tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post2714895753821681102..comments2024-03-25T12:31:58.169+00:00Comments on David Stimpson: This week I Am Mostly WatchingDavid Stimpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-21802850711412358562012-04-16T08:59:13.189+01:002012-04-16T08:59:13.189+01:00Hello Steve,
'A Night To Remember' has...Hello Steve,<br /><br /> 'A Night To Remember' has been re-realesed to be shown in the cinema again, watch out for it. The best factual film to be made about Titanic.<br /><br /> Yes, it was scandalous about the number of lifeboats on Titanic, but there was no regulation at the time specifying how many lifeboats a ship should have.<br /> The disater is all 'if's' if there had been enough lifeboats, if the lookouts in the cows nest had had a pair of binoculars, if Titanic had not been doing 21 knotts at the time when ice had been reported, if Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, if the ship had been stopped there and then water would not have been forced into the ship by her forward motion, and then might have survived a couple of more hours. And finally if the ship builders had used steel rivets and not iron ones, steel rivets would have been stronger. Oh yes, and if captain Smith had not been Master of Titanic......but that's another story concerning Olympic.<br /> But yes, at least some good came out of the disaster, and those poor souls did not die for nothing. Mind you not many of the passengers and crew of the Titanic actually drowned, it was the cold that got to them, hyperthermia.<br /><br />Regards<br />David<br />Be seeing youDavid Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-48219097208568241432012-04-15T19:41:52.998+01:002012-04-15T19:41:52.998+01:00One of the greatest *factual* movies made about th...One of the greatest *factual* movies made about the ill fated *Titanic* was the 1958 movie starring Kenneth More *A Night To Remember* based on John Walter Lord's excellent book of the same name which gives a minute by minute account of the events with the help of interviewing 63 survivors at the time.<br /><br />Two actors from *The Prisoner* feature in the movie.<br /><br />*Thomas Heathcote* (a patient in 'A Change Of Mind')<br />and *Kenneth Griffith* (No2 in 'The Girl Who Was Death' and the President in 'Fall Out')<br /><br />It's scandalous that the seating capacity of the lifeboats was only 1,200 when there were 2,200 on board. The reason for the shortage was the belief that the ship was unsinkable and any more would be considered *unsightly!* Had the crew hit the iceberg head on, rather than try to avoid it - the Titanic would have staid afloat and suffered far less fatalities than 1,500. But then 'hindsight' is a wonderful thing...<br /><br />On a happier note - those poor souls who were so tragically taken from us *did not die in vain.* Since the Titanic disaster, all passenger cruises are equipped with lifeboats with a seating capacity sufficient for *all* passengers.SteveJailbirdMatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936681840889232716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-45523706813485953562012-04-15T18:06:40.779+01:002012-04-15T18:06:40.779+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.SteveJailbirdMatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936681840889232716noreply@blogger.com