They search for an hour trying to get this tank, and just in the nick of time it pops up on a lifeboat floating in the ocean. What would an acetylene tank be doing on a lifeboat without the torch and oxygen tank components?
Two hundred pounds of dead weight is poor open-sea survival equipment.
The rescue ship had one and it was brought over in a lifeboat
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
That makes sense. I didn't catch that this was from the rescueship.
But it's a pity in its own way. I kind of liked the image of a cruise line sailor refusing to abandon ship without his lucky acetylene tank.
Yes. Woody Strode's character, after getting the girl in the lifeboat, instructs the people in the lifeboat to send back the tank. So once they got to the other ship, it was sent back.
shareNot to mention the tank sacrificed itself by staying behind and going down with the ship.
shareYes, a gallant sacrifice.
But I'd have liked to see Woody Strode go to the pains of carrying it to safety: "Dammit, I'm NOT leaving this TANK! We waited too long just to see it drown!"
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Not to mention it didn't belong on the Claridon in the first place. There it was, minding its own business on the good ship Hawaiian Fisherman, only to be snatched up, carried over to doomed ocean liner, and after doing its duty just left to sink a couple of miles under the sea amidst a bunch of strange wreckage.
I wonder if the rescue ship gave the Main Star Line a bill for one acetylene tank?
The tank probably became a major source of argument, consternation and dispute between opposing insurance companies.
But the claim for the lady who blew up at the piano? Denied, Denied, Denied. She herself was negligent, complicit, and contributed to her injuries -- because groupies aren't allowed on-stage.
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Sounds like the Titanic. The White Star Line sent each of the widows of the eight band members a bill for their lost uniforms. And you wonder why so many workers of that era became revolutionaries!
shareSheesh. You'd think White Star would sue whatever few survivors made it out of the steerage section -- for hoarding space on the lifeboats meant for 1st Class.
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You got that right. The surviving crew members' pay stopped at the moment the ship disappeared under the water. And they were never compensated for anything they lost. No families received any settlements for their losses either, including family members. First Class passengers had private insurance that paid for any losses.
But the British Board of Trade, which set the regulations that, among other things, resulted in the Titanic's having enough lifeboats for only 1/3 of its capacity, conducted a thorough investigation and completely exonerated White Star of any responsibility or liability -- which also in effect meant that they exonerated themselves.
By the time the Ile de France, three years before it was chosen to star in The Last Voyage, helped rescue survivors off the Andrea Doria, things had changed a bit. Crewmen weren't sued for lost gear and were paid throughout, but even passenger lawsuits were limited in size. I doubt the survivors of the fictional Claridon would've gotten much compensation for their troubles.
That acetylene tank was the real star of this movie. Really enjoy the posts
shareWell, being that the Hawaiian Fisherman was the first ship to arrive and render aid to Claridon, even though she foundered, for saving passengers and crew she-the ship and the shipping Company she belonged to, as well as her crew-would have been awarded, as per the Law of the Sea, a compensation for Salvage, and that would have covered, among other things, for any and all rescue gear used, expended and/or lost during rescue...all this would be covered within the ship's insurance for loss through shipwreck...thus the acetylene tank would have been chalked up as "salvage gear lost during rescue"-or words to that effect-and Hawaiian Fisherman would have had a new tank provided to them at no cost at all, as a replacement...
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