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Articles, Stories and Pictures (221)
Birma's wireless bears witness!
We have struck an iceberg sinking fast!...
Anatomy of a Boat Deck Portrait
Mawkish sentimentality or inspired reconstruction, the Titanic art of Fortunino Matania...
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 2022One 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 ...
'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?...
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......
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....Rostron's Monster
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......
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
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Biographies (32)
George Francis 'Paddy' McGough
Deck Crew
Thomas Arthur Whiteley
Victualling Crew
William Arthur Lucas
Deck Crew
Kate Florence Phillips
2nd Class Passenger
John Horgan
3rd Class Passenger
William McCarthy
Deck Crew
Daniel J. Moran
3rd Class PassengerMargaret 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 PassengerEllen 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
Elizabeth Dowdell
3rd Class Passenger
Charles Edward Andrews
Victualling Crew
Thomas Ryan
Victualling Crew
