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GHOSTLY TALES FROM THE TITANIC
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Jason D. Tiller
Spooky tales related to the Titanic and her people....
A TITANIC UPGRADE
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Brandon Whited
Which second class Titanic passengers upgraded to first class?...
BEESLEY (ET AL) AND THE AFT PORT SIDE BOATS
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Senan Molony
Lawrence Beesley helps to re-write the Titanic’s lifeboat departure story...
LIFEBOATS, LAUNCH TIMES, LIST AND TRIM: PART 2
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Samuel Halpern
Quantifying the angle of list and the angle of trim that Titanic took on as a function of time and how that impacted launch times of the lifeboats and other related events....
LIFEBOATS, LAUNCH TIMES, LIST AND TRIM: PART 1
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Samuel Halpern
A detailed exploration of the available evidence for the sequence and launch times of the Titanic Lifeboats....
LAST REMNANTS OF THE TITANIC
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Brad Payne
What happened to the Titanic's lifeboats after the sinking?...
ATTUNED TO LIFE
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Randy Bryan Bigham
The story of musician and Titanic survivor Marie Young...
TITANIC: CONCEIVING A LEGEND
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Brad Payne
How and why the decision was made to construct the Titanic...
FASHION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
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Randy Bryan Bigham
Mrs. Cardeza’s clothes...
THE TITANIC BREAK-UP
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Accounts of the Titanic break not found in inquiries or testimony...
THE FEARLESS MRS. GIVENS
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Sam Brannigan
Purser accused of discrimination, overuled by Captain Smith...
MARITIME TERMINOLOGY IN 1912
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Samuel Halpern
As with any account that deals with maritime matters, much use is made of terms and phrases that may be somewhat unfamiliar to the non-nautical minded person. Furthermore, some terms and phrases us...
TITANIC'S VOYAGE FROM BELFAST TO SOUTHAMPTON APRIL 2ND
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Brad Payne
Sea Trials and Delivery to Southampton...
DEPTH MAN: FROM THE BISMARCK TO THE KURSK
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Yuri Plutenko
Commander Sagalevich describes his exploration of the German battleship and two Soviet-era Submarines...
MY GREATEST HOUR: SAVED FROM THE TITANIC
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Lady Duff Gordon
Lady Duff Gordon's last account of the Titanic disaster...
SURVIVORS GIVE THEIR IMPRESSIONS OF TITANIC MOVIES
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Mike Poirier
Reactions of those survivors who decided to revisit the Titanic...
THE OCEAN IS MY WHOLE LIFE!
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Yury Plutenko
Interview with the legendary Mir Submersible Commander Anatoly Sagalevich...
FROM MYTH TO LEGEND: HOW MARGARET BECAME MOLLY
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Randy Bryan Bigham
The musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown made Margaret Brown more famous than she was in real life, but the fiction it perpetuated began much earlier. Randy Bryan Bigham explores the beginning of the Molly Brown myth....
CARPATHIA AND THE TITANIC RESCUE
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Sir James Bisset
Second Officer of the Carpathia recalls a dramatic night...
WHAT HAPPENED TO LIZZY?
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Randy Bryan Bigham
Exploring the mystery of Titanic victim Anne Eliza Isham...
A TITANIC MYSTERY: EXPLORING THE ESCAPE OF ROBERT W. DANIEL
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Randy Bryan Bigham, Richard Edwards and Brandon Whited
The rescue of one of the Titanic disaster's most prominent first-class survivors ...
JOHN JACOB ASTOR’S FATAL MISTAKE
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Michael Poirier
Astor could have survived had he stepped into lifeboat seven when given the opportunity....
DISSECTING TITANIC ACCOUNTS
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Michael Poirier
Anna Sjöblom swore a woman had died in her boat and then her husband died of shock....
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Steve Diaper
In my Family tree, I have at least four people who were on that fateful voyage. ...
OLYMPIC, TITANIC & BRITANNIC: AN ISSUE OF FINANCE
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Mark Chirnside
One remarkable statistic is that the cost of building the three Olympic class ships was more, in cash terms, than the value of the entire White Star Line fleet....
THE LAYING OF TITANIC’S KEEL
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Brad Payne
March 22nd vs. March 31st...
TITANIC'S CENTRE PROPELLER: THE STEPHEN PIGOTT EVIDENCE
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Mark Chirnside
Newly found evidence documents changes to Titanic’s propeller configuration...
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Brad Payne
What is it about Titanic time that has drawn so much controversy that it needs such scrutiny?...
A POSSIBLE ROLE OF SPACE WEATHER IN THE TITANIC DISASTER
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Mila Zinkova
Introduction In my recent article (Zinkova, 2020) I discussed the possibility of the space weather affecting some aspects ...
SURVIVABILITY STUDY OF THE 1912 RMS TITANIC DISASTER
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Peter Carpenter
A Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis...
TITANIC'S STOCKHOLM CONNECTIONS
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Peter Engberg-Klarström
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FEATURES OF FITTING OUT
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Brad Payne
The giant floating crane and the Jackal...
