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A Titanic dream: Branson exhibit celebrates film
BRANSON, Mo. — Open since 2006, Titanic Branson has welcomed almost 1 million visitors across the museum’s gangway to relive the short life of the ship and its ill-fated maiden voyage.
Now, almost 100 years after the “unsinkable” ship struck an iceberg in the mid-Atlantic and sent more than 1,500 souls to the ocean floor, owners Jim Joslyn and his wife, Mary Kellogg, have given Titanic buffs a new reason to set sail for Branson again: “Titanic: the Movie Exhibit.”
Joslyn said that he and his wife were trying to figure out last yea...
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the XL Center draws visitors back in time to 1912, with each receiving a replica boarding pass of an actual passenger on the ship upon entrance.
Guests will take a chronological journey through life on the Titanic; from the ship’s construction to life on board, the fated sinking, and modern day recovery efforts. View the Ship’s Boiler Room and authentically re-created first and third class cabins, feel the temperature drop as you press your palms against the iceberg and learn of the passengers and their ...
A dinner of historic proportion adds a special note to next week’s Galveston Uncorked! food and wine celebration. Tremont House executive chef Kelly Wilson researched the menus from the ill-fated maiden sailing of the Titanic to create a Titanic-themed meal that won’t leave diners with a sinking feeling.
“We looked at the menu from the last evening on the Titanic, which was April 14, 1912,” Wilson said. “First-class passengers were served a 10-course meal. I edited that down to four courses in order to keep it to what people will lik...
CONTINUING the series of articles by diver Bill Woolford on the shipwrecks off Bridlington's coast ...
HMS Falcon
Position: 54 01.000 N
000 19.888 E
Depth: 60 metres
Location: 30 miles east of Bridlington
HMS Falcon was sister ship to HMS Fairy, which we have previously featured in this column, a three-funnel destroyer of 375 tons.
It was also a C-Class that measured 67 metres long with a beam of 6.5 metres and was built by Fairfield shipbuilding Co in 1899.
Her armourment was fitted out the same as HMS Fairy with one 12lb gun, five si...
Today such things as cell phones, high definition television and e-mail are commonplace and most of us probably take those things for granted. But back in the late 1800s and early 1900s just the ability to communicate over vast distances was brand new and amazing.
The fascinating and unique story of the development of wireless communication is on display at the Antique Wireless Association Museum in the small and picturesque town of Bloomfield, New York. The museum features some of the most unusual and rare exhibits of wireless, telegraph, rad...
TORONTO’S THEATRE RUSTICLE is excited to bring its Titanic play right to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.
"I’m entranced right now watching the ferry and the gulls and the fog," says Toronto actor Lucy Rupert, sitting in the lobby of Dartmouth’s Alderney Landing Theatre.
She plays the ship in April 14, 1912, a play inspired by the true story of Harold Bride, Second Marconi Officer of the RMS Titanic.
Director Allyson McMackon was struck by Bride’s account and used it as a springboard for a company that she named after the ru...
They’ve performed the play a number of times before, but doing it in Halifax, the final resting place of some Titanic victims, will change things.
“I think the information from being here will be so important to how the piece evolves,” says Lucy Rupert.
“We have a scene at a grave, and there is something about the names of the dead,” added director Allyson McMackon. “We don’t know who these people are, but they were children, wives and brothers.”
McMackon and Rupert are at the helm of April 14, 1912, one of the plays being p...
Fine dining, vibrant night-life and a thriving arts scene - a renewed Belfast is making up for lost time, finds Conor Smyth.
Business in Belfast is booming and our taxi tour guide Billy is only too happy to talk about it. "We're the fastest-growing economic region in Europe," he enthuses, as he takes us through the Titanic Quarter ("the biggest dockside development in Europe").
Billy's ebullience is symptomatic of the city in general, which is beginning to find its feet after its troubled recent history. Once only talked a...
IT was in the early hours of April 15, 1912 that Arthur ‘Artie’ Moore, sat in his homemade wireless studio near Blackwood received the world’s first SOS call, from the Titanic.
It had previously been thought that wireless could travel just a fraction of the 3,000 miles between South Wales and the Titanic’s last known position. Artie’s discovery brought him to the attention of Guglielmo Marconi, who had sent the first- ever wireless communication over water from Lavernock Point, near Cardiff. Artie joined the Marconi Company and worke...
A MEMORIAL to the five postal workers who drowned in the Titanic disaster is to be given a new home in Southampton's Civic Centre.
The future of the monument had been in doubt amidst the relocation of Southampton's flagship High Street Post Office to WH Smith in Above Bar.
The Titanic Postal Workers' Memorial is part of the city's heritage trail and there were fears it could fall into the hands of collectors willing to pay tens of thousands of pounds.
City council bosses hatched a plan to keep the memorial in the city by making it a permanen...
If a distant relative died and left you more than $200,000, would you take it?
Of course you would.
What if that amount came in the form of valuable memorabilia? Would you sell it?
Probably.
But what if you knew that the relative would have objected to the sale?
Now it gets trickier.
When the last American survivor of the Titanic died in 2006, it was assumed that she had taken memories of the tragedy to her grave. Lillian Asplund of Shrewsbury never spoke of the disaster that claimed her father and three brothers and over the years re...
A NEW building development marks Waterloo’s historical link to the Titanic.
The former coach house in Murat Street, which was once the property of Titanic owner Thomas Henry Ismay, has been transformed into a new housing development.
It has been named White Star Court, after his company White Star Line which ran the disaster-striken liner.
White Star Court consists of eight apartments, a penthouse with a balcony and three coach houses, situated in the former Titanic Buildings.
Estate agents Michael Moon has started advertising the homes, ...
A collection of about 300 artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic are on display at the XL Center in Hartford in "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition," a traveling show organized by the Atlanta-based RMS Titanic Inc.
The artifacts - an officer's megaphone, a leather shoe, a woman's bracelet, a man's spectacles, china etched with the elite White Star Line logo, the ship's whistles, a lifeboat support arm among them - are displayed around a 25,000-square-foot space designed to look like the cabins, promenades, third-class passe...
A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking.
Last week saw the publication of various theories that the ship sank because ice-spotting binoculars were locked away, that rivets were of inferior quality, that a report of ice ahead never made it to the bridge and that there was an out of control fADVERTISEMENTire in the engine room.
But Una Reilly, chair and co-founder of the Belfast Titanic Society, is annoyed at what she ...
This past April 14 marked the 96th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. On that fateful night in 1912, hundreds of men, women and children lost their lives in the waters of the North Atlantic, and those who survived went on with lives that were forever altered.
As a nation, we are fascinated with Titanic for a variety of reasons. Titanic’s legendary opulence, famous victims and infamous claim to be ‘unsinkable’ create a glamorous backdrop to the story of one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history.
The discovery of Tit...
Ellen "Nellie" Hocking was in love. That's why she decided to leave her home in Penzance, Cornwall in England during the spring of 1912.
Two great adventures were in her future. The first was a trip on the gigantic luxury ship "Titanic;" the second was a move to Schenectady and marriage to fiance Charles Hambly.
People know how Nellie's first adventure turned out. The invincible "Titanic" struck an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic on Sunday, April 14, and disappeared into the cold ocean waters. More than 1,500 pe...
The men and women at Schenectady’s Union Presbyterian Church sang “Nearer My God to Thee” on Sunday, April 21, 1912.
The hymn’s verses, always solemn, seemed sadder this day: “Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone. Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God to Thee . . .”
People in the pews were crying. A week earlier, the magnificent RMS Titanic had struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank into cold water that claimed 1,517 lives. The band on board the giant passenger ship pla...
TODAY we continue our news snippets on Titanic - the ‘unsinkable’ cruise liner - which is the subject of this year’s Armidale Drama and Musical Society’s production.
The Armidale version of Titanic will feature Waine Grafton as Smith, Brad Crook as Ismay, and Greg Balcombe as Andrews. Opening night is May 24 at Lazenby Hall.
Among the legendary stories of the Titanic sinking is that of the ship’s band. In the early hours of April 15 1912, Titanic’s eight-member band led by Wallace Hartley had assembled in the first-class lounge in...
Ninety-six years after Titanic sank, a third-class passenger ticket of the doomed ship which sank on its maiden voyage, on Sunday sell for 33,000 pounds at an auction in south west England.
The ticket was part of a collection of Lillian Asplund, one of the few survivors of the ship, who as a five-year-old, was on-board Titanic along with her parents and four brothers.
The ticket was sold by auction house of Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire. Also in the collection, a pocket watch that stopped at the exact moment the Titanic sank ...
Among the list of movers and shakers who perished during the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic's maiden voyage was filmmaker William Harbek, who filmed the 1911 Round-Up and reportedly had the original copy with him on the ship.
As it turned out, 1911 was a controversial year after two rodeo cowboys, George Fletcher and Jackson Sundown - one black and one Indian - lost out to a white cowboy John Spain for the championship saddle. Harbek's film of the controversial rodeo likely ended up in the sea.
"His business partner claimed it went down wit...
