Secret History (TV Series) Titanic: The New Evidence (2017) User Reviews

A Truly Interesting Watch

[suemcc-34064 · 10/10 · 27 January 2020]

I just just finished watching this program and found it truly interesting - revealing previously unknown facts about the sinking of this mighty ship - I have always been fascinated by the story of the Titanic and anyone equally fascinated would find this well worth watching.

Abject sensationalising garbage.

[gamelynchase · 1/10 · 12 July 2020]

Senan Molony is to be congratulated on successfully pulling the wool over the eyes of TV commissioning editors, among others. The UK's Channel More4 scheduled his purported 'new evidence' no less than three times in as many weeks, and I'm sure it's still lurking out there. The Titanic continues to hold the position of that ship about which the most tendentious baloney has been written, spoken and depicted, and Mr Molony's entertaining peregrination is no exception to this rule. Had he taken the trouble to look at the vessel's profile plan (he is an 'expert', after all), he would have noticed there was a centreline bunkering hatch in way of his newfound black patch on the hull plating. That black patch could have been attributable to such as coal dust, abrasions from the loading skips, or a touch up paint job consequent thereupon. Instead, as others have exhaustively pointed out, he opportunistically translates his precious patch downwards and afterwards on the profile to make it coincident with a bunker fire. Furthermore, he asserts the vessel was speeded up because she was running short of coal; this, regardless of the basic principle that for every increment of speed there is a consequent exponential increase in fuel consumption - a characteristically 'Irish' solution to the vessel's predicament, would one not agree? And again furthermore, he seeks to sensationalise the fact that most of the crew engaged in Belfast left the ship in Southampton. I hesitate to disabuse him of his standpoint, but the Belfast-Southampton passage was a Home Trade (Eng 4) 'Run' paid off in Southampton - and Runners, by both definition and inclination, are loath to sign on voyage Articles (ENG 1). Mercenary sensationalising of the Titanic casualty is nothing new; it started with Walter Lord and culminated, climactically, with James Cameron's purple depicture. This present expert's attempted latter-day hatchet job on the management of the White Star Line has only served to highlight his coruscating ineptitude when it comes to the detail of maritime matters.

Total Crap

[DukeOfPoker · 4 February 2021]

A bunker fire? Load of garbage. Bunch of crap. Sesationistic garbage.