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Thousands cheer madly as Titanic leaves Southampton on maiden voyage, April 10, 1912
WARNING! FAKE NEWSREEL FOOTAGE!
Thanks for the reminder for 2026, Chris Geidner
Reposted by Chris Geidner
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ptklein
@ptklein.com
Good morning!
Titanic departed Southampton and began its fateful voyage today 114 years ago.
Here is part of a British Pathé newsreel released post-disaster, with footage of Titanicon 2 April leaving Belfast. [Not so fast. Keep reading.]
8:14 AM · Apr 10, 2026
@ptklein.com
Good morning!
Titanic departed Southampton and began its fateful voyage today 114 years ago.
Here is part of a British Pathé newsreel released post-disaster, with footage of Titanic
8:14 AM · Apr 10, 2026
Good morning!
— ptklein (@ptklein.com) 2026-04-10T12:14:07.895Z
Titanic departed Southampton and began its fateful voyage today 114 years ago.
Here is part of a British Pathé newsreel released post-disaster, with footage of Titanic on 2 April leaving Belfast.
4/10 Rose Dewitt Bukater’s Big Fucking Hat
@titanicgay.bsky.social
I don’t want to be pedantic but the foreword promenade deck isn’t enclosed and the funnels and superstructure haven’t been painted. This looks to be the fitting out wharf earlier in the year
Pathé did not do their research here lmao
9:50 AM · Apr 10, 2026
@titanicgay.bsky.social
I don’t want to be pedantic but the foreword promenade deck isn’t enclosed and the funnels and superstructure haven’t been painted. This looks to be the fitting out wharf earlier in the year
Pathé did not do their research here lmao
9:50 AM · Apr 10, 2026
I don’t want to be pedantic but the foreword promenade deck isn’t enclosed and the funnels and superstructure haven’t been painted. This looks to be the fitting out wharf earlier in the year
— 4/10 Rose Dewitt Bukater’s Big Fucking Hat (@titanicgay.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T13:50:24.769Z
Pathé did not do their research here lmao
ptklein
@ptklein.com
Yeah further searching has suggested this is actually February 2, not April 2. Promenade was enclosed February 14!
9:51 AM · Apr 10, 2026
@ptklein.com
Yeah further searching has suggested this is actually February 2, not April 2. Promenade was enclosed February 14!
9:51 AM · Apr 10, 2026
Yeah further searching has suggested this is actually February 2, not April 2. Promenade was enclosed February 14!
— ptklein (@ptklein.com) 2026-04-10T13:51:38.393Z
toddbigr.bsky.social
@toddbigr.bsky.social
That is actually the older sister Olympic; you can tell because the A Deck promenade is open; Titanic's was enclosed. I don't believe there is any surviving footage of Titanic's departure, but I could be wrong.
8:32 AM · Apr 10, 2026
@toddbigr.bsky.social
That is actually the older sister Olympic; you can tell because the A Deck promenade is open; Titanic's was enclosed. I don't believe there is any surviving footage of Titanic's departure, but I could be wrong.
8:32 AM · Apr 10, 2026
That is actually the older sister Olympic; you can tell because the A Deck promenade is open; Titanic's was enclosed. I don't believe there is any surviving footage of Titanic's departure, but I could be wrong.
— (@toddbigr.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T12:32:40.368Z
toddbigr.bsky.social
@toddbigr.bsky.social
Yep! That was the actual newsreel from after the disaster, taken from Olympic's maiden voyage. They just used old film and passed it off as new. Fortunately, our media today would never do such a thing!
8:42 AM · Apr 10, 2026
@toddbigr.bsky.social
Yep! That was the actual newsreel from after the disaster, taken from Olympic's maiden voyage. They just used old film and passed it off as new. Fortunately, our media today would never do such a thing!
8:42 AM · Apr 10, 2026
Yep! That was the actual newsreel from after the disaster, taken from Olympic's maiden voyage. They just used old film and passed it off as new. Fortunately, our media today would never do such a thing!
— (@toddbigr.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T12:42:26.209Z
Encyclopedia Titanica, The Fourth Smoke Stack
The fourth funnel provided air ventilation for the galleys as well as a chimney flue for the 1st class smoking room. Smoke and/or steam would emit from the funnel, but would be hardly noticable, especially when compared to the first three stacks, which were connected directly to the boiler rooms. The smokestack did have a ladder to its top, as evidenced by the famous stern-on shot of the Titanic at Queenstown. You can see a stoker poking his head over the top of the 4th funnel.
Dan Cherry, Aug 11, 2000
The fourth funnel provided air ventilation for the galleys as well as a chimney flue for the 1st class smoking room. Smoke and/or steam would emit from the funnel, but would be hardly noticable, especially when compared to the first three stacks, which were connected directly to the boiler rooms. The smokestack did have a ladder to its top, as evidenced by the famous stern-on shot of the Titanic at Queenstown. You can see a stoker poking his head over the top of the 4th funnel.
Dan Cherry, Aug 11, 2000
Titanic departure (real video 1912)
8,890,089 views Apr 11, 2012
Nikolay Shalygin
15.4K subscribers
Real footage of RMS Titanic leaving for the first voyage. 1912. Видеокадры "Титаника" 100-летней давности.
8,890,089 views Apr 11, 2012
Nikolay Shalygin
15.4K subscribers
Real footage of RMS Titanic leaving for the first voyage. 1912. Видеокадры "Титаника" 100-летней давности.