A treasure store of Titanic memorabilia, kept in a shoe box by a woman who survived the 1912 disaster, has sold at auction for £100,000.
Among Lillian Asplund's shoe box treasures was one of the last four remaining tickets for the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage.
It was sold for £33,000 by auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, at the weekend.
Titanic sank when she hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 15 April 1912 with the loss of 1,522 lives.
The liner was built at Harland & Wolff...
For the ninth time in as many years, the legendary ocean liner Titanic broke up and sunk in the library of Robinson Park Elementary School Thursday.
But not before the 23 third-graders in Deborah S. Buzzee's class recited the doomed ship's history, sang to its memory, and prepared to take formal "Tea on the Titanic."
At the captain's table, ship Captain Brandon P. Smith, 9, and co-captains Brittany M. Fountain, 9, and Vincent Pirro, 10, discussed the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage with First Mate Michael C. Basile, 9.
Smith, who...
A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage that belonged to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold to a collector from the United States at a British auction Saturday.
Lillian Asplund, who died in 2006 at the age of 99, was 5 years old when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1,500 people who died.
She was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Others had been too young at the time of the sinking...
A Titanic survivor who spent her long life trying to avoid publicity about the 1912 disaster that killed her father and three brothers will have that privacy breached today.
A collection of 37 items from the Shrewsbury home of Lillian G. Asplund will be on the auction block today in England.
Ms. Asplund, who died two years ago at 99, was the last American Titanic survivor. The family items, which were in the 39 Fairlawn Circle, Shrewsbury, house she lived in for years, were put up for auction by cousins who inherited the house and its conte...
Scientists have discovered that the builder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough rivets and skilled riveters and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago today. More than 1,500 people died.
The builder's own archive, the two scientists say, harbors evidence of a deadly mix of low-quality rivets and lofty ambition as the builder labored to construct the world's three biggest ships at once -- the Titanic and two sisters, Olympic and Britannic.
For a decade, scientists have argued that t...
Devizes will attract global attention tomorrow when Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers put 364 Titanic related items on auction.
The auctioneers have appeared on the TV show Good Morning America and the story has been in the Wall Street Journal, such is the international interest in the auction.
The most sought after items come from the collection of the last remaining American Titanic survivor Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 aged 99.
Andrew Aldridge said: "Little old Devizes has been put well and truly on the map. We've had interest...
Directing a cast of about 40 in the tragic tale of the Titanic has proven to be a challenge, even for veteran director Tina Sills.
''It's probably the biggest musical challenge I've had as a director,'' said Sills, of Essexville, who's guiding a Bay City Players cast and crew putting the finishing touches on ''Titanic the Musical.''
Sills said it's the number of scenes and the configurations of people in those scenes, coupled with the lights and the orchestra, that have made the project such a challenge. Simply put, the show has a lot going...
On Thursday, May 22, Swann Galleries will conduct an auction devoted to Ocean Liner Memorabilia from the Frank O. Braynard Collection. The collection features ocean liner photographs, brochures, posters, and ship models from nearly all shipping lines; these items truly bring back the glamour and romance that was the epitome of cruising in the early 20th century.
The sale’s most significant highlights are items related to the “Titanic” disaster, including a group of nine letters from the White Star Line concerning the tragedy, which inclu...
One of the most popular exhibits in the world is coming to Milwaukee.
"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" shows hundreds of relics from the sunken ship. There will also be information about people from Milwaukee who were on board.
This exhibit could mean an end to the museum's financial problems.
"It certainly says we're back! The problems are in the past, of the museum. We're here to serve the community and bring the world's great stories to Milwaukee and Titanic is exactly one of those stories,” Milwaukee Public Museum P...
The men, women and children who lost their lives when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank were remembered yesterday.
Belfast marked the 96th anniversary of the disaster with a quiet ceremony at the City Hall.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast and ancestors of victims laid wreaths at the Titanic memorial before standing with heads bowed for a moment of silence.
Councillor Jim Rodgers stressed the importance of remembering those who died on the night of 15 April 1912.
"It is very important because more than 1,500 people sadly lost their ...
A decades-old ceremony held to remember the Titanic disaster came to Halifax on Tuesday, 96 years to the day after the luxury liner hit an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic.
With bagpipers and priests present, 18 members of the United States Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol saluted the 1,500 people who died on April 15, 1912.
"It is an honour to be here," Cmdr. Scott Rogerson said in opening the brief ceremony in front of dozens of Titanic graves at Fairview Lawn Cemetery at 6 p.m.
The ice patrol started operation...
I have written two plays for my kids to perform based on the sinking of the Titanic, surely a strange parenting technique, and have been interested in the doomed liner most of my life. One of the plays will be performed this weekend, so if you are near Biola University in Los Angeles, you can get my take on what the sinking of Titanic meant.
For the rest of the cosmos, including the better looking, better educated, and more socially aware that will not condescend to see me cling to my outmoded religion due to economic bitterness by writing a p...
Want to see the world's most famous sunken ship resurface in Milwaukee?
Tickets will go on sale July 19 for "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit," a major touring exhibit opening Oct. 10 at the Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St.
Advance tickets will be $21 for adults, $13 for children and $18 for seniors, available at the museum and at www.mpm.edu, the museum announced Tuesday, the 96th anniversary of the ship's sinking. The exhibit runs through May 25, 2009.
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The Carnegie Science Center will open a special summer exhibit on the Titanic, the ship that struck an iceberg 96 years ago on the night of April 14th, and sank into the Atlantic Ocean early the next morning.
"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" -- which opens on May 24 and runs through Sept. 1 -- features more than 260 artifacts retrieved from the ship's grave, such as spoons, china, passengers' personal items, coins and jewelry. Each visitor, upon entering the exhibit, will receive a replica of a boarding pass of an actual passenger...
Shortly after midnight on this day in 1912, on the 13,600-ton Cunard liner Carpathia approximately 1,100 miles east of Cape Cod, wireless operator H.T. Cottam was preparing for bed after a long night of sending and receiving messages.
Three hours earlier, the Carpathia's captain, Arthur H. Rostrom, alarmed by warnings from other ships of ice in the vicinity, asked Cottam what other vessels were within range of the wireless.
The Mesaba, the Baltic, the Caronia, the Frankfurt, Mount Temple, Virginian, Birma, and the Olympic, Cottam answered, an...
GHOSTSHIP / THE TITANIC PROJECT is a monumental installation piece recreating the ill-fated ocean liner TITANIC as a floating deck plan (in its original size — 882 feet long; 92 feet wide), projected in light onto the surface of the Hudson River at Pier 59 (due west of West 18th Street), the ship's intended destination in 1912. The project could be viewed from the Chelsea Piers Sports Complex, now at the site.
This solar-powered nocturnal installation (the light projection turns on at sundown and off at dawn) would be the ultimate memorial ...
Here dailyecho.co.uk republishes one of the first reports carried in Southern Evening Echo about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
GLOOM IN SOUTHAMPTON
In Southampton people to the last moment clung to the hope that better news of the Titanic would be received, but on Tuesday afternoon the whole town was overcome with gloom.
Flags were at half-mast on the public buildings and in the docks, and a meeting of the Harbour Board called for the afternoon was abandoned as a mark of sympathy with he sufferers. A letter was read from Colonel Philip...
President of the Milwaukee Public Museum Dan Finley said Monday another traveling exhibit will come to the city later this year, this one showcasing artifacts recovered from the Titanic.
Entitled Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, the show features items as small as dishes from the famous sunken liner to a porthole on the vessel and also a 5-ton section of the ship’s hull. The international exhibit is currently on display in Hartford, Conn., and Finley said it is scheduled to be featured at the Milwaukee Public Museum from mid-October throug...
Over 1,500 lives were lost on April 14, 1912 when the ill-fated RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Ninety-six years later, the cast and creative team of the Winds of Change will bring the legendary story of the RMS Titanic and its passengers back to life, beginning on April 18, 2008.
Titanic: Tragedy and Trial dramatized by Pat Cook, is based on a compilation of historical facts, newspaper articles and survivor interviews. In the first act, “Voices From the Titanic” the audience experiences the chilling series of events ...
Scientists have discovered that the builder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough rivets and riveters and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday.
The builder's own archive, the two scientists say, harbors evidence of a deadly mix of low-quality rivets and lofty ambition as the builder labored to construct the world's three biggest ships at once — the Titanic and two sisters, Olympic and Britannic.
For a decade, scientists have argued that the storied liner went down fast af...
Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.
The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.
Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website.
This release of the material is to mark the anniversary of the sinking in 1912.
The ship sank on 15 April after it hit an iceberg, killing 1,522 peopl...
Faith Christian School's annual Titanic week left Jonathan Thomas wondering whether he would survive or perish before the end of the school day.
Thomas -- and the school's 41 other sixth-grade students -- last week took on the role of individuals from different social classes who had boarded the Titanic on its ill-fated voyage in April 1912. Students were not told until the end of the day whether their character survived the disaster.
"The first day I was a little baby; yesterday I was a 34-year-old man; and today I am 17 years old,"...
For a decade, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the storied liner went down fast after hitting the iceberg because the ship’s builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. More than 1,500 people died.
