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for those in peril on the sea [maritime disasters] ☸ The R.M.S. Titanic

At the time of their construction, the luxury ocean liners that made up the White Star Line’s Olympic class were the largest ships ever built. The Titanic, the second of these three nautical sisters, set out on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City on April 10, 1912. It flirted with disaster before leaving port when it nearly collided with a smaller liner. The remainder of the Titanic’s departure was uneventful, however, as were its first four days at sea. It passed through a cold front early on April 14 and began receiving numerous ice warnings from other ships in the vicinity.

Despite these warnings, the Titanic continued sailing at full speed–then a common practice–in order to arrive in New York at its scheduled time. At 11:40 p.m., lookout Frederick Fleet rang his bell three times and reported to the bridge: “Iceberg right ahead.” The night was very dark, and the iceberg that now loomed directly in the Titanic’s path had been invisible until it was almost on top of them. First Officer William Murdoch had less than a minute to act. Though he attempted to steer around the berg, ice below the waterline scraped along the ship’s hull. The steel plates that made up the hull buckled and split upon impact. Freezing seawater immediately gushed in through these openings.

Murdoch ordered the doors connecting the Titanic’s sixteen watertight compartments closed. The ship was designed to withstand flooding in four of those sixteen compartments–fatally, six of them were now compromised. Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, grimly warned Captain Edward Smith that the Titanic had only hours to live. Just after midnight, Captain Smith ordered passengers to be alerted and the lifeboats prepared. The wireless operators sent out distress signals, including the relatively new “SOS.” Meanwhile, confusion reigned on the boat deck, with many passengers and even some of the crew unable to believe or take seriously the dire situation.

The Titanic, like most British liners of its day, infamously lacked enough lifeboats for the estimated 2,224 people on board. Many of the crew were unsure how to properly lower the boats, and skeptical passengers were reluctant to board them. The first lifeboats, each less than half-full, were launched about an hour after the collision. Distress flares were fired from the deck–likely sighted by the crew of the nearby Californian–and the wireless operators continued to work at an increasingly frantic pace, pleading for assistance. By 2:00, as the final lifeboat was being launched, water had risen to the boat deck. Much of the ship’s bow was already submerged.

Flooding intensified so that, around 2:15, the stern rose much more steeply and rapidly out of the water. Eyewitnesses heard a great noise. Afterwards, the ship’s lights went out, and it split dramatically down the middle. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, the last remnants of the Titanic slipped beneath the waves. Most of the some fifteen hundred people still aboard were now plunged into the frigid North Atlantic. In spite of their lifebelts, almost none of them would survive until help arrived in the lethally cold water.

The RMS Carpathia reached the wreck site about two hours later. It carried the seven hundred survivors of the Titanic into New York on April 18. The Titanic disaster cost an estimated 1,1517 people their lives and quickly became the best-known shipwreck in the world. It inspired new safety measures, such as regulations regarding the number of lifeboats a ship was required to carry and the formation of the International Ice Patrol, as well as numerous books and films. In 1985, the wreckage of the Titanic was discovered, bringing back to life the legend of the “unsinkable” ship and the tragic stories of its lost passengers and crew.

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Apart from the Astors, there were at least 6 sets of honeymooners in first class. Daniel Warner Marvin, aged nineteen, son of the owner of the Biograph Cinema Company, was returning to America with his bride, Mary Farquarson, aged eighteen. Lucien P. Smith, aged twenty-four, of Huntington, West Virginia, had recently married eighteen-year-old Mary Eloise Hughes: she bore his posthumous son in December 1912. Victor de Satode Penasco y Castellana, aged eighteen, from Madrid, was going to America with his new wife Maria Josefa Perez de Soto y Valleja, aged seventeen. John P. Snyder, aged twenty-three from Minneapolis, was returning from his European honeymoon with Nelle Stevenson, aged twenty-two. Dickinson Bishop, heir to the Rounf Oak Stove Company, had married in November 1911, and embarked at Cherbourg with his wife Helen after a tour of Mediterranean Europe and Egypt. One newly married couple were both verging on the age of fifty: Dr Henry (or Hyman) Frauenthal, with a high-domed baldness and fulsome black beard, had married in France, as recently as 26 March, Clara Heinsheimer from Cincinnati.

Titanic Lives - Richard Davenport-Hines

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"haunting the narrative" is one of those phrases i wanna put up on a shelf. not all characters that are dead haunt the narrative. not all characters that are dead haunt the narrative. not all characters that haunt the narrative are dead.

#Eo Red Rising is the one that always comes to mind for me #a rare fridged wife done well in my opinion

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Here they are all together! 💍✨ I have also officialy decided to make an artbook (or two) with all the characters! Hopefully it'll be printed and ready in summer!

