Sick Of The Titanic

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Originally posted by refugee Originally posted by presdoug For me, the Empress Of Ireland sinking is just as, or even more, chilling.           It sank in 14 minutes, more people lost their lives than with the Titanic, and the tragedy happened near Montreal (I live nearby in Ottawa) Empress of Ireland: 1012 dead Titanic: 1514 dead. Your statement is correct only if you don’t count the crew: A few more passengers died in the Empress of Ireland disaster than in the Titanic disaster.

thanks for pointing out the mistake-i stand corrected

Titanic is most celebrated because it is conceived of as a luxury ship containing very wealthy people (and therefore very interesting and romantic people), and therefore there is tragedy to such great people going down and their great pleasure float going down with them. That may be cynical, but someone pointed out about all the other ships lost, and that is an important observation. The other element is the cost of the ship, the claims of invincibility, the coverage in the papers, the maiden voyage....

As others have said. It is a deep tragedy however, no one disputes that. It would be interesting to know the effect on luxury liner traffic in the following years.

Originally posted by RoyFairbank Titanic is most celebrated because it is conceived of as a luxury ship containing very wealthy people (and therefore very interesting and romantic people), and therefore there is tragedy to such great people going down and their great pleasure float going down with them. That may be cynical, but someone pointed out about all the other ships lost, and that is an important observation. The other element is the cost of the ship, the claims of invincibility, the coverage in the papers, the maiden voyage.... As others have said. It is a deep tragedy however, no one disputes that. It would be interesting to know the effect on luxury liner traffic in the following years.

Yup, the Titanic story is all over the media these days.

Apparently, that rescuing ship, Carphatia, was traveling on  a regular line New York - Rijeka (my hometown) and there was a 10 pages article in the newspapers' supplemental this weekend.

Originally posted by CPicard You mean Croatian newspapers, right? I'm curious to see what they have written on this subject.

Here, here and here. (the last one predates aniversary a few months; it seems they discovered a few relevant documents here).

There was more but it's not on the Web I guess.

Originally posted by clarke2001 Originally posted by CPicard You mean Croatian newspapers, right? I'm curious to see what they have written on this subject. Here, here and here. (the last one predates aniversary a few months; it seems they discovered a few relevant documents here). There was more but it's not on the Web I guess.

Note to myself: learn to speak/read Croatian.