Now, a team of scientists has moved into deeper waters, uncovering evidence in the builder’s own archives of a deadly mix of great ambition and low quality iron that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday. Historians say the riddle of the disaster has fina...
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is updating its Titanic file by digitizing the content of two British newsmagazines published in April and May 1912.
Officials say it will allow Nova Scotians the opportunity to experience online the media blitz that shook the world after the huge passenger liner sank.
Several issues of The Sphere and The Daily Graphic have been given to the Archives by private donors in the past year.
Provincial archivist Brian Speirs describes coverage of the disaster in the magazines as outstanding.
He says the...
About 100 people assembled to commemorate one of the darkest days of Southampton's maritime history.
They gathered at Holyrood Church for a service remembering the victims of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic 96 years ago tomorrow.
In his address, the sheriff Councillor Brian Parnell said the liner's sinking was a stark reminder of the dangers inherent to all those who plied their trade at sea.
"The safety of passengers and crews is still a primary concern for those who run and operate the mighty ships that leave our shores, ...
Did the cold Atlantic air wake her before the lifeboat swung away?
Before being popped into a sack, did she sense the confusion and fear on the sloping deck where her doomed father stood?
Surely, her tiny ears picked up the distress blasts from the settling Titanic, the fading cries of those in the black water’s freezing clutch, the moans and gasps from shocked fellow survivors in the rocking boat. Did she even cry?
We will never know. Millvina Dean was only 2 months old when the Titanic went down, and all of her memories are hand-me-downs...
It'll be 96 years ago, this week, that the HMS (sic) Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. The Hartford's XL Center will now be displaying parts of the ship in a captivating exhibit.
From the first moment, the exhibit takes you back to 1912, and the dock, where more than 2,200 people boarded Titanic. Visitors start their tour of the ship in first class. "It's a recreation of how it would feel walking down the hallway of the first class quarters," Tracy Shirer, of the XL Center, said.
The traveling exhibition re-creat...
In 1912, the loss of the Titanic, the "ship of dreams," on its maiden voyage between Southampton, England, and New York City, mesmerized the nation and the world and immortalized the ship and its passengers.
One of those aboard was August Henry Weikman, the only American in the crew. He was the ship's commodore barber, who personally attended to the grooming of the great financier J.P. Morgan during previous transatlantic crossings. Originally from Philadelphia, Weikman moved to Palmyra in the 1890s and became that town's claim to the...
“I will never forget the shrieks of those people in the water,” remembered Albert Caldwell, a Bloomington resident who survived the sinking of the Titanic. “We supposed at the time that there were 40 or 50, never dreaming that over 1,500 would lose their lives that night.” | From Our Past page
Albert, his wife, Sylvia, and their 10-month-old son, Alden, were passengers on the Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912. The Caldwells were in the fortunate minority of about 700 passengers and crewmen w...
A new theory that a fire in a coal bunker on the liner RMS Titanic contributed to its sinking has been put forward, as the fate of the liner remains a subject of debate ahead of the 96th anniversary of the disaster later this week.
Ray Boston, who has devoted 20 years to researching the subject, said the reason Titanic was travelling so quickly through dangerous waters was because of an "uncontrollable" coal fire on board which began during speed trials in Belfast 10 days before it left Southampton.
The fire was still burning when t...
SHE lies in cold, still waters deep beneath the Atlantic, the once proud and pristine Ship of Dreams is now slowly but surely crumbling away as time, inexorably, takes its corrosive toll.
It was 96 years ago that Titanic, then hailed as the greatest and most luxurious passenger liner of her time, began her ill-fated maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, a destination the ship was never to see.
Now in a race against time and using the latest technology, a brand new series of amazing images has been published capturing the graveyard wreck...
A STARCHED white apron bears silent witness to the terrible night when the luxury White Star liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
It is among exhibits in the Merseyside Maritime Museum’s exhibition Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress which looks at three great shipping tragedies. The Empress was the Empress of Ireland, the loss of which was overshadowed by the others.
The full-length cotton apron, with lace-trimmed top, was worn by survivor Laura Francatelli on the night of the disaster. It ...
"The tale of it is incredible; the wonder which is Angkor is unmatched in Asia." So begins Helen Churchill Candee's 1924 tale of Asian adventure. Today, visitors can again experience the mystery of Cambodia's vast jungle temples through her eyes in a modern expanded edition of Angkor the Magnificent (ISBN: 978-1-934431-00-1).
April 15th marks the 96th anniversary of history's most infamous maritime disaster, the sinking of the RMS Titanic. But for Helen Candee, surviving the Titanic was a minor event compared to her other life creden...
The story of the Titanic has fascinated historians and Hollywood for decades. An exhibit opening Saturday at the XL Center in Hartford will give people a chance to take a walk back in time and learn about one of the most famous ships in history.
The RMS Titanic sunk in April 1912 on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg. More than 1,500 people died, according to some reports.
Visitors to the exhibit will get a replica of a boarding pass of an actual passenger on the ship and then go on a chronological journey through life on the Titanic....
LETTERS which tell the story of a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic fetched £19,129 when they went under the hammer today.
Businessman Charles Jones, who worked for Colgate toothpaste company in New York, was returning to the United States after a trip to Britain to buy sheep when he died on the Southampton liner's maiden voyage in 1912.
The letters went for nearly double their £10,000 estimate when they were sold at Duke's auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, to an American telephone bidder. The price included the buyer's premium.
Mr Jon...
THE annual convention of the British Titanic Society begins today in Liverpool.
More than 100 delegates from the UK, Europe and the United States will meet in the city for a weekend of events marking the 96th anniversary of the tragedy.
Yesterday, members of the society met ahead of the start of the conference to lay a commemorative wreath at the engineers’ memorial at the Pier Head to remember those who died in the tragedy.
They laid the wreath at 12.05pm – the exact time to the day the Titanic set sail from Southampton in 1912.
The co...
Pat Dwyer can't shake the thought of his uncle struggling to survive in near-freezing water after leaping from the deck of the Titanic 96 years ago this month.
The emotions conjured by the Titanic exhibit at Moody Gardens in Galveston are so strong that Dwyer, 66, of League City, declined to take the tour Thursday.
"It just engulfed me with emotion," said Dwyer, who toured the exhibit two weeks ago but returned to Moody Gardens to tell his uncle's story, 96 years to the day that the luxury liner steamed out of Southampton, U.K., on ...
An exhibit detailing the Titanic is scheduled to open in Hartford 96 years after the ship set off on its fateful maiden voyage.
This weekend, "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition" opens for a limited engagement at the XL Center in Hartford.
Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Dan Kain reported that the exhibit begins with the building of the ship in a Belfast shipyard, and ends with the ship resting on the ocean floor.
The exhibit combines recreations of the interior of the vessel with personal items carried by passengers and artifa...
Since she sank back in 1912, only a few scientists have actually seen the Titanic where it sits on the bottom of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Millions saw the recent movie, but experts say that was largely fiction.
You can learn the real-life story of Philadelphia's connection to the ill-fated ship this weekend. Widener University folklorist Joseph Edgette hosts a program Saturday.
Philadelphia financier Peter Widener was a board member of White Star Lines, which owned Titanic. Widener's son and grandson went down with the ship. The Wideners...
The Southwest Michigan Underwater Preserve will hold a shipwreck presentation Saturday focusing on the Titanic and its connection to the Great Lakes and the sinking of, and recovery of artifacts from, the Carl D. Bradley.
Speakers will include Frank Mays, author of the book "Sole Survivor" and surviving crew member of the Bradley, which sank in Lake Michigan in 1958, and divers John Scoles and John Janzen who dove to the Bradley multiple times, recovering artifacts.
Cris Kohl, a shipwreck author, will speak on the Titanic's West Mic...
Prestige Yacht Charters, a premier luxury-yacht charter company serving the New York metro area, today announced it has commemorated the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912 by creating a special resource page on its website including an exact replica of the first-class menu for the passengers' last meal.
The resource page is available at http://prestigeyachtcharters.com/titanic.asp until May 15 and includes links to related s...
For Trinity Western University student ‘Tori' (Victoria) Thompson, the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 is more than a sensational event from the dim past or a touring display recently seen by university staff at the Royal Museum in Victoria. She knows that if strange events had not taken place as the ship was going down in those fatal early-morning hours, she wouldn't even exist today. Thompson, a student in the TWU Department of Theatre, has been reminded of these things as her peers are rehearsing Scotland Road, dramatist Jeffr...
Titanic watch to go under hammerA WILTSHIRE auctioneer will be selling a collection of the last American Titanic survivor Lillian Asplund later this month.
Devizes-based Henry Aldridge and Son will put items belonging to Miss Asplund on April 19 at 1pm.
She passed away in 2006 at the age of 99 and the archive is being sold by direct descent and has never been published or on public display in its entirety before.
The artefacts were kept together in Miss Asplund's home and kept in a box where they remained until after her passing.
The collection comprises of a number of s...
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Kristin Borton’s third grade class took a theatrical look at the sinking of the Titanic last week as her students assumed the roles of various passengers on that fatal maiden voyage.
