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Rostron's Lost Report
Titanic survivors could have been marooned in the Azores! Captain Rostron of the Carpathia considered landing them in the mid-Atlantic island chain for their treatment and onward travel – while he would cont...

Captain Lord in summer whites aboard a Leyland liner

Anatomy of a Boat Deck Portrait
Mawkish sentimentality or inspired reconstruction, the Titanic art of Fortunino Matania...

'Mutiny' on Titanic rescue vessel - 1937
Trouble on South African Vessel...

Captain Stanley Lord
Master of the Leyland Line steamer Californian...

Face to Bareface Liar!
Titanic survivor confronts his own impostor....

Anchor Made by Titanic Crew Survivor
William McCarthy handicraft...

Captain E. J. Smith Memorial
A committee has been formed for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a suitable memorial to the late Commander Edward John Smith RNR, the Captain of the Titanic. It is proposed that it should take the two-fold form of a ...

How to Survive the Titanic. Or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
Ismay as Ecce Homo...

Asquith and the Conspiracy to Sink Titanic
The architect, the owner, and the Captain were partners in an infamous conspiracy to repair their desperate fortunes by sinking the ship and sharing the insurance money...

Captain Stanley Lord and his wife in their car
Stanley Lord at the wheel of a car accompanied by his wife Mabel ...

Mount Temple Temp's Memories
Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple...

A Trade That Has Been Booming Since The Titanic Disaster
Sudden demand for lifeboats in response to Titanic disaster...

The Portrush Letter
An insight into the character of Titanic Chief Officer Henry Wilde...

The Real Jack Dawson
Was the character of Jack Dawson based on a real person?...

McGough the Key?
THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No...

Titanic's Supreme Survivor
How the President of the Board of Trade misled parliament and got away with it...

Honour & Glory: Crowing Time!
What did Titanic's famous grand staircase clock symbolise?...

Rubáiyát reflections on Titanic
Mythical decorated book that went down with the Titanic...

When did Titanic try for help?
When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...

Violet's Barren White Star Wedding
The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....

The Turn of a Card
When Captain Smith gave the alarm, three gentlemen were in the Café Parisien playing bridge. One of them gathered up the cards and put them in his pocket, expecting to resume the game. Later the survivors autographed them and sent them to their friends in France......

Coming to the Boyle

Added 15th March 2019
Titanic fire evidence prompts ‘Problems!’ remark...

Horace J. Dean Photograph
First Officer of the Carpathia Horace Dean...

Identifying Stewards
What are the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea?...

Stanley Lord in Conversation with Leslie Harrison
Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961....

Captain Lord 1961 Interviews Transcript
Captain Stanley Lord master of the SS Californian, interviewed by Leslie Harrison...

Rostron's Monster
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......

Crew Photograph : Thomas William Hankinson

Emily Richards and sons
Emily Richards with baby Sibley and his brother William, the two sons who were with her on the Titanic....

Thomas Whiteley Convalescing in New York
Titanic Steward in Wheelchair at St Vincent's Hospital...

Titanic: The Last Photograph?
THIS photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. It was taken at Crosshaven, Co Cork, Ireland......

Thomas Whiteley : Another Titanic case
Whiteley v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (Limited)...

Three warnings were given to the officer on the bridge
First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger....

Steward's Premonition : Thomas Whiteley
"I don't think I shall ever see you again. We are going to have a wreck."...

WHO talked to Titanic?
Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...

Lifeboats Don't Lie!
FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...

The Band That Played On
Senan Molony reviews Steve Turner's new book about the musicians aboard the Titanic The Band that Played On...

The Hart of the Matter
FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…...

McGough the Killer
TWO killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage…Not the stuff of lurid pulp adventure, instead actual fact.The two wrongdoers were a fireman and an able-bodied seaman.Stoker ...

Ernest Gill in Australia
Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia.The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter.A donkeyman ...

Titanic : Triumph and Tragedy
The third edition of the seminal reference book on the Titanic...

Loaded and the Tramp
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A PV Solves a Puzzle
THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study.There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James H...

Belfast Fireman's Fortunate Escape
Patrick Morgan charged with assault...

Richard G. Thomas Photograph

Geoffrey H. Barnish Photograph

William T. Barton Photograph

Tommy Andrews with moustache
A photograph of Thomas Andrews c.1899, or possibly earlier, sporting a moustache....

Titanic arrives at Cherbourg.
The Titanic ablaze with lights heading out of Cherbourg harbour on 10 Apri...
Biographies (31)

Thomas Gould

Vittorio Risicato

Horace John Dean

Thomas Arthur Whiteley
Victualling Crew

Kate Florence Phillips
2nd Class Passenger

Douglas Hamilton Colquhoun

John Horgan
3rd Class Passenger

Richard Gee Thomas

Wilfrid George Fairhurst

John George Richardson

William McCarthy
Deck Crew

Daniel J. Moran
3rd Class Passenger

George Francis 'Paddy' McGough
Deck Crew

Margaret Mannion
3rd Class Passenger

William Clifford Weller
Deck Crew

Hugh Walter McElroy
Victualling Crew

Neal McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Hannah Riordan
3rd Class Passenger

Frank Dwan
3rd Class Passenger

John Kennedy
3rd Class Passenger

Thomas Rowan Morrow
3rd Class Passenger

Ellen Corr
3rd Class Passenger

Henry Joseph Bailey
Deck Crew

Robert Hichens
Deck Crew

Violet Constance Jessop
Victualling Crew

James Crimmins
Engineering Crew

Eileen McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Joseph Dawson
Engineering Crew

William Arthur Lucas
Deck Crew

Charles Edward Andrews
Victualling Crew

Thomas Ryan
Victualling Crew

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Senan Molony

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