Preserve the memory of Titanic Monday 9th January 2006 11:00 AM icCoventry TITANIC enthusiast Howard Nelson has achieved a lifetime's ambition by setting up the first trust dedicated to the doomed liner in his land-locked home city of Coventry.
The 60-year-old, of Allesley, Coventry, has opened the Titanic Heritage Trust, at Coventry University's Technology Park in Puma Way.
The trust is aiming for charitable status by the end of the year and wants to protect the Titanic wreck site and artefacts and preserve its history. Submitted by NULL
Heritage centre bid could highlight links with Titanic Saturday 7th January 2006 11:00 AM Birmingham Post A maritime enthusiast is aiming to set up a Titanic heritage centre in the Midlands, as the focal point of events marking the tragedy's 100th anniversary in 2012.
Howard Nelson, from Coventry, has already established the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust and believes the Midlands would be an ideal home for a museum dedicated to the Titanic as it has many links with the world's most famous ship. Submitted by NULL
Titanic gave a valuable lesson to ship-makers Friday 6th January 2006 11:00 AM Times of India The sinking of luxury passenger liner Titanic on April 14, 1912 gave an important lesson to ship builders world over - that a ship, merely by being double-bottomed, does not become unsinkable.
Since then, all large cargo vessels carrying oil the world over have become double-hulled rather than just being double-bottomed as was the case with Titanic, a senior official of Gujarat Adani Port Ltd said. Submitted by NULL
Watch of Titanic victim on sale for ?25,000 Thursday 5th January 2006 11:00 AM Scotsman A POCKET watch discovered on the frozen body of a Scot who was the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic is being auctioned for ?25,000.
The silver watch was found on Thomas Mullin, whose corpse was plucked from the sea the day before it became too treacherous for rescue vessels to continue searching. The 20-year-old, who was born in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, had signed on for the ill-fated voyage on 6 April, 1912, as a third-class steward.
More than 1,500 died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland on the night of 14 April, 1912. Submitted by NULL
Titanic Death Fall Sunday 1st January 2006 11:00 AM Daily Mirror A TOURIST may have been copying a Kate Winslet pose from the film Titanic when she fell off a ferry and drowned.
Emma Blackwell, 31, plunged from the ninth deck 80 miles off France heading home from Spain. Submitted by NULL