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Hi All, My great great grandfather was Judge Sir William Rann Kennedy who framed the basis for the International Law of Civil Salvage that is followed today. He was also a classics scholar. After the disaster he wrote a poem in Latin in honour of the engineers who died trying to save the...

Hi This is a long shot, but Martin O'Malley was my great great great grandfather who had a poem published about the Titanic - we think between 1912-1920. We are trying to see if we can find the poem as my little boy is learning about the Titanic at school. Martin was of Irish descent and moved...

Over the years, I have changed my ISP and some old verse has been lost to sight. I commend the following link to lovers of a bit of fun and to lovers of really awful Titanic poems. Mersey: To turn or not to turn, that is the question

Years(& years) ago my grandmother had a book on the Titanic and it contained a poem, but the book is gone and alas I can't remember anything of the poem but two small pieces of a couple of lines.(I was 6 yrs old when she read it to me- a LOOONG LONG Time ago. I know I'm looking for a needle...

Hello, I'm researching poems in newspapers in Sligo, Ireland 1912-1923 and found one entitled "Be British" by Fidelis in Sept 1912 re the Titanic. These newspapers include poems written by locals but also poems taken from other sources, newspapers etc, often not mentioning the source. I suspect...

'Twas on the tenth of April a bright and sunny day in the busy town of Southampton I stood upon the quay There were thousands there beside me an historic sight to see As the mighty ship Titanic was sailing out to sea I stopped looked and wondered as the passengers went by For no-one...

Hello! I wanted to share with you some Titanic poetry I wrote for fun. The first poem is about Annie Funk, who gave up her seat in a lifeboat for a woman with children. I did a school project about her and also wrote this poem for the theme 'Underappreciated Heroes.' The second one I wrote about...

I heard about Ms. Asplund dying several days late, and the thoughts of what little I knew about her provoked this poem. A bad memory has gone from the world There is only second-hand now. As far as most people saw She was five years old forever, Never mind her 94 more Never mind her...

Connoisseurs of dreadful poetry will be familiar with the works of William McGonagall, the Scottish “Poet and Tragedian” whose truly awful verses include “The Tay Bridge Disaster” and “The Famous Tay Whale.” The latter was memorably set to music by Mátyás Seiber in 1958, proving...

Has anyone ever read the Titanic epic poem that was written by E. J. Pratt in 1935? And if so, would I still be able to get it anywhere, and is it worth reading? Cathy Ehlers

There have been so many wonderful poems on nautical themes from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner to Wreck of the Hesperus. Many may be familiar with Thomas Hardy's Convergence of the Twain- Lines on the Loss of the Titanic- it is a favorite of mine- an eloquent portrait of her as she lies beneath...