Thousands cheer madly as Titanic leaves Southampton on maiden voyage, April 10, 1912

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Sat Apr 10, 2021: Thousands cheer madly as Titanic leaves Southampton on maiden voyage, April 10, 1912

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Tue Apr 10, 2018: Thousands cheer madly as Titanic leaves Southampton on maiden voyage, April 10, 1912.

At 4:10, note that smoke is coming from only the first three stacks. The fourth stack was for ventilation.

Encyclopedia Titanica, The Fourth Smoke Stack

The fourth funnel provided air ventilation for the galleys as well as a chimney flue for the 1st class smoking room. Smoke and/or steam would emit from the funnel, but would be hardly noticable, especially when compared to the first three stacks, which were connected directly to the boiler rooms. The smokestack did have a ladder to its top, as evidenced by the famous stern-on shot of the Titanic at Queenstown. You can see a stoker poking his head over the top of the 4th funnel.

Dan Cherry, Aug 11, 2000

Titanic departure (real video 1912)
8,890,089 views Apr 11, 2012

Nikolay Shalygin
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Real footage of RMS Titanic leaving for the first voyage. 1912. Видеокадры "Титаника" 100-летней давности.

The video I had linked to over the past few years was this one:

It was the source of the title for this thread. That great video has been made private. The Russian video probably shows the same footage.

All the "original footage" clips of the Titanic on YouTube seem to be set to classical music. The sound track in the one that is now private was a work by Erik Satie. This one::

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
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DistantMirrors
127K subscribers

Alfred Eric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 -- Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.

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RMS Titanic

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Legacy

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In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in 1898 about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS Titan, a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. But like the Titanic, she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.

Morgan Robertson

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Futility

Robertson is best known for his short novel Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, first published in 1898. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the SS Titan, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries an insufficient number of lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of almost everyone on board. There are many remarkable similarities to the real-life disaster of the RMS Titanic. The book was published 14 years before the actual Titanic, carrying an insufficient number of lifeboats, hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and sank in the North Atlantic, killing most of the people on board. The similarities between the two has lent credibility to conspiracy theories regarding the Titanic.

It's a hoax!

Tue Jan 3, 2017: Titanic not sunk by iceberg, experts claim.

[Liberal In Texas]

1. That TITANIC departure film has a lot of OLYMPIC shots in it.

Especially the Captain Smith footage. That was on the Olympic.

Understandably there was much more film shot of Olympic. than Titanic due to the relatively short life of Titanic. Contemporary newsreel makers needing video to make a complete story probably weren't too picky about cutting in Olympic. footage thinking that very few would probably know the difference.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Time to watch the movie again.

It is dated. One of those Anniversary films like Saving Private Ryan.

[USALiberal]

7. How is it dated?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. The drawing of Rose...April 14,1912.

TITANIC is a film that takes place over 5 days in 1912 at this time of the month.

I have a dear friend who is a long time member of the TITANIC Historical Society. Each year, there is a wreath that is placed at the precise spot where the TITANIC sank to commemorate the event that changed sea voyages forever.

[Archae]

3. My great-grandfather and grandfather were supposed to be on the Titanic.

I've seen the boarding pass, steerage.
I don't know who has that boarding pass any longer, since all my Dad's siblings have died.

Due to a bureaucratic mixup, my great-grandfather and grandfather missed the boat, had to take the next one to America.

[lucca18]

4. Thank you for sharing this about your great-grandfather and grandfather.....

[Archae]

5. My pleasure.

That is where the big ocean liner companies made money, not from the 1rst or second class, rather from immigrants in "steerage."

And unfortunately, that's who had the most people who died, from steerage.

[DFW]

6. I always heard told thusly, albeit with a few inaccuracies

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[struggle4progress]

9. The unsinkable Violet Jessop

Violet Constance Jessop .. is known for having survived the sinkings of RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916. In addition, she had been onboard RMS Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop