An Encyclopedia Titanica member since 11th December 1999 Philip Hind has added 2066 items to Encyclopedia Titanica.
| Titanic Review | CARPATHIA AND THE TITANIC: RESCUE AT SEA Michael Poirier reviews one of the few books to focus on the Titanic's rescue ship, the RMS Carpathia.... |
23rd May 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 | |||
| PHOTOGRAPH OF TITANIC VICTIM VICTOR GIGLIO AGED 12 A rare photograph of Benjamin Guggenheim's personal assistant Victor Giglio as a pupil at Ampleforth Roman Catholic College in 1901. Victor and his three brothers all attended the North Yorkshire school where Victor excelled at p... |
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| Titanic Research | THE TITANIC'S FIRST VICTIM Samuel Scott a 15 year old catch boy fell to his death: The first victim of RMS Titanic.... |
14th May 2012 | |||
| TITANIC COOK ALFRED EDGAR WINDEBANK IN LATER LIFE A photograph of former Titanic assistant cook Alfred Edgar Windebank aboard ship in later life. ... |
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| LETTER FROM TITANIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WILLIAM KELLY TO JIM DEMPSEY A fascinating letter written just one month before Titanic sailed.... |
10th March 1912 | ||||
| LETTER FROM TITANIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WILLIAM KELLY TO HIS MOTHER Kelly tells his mother what he thinks of Southampton and some of the Titanic's passengers.... |
10th December 1912 | ||||
| ALFRED EDGAR WINDEBANK Photograph of Titanic sauce cook, and Titanic survivor Afred Edgar Windebank. ... |
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| ET | ANOTHER PLAN TO BUILD TITANIC II ANNOUNCED - BY QUEENSLAND BILLIONAIRE CLIVE PALMER Queensland billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has unveiled his plans to build the Titanic II to add to his tourism portfolio. Mr Palmer said his new company Blue Star Line Pty Ltd had commissioned the state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build a near replica of the ill-fated Titanic. The cost is unknown.... |
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| Titanic Research | MAJOR PEUCHEN'S PREDICAMENT Why did this self-made millionaire and leader of men become such a passive figure in a Titanic lifeboat?... |
26th April 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC RESCUE MEDALS AUCTIONED A medal presented to a Liverpool sailor who steered a ship to rescue passengers of the Titanic has sold for nearly £5,000 in London. A similar medal cast in silver was bought for nearly £8,000, which was £3,000 more than expected. Both medals were awarded to officers and crew of RMS Carpathia for their actions in rescuing over 700 survivors of the disaster. J.J. Kirkpatrick received a bronze medal for his part in guiding the ship. The Carpathia was sailing from New York to Europe when it received a distress call from the Titanic on 15 April 1912. It immediately changed direction, and travelled nearly 60 miles to the ship's location. Charles Miller Ltd, which held the auction, said it is thought 21-year-old J.J. Kirkpatrick was at the helm during the rescue effort. When the ship arrived, the Titanic had already sunk.... |
25th April 2012 | |||
| thisissouthwales.co.uk | COUSIN NELLIE IS THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC WHOSE STORY IS UNFINISHED A CENTURY has passed since the Titanic sank to the depths of the mid-Atlantic, but the disaster is far from forgotten in the family of one West Wales woman. Maureen Quinn, 50, of Llandysul, has a copy of a letter written by her grandmother's cousin Ellen Walcroft (known as Nellie) who was onboard and survived the disaster.... |
25th April 2012 | |||
| scientificamerican.com | RESEARCHER HOPES TO DEVELOP VIRTUAL TITANIC EXPLORATION Detailed maps of the debris field, high-definition images and online gaming technology could lead to virtual expeditions to the Titanic site... |
12th April 2012 | |||
| oxfordmail.co.uk | FRESH IDEAS ON WHY TITANIC WENT DOWN AN OXFORDSHIRE scientist is attracting international attention with his new theories about the world’s most famous maritime disaster. Richard Corfield, from Long Hanborough, has advanced new ideas about the role of science in the sinking of the Titanic, on the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe. Writing in the journal Physics World, he takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the ‘unsinkable’ ship, highlighting the significant roles played by maths and physics. ... |
26th April 2012 | |||
| thisissussex.co.uk | EAST GRINSTEAD SISTERS TELL THE TALE OF RELATIVE'S TITANIC DISASTER A CENTURY after the Titanic disaster, two East Grinstead sisters have revealed how their great-grandfather went down with the ship. George Henry Green, a metal worker from Dorking, boarded the historic vessel as a third class passenger in April 1912 in search of a new life in America. But he never arrived, instead becoming one of more than 1,500 people who died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean 100 years ago. This week, great-granddaughters Penelope Simpson and Carolyn Whapham looked back on the life of a family man who they claim was never given the opportunity to be saved. Penelope, 69, of Wray Close, Ashurst Wood, said: "When he died, it threw everyone to bits. One minute they had everything and then their world fell apart.... |
26th April 2012 | |||
