: Honor and Glory’s story.

Images 1-2: Enquiry Office. The Enquiry Office was located on C Deck adjacent to the First Class Entrance or “Grand Staircase”. Like the reception desk at a large hotel would, it is through this office that first class passengers conducted much of their onboard business, including the submission of various requests, the purchase of postage stamps and train tickets, hiring of motorcars at ports of call, and the sending and receiving of telegrams. There was a post box for passengers to drop letters in, and just outside the office were three queue dividers and a brochure rack.

Image 3: Telegram tube. The brass object in the corner of the wall was a pneumatic tube that ran between the Enquiry Office on C Deck and the Marconi Office on the Boat Deck. It was much like the pneumatic tubes you see at modern banks, except it was used to send telegrams between the two offices. A first class passenger could fill in a telegram form at the front desk (paying by the letter), and the staff would put it into the tube, sending it quickly to the Marconi Office. There, a wireless operator would transmit the message in Morse Code to wherever it was supposed to go. For incoming messages for passengers, the wireless operator would receive the message in Morse Code, jot it down on a telegram, and put that into the tube, sending it to the Enquiry Office. From there, the telegram would be delivered to the recipient.

Image 4: Safe. In the Enquiry Office was also a large safe, likely manufactured by Ratner. If first class passengers had money or other valuables they did not wish to keep in their staterooms or carry with them, they could check them into the Enquiry Office to be locked in the safe during the voyage.

Images 5-6: Purser’s Office. Adjacent to the Enquiry Office was the Purser’s Office. Both offices operated essentially as one, with the Enquiry Office acting as an extension of the Purser’s Office. The Chief Purser was in charge of the ship’s general administration, and was essentially the onboard business manager, accountant, and chief clerk. Along with his assistants, he handled the filling in of freight and passenger manifests and other bookkeeping matters. The Chief Purser’s other responsibilities included the answering of passengers’ questions and concerns, the resolution of any problems they may have, and the prompt and satisfactory fulfillment of any passengers’ unusual requests. The Chief Purser had to be familiar with the entire ship and everyone on it, and as a result of his duties was probably the second most well-known person on the ship, after the Captain. The Chief Purser aboard the Titanic was Hugh R.W. McElroy.

Modeled by Matthew DeWinkeleer
Rendered by Kyle Hudak
Information from Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, Vol.1

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magnificenttitanic: A few things, just for future...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:01:01 -0500

magnificenttitanic:

A few things, just for future reference:

The top photo is not from Titanic or any other Olympic Class Liner. Titanic’s life rings didn’t have the ship’s name on them, and Titanic’s port of registry was Liverpool, not London.

The middle-left photo of a ship being launched is of Cunard’s RMS Queen Mary, not Titanic.

The bottom-left photo is not from any Olympic Class Liner, and was in fact taken in 1963.

The bottom-center photo is of Titanic’s sister ship Olympic, not Titanic itself.

Only the middle-right and bottom-right photos are of Titanic.

magnificenttitanic: risto-the-dreamer: So I founded that text...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:18:46 -0500

magnificenttitanic:

risto-the-dreamer:

So I founded that text from Interner:

RMS Titanic was in fact the RMS Olympic - Insurance fraud by JP Morgan

Hi everyone,

I was reading Uncensored magazine last night and there was an excellent article on the Titanic. I decided to do some of my own investigation and tracked down some old photos of both vessels being built, and then, when the Titanic was launched on it’s ill-fated voyage.

For those of you unfamiliar with the background or significance of this, the RMS Olympic had recently crashed into the HMS Hawke, causing a huge amount of damage to both vessels and ripping a gaping hole in the stern of the Olympic, as well as buckling her hull and snapping the tailshaft.

The ship needed to be rebuilt completely at a massive cost to JP Morgan, who was facing a huge insurance loss.

So he ordered that the Olympic and Titanic were to trade places, and new name plates were riveted over the top of the etched ones. All the identifying items such as crockery etc were swapped also.

Knowing that this vessel was a complete right-off anyway, he sent it to a watery grave where no-one could question it, and made sure to increase the insurance on it a few weeks prior to it departing.

The real Titanic, now re-named the RMS Olympic would keep running in perfect condition and was eventually sold for scrap, and cut up.

However, not many people realised that there were a few minor differences in the two vessels.

