Encyclopedia Titanica tells the stories of the real people that designed, built and sailed on RMS Titanic.
Through detailed articles and biographies you will discover the truth about the greatest shipwreck in history.Quick, sometimes quirky stories you may have missed.
The care-worn face of survivor Charlotte Collyer, having lost her husband in the disaster. She died herself just four years later leaving her daughter Marjorie orphaned.
As well as surviving the Titanic Richard Norris Williams was a successful Tennis player, watch a video of him here at the 1924 Wimbledon Championships, although on this occasion he lost.
The nightmare of near-death became a nightmare of survival for Masabumi Hosono the only Japanese passenger on Titanic.
Sometimes the stories around the Titanic are as amazing as the Titanic story itself!
Take the tale of Countess Urbina. Let us list her misfortunes:
Lost one daughter when she fell down a lift shaft and was crushed. Almost lost her first husband (Colonel Archibald Gracie) on the Titanic. He was rescued but died later the same year from the effects of his ordeal. Lost her third child and possibly a newly born grandchild in the influenza epidemic (oh, and both her other daughters also predeceased her) in 1919. Lost her half of the family fortune in a brokerage collapse... and then lost the other half to her late daughter's husband thanks to the highly suspicious disappearance of a will that, she claimed, left the money to her.
The final catastrophe, other than her own death, due to a fall, in 1937, was the realisation that her husband, Count Urbina, wasn't a count at all. Just a golddigger who tied her up and tried to suffocate her then locked her in a bathroom before stealing her money and jewels and fleeing on a steamboat to Chile.
Even a Titanic funeral had commercial value. An advert for the film of Bandmaster Wallace Hartley's Funeral.
Wonder if the film still exists?
One of several Titanic crew members to survive the Titanic but die in subsequent shipwrecks... Frederick Scott killed in a boiler explosion aboard the La Marguerite in 1915
Charlotte Cardeza booked the most expensive suite on the Titanic... she survived with her son and servants. Her biography is worth looking at for the views of her modest home Montebello!
A few days before he boarded the Titanic W.T. Stead travelled to the Biofix studios at 56 The Strand, London. Photographs were taken of him displaying "Characteristic Gestures". He was going to use the images in a lecture on novel photography. These may be the last pictures ever taken of him.
Leo James Hyland survived the disaster and produced this famous sketch of the sinking
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