Punishment for entering the officers' quarters/bridge area?
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Joe L
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Additionally, this was NOT a slave ship, nor a 3rd world commercial freighter. Titanic was a "luxury, passenger-carrying, ocean liner." I'm rather certain that no one was "punished", as you say, for the simple infraction of being in a restricted area. At worst, they were probably politely asked to leave and may even have been escorted away.
Now if there were MULTIPLE infractions, by the SAME person, I'm sure he /she would have been REPRIMANDED and possibly interrogated as to what their intentions were. Afterwhich, base on the severity of the infraction, the Captain probably would have had the trespasser restricted to quarters.
Now if there were MULTIPLE infractions, by the SAME person, I'm sure he /she would have been REPRIMANDED and possibly interrogated as to what their intentions were. Afterwhich, base on the severity of the infraction, the Captain probably would have had the trespasser restricted to quarters.
Mark Baber
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Flogging, perhaps. In extreme cases, keelhauling.
Jim Currie
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The rule was for the benefit of the officers...not the passengers. It was to dissuade a young fella sneaking a gorgious young thing back to his cabin.
Stephen Carey
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That was better than the officer visiting the gorgeous young thing in her own cabin - that was considered "broaching cargo"...
Arun Vajpey
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Unless she happened to be Catherine-Zeta Jones, of course.
Robert T. Paige
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Would the same thing apply in restrictions in crossing between classes of passengers ?
In 1912 who would do this ?
Or......I don't think it was a problem anyone worried about was because people had the common decency and common sense to heed notices about where they were not allowed to go and not to do it in the first place ?
In reference to there being no restrictions during visiting hours.:
I think the difference between just visiting a ship in port between the time all the incoming passengers had left the ship and before the outgoing passengers had boarded the ship was that the visitors would be leaving the ship in a few hours anyway and it wouldn't have caused any problems ?
But once the ship was loaded and underway it would have caused problems ?
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Robert T. Paige
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Or Kate WinsletUnless she happened to be Catherine-Zeta Jones, of course.
Arun Vajpey
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As far as I recall, I don't think the 'Rose' character went anywhere near the bridge. I have NOT seen the 1996 TV movie Titanic but recall seeing a screen cap where the Jones character is standing on the bridge looking admiringly at George C Scott's Captain Smith . Those who have sen it, please correct me if I am mistaken.
. Those who have sen it, please correct me if I am mistaken.The rule was for the benefit of the officers...not the passengers. It was to dissuade a young fella sneaking a gorgious young thing back to his cabin.
That was better than the officer visiting the gorgeous young thing in her own cabin - that was considered "broaching cargo"...
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Steven and jim,
Was this the case prior from the rules changing- Did this happened on a rugalar basics? the wsl had to engaged and enforce this rule, or did this rule come about due to ships getting bigger in size?
That was better than the officer visiting the gorgeous young thing in her own cabin - that was considered "broaching cargo"...
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Steven and jim,
Was this the case prior from the rules changing- Did this happened on a rugalar basics? the wsl had to engaged and enforce this rule, or did this rule come about due to ships getting bigger in size?
Robert T. Paige
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I would have to review the 1997 movie to be sure about it, but I think there was a scene in which Thomas Andrews was leading a group of passengers - "the 'Rose' character " included - in a tour of the ship. At one point, while they were on the Boat Deck, Andrews remarks "Next stop is the bridge." So I don't remember ifAs far as I recall, I don't think the 'Rose' character went anywhere near the bridge. I have NOT seen the 1996 TV movie Titanic but recall seeing a screen cap where the Jones character is standing on the bridge looking admiringly at George C Scott's Captain Smith
"the 'Rose' character went anywhere near the bridge " in THAT movie ? Also correct me,too, if I am mistaken.
This is also the scene in which Rose remarks she had done a little math about the number of lifeboats, etc., to Andrews ?
Mark Baber
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Probably?
Thomas Krom
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In the 1997 movie they do not say the tour was going on the bridge, after the Sunday service they are already on the bridge along with Harold Bride giving an icewarning of the Noordam. While the real Thomas Andrews Jr showed Albert and Vera Dick (two first class Canadian passengers) around the ship, they only went to first classs areas. The bridge of White Star Line vessels was a sanctum if one considers even Mr. Ismay had to ask premision first to enter upon the bridge, he even stated the first time he entered upon it was during the sinking. The only reason Thomas Andrews Jr would have gone to the navigating bridge or even the officers quarters was to talk to the captain if he and his officers had any improvements in mind, such as he and captain Smith talked about with the Olympic in June 1911.
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