The RMS Titanic, when it was built in Ireland, had 14 portholes at the front, and large evenly spaced windows on the second deck.

The RMS Olympic, when it was built side by side the Titanic, had 16 Portholes at the front, and thin, unevenly spaced windows on the second deck.

Notice the difference between the photos of the Titanic being built, and then after the two ships have swapped identities.

Who would know?

But now we know…

Straker

Here is the thread!

What do you think about this?

I think this is utter bullshit, that’s what I think. Or to put it another way:

I’ve seen a lot about this whole switch theory, it’s nothing new, and it has been debunked left and right by people who actually know what they’re talking about. First of all…

In this image, the top image is actually Titanic, not Olympic. But there’s a reason for the different windows, and it’s not the switch theory:

When Olympic was designed and built, they had two full-length promenades, one on A Deck, and one on B Deck.

When Titanic was designed and built, it was mainly to Olympic’s specifications, which at first included both full promenades. When Titanic was launched (not finished, just put in the water and sent to be fitted out), she had the entire A Deck promenade open like Olympic, and also had a full B Deck promenade, hence the evenly-spaced larger windows. However, during fitting-out they decided to add some features and change some things on Titanic based on various observations they made on Olympic, which had already been sailing for a little while. On A Deck, they enclosed a section of the promenade. On B Deck ,they eliminated most of the promenade, extending cabins and the a La Carte Restaurant out to the side and leaving a few sections of original promenade for the private promenades and Cafe Parisien. The cabins and restaurant necessitated smaller windows, so they removed the original plating with the large windows and installed new plating with the new window arrangement, except for the windows in the remaining sections of promenade, hence the new window layout.

On Olympic, the A Deck promenade was never enclosed, but they did eventually make similar changes to B Deck, extending the cabins and so forth. However, this wasn’t done until sometime after Titanic’s sinking during a later refit.

For this image:

The difference in the B Deck windows, thin and wide ones, has already been explained.

Photos of the Titanic during construction and launch do show 14 portholes on the bow, and then during fitting out and later there are 16. However, this is also because of changes made during fitting out, not because the ships were switched. It would have been simple matter to add a couple portholes. The location of the T is also explainable The name seen there is either the result of temporary markings or “photoshopped” into the image. Another photo of Titanic just before launch clearly shows the T in the same place as it is later on in the left photo.

The same change to the portholes was also made on Olympic later on, and most photos I see of Olympic pre and post 1913 refit, and during the rest of her career, show 16 portholes as well.

Additionally, a crap documentary about the supposed switch says that the name letters were “riveted” on over the Olympic letters. They went on to say that some letters had fallen off on the wreck and then showed footage of an M and a P on the wreck which was clearly a work of fake CG. Fact is, the letters TITANIC were etched or cut into the hull plating, not riveted, unable to fall off. The letters are still on the wreck, and nobody has ever seen an M or P on the wreck. The only people who have seen that are idiots who watch that documentary, see the fake M and P on the footage, and believe it.

So, the first post on that thread seems to base their idea that the ships were switched on evidence that actually isn’t evidence of a switch at all and is easily explainable by what we like to call “facts” and “history”, known to people who actually know what the hell they’re talking about and don’t just spend all day on conspiracy forums hating the government and banks and talking about how everything is a conspiracy. There’s more, though:

The windows and portholes and promenades weren’t the only differences. There were numerous differences, mostly minor, between both ships on their interiors and exteriors. It would have taken a hell of a lot of work by thousands of shipyard workers to change everything, ad to do it unquestioningly with nobody talking about it? It’s all one big impossibility. There’s so much more to this that I couldn’t possibly get into it here.

Sufficed to say, this switch theory was concocted in the mid 1990s by a plasterer with too much time on his hands and an active imagination. His effort to convince people it was a conspiracy is nothing more than twisted and made up facts and an overall dish of dishonesty. The same goes for the aforementioned documentary featuring a man whose jaw would have been enough to sink Titanic (oh, I’m sorry, I mean Olympic, how foolish of me). Since his idea popped up, we’ve had lots of time to actually check the facts, something conspiracy theorists don’t do. No actual evidence has ever been found that even remotely indicates the ships were switched, and in any case it’s an entirely absurd proposal to make that makes no sense at all, unless you’ve been drinking too much conspiracy juice, like those who believe the World Trade Center towers were brought down by missiles with hologram planes around them or a super ray gun, or that the Moon Landing was faked, or that lizards are running the planet.

