# Titanic- 100 years sgo today she foundered **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752 "2012-04-14T11:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752/21 "2012-04-15T20:11:58Z")
**Titanic- 100 years ago today she foundered** Shhhh! Don’t tell [Princhester](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648099) ! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752/22 "2012-04-15T20:46:27Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > 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? Heavens, no, he never \*spoke \*of it, and the topic was forbidden around him. But a bio of him just came out within the last year. Very sad man. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752/23 "2012-04-16T20:25:33Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > 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. wow, that’s actually pretty neat. i’d’ve liked to have seen that. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752/24 "2012-04-18T22:01:04Z")
Recently found out about an interesting family connection to the _Titanic_: I was watching **Mysteries at the Museum** on the Travel Channel. If you haven’t seen it, it’s kinda interesting; they find some seemingly out-of-place artifact at a museum and explain its backstory. On this particular segment, they were talking about a wireless telegraph message sent to the _Titanic_ warning of icebergs in its path. Now, it wasn’t sent specifically to _Titanic_, but it was the nearest ship to forward the message to the mainland, and had the _Titanic_’s telegraph operator known anything about coordinates, he might have warned the bridge. But, the message was just forwarded and stuck in the “sent” pile, and the next night she was on the ocean bottom. Anyway, on the show they mentioned that the ship that sent the ice warning was a German ship called the _Amerika_. Well, that rang a bell, and the picture of the ship was familiar too, so I looked it up for confirmation, and sure enough: the _Amerika_ was the ship that brought my grandfather from Czechoslovakia to the United States in 1921, when he was 15. By that time, it had been seized by the US during WWI and renamed “_America_” to go along with English spelling. Information on the ship [here](http://www.titanicinquiry.org/ships/amerika.php). I thought it was neat, anyway. Incidentally, according to my father, my grandfather did not have anything nice to say about the trip. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752/25 "2012-04-19T12:48:30Z")
And the spirit of the _Californian_ (the ship that failed to come to the aid of the Titanic) [lives on](http://gma.yahoo.com/princess-cruises-investigate-why-captain-ignored-distress-call-233100964--abc-news-topstories.html). I find it a weird aspect of Titanic history that both of the other two ships that figure prominently in the story of the sinking/rescue (the _Californian_ and _Carpathia_) later sank themselves (torpedoed by U-boats during WWI). ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752/26 "2012-04-19T13:07:11Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > And the spirit of the _Californian_ (the ship that failed to come to the aid of the Titanic) [lives on](http://gma.yahoo.com/princess-cruises-investigate-why-captain-ignored-distress-call-233100964--abc-news-topstories.html). Ugh, that was egregious misconduct. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-100-years-sgo-today-she-foundered/618752.md?page=1)