The video I had linked to over the past few years was this one:
It was the source of the title for this thread. That great video has been made private. The Russian video probably shows the same footage.
All the "original footage" clips of the Titanic on YouTube seem to be set to classical music. The sound track in the one that is now private was a work by Erik Satie, "Gymnopédie No.1."
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
37,321,905 views May 7, 2012
DistantMirrors
127K subscribers
Alfred Eric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 -- Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
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37,321,905 views May 7, 2012
DistantMirrors
127K subscribers
Alfred Eric Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 -- Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie.
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RMS Titanic
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Legacy
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Cultural
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In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in 1898 about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS Titan, a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. But like the Titanic, she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.
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Legacy
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Cultural
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In a frequently commented-on literary coincidence, Morgan Robertson authored a novel called Futility in 1898 about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS Titan, a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. But like the Titanic, she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.
Morgan Robertson
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Futility
Robertson is best known for his short novel Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, first published in 1898. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the SS Titan, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries an insufficient number of lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of almost everyone on board. There are many close similarities with the real-life disaster of the RMS Titanic. The book was published 14 years before the actual Titanic, carrying an insufficient number of lifeboats, hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and sank in the North Atlantic, killing most of the people on board. The many similarities between the fictional "Titan" and the real "Titanic" have fuelled much speculation ever since the tragedy.
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Futility
Robertson is best known for his short novel Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, first published in 1898. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the SS Titan, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries an insufficient number of lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of almost everyone on board. There are many close similarities with the real-life disaster of the RMS Titanic. The book was published 14 years before the actual Titanic, carrying an insufficient number of lifeboats, hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and sank in the North Atlantic, killing most of the people on board. The many similarities between the fictional "Titan" and the real "Titanic" have fuelled much speculation ever since the tragedy.
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Titanic sank due to enormous uncontrollable fire, not iceberg, claim experts
Rarely seen images of the Titanic before it left Southampton have furthered researchers’ theory that a fire may have been the root cause of the 1912 disaster
Rachael Pells | 6 hours ago
The sinking of the RMS Titanic may have been caused by an enormous fire on board, not by hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, experts have claimed, as new evidence has been published to support the theory. ... More than 1,500 passengers lost their lives when the Titanic sank on route to New York from Southampton in April 1912.
While the cause of the disaster has long been attributed to the iceberg, fresh evidence has surfaced of a fire in the ship’s hull, which researchers say burned unnoticed for almost three weeks leading up to the collision. ... While experts have previously acknowledged the theory of a fire on board, new analysis of rarely seen photographs has prompted researchers to blame the fire as the primary cause of the ship’s demise.
Journalist Senan Molony, who has spent more than 30 years researching the sinking of the Titanic, studied photographs taken by the ship’s chief electrical engineers before it left Belfast shipyard. ... Mr Maloney said he was able to identify 30-foot-long black marks along the front right-hand side of the hull, just behind where the ship’s lining was pierced by the iceberg. ... He said: “We are looking at the exact area where the iceberg stuck, and we appear to have a weakness or damage to the hull in that specific place, before she even left Belfast”. ... Experts subsequently confirmed the marks were likely to have been caused by a fire started in a three-storey high fuel store behind one of the ship’s boiler rooms.
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{Mr Molony said:} “The fire was known about, but it was played down. She should never have been put to sea.” ... In 2008, Ray Boston, an expert with more than 20 years of research into the Titanic’s journey, said he believed the coal fire began during speed trials as much as 10 days prior to the ship leaving Southampton. ... He said the fire had potential to cause “serious explosions” below decks before it would reach New York.
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Rarely seen images of the Titanic before it left Southampton have furthered researchers’ theory that a fire may have been the root cause of the 1912 disaster
Rachael Pells | 6 hours ago
The sinking of the RMS Titanic may have been caused by an enormous fire on board, not by hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, experts have claimed, as new evidence has been published to support the theory. ... More than 1,500 passengers lost their lives when the Titanic sank on route to New York from Southampton in April 1912.
While the cause of the disaster has long been attributed to the iceberg, fresh evidence has surfaced of a fire in the ship’s hull, which researchers say burned unnoticed for almost three weeks leading up to the collision. ... While experts have previously acknowledged the theory of a fire on board, new analysis of rarely seen photographs has prompted researchers to blame the fire as the primary cause of the ship’s demise.
Journalist Senan Molony, who has spent more than 30 years researching the sinking of the Titanic, studied photographs taken by the ship’s chief electrical engineers before it left Belfast shipyard. ... Mr Maloney said he was able to identify 30-foot-long black marks along the front right-hand side of the hull, just behind where the ship’s lining was pierced by the iceberg. ... He said: “We are looking at the exact area where the iceberg stuck, and we appear to have a weakness or damage to the hull in that specific place, before she even left Belfast”. ... Experts subsequently confirmed the marks were likely to have been caused by a fire started in a three-storey high fuel store behind one of the ship’s boiler rooms.
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{Mr Molony said:} “The fire was known about, but it was played down. She should never have been put to sea.” ... In 2008, Ray Boston, an expert with more than 20 years of research into the Titanic’s journey, said he believed the coal fire began during speed trials as much as 10 days prior to the ship leaving Southampton. ... He said the fire had potential to cause “serious explosions” below decks before it would reach New York.
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At 4:10 in the first video, note that smoke is coming from only the first three stacks. The fourth stack was for ventilation.
Tue Jan 3, 2017: Titanic not sunk by iceberg, experts claim.
Another M$M coverup!1!!!!11!
I would have put this in LBN, but, you know, 1912....