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1 HOUR AND 33 MINUTES � A TIME DIFFERENCE GONE WRONG

Added 28th March 2018
At local apparent noon, Sunday, April 14th 1912, Titanic’s clocks would show exactly 12:00 noon. At that time Titanic had reached a longitude of about 44° 31’W having traveled 1549 nautical miles since taking depa...

TIPPERARY VICTIMS

Added 6th February 2018
The late Mr Roger Tobin, who was only in his twenty-second year, was a splendid type of Tipperaryman, and was a universal favourite. As already stated, he was famous in the local Gaelic fields as a hurler and footballer, and brought with him on hi...

THE FORGOTTEN DRILLS ABOARD TITANIC

Added 30th January 2018
Were the Titanic's lifeboats ever tested and her crew properly trained to lower them?...

RELATED TITANIC CREW MEMBERS

Added 28th January 2018
Titanic Crew members with relatives on board...

CARLISLE'S RETIREMENT � SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION

Added 21st January 2018
Why did the esteemed naval architect retire so suddenly...

VICTIM NO. 26: AN IDENTITY

Added 8th January 2018
New Research reveals the identify of a victim of the Titanic Disaster...

LOST LADIES : 12 SECOND CLASS WOMEN LOST ON THE TITANIC

Added 6th January 2018
Who were they and why did they die?...

TITANIC CREW LAND IN PLYMOUTH

Added 4th January 2018
Titanic Survivors arrive home aboard the SS Lapland...

COLD STARTING THE TITANIC

Added 1st January 2018
How to start the engines on an ocean liner...

OLDEST AND YOUNGEST SURVIVORS

Added 17th October 2017
Marjorie Newell Robb and Millina Dean meet at a convention in Boston...

SHIPWRECKED AGAIN

Added 19th September 2017
Passengers Ramon Artagaveytia In 1871 Ramon survived the fire and sinking of the America, close to the shore of Punta Es...

A TITANIC WHO WAS WHO?

Added 16th September 2017
People that boarded Titanic under assumed names...

RE-OPENING TITANIC'S CAN OF WORMS

Added 25th August 2017
Unravelling Titanic Navigation Problems...

MARRIAGE OF DR. WASHINGTON DODGE AND MRS. RUTH BROWN

Added 18th August 2017
The marriage will take place next Thursday in New York...

WASHINGTON DODGE MARRIAGE

Added 18th August 2017
The announcement of Dr. Washington Dodge's engagement to a fair Gothamite is causing a bit of pleasurable excitement. ...

TITANIC PASSENGERS THAT CANCELLED OR MISSED THE CROSSING

Added 12th August 2017
This page contains the names of several people that planned to travel on the Titanic but for one reason failed to do so. Some had actually booked cabins and these are confirmed by their presence in an ...

RETFORD LADY ON THE TITANIC

Added 26th July 2017
Mrs. Nichols, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Lee, Ivy House, Moorgate, Retford, was one of the passengers on the Titanic, but fortunately she left the liner at Queenstown. Accompanying her was Mr. R. W. Smith, a London tea merchant, a frien...

CHESTERFIELD NURSE RESCUED

Added 26th July 2017
Miss Evelyn Marsden, who was a nurse-stewardess in the first caloon on the Titanic, is among the rescued. ...

A SURVIVOR FROM THE 'TITANIC' IN JERSEY

Added 25th July 2017
To meet and speak to one of the five hundred odd survivors of the "Titanic" disaster is something of an experience......

BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY TESTIMONY OF ANNIE ROBINSON, STEWARDESS

Added 25th July 2017
Examined by Mr. RAYMOND ASQUITH. 13272. You were a First class Stewardess on the "Titanic," were you not? - Yes. 13273. And at the time the ship struck the iceberg I think you were in bed?...

BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY TESTIMONY OF EDWARD BROWN, STEWARD

Added 24th July 2017
Examined by Mr. ASPINALL. 10498. Were you serving as a first class steward on the "Titanic" on the occasion of this casualty? - Yes. 10499. Have you served in liners before? - Yes. ...

BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY TESTIMONY OF WALTER WYNN, QUARTERMASTER

Added 24th July 2017
Examined by Mr. BUTLER ASPINALL. 13315. Were you serving as Quartermaster on the "Titanic" at the time of this accident? - I was. 13316. And I believe you were saved in boat 9, were you not?...

IMPORTANT TITANIC WITNESSES

Added 23rd July 2017
On the left is George Symons, who had charge of the boat in which Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon were rescued. On the right is Quartermaster Wynn....

AN ANALYSIS OF TITANIC'S VERTICAL AND LATERAL WATERTIGHT DOORS

Added 23rd June 2017
A detailed description of the design and operation of Titanic's watertight doors....

FURTHER ON THE TRAIL OF MRS FLEGENHEIM
Further research on Antoinette Flegenheim(er) first class passenger on the Titanic....

MY GRANDFATHER MODELLED FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL
Wayne Ranger's grandfather modelled as one of the engineers on the famous Titanic memorial in East Park, Southampton....

JOHN MONTGOMERY SMART, AN ELUSIVE AND SECRETIVE TITANIC PASSENGER.
John Montgomery Smart was born circa 1866 or 1867. His place of birth is not known, but he was described as being from New York and Boston, Massachusetts in Australian newspaper accoun...

ANNA HOGEBOOM, KORNELIA ANDREWS, AND GRETCHEN LONGLEY
A photograph of Titanic survivors Anna Hogeboom, Kornelia Andrews, and Gretchen Longley together....

THE MESABA FILE
US and British Titanic inquiry reports were manipulated for political reasons......

