100 years ago today, RMS Titanic sailed from my home town of Southampton to New York.
When the ship struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland on 14th April 1912 1,514 people lost their lives, with 710 surviving.
When I was growing up in Southampton in the early 1970s I lived few doors away from a very elderly surviving crew member. We regularly went on school trips to the Maritime Museum in the city which had numerous exhibits connected with the Titanic.
This metal sign is a replica of one of the original advertising signs for the voyage.
@amandalomonaco Thanks Amanda, sadly i was always too young to know him to talk to. My Gran would just point at the guy and say, that's the man who survived the Titanic.
Hi Sean, One of the famous survivors of Titanic, Molly Brown, lived 20 miles SE of here in Denver. I've toured her home and the adjoining Titanic museum. It's funny how people are connected across oceans.
@debsphotos Well, if she would like the plaque, I would happily send it to her Debs. I have never watched the movie because the inaccuracies in some cases portrayed people in a very different way to the reality, which is wrong when depicting a true story.
@seanoneill I'm okay with docu-dramas. Think of it like all the WWII movies made in the 1950s. The war was real. The stories were dramas that helped you get a feeling for the human story behind the facts. The movie Titanic really showed the class gap between the rich and the poor.
Several years ago we went to a museum in Chicago to see artifacts from the Titanic in a traveling exhibit. When we entered the exhibit, we were each given a replica of a ticket for the maiden voyage with a real passenger's name on it. When you exited the exhibit, there was a wall with the names of both the survivors and the those who died. We had to compare our tickets to see if we made it. I think our entire family was lost if I recall. There was also a wall you could put your hand on to feel the water temperature and boy was it freezing. It was a very moving experience.
@lisjam1 Thanks for posting this Lisa, that sounds incredible. I have always been moved by the Titanic story, probably because of the connections with my home town.
@myautofocuslife@redsockbluesock@worthyglo@danacarruthers@emmar84 Thanks one and all. You are all right with what you say. Gloria, the scholars and the White Star Line archives refute the class gap claims of the movie, even though a higher percentage of 3rd class passengers died vs 1st and second class. I guess it is difficult to say unless you were there and survived. It is certainly an episode in history which has gripped and captivated.
Lots of fuss over this. I watched a tV show about how the men in the engine rooms worked til the last to keep her upright and not listing as long as possible so the life boats could get lowered. Powerful show. love the movie!!!
April 12th, 2012
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