Rather than merely reading about the greatest catastrophe of its day or passively watching the research of others in a documentary, the students took an intellectual leap from the floor of their classroom to the deck of that ill-fated ship.
Rather than the traditional “read a book and write a paper” method, each student was given the name of a passenger w...
They shared a passion for culinary greatness, but Montrose Chef Inge Cheatham differs in one very important way from the chef who served the last first-class meal aboard the ill-fated Titanic.
It would take more than an ice berg to sink the irrepressible Cheatham, who will recreate that luxurious but doomed repast through a Weehawken Creative Arts class in Ridgway on April 12.
Although there were numerous courses to the original meal, Cheatham has narrowed things down to a more simple, but sumptuous presentation. She will not only cook the di...
On April 10, 1912, Titanic set sail on its infamous five-day journey from England across the Atlantic toward New York. Coming up on April 11 and 12, the Solanco Music Department will bring this epic story to the stage in Peter Stone and Maury Yeston's musical, Titanic. Unrelated to the movie, this 1997 Tony Award-winning story is a historical recollection of this journey for the passengers and crew aboard the ill-fated ship.
Among the songs student-actors will sing are "Godspeed Titanic", "The Largest Moving Object", "...
A GIANT model of the Titanic made entirely from matches will be launched at a special convention to commemorate the ship next week.
The British Titanic Society convention is being held at Liverpool’s Liner hotel.
The society celebrates its 21st birthday this year.
And at a gala dinner on Saturday evening a special birthday cake will be cut by the society’s founder Bob Pryor.
The model of the ill-fated liner will be a centrepiece of the event.
It was made by member Tim Elkins over 18 years.
He intends to complete the 8ft long model to ...
Sweating under unforgiving stage lights, the Solanco teens imagine a frigid April night, when the North Atlantic's icy waters swallowed 1,500 souls aboard a doomed ship.
Sometimes after a scene, the young actors crack a few jokes backstage, just to keep from crying.
On April 11 — a few days shy of the 96th anniversary of history's most infamous ocean disaster — Solanco High School will stage "Titanic: The Musical," an elaborate, emotionally charged production that requires uncommon talent and dedication.
"Titanic," wh...
Throughout history, people have always been fascinated and at the same time horrified by records of bizarre testimonies about eerie ship sights, where inexplicable and mysterious events took place.
Clearly people sense odd attraction and their curiosity awakens when they get a mental image of a ship lonely floating in the moon-light, with no signs of life apart from inarticulate and inexplicable noises that come from the ship`s belly.
Proportionally with curiosity, fear awakens as well, but isn`t it fear that yields curiosity and thirst for r...
PERTH Amateur Operatic Society’s most exciting and challenging production to date, ‘Titanic: the Musical’, sets sail in Perth Theatre tonight, with a new and exciting production team at the helm.
Wielding the baton as musical director will be local music teacher Allan Kelman, while Ewan Campbell, who is already known to the society as co-owner of Utopia Costumes, takes over as director.
Both Allan and Ewan have brought their own particular skills to the production and, although neither had any real knowledge of the show before undertaki...
With a hearty laugh, Dr. Robert Ballard, world renowned oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, likes what he's seeing in north Phoenix.
It's Ballard's latest project, and sharing his discoveries has been worth the struggle. "I go to incredible places, but it's hard to take a lot of people with me," Ballard confided.
But now, from this state of the art command center at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale, Ballard's team has developed a real-time, interactive experience that will put hundreds of kids right on board ...
Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic – a ship widely heralded as “unsinkable” – struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Over the course of the next few hours, a great tragedy unfolded as weather, ice, the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship. In Night of the Titanic, now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium, experience the Titanic’s last day to discover what went wrong, and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future.
“If the Tit...
A collection of artifacts owned by a Titanic survivor — including a ticket for the ill-fated voyage — will be sold at a London auction later this month.
The collection also includes a pocket watch that reportedly stopped at the exact moment the ship sank in April 1912.
The items belonged to Lillian Asplund, the last American survivor of the disaster. She died in 2006 at the age of 99.
Asplund was 5 when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1,50...
Jill Nicolson loves history.
Her penchant for the past is now spilling over into her Torrington business, Cuisine with Jill. As host of many cooking classes and dining events, the chef decided to delve into history for an upcoming special occasion.
Specifically, she decided to recreate the last meal served on the RMS Titanic. On April 13, Nicolson will whip up an elegant, 10-course meal for guests, who will dine to the music played on that fateful night and share the table with actors dressed in period garb.
"History really intrigues me...
A SPECTACULAR Titanic themed event will be held to raise money for the RNLI.
The night will be hosted at St George’s hotel on Friday, April 18, during the week of the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The famous ship set sail from Belfast on April 2, 1912 and sank 13 days later.
A fantastic gala dinner has been organised and live music will be preformed by a local band.
A charity auction will be held with fantatic prizes including a luxury weekend break.
The chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society will speak in memory of th...
A collection of artifacts owned by a survivor of the Titanic is to be sold at auction this month.
The collection includes a ticket for the ill-fated voyage and a pocket watch reported to have stopped at the exact time the ship sank.
The items belonged to Lillian Asplund, the last American survivor of the disaster, who died in 2006, aged 99.
Asplund was 5 in April 1912, when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among 1,500 people who died.
The collection will be...
Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship’s maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner.
“The sinking of the Titanic was very personal to the port city of Galveston, and there are local people with direct ties to the disaster,” said John Zendt, general manager of Moody Gardens. “The main focus of this exhibit is about the ...
For the second year, ham radio operators around the world will participate in a special-event transmission to commemorate the 96th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic, originating from the Titanic museum in Branson.
Operators will transmit the news of the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic using special event call sign W0S.
The special call sign, WØS, stands for “White Star,” the name of the company that built the Titanic.
This year a group of 16 to 20 high school students, who recently passed their ham license exams, wil...
In an endeavour hopefully better fated than that of the “unsinkable ship”, the Harland & Wolff shipyard of Belfast are now building the world’s biggest tidal electricity generation system.
Named SeaGen, the 1.2 megawatt installation will generate power for over 1,000 homes using energy harvested from tides in Strangford Lough, east of Belfast.
Northern Ireland has considerable natural resources and although wind power has been Ireland’s primary source of renewable energy to date, tidal power generates more energy per acre than win...
When Lillian Asplund died in 2006 it was thought that she had taken her memories of the sinking of the Titanic with her. But a collection of personal items up for auction next month help piece together the story of a family tragedy.
At the time of her death she was known as the last remaining survivor of the Titanic who could remember the events of that fateful day in 1912. Lillian Asplund was five-years-old at the time and had refused to speak about the tragedy -- in which she lost her father and three brothers -- for the remaining 94 years o...
A collector who was selling a pocket watch found on the frozen body of the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic had a change of heart and cancelled the auction.
The watch, which had belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, was put up for sale on internet auction site eBay on March 13 with a starting bid of only $100 (£50).
With 36 hours to go, and bids having reached $23,000 (£11,500), East Grinstead collector Paul Thorpe, 48, cancelled all bids.
He said: "I have decided not to sell it for the moment because I had some...
Charles Cresson Jones penned a letter to his friend aboard the Titanic and posted it April 10, 1912 — the day the infamous ship began its maiden voyage to America. It was the disastrous events just four days later, however, that have given great value to his letter and other accompanying papers.
Jones was born Jan. 22, 1866, outside of Philadelphia, but at the time of his death aboard the Titanic he was residing in Bennington. He worked as superintendent of the vast Fillmore Farms, the 4,000-acre estate of the Colgate family, founders of the...
A Titanic victims pocket watch, which stopped as he breathed his last, is a part of the secret treasure from the tragedy that is maintained by his daughter.
Lillian Asplund, the last Titanic survivor with memories of the disaster, kept the timepiece, stuck at 2.19am.
Her collection also includes a ticket for the doomed voyage, one of only four left in the world.
Besides these, her collection also comprises poignant family photos and wedding rings.
After Lillians death, her collection is being auctioned by Titanic specialist auctioneers H...
Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRXI) today announced that it has acquired a leading full service entertainment merchandise company, MGR Entertainment. MGR Entertainment will serve as the in house merchandising agency responsible for developing an overall long term strategy for generating and maximizing sustainable retail revenue for Premier's current and future exhibition entities.
"The acquisition of MGR Entertainment is part of the Company's overall strategy to maximize retail elements and create a supplementary revenue stream for ou...
The moving story of one of the last survivors of the Titanic can be revealed for the first time after touching letters and documents were discovered after her death.
For 94 years Lillian Asplund refused to speak about the tragedy that claimed the lives of her father and three brothers.
Instead, the spinster kept the final moments of her family locked in her memory and the poignant possessions of her father Carl hidden in a shoebox in her bureau.
It was only after her death aged 99 the box was found along with the collection of Titanic-rel...
WHILE MOST boys his age would be out playing football, New Mills youngster Dale Ward has been spending his time in a more creative way.
Seven-year-old Dale Ward, of Greenfield Close, is fascinated with the Titanic and recently made a model of it out of Hama beads.