Big thank you to all of you who reserved some of the originals. I'll send you the info and ship the drawings during next two weeks 💖

If there is someone still interested in getting some of the original drawings please let me know. These characters are left - Warg, Bard, Thorin, Ghan-burin-Ghan, Beorn, Roäc, Wormtongue.

The prices are from 50 to 80USD (shipping included). All the earnings will be sent to charities.

Thank you! 🌿

#these are all so lovely #I love Thorin’s beard #character design #awesome fanart #tolkien #The Lord of the Rings #The Hobbit #The Silmarillion #(luthien is there)

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STOLEN DOG! Please help

This is Cosmo. He's a beloved companion animal and emotional support dog who's been stolen out of his home in Maryland and transported by car to Olympia, Washington by the estranged husband of a very close friend of mine. On April 8th a full protective order was granted to my friend, and her estranged husband Robert William Harvey was to immediately surrender the dog to Animal Services. He did not do this. In violation of the court order, he's disappeared, and we're turning to the internet in hopes of finding him to get Cosmo home. Rob, who has no job, no access to Cosmo's medication or vet records, is incapable of caring for him long term.

Rob is about 6'1", ~270 lbs, currently clean-shaven but with longer hair than pictured. Cosmo is a reddish brown Vizsla, 68 lbs, with a little bit of gray chin hair as he's about to turn 6 years old. Rob likely has a rental vehicle and may be in the greater Seattle area or have gone further at this point. If you see them or have any information on them, please contact me or the Tumwater Police non-emergency number 360-704-2740.

#this is so upsetting #signal boost #lost dog #seattle #washington

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

#yep

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*elaborate red stringboard argument about how different characters in Les Mis are living in different genres and Cosette is Fairy Tale so hard that she changes other people's narrative genres when she brings them in to her life*

#yes #cosette #les miserables

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Also today we had a cat at work named Ozai who was slow to wake up from his neuter and I lost count of the amount of times I told him “wake up you’re missing the day of black sun invasion.”

#vet med #atla #solar eclipse

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#ooh pretty #eclipse #solar eclipse

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Okay I take back my negativity. A coworker had glasses and let everyone take turns. And management was only normal levels of cranky

Of course it’s almost totally sunny today after I didn’t bother going to the library or doctor to get eclipse glasses

#eclipse

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Eclipse

#fun #ancient egypt #eclipse #gifs

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Of course it’s almost totally sunny today after I didn’t bother going to the library or doctor to get eclipse glasses

#I mean only like 80something totality but also it was supposed to be cloudy and I was sick so it didn’t seem worth the trouble #also though I’m sure my boss won’t let us stand outside for a few minutes around 2 so #negativity

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People live surrounded by an ocean, And a person has an ocean within

#tar-míriel #akallabeth #akallabêth #tolkien #númenor #awesome fanart

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The further I get into rebels, the more I realize that Hera Syndulla is only the voice of reason among the Ghost crew by default.

Like, this woman is not normal. She could have anybody in the galaxy and she went for a wanted criminal with superpowers. She ran away from her family's palatial mansion to go live in a camper with said criminal boyfriend. Her job experience includes "getaway driver" and that's it. Some punk tried to steal from her and she immediately went "where are the adoption papers, I'm ready to sign". The only reason Hera seems normal is because her family consists of a kleptomaniac, a pyromaniac, a man who spent the first fifteen years of his life in a monastery and the next fifteen years of his life getting drunk, a mass murderer trapped in the body of a trash bin, and a guy who probably lists aggravated assault as a hobby on his Grindr profile.

Hera is the most reasonable member of the Ghost crew. Which is kind of like being the tallest Ewok.

#star wars rebels #star wars

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Look, I know in-universe this is quite possibly just evidence of Gandalf arm-wrestling a balrog somewhere in the earth’s crust—

BUT.

Every single medievalist who has tried to do an ecological reading of Old Norse literature, like every one of them: “weird that there is little to no Volcano Angst in the literature of ppl who were definitely experiencing regular irl volcano angst”

Tolkien:

#I’m so glad so many of my mutuals are also having a LotR time because I don’t even have to go seek out posts #gandalf #tolkien

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faramir. you agree. reblog.

#yes #i love him your honor #faramir #The Lord of the Rings

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Important safety information about the eclipse on Monday

You *can* remove the eclipse glasses during totality; not before or after.

If you find yourself falling apart instead of falling in love, turn around, bright eyes.

It is no longer considered best practice to cut the beating heart out of a human chest at the top of a pyramid to bring the sun back; nowadays, they just short out a LUCAS device.

If you are imprisoned by an evil bishop, break out, and look for a hawk and a wolf who are in love.

Most critically - No matter what, do not buy any strange and exotic plants which mysteriously appear during the eclipse.

#eclipse #all very important