Titanic Research


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
Titanic Research	THE TITANIC'S FIRST VICTIM Frank Cox Samuel Scott a 15 year old catch boy fell to his death: The first victim of RMS Titanic....	14th May 2012
Titanic Research	MAJOR PEUCHEN'S PREDICAMENT Hugh Brewster Why did this self-made millionaire and leader of men become such a passive figure in a Titanic lifeboat?...	26th April 2012
Titanic Research	TITANIC AT 100: A PERSONAL JOURNEY Malcolm Bowen Niedner, Jr. 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
Titanic Research	TITANIC SONGBOOK Monica Hall Most people, when thinking about music on the Titanic, immediately recall Nearer My God to Thee, which was allegedly played on deck by Wallace Hartley and his band as the great ship sank. We do not really know if this is...	16th April 2012
Titanic Research	EDITH CORSE EVANS Author's note: While doing research on a genealogy site in Spring of 2009, I met a relative of Edith Evans, Emlen Hutchinson Evans. I asked 'Hutch' if he had any photographs of his relative. He did not own any, however, he had a bea...	7th April 2012
Titanic Research	WILLIAM LOGAN GWINN: LETTERS TO FLORENCE Ted Robinson 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
Titanic Research	THE NORWEGIAN SAILOR ALBERT MOSS SURVIVED THE TITANIC TRAGEDY AS WELL AS WW1 AND WW2. Dag Bertelsen The Norwegian sailor Albert Moss survived both the Titanic disaster and a number of other crucial experiences at sea. The story of his life is now documented in the book Titanic og to verdenskriger (Titanic, W...	26th March 2012
Titanic Research	FACE TO BAREFACE LIAR! Senan Molony A steerage Titanic survivor confronted his own impostor in 1912...	16th January 2012
Titanic Research	SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC Jim Currie As a professional mariner and Marine Accident Investigator, I was irresistibly drawn to the detailed information available concerning the few minutes before Titanic began her death throwes....	30th December 2011
Titanic Research	LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS! Senan Molony  Lifeboats from the Titanic extinguished their lights in order not to become attractive beacons for swimmers after the sinking....	6th December 2011
Titanic Research	THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM Brian Odell Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known ph...	13th September 2011
Titanic Research	ANNA KATHERINE KELLY 1892 - 1969 John Kelly Anna Katherine Kelly, “Annie Kate,” later to become also known as Sister Patrick Joseph, was born on January 14, 1892 in Cuilmullagh, Lahardane, in Addergoole civil parish, County Mayo, Ireland. Her parents, John Kelly and Ellen Fla...	9th September 2011
Titanic Research	THE FINAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE 'UNKNOWN CHILD' Alan Ruffman The Final Identification of the ‘Unknown Child’ of the TITANIC buried as Body No. 4 on May 4, 1912 in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery of Halifax, Nova Scotia...	9th September 2011
Titanic Research	HARLAND & WOLFF AND THE PARTITION OF ULSTER Glenn Simpson Harland and Wolff is at the symbolic forefront of Ulster's identity, its economic importance pivotal in explaining what gave Ulster Unionists political leverage during the Home rule question. To accurately portray Harland & Wolff’...	3rd September 2011
Titanic Research	NIGHT AND A TITAN Senan Molony What did Titanic look like at night?...	10th August 2011
Titanic Research	THE TITANIC'S STOKERS PROVIDE THE KEY TO LAUNCH TIMES OF THE MIDDLE BOATS George Jacub The timing of the middle boats : the Mount Everest of challenges for Titanic researchers....	18th July 2011
Titanic Research	MYSTERIOUS WAIF OF THE WAVES.. MGU? Jim Currie Unresolved questions regarding the April 1912 voyage of the SS Campanello and the possibility of her involvement in the Titanic disaster. ...	12th July 2011
Titanic Research	NINETY NINE YEARS AND STILL COUNTING Jim Currie Article, using new evidence, re-examines the work of Titanic's navigating oficers in arriving at the erroneous CQD positions and the consequences of the results. ...	28th April 2011
Titanic Research	VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING Senan Molony The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....	27th April 2011
Titanic Research	THE DAY I MET A TITANIC SURVIVOR Gregg Jasper Liner enthusiast recounts 1968 meeting with Renee Harris Introduction Until the death in 2009 of Millvina Dean, the oldest living Titanic survivor, meeting a passenger who sailed on the legend...	24th March 2011
Titanic Research	ROSTRON'S MONSTER Senan Molony Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......	16th December 2010
