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A unique 8-minute fragment of film from 1912 featuring the Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson will screen for Encyclopedia Titanica members on Monday 17th Dec...— Read more...
Despite surviving the sinking of the Titanic, some of the rescued would not have long to live... the first passed away only three months after the disaster. Find out who were the first Titanic survivors to die.
When First Class Passenger Tyrell Cavendish descended the grand staircase on the Titanic, perhaps he was reminded of the staircase at his family home, Crakemarsh Hall. The two had many similarities. Crakemarsh Hall is sadly now demolished but you can buy the staircase from an architectural salvage yard in England... for a mere £64,000.
Titanic Passenger "E Haven"... "swell gambler" and notorious crook shown in a 1906 mugshot. Harry Haven Homer a "dangerous and suspicious character" survived the Titanic wreck to continue his life of crime...
While Dickinson and Helen Bishop were honeymooning in Egypt a fortune teller had divined her future. She would survive a shipwreck and an earthquake before an automobile accident would end her life. "We have to be rescued, she told others in her lifeboat, "for the rest of my prophecy to come true." Read the rest of Helen's story to find out if it did.
Judge supports a woman who lost her husband in the Titanic catastrophe.— Read more...
The Unborn babies of the Titanic : Titanic passengers who were pregnant at the time of the sinking and the many male passengers and crew who became posthumous fathers.
From gamblers keeping a low profile to prominent socialites avoiding the glare of publicity to lovers on the run... A surprising number of Titanic passengers and crew used a false identity... so Who was Who on the Titanic?
Five Titanic survivors made it to 100 years of age, and more than 60 reached 90 years. Discover who were Titanic's longest surviving survivors...
The tragic story of Philip Zenni who saved his own skin but ultimately lost his family.
The care-worn face of survivor Charlotte Collyer, having lost her husband in the disaster. She died herself just four years later leaving her daughter Marjorie orphaned.
As well as surviving the Titanic Richard Norris Williams was a successful Tennis player, watch a video of him here at the 1924 Wimbledon Championships, although on this occasion he lost.
The nightmare of near-death became a nightmare of survival for Masabumi Hosono the only Japanese passenger on Titanic.
Sometimes the stories around the Titanic are as amazing as the Titanic story itself!
Take the tale of Countess Urbina. Let us list her misfortunes:
Lost one daughter when she fell down a lift shaft and was crushed. Almost lost her first husband (Colonel Archibald Gracie) on the Titanic. He was rescued but died later the same year from the effects of his ordeal. Lost her third child and possibly a newly born grandchild in the influenza epidemic (oh, and both her other daughters also predeceased her) in 1919. Lost her half of the family fortune in a brokerage collapse... and then lost the other half to her late daughter's husband thanks to the highly suspicious disappearance of a will that, she claimed, left the money to her.
The final catastrophe, other than her own death, due to a fall, in 1937, was the realisation that her husband, Count Urbina, wasn't a count at all. Just a golddigger who tied her up and tried to suffocate her then locked her in a bathroom before stealing her money and jewels and fleeing on a steamboat to Chile.
Even a Titanic funeral had commercial value. An advert for the film of Bandmaster Wallace Hartley's Funeral.
Wonder if the film still exists?
One of several Titanic crew members to survive the Titanic but die in subsequent shipwrecks... Frederick Scott killed in a boiler explosion aboard the La Marguerite in 1915
Charlotte Cardeza booked the most expensive suite on the Titanic... she survived with her son and servants. Her biography is worth looking at for the views of her modest home Montebello!
Dr Ernest Moraweck befriended rich widow Magdalena Hasse; when she died she bequeathed him a villa in Germany. He was returning to America on the Titanic having dealt with the property and the disgruntled relatives of Frau Hasse.
The face, immortalised in pastel, of one of only four first-class women to die: Edith Corse Evans.
William Ernest Carter might have survived the Titanic, but his marriage could not survive the allegations that he abandoned his family as the ship went down and of abuse and cruelty toward his wife Lucile... within a few months of the divorce she had married again.
Jeremiah Burke died on the Titanic, on his birthday. One year later, in the early summer of 1913, a postman walking his dog found a small bottle on a shingle beach near Cork Harbour. Inside was a pencilled message...
Nella Goldenberg and her husband were well-known dog fanciers, the Goldenberg's kennel name was "Nellcote" and they would often judge in shows and reared English Toy Spaniels and French Bulldogs. They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg on 10 April 1912 as first class passengers.
Murder, bigamy, assault, spying, slavery, child abduction, smuggling, reckless driving, drunkenness, sedition and sodomy... just a few of the activities that Titanic passengers and crew indulged in. Discover the sordid truth...
Perhaps one of the most evocative images of the Titanic disaster is that of the young newsboy outside the White Star Line offices in London, holding an Evening News poster announcing Titanic Disaster Great Loss of Life. Read the tragically short life story of the Boy in the Picture.
Eminent surgeon, Dr Henry Frauenthal survived when he leapt into a lifeboat; landing on top of Annie Stengel breaking several of her ribs, fifteen years later he would fall to his death from a New York apartment building...
Virginia Estelle Clark married (#1) Walter Miller Clark, widowed in the Titanic disaster, married to #2 the same year, divorced #2 and married #3, divorced #3 and married #2 again... try to keep up!
On an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic the MIR submersible approaches the Titanic's propellers buried deep in the silt.
Captain Smith filmed on the deck of the RMS Olympic, after her maiden arrival in New York, summer 1911.
Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia after arrival in New York.
RMS Carpathia at her berth in New York after returning the Titanic survivors.
A curiosity from 1912. Journalist WT Stead, victim of the Titanic, adopting a series of 'characteristic poses'.— Read more...