The St Mary's school pupil didn't have a pattern for his model and just used a picture on a book to copy the design of the ship, even including the windows, smoke from the chimneys and the sea.
Young Dale made his first bead model at the tender age of just five and has since gone ...
Belfast City Council is on the verge of investing £10m of ratepayers' money to co-fund a Titanic tourist attraction, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
Northern Ireland's biggest council is considering dipping into the public purse to help ensure the £90m Titanic Signature Project will be built by 2012 after it struggled to secure the final funding needed.
However, some members have voiced fears that the millions proposed to be taken from the public purse could be invested into a "potential white elephant".
The public/private p...
Perhaps no disaster had been revisited as much as has the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.
We are endlessly fascinated with the luxurious and doomed ocean liner that, for almost a century, has rested silently on the bottom the Atlantic.
In a preface to the book "Last Dinner Aboard the Titanic," author and historian Walter Lord wrote:
"The Titanic enchants us still. Proclaimed the largest ship in the world, widely touted as unsinkable, she hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage and went down, taking with her many of ...
Ninety-nine years ago Queens Island in Belfast, Northern Ireland was the world's busiest port. Every day thousands of workers showed up to the banks of the river Lagan to work jobs in the ship building industry. The area was booming with business, building the world's greatest cruise liner, The Titanic. Two huge, yellow Harland and Wolff cranes, known as Samson and Goliath, dominated the skyline. But on April 14, 1912 the Titanic fell to the bottom of the Atlantic and Northern Ireland's ship building industry went along with it.
As decades pa...
We're not exactly sure what's being celebrated with Geneva-based Romain Jerome's series of watches with Titanic-DNA – they’re all very high-end watch integrating real steel from the Titanic and the Harland and Wolff shipyard where it was built. After all, the Titanic’s sinking was one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history with 1500 lost souls. The Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its launching and was touted as both high tech and unsinkable, so its demise caused a massive adjustment in...
Titanic success of Belfast's bestTo some people, it must have seemed like tempting fate to name the next stage of Belfast's development the Titanic Quarter. That's because, to much of the world, that name is synonymous with disaster.
Not here, not now. The most famous product of the city's shipyard is rightly returning the status she held when she left us 96 years ago: a source of unadulterated pride.
For the best part of a century, our attitude to the Titanic has ranged from the defensive to the apologetic; mumbling our way through explanations of why blame for the appalli...
The Titanic drawing offices are to be unveiled to the public today, unlocking the secrets of the world's most famous ship.
The former offices in the old main Harland & Wolff building on Queen's Road will give a unique insight into the history of the ill-fated liner.
The building, which was the hub of the H&W empire, is not usually open to the public, but courtesy of Titanic Quarter Ltd, visitors will get the chance to view a real piece of Titanic history never seen before.
The drawing offices gave rise to the inception and creatio...
A pocket watch found on the body of the last victim of the Titanic to be recovered has been put up for sale.
The item, which belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, hopes to attract bidders on the internet auction website eBay.
The 20-year-old, who later moved to Southampton, was one of more than 1,500 victims of the 1912 disaster.
A crew badge belonging to Mr Mullin was sold at auction for £28,000 nearly four years ago.
The watch has a white face but has lost both its hands and is damaged beyond repair.
It comes with a certi...
Premier Exhibitions Inc. has inked a 10-year deal with Las Vegas-based Luxor Resort & Casino to build an exhibition complex to show the controversial "Bodies... The Exhibition" and "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition."
Financial terms were not disclosed. The lease also includes renewal options for another 10-year period.
Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions (NASDAQ: PRXI) said the 50,000-square-foot exhibition space will feature an all-new Titanic exhibition with at least one themed bar and restaurant; a "Photo Op&qu...
TELEGRAMS revealing how a Dorchester farmer was caught up in the drama of the Titanic come up for auction next month.
The cables were wired across the Atlantic in the aftermath of the disaster as farmer James Foot waited anxiously to find out the fate of his friend Charles Jones, who sailed on the liner shortly after the pair clinched a sale of sheep.
The eight telegrams were found in an envelope along with newspaper cuttings of the sinking and a White Star Line card written by Mr Jones and posted the day that the Titanic sailed from Southamp...
LIFE couldn’t have been better for businessman Charles Jones as he returned to the US after a successful trip to Britain.
He summed up his contentment in a letter to his English friend James Foot: “Just had lunch and a cigar and feel fine.”
But the letter on headed White Star Line notepaper was written in April 1912 as Mr Jones was sailing home on the Titanic.
Within days, he was among the 1,500 who perished when the liner was sunk by an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
The poignant despatch has been found in documents hidden away for mo...
Sean Mabe has a name for the tiny attic room where he lives his life. "I call it Mabe's shipyards," says the 40-year-old disabled man, who sits on his quilt-covered bed, surrounded by structures he is in the process of creating.
A cardboard spaceship in the corner is what Mabe calls a "two-day build." An airplane he holds up took about an afternoon. But in the middle of his attic apartment on Binghamton's North Side, where he lives with his two cats and a whole lot of cardboard, is a creation of an altogether different scal...
RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRXI), announced today that it will produce Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the newly developed Titanic Hall, in Brno, Czech Republic. The Exhibition opens today.
Appearing for the first time in the Czech Republic, this Blockbuster Exhibition, already seen by more than twenty million visitors, will present a vast collection of more than 300 artifacts dramatically rescued from the ocean floor.
"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition reflects the impact the hi...
Nearly a century ago, 15-year-old Anne McGowan sat freezing in a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic. Her aunt, Katherine McGowan, was dead more than 2 miles below with the wreckage of the Titanic as young Anne waited for a rescue ship to arrive.
"She said by the time the Carpathia finally arrived, her eyes were bleeding from the salt and the cold," Eileen Kapolnek said. "She could remember the screams too."
As Kapolnek helps kick off the St. Patrick's Day Parade Saturday, she will remember the courage her great-grandm...
THE Manx Operatic Society has announced it will perform Titanic The Musical in March 2009.
It will be another Island premier by the society which believes in trying to bring the best in musical theatre to the Isle of Man and constantly challenging its members new and old with the diversity of its productions.
Titanic is based on the true story of the great ship's doomed maiden voyage, from departure in Southampton, England, to the sinking in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.
The story follows passengers and the crew members who actual...
A WORCESTER drama group rehearsing for the hit musical Titanic has found that two of its members have family connections with the ill-fated liner which struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912.
One backstage member with Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society (WODS) lost a relative in the disaster, while another is married to a woman whose grandfather designed the silverware that graced tables in the liner's a-la-carte restaurant.
Gill Saunders, of Battenhall Road, Worcester, says Henry John Spinner,...
Everything about the Titanic was immense, so it should come as no shock that the Titanic exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum in 2007 left a record economic impact in its wake.
The exhibit generated more than $30.2 million during its six-month run and led to the creation of 742 full-time jobs, according to an economic impact report released yesterday.
That $30-million figure overshadows the museum's second-largest featured exhibit, 1999's Leonardo da Vinci show, which attracted $16.1 million in incremental income -- spending by visitors who came ...
A new television film about the sinking of a Nazi ship carrying thousands of German refugees at the end of World War Two has lifted the lid on one of Germany's most painful memories.
The film, to be broadcast on Sunday and Monday, tells the story of the former Nazi cruise ship "Wilhelm Gustloff", torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on Jan. 30, 1945. As many as 9,300 people died -- believed to be biggest loss of life on a single ship.
Yet the tale of the Gustloff, which has frequently been referred to as Germany's Titan...
Sean Mabe has a name for the tiny attic room where he lives his life. "I call it Mabe's shipyards," says the 40-year-old disabled man, who sits on his quilt-covered bed, surrounded by structures he is in the process of creating.
A cardboard spaceship in the corner is what Mabe calls a "two-day build." An airplane he holds up took about an afternoon. But in the middle of his attic apartment on Binghamton's North Side, where he lives with his two cats and a whole lot of cardboard, is a creation of an altogether different scal...
I read with interest the comments of Michael Graham (Write Back, February 15) regarding the work which is presently taking place at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast.
He rejects the assertion that it is all talk and no action.
Sadly, he is blatantly ignoring the fact that the biggest regeneration project in Northern Ireland's history is no more than a glorified residential and business venture.
After all, Titanic Quarter is a Dublin-based development company which will make millions from residential development while dumbing down the historic...
An exhibition telling the story of Titanic's birth in Belfast has opened at W5 in the Odyssey Arena.
The Titanic: Designed and Built in Belfast exhibition journeys into the past through the lens of RJ Welch, the official photographer at Harland & Wolff where the liner was built.
The new exhibition, developed with Belfast City Council for the 2008 Titanic Made in Belfast festival, opens tomorrow.
Photographs show the scale of the shipyard, the conditions the men worked in and the variety of crafts that led to the design and building of s...
People across Ireland are being called to tell their tales and memories of the Titanic.
The Belfast Titanic Convention wants historians and maritime fans to become part of the centennial celebrations to mark the launch of the vessel in 1911.
