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Titanic - The series? Surely they just get on the ship, it hits an iceberg and most of them drown?

In a nutshell, yes! However, it didn't stop them making a lengthy film about it!

Tony Summerfield wrote:In a nutshell, yes! However, it didn't stop them making a lengthy film about it!

True.

Katharine wrote:Titanic - The series? Surely they just get on the ship, it hits an iceberg and most of them drown?

That's right give away the ending!

Sorry Shadow, next time I'll put a spoiler alert.

Maybe this Titanic doesn't sink! Afterall, history says that it wasn't the Titanic that sunk, but it's sister ship, whose name escapes me at the moment!

Julie2owlsdene wrote:...history says that it wasn't the Titanic that sunk, but its sister ship, whose name escapes me at the moment!

Never heard that one, Julie. Are you referring to the Britannic, which sank in 1916?

Moonraker wrote:

Julie2owlsdene wrote:...history says that it wasn't the Titanic that sunk, but its sister ship, whose name escapes me at the moment!

Never heard that one, Julie. Are you referring to the Britannic, which sank in 1916?

Thre were three. Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.

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The whole point of a mini-series like this is to drag out the story, to introduce you to the characters, make you fall in love with them (or hate them), and then watch them drown...

My wife was looking at a site last night, not sure of the url but it's Encyclopaedia Titanica. It has complete passenger and crew lists, and it's just sad to see the lists of names going on and on, and the fate that befell them (saved on lifeboat, body identified, lost at sea etc).

We live in Southampton, where Titanic sailed from, and at the time it sailed there was a general strike and high unemployment. As a result many people from Southampton got jobs on the ship, and paid a heavy price. There was hardly anyone in the city who didn't personally know at least 1 person that lost their lives on the ship.

About eight years ago I went to a Titanic-themed exhibition at the Royal Academy in London where they also had a list of passenger names and their fates, as well as letters and photos and items that had been salvaged such as gloves, purses, bags, shoes, clothing and crockery. It was very moving. One room was set up to resemble part of the ship and an iceberg against a starry sky, and the temperature had been reduced to mimic the freezing conditions. Most deaths were apparently caused by hypothermia in the icy water. A few men survived by disguising as women, in order to take advantage of the rescue policy which was to save "women and children first".

Moonraker wrote: Never heard that one, Julie.

According to the book, Titanic, The Ship That Never Sank? by Robin Gardiner, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the Titanic and the Olympic, it's sister ship. The story goes that the Titanic set out on a trial run, and collided into a war ship badly damaging Titanic. It was then towed back to Belfast, and because the date had been fixed and advertised for it's maiden voyage, everything had to be swopped around with the sister ship Olympic, so Olympic became Titanic.

Things should be made public this year which is Titanic 100 years. Another theory is that being badly damaged it was patched up and still send out on it's maiden voyage, with the knowledge that it could founder in mid ocean!!

I hadn't heard that before. You'll be telling me next that people haven't really landed on the moon!

Or that Freddie Starr never ate that hamster.

Moonraker wrote:Or that Freddie Starr never ate that hamster.

He said he didn't eat the hampster when he was on Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!!

Apparently it's a well known fact that Titanic had a colllision before it set sail, and also there was a fire in one of the boilers!!! Looks like it was a doomed ship before it crossed the Atlantic.

My family had a very small sailing boat when I was a teenager. We thought it would be fun to call it Titanic 13, but Mum wouldn't let us