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[notyourhistoryclass]

In the first part, I discussed all the reasons why the Titanic was doomed to fail, in this episode, I get into the major players behind the tragedy. I also discuss the tragedy of the Titan, five curious tourists wanting to get a view of the century old wreck and died simply due to a lack of care and real scientific know-how behind the building of the Titan submersible, as well as the aftermath a year later. Before continuing this episode, please go back and listen to part one of the Unsinkable Titanic.

Thanks to Mike Meyers for the theme music, you can follow him on X @themikeshow42.

The background music of this episode is “Nearer My God To Thee”, this particular version is done by Bernhard Schuermann https://tinyurl.com/4my5b8dn a soulful and achingly beautiful song that played as the Titanic sank.

[antnich]

THE GODS OF ARROL GANTRY...

Shortly before noon on May 31st, 1911, Lord William Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay walk around the enormous bulk of RMS Titanic as she rests on her slipway, underneath the mammoth Arrol Gantry. The great liner is just moments away from her launching.

The Harland and Wolff shipyard was buzzing with anticipation. Belfast's Lord Mayor had proclaimed a public holiday to celebrate the epic event. More than one hundred thousand local Belfast people blackened the waterfront, there to bear witness to the proceedings.

For both men, this was a moment of supreme satisfaction. Ismay, the Chairman of the White Star Line, could finally see the actual, physical end result of the grand plan that he had been so endemic to engineering.

For Pirrie, the Chairman of the Belfast shipyard, Titanic was an epic milestone, and a peak to his proud career. He harboured scant concealed political ambitions on the scale of the Titanic herself. And this ship, the pinnacle of Harland and Wolff's epic achievements, spoke volumes about what else His Lordship might effect in other, far more volatile fields...

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[notyourhistoryclass]

For over a century, we have found ourselves utterly fascinated by the story of the great, Unsinkable Titanic and the tragic demise it met on the Atlantic Ocean. But why, exactly are we so obsessed with this ship? Especially since there have been dozens, if not hundreds of other shipwrecks that have occurred since and before then. Yet, we are drawn again and again to the tragedy of the Titanic.

On April 10th, 1912 the Titanic set for its maiden voyage across the ocean from Southampton, England to New York City, but it didn’t make it there. Instead the ship and over 1,500 passengers met their terrible demise at the hands of a mercilessly frozen sea. Not only has this tragedy caused individuals to seek out its remains at the bottom of the ocean, it has also has made its way into the media, in all sorts of iterations, but there is so much more to this story.

It wasn’t just the carelessness of the crew on deck, or the lack of lifeboats, it was a number of factors that lead to the Unsinkable Titanic, becoming the sinkable Titanic.

Thanks to Mike Meyers for the theme music, you can follow him on X @themikeshow42.

The background music of this episode is “Nearer My God To Thee”, this particular version is done by Bernhard Schuermann https://tinyurl.com/4my5b8dn a soulful and achingly beautiful song that played as the Titanic sank.

[antnich]

THE GODS OF ARROL GANTRY...

Shortly before noon on May 31st, 1911, Lord William Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay walk around the enormous bulk of RMS Titanic as she rests on her slipway, underneath the mammoth Arrol Gantry. The great liner is just moments away from her launching.

The Harland and Wolff shipyard was buzzing with anticipation. Belfast's Lord Mayor had proclaimed a public holiday to celebrate the epic event. More than one hundred thousand local Belfast people blackened the waterfront, there to bear witness to the proceedings.

For both men, this was a moment of supreme satisfaction. Ismay, the Chairman of the White Star Line, could finally see the actual, physical end result of the grand plan that he had been so endemic to engineering.

For Pirrie, the Chairman of the Belfast shipyard, Titanic was an epic milestone, and a peak to his proud career. He harboured scant concealed political ambitions on the scale of the Titanic herself. And this ship, the pinnacle of Harland and Wolff's epic achievements, spoke volumes about what else His Lordship might effect in other, far more volatile fields...

#lordpirrie #jbruceismay #penandswordbooks #mytitanicbook #titanicsuperstarsandscapegoats #Titanic #belfastbuilt #titanicbelfast #titanicbelfastmuseum #titanicexperience #titanichotel #titanicquarter #harlandandwolff #whitestarline #merseysidemaritimemusem #seacitysouthampton #titanicexperiencecobh #artoftravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #timetravel #titanicbranson #titanicluxor #titanicpigeonforge #titanichistoricalsociety #MMOTA #disastersatsea #titanicdisaster #oceanliners #olympicclass

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