Samuel Halpern
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David G. Brown
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vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver at anchor, less than 50 meters in llength. Probably with illuminated gear like a dredge. If ne light is actually green, seen from stab'd side. Rule 27(b)
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Should not the bigger ship display red sidelight? Or this green one is not sidelight at all?
The all lights in this video are flickering, except the green light and the lighthouse’s light.
I am thinking about Mr. Gibson. If all Titanic’s lights were flickering why did he think the masthead light was Morse lamp?
Could a flickering light be mistaking with Morse lamp at all? I have never seen Morse lamp, but I believe it should be different kind of flickering.
Should not the bigger ship display red sidelight? Or this green one is not sidelight at all?
The all lights in this video are flickering, except the green light and the lighthouse’s light.
I am thinking about Mr. Gibson. If all Titanic’s lights were flickering why did he think the masthead light was Morse lamp?
Could a flickering light be mistaking with Morse lamp at all? I have never seen Morse lamp, but I believe it should be different kind of flickering.
Possibly, but as I understand it, the flickering would have to be very regular. Otherwise Mr. Gibson, paraphrasing the immortal words of CDR Bart Mancuso in The Hunt For Red October, might have mistaken the "Morse lamp's" alleged message for dimensions of a pinup model.
Demonstration of Morse signal lamps by Royal Navy
Jim Currie
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Back then, coal was the fuel in the boilers. Coal gives off lots of smoke. Normally, when a ship was underway, the smoke was left astern. However, when a ship was stopped in cold, flat calm conditions and in a temperature inversion situations, the smoke will hang about just above the vessel and swirl around. I suspect that Gibson was seeing smoke swirling around the foremast light. In the following photograph, imagine the same situation with a temperature inversion.
Incidentally, have you ever considered what happend to the Table cloth of steam vapour over Titanic as she sank?
Incidentally, have you ever considered what happend to the Table cloth of steam vapour over Titanic as she sank?
Jim Currie
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Perhaps the following modification of Titanic at 3 miles, bow down and showing a red light might do?
Incidentally, if a rocket burst ws seen through water vapour, the light spectrum may have been broken up... much like a rainbow, and that might just explain why some witnesses saw lights of different colours?
Maybe something similar to this situation A star has been flickering for years – and researchers think they've figured out why