Senan Molony

71 items written by Senan Molony


Titanic Research	FACE TO BAREFACE LIAR! A steerage Titanic survivor confronted his own impostor in 1912...	16th January 2012
Titanic Review	TITANIC : TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY The third edition of the seminal reference book on the Titanic...	8th December 2011
Titanic Research	LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS! Lifeboats from the Titanic extinguished their lights in order not to become attractive beacons for swimmers after the sinking....	6th December 2011
Titanic Review	HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY Ismay as Ecce Homo...	11th August 2011
Titanic Research	NIGHT AND A TITAN What did Titanic look like at night?...	10th August 2011
Titanic Review	THE BAND THAT PLAYED ON – REVIEW Senan Molony reviews Steve Turner's new book about the musicians aboard the Titanic The Band that Played On...	3rd June 2011
Titanic Research	VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....	27th April 2011
Titanic Research	ROSTRON'S MONSTER Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......	16th December 2010
Titanic Research	THE HART OF THE MATTER 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
Titanic Research	GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE 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 Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...	5th September 2010
Titanic Research	ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT ...	13th June 2010
Titanic Research	WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP? When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...	7th April 2010
Titanic Research	WHO TALKED TO TITANIC? Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...	11th March 2010
Titanic Research	LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST 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
Titanic Research	THE TURN OF A CARD HERE is the Two of Hearts… signed by three survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This picture appeared in the New York Sun on Sunday April 21, 1912. It seems richly symbolic of the hand...	25th November 2009
Titanic Research	MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was ...	8th October 2009
Titanic Research	ERNEST GILL IN AUSTRALIA Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia. The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter. A do...	29th July 2009
Titanic Research	THE INFORMATIVE 'MORNING NEWS' 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
Titanic Research	MCGOUGH THE KEY? 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
Titanic Research	MCGOUGH THE KILLER 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
Gare Maritime	LUSITANIA: FINAL VOYAGE FOLIOS Examining the saloon berth list for the final, fatal voyage of May 1915....	21st July 2008
Titanic Research	THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX 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
Titanic Research	12.45AM – A TIME TO GO! WHAT time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?Many will immediately offer: ‘12.45am.’ But this response should be...	10th March 2008
Gare Maritime	DOUBLE JEOPARDY – LUSITANIA'S UNIQUE VICTIM The astonishing story of the woman whose body was twice claimed by the same German submarine....	15th October 2007
Titanic Research	ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER 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
Titanic Research	*HONOUR & GLORY: CROWING* TIME!** 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
Titanic Research	THE UNKNOWN ADULT COUNTERFOIL number 30887 lay on the wooden surface. Money joined it for a few minutes, and then money took wing and parted from the ticket. A moment later the ticket itself was taken up. One of the opening scenes of the 19...	26th June 2007
Gare Maritime	PASSPORT TO PERDITION How an expired passport could have prevented an untimely death on the Lusitania....	18th March 2007
Titanic Research	THE FLEECING OF HUGH WOOLNER Thomas Woolner...	4th February 2007
Titanic Research	BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS! Birma from a contemporary postcard (Courtesy of Senan Molony) JOSEPH Cannon was a newly-qualified, newlywed wi...	28th December 2006
	CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...	28th December 2006
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR Sydney Buxton as a new MP SYDNEY BUXTON, President of the Board of Trade...	13th December 2006
ET Comment	LET THE RECORD SPEAK FOR ITSELF! THERE is an old adage that the argument is not always about ‘what the argument is about.’ This is a case in point. Three commentators of common interest have decided to fight the validity of Hugh Woolner’s evidence to the US Titan...	7th December 2006
ET Comment	HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...	6th November 2006
Titanic Research	A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James...	13th October 2006