| drogheda-independent.ie | SLANE MAN WHO SURVIVED THE TITANIC SINKING A SLANE man survived the sinking of the Titanic, simply because he was only one of four Irish First Class passengers. James Robert Mcgough was born in Mandistown, Slane in 1876, the son of Thomas Mcgough and Catherine (Dowdell) and with members of the family headed for the United States in 1894 and set up home in Philadelphia. He became a well paid buyer for Gimbel Brothers in Philadelphia and in April 1912 found himself on board the 'unsinkable' Titanic, heading home to the US. The Slane Historical Society researched the following details, namely that Mcgough said ignoring ship personnel saved his life.... |
25th April 2012 | |||
| dailyrecord.co.uk | AMAZING STORY OF SCOT WHO WALKED OFF TITANIC A SCOT walked off the Titanic just before it sailed after hearing a voice in his head warning him he would die if he stayed aboard, his grandson has revealed.Alex MacKenzie was at Southampton dock 100 years ago when he heard the voice warning him that if he was on the ill-fated vessel, he would never get off alive.The 24-year-old returned to Glasgow, only to hear of the ship’s sinking days later.Grandson Iain Henderson, 49, said: “He travelled down to Southampton, and he was on the gangway when he heard this voice telling him not to board the ship.... |
24th April 2012 | |||
| halifaxcourier.co.uk | CHARLOTTE REFUSED TO TRAVEL ON TITANIC THE centenary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15 will have stirred many family memories, and not just in Belfast, where the ship was built, or Southampton, starting point of the Titanic’s maiden voyage to New York, which lost 500 members of the crew among the 1,500 who died. Beryl Browse, of Ripponden, has a poignant letter from America about her great aunt, Charlotte Ashdown Pearson, and her husband, Silas, originally from Kent but living in London at the time. They were emigrating to the United States in 1912 and might well have travelled on the Titanic – but didn’t because Charlotte thought the liner, the most sumptuously designed ship ever built, was for “rich people, not them”. Silas was already in the US, where he had gone to find work and a home for Charlotte and the couple’s six children, Silas, Nellie, Frank, Ivy, Florence and Stanley. When he called on them to join him Charlotte and son Silas went to buy tickets for the voyage. The ticket office tried to sell them tickets for the Titanic, but Charlotte refused them and instead bought berths on the USS Philadelphia, which took them safely to America in August 1912.... |
23rd April 2012 | |||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC AT 100: A PERSONAL JOURNEY 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 | |||
| wggb.com | TITANIC CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL UNVEILED AT SPRINGFIELD'S OAK GROVE CEMETERY Edward Kamuda is the president of the Titanic Historical Society. He remembers when he first was introduced to the story. “My father who owned the grand theatre out in Indian Orchard played the film titanic. And from that point I was hooked” Kamunda said.... |
22nd April 2012 | |||
| Titanic Review | CAMERON'S TITANIC FIFTEEN YEARS ON: A CRITICAL RE-APPRAISAL Sandy McLendon revisits James' Cameron's "Titanic" upon it's 2012 rerelease.... |
22nd April 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | COULD MUSIC HAVE CALMED PASSENGERS AS THE TITANIC SANK? Composer Peter Young, who has created a piece of music to coincide with the recent 100th anniversary of the sinking, said a lot of what the band played "would have been jolly stuff". "From songs in the trenches through to lullabies ..."... |
19th April 2012 | |||
| thesun.co.uk | SICK JOKE AT TITANIC GRAVE SICK pranksters have left a pair of binoculars on the grave of Titanic lookout Fred Fleet with a note reading: "Sorry for bringing these 100 years too late." ... |
19th April 2012 | |||
| huffingtonpost.com | POSSIBLE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND AT TITANIC WRECKSITE Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, a federal official said Saturday. A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster's centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site. "These are not shoes that fell out neatly from somebody's bag right next to each other," James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The way they are "laid out" makes a "compelling case" that it is where "someone has come to rest," he said.... |
15th April 2012 | |||
| dailymail.co.uk | TWITTER USERS WHO 'JUST FOUND OUT' TITANIC REALLY SANK Twitter users who 'just found out Titanic really sank. As the world commemorates the centenary of the Titanic's sinking, thousands of people have taken to the internet to discuss the historic anniversary. But the event has evidently proven more educational for some than others.... |
15th April 2012 | |||
| NEW IPAD APP LETS USERS 'BUILD' TITANIC A newly released ipad app - produced in support of the ITV drama penned by Julian Fellowes - includes an interactive shipbuilder that allows users to build a virtual Titanic...... |
15th April 2012 | ||||
| google.com | TITANIC WRECK 'COULD BECOME MUSEUM' The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said.Footage of the doomed vessel, which now has Unesco world heritage protection, from 4,000m under the ocean off the coast of Canada could be broadcast live, Dr Robert Ballard said.The oceanographer uncovered the vessel in 1985 and said the technology existed to beam material from the depths across the world."I see the Titanic becoming an underwater museum, accessed, with wonderful facilities," he said. "We hope to come live on the anniversary of the discovery, September 1."... |
