[CW] Titanic

[Richard Knoppow]

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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 8:57 AM
Subject: [CW] Titanic


>I read on the website  from PD3TRU
> http://www.bert.trumpie.org/btrumpie/PD3TRU/pd3tru_17.htm
>
> "
> Earlier in the week I visited the Titanic exhibition in 
> Amsterdam. Very well setup. It is as if you walk through 
> the ship. In the engine room you even hear the engine 
> roaring.

    Those interested in the Titanic should read:

The Titanic Disaster Hearings: the Official Transcripts of 
the 1912 US Senate Investigation

    This is available from Amazon.

    There was so much wrong that its hard to know where to 
start. The investigation detailed by the book was by the 
United States Congress, spearheaded by a congressman from my 
home state of Michigan.  If he had not pushed to find out 
the truth the Brits would have covered the whole thing up.
    Everyone knows the Titanic did not have enough life 
boats to go around  but even though the regulations covering 
safety of life at sea were changed the Lucitania, which was 
torpedoed and sank a few years later also had life boat 
problems.  While the Lucitania had enough lifeboats many 
(maybe most) of them could not be launched due to the design 
of the ship. This problem did not go away; another ship 
disaster, the sinking of the Marine Electric in 1987 had a 
loss of all but three of the crew of forty-five partly 
because the life boat davits were such that the boats could 
not be launched with a full load by one man.
    The conditions of life at sea are still not very good 
for most sailors in the merchant fleets. This is worth some 
attention because so much of what we consume in the U.S. 
comes to us via these ships.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com