A Titanic Tour: From the Keel Plates up
A Titanic Tour: From the Keel Plates up On 31 March, 1909, the first plates of Titanic’s keel were laid in Slipway No. 3 at Harland & Wolff in Belfast. The keel-laying is the first event in the life of a new ship. Titanic’s keel plates are described in the magisterial “Titanic: The Ship Magnificent” […]
Recovering Titanic Bodies: The Grim Task of the Mackay-Bennett
The Grim Task of the Mackay Bennett Almost two weeks to the day after the Titanic disappeared beneath the icy, glassy surface of the North Atlantic, the gruesome journey of those she left in the water as she sank began to come to a conclusion. The cable ship (CS) Mackay-Bennett, having set out from Halifax, […]
A New Titanic Connections Feature: Titanic Tours
TITANIC CONNECTIONS FEATURE: TITANIC TOURS When Titanic was constructed at Harland and Wolff from 1909 through 1912, she would become the largest moving object ever made by man, edging out her elder sister Olympic thanks to additional features that were included in her after experience with Olympic showed various possibilities for improvement. Titanic Connections, using original […]
The Sinking of the Lusitania: Oliver P. Bernard
OLIVER P. BERNARD AND THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA ⚓ Did you know… … that a saloon passenger, Oliver P. Bernard, aboard RMS Lusitania reported to the Daily Telegraph that he had crossed paths with the radio operators during the tragic sinking of the vessel? He had reached the ship’s top deck next to the […]
A Titanic Wreck Tour: First Class Dining Room
A TITANIC WRECK TOUR – THE FIRST CLASS DINING SALOON Situated aft of the Grand Staircase on D-Deck, and located amidship between the 2nd & 3rd funnel was the spacious 1st Class Dining Saloon. The massive room, which measured 113ft in length, and took up the whole of the ships 92ft width, could accommodate 554 […]
Posthumous Fathers
Did you know… … that 55 Titanic victims became fathers posthumously? On board Titanic there were 17 women that were known or likely to be pregnant. Two of those women died in the sinking. It was common for men to leave their pregnant wives ashore. A total of 55 men became fathers after their deaths […]
Egdar Samuel Andrew
Did you know… … that there was a passenger who wrote a letter to a friend saying that he wanted to see Titanic on the ocean floor? Edgar Samuel Andrew was supposed to travel on the Oceanic but because of the coal strike, he was forced to change his ticket and go aboard the Titanic […]
