Agreed. What nonsense. > CC: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Re: Was Winston Churchill to blame for Titanic? > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:28:47 -0700 > To: [email protected] > > I am certain that WSC had a secret communique with Ismay and Captain Smith > instructing them to head for any icebergs they encountered so as to test the > ships double hull and watertight compartments. > > Seriously, is this even worthy of consideration? > > Best, > Quinn > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:58 AM, "Gary Martyn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the iceberg had something to do with the sinking. > > > > On 4/10/12 8:44 AM, "Editor, Finest Hour" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Dmitry: > >> > >> Below are from a draft for FINEST HOUR 155 (Summer 2012). This is an > >> unpublished draft but I have sent you the full text by email. > >> Available to any reader--contact me offline. > >> > >> > >> Churchill Sank the Titanic! > >> LONDON, MARCH 30TH‹ Robert Strange, a British investigative > >> journalist, in his book *Who Sank The Titanic? Final Verdict, holds > >> Churchill responsible for the century-old disaster, The Sun reports. > >> (This makes a nice duo with the charge made a generation ago that > >> Churchill also sank the Lusitania.) > >> > >> Strange writes: ³From the start, he [Churchill] seems to have washed > >> his hands of the Marine Division. Supervision of Titanic's > >> construction was passed to Francis Carruthers, a poorly-trained and > >> underpaid Board of Trade engineer who failed to spot flaws in the > >> ship's constructionŠ.By the time the Titanic was finally launched, > >> Churchill had achieved his aim of promotion to Home Secretary and > >> thereby escaped public examination about his role in the Titanic > >> debacle. [But] the ship was first proposed, designed and had its keel > >> laid down on his watch." > >> > >> > >> FH's Opinion: > >> > >> Churchill was President of the Board of Trade from 12 April 1908 to 18 > >> February 1910. RMS Titanic, and her sister ship Olympic, were > >> conceived in mid-1907 and the plans drawn in late 1907/early 1908. It > >> is therefore incorrect to say that Churchill was in charge of the BoT > >> when the ships were proposed or designed. > >> > >> Churchill WAS at the Board of Trade when the plans were approved (July > >> 1908) and the hulls laid down (December 1908/March 1909). And he was > >> pursuing his future wife in the summer of 1908. But Titanic complied > >> with all current Board of Trade regulations. Her lifeboat capacity > >> (1178) actually exceeded the requirement (990). And if Francis > >> Carruthers, the engineer assigned, ³failed to spot flaws² in the > >> ship¹s construction, how was it possible for Churchill to spot them? > >> > >> What were the flaws? Earlier researchers have suggested weaknesses in > >> Titanic¹s steel plates and rivets which contributed to her rapid > >> sinking. This begs the question of how her sister the Olympic managed > >> an illustrious 24-year career, including troop transport during World > >> War I, and several collisions, earning the nickname ³Old Reliable,² > >> with faulty rivets and weak plates. (She was refitted with a double > >> hull after the Titanic disaster.) In any case, to suggest Churchill > >> was responsible for design defects reminds one of the author who > >> criticized his urgent despatch of tanks to North Africa in 1941 before > >> they¹d been fully tested. FINEST HOUR 45 commented: ³The Premier must > >> also be a mechanic!² > >> > >> The specific charge that Churchill was warned and ignored the question > >> of lifeboats must await our review of Mr. Strange¹s book and the > >> sources he offers for this conclusion. For the nonce, all we can make > >> of his argument is that, as President of the Board of Trade in 1908, > >> the buck stopped with Churchill‹just as it did with George W. Bush on > >> 11 September 2001, and Franklin Roosevelt on 7 December 1941. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "ChurchillChat" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "ChurchillChat" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. >
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