Titanic
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On September 1st, 1985, the wreck of the fabled liner RMS Titanic was found after laying unseen for 73 years on the ocean floor. A French team has spent weeks using sonar technology to cover 80% of a search area, with the Americans taking over and using a mainly visual method for the last two…
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British passenger liner RMS Titanic was one of the greatest vessels the world had ever seen when it set sail in 1912, and its tragic demise on April 15th of that year was one of the deadliest maritime disasters in modern history. We all know the story well — the massive passenger ship collided with…
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As the Titanic lay mortally wounded, the passenger’s and crew’s hopes for rescue were buoyed by a mysterious ship that lay just a few miles ahead of the dying leviathan. Despite distress signals being sent up the stranger lay still, ignoring the pleas for help. Salvation eventually came from a ship that had steamed for…
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When the Titanic sank in April 1912, the only first class child to perish was 2 year old Loraine Allison; the Allison’s maid, Alice Cleaver had already absconded with baby Trevor, leaving the child’s grief-stricken parents to search the ship for their son, unaware that he was safe in a lifeboat. The three members of…
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Baltimore, Md., July 20. The statement that Captain E. J. Smith, commander of the ill-fated Titanic, was not drowned in the disaster, but was seen safe and sound Friday morning in Baltimore, was made to-day by a retired mariner, who claims to have been a shipmate of Captain Smith for more than 17 years. Read…
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It has been brought to my attention that this story is in the words of Dr. Lee ‘Total BS’. As such it has been relegated to the realms of folklore (as most Titanic related stories of this nature are). In what can only be described as an incredible and heartwarming story, “Rigel”, First Officer Murdoch’s…
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Among the stories surrounding the sinking of the luxury liner Titanic in 1912 was a tale about an unlucky mummy whose curse was as responsible for that accident as that floating island of ice the tore open the ship’s hull. Though the story had been around for years, it spread rapidly in the wake of…
