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pommystuart
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I believe it is one of the most watched displays in the world.
There is a shorter display from the same location at 2100hrs, but this year the ABC did not receive good reports about their TV coverage of it.
There is a shorter display from the same location at 2100hrs, but this year the ABC did not receive good reports about their TV coverage of it.
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studentforever
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Happy New Year everyone. I am setting a low standard this year, may it be an improvement on 2022!
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pommystuart
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Have a great Birthday Morgan.
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I actually listened to the entire 53 minutes of the video. It was very powerful, and very sad. I had the video on full screen and just let it run by. IF you have 53 minutes to spare, I highly recommend watching it.
I also looked up the Wikipedia article about the sinking. I was curious about the SS Frankfurt, but saw nothing about it. I did read this, though:
I also looked up the Wikipedia article about the sinking. I was curious about the SS Frankfurt, but saw nothing about it. I did read this, though:
Much nearer was SS Californian, which had warned Titanic of ice a few hours earlier. Apprehensive at his ship being caught in a large field of drift ice, Californian's captain, Stanley Lord, had decided at about 22:00 to halt for the night and wait for daylight to find a way through the ice field.[118] At 23:30, 10 minutes before Titanic hit the iceberg, Californian's sole radio operator, Cyril Evans, shut his set down for the night and went to bed.[119] On the bridge her third officer, Charles Groves, saw a large vessel to starboard around 10 to 12 mi (16 to 19 km) away. It made a sudden turn to port and stopped. If the radio operator of Californian had stayed at his post fifteen minutes longer, hundreds of lives might have been saved.[120] A little over an hour later, Second Officer Herbert Stone saw five white rockets exploding above the stopped ship. Unsure what the rockets meant, he called Captain Lord, who was resting in the chartroom, and reported the sighting.[121] Lord did not act on the report, but Stone was perturbed: "A ship is not going to fire rockets at sea for nothing," he told a colleague.[122]
