I guess it was a big deal. There have been lots of lives lost at sea and each one in its own way is sad.
Maybe the Lusitania was as tragic. If you were a victim it didn’t matter.
Anyway, I guess it gave Bruce Ismay the chance to show what a hero he was.
I thought it was tomorrow.
I guess that depends what time zone you are in.
Snap! Exactly my thought too. History tells us that the sinking of the Lusitania was far far more significant than the foundering of the Titanic.
Indeed the shelling and eventual sinking of the Bismarck was more important than a passenger liner which experienced a sad end.
What time zone was it in when it sunk?
Oh Lordy- are you serious? We have to work out a time stamp before we can post about the death/ birth/ anniversary of any event because it needs to agree with your version of the world?
The world does not revolve around you and your time zone.
And , in passing, could a Mod please fix my typing error in the title? Thanks.
Didn’t see your location. My bad and apologies all around. 
No- it should be my apologies for getting defensive. Please accept them.
I assumed - a bad mistake- that posters knew I was in a different place. I meant no malice.
There’s a town called that, isn’t there…?
Malice Springs to mind- what a dump. I was glad to leave
Aw come on! Where’s your sense of adventure? It’s the Last Frontier!
From the Titanic to Alice Springs - I guess it still has some kind of water theme…
Go to Tennant Creek, a 100 miles up the road. That is a dump.
Tonight is the anniversary of the collision, the wee hours of tomorrow is the anniversary of the sinking.
We have tickets to tonight’s showing of the Titanic musical, which is a pretty good show.
360kms to Curtain Springs Cattle Station - now THAT is an entertaining dump where a slab of VB costs $130…
Anyway, you’re making your Titanic thread a disaster…
He really has been badly libeled by history–his real mistake was not handing over the “iceberg warning” to Capt. Smith earlier, though there is no proof that would have made any difference.
I do not blame him a bit for getting into a ready-to-launch lifeboat when there was no one else around waiting. What was he supposed to do, say, “No, thanks, I’d rather die a horrible freezing death, you can just put your coat on that seat?”
I’m debating seeing the movie in 3D today in honor of the centennial. Despite the lame romance, the depiction of the sinking is pretty intense.
The last time I saw it in the theatre was opening night in '97. It was packed to the gills, I was wearing my winter coat in the front row craning my neck and sweating my ass off as I watched people drown in the freezing North Atlantic. This time, I’m wearing shorts.
Regarding Ismay-it seems he was shunned by “high society”-after returning to England, he spent his days at a remote estate.
Did he ever publish his memoirs?
Kim Il-Sung was born the same day.
What a bad day in history.
Yeah, IIRC, not a lot of the actual survivors had bad things to say about him. It was mostly the press that did that.
Masabumi Hosono (the one Japanese passenger) had it worse, though: he was reviled in Japan for surviving when so many others had died, and Japanese history textbooks painted him as a coward.
We saw the show - very well done performance, excellent set - we actually saw the ship sink! Seeing the show on the anniversary of the event established a real connection - gave it definite resonance.
Even more so, the actor playing the most famous victim, John Jacob Astor IV, was in fact Todd Astor, great-grandson of said John Jacob Astor. Sent shivers down my back.
The program for the show noted that the number of lives lost was approximately the capacity of the theater, which was packed. More shivers.
After the show, there was the usual crowd all attempting to leave the theater at once. I heard someone shout “Women and children first!”