I SURVIVED THE TITANIC
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Edith L. Rosenbaum
Edith Rosenbaum's Detailed Account of the Titanic Disaster...
EARLY FINNISH FICTIONAL TEXTS AND WORKS ABOUT THE TITANIC
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Silja Vuorikuru
The first Finnish fictional texts and literary works about the Titanic were written in 1912; this article provides an overview of them. What literary texts did Finnish authors write about the Titanic? How do fictional works treat this world-famous maritime accident?...
A NIGHT TO FORGET : RENéE HARRIS AND THE TITANIC DISASTER
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New book focuses on the forgotten career of Mrs. Henry B. Harris...
CARPATHIA PASSENGER LIST
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Günter Bäbler
Until now there has been no accurate list of Carpathia passengers on the night of April 15th......
COMING TO THE BOYLE
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Senan Molony
Titanic fire evidence prompts ‘Problems!’ remark...
SLADE BROTHERS: THE REAL STORY?
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Clive Sweetingham
Why did the three brothers miss the sailing of the Titanic?...
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Nikolay Ganzha
Russian names can be hard to decipher, and naming traditions are very different to those in the West......
TITANIC: THE DISAPPEARED
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Which Titanic survivors have never been found?...
THE SS CALIFORNIAN AND DUNDEE: SCOTLAND’S FORGOTTEN LEVIATHAN
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Harland Duzen
Genesis of the ship that 'stood still'...
THE LAST BOAT BUT ONE
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Peter Engberg
How did Bruce Ismay and William Carter escape in Collapsible C and who else was aboard?...
SIBLINGS' LOVE SURVIVES FATEFUL NIGHT
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Mike Poirier
The story of brother and sister Emma Schabert and Philipp Mock...
TITANIC : THE LAST BOAT
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Peter Engberg-Klarström
Collapsible Lifeboat D, the last boat to be lowered....
ALIEN PASSENGERS: SYRIANS ABOARD THE TITANIC
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Leila Salloum Elias
The story the Syrian Titanic passengers has been largely neglected......
THE MYSTERIOUS STORY OF HAMMAD HASSAB
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Yasmeen Saad
The only Egyptian Titanic survivor...
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How many sets of twins were on the Titanic...
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Samuel Halpern
Samual Halpern explains a Titanic time conundrum...
THE FORGOTTEN DRILLS ABOARD TITANIC
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Ioannis Georgiou
Were the Titanic's lifeboats ever tested and her crew properly trained to lower them?...
RELATED TITANIC CREW MEMBERS
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Gavin Bell
Titanic Crew members with relatives on board...
CARLISLE'S RETIREMENT – SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION
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Ioannis Georgiou
Why did the esteemed naval architect retire so suddenly...
COLD STARTING THE TITANIC
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Stephen Carey
How to start the engines on an ocean liner...
VICTIM NO. 26: AN IDENTITY
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Brian Rose and Graham Dyke
New Research reveals the identify of a victim of the Titanic Disaster...
LOST LADIES
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Peter Engberg-Klarström
Who were they and why did they die?...
THE NEW YORK INCIDENT
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Near collision for world's largest ship....
TITANIC CREW LAND IN PLYMOUTH
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Titanic Survivors arrive home aboard the SS Lapland...
HELL-RAISING THE TITANIC
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Titanic murderers, spies, smugglers, bigamists and drunkards......
TITANIC SURVIVORS' UNTIMELY DEATHS
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The tragic stories of Titanic survivors who died prematurely......
SHIPWRECKED AGAIN!
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Titanic passengers and crew that experienced shipwrecks either before or after the Titanic disaster....
A TITANIC WHO WAS WHO?
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People that boarded Titanic under assumed names...
RE-OPENING TITANIC'S CAN OF WORMS
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Jim Currie
Unravelling Titanic Navigation Problems...
MY GRANDFATHER MODELLED FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL
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Grandfather modelled as one of the engineers on the famous Titanic memorial in East Park, Southampton....
AN ANALYSIS OF TITANIC'S VERTICAL AND LATERAL WATERTIGHT DOORS
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Brad Payne
A detailed description of the design and operation of Titanic's watertight doors....
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Gerhard Schmidt-Grillmeier
Further research on Antoinette Flegenheim(er) first class passenger on the Titanic....
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J. Homer Thiel
John Montgomery Smart was born circa 1866 or 1867. His place of birth is not known, but he was described as being from New York and Boston, ...
THE MESABA FILE
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Jim Currie
US and British Titanic inquiry reports were manipulated for political reasons......
THE INFAMOUS WATERTIGHT DOOR INDICATOR : MYSTERY SOLVED
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Brad Payne
Brad Payne discovers evidence that suggests Titanic was fitted with a visual watertight door indicator......
THE TRIALS OF ELOISE HUGHES SMITH
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Brandon Whited
The only woman in the world who in just a year's time made her debut, got engaged, married, survived the Titanic, became a widow, and then a mother...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BIG NECK NICHOLS?
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Brad Payne
Was Titanic's Quartermaster sent below never to return?...
