Jerome Chertkoff
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As always, the truth is a little bit more intricate.
As always, the truth is a little bit more intricate.
He'd been responsible. for bringing everything aboard, checking it off, storing it, and so on. One of the funny things about the Titanic, given its size, was that the storage was in rather short supply. You often come across theaters that have been built with too few dressing rooms. The Titanic was quite similar. It was built with too little storage.
He'd been responsible. for bringing everything aboard, checking it off, storing it, and so on. One of the funny things about the Titanic, given its size, was that the storage was in rather short supply. You often come across theaters that have been built with too few dressing rooms. The Titanic was quite similar. It was built with too little storage.
And so things were sort of shut here and put in there and in this drawer and that cupboard. And David Blair knew where everything was, and they sent him off.
And so things were sort of shut here and put in there and in this drawer and that cupboard. And David Blair knew where everything was, and they sent him off.
I mean, I don't really subscribe to the theory that the Titanic sank because nobody had any binoculars. But I do think the fact of getting rid of the officer who knew where everything was, was a mistake.
I mean, I don't really subscribe to the theory that the Titanic sank because nobody had any binoculars. But I do think the fact of getting rid of the officer who knew where everything was, was a mistake.