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Articles, Stories and Pictures (92)
When Animals Travelled First Class
White Star was a serious player in the world of cargo, and the carriage of livestock...
White Star Line Officer's Uniform Circa 1912
By and large the various British steamship company's officer's uniforms of the E...
Oceanic
White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks f...
A Captain's Career
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say- uneventful. Of course there have been winter storms and gales and fog and the like, but in all my experience I have never...
Jackal
While the Titanic was outfitting, Jackal served as an auxiliary vessel moored alongside, her generator providing light and power aboard the ship for the outfitting workers. Also used as a yard tug. ...
Rio Pirahy
European and Brazilian Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. ...Lillian Asplund's first Worcester Home
Lillian Asplund's first home at 6 Rodney Street, Worcester, Massachusetts...
Searching for Kirkland
The story of Titanic’s least-known clergyman....
Among the Souvenirs
A Daughter Remembers Margaret Devaney O'Neill...Titanic Sisters: The Newell girls
The saga of the Newell family of Lexington, Massachusetts is one known to many, especially the memories of Marjorie Newell Robb who in later years gave many lectures and spoke in many publc venues about her Titanic experience...
Maggie Madigan - An Irish Immigrant's Dreams Unfulfilled
It was August 11, 1890 in the small County Limerick village of Askeaton. On this bright sunny Irish day a thi...
Roaming Around : RMS Olympic Marconi Operator
Memoirs of a Marconi operator...Royal Standard
The story of a White Star liner that struck an iceberg 47 years before the Titanic......
Armenian
Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion.(courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Fam...
The tugs at Titanic's Departure
Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune...
William MacQuitty : Tribute to a Titanic Film Producer
Producer of the film version of A Night to Remember...
At Rest - The Memorial Service for Miss Lillian G. Asplund
The service for Titanic survivor at the Nordgren Memorial Chapel situated on Lincoln Street, Worcester....
Asplund Family headstone
Ribbons of Sweden's blue... The Last Farewell
Overlooking the seven hills of Worcester...
Together Once More
Flowers in the rain...
Memorial card for Miss Lillian G. Asplund
Memorial card for services on May 10, 2006...
Home and Hearth, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
The last Shrewsbury home...
The Voyage of Life- Childhood
The Voyage of Life-Childhood by Thomas Cole, one of a series of four canvases mentioned in the Asplund memorial services May 10, 2006...
The Kenyon Home
The home of the Kenyons in Noank, Connecticut...
Several interview excerpts by Helen and family details
article excerpt...Bulgaria
(aka Canada,Hercules, Philippines,Drachtenstein)Hamburg-Amerika LineOnTuesday, April 9, while traveling westbound Hamburg-Southampton-Baltimore,received a wireless message from the Caledonia warning of ...
Arlington National Cemetery Cenotaph
The place chosen by Major Butt as his final resting place...
Epitaph for Major Butt
Plaque at the base of cenotaph...
Caledonia
Anchor LineOn 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra.Port of Registry: GlasgowFlag of Regist...
The Boxhall Letters
The following five letters, written to Mr. Joe Carvalho ofMassaschusetts by Commander Joseph G. Boxhall span the time period ofApril 1961 through July of 1962, and reveal the sentiments of the Titanicofficer regarding...
Cassandra
(Donaldson Brothers)On 9 April, while eastbound St. John, New Brunswick to Glasgow, Cassandra transmitted a warning of ice at 43 degrees 38 N. by 49 degrees 16 W. which was relayed at 2:55 p.m. by the Caledonia to the Bulga...
Royal Edward
Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd.Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50N, 49 degrees 30W to 42 degrees 30N 50 degrees 10...
151 Vernon Street Home and Asplund Destination
151 Vernon Street, Worcester, Massachusetts was the home of Titanic passengers the Asplund family....
Annie
West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.Port of Registry: West HartlepoolFlag of Registry: BritishSignal letters: P Q N SSteel hull, one funnel, two masts...Rosalind
New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Managers) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 6 April for New York. On 7 April at 45 degrees 10 ‘ N. by 56 degrees 40” W. encount...Hector
Port of Registry: SouthamptonFlag of Registry: BritishFunnel: Red, black topCompany flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal trianglesBlue at ...Neptune
Port of Registry: SouthamptonFlagof Registry: BritishFunnel:Red, black topCompanyflag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles. Blue at ho...Ajax
Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Div...Vulcan
Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)...
Hercules
One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock.Port of Registry: Southampt...Blue Jacket
(Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several...Samara
Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers)Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12 N. by 45 degrees 14W. southeast off Newfoundlands Grand Banks, rescued the c... -
Biographies (2)
Arthur Webster Newell
1st Class Passenger
Marshall Brines Drew
2nd Class Passenger
