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We are in the sitting room,
looking at the fireplace.
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Isn't that amazing? That
ribbon design is still there.
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These little touches
of elegance.
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You can almost feel the hands
of the guy that made that.
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J. Bruce Ismay
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was managing director
of the White Star Line,
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and he vetoed the idea
of having 48 lifeboats.
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He felt fewer would be fine,
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that as long as they met
the law, they were okay.
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It is Smith's bathtub.
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Oh, Captain Smith.
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Wow.
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The captain of the "Titanic"
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used to take his baths
right there.
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His little pink butt
sitting right there in the tub.
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Captain Smith was called
"the millionaire's captain"
:40:50
because he was so popular
with the first-class passengers.
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30 years at sea.
Perfect record.
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This voyage was to be
his crowning achievement.
:40:59
He was going to take
the biggest, most beautiful ship
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across the ocean on her
maiden voyage and then retire.
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I n archeology,
:41:10
we carry these ghosts
of the imagination with us.
:41:13
And I was kind of imagining
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Thomas Andrews
out there on the deck.
:41:20
Thomas Andrews
was managing director
:41:22
and president of
Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders.
:41:25
He designed and built the
"Titanic" from the ground up.
:41:27
He knew the ship better
than anyone.
:41:29
He put davits on the ship
that were designed
:41:32
to take a lifeboat from here
and lift it outward
:41:35
and then go inward
and pick up a second lifeboat
:41:37
in a second position and go out.
:41:38
I n his own hand,
:41:40
in his notebook,
he has the number of lifeboats
:41:43
that are supposed to go on the
ship that he designed it for.
:41:46
He was overruled
:41:48
and forced to comply
only to the minimum
:41:50
of the Board of Trade
requirement.
:41:55
Andrews cared
about the ship and crew
:41:57
and was onboard to make
last-minute improvements