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The Titanic<\/span>, launched on May 31, 1911, set sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City<\/strong> on April 10, 1912<\/b>, with 2,240 passengers and crew<\/em><\/span> on board. Nicknamed the \u201cMillionaire’s Special<\/em><\/span>,\u201d the ship was fittingly captained by Edward J. Smith<\/strong>, who was known as the \u201cMillionaire’s Captain<\/span><\/em>\u201d because of his popularity with ‘ wealthy passengers ‘.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As passengers waited to enter the limited number of lifeboats, they were entertained by the Titanic<\/em><\/span>\u2019s musicians, who initially played in the first-class lounge before eventually moving to the ship\u2019s deck. Sources differ on how long they performed, some reporting that it was until shortly before the ship sank.\u00a0Speculation\u00a0also surrounded the last song they performed\u2014likely either\u00a0Autumn<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0Nearer My God to Thee<\/em><\/span>. Ironical. None of the musicians survived the sinking.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the early hours of April 15th<\/sup>, 1912<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0over the course of 2 hours and 40 minutes<\/b>, the RMS Titanic<\/em><\/span> sunk in the icy Atlantic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the end, an U.S.\u00a0investigation<\/strong> faulted the\u00a0<\/span>British Board of Trade<\/strong>, \u201cto whose laxity of regulation and hasty inspection the world is largely indebted for this awful fatality”. Other contributing causes were also noted, including the failure of Captain Smith to slow the\u00a0Titanic<\/em><\/span>\u00a0after receiving ice warnings. However, perhaps the strongest\u00a0criticism\u00a0was levied at Captain Lord<\/strong> and the\u00a0Californian<\/em>. The committee found that the ship Californian<\/em> was \u201cnearer the Titanic<\/em><\/span>\u00a0than the 19 miles reported by her Captain, and that her officers and crew saw the\u00a0distress signals\u00a0of the\u00a0Titanic<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and failed to respond to them in accordance with the dictates of humanity, international usage, and the requirements of law.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 10, Circa 1912. Probably, a Red letter Day in the history of passenger shipping. Among other things. Red Ocean would be a fitting metaphor. The Titanic, launched on May 31, 1911, set sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City on April 10, 1912, with 2,240 passengers and … Continue reading “When the Culture is a Vulture and the Law is an …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1964,1961,1962,1958,1967,497,1966,1957,1960,1959,1965,1956,1563,1963,1955,1953,1954],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-british-board-of-trade","tag-british-white-star-line","tag-californian","tag-captain-lord","tag-culture","tag-edward-j-smith","tag-iceberg","tag-law","tag-lifeboats","tag-millionaires-special","tag-new-york-city","tag-red-ocean","tag-regulations","tag-southampton","tag-titanic","tag-tragedy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Generousation-Next.jpeg\")
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