BASTION OF MASCULINITY
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Stijn Bammens
The Last Enjoyable Hours in the Titanic's First-Class Smoking Room...
TITANIC AND THE BEDA: FR THOMAS BYLES
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Fergus Mulligan
In James Cameron's film Titanic a Catholic priest is seen praying with his fellow passengers and reciting from the Book of Revelation. This man was not a figment of Cameron's imagination: his name was Fr Thomas Byles...
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Jim Currie
Another look at that hard right turn......
TITANIC: FREEBOARD CONTACT WITH THE BERG
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Eugene Nesmeyanov
Shedding new light on how the collision with the iceberg occurred...
TITANIC LEGACY OF A PARIS MAID
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Stuart Kelly
At about 1.10am on the morning of 15 April 1912, lifeboat number 6 was launched from the port side of the RMS Titanic. The passengers and crew escaping t...
PIECING TOGETHER A TITANIC PUZZLE
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Mike Poirier
The Complex case of Mrs. Cassebeer...
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Peter Engberg
Why did only 13 second class men passengers survive the sinking of the Titanic?...
AUCTIONING THE WALLACE HARTLEY TITANIC VIOLIN
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Stuart Kelly
Stuart Kelly describes the excitement and tension of the auction of the most valuable Titanic artefact ever sold....
CLASS AND GENDER IN SHAPING THE MEMORY OF THE TITANIC DISASTER SINCE 1912
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Joe Woolley
Joe Woolley explores how the way we see Titanic has been shaped in films such as A Night to Remember and Titanic......
AUTHENTICATING THE WALLACE HARTLEY TITANIC VIOLIN
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Stuart Kelly
How Titanic' Bandmaster's instrument was declared genuine...
ACQUITTING THE ICEBERG
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Peter Elverhøi
When most of the facts everyone knows about the Unsinkable Ship are scrutinized, it is quickly discovered that many of them are not facts at all......
THE UNBORN BABIES OF THE TITANIC
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Pregnant Titanic passengers and posthumous fathers......
R.M.S. TITANIC: FROM A DRAWING TO A SINKING
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Luca Marzano
Luca Marzano proposes a hypothetical sinking sequence inspired by the recollection of a young passenger, 17-year-old Jack Thayer....
TITANIC AND CALIFORNIAN
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Gavin Don
Gavin Don asks if the SS Californian, under the command of Stanley Lord, was close enough to have assisted the sinking Titanic....
THE HIGHEST EXAMPLE LIFE CAN FURNISH
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Michele Albion
Richard Frazar White, Bowdoin College, and the Titanic...
TITANIC'S BULGARIAN LINKS
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Brian Hartig
The Story of the Bulgarians on Titanic; how they emigrated and the Bulgarian emigration environment existent around the turn of the 19th Century...
HILDA SLAYTER'S DIARY
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Alan Hustak
Slayter was not superstitious, but she too became uneasy about the voyage, because as she writes in the diary...
A TITANIC DINNER IN AN OLYMPIC HOUSE
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Stuart Kelly
Stuart Kelly recalls an unexpected invitation and a memorable... and extensive Titanic themed meal in an newly discovered RMS Olympic panelled room....
TITANIC: THE HINGLEY ANCHORS
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Jonathan Smith
The story of Titanic's centre anchor...
THE UNFORTUNATE TALE OF LITTLE WALTEE
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Dave Fredericks
Dave Fredericks explores the tragic story of Little Waltee, the four-year-old son of Titanic Trimmer Walter Fredericks....
TORONTO'S TITANIC SURVIVORS
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Jason D. Tiller
We all know that the R.M.S. Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on April 10th, 1912 bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh...
RMS CARPATHIA : OUT OF THE DARK OF THE DAWN
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Craig Stringer
When the Carpathia came to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic, her passengers did all they could to relieve suffering and distress......
ANTOINETTE FLEGENHEIM - FIRST CLASS PASSENGER ON THE TITANIC
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Gerhard Schmidt-Grillmeier
Research sheds new light on an elusive Titanic survivor......
THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF JAMES DOBBIN: SHIPWRIGHT
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In a second extract from In Titanic Times Frank Cox considers another of Titanic's early victims....
THE TITANIC'S FIRST VICTIM
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Frank Cox
The death of catch-boy Samuel Scott...
MAJOR PEUCHEN'S PREDICAMENT
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Hugh Brewster
The inaction of a man of action...
TITANIC AT 100: A PERSONAL JOURNEY
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Malcolm Bowen Niedner, Jr.
Rare glass plate lantern slides of Titanic and Captain Smith...
TITANIC SONGBOOK
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Monica Hall
Most people, when thinking about music on the Titanic, immediately recall Nearer My God to Thee, which was allegedly played on deck by Wallace Hartley and his band as the great sh...
RMS TITANIC 100 YEARS ON
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Philip Hind
Why the sinking of the Titanic has etched itself into our consciousness......
EDITH CORSE EVANS
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Michael Poirier
Portrait of an elusive heroine...
WILLIAM LOGAN GWINN: LETTERS TO FLORENCE
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Ted Robinson
A unique collection of letters and postcards sheds light on the domestic life of one the RMS Titanic's Sea Post Clerk William Logan Gwinn....
