war

Thought some folks might find this interesting. A short documentary produced in 1945 by the Southern Railway about Southampton docks during WWII. The commentary does veer into back patting and purple prose at times but the footage of the docks in action is fantastic. It's in three parts, when...

CNN — A Japanese merchant ship that sank during World War II while carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war in Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been found. The Montevideo Maru was discovered off the northwest coast of the Philippines’ Luzon island at a depth of more than 4,000 meters...

if Titanic didn't sink, would she have been used in World War one? I mean Olympic was used as a hospital boat.

The sinking of the famous British luxury ship, Titanic, is etched indelibly in our imaginations, even today, over 100 years after she succumbed to...

26 March 1919: Woermann Line's Alexandra Woermann is ceded to Great Britain as a war reparation and placed under White Star management pending disposition by the British government. Continued 6 May. (Sources: Haws' Merchant Fleets; Anderson's White Star.) 6 May 1919: The war reparation vessel...

Hello all, I have noticed that after WW1 (it seems) it became much more common for liners to fly their ensign from a gaff on the mainmast, rather than the stern exclusively, as with most liners pre-war, such as Oceanic 2, Lusitania and Mauretania, and the Olympic trio. Those that survived the...

what do you guy think?

I think it would. Here is a timeline I came up with inspired by The Man in the High Castle. 1945: The Axis Powers win World War II. 1955: Because of the Axis Victory and their conquering the world, Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember is never published, and interest in the Titanic is not...

The Britannic struck a mine, but has there been other documented reports of German planes and submarines sinking other hospital ships with torpedoes and bombs? I ask this question because I've recently watched the 2017 film Dunkirk, and a hospital ship is attacked and sunk at the beginning of...

Earlier today I mentioned Ypiranga in Captains William and Henry Smith Here's what information I have on her service under White Star management and the command of Harry Smith: 28 March 1919: NDL's Frankfurt and Hapag's Ypiranga are ceded to Great Britain as war reparations and placed in...

I know several passengers and/or crew were killed during World War I. However, I'd like to know if there was any death related to the 1918 flu pandemic. And also, WWII casualties. I only know of a trimmer who was killed during the heavy bombing of Southampton in 1940. I can't remember his...

Does any one know or have any documents of white star line ships being used actively in the world wars

Hello everyone, Given the shared interests in ocean liners and the Olympic Class ships that many of us here have, I thought I would inform the readers regarding a new book that I coauthored with researcher Mike Poirier which is due out in October in the UK and Europe, and February in the US and...

I only know of Isidor Strauss who served for the Confederates. Thank you. ;)

I put this here because War of the Worlds is a movie and there is one chilling scene where people are tying to escape on a ferry. An alien tripod (or whatever those things are called) rises out of the water and capsizes it. Here is the scene: War of the Worlds (2/8) Movie CLIP - Ferry Disaster...

Just last night Baggage Wars featured a watch made from the recovered small fractions of Titanic's hull. An English gentleman named Lawrence Martin stated he wanted to bid on the watch cause he had two Uncles that sailed on Titanic. Any truth to this? Michael Cundiff

Some lucky bidder won the bid for a locker containing the old, telephone pole broadside type concert advertising. Included in the lot were Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin, both of which my older Sister's owned in the day. Also inc was...

The Evening Post, Wellington, 8 December 1885 Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home The Coptic's "War" Cruise --- The Coptic arrived here to-day, after an absence of over seven months from New Zealand...

Does anyone know the best place to find the extracts from Schweiger's war diary dealing with the attack on the Lusitania ? The only sources I have found deal with the events from 2.10 pm onwards, but I am currently carrying out some research based on the account of events given in Tirpitz's...

I was watching TV a couple of weeks ago, and they mentioned a WW1 British wreck that when it sunk, did so with its bow planted in the mud, and the stern vertical. I know that there is a wreck of an 1890's Russian ship in the Baltic that is like that, but has anyone heard of the British wreck...