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	Titanic Research		TITANIC'S BULGARIAN LINKS Brian Hartig The Story of the Bulgarians on Titanic; how they emigrated and the Bulgarian emigration environment existent around the turn of the 19th Century...	18th May 2013
	Titanic Research		HILDA SLAYTER'S DIARY Alan Hustak Hilda Mary Slayter...	17th May 2013
	Gare Maritime		LEST WE FORGET : THE LUSITANIA Jim Kalafus, Michael Poirier, Cliff Barry and Peter Kelly	7th May 2013
	Titanic Research		TITANIC II Stuart Kelly Stuart Kelly attended the recent Titanic II press conference and gala dinner and gives his impressions of Clive Palmer's ambitious project to create a Titanic for the 21st century....	19th March 2013
	Titanic Research		A TITANIC DINNER IN AN OLYMPIC HOUSE Stuart Kelly Stuart Kelly recalls an unexpected invitation and a memorable... and extensive Titanic themed meal in an newly discovered RMS Olympic panelled room....	21st November 2012
	Titanic Research		GEORGE ALEXANDER LUCIEN RHEIMS Homer Thiel Updated biographical information on Titanic survivor George Rheims....	12th October 2012
	Titanic Research		TITANIC: THE HINGLEY ANCHORS Jonathan Smith Titanic’s centre anchor was at the time and for some time to follow, the world’s largest anchor ever forged by hand. Jonathan Smith explores the construction of the anchor and the company that created it....	11th September 2012
	Titanic Research		THE UNFORTUNATE TALE OF LITTLE WALTEE Dave Fredericks Dave Fredericks explores the tragic story of Little Waltee, the four-year-old son of Titanic Trimmer Walter Fredericks....	4th August 2012
	Titanic Research		TORONTO'S TITANIC SURVIVORS Jason D. Tiller We all know that the R.M.S. Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on April 10th, 1912 bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, and that she struck an iceberg on A...	28th July 2012
	Titanic Research		RMS CARPATHIA : OUT OF THE DARK OF THE DAWN Craig Stringer When the Carpathia came to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic, her passengers did all they could to relieve suffering and distress......	11th July 2012
	Titanic Research		ANTOINETTE FLEGENHEIM – FIRST CLASS PASSENGER ON THE TITANIC Gerhard Schmidt-Grillmeier Research sheds new light on an elusive Titanic survivor......	17th June 2012
	Titanic Research		THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF JAMES DOBBIN: SHIPWRIGHT In a second extract from In Titanic Times Frank Cox considers another of Titanic's early victims....	23rd May 2012
	Titanic Research		THE TITANIC'S FIRST VICTIM Frank Cox Samuel Scott a 15 year old catch boy fell to his death: The first victim of RMS Titanic....	14th May 2012
	Titanic Research		MAJOR PEUCHEN'S PREDICAMENT Hugh Brewster Why did this self-made millionaire and leader of men become such a passive figure in a Titanic lifeboat?...	26th April 2012
	Titanic Research		TITANIC AT 100: A PERSONAL JOURNEY Malcolm Bowen Niedner, Jr. As Malcolm Niedner looked through a set of family negatives he discovered a new image of a four-funneled ocean liner... Titanic!...	22nd April 2012
	Titanic Research		TITANIC SONGBOOK Monica Hall Most people, when thinking about music on the Titanic, immediately recall Nearer My God to Thee, which was allegedly played on deck by Wallace Hartley and his band as the great ship sank.  We do not really know if this is...	16th April 2012
	Titanic Research		EDITH CORSE EVANS Michael Poirier Author's note: While doing research on a genealogy site in Spring of 2009, I met a relative of Edith Evans, Emlen Hutchinson Evans. I ...	7th April 2012
	Titanic Research		WILLIAM LOGAN GWINN: LETTERS TO FLORENCE Ted Robinson A unique collection of letters and postcards sheds light on the domestic life of one the RMS Titanic's Sea Post Clerk William Logan Gwinn. In this detailed article Ted Robinson reveals how a chance d...	29th March 2012
	Titanic Research		THE NORWEGIAN SAILOR ALBERT MOSS SURVIVED THE TITANIC TRAGEDY AS WELL AS WW1 AND WW2. Dag Bertelsen The Norwegian sailor Albert Moss survived both the Titanic disaster and a number of other crucial experiences at sea. The story of his life is now documented in the book Titanic og to verdenskriger (Titanic, W...	26th March 2012
	Gare Maritime		COSTA CONCORDIA EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS Michael Poirier interviews Brandon Warrick and his sister Amanda who survived the sinking of the Costa Concordia in January 2012...	26th January 2012
	Gare Maritime		THE SINKING OF THE SEA DIAMOND Mike Poirier The sinking of the Costa Concordia has drawn inevitable comparisons with both Titanic and other maritime disasters. In this verbatim interview by Michael Poirier, a young survivor of the April 2007 Sea Diamond sinking, Zak Hayes, recalls the experience of evacuation at sea....	17th January 2012
	Titanic Research		FACE TO BAREFACE LIAR! Senan Molony A steerage Titanic survivor confronted his own impostor in 1912...	16th January 2012
	Titanic Research		SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC Jim Currie As a professional mariner and Marine Accident Investigator, I was irresistibly drawn to the detailed information available concerning the few minutes before Titanic began her death throwes....	30th December 2011
	Titanic Research		LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS! Senan Molony Lifeboats from the Titanic extinguished their lights in order not to become attractive beacons for swimmers after the sinking....	6th December 2011
	Voyage		'WE HAVE NO LOOK-OUT GLASSES IN THE CROW'S NEST.' Art Braunschweiger Art Braunschweiger explores one of the the most famous 'what if' stories in Titanic history....	19th November 2011