THE NORWEGIAN SAILOR ALBERT MOSS SURVIVED THE TITANIC TRAGEDY AS WELL AS WW1 AND WW2.
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Dag Bertelsen
The Norwegian sailor Albert Moss survived both the Titanic disaster and a number of other crucial experiences at sea. The story of his life is now documented in the book Titani...
FACE TO BAREFACE LIAR!
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Senan Molony
Titanic survivor confronts his own impostor....
SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER: THE DEATH OF TITANIC
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Jim Currie
The fatal seconds after the iceberg was sighted...
LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS!
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Senan Molony
Lifeboats from Titanic doused their lights to avoid dying swimmers after the sinking....
WE HAVE NO LOOK-OUT GLASSES IN THE CROW'S NEST.
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Art Braunschweiger
Perhaps the most catastrophic lapse of memory in history...
THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM
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John Atkinson ('Brian Odell')
Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, ...
ANNA KATHERINE KELLY 1892 - 1969
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John Kelly
Anna Katherine Kelly, “Annie Kate,” later to become also known as Sister Patrick Joseph, was born on January 14, 1892 in Cuilmullagh, Lahardane, in Addergoole civil parish, County Mayo,...
THE FINAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE UNKNOWN CHILD
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Alan Ruffman
Identification of Body No. 4 in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax...
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Glenn Simpson
Harland and Wolff is at the symbolic forefront of Ulster's identity, its economic importance pivotal in explaining what gave Ulster Unionists political leverage during the Home rule question. T...
NIGHT AND A TITAN
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Senan Molony
What did Titanic look like at night?...
THE TITANIC'S STOKERS PROVIDE THE KEY TO LAUNCH TIMES OF THE MIDDLE BOATS
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George Jacub
The timing of the middle boats : the Mount Everest of challenges for Titanic researchers....
MYSTERIOUS WAIF OF THE WAVES.. MGU?
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Jim Currie
Unresolved questions regarding the April 1912 voyage of the SS Campanello and the possibility of her involvement in the Titanic disaster. ...
NINETY NINE YEARS AND STILL COUNTING
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Jim Currie
Article, using new evidence, re-examines the work of Titanic's navigating oficers in arriving at the erroneous CQD positions and the consequences of the results. ...
VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING
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Senan Molony
The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....
THE DAY I MET A TITANIC SURVIVOR
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Gregg Jasper
Liner enthusiast recounts his 1968 meeting with Renee Harris...
RMS OLYMPIC: THE EARLY YEARS
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Michael Poirier
It's easy to start the story of Olympic by talking about a limousine pulling up in front of Downshire House. However this has been over-used in many...
ROSTRON'S MONSTER
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Senan Molony
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......
I WAS SAVED FROM THE TITANIC
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Lady Duff Gordon
A vivid eyewitness account of the legendary shipwreck and its aftermath. Edited by Randy Bryan Bigham...
THE HART OF THE MATTER
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Senan Molony
FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…...
GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE
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Senan Molony
The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharp...
MASTER AND COMMANDER
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Senan Molony
Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...
ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT
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Senan Molony
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 ...
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David G. Brown
Nothing is more confusing about Titanic than understanding the time at which events took place....
WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP?
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Senan Molony
When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...
WHO TALKED TO TITANIC?
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Senan Molony
Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...
ROCKETS, LIFEBOATS, AND TIME CHANGES
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Samuel Halpern
The story of what took place on the tramp steamer Californian the night of April 14, 1912, is one of those tales that cause some people to argue and fight, and ...
LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST
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Senan Molony
10 April 1912 marked Olympic's last arrival as the largest liner in the world...
THE MYSTERY OF MARCH 22, 1909 AND TITANIC’S KEEL-BLOCKS
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Brad Payne
When were Titanic's keel blocks laid....
THE TURN OF A CARD
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Senan Molony
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......
MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES
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Senan Molony
Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple...
WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS : A BIOGRAPHY
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David William Fredericks
Personal profile of the Titanic survivor by his great-grandson...
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Senan Molony
Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia.The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down ...
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HUGH WALTER MCELROY
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Frank McElroy
Chief Purser of R.M.S. Titanic...
THE SINKING OF S.S. TITANIC :  A CHRONOLOGY
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David G. Brown
Titanic : A Timeline of Events...
THE INFORMATIVE 'MORNING NEWS'
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Senan Molony
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...
WAS THERE REALLY A CURRENT THAT NIGHT?
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Jim Currie
Before the days when ships began polluting Earth’s atmosphere with the fumes from burning carbon fuels - before the days when her seas became polluted with the noise of a million propellers ;...
DEFENDING FLEET AND LEE
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Richard Krebes
Film depicted them as irresponsible youths who let their attention wander......
IT'S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST
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Samuel Halpern
This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the ...
DEFENDING ERNEST GILL
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Richard Krebes
SS Californian crewman testified he saw Titanic rockets...
WHY A LOW ANGLE BREAK?
