Titanic- 100 years ago today she foundered
Shhhh! Don’t tell Princhester !
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.
wow, that’s actually pretty neat. i’d’ve liked to have seen that.
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.
I thought it was neat, anyway. Incidentally, according to my father, my grandfather did not have anything nice to say about the trip.
And the spirit of the Californian (the ship that failed to come to the aid of the Titanic) lives on.
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).
Ugh, that was egregious misconduct.