1912

Titanic desaster hearing and report original edition 1912 come from the librairie of georges l Rheims, (survivor )with dedicace of? Frank g duffy?for sâle

When the R.M.S. Titanic sank on April 15 1912 it claimed 1496 lives with only 712 survivors. The R.M.S. Carpathia picked up the survivors and returned to New York City arriving on April 18. She had originally departed New York four days earlier. When the Carpathia arrived at Pier 54 upwards of...

Can anyone please assist with the Marconi call signs as recorded by Stanley Adams of the Mesaba on a copy Marconigram. They are as follows:- MGU (possibly also an error for MGY, but I would like it double checked please). MNE MFO MOI DDN Many thanks in anticipation. Cheers, Julian

Hello, I ask because I'm tempted to use a 1/700 scale Revell Titanic kit to represent a 1912 Britannic, but beside the expansion join and the Café parisien, I'm unsure how externally different 1912 Britannic would be from Titanic. Thanks for your answers!

Hello, I know there was this idea of using magnets tied to a lot of ships to raise the wreck , but I can't find anything on other project from the period. If other things were proposed to salvage the ship in the aftermath of the sinking, can someone describe them here and if possible post...

An interesting and graphic account of some of the outstanding incidents which occurred on board the Titanic after the gigantic liner collided with an iceberg was given to one of the News Letter’s representatives during this week in 1912 by a Miss M Sloan, who had been stewardess on the ill-fated...

Ohioan J.C. Middleton had a ticket to ride the Ship of Dreams, but it was his own dream two weeks before boarding that unnerved him. While staying in London, the vice president of the Canton & Akron Railroad dreamt the ocean liner would capsize in the Atlantic, the Marysville Journal-Tribune...

Titanic first-class passenger, Isidor Straus, perished during the ship’s sinking, but his watch fob locket was retrieved and will go on display at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. https://attractionsmagazine.com/titanic-artifact-goes-on-display-for-the-first-time-since-1912/

A very good friend of mine gave me a newspaper she found in her attic. It’s an original issue of The Daily Mirror dated, 16th April 1912. To my friend Viv, thank you so much.

As with any account that deals with maritime matters much use is made of terms and phrases that may be somewhat unfamiliar to the nonnautical minded person. Furthermore some terms and phrases used in 1912 differed from those that are used today. In particular angular directions and helm orders...

Hello, I'm selling a few Liberty Head "V" nickels minted in 1912. Each of the coins is in good or better condition, with the date and designs clearly visible. Payment via PayPal would be ideal. If you're interested, please Private Message me. Thank you! Angel PS My understanding is that...

Only 500 were produced in 1912. One was presented to Captain Arthur H Rostron. Once of the scarcest coins in the world. I am 60 years old and have only seen two in my lifetime. I produced 100 replicas and am offerring them to friends and collectors. If interested here is the link...

Hello everyone, I am doing researches regarding the first week of March 1912. The Olympic arrived in Belfast on the evening of the 1st of March because she lost a propeller blade one week before, on February 24th 1912 and needed repairs. At the same time, the Titanic was still being outfitted...

A Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis... http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/survivability-study-of-the-1912-rms-titanic-disaster.html

My latest drawing of Titanic's last moments, with the stern disappearing from the surface.

Hello all, apologies if this has been answered before but I remember reading in the classic "882 answers to your questions about titanic" that in 2012 the Bank of England would open up records stating whether or not there was a shipment of gold aboard. I understand this book was for kids and...

We all know about the Navratil case aboard the Titanic, but what was the normal scenario for transnational crime in 1912?

I came across a memorance post on fb about one lower crew member who perished on titanic. It stated he was 28 and still living at home with his parents in 1911. This got me thinking about one of my favorite officers-. who was he living with at the time of titanics sinking. Officer Boxhall was 28...

This may have been already covered previously. But I am just curious as to any comments or opinions. Which crews had the better lot in 1912 - WSL or RN ?