Gare Maritime

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Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : THE LUSITANIA Jim Kalafus, Michael Poirier, Cliff Barry and Peter Kelly	7th May 2013
Gare Maritime	MORRO CASTLE: INFERNO AT SEA : REVIEWED Jim Kalafus Jim Kalafus reviews Inferno at Sea : Stories of Death and Survival Aboard the Morro Castle...	7th August 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
Gare Maritime	NEW BOOKS CELEBRATE ITALIAN OCEAN LINERS Jim Kalafus 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	TRAVELS IN MANY LANDS : 1920S TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY Evocative 1920s documentary travelogue...	18th November 2011
Gare Maritime	MORRO CASTLE: THE FORGOTTEN VOICES Jim Kalafus Eyewitness tales of the Morro Castle disaster...	14th June 2011
Gare Maritime	MORRO CASTLE NEWSREEL Cine film of the Morro Castle fire and aftermath...	13th June 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
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
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
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
Gare Maritime	LUSITANIA: FINAL VOYAGE FOLIOS Senan Molony Examining the saloon berth list for the final, fatal voyage of May 1915....	21st July 2008
Gare Maritime	SKY CRUISE : A FLIGHT ON THE HINDENBURG Jim Kalafus A unique photographic and documentary record of the tragic airship....	1st March 2008
Gare Maritime	DOUBLE JEOPARDY – LUSITANIA'S UNIQUE VICTIM Senan Molony The astonishing story of the woman whose body was twice claimed by the same German submarine....	15th October 2007
Gare Maritime	RECALLING THE INDIANAPOLIS - CLEATUS LEBOW 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	LONDON'S RIVER A 1920s tour down the Thames. From Hampton Court to the Pool of London the viewer is taken on avocative journey through the historic heart of England's capitol....	21st July 2007
Gare Maritime	THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER Jim Kalafus Recalling the loveliest of the 'forgotten' liners...	14th July 2007
Gare Maritime	THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....	10th July 2007
Gare Maritime	THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED: ONE BLACK WEEK IN 1875 Jim Kalafus The double tragedy of the Pacific and the City of Waco...	28th June 2007
Gare Maritime	THE GENERAL SLOCUM : THE HORROR OF FIRE AT SEA Jim Kalafus 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	QE2 TO THE WEST INDIES Early views of the Cunard Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2). Commander Warwick at a cocktail reception, sailors at work, the ship herself embarking on a cruise from New York City....	11th May 2007
Gare Maritime	PASSPORT TO PERDITION Senan Molony How an expired passport could have prevented an untimely death on the Lusitania....	18th March 2007
Gare Maritime	ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE Pierette Domenica Simpson From "Alive on the Andrea Doria"...	9th January 2007
Gare Maritime	ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN ON THE NIEUW AMSTERDAM 16mm film records a tour encompassing: Peurto Rice, Curacoa, Havana, Cartagena, Colombia, Panama Canal, Kingston Jamaica ending with the ship docking in New York City....	21st December 2006
Gare Maritime	THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE NIEUW AMSTERDAM Jim Kalafus Touring the classic liner...	21st December 2006
Gare Maritime	MY GOD THE BOAT IS LEAVING US Jim Kalafus Boat 8 and the sinking of the Vestris...	18th December 2006
Gare Maritime	THE UNLUCKY STATENDAM Jim Kalafus Views of the elegant ocean liner...	18th December 2006
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY SEA TRIALS The Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary is shown standing off Gourock, Scotland on the Clyde for anchor trials, adjustment of the magnetic compasses and fitment of her lifeboats....	6th December 2006
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY MAIDEN VOYAGE NEWSREEL Newsreel cameras cover the first arrival of the Queen Mary in New York City....	5th December 2006
Gare Maritime	THE LOSS OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA Jim Kalafus The worst wreck, in terms of verifiable fatalities, on the North American west coast...	3rd December 2006
Gare Maritime	DESCRIPTION OF A CORK WAISTCOAT The first lifejacket?...	1st December 2006
Gare Maritime	CUBA TO AMERICA ON THE ORIZABA A cruise from Cuba and along the East Coast in the 1920s taking in an excursion to Kensico Dam....	9th September 2006
Gare Maritime	A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...	2nd August 2006
Gare Maritime	STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials....	21st July 2006
Gare Maritime	THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE Jim Kalafus It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ...	21st July 2006
Gare Maritime	GEORGE WATREMEZ : MORRO CASTLE SURVIVOR Jim Kalafus Interviewed by Jim Kalafus...	19th April 2006
Gare Maritime	CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK Short film recording scenes in New York City at Christmas 1970 including ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza and a performance at Radio City Music Hall....	18th February 2006
Gare Maritime	GERBAULT AND THE FIRECREST Classic account of a real life ocean adventure...	15th February 2006
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : HENRY SONNEBORN Jim Kalafus Setting the record straight...	13th January 2006
Gare Maritime	NORMANDIE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Jim Kalafus Spectacular views of the quintessential superliner....	1st January 2006
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET PART 2 : AS THE LUSITANIA WENT DOWN Jim Kalafus & Michael Poirier ...	17th October 2005
Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : PART 1 Jim Kalafus & Michael Poirier 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
Gare Maritime	TWO YEAR ARTICLES AND ALL THAT David Haisman, UK Experiences of an able seaman...	28th November 2003
Gare Maritime	PEGGY ON A SKIN BOAT David Haisman David Haisman recalls working on a banana boat in the 1950s...	14th May 2003
Gare Maritime	OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME Gavin Murphy RMS Olympic's cocktail bar in a Durham public house...	22nd January 2003
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY AND FAT RASCALS ON OFFER IN YORKSHIRE Gavin Murphy 1930s Art Deco in a York tea shop...	19th September 2002
Gare Maritime	RMS OLYMPIC: ANOTHER PREMATURE DEATH? Mark Chirnside The demise of the 'Old Reliable'...	8th April 2002
Gare Maritime	MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gavin Murphy Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar...	8th November 2001
Gare Maritime	SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Gavin Murphy Story of the Empress of Ireland whose loss resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the Titanic disaster....	20th June 2001