14th April 2012 | |||
| Titanic Review | A VISIT TO TITANIC BELFAST Stuart Kelly visits the £90m Titanic Belfast exhibition... |
13th April 2012 | |||
| telegraph.co.uk | NEW DOCUMENTARY CLAIMS MISSION TO FIND TITANIC 'WAS COVERT US NAVY OPERATION' A new documentary from National Geographic claims that the mission to find the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 was a cover for a US military operation. More than 73 years after it had sunk off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada on April 15, 1912, killing over 1,500 of the 2,000 people on-board, the 1985 expedition found the Titanic after four previous attempts failed. Dr Robert Ballard, professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island and explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society was the co-discoverer of the wreckage. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, the National Geographic television channel has produced a documentary about Dr Ballard's journey. ... |
4th April 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC WRECK GETS UNESCO PROTECTION The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco. The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000 meters underwater off the coast of Canada, often taking artefacts back with them. As it will soon be 100 years since the Titanic sank, the ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. The convention aims to prevent unscientific or unethical exploration. ... |
5th April 2012 | |||
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| blogs.nytimes.com | 100 YEARS LATER: WAYS TO TEACH ABOUT THE TITANIC WITH THE TIMES April 15 is the centennial anniversary of the Titanic disaster, which took the lives of more than 1,500 people and left just over 700 survivors. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the landmark disasters in history, partly because of the belief that the builders’ purpose had been to construct an “unsinkable” ship that ended up sinking on its maiden voyage. The event has since served as a reminder of nature’s terrifying power even in the face of new and awe-inspiring human technologies. Here are ideas for teaching about the Titanic disaster that will help students make connections to the story — and help them understand why today it maintains a “chilling grip on the popular imagination” and has become, in the words of one expert, a “cultural meme.” ... |
3rd April 2012 | |||
| thedailyjournal.com | FACES OF THE TITANIC: WILLIAM BURKE William Burke (30) saved a woman from drowning when she jumped from the Titanic but missed the lifeboat. He caught her by the ankle and held fast in one of the most terrifying individual incidents of the whole drama. The woman was then taken back aboard the ship at the deck below.... |
4th April 2012 | |||
| google.com | TITANIC ARTIFACTS LINKED TO OFFICER MURDOCH From the pitch-black depths 2½ miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of William Murdoch, the bridge officer who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg. The artifacts — including a shoe brush, straight razor and pipe — are the first to be specifically linked to Murdoch, who gained added notoriety after James Cameron's polemical portrayal of him in the 1997 blockbuster movie "Titanic." In the film, Murdoch accepts bribes, kills two people trying to get on lifeboats and shoots himself in desperation as the ship sinks. Historical accounts, however, say Murdoch gave the order to try to avoid a collision and acted selflessly to get passengers on lifeboats. "This will bring Murdoch back front and center to the tragedy," said Bill Sauder, who manages Titanic research for RMS Titanic Inc. The company oversees the artifacts and gave The Associated Press an exclusive look at a new exhibit that opens Friday at Premier Exhibitions in Atlanta. RMST is a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions.... |
3rd April 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC MEMORABILIA AUCTIONED A menu of the last meal served to first-class passengers on board the Titanic has sold for £76,000. It was among hundreds of items from the ship auctioned in Wiltshire ahead of the 100th anniversary of its sinking in the Atlantic Ocean. The menu was dated 14 April 1912, the day the cruiser hit an iceberg and sank, killing 1,522 people. It featured several courses, such as eggs Argenteuil, consomme fermier and chicken a la Maryland. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: "It's a fascinating snapshot of life on board as a first-class passenger.... |
31st March 2012 | |||
