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Goodness! Thank you for drawing this to my attention, Jason. I haven't been able to actively participate in ET discussions for a long time, and given everything else that has been happening in the world and the many research requests I've received, I hadn't really thought about Julian's request...

As Seumas says, it would not have been possible for Lowe to have written the letter in the 1950s. Is it possible you saw an earlier edition from the 1920s or 30s? I note that "Model Engineer" magazine was first published in 1898, and Lowe did build models - I don't know of any that are still...

Hallo Seumas - delighted to meet you too. Lowe did not serve as a harbourmaster - he resigned from the White Star Line in 1931 after his father-in-law passed away, and he and his family retired to Deganwy where he did serve as a town councillor. During WW2 he offered up his home as a command...

Thank you for the WB, Mark! I'm working on a lot of Titanic related projects right now, which naturally brought me back here - home.

Thanks Dave - I was hoping you were still hanging out on ET!

Lightoller and Boxhall had further contact with each other - Boxhall even took his niece to visit the Lightollers when she was studying in London in the 1930s. Lowe and Pitman also seem to have had some further contact - I'm still working on this angle.

Yes, he did have a romantic interest (and had told his brother he thought she might be "the one"). I don't have many details about their relationship, but I do hope to eventually publish the little I know.

No. Like many people, his features changed over time - he had full lips as a young child, and as he matured his lips thinned out.