BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic

Subject: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 02:37 PM

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/bushboat.jpg


The pumps can do just so much...

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Peace
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 04:03 PM

RRIIGGHHTT!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 05:59 PM

And God Bless all who sail in her (:-(

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Gareth
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 06:18 PM

Nice try Donuel, and I don't fault your artwork.

But White Star, by the way with American Ownership, ordered three ships to the same design.

"Titanic"
"Olympic"
and
"Gigantic"

following the loss of "Titanic" the hull destined for the name of "Gigantic" was renamed "Brittanic"

"Brittanic" was lost due to a mine in the Eastern Meddirrannean in 1916, whilst sereving as a hospital ship, fortuately with a small loss of life.

A Violet Jessup (IIRC) a stewardess on the "Titanic", was serving on the "Brittanic" as a nurse.

She survied the "Brittanic" sinking, despite the lifeboat she was in capsising on launch.

I respectfully suggest that this would make a better film than the recent crap we have had c/o Hollywood.

Gareth

"And remember "Herman the "Bismarks Cat"

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Raptor
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 06:39 PM

I thought this thread was about a turd someone was particularly proud of!

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Apr 04 - 10:51 PM

I don't remember Herman. Tell us about him, please.

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Gareth
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 05:44 AM

Click 'Ere

or Click 'Ere, and scroll down to ships pets

NB my mistake, for Herman read Oscar.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Blackcatter
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 09:20 AM

Didn't Violet Jessup also ride on the Olympic at one point? There was a TV show on PBS about it a few years back. I think there was a previous thread concerning it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Flash Company
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:21 AM

Always seemed to me that it was asking for trouble to claim that any vessel was unsinkable. Neptune couldn't possibly let that pass unchallenged.

FC

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 02:37 PM

That's an awesome image, our ship of state, soon to be warped out into the great Potomac. I do hope they keep a sharp watch, for falling cows and other more predictible threats.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 03:06 PM

". . . and with his brace and auger, in her side he bored holes three. . . ."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 04:34 PM

The holes seem to be bored from within. You know, trickle-out economics.

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 06:04 PM

Just like our current administration to try to pilot a ship with a draft that exceeds the channel depth of the Potomac River!

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Gareth
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 07:44 PM

Yes - Violet Jessup served as a Stewardess on the "Olympic"

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Blackcatter
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 12:32 AM

Thought so - remarkable coincidince - one of the most interesting of the 20th Century.

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 03:37 PM

Ya gotta work somewhere...

Are there sufficient lifeboats for all the rats of all descriptions?

Subject: RE: BS: The Unsinkable Gigantic
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 03:42 PM

Unfortunately there are. All lined with Gold, Satin, and silk courtesy of the tax payer. And if you've ever been to the potomac in that area there are enough accesses to the sewer system for them when the lifeboat makes it ashore.

How freakin poetic we are.