Senan Molony

Member since December 1998

Articles, Stories and Pictures (238)

Coming to the Boyle

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

Daniel Moran in uniform

Added 8th October 2018

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

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

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

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

Night and a Titan
What did Titanic look like at night?...

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

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

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

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 dieÂ…...

Groves' Inappropriate Joke
The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captain,...

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

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

Master and Commander
Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...

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...

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

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

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

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......

Three Graces, Shanghai
The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards.The mid...

Mount Temple Temp's Memories
THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was a m...

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 ...

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 1...

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

Thomas Whiteley : Three warnings were given to the officer on the bridge
Thomas Whiteley, Tells of Hearing Men Who Were in Crows Nest Express Indignation Because Mr. Murdock, the First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger....

Steward's Premonition : Thomas Whiteley
Mr. Thomas Whiteley, a steward on the Titanic, who was saved. He states that the two men in the crow's nest, who were rescued, were very indignant, and said that their warnings concerning the presence of an iceberg ha...

Thomas Whiteley : Another Titanic case
In Mr Justice Darling's court yesterday Mr [W. Norman] Raeburn on behalf of the defendants in Whiteley v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (Limited), asked that a date should be fixed for the hearing.He said that the plaintiff, who was a st...

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 William Mintram...

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. 9 on the opposite si...

Ernest Gill

George Francis McGough

Nora Fleming photograph
Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown.It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck th...

The Riddle of the Sphinx
WHAT goes on four legs, then two legs, then three?The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Greek mythology, denotes the eternal voyage of man… from crawling on all fours, to walking proudly erect, to finally ending up hunched over a c...

Pronunciation of 'Rothes'
DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915 ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie)[Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”] Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl and a Representative Pee...

Harry Elkins Widener Memorial
Wall plaque at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.Harry Elkins WidenerA Graduate OfThis UniversityBorn January 3, 1885Died At Sea April 15, 1912Upon the ...

Harry Elkins Widener Library
Exterior, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.Endowed by his mother Eleanor, and opened in 1915....

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

Dickinson H. Bishop

Joseph Boxhall Cartoon

Ice: Clear and Absent Danger
An argument hewn from ice!...

Captain Lord and officers of the Anglo-Saxon

Stanley Lord at the Wheel

Captain Lord with officers of a later command.
Captain Stanley Lord (centre) of the Californian pictured with officers of a later command....

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

Lord surrounded by grinning passengers
Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909...

Captain Lord's Chart Compass

Captain Stanley Lord

Captain Lord in summer whites aboard a Leyland liner

Field ice photographed on the morning of April 15, 1912,
Ice seen in the general vicinity of the Titanic sinking.Photographed by Dr Marloth, ship's surgeon aboard the NDL Frankfurt....
Biographies (22)

Charles Edward Andrews
Victualling Crew

Henry Joseph Bailey
Deck Crew

Ellen Corr
3rd Class Passenger

James Crimmins
Engineering Crew

Joseph Dawson
Engineering Crew

Frank Dwan
3rd Class Passenger

Robert Hichens
Deck Crew

Violet Constance Jessop
Victualling Crew

John Kennedy
3rd Class Passenger

William Arthur Lucas
Deck Crew

Margaret Mannion
3rd Class Passenger

William McCarthy
Deck Crew

Hugh Walter McElroy
Victualling Crew

George Francis 'Paddy' McGough
Deck Crew

Eileen McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Neal McNamee
3rd Class Passenger

Daniel J. Moran
3rd Class Passenger

Thomas Rowan Morrow
3rd Class Passenger

Kate Florence Phillips
2nd Class Passenger

Hannah Riordan
3rd Class Passenger

William Clifford Weller
Deck Crew

Thomas Arthur Whiteley
Victualling Crew

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