He then explained the concept of an iceberg, and why they are so dangerous when they wander into the sea lanes. 'They got around it by saying you had a sixth day at sea with which to relax.'Ī slide of a picture of an iceberg flashed on the screen with red paint along its base, purported to be the one that sank the Titanic. 'The Cunarders - Lusitania, Mauretania and Aquitania - were five-day ships, while the White Star vessels were six-day ships,' he said. Maxtone-Graham also dispelled a long-held belief that the White Star Liners were a powerful competitor on the North Atlantic run. Bruce Ismay, who was chairman of the White Star Line, ordered them glassed-in on the Titanic and Britannic. 'After Titanic sank, unscrupulous newspapers were peddling pictures of Titanic which were actually the Olympic,' he said.Īfter observing passengers getting wet on the Olympic, J. He noted in two pictures that the promenade deck on the Titanic was enclosed by glass while the Olympic's remained open, and it was a way to tell the liners apart. The three vessels were built and launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Maxtone-Graham said, pointing out a subtle difference between the Olympic and Titanic. The ships were defined by their four massive buff-and-black painted funnels. The Olympic, the Titanic's sister, was the first vessel, hence the Olympic-class designation, which was followed by the Britannic. Maxtone-Graham explained that the Titanic was an Olympic-class liner, the second vessel of three. Maxtone-Graham was next, his mission being to tell the students about the Titanic. 'If Walter could go back in time,' she said, 'it was to be on the bridge of the Californian to see what happened that night.' Tired of the corporate life, he opts to stick with the mercenaries that. Stanley Lord, which was stopped in the ice some 10 miles from the Titanic, and why the ship's officers ignored the Titanic's emergency flares, which rose high into the night sky. Watch Toonami every Saturday night from midnight to 4a, only on Adult Swim. Published by William Morrow & Co., Inc.: New York: 1986. Much of his last book speculated on the role of the nearby liner Californian and its master, Capt. Walter Lords The Night Lives On signed by Lord and six Titanic survivors.

The Night Lives On by Walter Lord