Jim Kalafus

An Encyclopedia Titanica member since 3rd December 2000 Jim Kalafus has added 11 items to Encyclopedia Titanica.


Gare Maritime	NEW BOOKS CELEBRATE ITALIAN OCEAN LINERS In a world increasingly glutted with coffee-table format books, filled with minimal quantities of large-sized text and awash in “rare photographs and memorabilia” that are neither rare nor well-reproduced, it was refreshing to simul...	10th December 2011
Gare Maritime	MORRO CASTLE: THE FORGOTTEN VOICES Eyewitness tales of the Morro Castle disaster...	14th June 2011
	THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE I was just about to go to bed and had my pajamas on when I heard a grating noise and the vessel came to a stop. I slipped on a pair of trousers and rushed on deck. I saw a lot of ice on the forward deck, the well deck, about twenty tons of it, ...	1912
Gare Maritime	SKY CRUISE : A FLIGHT ON THE HINDENBURG A unique photographic and documentary record of the tragic airship....	1st March 2008
Gare Maritime	THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED: ONE BLACK WEEK IN 1875 The double tragedy of the Pacific and the City of Waco...	28th June 2007
Gare Maritime	RECALLING THE INDIANAPOLIS - CLEATUS LEBOW I was in the water, I was swimming away from the ship in the dark... I heard the loudest, worst noise I’d ever heard...	30th July 2007
Gare Maritime	THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER Recalling the loveliest of the 'forgotten' liners...	14th July 2007
Gare Maritime	THE GENERAL SLOCUM : THE HORROR OF FIRE AT SEA Panic ensued. Sheets of flame followed the roiling clouds of smoke, and the fearful rush began to the sides of the boat....	21st June 2007
Gare Maritime	NORMANDIE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Spectacular views of the quintessential superliner....	1st January 2006
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