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THE INFORMATIVE "MORNING NEWS" by Senan Molony TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ... |
12th February 2009 |  |
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WAS THERE REALLY A CURRENT THAT NIGHT? by Jim Currie Before the days when ships began polluting Earth’s atmosphere with the fumes from burning carbon fuels - before the days when her seas became polluted with the noise of a million propellers ; seafarers exclusively used the physics of nature ... |
21st January 2009 |  |
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DEFENDING FLEET AND LEE by Richard Krebes The iceberg that doomed the Titanic and 1,523 people to die left a gash of about 300 feet in the ship’s side from beneath the stem of her bow to the boiler room number 6. The 1997 film that took her name as it’s title go... |
14th January 2009 |  |
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IT’S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST by Samuel Halpern This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the Titanic wreck site. Note to... |
9th January 2009 |  |
| 1st December 2008 |  |
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DEFENDING ERNEST GILL by Richard Krebes One night in 1994, at the tender age of 14, I sat glued to the TV watching the superb A&E documentary about the Titanic disaster. Having read and heard little of the Lordite claims about the SS Californian, however, save ... |
15th November 2008 |  |
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WHY A LOW ANGLE BREAK? by Samuel Halpern In the James Cameron film "Titanic," we all saw the stern of the ship rise up in the air and take on a relatively steep angle as the bow of the ship sank deeper and deeper into the water. Suddenly, the hull split and the stern came... |
23rd October 2008 |  |
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RHEIMS, LIGHTOLLER, AND THE OFFICER'S SUICIDE ENIGMA by Richard Krebes If the enigma of the "officer’s suicide" had been a work of fiction created by Rex Stout, creator of the legendary fictional sleuth Nero Wolfe, chances are Stout would have called it "Too Many Questions". For the q... |
14th October 2008 |  |
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MCGOUGH THE KEY? by Senan Molony THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No. ... |
5th September 2008 |  |
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MCGOUGH THE KILLER by Senan Molony TWO killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage… Not the stuff of lurid pulp adventure, instead actual fact. The two wrongdoers were a fireman and an able bodied seaman. Stoker William Mintra... |
5th September 2008 |  |
| 21st July 2008 |  |
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THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX by Senan Molony WHAT goes on four legs, then two legs, then three? The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Greek mythology, denotes the eternal voyage of man… from crawling on all fours, to walking proudly erect, to finally ending up hunched over a... |
1st June 2008 |  |
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LOADING THE REAR BOATS by George Jacub While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti... |
29th May 2008 |  |
| 5th May 2008 |  |
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CANCELED PASSAGES ABOARD TITANIC by John P. Eaton At 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 1912 Titanic departed her anchorage off Roches Point near Queenstown, Ireland, tur... |
6th April 2008 |  |
| 26th March 2008 |  |
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12.45AM – A TIME TO GO! by Senan Molony WHAT time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?Many will immediately offer: ‘12.45am.’ But this response should be... |
10th March 2008 |  |
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COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? by Dave Gittins If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ... |
28th February 2008 |  |
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DETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC by Stephanie Clements The RMS. Titanic has laid 2.5 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since her sinking, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 14, 1912. Many questions were raised on the state of the vessel condition and how sh... |
11th January 2008 |  |
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THE WIDENERS: AN AMERICAN FAMILY by David Whitmire Most of the early immigrants who came to the thirteen original colonies and who, through hard work and responsible citizenship, helped found the United States of America were either English or German. One such German immigrant was Johann Cristoph ... |
11th January 2008 |  |
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ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER by Senan Molony This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies.... |
14th October 2007 |  |
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SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS by Samuel Halpern "We were working out a slip table, and we had not quite finished when she went down. All of us were on, working out a slip table, how many turns of the engine it would require to do so many knots; and all this, and it tapered down." - Titanic's 5t... |
18th September 2007 |  |
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HONOUR & GLORY: CROWING TIME! by Senan Molony WE KNOW well the allegorical figures of Honour and Glory… They appear as heraldic supporters to the clock located in the alcove atop the Tita... |
20th August 2007 |  |
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TITANIC'S PRIME MOVER - AN EXAMINATION OF PROPULSION AND POWER by Samuel Halpern As most us know, the triple-screw steamer Titanic, and her sister ship Olympic, were propelled by a combined machinery arrangement consisting of two reciprocating engines and a single Parsons’ turbine. The reciproca... |
9th July 2007 |  |
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