baltic

I started this separate thread because whether or not Captain Smith eventually posted the crucial ice-related MSG message from the Baltic on the notice board of the chart room of the Titanic is somewhat separate from to the ongoing discussion in another thread about Smith’s motives in giving the...

One for those with an interest in WSL ships or military history (or both !). RMS Baltic arrives in Liverpool in June 1917 with General John J. Pershing and his staff officers. The newsreel cameras were there to film it. https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/3211 Can anyone identity...

Hi everyone! Could you please help me to find a higher quality digital copy of the famous Baltic's wireless message from April 14th (that is, the record of it)? "Captain Smith, 'Titanic.' - Have had moderate, variable winds and clear, fine weather since leaving. Greek steamer 'Athenai' reports...

I think the most underrated/under appreciated White Star liners include The Big Four of Celtic, Cedric, Baltic and (especially) Adriatic, as well as their last two ships, the MV Britannic and (to a lesser extent) MV Georgic. But what do you guys think?

Shown are pics of a silverplate covered dish from the Collins Liner Baltic that I picked up recently.

The Sun, New York, 19 November 1914 Original article digitized by the New York Public Library Retrieved from the Library of Congress' Chronicling America web site, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ LINER BALTIC BUMPED BY COMAL IN CHANNEL --- Suction From White Star Ship Pulls in Vessel...

Capt of the Baltic 1907

Hi, I'm Joseph Marshall Great Grandson of Commodore William Marshall who Captained the Olympic I have recently joined this site and have hundreds of photographs taken onboard various ships including two of Capt E.J.Smith onboard the Baltic 1905. If you are interested in seeing some pictures...

I have 2 unseen photo's of Capt Smith onboard RMS Baltic 1905.

Hi everyone! I'm searching for the passenger list of R.M.S Baltic II which was sailing from New York to Liverpool at the Titanic disaster time and received Titanic's CQD trough "Caronia". Our family legend says that my mothers grand parents (Juho {Johan or John} Metsälä) and wife Helmi) might...

The Times, 23 November 1903 BELFAST, Nov. 22 --- On Saturday the launch took place at Belfast of the steamship Baltic, which will be by far the largest vessel afloat, her dimensions being:---Length, 725ft. 9in.; depth, 49ft.; and breadth, 75ft., while her gross tonnage will be nearly...

See: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/05/latvia.ship.ap/index.html The cruise ship MONA LISA hit a sand bar in the Irbe Strait between Latvia and Estonia's Saaremaa Island. About 1,000 passengers are being evacuated to naval vessels, as tugs were not able to free the ship. We...

Hello, all... I am trying to learn a bit more about the incident involving the collision between the liner Baltic and the Oil Tanker 'Standard' in a heavy fog in off Fire Island, NY in 1910. The Standard was owned by the German-American Petroleum Company. I am trying to discover: (1) Did...

The New-York Times, 27 November 1872 BATTLING WITH THE WAVES --- Wreck of the Assyria, of Newcastle---Rescue of the Crew by the Steam-Ship Baltic --- The White Star United States mail steam-ship Baltic, which arrived here yesterday, reports encountering a very severe gale during...

The New York Times, 23 November 1907 BALTIC BUMPS JERSEY SHORE --- Big White Star Steamer Aground for an Hour, but Floats Off --- In fog yesterday afternoon the White Star liner Baltic ran her bow onto the outer bar off Allenhurst, N. J. Capt. Ransom dropped anchor and ordered full...

Does anyone know how many lifeboats the Baltic (or the Big Four in general) carried and what her lifeboat capacity was, pre-Titanic, that is? I'm interested to see if they were as short of lifeboats as the Olympic class ships. I have found plenty of blurb about her tonnage and accommodation, but...

[MAB Note: On 28 May 1917, U.S. Army General John J. Pershing left New York on Baltic II to assume command of the Allied armies fighting in Europe.The following passage from his war memoirs describes that voyage. In the original, the paragraph which begins "(Diary)" and the two that...

The New York Times, 17 January 1923 MARINE MONSTER SIGHTED BY BALTIC --- Master Says Object, Resembling a Sea Elephant, Was Twenty Feet Long --- When the White Star liner Baltic arrived yesterday twenty-four hours late from Liverpool and Queenstown, Captain John Roberts, R. N. R., D. S...

I'm in need of advice concerning anything you might know about the Oceanic and Baltic, sister ships that were built by H&W and launched by WSL in 1871. I wish to use one of these ships as a brief setting for my novel, and I want to know what my character will see and experiece aboard ship - in...