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Samuel Halpern
Titanic may have split in two at a relatively shallow angle...
RHEIMS, LIGHTOLLER, AND THE OFFICER'S SUICIDE ENIGMA
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Richard Krebes
Did a Titanic Officer Commit Suicide?...
MCGOUGH THE KEY?
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Senan Molony
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 ...
MCGOUGH THE KILLER
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Senan Molony
Two killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage…...
THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
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Senan Molony
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 pr...
LOADING THE REAR BOATS
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George Jacub
While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer h...
THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER
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Mark Chirnside
A unique engineering notebook helps unravel an enduring Titanic mystery...
CANCELLED PASSAGES ABOARD TITANIC
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John P. Eaton
Passengers that cancelled their tickets for the Titanic...
WILLIAM J. MELLORS
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Robert L. Bracken
A survivor emerges from the mists of time....
12.45AM - A TIME TO GO!
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Senan Molony
What time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?...
COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER?
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Dave Gittins
If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right.Captain Joshua S...
A RACE AGAINST TIME
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Stephanie Clements
Studying the deterioration of the RMS Titanic...
THE WIDENERS: AN AMERICAN FAMILY
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David Whitmire
A Biographical Sketch of one of America's richest families...
ICE:  CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER
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Senan Molony
An argument hewn from ice!...
SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS
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Samuel Halpern
Propelling the ship of dreams...
HONOUR & GLORY: CROWING TIME!
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Senan Molony
What did Titanic's famous grand staircase clock symbolise?...
TITANIC'S PRIME MOVER
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Samuel Halpern
An Examination of Propulsion and Power...
CSI TITANIC : WHO DIED HOW?
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Luke Owens
One of the iconic images many of us carry from the sinking of Titanic is of the 705 people in lifeboats listening to the death cries of 1,500-plus people drowning in the North Atlantic aft...
THE UNKNOWN ADULT
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Senan Molony
COUNTERFOIL number 30887 lay on the wooden surface. Money joined it for a few minutes, and then money took wing and parted from the ticket. A moment later the ticket itself was tak...
OLYMPIC AND TITANIC : MAIDEN VOYAGE MYSTERIES
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Mark Chirnside and Sam Halpern
Charting the maiden voyage route...
TRUE SURVIVORS : MILLVINA DEAN AND BARBARA WEST
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Brian J. Ticehurst
An update on the last two British Titanic survivors......
CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD
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Brian J. Ticehurst
AFTER the Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th April, 1912 the sea around the site was littered with the flotsam and jetsam of the liner. Among the broken decking, furniture and fit...
RMS TITANIC: THE FUNERALS, MEMORIALS AND LEGACY OF THE LOST PASSENGERS AND HER CREW
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Brandon C. Holm
Titanic, a word that conveys a history and numerous amounts of thoughts, ideas. The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition defines titanic as, “of enormous scope, power, or inf...
KEEPING TRACK OF A MAIDEN VOYAGE
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Samuel Halpern
What was the route the Titanic took on her maiden voyage?...
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John Lamoreau
Who was Brownie Harbeck who claimed over $40,000 after William Harbeck's death?...
THE FLEECING OF HUGH WOOLNER
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Senan Molony
Titanic victim faced bankruptcy...
NOMADIC RETURNS
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Kathleen Neill
How the Nomadic was saved and returned to Belfast...
BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS!
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Senan Molony
We have struck an iceberg sinking fast!...
TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR
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Senan Molony
How the President of the Board of Trade misled parliament and got away with it...
WHEN ANIMALS TRAVELLED FIRST CLASS
Voyage
Charles A. Haas
White Star was a serious player in the world of cargo, and the carriage of livestock...
TITANIC CITATION CATALOG
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Captain Charles B. Weeks
I created this document to assist Titanic researchers. I have found it maddening to have to thumb through numerous books to find a particular citation on a certain subject. Using this document you ...
A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE
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Senan Molony
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 giv...
A MATTER OF COURSE
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Randy Bryan Bigham
Titanic's Plucky Countess...
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David F. Hutchings
Happy memories of the legendary producer...
LOADED AND THE TRAMP
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Senan Molony
COLONEL John Jacob Astor was a hero of the Titanic disaster, putting his pregnant wife into one lifeboat and helping a child into another - defying an office...
GEORGES KRINS - THE LOST MEMORIAL
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Philippe Delaunoy
A planned memorial to the Titanic violinist that was never built...
ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD
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Samuel Halpern
How many icebergs were sighted the night the Titanic went down?...
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Lester Mitcham
  The assignment of Case Numbers has I understand always proved to be frustratingly difficult owing to the loss of so much of the original documentation including it seems the Master...
A PEN TO SINK A THOUSAND SHIPS
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Lee Kendall
The British Titanic Inquiry and the Art of Fortunino Matania...
SEARCHING FOR KIRKLAND
Voyage
Robert L. Bracken
The story of Titanic’s least-known clergyman....
THE PORTRUSH LETTER
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Senan Molony
An insight into the character of Titanic Chief Officer Henry Wilde...