| dailymail.co.uk | THEY’RE EVEN SELLING THE DECKCHAIRS! EVERYONE’S CASHING IN ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY A deckchair that graced the decks of the Titanic is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale. The chair - one of seven known to exist, will be auctioned along with other lots from the ill-fated ship in the approach to the 100th Anniversary of the sinking ship. Other memorabilia available includes a letter from the ship's British orchestra leader Wallace Hartley, a rare pay slip from a crewman for his six days of service and a gold locket. The deck chair is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale Hartley whose orchestra ‘played on’ whilst going down with the ship, penned the two-page letter, written on ‘Titanic’ letterhead to his parents on his first day on board. The letter dated April 10, 1912 reads: 'Just a line to say we have got away all right. It’s been a bit of a rush but I am just getting a little settled.... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| wordpress.com | A CABINET OF TITANIC CURIOSITIES Today I met Andrew Rogers. The unsuspecting Sydneysider is one of few who have made the epic journey on board a submersible pod to the watery graveyard of the RMS Titanic. The chance competition win that took him to the infamous vessel 14 years ago unleashed an obsession with Titanic and it’s remarkable stories. Submersible pod Today he sits across from me grasping a black leather case from which he draws a number of items. Andrew is presenting our Cabinet of Curiosities Program on Sunday 15 April for the 100th anniversary of Titanic’s sinking. The objects he pulls out are not souvenirs stolen from the wreck, but small tokens that paint a story of the hours he spent exploring the vessel and the years of research into the lives Australian passengers on board Titanic that followed.... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| telegraph.co.uk | BELFAST'S MONUMENT TO THE TITANIC TALE The World's Largest Titanic Visitor Experience opens on Saturday, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking on April 15, 1912. Other places (Southampton, Liverpool, Nova Scotia) like to trumpet their Titanic connections but Belfast is determined to ensure that the rest of the world recognises its superior claim. It has spent £97m – Northern Ireland's biggest-ever outlay on a tourism project – on Titanic Belfast, a glittering edifice at the Harland and Wolff dockyards where the ship was built. Less-imaginative people might think a city which constructed a supposedly unsinkable liner that went down, with the loss of 1,517 lives, on its maiden voyage would be inclined to keep quiet about it. This is not the Belfast way. "Ah, you know how people here love to celebrate a disaster," as a taxi driver explains it. ("Gore tours" – trips around infamous atrocity spots during the Troubles – have been tourist offerings for years.) In any case, the firm line you'll hear from Belfast residents on the Titanic's subsequent tribulations is: "She was fine when she left here". ... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| Titanic Research | WILLIAM LOGAN GWINN: LETTERS TO FLORENCE 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 | |||
| musicrooms.net | JAMES CAMERON DENIES CASHING IN ON TITANIC ANNIVERSARY The director has hit back at those who say he has released the 3D version of the film now just to make money. Hands up anyone who thinks James Cameron is cashing in on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by re-releasing his over-long blockbuster in 3D this year. However, the director has hit back at those accusing him of releasing the film now to boost the film’s profit by saying he is upset by the unfair criticism. Talking to reporters at the film premiere – well, the 3D version premiere - Cameron told them, "Look, there's always going to be people that can p**s in the soup of anything good. But frankly I think that remembering Titanic, remembering the history - that's what the film was there for. That's why I made it, you know. "I was fascinated by the story, I was fascinated by the history, the people that were heroic, the people that lost their lives. I was genuinely touched by the tragedy when I was there at the wreck.... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | EASTLEIGH STUDENTS BUILD REPLICA OF TITANIC STEM A scaled-down replica of the front of RMS Titanic has been built by engineering students in Hampshire. Pupils at the Quilley School in Eastleigh used early 20th Century shipbuilding techniques to create the model of the ill-fated liner. The one-eighth scale section of the stem has been built to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship sinking. A topping off ceremony takes place later before it is installed as a permanent artwork on the campus. The 2m (6.5ft) tall section of the stem - the most forward part of the ship's bow - was built with the same riveting and hot bending techniques as were used to build Titanic at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast in the 1900s.... |
28th March 2012 | |||
| wirralglobe.co.uk | WIRRAL ARTIST'S TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DISASTER A STATUE commemorating Port Sunlight's links with the Titanic will be unveiled next month on the centenary of the ship's sinking. Designed and built by Claire Blakeborough, the steel model will be unveiled in The Dell, Port Sunlight' on Saturday, April 14, nearly one hundred years to the day that this great ship met its tragic fate. Claire was commissioned by Port Sunlight Village Trust, in partnership with Arts Council England to design the model. The Salford-born artist, who has lived in the historic village for more than eight years, told the Globe: "I am influenced by the light and colour of Port Sunlight Village. ... |
28th March 2012 | |||
