Recent content by Mr J

Probably the easiest way to get the Oceanic beyond the keel is to have the debate about what propulsion to use for her be settled earlier then in OTL.

Maybe but there is some things we can use to make a pretty good guess such as the destruction of lifeboat 5 and the fact that survivors from boiler rooms 1 and 2 both reported seeing blast effects and those two rooms almost immediately flooded whereas rooms both forward and aft of those rooms...

Nah according to the latest research the torpedo hit too far aft for it to be the ammo. Well that and the list she took on suggests that more than one coal bunker was opened to the sea. Personally I believe that the second explosion was either the steam line failing or one or two of the boilers...

To be fair that one has the misfortune of a) the sank like a stone problem and b) happening a couple of months before a even greater tragedy.

Basically? She sank quickly enough that other ships couldn't get there in time to get everyone off*, but not so quick that the sinking was over and done in a short amount of time. Y'know there was time for drama and heroic sacrifice. *Well except for the SS Californian but that's a whole...

Pretty much yeah.

The trouble is you have to have a disaster where the lack of lifeboats actually matters. With something like the Lusitania or the Empress of Ireland or even the Imperator scenario suggested above, the ships sink too quickly. You'd need something like the Titanic disaster or a shorter Republic...

Or Howard could win '96 but lose '98. I mean even in OTL it was damn close, the ALP did win the popular vote.

No, that would have been worse then useless. Firstly the watertight doors would have shut automatically when the water reached them and secondly even if they could have kept the doors open she would have lost power an hour after the collision and would have rolled over and sank within an hour...

There is a chance that a private collector could have a copy, but it's not likely.

Not really. All the reports that I have seen from the time said that other then her stern post, which was ten years younger then the rest of the ship, the Olympic was in really good nick, certainly better then the Majestic or the Berengaria. The main problem with her was that she was a older...

From what I've read the footage was lost either in WWII when Belfast was flattened during the blitz or when a IRA bomb took out a decent chunk of the Harland & Wolff archives in the '70's.

He did. Keep in mind he's one of those ones that had hits in his home country before making it in the US.

Or in the case of the PAL regions, what the hell is a Final Fantasy? :p

Let's see. First off you would have to include NZ and let's say Fiji as well in the Federation, which will help. Then somehow have the White Australia Policy not get past Parliament, having New Zealand would help with that. Then somehow have PNG be integrated into Australia, that would boost the...