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LeBarryboat
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posted 12-09-2007 10:09 PM      Profile for LeBarryboat   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ok, I know this is a "religious-themed" website and oh so taboo, but I'd be curious to know, from our Titanic experts here on CT, if the "historical" information is accurate. www.TitanicParallel.com If you are offended by any referrences to faith issues then please don't read it. Those mature enough to handle it though without going into convulsions, their head spinning around and having a hissy-fit, then please let me know your thoughts.
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Cunard Fan
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posted 12-09-2007 11:21 PM      Profile for Cunard Fan   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't agree with everything on the page but its Ok.
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LeBarryboat
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posted 12-17-2007 05:22 PM      Profile for LeBarryboat   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Cunard Fan, have you studied Titanic much? Anyone else want to bravely venture into critiquing the historical accuracy of the text (related to Titanic) aside from the religious part of the website?
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posted 12-17-2007 06:23 PM      Profile for Robertdam   Author's Homepage   Email Robertdam   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Aside from the religious part, i think the historical information is quit plain, not much else is new then what is already known and written so many times over and over again. I haven't read anything that i think is new. Except the part where is mentioned that Titanic would origianally be called Titan, I think this was never the case. Also because the original names would be Titanic, Olympic and Gigantic. Titan just does not fit in. This site is more about speculation like 'what if...' I think when you cut out the biblical conection the site is useless, sorry if i offend anyone there.
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posted 12-17-2007 08:40 PM      Profile for Cunard Fan   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by LeBarryboat:
Cunard Fan, have you studied Titanic much?

Yes I have. Titanic is the ship that startd my love for ships.


quote:
Originally posted by Robertdam:
..... Except the part where is mentioned that Titanic would origianally be called Titan, I think this was never the case.....

It wasn't. All White Star names ended with a "ic". I beleive what the person who wrote the site is thinking about is a book that was written I think 13 years prior to the Titanic inccident. In the book there is a ship named Titan that hits a iceburg on her maiden voyage and sinks taking most of the people on board with her because of a lack of life boats. Its weird because this book was written years before the Titanic and almost perfectly decribes what happened to Titanic. In the book the ship is decribed to be the biggest ship in the world (around Titanic's size), it is called unsinkable, it is supposted to be very luxurious, it think it was even decribed to look relatively similar. Its weird.


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posted 12-17-2007 11:35 PM      Profile for feargus   Email feargus   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
they keep on saying JC is in my lifeboat, why? i thought he could walk on water.
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Brian_O
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posted 12-18-2007 12:33 AM      Profile for Brian_O     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Cunard Fan:

It wasn't. All White Star names ended with a "ic". I beleive what the person who wrote the site is thinking about is a book that was written I think 13 years prior to the Titanic inccident. In the book there is a ship named Titan that hits a iceburg on her maiden voyage and sinks taking most of the people on board with her because of a lack of life boats. Its weird because this book was written years before the Titanic and almost perfectly decribes what happened to Titanic. In the book the ship is decribed to be the biggest ship in the world (around Titanic's size), it is called unsinkable, it is supposted to be very luxurious, it think it was even decribed to look relatively similar. Its weird.


The book was called "Futility: The Wreck of the Titan" by Morgan Roberson and it was published in 1898. It was really only a terribly written short story written by an ex-seaman who should have stuck to being a seaman since his writing skills were somewhat lacking. (Yes, I have a copy).

Brian


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LeBarryboat
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posted 12-18-2007 11:09 AM      Profile for LeBarryboat   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I too have the book "Wreck of the Titan". RE: the name Titan, I seem to recall that the owners of Whitestar had indeed considered the name Titan for the ship, but because their ship names all ended in "ic" they were forced to create a NEW name or word, TITANIC. Was the word or name Titanic ever used before....other than Teutonic, I think a new word was created for the Titanic of 1912.
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posted 12-18-2007 11:14 AM      Profile for Linerrich   Email Linerrich   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by LeBarryboat:
I too have the book "Wreck of the Titan". RE: the name Titan, I seem to recall that the owners of Whitestar had indeed considered the name Titan for the ship, but because their ship names all ended in "ic" they were forced to create a NEW name or word, TITANIC. Was the word or name Titanic ever used before....other than Teutonic, I think a new word was created for the Titanic of 1912.

Barry, the word 'titanic' was not created by White Star Line, it's been part of the English language for a lot longer than that! It means something having great power, magnitude, or force. Comes from the Greek 'titanikos.'

Rich


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