50 rare and wonderful images from history.

[Tango589]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/50...tory/85134254/

[Dowly]

I got as far as the second photo.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I got as far as the second photo.

Too bad. Number 3 is completely wrong. Most of the rest are pretty lame.

[Aktungbby]

COOL but I seriously dispute the 'last' Titanic photo: the rigging's not right and I don't recall victims being 'stacked'. FR Roussel Davids Byles, declared 'a martyr' by the pope famously prayed the rosary and assisted steerage passengers to boats, refusing one himself. He did not survive the sinking. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/04/16/the-priest-who-prayed-the-rosary-and-heard-confessions-as-the-titanic-sank/ The mislabeled photo in the video is, in fact, one from one of the 'body recovery ships(appears in day-light; not 0200 AM) The shot is of a mass for the recovered dead as the crew dispense them over the side. Records show that 166 out of 306 bodies from the Titanic retrieved by the cable-ship Mackay Bennett were buried at sea. The ship's priest, the Reverend Hind, is seen conducting the service in front of the crew. Most of the victims dropped into the Atlantic were believed to have been chosen because they had no means of identification or were third-class passengers and therefore could not afford a funeral. Not quite the case: retrieving over 300 bodies that perished aboard Titanic; Mackay-Bennett found so many victims that embalming supplies ran out, forcing Captain Frederick Larnder to bury 116 bodies (mostly 3rd class) at sea.
In the photo - which has a pre-sale estimate of £5,000 - one of the bodies is clearly labelled number 177, which was William Mayo, a 28-year-old London man who was a leading fireman on the ship.

NO. 177. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 40. - FAIR HAIR AND MOUSTACHE.
CLOTHING - Green coat; grey flannel shirt; Dungaree pants; no socks; engine room shoes.
EFFECTS - D. S. F. Union Book, No. 628.
FIREMAN
NAME - W. MAYO (on "Account of wages" form).
24 Cable Street, Southampton.

The recovery-tag was wrong on estimated age: he was 27; salt-water ages a man!
The image has been owned by the family of one of the crew of the Mackay Bennett until now - as they have made it available for auction at Henry Aldridge and Sons Auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire. This picture blows away the myth that the burials were an orderly and dignified process. You can clearly see the bodies in brown sacks piled up on the deck, with some piled two or three high. In an age where 'class' still mattered ...how classy!The Mackay Bennet was a Canadian cable-laying ship and the owners of the Titanic, White Star Line, contracted it at a rate of £300 a day to recover the bodies. It left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 17 and arrived at the wreck site on April 21. The crew conducted burials at sea on the evenings of April 21, 22 and 23 and then of the afternoon of April 24, when it is thought the picture was taken.
In an account of the burials, Reverend Hind later wrote: ‘Anyone attending a burial at sea will most surely lose the common impression of the awfulness of a grave in the mighty deep.'









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[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Too bad. Number 3 is completely wrong. Most of the rest are pretty lame.

Ah well, they can't all be winners!

[AVGWarhawk]

I liked the British cockpit on rails that simulated shooting aircraft while in flight. I did not know Lenin was voiceless as he neared end of life.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Too bad. Number 3 is completely wrong. Most of the rest are pretty lame.

Gah, now I had to go back and check #3 and the rest.

If rarity is the judging factor, then yes, most of them were pretty lame.

At least they didn't show a photo of Olympic's propellers labeled as those of the Titanic's like so many of these videos do!








You son of a...

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Dowly

At least they didn't show a photo of Olympic's propellers labeled as those of the Titanic's like so many of these videos do!

NO! NO! that's actually correct! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic_alternative_theories
https://theunredacted.com/titanic-conspiracy-the-ship-that-never-sank/

What appear to be the letters M and P can also be seen on the side of the wreck. Could that be the remains of the ship's original etched nameplate -  ‘OLYMPIC’, covered over with the Titanic’s as part of the scam?
The wreck appears to show some evidence of the grey paint used as an undercoat on the Olympic. The Titanic used black paint for its undercoat.

[Jimbuna]

'Rare and wonderful'

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

'Rare and wonderful'

Had a quick browse through of some of the other videos on that channel and it could appear as if they have a channel dedicated to click bait with nothing to show.

[Fubar2Niner]

Well I liked it! Then again I have had a tipple and am apt to like most things nostalgic

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Von Due

Had a quick browse through of some of the other videos on that channel and it could appear as if they have a channel dedicated to click bait with nothing to show.

Yeah, most probably.

[Platapus]

Too bad it was in a video format.