	Titanic Research		THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM Brian Odell Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known ph...	13th September 2011
	Titanic Research		ANNA KATHERINE KELLY 1892 - 1969 John Kelly Anna Katherine Kelly, “Annie Kate,” later to become also known as Sister Patrick Joseph, was born on January 14, 1892 in Cuilmullagh, Lahardane, in Addergoole civil parish, County Mayo, Ireland. Her parents, John Kelly and Ellen Fla...	9th September 2011
	Titanic Research		THE FINAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE 'UNKNOWN CHILD' Alan Ruffman The Final Identification of the ‘Unknown Child’ of the TITANIC buried as Body No. 4 on May 4, 1912 in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery of Halifax, Nova Scotia...	9th September 2011
	Titanic Research		HARLAND & WOLFF AND THE PARTITION OF ULSTER Glenn Simpson Harland and Wolff is at the symbolic forefront of Ulster's identity, its economic importance pivotal in explaining what gave Ulster Unionists political leverage during the Home rule question. To accurately portray Harland & Wolff’...	3rd September 2011
	Titanic Research		NIGHT AND A TITAN Senan Molony What did Titanic look like at night?...	10th August 2011
	Titanic Research		THE TITANIC'S STOKERS PROVIDE THE KEY TO LAUNCH TIMES OF THE MIDDLE BOATS George Jacub The timing of the middle boats : the Mount Everest of challenges for Titanic researchers....	18th July 2011
	Titanic Research		MYSTERIOUS WAIF OF THE WAVES.. MGU? Jim Currie Unresolved questions regarding the April 1912 voyage of the SS Campanello and the possibility of her involvement in the Titanic disaster. ...	12th July 2011
	Gare Maritime		MORRO CASTLE: THE FORGOTTEN VOICES Jim Kalafus Eyewitness tales of the Morro Castle disaster...	14th June 2011
	Titanic Research		NINETY NINE YEARS AND STILL COUNTING Jim Currie Article, using new evidence, re-examines the work of Titanic's navigating oficers in arriving at the erroneous CQD positions and the consequences of the results. ...	28th April 2011
	Titanic Research		VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING Senan Molony The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....	27th April 2011
	Titanic Research		THE DAY I MET A TITANIC SURVIVOR Gregg Jasper Liner enthusiast recounts 1968 meeting with Renee Harris Introduction Until the death in 2009 of Millvina Dean, the oldest living Titanic survivor, meeting a passenger who sailed on the legend...	24th March 2011
	Gare Maritime		RMS OLYMPIC: THE EARLY YEARS Michael Poirier and Trevor Powell It's easy to start the story of Olympic by talking about a limousine pulling up in front of Downshire House. However this has been over-used in many books and articles. What can one say about the career of Titanic's sister-ship...	7th February 2011
	Titanic Research		ROSTRON'S MONSTER Senan Molony Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......	16th December 2010
	Titanic Research		I WAS SAVED FROM THE TITANIC Lady Duff Gordon A vivid eyewitness account of the legendary shipwreck and its aftermath. Edited by Randy Bryan Bigham...	15th November 2010
	Titanic Research		THE HART OF THE MATTER Senan Molony FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…...	11th October 2010
	Gare Maritime		LEST WE FORGET : THE COUGHLIN FAMILY Michael Poirier and Jim Kalafus A beautiful spring day had brought together a band of people who wanted to honor the memory of a Titanic victim, Kate Buckley. Sitting under a tent, waiting for the service to start, Shelley Dziedzic began talking to a friendly-looking...	14th September 2010
	Titanic Research		GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE Senan Molony The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captai...	11th September 2010
	Titanic Research		MASTER AND COMMANDER Senan Molony Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...	5th September 2010
	Gare Maritime		LEST WE FORGET : ALBERT ARTHUR BESTIC Michael Poirier and Jim Kalafus “To me she was my dream ship. I saw her first when in her regal beauty she sped along the surface of the Clyde upon her trials. My boyish heart went out to her in admiration.” ...	1st August 2010
	Titanic Research		ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT Senan Molony ...	13th June 2010
	Gare Maritime		THE PRICE OF FAME : ROSE ELLEN MURRAY, THE LUSITANIA'S TITANIC SURVIVOR Jim Kalafus and Michael Poirier Rose Ellen Murray, of Dublin and Philadelphia, became a minor celebrity after she survived the Lusitania disaster. However, her celebrity proved to be her undoing twenty years after the vessel was destroyed. Mrs. Murray'...	7th May 2010
	Titanic Research		WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP? Senan Molony When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...	7th April 2010
	Titanic Research		WHO TALKED TO TITANIC? Senan Molony Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...	11th March 2010
	Titanic Research		ROCKETS, LIFEBOATS, AND TIME CHANGES Samuel Halpern A FLASH OF LIGHT IN THE SKY  The story of what took place on the tramp steamer Californian the night of April 14, 1912, is one of those tales that cause some ...	4th March 2010
	Titanic Research		LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST Senan Molony APRIL tenth, 1912 – A day tinged with sadness for the RMS Olympic. She put in to New York for the last time as the Ship of Superlatives, or so she thought. The next White Star Line leviathan to dock here wou...	12th February 2010