| google.com | LITTER BUGS ON HIGH SEAS FOUL TITANIC'S RESTING PLACE Litter bugs on the high seas are fouling the Titanic's watery grave with beer cans, plastic cups, even soap boxes, a century after the "unsinkable" luxury liner went down, experts said Wednesday. Contrary to popular belief, the wreck of history's greatest maritime disaster is not swiftly rusting away 12,400 feet (3,780 meters) under the North Atlantic. In fact, it looks likely to stay intact for many decades to come. "The basic hull remains very strong and very solid," James Delgado, director of the marine heritage program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a US federal agency, told AFP. "You still have wood and fabric preserved inside," said Delgado, who personally saw the Titanic up close from inside a Russian Mir submersible vehicle during a August 2010 expedition to precisely map its vast debris field.... |
28th March 2012 | |||
| irishtimes.com | 'TITANIC' SINKING TELEGRAM TO BE AUCTIONED IN DUBLIN THE FIRST report of the Titanic disaster to reach an Irish newspaper is expected to sell for up to €30,000 when it is auctioned in Dublin next month. A telegram sent to the Belfast Evening Telegraph alerted journalists that the Titanic “is sinking in mid-Atlantic” after a collision with an iceberg. The communication was stamped by the post office in Belfast on April 15th, 1912, the day the White Star liner sank. The author of the telegram, who quoted a Reuters report as the news source, has not been identified. A telegram was essentially the Edwardian equivalent of a Tweet or text message. A short communication was transmitted electronically to an office of the posts and telegraphs service, where it was deciphered and either handwritten or typed up and delivered to the recipient.... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC ANNIVERSARY: SEA ODYSSEY ROUTE REVEALED IN LIVERPOOL More details have been revealed about an event in Liverpool involving two giant puppets to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. As part of the three-day Sea Odyssey event, a giant puppet will emerge from the River Mersey. A second puppet - the "niece" of the first - will roam through the city's streets looking for him. The free event, by French company Royal de Luxe, will take place between 20 to 22 April. The White Star liner, registered in Liverpool, sank on its maiden voyage to New York on 15 April 1912.... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUM UNVEILS TITANIC EXHIBITION Rarely-seen items linked to the Titanic are to be shown in Liverpool to mark the 100th anniversary of its sinking. The display, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, includes a first-class ticket, thought to be the only one still in existence. It belonged to a vicar who cancelled his trip on the doomed ship when his wife fell ill the day before it sailed. More than 1,500 people lost their lives after the ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. Reverend Stuart Holden, from London, had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934.... |
29th March 2012 | |||
| smh.com.au | TITANIC STORYTELLER PREPARES TO RELIVE THAT FATED VOYAGE INGER SHEIL does not mind being described as the Australian National Maritime Museum's ''resident Titanic nut''. ''It's better than Titanorak, the other term we get called,'' Sheil laughs. ''Titanic and anorak. You can imagine how thrilled that makes us.'' Next week, the director's assistant flies to London to join fellow Titanoraks on board the modern cruise ship MS Balmoral for a 100th anniversary re-enactment (minus the submerged ending) of the most famous shipping disaster in history.... |
27th March 2012 | |||
| marketwatch.com | PAPERS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR WHO WROTE ABOUT SINKING ON DISPLAY The descendant of a survivor of the Titanic will travel from England to America to share letters and photographs of her great-grandmother, who was a women's rights advocate and journalist and wrote an account of her rescue. As part of the centennial observance of the sinking of the Titanic, Rosemary Gillham of Hertfordshire, will visit Norwalk for an exhibit at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum ( www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com ), titled Epic Voyage: The Extraordinary Life of Titanic Survivor Helen Churchill Candee, and will bring her great-grandmother's papers. The exhibit runs from April 25 to October 14. "My great-grandmother has always been an inspiration for me," said Gillham. "She was 53 when she traveled on the Titanic, and that tragic evening was just one night in a long and very full life. She had already achieved a huge amount and went on to travel and write extensively." ... |
27th March 2012 | |||
| thesun.co.uk | WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL TO BLAME FOR TITANIC? Author Robert Strange, an investigative journalist and former newspaper crime reporter, claims Britain's Second World War Prime Minister had a previously unrecognised, inglorious role in the loss of the vessel on her maiden voyage in 1912. As a newly-promoted government minister, Churchill had final responsibility for all marine safety when the Titanic was being planned, designed and built. Yet he failed in his duties as President of the Board of Trade to ensure that the ship was properly constructed and that her passengers were safe, the author claims. Strange says: "Churchill was fatally distracted from his vitally important safety duties by a combination of burning political ambition, wounded pride and the pursuit of his future wife Clementine. ... |
26th March 2012 | |||
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