Test your patience

[iambecomelife]

This is a must watch for any subsimmer who loves the great liners! Excellent project, and they have even hired Ken Marschall (the greatest Titanic painter) for consulting.....keep an eye on this game!

[Sailor Steve]

You missed it?
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=225697

[Catfish]

First time i thought "a bit boring".

Now i have seen it three times or more, if picking out this and that event. Very well made, i think. And so sad to see.

I just don't get why the first command is "turn to starboard", and then the ship turns to port??
When they are half acoss the iceberg, the command is "turn to port", and the ship turns to starboard. Hmm.

[iambecomelife]

Beaten to the punch. Can you please delete thread?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Beaten to the punch. Can you please delete thread?

Merged them instead.

[Dowly]

Year or so back trash papers (dailymail etc.) were running an article saying that mis-command sank the Titanic, but as Steve said, that was how commands were given back then.

Similar to how you turn an outboard engine today, you turn the handle to the right and the boat goes left.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Catfish

I just don't get why the first command is "turn to starboard", and then the ship turns to port??
When they are half acoss the iceberg, the command is "turn to port", and the ship turns to starboard. Hmm.

i had that same question when I saw the big-budget movie. It turns out that it was a hold-over from the early sailing-ship days, when they still used tillers. When the order "Hard a' Starboard" is given, it refers to the tiller, which moves the opposite direction from the rudder. The helmsman knows to turn the wheel to port, which drives the tiller to starboard and the rudder to port. Confusing to us today, but instinctive to sailors at the time.
http://kakopa.com/sailing/titanic_mistake.htm

According to this source the convention was changed in 1933.
http://www.titanicebook.com/wheel.html

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

i had that same question when I saw the big-budget movie. It turns out that it was a hold-over from the early sailing-ship days, when they still used tillers. When the order "Hard a' Starboard" is given, it refers to the tiller, which moves the opposite direction from the rudder. The helmsman knows to turn the wheel to port, which drives the tiller to starboard and the rudder to port. Confusing to us today, but instinctive to sailors at the time.
http://kakopa.com/sailing/titanic_mistake.htm

According to this source the convention was changed in 1933.
http://www.titanicebook.com/wheel.html

Thanks very much, for the explanation!