LIFE'S DECOR: A BIOGRAPHY OF HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE
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Randy Bryan Bigham
A woman of extraordinary vision, talent and resolve...
SEALED ORDERS
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Helen Churchill Candee
A Titanic survivor's classic tale of love and fate...
LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE!
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Senan Molony
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 ...
A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER
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Senan Molony
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen'...
TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY
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Randy Bryan Bigham
Internet research tips for beginnersFrom biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading...
RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC
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Brian J. Ticehurst
ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world....
ALBERT BRIANT - A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
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Bryan and Hilary Popple
Albert Briant c 1900...
ALL THE HORRORS SEEM TO HAPPEN AT NIGHT
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Inger Sheil
James Moody’s First Atlantic CrossingSpectators agreed the fire that raged through the New Jersey shore on May 29, 1904 was second in ferocity only to the catastrophe ...
THE HERMAN FAMILY
Voyage
Michael A. Findlay
In recent years much has been written about those who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic. Stories of heroism, selflessness and cowardice on that fateful night have emerged through ...
A CAPTAIN'S CAREER
Voyage
John P. Eaton
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 a...
A CAPTAIN ACCUSED
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Samuel Halpern
...
THE BOXHALL LETTERS
Voyage
Joe Carvalho & Shelley Dziedzic
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 s...
TITANIC'S HIDDEN DECK
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Samuel Halpern
An examination of Titanic's double bottom...
TITANIC AS METAPHOR
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Monica Hall
WORLD'S LARGEST METAPHOR HITS ICEBERG . . . . ...
LORD MERSEY — OBITER DICTA
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Senan Molony
HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would affo...
WHITE STAR LINE OFFICER'S UNIFORM CIRCA 1912
Voyage
John Hemmert
By and large the various British steam...
IDENTIFYING STEWARDS
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Senan Molony
What are the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea?...
A TALE OF HOFFMAN
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Senan Molony
A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ...
TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR
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Captain Charles B. Weeks
How Titanic's cargo equipment worked. Description of cranes, winches, holds etc....
MAGGIE MADIGAN - AN IRISH IMMIGRANT'S DREAMS UNFULFILLED
Voyage
Robert L. Bracken
It was August 11, 1890 in the small County Limerick village...
THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT
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Senan Molony
Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiogr...
ON THE TRAIL OF 'LUCKY' TOWER
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Senan Molony
Titanic legend's most elusive man....
STAR TURN: THE PICTURES AND PASSIONS OF DOROTHY GIBSON
Titanica!
Randy Bryan Bigham
The tilted deck beneath the young woman’s feet told her the ship was sinking. Leaning against the rail, she pulled her sweater closer about her as she stared into a pitch-black, frigi...
RUBáIYáT REFLECTIONS ON TITANIC
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Senan Molony
Mythical decorated book that went down with the Titanic...
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Shelley Dzeidzic
Taking a Titanic tour of New England...
THE MIDDLE WATCH
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Senan Molony
WHAT follows is the complete text of a near-mystical document composed by the Third Officer of the C...
IMPACT OF TITANIC UPON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW
Titanica!
Allison Lane
No other shipwreck in history has left such an indelible imprint upon the public consciousness as that of the RMS Titanic. Ninety-two years after her loss, the story of that great liner co...
A LAST BRIGHT SHINING LIE
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Senan Molony
THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. ...
TITANIC SISTERS: THE NEWELL GIRLS
Voyage
Shelley Dziedzic
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...
PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG
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Senan Molony
...
BERTHE LEROY: TITANIC SURVIVOR
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Olivier Mendez & Michel Leroy
Berthe Leroy, a short biography by Michel Leroy and Olivier Mendez....
ASQUITH AND THE CONSPIRACY TO SINK TITANIC
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Senan Molony
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...
STAND UP AND WAVE!
Voyage
Shelley Dziedzic
Ellen Mockler's Story...
OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR 'SLEEPING ROUGH'
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Senan Molony
YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ...
THE MYSTERY OF RHODA ABBOTT REVEALED
Voyage
Robert L. Bracken
Unravelling a Titanic enigma...
THE CHEEK OF WILLIAM WELLER
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Senan Molony
After the Hawke collision Able Seaman William Clifford Weller was annoyed that he would lose out on wages for the voyage......
A HOLY GRAIL - THE MISSING DEPOSITIONS
Titanica!
Senan Molony
THERE is an undiscovered Titanic out there… one that may hold greater meaning than relocated rust at the bottom of the North Atlantic. The lost Titanic arguably r...
WHY DID WHITE STAR SETTLE WITH WHITELEY?
Titanica!
Senan Molony
Steward's sensational claims were never tested in court....
TITANIC: THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH?
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Senan Molony
THIS photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. It was taken at Crosshaven, Co Cork, Ireland......
THE LEFEBVRE FAMILY
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Olivier Mendez
A tribute to a French family who were all lost in the Titanic....
A THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE CAVE LIST
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Daniel Klistorner
View the Encyclopedia Titanica transcription of the Cave List This simple incomplete copy of a cabin lis...
