yeah thats what i said :wink:

Anthony,
As far as you know, have there ever been any pictures of the smoke stacks on the bottom, even in a decomposed state?

The only thing I ever heard said about them was the part where a survivor said they saw one fall on Mr. Astor.

Betty

I never even heard about that either.

Titanic 4 ever,
Here is some of the item on Jacob Astor and the smokestack
Astor died when the ship went down. His body was recovered during the retrieval process by the crew of the Mackay-Bennett. The coroner on board Mackay-Bennett reported that Astor's body was badly damaged and covered with soot. Leading some to believe that Astor was crushed to death by one of the falling funnels as the ship went down.

Titanic 4 ever,
Here is some of the item on Jacob Astor and the smokestack
Astor died when the ship went down. His body was recovered during the retrieval process by the crew of the Mackay-Bennett. The coroner on board Mackay-Bennett reported that Astor's body was badly damaged and covered with soot. Leading some to believe that Astor was crushed to death by one of the falling funnels as the ship went down.

well i beleive that astor could have been crushed by the funnels betty but as i have reaserched he died holding on to an ornate coulumn of oak in the gtrand staircase when the dome crashed all records of him ended so he could have died in the staircase

if anyone is interested in reading more about the fate of Colonel Astor, you can here http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Carpathia/page12.htm

and betty about the rusting pics of smokestacks the stacks of the britannic were pictured but the titanics were long gone by the time we found her.

Bess, thanks for that site. The information on Colonel Astor was great. Imagine all the things they find out today that are totally different from what they once thought on: Titanic and its passengers.

Anthony, thanks for your info

I will post this here just because we were discussing Colonel Astor, but there is another bit of info I just found online.


The passengers name who reported about Astor was: Percy Thomas Oxenham:


On the voyage Oxenham said he met Astor, who gave him a message to deliver to the financiers son, Vincent. For some reason, Oxenham said, Vincent Astor refused to see him in New York and he still has it "in his head."

Asked what was the real reason for the "Titanic" hitting the
iceberg, Oxenham stated that the ship was 80 miles off it342200231s course and that the bergs had broken in the Arctic about two weeks ahead of schedule. "There was a warning about two hours before the "Titanic" struck the iceberg," he said. "A man was assigned to keep taking the temperature of the water and it was getting colder and colder.
By the time the lookout saw the iceberg, it was too late."