Although the story of the Titanic has been told many times across the world, the convention wants to compile an Irish angle on the ship, which was built in Belfast and sailed from Cobh.
The anniversary of the sinking of the stricken vessel will be marked in April, 2012.
Dick Mackenzie, chairman of the c...
When you want to find out about a profession, sometimes it's best to go straight to the expert.
It was 1985 when underwater explorer Robert Ballard made his discovery of the Titanic shipwreck and Kris Ludwig was growing up in Colorado.
Four years later, a 12-year-old Ludwig wrote a letter to Ballard, seeking information about becoming an oceanographer.
To her surprise, he replied.
It was the start of a lifelong mentorship and, eventually, a friendship.
Ballard remembers it was Ludwig's enthusiasm and passion to follow the same career path ...
Remember the Titanic? The movie, sure, who doesn't? But how about the big Titanic exhibit that came to St. Paul's Union Depot in the winter of 1999? (Big Titanic exhibit. How's that for a redundant phrase?)
About 400,000 people trekked to downtown St. Paul to see artifacts dredged up from the shipwreck at the bottom of the sea, from plates and clothing, to playing cards and razors. Plus a 20-foot section of the hull.
And in what was supposed to be a history-making exercise, they blew the ship's whistle for three seconds one fine February morn...
The iceberg struck at 11.40pm on April 14, 1912, and less than three hours later the unthinkable had happened – the largest vessel afloat, the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic, had gone nose down to the bottom of the Atlantic.
The luxury liner was equipped with barely half the lifeboats needed for the 2,228 people aboard for her maiden voyage from Southampton, and only 705 had survived when the nearest ship, the Carpathia, steamed to the rescue at 4am on April 15.
Manning his vital post on the Titanic to the last was a Surrey man who sacrificed ...
The Ilion Central School production of “Titanic, the Musical” will kick off Music in Our Schools Month this weekend, getting a jump start on the national celebration of music in education which runs throughout March.
Opening night is Thursday at 7 p.m. at the high school, with performances also on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Director Mark Bunce said after 10 weeks of rehearsals the cast and crew are more than ready to recreate what it was like to be on the fateful ship.
What began as studying facts and researching characters, wh...
The iceberg season has begun, at least for the International Ice Patrol.
The U.S. Coast Guard's annual hunt for ocean-going bits of glaciers drifting through Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland started with the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago.
It continues with air reconnaissance patrols over 500,000 square miles of the North Atlantic, looking for icebergs that pose a threat to international shipping lanes.
“We draw the limit of all known ice,” said Cmdr. Scott Rogerson, head of the ice patrol based in Groton, Conn.
“We have had report...
People across Ireland are being called to tell their tales and memories of the Titanic.
The Belfast Titanic Convention wants historians and maritime fans to become part of the centenary celebrations to mark the launch of the vessel in 1911.
Although the Titanic story has been told many times across the world, the Convention wants to compile an Irish angle on the ship which was built in Belfast and sailed from Cobh. The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the stricken vessel will be marked in April 2012.
Source: Art on the high seas
SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.
A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic.
It has been represented in many films and TV documentaries about the disaster. Thomas Andrews, the Titanic’s designer and a hero of the tragedy, was last seen staring fixedly at the painting, awaiting his fate.
Shortly afterward...
The world's most famous ocean liner, the Titanic, is to be commemorated and celebrated once again - on water and land.
Throughout the month of March, a series of special tours will bring the story of Titanic - and the people who built her back to life.
Bus and boat tours will explore the Belfast of the Titanic era, telling the story of the mighty vessel and her two sisters ships, Olympic and Britannic.
The bus tours will leave from Belfast City Hall at 11am and 2pm each Saturday and Sunday throughout March - with daily tours operating at ...
Melissa Buchner adjusted her black pillbox hat on her head and smoothed the skirt of her dainty black gown.
David Ricci, 9, imagined himself as an early 20th century traveler to Vineland.
And their third-grade classmates debated who would survive their hypothetical trip across the Atlantic in the doomed ship Titanic.
It turned out that Melissa and David were two of the lucky ones.
"We were studying disaster," explained Valerie Myerson, a teacher at St. Mary's Regional School, of how her students spent all day Friday imagining th...
A tour of titanic proportions will be running all through March as Belfast City Council commemorates the world's most famous 'accursed' ocean liner, the Belfast-built Titanic.
Bus and boat tours will explore a Belfast of the 'Titanic' era, telling the story of the mighty ship and taking in all of the key locations associated with the Titanic story, including the drawing offices, where the plans for ‘Titanic’ were developed, the slipway where ‘Titanic' slid mightily into the sea for the first time, and the Thompson Dry Dock and Pump House...
The public is invited to board the world's largest museum attraction, the Titanic in Branson, for an evening of fun and food to benefit southwest Missouri's foster children through Court Appointed Special Advocates from 6:30 to 10 p.m. March 8. The Titanic Museum is at 3235 W. Missouri 76 in Branson. Tickets are $75.
The gala will feature a meal served by Touch Restaurant, a live string quartet on the promenade deck, an open bar, costumed crew servers and a tour of the priceless artifacts and galleries inside the Titanic. Guests may wear perio...
The former archivist for Mariners' Museum in Newport News and his wife allegedly sold items taken from the museum and sold them on eBay.
Lester F. Weber, 46, and Lori E. Childs, 49, were in U.S. District Tuesday, accused of selling more than 1,400 items, including documents from a Titanic survivor, for more than $162,000.
According to the indictment, the sales were done on eBay from January 2002 through September 2006.
The RMS Titanic items were part of Aks Collection bought by the museum for $80,000, according to the U.S. Attorney.
The ...
Up until about two months ago, it seemed that 65-year-old British composer Gavin Bryars had practically done it all. From co-founding the deliberately ragtag Portsmouth Sinfonia to creating the found-sound wonder of 'Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet,' Bryars, who's been called everything from neoclassic to post-minimalist to avant-ambient, has had an enviable career. He’s been idolized by Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, and nearly everyone in between. After ten major works in 2006, Bryars remains as prolific as ever, and shows no signs of...
Titanic work going wellRecently (Friday, February 1) Jude Collins in his article in the Belfast Telegraph complained that Northern Ireland was all talk and no action, citing, as an example, "delays" at Titanic Quarter. I must admit to being somewhat surprised by the assertion.
Leaving aside extensive remedial and clearance works (including the realignment of the Queen's Road), building work of Phase One at Titanic Quarter has been ongoing for quite a while.
Over 200 construction workers are currently completing the Arc residential development and the 120...
ROMAN Jeromea's strong point is its innovation and enterprise and needless to say, each of its pieces on display at the Doha Watches and Jewellery Exhibition has a story or two to unveil to its potential buyers.
The top-end brand has won the trust of a number of affluent customers of the region, offering features that few others could match.
Aiming at the high-end connoisseurs, this time the company has launched a rarity in Titanic-DNA, which could perhaps be one of the most talked about models at the ongoing event.
Manufactured, using the st...
A 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy from Kemi named Waltteri Seretin noticed last August that the images presented by the Reuters news agency, purporting to show the Finnish-built MIR-1 and MIR-2 submersibles during a recent Russian scientific expedition to the seabed below the North Pole, were actually borrowed from James Cameron's movie Titanic (1997).
In its piece on the subject, two of the four Reuters pictures were from the Titanic filming.
The images were picked up by numerous media outlets around the world, Helsingin Sanomat among th...
Among the options for lovers celebrating Valentine's Day this year, a "ticket to Titanic," created by a Chinese college student, is a novel idea.
"The tickets were printed off according to the ones given as souvenirs when you buy the DVD of the movie 'Titanic'," Wang Li, a sophomore, told the Modern Express.
He said he came up with the idea after seeing the tragic romance yet again during the Chinese New Year holiday.
"With the ticket, Jack changed his life and met his true love," Wang noted. "The ticket sy...
FIFTEEN years have passed since Michael Sweeney and the late Joe Dillon approached Noel Kirrane about becoming involved with Ballinrobe Musical Society. They met in the golf club, Kirrane said 'Why not?', and 'My Fair Lady' was his first show. The Ballindine native has been involved ever since, and was honoured with life membership of the society three years ago. “I’m like de Valera at this stage,” he says with a laugh. “Once they put him in, they couldn’t get him out!”
This year’s production, currently in the middle of an eight-...
Ralph Bradshaw White, who documented the 1985 discovery of the sunken Titanic, then returned to the bottom of the ocean more than 30 times to film and recover artifacts from the ill-fated vessel, died Feb. 4 at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. He was 66.
White died from complications of an aortic aneurysm, said his daughter, Krista Few of Yokosuka, Japan.
The public received an up-close look at the wreckage site through images White captured. His footage appears in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film "Titanic" and in "Ti...
Musicians across the world could contribute thousands of pounds to a Belfast songwriting festival by bidding on the internet for a one-off guitar depicting the Titanic .
Avalon Guitars, whose instruments have been used by some of music's biggest names, such as Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and David Gray, have created the guitar celebrating Belfast's shipbuilding heritage with the image of the liner.
The Avalon Belfast guitar is being auctioned to help finance the five-day Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival which takes place later thi...
