Talk:Robert Williams Daniel

Daniels' stories are one of the thousands of far-fetched newspaper accounts: it is not even certain that Daniels was really still aboard when the ship sank, and IF he was, he was in the extreme stern (newspaper account by the fireman Thomas Patrick Dillon, which is also the only source that placed Daniels aboard - many Titanic historians are instead convinced that he was already in a lifeboat by this time, see http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/plucked-from-the-sea.html), and there is no way he could have reached the extreme stern if he was near the bridge when it began to flood, because from that moment to the moment the Titanic sank only five minutes or so passed, and there is no way he could have walked up the slanting deck for al the length of the ship. Moreover, all the survivor accounts (see enquiry testimonies! http://www.titanicinquiry.org/) are unanimous in saying that the fore end of the boat deck, where the bridge was, was submerged in a very quick and violent manner, like a "tidal wave" had struck it: it had not flooded slowly like Daniels said. 2.97.27.181 (talk) 17:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

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Supports that he was pulled into the lifeboat where his future wife already was: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/112167925 Samatva (talk) 21:44, 16 March 2021 (UTC)