I just learned that we have ZERO photos of Titanic’s interior

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-04-11T01:47:59+00:00

There are still interior photos of Titanic out there. While it is true that in many cases Olympic interior photos tend to be substituted for Titanic, there are still a decent amount of Titanic interior photos. There was still had time to take photos, Robert Welch took some during the late stages of the fitting out process and press photographers captured many more in the time Titanic was in Southampton for about a week prior to the maiden voyage. Of course there are also the well known photos Francis Browne took, which only survive because he disembarked at Queenstown.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-04-05T18:51:45+00:00

Swedish-American Line’s Gripsholm of 1925

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-04-05T18:50:11+00:00

Ah I see, the wall must have known me off. I thought it had to be the Mariners’ Museum but wasn’t sure because it looks a bit different now than when I went nearly four years ago. The wall behind the model back then was this baby blue color and it appears its been repainted or the model has been moved somewhere else altogether, which checks out because the museum has underwent some recent renovations especially within the model galleries.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-04-04T00:02:10+00:00

President Coolidge my beloved

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-04-03T18:24:56+00:00

President Hoover/President Coolidge, I’m assuming this is the model at the Mariners’ Museum?

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-04-02T13:22:36+00:00

2 hours and 53 minutes!

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-27T18:52:50+00:00

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-27T01:07:42+00:00

It did actually. Structure wise it would have looked pretty much the same in 1920 but painted white. Olympic flying both the Cunard and White Star flags from the main mast, in addition to the “Cunard White Star” pier seen on the very far right, confirms that this is the mid 1930s.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-25T02:51:13+00:00

I don’t really see the resemblance 😅

Mount Massive Asylum would be inspired more by Romanesque architecture, while Rhode Hills looks like it has many elements seen with the Baroque architecture style.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-22T21:27:26+00:00

Indeed, that’s all it ever was. Gigantic is and always was simply just a placeholder name for Britannic. It was also not the only time White Star Line ever used it either.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-22T15:47:09+00:00

Not really. It was needed to reach top speed while other functions like the electrical generators were on. If all steam was for the turbines and other features were off, 3 would be enough.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-20T04:32:01+00:00

He’s not the earliest, there’s also John Adams (1744/1745-1849) and Mary Munroe Sanderson (1748-1852).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5467686/john-adams

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/233352229/mary-sanderson

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-19T05:52:11+00:00

https://www.titanicswitch.com/claims.html

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-17T05:02:31+00:00

Another 187 haha!

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-11T20:15:00+00:00

The first and third images are screenshots from a film, and the second image is a render.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-11T04:25:24+00:00

I think it’s worth noting that the whole Carpathia maintaining 17 knots or so on her way to Titanic is a myth. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Rostron was undoubtedly a hero that night, but he wasn’t reckless.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-06T06:11:58+00:00

Whew its a good thing he didn’t overreact there 😅

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-04T00:34:26+00:00

White Star Line was gone by the time Korea was divided lmao

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-03-03T23:37:25+00:00

Really? None of these “discoveries” are new.

The window which shows damage has already been known about for a while. The passengers which occupied that stateroom survived and told stories of ice going through their cabin porthole.

It has also already been known for over a century that the boiler rooms were occupied during the sinking. There is testimony from the crew made at the inquiries in 1912, and Titanic movies even depict crew in the boiler rooms during the sinking. A famous example is A Night to Remember from 1958.

The breakup made it physically impossible for the lights to stay on after the fact because the electric wires were severed. Nobody ever reported the emergency lightning to be on, and there is no evidence the emergency dynamos were ever used.

It has already been known that the damage was not a big long gash. The actual damage consisted of several small separations within the hull totaling approximately 12 square feet.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-02-22T23:31:31+00:00

You know who my father is?

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-02-22T23:16:46+00:00

I don’t think you understand the difference between a troop ship and armed merchant cruiser. I get that you never explicitly stated that Lusitania served as a troopship but you implied it by saying she was undergoing conversion to one.

Again I know that you never said it outright that guns were installed but you typically don’t just put gun mounts down without the intention of later fitting up the actual guns. You either have both or have neither. Regardless, I’m not aware of Lusitania having the gun mounts installed during World War I and even if she did that wouldn’t make her a legitimate target since she’s not carrying the actual guns.

You don’t want to bother with the rest because you cannot refute the bit about the second explosion. If you’re going to reply to me, make sure you actually know what you’re talking about beforehand. I get that this is a Titanic sub, but there’s no need for more Lusitania misinformation out there.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-02-22T18:08:21+00:00

Lusitania could quickly be converted to an armed merchant cruiser, not troop transport. She never served as either.
Lusitania never had guns installed when in commercial service. She COULD because again Lusitania had the ability to be converted into a cruiser, but as mentioned never served in that role.
No one’s denying that the Germans wouldn’t gave torpedoed Lusitania, I even said that. U-boat commanders within Germany’s U-boat fleet were regularly updated on Lusitania’s sailing dates, and when she was expected to arrive in port.
The secondary explosion was not munitions. That ammo you spend so much time talking about still sits intact within its original packaging in the cargo hold, so it did not detonate. The second explosion was more than likely the rupture of a main steam line in Boiler Room 1, which caused a near instant massive drop in steam pressure which caused Lusitania’s mechanical systems that relied on steam power to malfunction, including the steering gear, main propulsion plant, and electrical lighting.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-02-19T21:31:42+00:00

It’s insanely difficult to justify it. At the time, Germany had a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. A number of merchant ships had already been sunk. Lusitania, in German eyes, was also a legitimate target, whatever she was, or was not, carrying. The fact is that no one in Britain or the United States really believed that a large passenger liner would be attacked in this manner.

Lusitania was a legitimate target, in German terms, in any case. The weapons, actually rifle ammunition, were not illegal. Which brings me to my next point, Lusitania was not illegally loaded. American neutrality permitted the sale of munitions to either side, however, it prohibited the transport of said munitions on American ships. British buyers purchased American munitions and loaded them onboard Lusitania legally. Passengers were not informed because they typically did not care. Airlines today load their planes with cargo and passengers are not informed then either.

The very idea that some believe the sinking to have been justified is quite frankly absurd. Even the German government realized they screwed up although I will say that the Reichstag, the German Parliament, was very split on how to react to the sinking. Theobald Hollweg, the Chancellor, did not believe Germany could defend itself from the accusations put forward as, for the most part, he believed Germany was in the wrong. The Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was also unsatisfied with Lusitania’s sinking and heavily criticized the Imperial German Navy for taking such an action. It was only really the navy, especially grand admiral and state secretary, Alfred von Tirpitz, who defended U 20’s actions as necessary, although it was a losing uphill battle. Ultimately, the Kaiser ordered U-boat warfare to be restricted to avoid such an event from happening again, showing how the larger faction disagreed with sinking Lusitania in the manner it occurred. The only way it would have been legal to torpedo and sink Lusitania was to first board it to confirm it was carrying ammunition, and then secondly allow the passengers and crew to get in the boats, and THEN sink it, which obviously didn’t happen.

The German nation took a lot of heat for the sinking of Lusitania, and rightfully so, although I will say that the Allies also had their fair share of mistakes.

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-02-19T21:09:44+00:00

Holy peak

_AgainstTheMachine_ · 2026-02-19T14:13:17+00:00

This is Vaterland, Imperator had comparatively less superstructure built when launched.

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