TITANIC'S VIOLINIST AND A VILLAINOUS MURDER
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Senan Molony
How Jock Hume's family met further tragedy amidst the chaos of war....
RYAN'S SON
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Senan Molony
A Commentary on Ryan v. OSNC...
THE THIRD TITANIC INQUIRY - RYAN V. OSNC
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Senan Molony
Transcript of Precis Law Report...
A RACE THROUGH A NIGHTMARE
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Senan Molony
How a shipwreck a suffragette and a scandal settled the 1913 Derby...
MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE
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Senan Molony
Case-closed on the Californian?...
TITANIC'S BAND: KILLING THEM SOFTLY.
Titanica!
Senan Molony
Just how many people did the ship's orchestra kill?...
1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG
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Senan Molony
Murdoch, in death, re-wrote the seamanship manual for best practice....
SUN YAT SEN – WILL EAT AGAIN
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Senan Molony
The height of buffoonery or the peak of good taste?...
FATHER BROWNE: THE MISSING PHOTOGRAPHS
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Senan Molony
Defamation, anonymity and some missing photographs?...
TITANIC'S SILENT DISTRESS SIGNALS
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Paul Wilkinson
A new look at a minor mystery...
TRUE COURSE
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Cathy Akers-Jordan and Captain Charles B. Weeks
An explanation of the use of magnetic compasses, how to plot courses and how these procedures on the Titanic compared to their use other ships in 1912...
ANATOMY OF A BOAT DECK PORTRAIT
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Senan Molony
Mawkish sentimentality or inspired reconstruction, the Titanic art of Fortunino Matania...
THE LAST OF THE LAST
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Margaret Mehl
How Masabumi Hosono's Night was Forgotten...
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Information on the eight Chinese passengers aboard Titanic...
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Details of Harland and Wolff workers killed during the construction of the Titanic...
WHAT DID THE SURVIVORS SEE OF THE BREAK-UP OF THE TITANIC?
Titanica!
Bill Wormstedt
How many survivors claimed to see the ship break up?...
THE BROWNS PREPARE TO ABANDON SHIP
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David Haisman
Her father stood in the doorway of their cabin and said, ''There's talk that the ship has hit an iceberg.'' It was those fateful words that were to change their lives forever....
LOOKOUTS : THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE
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Captain Laurence V. Wade
The role of the lookouts on the Titanic from the eye of an experienced seaman....
WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST
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Eqab S. Al-Otaibi
Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the lis...
MADAME LUCILE: A LIFE IN STYLE
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Randy Bryan Bigham
Her creativity helped to frame an era. Her personality gilded it. This is the story of the woman and her world....
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT HICHENS
ET Research
Phillip Gowan and Brian Meister
When Bev Russell was just a little lad growing up in England, he considered it quite a treat to spend time with his grandmother. The clean and comfortable house on Shirley Road in Southampton had a...
TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS
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Markus Philipp
One of the thorniest questions about the Titanic disaster is, how her clock was changed during the journey. Several events observed by differing observers at different locations add to th...
TITANIC'S FINAL MANOEUVRE
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Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins
She never was under a port helm? - She did not come on the port helm, Sir - on the starboard helm....
TITANIC PASSENGER TICKET REVENUES
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Captain Charles B. Weeks
On (p. 58) of The Great Liners Melvin Maddocks says with regard to Steerage passengers ”… they represented one third of the revenues of the shipping companies, and accounted f...
NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION
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Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins
On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of wher...
THE SAGA OF THE GIBSON WOMEN
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Phillip Gowan and Brian Meister
During the boyhood years of James Peter Boesen in Copenhagen, Denmark, a dazed, plain Hausfrau in a remote area of Austria gave birth to an illegitimate son, Alois. Maria Schicklgruber was an ungai...
WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH?
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Captain Charles B. Weeks
There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic's rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turn...
THE MORNING AFTER... WHERE WERE THE BODIES?
Titanica!
Jan C. Nielsen
What happened to the bodies from the Titanic...
THE LAST OF THE LOST
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Alan Ruffman & Ryan Parr
A preliminary report on the Palaeo-DNA Project and the unidentified Titanic victims in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, cemeteries...
MOLLY BROWN: MYSTERY UNRAVELLED
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Daniel Klistorner
Where was Molly Brown's stateroom situated?...
ELSIE BOWERMAN: FEMINIST AND BARRISTER
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Helena Wojtczak
One of the Titanic's survivors was also a key participant in the movement for womens' suffrage....
A TITANIC COINCIDENCE
Titanica!
Gavin Murphy
How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....
THE BREAK-UP OF THE TITANIC: VIEWPOINTS AND EVIDENCE
Titanica!
David Gleicher
A detailed discussion of structural failure as the Titanic sank....
ON ROOTING ABOUT IN A SWEDISH TITANIC FAMILY TREE
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Alan Ruffman
The search for geneaological data relating to the Palaeo-DNA Project...
RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 2
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Gavin Murphy
The Artifacts Appeal Decision...
THE BOY IN THE PICTURE
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Gavin Murphy
The story of Ned Parfett: newsboy, soldier and photographic icon...
EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP
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Jemma Hyder
The experience of Carpathia Wireless Operator Harold Cottam...
RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 1
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Gavin Murphy
Explaining the legal position of the Titanic wreck...
TITANIC'S ROCKETS
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Senan Molony
HOW MANY rockets were fired by the Titanic? "Eight!" It’s one of those facts we have unquestioningly received; an answer that ...
HARD A-STARBOARD
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Nathan Robison
Reconsidering Titanic's Encounter with the Iceberg...
ICE ON DECK
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Henning Pfeifer
Further analysis of the iceberg impact....
ICEBERG AT THE GOLDEN GATE
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Jan C. Nielsen
A Perspective on the Life of Dr. Washington Dodge...
MY TITANIC DIVE
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Brigitte Saar
Brigitte Saar's dive to Titanic...
THE CALIFORNIAN INCIDENT, A REALITY CHECK
Titanica!
Tracy Smith, Michael H. Standart & Captain Erik D. Wood
Could Captain Lord and the Californian have done more to save the passengers and crew of the Titanic....
GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC
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Earl Chapman
Were shots fired as the Titanic went down? If so whom and toward whom?...
THE ICEBERG — RESURFACED?
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Henning Pfeifer
Icebergs photographed after the sinking bear the hallmarks of a collision....
THE FATAL JOURNEY OF THIRD CLASS MEN ON THE TITANIC
Titanica!
David Gleicher
Was survival or loss determined the Titanic's design?...
AN 'OLYMPIC' CLASS PROPULSION SYSTEM
Titanica!
Mark Chirnside
How the White Star Line's greatest ships were propelled....
THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC
Titanica!
David G. Brown and Parks E. Stephenson
Explores the hypothesis that that Titanic grounded on an underwater shelf of the iceberg....
THE REAL JACK DAWSON
Titanica!
Senan Molony
Was the Titanic Jack Dawson character based on a real person?...
THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER
Titanica!
Lester Mitcham
An in-depth analysis of the number of Titanic passengers lost and saved....
A TENDER NAMED AMERICA
Titanica!
Senan Molony
A tale of the ship that brought Irish immigrants to the Titanic....
THE LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC
Titanica!
David G. Brown
A reevaluation of the fatal collision....
BIODETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC
Titanica!
Roy Cullimore & Lori Johnston
How organism activity will destroy the Titanic...
GEORGE A. BRERETON - MYSTERY MAN
Titanica!
Mike Herbold
New research reveals the tragic fate of one of the Titanic's notorious gamblers....
THE ILLEGITIMATE DAUGHTER OF ARCHIBALD BUTT
Titanica!
Phillip Gowan
Scrutinising a sensational claim by Dorothy Eells...
THE TITANIC MCCOYS
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Robert L. Bracken
My story of the Titanic McCoys begins in the aftermath of James Cameron's blockbuster movie, Titanic, in February of 1998. The media was covered with Titanic...
LAWRENCE BEESLEY AND MACPHAIRSON CLONGLOCKETTY ANGUS
Titanica!
Pat Cook
A progress report on the long awaited Annotated Beesley....
THE RICH LADY'S MAID
Titanica!
Phillip Gowan
The life and times of Rosalie Bidois, maid to Mrs. John Jacob Astor....
JOHN EDWARD HART: DUBIOUS HERO
Titanica!
David Gleicher
Was Hart really a hero?...
BRUCE ISMAY AND THE RING'S TAUNT
Titanica!
Senan Molony
As Ismay pushed the brute oar, his eye fell on his ring. The ring inscribed:- Be Mindful....
A TRAGIC FRIENDSHIP
Voyage
Dave and Barb Shuttle
How documents recovered from the wreck of the Titanic reveal a friendship which ended in disaster....
NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS
Titanica!
Peter Engberg-Klarström
Exploring the difficulties in producing a credible list of Titanic survivor lifeboat placements....
PLUCKED FROM THE SEA?
Titanica!
Peter Engberg-Klarström and Tad Fitch
Survivors' Claims Reconsidered...
UNLISTED PASSENGERS AND CREW
Titanica!
Numerous stories are told of people who were booked on the Titanic but, for one reason or other, failed to travel on her......
Titanica!
Floyd Andrick
Winnifred Quick VanTongerloo died on July 4, 2002 at the age of 98 years. She was one of only four remaining Titanic survivors and the only one who could still tell of the 1912 event from her own memory....
Titanica!
Michael Findlay
A Daughter Remembers Margaret Devaney O'Neill...
EXPERIENCES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Lutheran Woman’s Work
Evocative account of the Titanic disaster by Mrs Becker...
LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS
Titanica!
Description of the design and construction of Titanic's lifeboats...
Titanica!
This page contains the names of several people that planned to travel on the Titanic but for one reason failed to do so. Some had actually booked cabins and these are confirmed by their pr...
THE TITANIC : OUR STORY
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Elizabeth Mussey Eustis and Martha Stephenson
by Elizabeth Mussey Eustis and Martha Stephenson ...