If there is one event in the year that the Irwin grandchildren of Lindsay look forward to, it is the annual visit of "Uncle Howard" - Howard Irwin, of New Jersey. Every year for more years than he would care to count, Mr. Irwin has spent his annual vacation with his mother. Mrs. Robert Irwin, who lives with her son, Claude, on the family homestead, just off the No. 7 highway, about a mile west of Lindsay.
Uncle Howard is at home with his mother at the present time, and this is a very special year, for Mrs. Irwin will be 90 in Septem...
A RETIRED draughtsman has spent two and half years constructing a detailed model of the Titanic, which is now on display at Nantwich Museum.
Frank Wilson, aged 80, from Nantwich constructed the model ship from parts that came in a publication in the Daily Mail's weekly magazine supplement.
There were 100 parts in total to collect, and each week Frank made his way to W.H Smith's in town to pick up a further instalment of the magazine.
The publication, Build the Titanic, also gave facts about the model and the ill-fated ship which famously san...
Within the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on Sunday, February 17, 2008 are five lots of ephemera related to the infamous British luxury passenger liner RMS Titanic. Crowned jewel of the White Star Liner at the time, the vessel sunk during its maiden voyage in the early hours of April 15, 1912. Nearly 96-years later, the Titanic disaster, mythology and items surrounding the tragic event have continued to fascinate millions.
Among the offerings at Bonhams are wreckage and recovery items, including: a piece of...
Having started to build the world's three largest ships in 1907, the Titanic, Olympic and Britannic, at the other end of the century it looked as if Belfast would win the race to build the first one million ton supertanker. This is our secret history.
Ships would help fund the economic aspirations of the new state of Northern Ireland, but the story also mirrors the depressions and slumps that spread intense misery throughout Europe.
Ships were Belfast's coal- mines, providing employment and incomes, but at a cost. They would hurl Northern I...
Valentine’s Day will be celebrated for 29 days in February at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Branson, Missouri.
Among the original passengers, at least 12 couples were honeymooning aboard Titanic, many celebrating their first journey as newlyweds on the ship’s own maiden voyage. Now, sweethearts everywhere can experience pure romance, beauty and elegance on the world’s only full-sized replica of Titanic’s original Grand Staircase.
With a reservation and the price of admission, guests can make arrangements to propose marriage, announ...
The 2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention will take place from 27-29 March 2008 at the W5 in Belfast, Northern Ireland overlooking the slipway for the Titanic.
Following a successful inaugural convention that included delegates from Scandinavia, the USA as well as the Republic of Ireland and the UK, 2008 will feature world renowned Titanic expert G Michael Harris, tours of Titanic heritage sights(sic) in Belfast, ex-shipyard workers sharing their experiences and a gala dinner at the Belfast Harbour Commissioners.
The delegates will experience...
Ulster's Iraq War desert hero, Tim Collins, is set to take telly viewers on a voyage of discovery - about the world-shaping history of Belfast shipbuilding.
For the former Royal Irish Regiment commander is putting people in the picture about the remarkable history of the vessels built at Harland & Wolff in a new BBC One Northern Ireland series.
Tim, whose inspirational speech to his troops in the Kuwait desert in 2003 won the praise of Prince Charles and President George Bush, tells how the Ulster company revolutionised maritime history...
Martina Devlin, author of Ship of Dreams, had a family connection with the Titanic, which sank shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912 when it hit an iceberg. The largest steamer in the world took with her the lives of 1,500 people. But what was to happen to those who escaped?
Martina was inspired to write this book when she stumbled across the passenger list for the Titanic. A name and address leapt out at her, that of Thomas O'Brien of Bonavie, County Limerick. Martina's grandmother Josie English, nee O'Brien, came from Bonavie. Further in...
THE proposed multi-million-pound Southampton Heritage Centre will put the city back on the map, tourist chiefs believe.
As exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo yesterday, plans have been drawn up to transform the west wing of Southampton's iconic Civic Centre into a museum celebrating the city's history.
A three-storey glass extension at the north-west wing of the home of the city council - built across reclaimed park land - is the centrepiece of the ambitious vision.
Council leisure chiefs are desperate for the heritage centre to open in ...
In addition to being a fan of all things related to Toronto's past, I also have a fascination with the all-too-brief life of the RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic.
So when the Ontario Science Centre announced some months ago it was presenting "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition" and would include amongst those artifacts a selection of old Toronto streetcar tickets, they had me hooked.
I had not been to the Science Centre since its opening back in 1969 and had forgotten just how big the place is. I do remember, however, that the place ...
The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 continues to fascinate people and one man is remembered as the shining hero of the rescue operation – Captain Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia.
The Titanic hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage to America and sent out frantic distress signals as she began to sink. More than 1,500 people were to die in the icy waters.
Harold Cottam, the wireless operator on the Carpathia, left his headset on while dressing for bed – in those days there wasn’t 24-hour radio cover. He heard the distress si...
A Lindsay native's personal belongings lost at sea are one of the main focal points of a Titanic Exhibit currently on display in Toronto. The irony is that although Harold Irwin's luggage was on board the Titanic, he wasn't.
In 1910 Irwin decided to leave town and set out on a journey to discover the world with his good friend, Henry Sutehall.
The young men hitched rides, stowed away in boxcars and even met a few of the era's most notorious people, such as author Jack London, communist Vladimir Lenin and India's spiritual leader Mahatma Gan...
The first set of commemorative stamps marking the 96th anniversary of the Titanic have been designed.
The collectable First Class stamps have been produced by the Titanic Heritage Trust in conjunction with Royal Mail and will be the first in the 'White Star History' series being rolled out every year from now until 2012 - the centenary of Titanic's maiden voyage.
Each sheet in the first series includes five RMS Titanic 'The Fourth Funnel' and five 'SS Nomadic The Farewell' stamps.
The images are taken from fine art paintings by Belfast ar...
The Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition currently running at Swansea Museum in Victoria Road has been named in Britain's top five by The Times newspaper. It's the only exhibition in Wales to have made the cut.
Thousands of visitors have been to see Titanic Honour and Glory since it was unveiled in October.
And anyone looking to catch a glimpse of the exhibition has just over a month left with the exhibits due to be packed away on March 2.
The Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition depicts the story and tragedy of the giant vessel that sank on A...
RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. has entered into an agreement to present Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Moody Gardens Discovery Museum in Galveston, Texas. The Exhibition will open on January 26th for a limited engagement.
"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will be a great addition to the Moody Gardens experience, adding more opportunities for education in history and science," said John Zendt, General Manager of Moody Gardens. "We are happy to bring this opportunity to our guest...
When he takes to the stage to play a passenger on the doomed cruise liner Titanic, nine-year-old Jack Daly's thoughts might turn to his own family - he is related to one of the victims of the so-called 'unsinkable' ship.
After the St Thomas More Middle School pupil won a part in a musical about the tragic ship, he was amazed to discover the story of his own great-great-grandfather's cousin, who was on the boat when it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank.
But Jack's character in the musical performed by the Norfolk and Norwich Operati...
AS PART of the forthcoming Pendle Beer Festival, Colne Heritage Centre will be exhibiting a display depicting the story of the Titanic and Wallace Hartley.
Martyn Pashley, festival organiser, said: "The theme of this year's festival is 'All At Sea' and features beers with a nautical link. We were delighted when Christine Bradley of Colne Heritage Centre suggested a display of information about the Titanic and Wallace Hartley, one of Colne's great heroes."
He said: "For people visiting Colne, the display gives them a real unders...
Charles Haas's fascination with ocean liners began when he looked over New York Harbor from the windows of his grandfather's office at a stevedoring company. One day his grandfather lent him a copy of "A Night to Remember," an account of the April 15, 1912, sinking of the British ocean liner Titanic.
The story of how the ship struck an iceberg off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, losing 1,523 passengers and crew, captured Haas's imagination for a lifetime.
Now a retired Randolph High School English and journalism teacher, Haas remai...
THE last living survivor of the Titanic will be giving a rare talk about how the fateful event shaped her life.
Millvina Dean, will be speaking on April 11, three days before the 96th anniversary of the sinking at The Turner Sims concert hall as part of a three-day programme of events organised by Southampton City Council to remember the disaster.
The 96-year-old recently hit out at the BBC's Christmas Day Doctor Who episode depicting the liner as a spaceship colliding with the Tardis as "disrespectful to the dead".
She said: "...
A piece of Toronto transit history went on display today at the Ontario Science Centre, tying the city to one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century: the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic.
A dozen 5¢ Toronto streetcar tickets dredged up from the famous shipwreck, which lies on the bottom of the north Atlantic nearly four kilometres beneath the surface, will be part of the science centre’s Titanic exhibit, along with dozens of other personal belongings from the more than 1,500 passengers and crew who died when the huge liner struck a...
The official commemoration of the 96th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy will go ahead as planned, Belfast City Council has said.
A service is held at the Titanic memorial at the City Hall every April to remember the 34 NI victims.
The council is due to consider an application to extend the popular Big Wheel's stay in Belfast.
