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  1. Shangas

    Titanic sunk by exceptionally high tides

    Five compartments were breeched, not six. Forepeak, the holds (3 in total) and one of the boiler-rooms. The ship was designed to stay afloat with a max of 4 compartments gone. The bulkheads were raised on the Olympic and the Britannic. In the case of the Britannic, they did actually help...
  2. Shangas

    Titanic sunk by exceptionally high tides

    The ship's speed has been a matter of debate for a hundred years now. The Titanic's speed was absolutely NO DIFFERENT from ANY other ship sailing the Atlantic route that night. It was common practice...Hell...it's STILL common practice...to go at full speed through the Atlantic. The QM2 and...
  3. Shangas

    Titanic sunk by exceptionally high tides

    The Titanic was NOT trying to set a speed record. It couldn't do it anyway - It didn't have the top speed at the time. Even if it went as fast as possible, it wouldn't have beaten the Lusitania, which had a higher top speed. Titanic's was 24kt. The Lusitania could top out at nearly 27. The...
  4. Shangas

    Bow Ties

    That could almost become a tongue-twister.
  5. Shangas

    Titanic sunk by exceptionally high tides

    I always maintained that, and this was what a friend convinced me of, the Titanic hit the iceberg because of the delay at Southampton. The ship was supposed to leave at Noon on the 10th but didn't finally leave until 1:00pm because of an incident with another ship being ripped off its moorings...
  7. Shangas

    FS: Casablanca Props By Indy Magnoli SOLD!

    Does the piano come with it? :D
  8. Shangas

    The story of Keep Calm and Carry On

    Fascinating! I've seen many parodies of that poster. One I saw at a London antiques market was "Keep Calm and Buy Vintage & Collectables" or something of that nature. Thought it was rather cute. Today I learnt something - It was never actually used in the War. Never knew that.
  9. Shangas

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    I seem to recall from a book I read (several years ago) that during Prohibition, incidents of drunk-and-disorderly behaviour in...New York City I think it was...went up by 25%. Or I might be wrong.
  10. Shangas

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    I didn't read through all that, but my research in the past told me that smoking in the Golden Era was more prevalent amongst men, than women. And that a greater percentage of men than women smoked. But it certainly wasn't "everyone". Granted, a sizable chunk of the population did, but as you...
  11. Shangas

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    "What on earth are you dressed up as?" "What, you don't like my suit and hat? Today, Jamie, we're busting myths from the Golden Era, from the 1900s up to the postwar period in the 1950s..." "Interesting, so, where do we start?"
  13. Shangas

    WTB Vintage Morning Wear

    You need a waistcoat too, don't you? Grey is the colour there, I believe. If you get a pair of trousers without buttons, you could use the buttons of a condemned shirt instead and just sew them on. Or get clip-on braces.
  14. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Thanks WB. I hope that the colour combo goes together well. I wasn't too sure.
  15. Shangas

    The Captain's Ball. How Far Back Do These Things Go?

    i've heard of such things on ships before. I think it was the Acquitania that even had a shipboard newspaper. Breaking stories on both sides of the Atlantic were cabled in across the ocean by telegraph and then it was typed up and printed for passengers to read, hot off the press during their...
  16. Shangas

    Fedora Color suggestions

    From what I've seen, brown was a very common hat colour. And it's only how you wear it that determines if you're gonna look like Indy. If you wear it with a suit or bright clothing, then no. If you wear it with brown trousers, tan shirt, brown waistcoat, open collar and a belt, or with a...
  17. Shangas

    Titanic!

    I've seen a lot of versions of Titanic, and some of them are just atrocious. ANTR and the JC ones are good (although I didn't care for the whole love-story thing going on, as on the real Titanic, such a thing was almost certainly impossible), but others were just atrocious. I'm yet to watch a...
  19. Shangas

    The Captain's Ball. How Far Back Do These Things Go?

    That'll be very handy. The ship in my story is the Berengaria.
  20. Shangas

    Fedora Color suggestions

    I say either or both. I've found grey and brown to be the best all-round hat-colours. They tend to go with anything and not clash.
  21. Shangas

    Any writers?

    I have found one magazine based in Australia. I sent an email to the submissions editor or whatever her title was, last year, to ask about sending things in (as some of the criteria on the website were a bit hard to understand). Effectively, their word-limit for pieces is, in her words, about...
  22. Shangas

    Titanic!

    I've heard about this. I look forward to watching it. I'm a Titanic slut, I admit it. They say that the traditional English class-system was at its most inflexible during the Edwardian era.
  23. Shangas

    Wearing a fez

    Sidney Greenstreet, I presume? The Fez is an interesting hat, but I don't think I could wear one. It wouldn't fit my hairstyle.

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