Good PR for the High Seas Fleet

There was something about how it was a fishing boat that Titanic saw and not the Califorian. Released records apparantly show her in the area somewhat illegially.


Eternity,

Rubbish.

The Ship That Stood Still covers this topic rather exhaustively, it's more of a text book than a work of popular history. There were no ships between Californian and Titanic. None, as is nada, zilch, and zero.

As for the silly suggestions of an "illegal fishing boat", the "illegal" bit once again highlights the propensity of myth makers to presume modern concepts in the actions of historical people. Without international fishery regulations in place, how could the boat somehow be illegal?

But nothing about German coal ships that I can recall

That's because there were none. It's an interesting intersection between the huge Titanic mythos and the long term national German We're Constantly Belittled, Ignored, Dismissed, and Shrugged Off Even When We Try To Help mythos/inferiority complex however.

By the way, I'd love to hear your explanation about how pumps aboard the two German cruisers could assist Titanic. I'm sure it will be just as informed as your HSF Lunge at the Channel thread.


Bill
 
The pumps suggestion was just that. A suggestion. I have no idea if it would help or not but is it not possible that the Germans may try to help save the ship in this scenario? It produces even better PR for them.
 

Cook

Banned
Someone's going to pop up shortly and advise you not to necromance threads, ie. don't go digging up a thread from quite a while ago and posting a single line on it.

Although it was good to see one of Bill Cameron's posts again though.
:)
 
glad he did though, this threat is fascinating!
Thanks!

Since it has woken up, I should point out that I posted a few more details on CF.net to mark the hundredth anniversary http://counter-factual.net/upload/showthread.php?t=14914 and that the idea of a British battlecruiser arriving has been posted here recently https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254901.

Sadly, I don't normally develop timelines. My username is taken from the Hitchhiker's guide to describe the computer to find the ultimate question and I tend to ask only “what if ...?”.
 
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