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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom the journal of a 17 year old survivor of The Titanic
Forgotten journal reveals how man survived 1912 disaster
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I wound my watch it was 11:45 pm and was just about to step into bed when I seemed to sway slightly. I immediately realized that the ship had veered to port as though she had been gently pushed. If I had had brimful glass of water in my hand, not a drop would have been spilled, the shock was so slight.
Almost instantaneously the engines stopped.
The sudden quiet was startling and disturbing. Like the subdued quiet in a sleeping car, at a stop, after a continuous run. Not a sound except the breeze whistling through the half-open port. Then there was the distant noise of running feet and muffled voices, as several people hurried through the passageway. Very shortly the engines started up again slowly not with the bright vibration to which we were accustomed, but as though they were tired. After very few revolutions they again stopped.
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hlthe2b
(101,534 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Recommend that DUers read it all.
Wind Dancer
(3,618 posts)Thanks for sharing.
hedda_foil
(16,362 posts)A moment to moment account of survival from the point of view of a very observant 17- year old who just barely lived to tell about it.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Just amazing.
PCIntern
(25,251 posts)worth reading.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)rgbecker
(4,804 posts)This is an amazing personal account.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)the model portrayed in the film, but matches Cameron's new model from his new documentary.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)That wasn't the point, though. The model of the sinking portrayed in the film was a working model subscribed to by many historians, at least for a time. The model in Cameron's documentary is more recent, at least in terms of building a computer model based on the physics, but it matches the historical description here pretty closely. To wit, previous versions had the ship, as in the film, going to a 90 degree angle before descending. The newer models based on the physics of the event all have this version of 65-70 degrees and tilting before the hull breaks. I thought it was interesting that this historical account matches the physics-based mathematical model of what must have happened pretty closely.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Or fathom the agony of waiting for the Carpathia to pick up the other passengers as their own meager flotation device gradually lost its bouyancy. Crazy. The wait must have been maddening.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Thanks so much for posting this