Last 109 I was involved in building was a 1:72 Air Training Corps Competition. Told the cadets to sit down and put newspaper on the tables while I got some supplies from the other room, was gone for five seconds and came back to find pieces everywhere, the canopy nowhere to be seen and paint on every surface but the newspaper…..I wanted to cry 😀

Some stunning models here :)Some really nice models here 🙂

I must say that that looks absolutely stunning. The closest I’ve dabbled to 200mm is 1:35 scale, but I’ve always thought about trying something larger. Spend most of my time with railways though. That’s what most customers want.

Lol. Must confess that has made my day. Oh, Aviation Forum, how I have missed you 😀

Many a time – often involving superglue or my sense of humour, which lands me in a substantial amount of bother from time to time.

I worked with Oxfam for a while and one day remarked to the manager, Kevin, that there were two things that I don’t understand – women and Americans. To which the woman who’d just walked up to the counter replied “I’m American”. I’d worked there for one and a half years and the only only American to enter the shop in those one and a half years was stood inches away at that very moment. Needless to say, I felt quite the fool – I believe she saw the funny side, fortunately 😀

Lightoller was second officer, Murdoch was first officer. Both were demoted with the transferring aboard of Chief Officer Wilde 🙂

One of the biggest problems with the switch theory is that it ignores the biggest reason why it could not have happened ;)…
That reason is most peoples complete inability to keep their mouths shut :)…are we really expected to believe that hundreds if not thousands of dockyard workers etc would not talk about it ?????:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

from one of the many websites…

Or just sold your story to the highest bidder LOL

rgds baz

I could not have put this any better had I tried. With wages the way they were back then and the scale of such a story should it have been true, any whistle blower would have been made quite well off had they sold the story. I don’t imagine that Irish shipbuilders could have been pressured into keeping quiet or resist the temptation to make a substantial sum to feed their families.

That said, there’s also every possibility that many would have, as is the case today, feared for their livelihoods should they tell all – not such an issue today but back then there wasn’t a benefit system to fall back on.

Plus, with the size of the ships, which could be seen for miles, someone else would likely have seen a potential switch in progress. Whichever ship went down however, it was undoubtedly the single most important disaster in maritime history. Without it, we would not have the ice patrols, lifeboats for full capacity, 24 hour radio watches, lifeboat drills within 24 hours (I still think that this should be done before sailing – perhaps they could take a leaf out of aviation’s book – perhaps the Concordia inquiry might recommend this) and should this not have happened, with ships becoming constantly larger, maybe the disaster that taught us those lessons might have cost many more lives.

It is tragic that they died, but at least it wasn’t in vain and their memory lives on, as do the lessons that they taught us.