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Airborne respect

Traffic. Banks. Corner shops. He’s an unstoppable war machine.

Are you ‘virtually insane’? It is clearly Jamiroquai.

That’s Churchill? I thought it was the Man from Del Monte

Ah cool! Looked like a cracker ♥️

Looks like great fun. Is that a private event or is it something that will open to the public?

What an interesting idea…

He proposed that ships should be designed in a way that the upper deck would simply float off in the event of a sinking. This deck should have a larder and wireless telegraph. In his view, the passengers would be ‘standing at ease.’ (3.) #titanic

Mr J Smith, a farmer and regular correspondent with the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, was undeterred by his lack of shipbuilding or engineering experience and shared his idea with the readers of the newspaper (2.) #titanic

Beautiful cover art. Congratulations

In the same article apparently the Baltic’s run was otherwise not uneventful, ‘a male passenger died and a woman became insane.’ Lads, it’s not a competition!

Newspaper articles in Scotland in the weeks following the disaster, joined an international chorus of sorrow, scepticism, and accusation. The quote in the previous post was taken from a reflective and prosaic piece written by an Ayrshire local - deeply struck by the disaster. #titanic #scotland