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1961: Agnes Sandström greets her daughter Beatrice at her dairy shop on Olovsgatan in Motala. It is almost fifty years since they were involved in the Titanic disaster in the Atlantic.— Read more...
The stress of the disaster written on her face, an exhausted Annie Stengel steps off the Carpathia in New York, after her rescue from the Titanic disaster. The stress of the disaster written on her face, an exhausted Annie Stengel steps off the Carpathia in New York, after her rescue from the Titanic disaster.— Read more...
Photograph of three surviving Titanic stewards in New York— Read more...
A photograph of Titanic survivors Anna Hogeboom, Kornelia Andrews, and Gretchen Longley together in Venice in February 1912— Read more...
Until now there has been no accurate list of Carpathia passengers on the night of April 15th...— Read more...
Board of trade surveyor, or his staff, annotated crucial Titanic inquiry transcripts...— Read more...
With eye-witnesses and film and photographs taken at the time, Peter West tells the story of one of the most dramatic disasters at sea.— Read more...
Why did the three brothers miss the sailing of the Titanic?— Read more...
The Titanic was not the first ship lost by White Star on its maiden voyage...— Read more...
A poster for the theatrical release of the 1958 film A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More as Second Officer Lightoller...— Read more...
The first sound film produced about the Titanic story was based on a stage play, The Berg.— Read more...
A unique 8-minute fragment of film from 1912 featuring the Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson...— 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.
Were the Titanic's lifeboats ever tested and her crew properly trained to lower them?— Read more...
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!
Titanic nearly collides with the SS New York. How a dramatic collision with another liner was only narrowly averted.— Read more...
RMS Carpathia at her berth in New York after returning the Titanic survivors.
A famous photograph taken at Plymouth, shows a group of surviving Titanic stewardesses, but who were they?— Read more...
Photograph of Titanic steward Allen Mardon Baggott, taken from a c.1919 identity card. He died two years later aged just 36.— Read more...
Why did this self-made millionaire and leader of men become such a passive figure in a Titanic lifeboat?— Read more...
Letters and postcards from Titanic's Sea Post Clerk William Logan Gwinn.— Read more...
The start of the maiden voyage captured in a classic image, click and zoom...— Read more...
The fatal moments after the iceberg was sighted.— Read more...
Perhaps the most catastrophic lapse of memory in history— Read more...
Liner enthusiast recounts his 1968 meeting with Renee Harris— Read more...
10 April 1912 marked the last arrival of RMS Olympic as the largest liner in the world, or so she thought...— Read more...
Did one of the Titanic Officers commit suicide?— Read more...
John P. Eaton finds the people that were fortunate enough to cancel their journeys on the Titanic— Read more...
Propelling the ship of dreams - What Do We Know About Speed, Revolutions, and Engine Orders?— Read more...
A detailed description of the route the Titanic took on her maiden voyage.— Read more...
A wireless message from Titanic burst onto the airwaves at 11:45 p.m. and was received by Joseph Cannon aboard the Birma...— Read more...
Transporting livestock was big business for the White Star Line— Read more...
The British Titanic Inquiry and the Art of Fortunino Matania— Read more...
The story of a Titanic survivor, a woman of extraordinary vision, talent and resolve.— Read more...
How Titanic's cargo equipment worked. Description of cranes, winches, holds etc.— Read more...
The story of a White Star liner that struck an iceberg 47 years before the Titanic...— Read more...
Story of the mythical decorated book that went down with the Titanic— Read more...
A curiosity from 1912. Journalist WT Stead, victim of the Titanic, adopting a series of 'characteristic poses'.— Read more...
THIS photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. It was taken at Crosshaven, Co Cork, Ireland...— Read more...
How Jock Hume's family met further tragedy amid the chaos of war.— Read more...
Did the playing of soothing music on the boat deck of the RMS Titanic contributed to the death toll.— Read more...
Fortunino Matania never beheld the Titanic himself, but saw it through the eyes of those who were and communicated that vision for all time.— Read more...
This paper looks at the role of the lookouts on the Titanic from the eye of an experienced seaman. — Read more...
Her creativity helped to frame an era. Her personality gilded it. This is the story of the woman and her world.— Read more...
A dive to the Titanic won in a competition sparked an enduring interest in the ship and her story.— Read more...
Numerous stories are told of people who were booked on the Titanic but, for one reason or other, failed to travel on her...— Read more...
