“See quotes by Jack Thayer. This what he saw. I determined the visuals from his 1912 sketch and his description of the funnels profusely expelling smoke and sparks. “
The drawing was not made by John “Jack” Borland Thayer but by Lewis Palmer Skidmore (Second of September 1877-Tenth of June 1955)), a first class American passenger on-board the
Carpathia who traveld with his wife Emily Cordelia Skidmore (Third of February 1884- Twenty fourth of September 1959). Not only is the sketch not made by Thayer but John Borland Thayer also said many times in 1912 that the sketch was nothing as he experienced. In a 1912 newspaper he gave the following account (I kept the spelling mistakes which could be found in the article):
This time I was sucked down, and as I came up I was pushed out again and twisted around by a large wave, comming up in the midst of a great deal of small wreckage. As I pushed my hand from my head it touched the cork fender of an overturned life-boat. I lookedup and saw some men on the top and asked them to give me a hand. One of them, who was a stoker helped me up. In a short time the bottom was covered with about twenty-five or thirty men. When I got on this I was facing the ship. The Stern then seemed to rise in the air and stopped at about an angle of 60 degrees. It seemed to hold there for a time and then with a hissing sound it shot right out of the sight with people jumping of the stern. The stern either pivoted around towards our boat or we were sucked towards it, and as we only had one our we could not keep it away. There did not seem to be very much suction and most f us managed to stay on the bottom of our boat."
The account you often used comes from his 1940s memoirs.
Thomas Dillon according the British inquiry specifically stated he saw the ship sinking in-tact (see
TIP | British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry | Day 5 | Testimony of Thomas P. Dillon, cont.)
3858. (
Mr. Raymond Asquith.) Before the ship actually went down did you see her make any movements?
- Yes, she took one final plunge and righted herself again.
3859. She gave a plunge and righted herself again?
- Yes.
3860. Did you notice anything about the funnel?
- Not then.
3861. Did you afterwards notice something about the funnel?
- Yes.
3862. What?
- When she went down.
3863. Was that after you had left the ship?
- Before I left the ship.
3864. What did you notice?
- Well, the funnel seemed to cant up towards me.
3865. It seemed to fall aft?
- Yes; it seemed to fall up this way.
3866. Was that the aftermost funnel?
- Yes.
3867. Did you get the idea that the ship was breaking in two?
- No.
3868. Did the funnel seem to fall towards you?
- Yes.
3869. (
The Commissioner.) That is the after funnel?
- Yes, my Lord.
3870. (
Mr. Raymond Asquith.) Then you say the ship plunged and righted herself again; and was it then that you dived into the water?
- I did not dive into the water.
3871. How did you get off the ship into the water?
- I went down with the ship, and shoved myself away from her into the water.
3872. Were you sucked down at all?
- About two fathoms.
3873. And did you then come up again to the surface?
- I seemed to get lifted up to the surface.
3874. You got lifted up to the surface?
- Yes.
3875. Were you picked up by one of the boats?
- Yes.
3876. Do you know which one?
- Afterwards I found out; it was
No. 4 boat.
3877. Did you have to swim far? Were you swimming long in the water before you were picked up?
- I suppose about twenty minutes.
3878. Did you see any of the other passengers in the water - any other people in the water of any sort?
- Yes.
3879. Many?
- About a thousand.
3880. Were there any others near the boat when you were picked up?
- I do not know.
3881. (
The Commissioner.) Did you say "I saw about one thousand people in the water"?
- From my estimation, my Lord.
3882. (
Mr. Raymond Asquith.) When you came up again, after you were sucked down - you told us you were sucked down and came up again - was the ship still floating then?
- No.
3883. She had sunk when you came up again?
- Well, I saw what I thought would be the afterpart of her coming up and going down again, final.
3884. Then she had not sunk?
- She came up and went down again.
3885. You saw what you thought was the afterpart coming up again?
- I thought it was the ship coming up again. She came up and went down again - finish.
The whole quote of Mrs. Emily Ryerson is as follows (see
TIP | United States Senate Inquiry | Day 16 | Affidavit of Emily Ryerson (First Class Passenger, SS Titanic))
“The ropes seemed to stick at one end and the boat tipped, some one called for a knife, but it was not needed until we got into the water, as it was but a short distance, and I then realized for the first time how far the ship had sunk. The deck we left was only about 20 feet from the sea. I could see all the portholes open and water washing in, and the decks still lighted. Then they called out, "How many seamen have you," and they answered one. "That is not enough," said the officer, "I will send you another," and he sent a sailor down the rope. In a few minutes after several other men not sailors came down the ropes over the davits and dropped into our boat. The order was given to pull away, then they rowed off - the sailors, the women, anyone - but made little progress; there was a confusion of orders; we rowed toward the stern, some one shouted something about a gangway, and no one seemed to know what to do. Barrels and chairs were being thrown overboard. Then suddenly, when we still seemed very near, we saw the ship was sinking rapidly. I was in the bow of the boat with my daughter and turned to see the great ship take a plunge toward the bow, the two forward funnels seemed to lean and then she seemed to break in half as if cut with a knife, and as the bow went under the lights went out; the stern stood up for several minutes, black against the stars, and then that, too, plunged down, and there was no sound for what seemed like hours, and then began the cries for help of people drowning all around us, which seemed to go on forever. Some one called out, "Pull for your lives, or you'll be sucked under," and everyone that could rowed like mad. I could see my younger daughter and Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Astor rowing, but there seemed to be no suction. Then we turned to pick up some of those in the water. Some of the women protested, but others persisted, and we dragged in six or seven men; the men we rescued were principally stokers, stewards, sailors, etc., and were so chilled and frozen already they could hardly move. Two of them died in the stern later and many were raving and moaning and delirious most of the time. We had no lights or compass. There were several babies in the boat, but there was no milk or water. (I believe these were all stowed away somewhere, but no one knew where, and as the bottom of the boat was full of water and the boat full of people it was very difficult to find anything.)”
Let me give you some personal advice regarding the Titanic. No matter how much research we do, not matter how hard we believe in everything we must let theories be theories and not factual. There are always some factors we will have wrong with the breakup, things that do not end up with eyewitness reports from the correct angle. Theories should be kept as theories and not as facts or the truth as you often claimed when you removed comments your old comments sections.
This screenshot was taken on the 10th of December 2019 by a good friend of mine. With the Titanic you must never claim theories as factual when there is a lot of evidence against it. I already expect you will say "You are wrong. There is in-fact a lot of evidence in favour of this theory." but I think many people will disagree with that. I will however say I have nothing personal against you and hope we can talk about this civilized.