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Titanic Myths: William Barnes

The RMS Titanic sank on the morning of April 15th, 1912. The vessel took nearly 1,500 lives to the bottom of the North Atlantic with her...

Titanic Lives: Herbert John Pitman

Herbert John Pitman, more commonly nicknamed ‘Bert’ was born in November, 1877 in Somerset. Pitman came from a family of farmers. This...

Titanic Lives: James Paul Moody

James Paul Moody was born August 1887 in Scarborough. Moody had attended the King Edward VII Nautical School in April 1911, a year before...

The Bizarre Disappearance of Titanic's Lifeboats

On the morning of April 18th, 1912 the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia docked at Pier 39, New York. The Cunard vessel carried with her 713 of...

The Dogs of the Titanic

There are 12 dogs confirmed to have been on the Titanic. This varied from a French Bulldog, a Terrier, a Pekingese and a Pomeranian and...

Titanic's Unsinkable Crew: The 'Lucky Tower'

It was not unheard of for some of the 209 surviving members of Titanic’s crew to carry on working at sea. For example Titanic’s second...

Titanic Connections: Malmesbury Road

Just eight minutes outside of Southampton lies the town of Shirley, nowadays the small town is practically indifferent to any other town...

A Brief History of the White Star Line: 1845-1911

The White Star Line was a Liverpool based company founded in 1845 by John Pilkington and Henry Therefall Wilson. Many associate the White...

The Efforts of the Titanic Relief Fund

Not even a month after the tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic various sources of help were distributed to the survivors, widows and...

Titanic Lives: Sidney Sedunary

Samuel Francis Sedunary, more commonly known as Sidney, was born on the 25th February, 1887, Newbury, Berkshire. Sidney was one of six...

Titanic Lives: Wallace Henry Hartley

Out of the many lives lost on the night of April 14th, 1912, no other story of bravery and chivalry can be matched to that of Titanic’s...

Titanic's Unsinkable Crew: Archie Jewell

Archie Jewell was born in Cornwall 1888. Jewell signed on with the White Star Line in 1904 and moved from Cornwall to Southampton....

Titanic's Church Trail

The loss of life on the Titanic, still remains one of the highest death tolls in a sea disaster. After the sinking of the ill-fated...

I Saw the Titanic Sink: The Sinking of the Titanic

2:30 am April 15th, 2020, marks 108 years since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic killing over 1,000 men, women and children. Many...

Titanic Connections: Titanic's Guarantee Group

The Guarantee group were chosen out of the near 15,000 workers that helped the Titanic and her sister Olympic between 1909 -1911. The...

Titanic Lives: Charles Herbert Lightoller

Charles Herbert Lightoller was born on March 30th, 1874 in the town of Chorley, Lancashire. Lightoller had 12 siblings in total. At the...

Titanic's First Victims

Although many are aware that the sinking of the Titanic caused the loss of 1,500 lives of men, women and children. It’s also perhaps...

Titanic Connections: Titanic and Oxford Street

Out of the near 2,200 passengers and crew aboard the RMS Titanic, 724 of those people were residents of the city of Southampton. The...

Titanic Lives: Joey Thompson

The Mystery of Joey Thompson: Any documentation of the story of the construction of the ill-fated Titanic will most likely profile the...

Did They Get It Right? Titanic The Musical

The story of the RMS Titanic has been told a countless number of times through all forms media. There are twelve recorded films about the...

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