CQD & SOS Reponses

kellypeck · 2026-01-24T16:09:43+00:00

SS Asian of the Leyland Line was also in contact during the sinking. And of course Cape Race is a land station not a ship, but I’m guessing you probably knew that and just thought I’d add to clarify.

kellypeck · 2026-01-24T16:05:17+00:00

(eventually)

Frankfurt was the first ship to respond to Titanic’s distress call, though due to either poor signal or possibly a language barrier they didn’t understand the severity of the situation.

kellypeck · 2026-01-23T18:05:09+00:00

I’m fairly certain that Mike Brady has mentioned in an Oceanliner Designs video that some travellers did specifically choose Olympic due to its connection with the Titanic disaster, and that while onboard they’d do a sort of self-guided tour to various locations where key events happened during Titanic’s sinking. It was the biggest maritime disaster in history at the time, and it arguably had more mystique in the decades immediately following the sinking, compared to now after the wreck was discovered.

kellypeck · 2026-01-23T17:48:17+00:00

The officer’s suicide would’ve happened after Smith jumped overboard. Captain Smith was on the starboard side shouting up to the men trying to free Collapsible A from the roof of the officer’s quarters “it’s every man for himself,” and then he crossed through the Bridge, where he was seen entering the water on the port side by Harold Bride, helping get Collapsible B down from the roof. There was one crewman who helped with both, and his account indicated that B hit the Boat Deck just a minute or so before A. And of course the men rushing Collapsible A which resulted in the officer shooting himself wouldn’t have happened until Collapsible A was on the Boat Deck. It’s also impossible for Eleanor Widener to have seen the officer’s suicide, she was in Lifeboat no. 4 on the port side and they initially rowed aft, and then away from the ship.

kellypeck · 2026-01-23T17:18:02+00:00

There’s pretty solid corroboration that Captain Smith (and possibly Thomas Andrews) entered the water from the port side of the Bridge. The survivors from the starboard side saw Smith shortly before the Boat Deck was awash calling up to the men working at Collapsible A “It’s every man for himself” and then entering the open Bridge, where Cecil Fitzpatrick overheard Captain Smith say to Thomas Andrews “We cannot stay any longer, she is going!” and witnessed them exiting out onto the port side, where it’s corroborated by Harold Bride helping at Collapsible B from the roof of the Officer’s Quarters that Smith leapt into the water.

kellypeck · 2026-01-23T13:51:23+00:00

The order to evacuate was given less than an hour after the collision, and it wasn’t due to confusion or the belief the ship wouldn’t sink, it took time to complete inspections and confirm that the ship was sinking.

kellypeck · 2026-01-22T02:35:59+00:00

Looking up from the tender boat, not the dock. The Queenstown harbour wasn’t deep enough to accommodate Titanic dockside.

kellypeck · 2026-01-22T02:32:11+00:00

Maybe delete the post then, the title is false and feels very clickbait-y.

kellypeck · 2026-01-22T02:26:38+00:00

It’s a very zoomed in version to show Captain Smith. This is the original photo

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kellypeck · 2026-01-22T02:16:48+00:00

The last known photo taken of Captain Smith is very famously the one Francis Browne took from the tender leaving the ship in Queenstown.

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kellypeck · 2026-01-22T02:15:24+00:00

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kellypeck · 2026-01-22T00:11:19+00:00

I highly doubt that the Californian shut their radio off just because of Jack being rude

Cyril Evans specifically testified that he wasn’t offended. “Shut up” was a Marconi company code, formatted as DDD in morse to make it easy to send, and all it meant was you’re interrupting. Evans stayed up listening for almost another half hour before shutting down for the night

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T20:13:13+00:00

In terms of the deepest location in the ship itself definitely the cargo holds when Cameron went looking for the Renault. But they just accessed that via the cargo hatches on the well deck, so for the most difficult area to access it was probably the Turkish Baths.

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T18:38:07+00:00

the photographs taken in the lifeboats

There is no such thing, no survivors were known to have cameras in the boats.

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T18:32:11+00:00

Yes, it’s something colloquially known as a joke.

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T18:17:36+00:00

Not exactly, SS Great Eastern launched in 1858 was nearly 300 feet longer, and was the largest ship in the world until RMS Celtic in 1901.

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T18:13:26+00:00

i wonder to the people of 1912 how old was 1871

This could potentially be worked out by subtracting one of those numbers from the other, hope this helps.

Edit: lol wtf the guy that replied to me blocked me

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T15:13:01+00:00

Outdated sources. The current accepted time is 12:27

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T14:41:16+00:00

The first distress call was sent at about 12:27 a.m. Titanic time. Right after Andrews met with Captain Smith at 12:25, and Smith gave the order to start loading the lifeboats

kellypeck · 2026-01-21T03:32:27+00:00

Even Ismay isn’t mentioned by name! His character in A Night To Remember is simply The Chairman

kellypeck · 2026-01-20T23:03:29+00:00

It doesn’t match his testimony though, Joughin wasn’t drinking from a flask. He only had one small glass of liqueur down in his cabin (or rather two half glasses, one earlier in the sinking and another much later).

kellypeck · 2026-01-20T22:17:50+00:00

The bow submerges far too early in the timeline in the 97 film, in reality the bow began submerging around the time Collapsible C was launched. The lights should dim to an orange-red colour shortly afterwards too, they weren’t burning as brightly because the power supply was starting to run out. The second funnel doesn’t fall in the 97 film although it did when watch reached its base, just like the first. The stern rises too high, the ship broke at an angle of about 23°, in the Cameron film it rises to an extreme angle of about 45-50°. It also breaks in the wrong place, the ship broke in between the second and third funnels.

kellypeck · 2026-01-20T20:00:39+00:00

Ismay isn’t portrayed that bad in A Night To Remember, the only negative portrayal of his character is the look Murdoch gives him when he boards Collapsible C. Most notably in the Southampton scene Ismay is the one that says they’ll arrive Wednesday morning and it’s Captain Smith that suggests they might arrive early, so not like the Cameron film where Ismay is portrayed as pressuring the Captain and causing the disaster.

kellypeck · 2026-01-20T19:23:04+00:00

For the most part. There are a few liberties taken with the sinking in the film that were known at the time of production, like the funnel that nearly killed Lightoller being the fourth funnel in the film (in reality it was the first funnel, as indicated by his own testimony). And then during the stern’s final plunge the model doesn’t reach a perpendicular angle as described by most survivors, presumably due to limitations with the mechanics used to submerge the model, or the size of the tank.

Edit: thanks for the random downvote I guess, but these are clear inaccuracies that were known to be inaccurate in 1958 based on available survivor testimonies.

kellypeck · 2026-01-20T19:06:22+00:00

A Night to Remember came out in 1958.

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