If you really want to get into this ridiculous “theory” and find out why it’s bunk, please read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Titanic-Olympic-Which-Ship-ebook/dp/B007HOSD0G - “Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank” by Bruce Beveridge and Steve Hall, people who actually know what they’re talking about.

You can also read two online articles that go into some detail about the conspiracy theory, concocted by a guy named Robin Gardiner, and why it’s bunk, here: http://www.paullee.com/titanic/switch.html - And here: http://www.markchirnside.co.uk/Conspiracy_Dissertation.pdf

For people who are already skeptical of this switch idea or already don’t believe it, of course, the aforementioned information and any debunking would be plenty. Unfortunately, most conspiracy theorists will not budge. I can say what I want, those authors and all the world’s Titanic experts can say what they want, and the conspiracy nuts can be shown everything that one can show them that disproves their idea, but they will still believe it’s a conspiracy, and that the ships really were switched, because they don’t accept reality. They would rather live in their own reality where they can make sense of everything by their own standards and convince themselves they live in a world where all events are orchestrated by evil governments and other parties. Conspiracies like these are, in a sense, a religion for these people, and believing them a matter of faith propped up by falsified evidence, fabricated facts, and misunderstandings and pure ignorance, with shoddy logic thrown in. So for the hardcore conspiracy believers, no amount of argument will convince them otherwise and posts like the one I have just written are ultimately useless.

However, I have written my brief rebuttal not necessarily in the hope that those hardcore believers will see why they’re full of malarkey, but so that someone out there who isn’t a complete imbecile will be able to tell when said bunk is being thrown at them.

I leave you with this:

Just wanted to say hello and thank you to all my lovely new followers! :D I’m working on some...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:36:43 -0500

Just wanted to say hello and thank you to all my lovely new followers! :D I’m working on some...

titanic-honor-and-glory: A new render of the Titanic exterior...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:28:13 -0500

titanic-honor-and-glory:

A new render of the Titanic exterior model WIP showing one small, but very important, new detail; The name on the bow.

A big thanks to Nicolas Murgia, who supplied the font design used for the name textures. The model is far from finished, but the addition of the ship’s name seems to make it feel much more complete.

Modeled & rendered by Kyle Hudak

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:14:00 -0500

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:12:00 -0500

In regards to my biographies...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:01:00 -0500

Someone had asked about my sources and if I accept submissions. If you have any information, images...

Miss Kornelia Theodosia Andrews

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:32:00 -0500

[No photo available]Status: Survived (Lifeboat...

Status: Survived (Lifeboat...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:19:00 -0500

Status: Survived (Lifeboat #3)
Class: First
Age: 47
Ticket: #19952
Cabin: E12
Born: 10/20/1864
M.S.: Married to Mrs. Florence “Flora” Makley Anderson
D.O.D.: 11/23/1951
Travelling With: None
Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, NY

Mr. Harry Anderson was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and moved to the United States in his youth. He became a Wallstreet stockbroker and lived in New York’s Upper West Side. In 1912 he was returning from a business and pleasure trip in England.

Mr. Anderson left in Lifeboat #3, one of the first boats to leave the ship. He returned to New York on the Carpathia.

In 1926 he married Florence Makley, born in 1881 and previously married to a Joseph Mory Daggett who died from a short illness in 1916. The couple had no children. He was commodore of the New York Athletic Club’s yacht division, and later in life was a member of the Larchmont Yacht Club.

Florence passed away on 12/7/1937. Mr. Anderson passed away at the age of 87 in New York at New Rochelle Hospital with no surviving relatives. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in NY.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:56:01 -0500

creativenative1981: The three sisters, what beautiful ships...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:55:38 -0500

creativenative1981:

The three sisters, what beautiful ships they were.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:55:21 -0500

*A photo of Jack and/or Rose.* *A photo of Leonardo DiCaprio and/or Kate Winslet having nothing to...

furiousfe: The construction Slipway. Titanic was built on the...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:47:42 -0500

furiousfe:

The construction Slipway. Titanic was built on the Left and the Olympic on the right. Such a lovely memorial.