Titanic. Did you know?

[Hopkirk]

Titanic only had three operating funnels.

The fourth was a dummy, to make her look more impressive.

You can tell in this picture

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/titanic-9.jpg

[237SJ]

Yes. That was quite well known at the time, I believe.

[jno]

steerage passengers slept in the fourth funnel.

[Hopkirk]

Now that I didn't know, Jno.

[jno]

that's because I've only just made it up. I feel it should be more widely circulated.

[237SJ]

Didn`t the steeridge passengers sleep/live below the waterline?

[jno]

yes, I should think so. Not a lot of creature comforts, but a fairly cheap way of emigrating (assuming you didn't hit any icebergs).

[237SJ]

Hopkirk - if you want to read a really intersting book - I`m reading Shadow of the Titanic by Andrew Wilson at the mo. It charts the lives of the Titanic survivors after the event. It gives a fascinating insight into the survivors and how their lives paned out after their suffering during the shipwreck.

[MarkRae]

^^ Not least of which the absolute public vilification of Ismay...

[237SJ]

Absolutely MarkRae. I`m not so sure life is so simple though. The book explained things very well though.

[MarkRae]

It really was public vengeance, though. Ismay was pretty much the head honcho at the White Star Line, but he didn't actually design the ship. Yet, for having the temerity not to do the decent thing and die, he was treated something just short of Judas for the rest of his life...

[237SJ]

Absolutely he was MarkRae. Such was the media at the time. And I thought the Daily Mail was bad. Maybe things haven`t changed much in the last 100 years.

[FredPuli43]

Most curious consequence of the sinking was the mysterious disqualification of the first colt past the post in the 'Suffragette Derby' on the 4th of June 1913, where the protestor Emily Wilding Davison was fatally injured when falling under the King's horse. Nobody involved in the race could understand why the stewards had acted. The reason became clear later. As was customary then, the colt had been entered by an owner using a pseudonym. The stewards though the owner behind the pseudonym was the hated Bruce Ismay. In fact, the owner was an innocent relative of Ismay . The stewards had acted simply out of dislike for Bruce Ismay. Having his colt win the Derby would have been too much.

[friedgreentomato]

The extra funnel was added because other steamers of equal class of the time has 4 and white star line did not want people to think that their liner was subclass!

[commoner]

All interesting stuff..but did you know that a new Titanic is being built...all the splendour of the old one but with mod cons......and it WILL sink if it gets a hole in it just like the first one.....Anyone for a cruise?...mmm...don't all rush for tickets :-) Media URL: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120430/NEWS01/120430016/WORLD-Australian-billionaire-build-new-Titanic
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[commoner]

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sorry ...

[john1066]

Yes the fourth funnel was a 'dummy',but there was a fifth dummy...Bruce Ismay!!

[chaptazbru]

On one of the many programmes on TV recently about the Titanic, a worker from the depths of the ship escaped up through the fourth funnel because he knew it was a fake and would be safe to climb up.

[emmie]

i saw that, but he got to the top and there was no where to go, so died with the ship, or at least that is how it seemed.

[Zeuhl]

Conditions in steerage on Titanic were better than on their competitors' ships; the steerage business was well worth having and White Star were keen to attract them.