Titanic Research	I WAS SAVED FROM THE TITANIC Lady Duff Gordon A vivid eyewitness account of the legendary shipwreck and its aftermath. Edited by Randy Bryan Bigham...	15th November 2010
Titanic Research	THE HART OF THE MATTER Senan Molony 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 Senan Molony 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 Senan Molony Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...	5th September 2010
Titanic Research	ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT Senan Molony ...	13th June 2010
Titanic Research	WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP? Senan Molony When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...	7th April 2010
Titanic Research	WHO TALKED TO TITANIC? Senan Molony Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...	11th March 2010
Titanic Research	ROCKETS, LIFEBOATS, AND TIME CHANGES Samuel Halpern A FLASH OF LIGHT IN THE SKY The story of what took place on the tramp steamer Californian the night of April 14, 1912, is one of those tales that cause some ...	4th March 2010
Titanic Research	LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST Senan Molony 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 Senan Molony 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 Senan Molony THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was ...	8th October 2009
Titanic Research	WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS : A BIOGRAPHY David William Fredericks A brief biography of Walter Francis Fredericks (14 Apr 1891 – 30 Jun 1960) with a focus on the events of April 1912 Walter Francis Fredericks’ grandfather was Francis Fredericks – a Naturalised British...	25th September 2009
Titanic Research	ERNEST GILL IN AUSTRALIA Senan Molony 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 LIFE AND TIMES OF HUGH WALTER MCELROY : CHIEF PURSER OF R.M.S. TITANIC Frank McElroy Coat of Arms...	19th June 2009
Titanic Research	CHRONOLOGY – SINKING OF S.S. TITANIC David G. Brown	13th June 2009
Titanic Research	THE INFORMATIVE 'MORNING NEWS' Senan Molony 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	WAS THERE REALLY A CURRENT THAT NIGHT? Jim Currie Before the days when ships began polluting Earth’s atmosphere with the fumes from burning carbon fuels - before the days when her seas became polluted with the noise of a million propellers ; seafarers exclusively used the physics of nature ...	21st January 2009
Titanic Research	DEFENDING FLEET AND LEE Richard Krebes The iceberg that doomed the Titanic and 1,523 people to die left a gash of about 300 feet in the ship’s side from beneath the stem of her bow to the boiler room number 6. The 1997 film that took her name as it’s title go...	14th January 2009
Titanic Research	IT'S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST Samuel Halpern	9th January 2009
Titanic Research	DEFENDING ERNEST GILL Richard Krebes One night in 1994, at the tender age of 14, I sat glued to the TV watching the superb A&E documentary about the Titanic disaster. Having read and heard little of the Lordite claims about the SS Californian, however, save ...	15th November 2008
Titanic Research	WHY A LOW ANGLE BREAK? Samuel Halpern In the James Cameron film "Titanic," we all saw the stern of the ship rise up in the air and take on a relatively steep angle as the bow of the ship sank deeper and deeper into the water. Suddenly, the hull split and the stern came...	23rd October 2008
Titanic Research	RHEIMS, LIGHTOLLER, AND THE OFFICER'S SUICIDE ENIGMA Richard Krebes If the enigma of the "officer’s suicide" had been a work of fiction created by Rex Stout, creator of the legendary fictional sleuth Nero Wolfe, chances are Stout would have called it "Too Many Questions". For the q...	14th October 2008
Titanic Research	MCGOUGH THE KEY? Senan Molony 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 Senan Molony 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
Titanic Research	THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX Senan Molony 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	LOADING THE REAR BOATS George Jacub While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti...	29th May 2008
Titanic Research	12.45AM – A TIME TO GO! Senan Molony WHAT time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?Many will immediately offer: ‘12.45am.’ But this response should be...	10th March 2008
Titanic Research	COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? Dave Gittins If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ...	28th February 2008

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