THE INFAMOUS WATERTIGHT DOOR INDICATOR : MYSTERY SOLVED
Brad Payne discovers evidence that suggests Titanic was fitted with a visual watertight door indicator......

THE TRIALS OF ELOISE HUGHES SMITH
The only woman in the world who in just a year's time made her debut, got engaged, married, survived the Titanic, became a widow, and then a mother...

GEORGE PELHAM DEATH CERTIFICATE
Death certificate of Titanic survivor George Pelham...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BIG NECK NICHOLS?
Was Titanic's Quartermaster sent below never to return? ...

ANNETTA
Eight Chinese sailors were going to New York on the Titanic to join the Annetta....

TITANIC LIVE
Stuart Kelly reports on a poignant swansong for Titanic Composer James Horner at the recent performance of Titanic Live at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra....

BASTION OF MASCULINITY
The Last Enjoyable Hours in the Titanic's First-Class Smoking Room...

AN UNSINKABLE TITANIC
In our eagerness to make the ocean liner fast and luxurious, we have forgotten to make her safe...

SINKING OF THE TITANIC: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

IN MEMORIAM TO THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE DISASTER TO THE TITANIC APRIL 14TH AND 15TH, 1912
In memoriam to those who perished in the disaster to the Titanic April 14th and 15th, 1912 : an address to the Club of Printing House Craftsmen of New York, delivered April 18th, at the hour of the la...

TITANIC
The classic text of Titanic by Filson Young...

PHILADELPHIANS WILL BRAVE OCEAN TRIP
Lusitania sinking fails to deter passengers from Philadelphia...

TITANIC AND THE BEDA: FR THOMAS BYLES
In James Cameron's film Titanic a Catholic priest is seen praying with his fellow passengers and reciting from the Book of Revelation. This man was not a figment of Cameron's imagination: his name was Fr Thomas Byles...

TITANIC WRECK REUNITES PARENTS
Wife's Titanic Experience Stops Husband's Divorce Suit...

[GUSTAV WOLFF ARRIVES AT HONOLULU, 1885]
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS --- By the S. S. Australia the following gentlemen arrived and are at present staying at the Hawaiian Hotel: Lord Elphinstone, James Ashbury, Esq., M. P., G. Wolff, Esq., Belfast, and C. Sc...

[EVELYN MARSDEN AND JOSEPH BOXHALL ARRIVE AT SYDNEY]
The Flowing Tide --- IMMIGRANTS FOR N.S.W. --- IRISHMEN AND SCOTCHMEN --- A TITANIC HEROINE --- COMING TO SYDNEY ...

INTO THE DANGER ZONE: SEA CROSSINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
This book (by Tad Fitch and Michael Poirier) is a reve...

HARD A STARBOARD
Another look at that hard right turn......

SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE BOOMERS AT ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22---With eight hundred delegates representing all sections of the United States and all interested in the extension of American trade to foreign countries, particularly South America and the West...

TITANIC: FREEBOARD CONTACT WITH THE BERG
Shedding new light on how the collision with the iceberg occurred...
Biographies

Hudson Joshua Creighton Allison
1st Class Passenger

Hudson Trevor Allison
1st Class Passenger

Henry Anderson
1st Class Passenger

Kornelia Theodosia Andrews
1st Class Passenger

Thomas Andrews
1st Class Passenger

Charlotte Appleton
1st Class Passenger

Ramon Artagaveytia
1st Class Passenger

John Jacob Astor
1st Class Passenger

Madeleine Talmage Astor
1st Class Passenger

Léontine Pauline Aubart
1st Class Passenger

Ellen Mary Barber
1st Class Passenger

Algernon Henry Barkworth
1st Class Passenger

John David Baumann
1st Class Passenger

Hélène Baxter
1st Class Passenger

Quigg Edmond Baxter
1st Class Passenger

Albina Bassani
1st Class Passenger

Richard Leonard Beckwith
1st Class Passenger

Sarah Maybell Beckwith
1st Class Passenger

Nellie Mayo Bessette
1st Class Passenger

Rosalie Bidois
1st Class Passenger

Ellen Bird
1st Class Passenger

Jakob Birnbaum
1st Class Passenger

Dickinson H. Bishop
1st Class Passenger

Stephen Weart Blackwell
1st Class Passenger

Henry Blank
1st Class Passenger

Caroline Bonnell
1st Class Passenger

Elizabeth Bonnell
1st Class Passenger

John James Borebank
1st Class Passenger

Grace Scott Bowen
1st Class Passenger

Elsie Edith Bowerman
1st Class Passenger

George Andrew Brereton
1st Class Passenger

John Bertram Brady
1st Class Passenger

Emil Franklin Brandeis
1st Class Passenger

Arthur Jackson Brewe
1st Class Passenger

Caroline Lane Brown
1st Class Passenger

Margaret Brown
1st Class Passenger

Emma Eliza Bucknell
1st Class Passenger

Archibald Willingham Butt
1st Class Passenger

Alexander Milne Cairns
1st Class Passenger

Edward Pennington Calderhead
1st Class Passenger

Helen Churchill Candee
1st Class Passenger

Charlotte Wardle Cardeza
1st Class Passenger

Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza
1st Class Passenger

Frans Olof Carlsson
1st Class Passenger

Francisco Mauro Severiano Carrau
1st Class Passenger

José Pedro Carraú-Esteves
1st Class Passenger

Lucile Polk Carter
1st Class Passenger

William Thornton II Carter
1st Class Passenger

Howard Brown Case
1st Class Passenger

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