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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 ...

Captain Smith and Signor Marconi dummies
Madame Tussaud's Exhibition - Several additions to this exhibition have been made since Easter; and the management have made various alterations in the building. The Titanic disaster is recalled by Mr John Tussaud's model of Captain...

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

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

Film Atlantic - Actress injured in recreation of Titanic scenes
Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Sle...

A Birthplace Reborn : The Titanic Quarter
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next s...

Titanic's Rockets
HOW MANY rockets were fired by the Titanic? "Eight!" Its one of those facts we have unquestioningly received; an answer that comes automatically from the same vaults of memory...

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

Titanic's Band: Killing Them Softly.
Just how many people did the ship's orchestra kill?...

Mystery Ship Made Simple
Case-closed on the Californian?...

A Holy Grail - The Missing Depositions
THERE is an undiscovered Titanic out there… one that may hold greater meaning than relocated rust at the bottom of the North Atlantic. The lost Titanic arguably resides in 138 crew depositions of the subjective t...

A Last Bright Shining Lie
THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensiv...

The Middle Watch
WHAT follows is the complete text of a near-mystical document composed by the Third Officer of the Californian in April 1957, exactly 45 years af...

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

The Average Lifeboat
Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when d...

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

A Tale of Hoffman
A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ...

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...

Loaded and the Tramp
COLONEL John Jacob Astor was a hero of the Titanic disaster, putting his pregnant wife into one lifeboat and helping a child into another - defying an officer to do so. Those, at least, we...

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...

Birma's wireless bears witness!
We have struck an iceberg sinking fast!...

The Unknown Adult
COUNTERFOIL number 30887 lay on the wooden surface. Money joined it for a few minutes, and then money took wing and parted from the ticket. A moment later the ticket itself was taken up. One of the opening scenes of the ...

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

The informative 'Morning News'
TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published in 1914 in th...

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

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......

Last Lap of the Largest
10 April 1912 marked Olympic's last arrival as the largest liner in the world...

Lifeboats extinguished their lights!
Lifeboats from Titanic doused their lights to avoid dying swimmers after the sinking....

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

12.45am - A Time to Go!
What time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?...

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......

George Francis McGough

BBC deny Titanic radio play to be broadcast
BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster ha...

Titanic nursemaid 'Couldn't stand taking care of children..'
Added 7th February 2022
One of those who went yesterday to the committee for help was Elizabeth Dowdell, an English nursemaid, who came to this country to care for the little boy of an automobile manufacturer....

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

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

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 continue ...

Captain Lord in summer whites aboard a Leyland liner

'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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

Coming to the Boyle
Added 15th March 2019
Titanic fire evidence prompts ‘Problems!’ remark...
Biographies (33)
Eileen McNamee
3rd Class Passenger
Árpád Lengyel
George Francis 'Paddy' McGough
Deck Crew
Thomas Arthur Whiteley
Victualling Crew
William Arthur Lucas
Deck Crew
Thomas Gould
Vittorio Risicato
Horace John Dean
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
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
Joseph Dawson
Engineering Crew
Elizabeth Dowdell
3rd Class Passenger
Charles Edward Andrews
Victualling Crew
Thomas Ryan
Victualling Crew

Encyclopedia Titanica

Senan Molony

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Articles, Stories and Pictures (220)

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