The Voice of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell
THE VOICE OF SHEILA MACBETH MITCHELL This exclusive voice recording of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell was brought to you exclusively by Titanic Connections thanks to the Imperial War Museum (IWM). This audio is not for reproduction and may not be reposted anywhere.
Expedition Britannic – A Livestream with Rick Ayrton
We are joined in todays stream by Rick Ayrton, a wreck diver who has been fortune to visit the wreck of Titanic’s’ sister ship, Britannic. Britannic was a hospital ship that was sunk in the first world war off the coast of Kia, without ever sailing as a passenger ship for the White Star Line. […]
Britannic: The Palace That Never Was
Britannic: The Palace That Never Was While Olympic and Titanic are justifiably famous for their luxuries, many people forget about the planned luxury of the third vessel in the trio, the ill-fated Britannic. RMS Britannic, had the fortunes of war not intervened, would have surpassed her earlier sisters in luxurious accommodations and appointments. The progression […]
Titanic Tours of the Wreck – The Decks
Titanic Tours of the Wreck – The Decks Yesterday Nick looked at Titanic’s decks, today we’ll look at some features of these areas on the wreck. There was a thermotank (essentially a ventilator) situated at the base of the fourth funnel as wee saw in Nick’s post. There was a thermotank also on the starboard […]
Titanic Tours: Titanic’s Decks
Titanic Tours: Titanic’s Decks Most Titanic enthusiasts and historians dream of the chance to walk the decks of the ship and experience her in all her glory. We imagine ourselves strolling the promenade deck or examining the boats on the boat deck. This week, we’ll explore how those decks were made. A few weeks ago, […]
Titanic Tours: Titanic’s Expansion Joints
Titanic Tours: Expansion Joints In the nearly four decades since Titanic’s wreck was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic, there has been a great deal of focus on the way the ship sank and why things happened the way that they did. A great deal of interest has arisen, naturally, around the ship’s breakup. […]
Design D: The Interior
Titanic Design D: The Interior Did You Know… …that the interior arrangements in the original design for the Olympic-class ships, known as Design D, are just as varied from what was actually built as the external features we discussed in last week’s post? While the lack of a second mast after and a clustering of […]
Wreck Thursday: An Overview of Titanic’s Stern
Titanic’s Stern Section: An Overview Located 1,970 feet (590m approx) due South of the Titanic’s bow, lay the mangled remains of the Titanic’s stern section. This area of the ship, the last part of the great vessel to vanish beneath the North Atlantic surface, was a honeycomb of compartments that included crew spaces, 2nd & […]
Titanic Tours: Making Titanic Watertight
Titanic Tours: Making Titanic Watertight One of the much-ballyhooed features of the Olympic-class liners was their safety features. It would be these safety features, including her watertight doors and subdivision, that would cause the trade publication Shipbuilder, in their 1911 special number, to declare Olympic and Titanic “practically unsinkable.” Surviving a collision at […]
Did You Know… All About Titanic’s Design “D”
The Intended Exterior of Design “D” For the Olympic Class Did You Know… …that the original design accepted for the Olympic and Titanic, known as “Design D,” had a number of major differences from the two ships that were eventually launched in Belfast? While there are no known drawings of what presumably would be called […]
