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For one thing It can't be proven Ismay actually did have that meeting with Smith, although it does seem very plausable, since we can only speculate no blame can be directed at him. Any blame that rest's with him is the life boat problem, but again, he was not the only one that vetto'd the idea of more than the law required.
On board a vessel knowone has higher authority than the captain, so if the meeting did take place then I suppose you are justified in what you say that smith was to blame. However I my self have always been skpetical of that meeting, the faster a ship goes, the more expensive it is to run. Titanic's return to the UK would of still been on the same date, so for all there work and money all they would acheive is Titanic sitting in new york harbour an extra day. Plus, all those first class passenger's with there reservation's for hotel's trains and what have you would be messed up, if anything it would of just been a huge in convience for the sake of a headline, 'TITANIC ARRIVES EARLY'. The path you speak of is true, to an extent, there are two main route's through the atlantic, and depending on the season or condition's, they travel in one or the other. Smith knew there was Ice so, he actually descided to go more south (the longer of the two route's) in order to try and avoid berg's. Even if they remaind in the north, it was a freak condition's night, they would still have berg's to worry about and who know's maybe there was a berg in there northen path to. It's all very well with hindsight saying they should of done this instead, but at the time, they where justified in how they navigated and operated the ship. Martyn |
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Posted on: 2006/10/20 12:10
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