Titanic Archive - Walter Lord

Well, it's hard for me to say this because I don't really know him. I finally came to the conclusion that young children are interested in topics. The way they catch colds, no one knows how or why, they just did it when you were 10 years old. years ago you managed to persuade your parents to take you across the Atlantic on the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, how did you manage to persuade them? What did you tell them? I don't really remember the words I used or what I said, but I was already interested in the Titanic and I knew, of course, that the Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic and we had been abroad before and I was already in love with the ships and I asked, knowing the relationship between the Titanic and the Olympic Games.

It would be fun to go to the Olympic Games and there are no objections, you went, there are no objections, we went, that's right, there has been talk of raising the Titanic from the bottom of the ocean. Do you think that will ever happen? I can't imagine that ever happening, uh, famous. Last words, but it is at about 12,000 feet and that is beyond ordinary lifesaving equipment as we know it today to do anything and it seems to me that the investment that would be required to develop a technique to lift it would be much greater than the from anyone else.

I would like to spend certainly technically. I suppose it would be possible to do a lot of salvage work. Anyone who can reach the Moon should be able to reach the bottom of the ocean, but the question arises as to whether this is really the case. It's worth the amount of money you'd have to spend, but aren't there wonderful stories about huge hoards of big diamonds and boxes of coins and everything left at the bottom of the sea? Yes, there are many stories and I imagine the value of The Burden has grown with each year since she went down.

As far as I could ascertain, the cargo she was carrying at the time she sank had nothing so valuable on board there. I've never seen a cargo manifest and I don't know anyone else who's seen one, but there were certainly stories about the cargo he was carrying that came out at the time and, uh, the cargo wasn't that interesting, it was just a lot. later. Stories of Egyptian mummies and fabulous treasures evolved and I have never been able to trace the source of those stories. This was very much a tragedy for the city of Southampton, which boasted of being able to put the best sailors afloat on the best ship afloat. um, what was the feeling in Southampton at the time they first heard of the sinking, oh, the black anguish?

There were streets in Southampton where all the other families lost someone in the family who was very dear to them, it was a scary thing for that. City in particular, presumably there are still some unanswered questions about the disaster, what is the question that fascinates you the most at the moment, well, I think the questions that really puzzle me, the question from one of the lifeboats was, the ship one, why it was. We lowered it with only 12 or 14 people that night when there weren't enough lifeboats, if you filled them all to capacity, I never really understood why that lifeboat was lowered, almost figuratively speaking empty, how many could they have taken?

They took 40 people and brought it down at a time when the plight of the ship was desperate and obviously it was, and there are no possible answers to that, I don't have any kind of clues. I have never been able to find one. The answer is made that they were accused, uh, which I don't think the passengers on the ship were only five, uh, I persuaded the crew to take it down with them with the promise of greater things later. , but I don't believe it for a moment. I don't understand if it was if the boat staff lowering the boat were so eager to get it out that they didn't even wait and look around.

I never understood. I would like to know. Hopefully, yes. He could have been reincarnated at some point in the past instead of in the future. He could have been on deck and known why that lifeboat was lowered that way.