Michael Poirier

8 items written by Michael Poirier


Titanic Review	RACING THROUGH THE NIGHT : OLYMPIC'S ATTEMPT TO REACH TITANIC The story of Olympic's abortive 350 mile dash to save Titanic....	17th November 2011
Gare Maritime	RMS OLYMPIC: THE EARLY YEARS 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
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : THE COUGHLIN FAMILY 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
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : ALBERT ARTHUR BESTIC “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
Gare Maritime	THE PRICE OF FAME : ROSE ELLEN MURRAY, THE LUSITANIA'S TITANIC SURVIVOR 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
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET PART 2 : AS THE LUSITANIA WENT DOWN ...	17th October 2005
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : PART 1 This May marks the 90th anniversary of one of the 20th century’s most notorious events; the sinking, by torpedo, of Cunard Line’s Lusitania off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1198 lives. ...	3rd May 2005
	MRS. FLEGENHEIMER OVERVIEW A researcher on Ancestry.com has identified the following info on the elusive Mrs. Flegenheimer She was born circa 1871 to Wm. Wendt and Pauline Wagner Her 1891 address was 135 E58 St *She was married to Alfre...