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I can see your point in a way. However, you are still missing fact that those last two or three messages were seen as secondary importance, especially the way they were transmitted (not urgent).
Yes, Bride and Phillips had other messages sent to the bridge. However, they had a moment to do it. If you do not know, the marconi unit broke down for some time on the 14th. Phillips and bride worked franticly to get it going again, it took hours!!! Now, you have to think about it from their perspective. "My way of making a living has just been fixed after hours of being useless. A whole pile of PAYING passenger mail is waiting for me to transmit to cape race". THE SHIP IS NOT PAYING FOR MY SERVICES, THE MARCONI COMPANY IS. I need to get my rear in gear and send these highly influential people's messages before they make a complaint!!!". Also, if there is not fixed message as "urgent for the captains eyes" (as the other messages were also not marked), then what does a marconi officer know about lattitude and logitude. It probably looked to them just like the other messages they delivered. Furthermore, you could speculate that maybe Phillips and bride thought these messages were telling them what they already knew (that ice was ahead of Titanic), and indeed, the officers knew that!. The senior officers as well as the Captain still new about the other ice warnings. They knew about them for days before the collision. They still kept up the speed on the 14th. Also, you have to consider if the bridge did recieve those messages, would the captain slowed the ship down? Wireless was a new toy, yes, a toy back then. Old captains like Smith were piloting ships across the Atlantic at full speed for years without wireless, and ships were not sinking left and right from icebergs. |
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Posted on: 2007/4/17 16:24
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