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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Very true. They actually got that right in Titanic. Shocked me because I didn't know it at the time and thought they had it backward. Silly me.
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I believe that the British merchant marine changed even before the RN.
Remember reading an article by the Technical Advisor for
Titanic in the USNI
Proceedings magazine some years ago. As I recall there was issues with the director about this very subject although eventually they chose to use the historically correct orders. The funniest thing was with the coal in the stoke holds. Originally they used black painted rocks but the Advisor prevailed upon them to get a quantity of real coal which was that much lighter and easier for the extras to shovel into the simulated furnaces. Apparently somebody thought that the real coal didn't look realistic enough so they went back to black-painted rocks for the final takes.
I sometime think about that story when reading about Hollywood "realism".