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Titanic Research	THE PORTRUSH LETTER THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp...	31st January 2006
Titanic Research	LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE! FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...	13th November 2005
Titanic Research	A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the ne...	21st October 2005
Titanic Research	LORD MERSEY— OBITER DICTA HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusion with...	13th March 2005
Titanic Research	IDENTIFYING STEWARDS WHAT ARE the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea? Better than impossible - fair, in some cases. One of the early bodies picked up by the search ves...	13th February 2005
Titanic Research	A TALE OF HOFFMAN A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ...	18th January 2005
Titanic Research	THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing with statistics, some d...	17th December 2004
Titanic Research	ON THE TRAIL OF 'LUCKY' TOWER Is this the face of Titanic legend’s most elusive man? ’Lucky Tower’ is the moniker given...	16th November 2004
Titanic Research	RUBáIYáT REFLECTIONS ON TITANIC AWAKE! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight… ...	14th October 2004
Titanic Research	THE MIDDLE WATCH WHAT follows is the complete text o...	16th September 2004
Titanic Research	A LAST BRIGHT SHINING LIE THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensiv...	24th August 2004
Titanic Research	PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG ...	19th July 2004
Titanic Research	ASQUITH AND THE CONSPIRACY TO SINK TITANIC “The architect, the owner, and the Captain were partners in an infamous conspiracy to repair their desperate fortunes by sinking the ship and sharing the insurance money.” ...	9th July 2004
Titanic Research	OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR 'SLEEPING ROUGH' YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ...	10th June 2004
Titanic Research	THE CHEEK OF WILLIAM WELLER Research Article...	3rd June 2004
Titanic Research	A HOLY GRAIL — THE MISSING DEPOSITIONS THERE is an undiscovered Titanic out there… one that may hold greater meaning than relocated rust at the bottom of the North Atlantic. The lost Titanic arguably resides in 138 crew depositions of the su...	6th May 2004
Titanic Research	WHY DID WHITE STAR SETTLE WITH WHITELEY? Steward's sensational claims were never tested in court....	26th April 2004
Titanic Research	TITANIC: THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH? THIS photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. It was taken at Crosshaven, Co Cork, Ireland, just after the vessel departed Queenstown. In September 2003, an album of photographs originally ow...	23rd April 2004
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S VIOLINIST AND A VILLAINOUS MURDER How Jock Hume's family met further tragedy amidst the chaos of war....	26th March 2004
Titanic Research	RYAN V. OSNC Transcript of Precis Law Report...	15th March 2004
Titanic Research	RYAN'S SON A Commentary on Ryan v. OSNC...	15th March 2004
Titanic Research	A RACE THROUGH A NIGHTMARE How a shipwreck a suffragette and a scandal settled the 1913 Derby...	27th February 2004
Titanic Research	MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE Case-closed on the Californian?...	17th February 2004
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S BAND: KILLING THEM SOFTLY. Just how many people did the ship's orchestra kill?...	17th February 2004
Titanic Research	1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG Murdoch, in death, re-wrote the seamanship manual for best practice....	6th February 2004
Titanic Research	SUN YAT SEN – WILL EAT AGAIN A PEKINGESE named after a Chinese nationalist statesman… the height of buffoonery or the peak of good taste?...	2nd February 2004
Titanic Research	FATHER BROWNE: THE MISSING PHOTOGRAPHS Defamation, anonymity and some missing photographs?...	19th January 2004
Titanic Research	ANATOMY OF A BOAT DECK PORTRAIT Mawkish sentimentality or inspired reconstruction, the Titanic art of Fortunino Matania...	3rd December 2003
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S ROCKETS Why more were fired and why it matters....	15th March 2002
Titanic Research	THE REAL JACK DAWSON New research into the life of one of the least known but most intriguing of Titanic victims...	11th March 2001
Titanic Research	A TENDER NAMED AMERICA A tale of the ship that brought Irish immigrants to the Titanic....	13th February 2001
Titanic Research	BRUCE ISMAY AND THE RING'S TAUNT As Ismay pushed the brute oar, his eye fell on his ring. The ring inscribed:- Be Mindful....	13th January 2001
	CAPTAIN LORD 1961 INTERVIEWS TRANSCRIPT Transcript of a recorded conversation between Leslie Harrison and Captain Stanley Lord, held at 13 Kirkway, Wallasey, [Lord’s Merseyside home] in February 1961 [6-8.30pm], and a further discussion recorded on 19 August 1961....	1961
	CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR? (William McQuillan, from a family photo)...