However, it said that this would not affect the annual commemoration marking the 1912 sinking of the Titanic.
"Although we are supporting the extension of the wheel's stay, this will in no way affect the orga...
TITANIC devotees said yesterday that they will hold Belfast City Council to its word to ensure future memorials to the ocean liner's victims are able to continue without the hindrance of Belfast's Big Wheel.
The Belfast Titanic Society was concerned when news that the success of the wheel could result in its stay being extended past the original March deadline, because a Titanic memorial is surrounded by the wheel.
Una Reilly, chairman of the society, said however that the council had informed them that though the wheel will stay beyond March...
Looking for a break from the steady stream of Christmas-themed movies and music that tend to dominate the holidays?
Well, what's more different than that famous Atlantic Ocean shipwreck roughly 400 miles off of Newfoundland, otherwise known as the Titanic?
The University of South Carolina Beaufort, along with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, is presenting "Tales from Titanic" at 1:30 p.m. Friday.
In 1998, 86 years after the luxury ocean liner sank into its watery grave, a team of salvagers scoured the wreckage for artifact...
The Experience," once an International Drive staple, has new quarters at the Orlando Science Center. It's a move forward for the exhibit, which has entrenched itself in a 1912 mind-set.
Tour guides - who are part actor, part historian - are costumed in period garb and assume the persona of an actual passenger of this famed, ill-fated ocean liner.
"They don't break character," says G. Michael Harris, president/creator of the exhibit and noted explorer of Titanic wreckage. "That's one of the biggest differences in our exhibi...
In August 2005, BBC Newsline's Mike McKimm travelled on a Russian research ship, The Keldysh, to a location in the North Atlantic. From there, he travelled two-and-a-half miles down in an MIR submarine into the freezing, pitch-black waters on a mission to lay a plaque at the final resting place of Titanic. Mike's reports featured on BBC Newsline over a series of nights and were then made into a special TV documentary, ‘A Journey to Remember’.
On this website from BBC NI Learning, Titanic Journey, you can take the same journey and learn a...
It's been 20 years since the world's probably most famous manned submersibles MIR-1 and MIR-2 made their first deep-sea dives. For decades to come the vehicles were destined to become part of some sensational expeditions.
The vehicles became known all over the globe when the director of the world famous feature-film ‘Titanic’, James Cameron, showed pictures taken at a depth of more than 3800 meters in the North Atlantic, precisely where the legendary ocean liner is resting.
And in August 2007, Russian explorers reached the bottom of th...
The company that has recovered more than 5,000 artifacts from the Titanic wants a federal judge to award it $100 million to pay the costs of salvaging and maintaining most of the pieces.
U.S. District Judge Rebecca B. Smith ordered federal prosecutors in October to keep a close eye on the firm, RMS Titanic, Inc., to ensure that the artifacts from the sunken ocean liner are preserved "as an international treasure for posterity."
Smith ruled that the company is not entitled to keep the 3,700 artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck, but ca...
Almost a century after it sank on its maiden voyage to America, the Titanic still captures the imagination of people worldwide.
But, did you know that Sunderland has several links to the doomed vessel?
The ship's electric winches were supplied by Sunderland Forge and Engineering Company, while Wearside man James Allen was onboard.
Although born in Southampton, James married a Sunderland girl and had been living on Wearside for five years before the doomed voyage.
He gave up his job as a checker at the newly-opened Empire Theatre to sign on ...
Premier Exhibitions, Inc. today announced that it has signed a consultant agreement with Sponsorship Resources to develop national sponsorship and marketing programs for its traveling exhibitions; BODIES ... The Exhibition, Bodies Revealed and Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.
"Sponsorship Resources will assist with the development of an integrated sponsorship program that engages corporate America to capitalize on the success of our exhibition properties," states Bruce Eskowitz, President and CEO of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. "O...
World-renowned diver John Chatterton has been involved in many high-profile shipwrecks, but it was his work diving at the site of the Titanic that brought him to Berwick Academy.
On Thursday morning, sixth-graders in Susan Morris' science class could not stop asking questions of Chatterton as he recounted his adventures diving for the famous ship.
"You could go anywhere in the world and they know about Titanic," Chatterton said.
"Literally, my wife and I were motorcycling through a very remote region of India — dirt roads, n...
Was it human hubris or flawed design that sank the "unsinkable" luxury liner the "Titanic" on its maiden voyage, killing 1,500 people out of the 2,200 on board, the world's most famous maritime disaster?
Answer: Blame it on a little pride and a lot of bad engineering, says Adam Weiner in "Don't Try This at Home: The Physics of Hollywood Movies." The ship had design innovations that theoretically should have made it safer, such as the hull's 16 separate buoyant compartments divided by watertight doors. It was toute...
RMS Titanic, Inc. ("RMST"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. today announced that it has filed a motion for an interim salvage award with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division (the "Court") docket number: 2:93-cv-00902. Pursuant to this motion, RMST seeks compensation for its efforts to date in recovering over 3500 artifacts from the wreck of the RMS Titanic during its expeditions conducted in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2004. RMST filed its motion ...
Riddle of the mirrors from tragic TitanicSALVAGE experts are trying to find out if mirrors discovered buried in mud in a Southampton junkyard were destined for the stricken Titanic.
The mirrors were discovered buried at a yard where surplus stock from liners, said to be supplied by prestigious Liverpool china and glassware company Stonier & Co, ended up.
Officials are now appealing for more information about the 52, 18ins-wide mirrors.
They are intrigued over local tales they were meant to be installed in the Titanic before its ill-fated voyage across the Atlantic.
One Liverpo...
Exploration is not a thing of the past. That was the message imparted by Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreckage of the Titanic, to a group of sixth-graders at Walker Upper Elementary School on Monday morning.
“Your generation is going to make baffling discoveries, so get on with it,” he encouraged the students.
Ballard, who founded the JASON Project, was in town to speak at a benefit luncheon for the Public Education Fund of Charlottesville-Albemarle, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the quality of tea...
ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.
Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death.
With her death in Cornwall aged 96 the only remaining Titanic passenger left alive is 95-year-old Milvina Dean who lives in Woodlands, near Southampton.
Born in Bournemouth, Dorset, Mrs West Dainto...
As a 10-week-old baby she was the youngest person to escape the Titanic, lowered overboard in a sack.
Now, aged 95, Millvina Dean has become the last survivor of the disaster that killed 1,500 people, including her father.
In April 1912 Millvina, her two-year-old brother, dad Bertram, 27, and mum Ettie, 32, had set off from Southampton for a new life in Kansas. She recalled: "We booked on another liner but owing to a coal strike transferred to Titanic." She has no memory of the tragedy but Ettie told her how deep below deck Bertram ...
The artifacts alone would be reason enough to welcome Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition's return engagement to the Arizona Science Center.
There's the massive steel door that first-class passengers entered to board the "unsinkable" ship that fateful night in 1912, the ruins of a chandelier that hung above their heads in the exclusive first-class restaurant, personal items ranging from hair-tonic bottles to jewelry to toothpaste containers, and dishes arranged as divers found them on the ocean floor, like dominoes in the sand.
But th...
Egyptian mummies, dinosaurs, the Mars Rover and the Titanic are just some of the things you'll find at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
The museum is located at 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, right next to the zoo. It creates an interactive world of learning cleverly disguised as entertainment. Visitors can walk through a Jurassic swamp, climb through the human body, control robots in space and see history brought to life.
"I like the exhibits where you can see the (stuffed) wildlife from different parts of the world," sai...
A British-led team of technical divers has successfully completed a survey of the Titanic's rescue ship, the Carpathia, which lies at 160m in the north Atlantic. The team, led by Ric Waring and including Rich Stevenson and Jeff Cornish, penetrated the wreck situated 200 miles from the Irish Coast.
RMS Carpathia was on her way to the Mediterranean on the night of 14 April 1912 when it received the Titanic's SOS call. Negotiating 58 miles of iceberg-strewn water, the liner recovered 712 survivors. Six years later a German U-boat sank her.
The...
The SS Nomadic, the ship which ferried passengers to the Titanic, is to leave its berth close to Belfast city centre.
The tender will be removed on Wednesday from Queen's Quay to Barnett's Dock for maintenance ahead of her planned move to dry dock before the end of the year.
Nomadic became a familiar sight since opening to the public at Easter and has attracted more than 18,000 visitors.
It will close for restoration work this winter but will re-open as a visitor attraction next year.
The boat, built in 1911, was in storage in Le Havre, ...
Premier Exhibitions, Inc. Wants Salvage Award for Titanic Efforts
Premier Exhibitions, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary RMS Titanic, Inc. ("RMST"), announced that it will move the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division for a salvage award as compensation for its recovery efforts to date in recovering approximately 3700 artifacts from the wreck of the RMS Titanic during its expeditions conducted in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2004. The motion for a salvage award has no bearing ...
RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. , has entered into an agreement to present Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Arizona Science Center. The Exhibition is scheduled to open on November 10th for a limited engagement.
Returning, due to popular demand, the new version of this record-setting Exhibition will include more than 260 artifacts not previously seen in Arizona, as well as fully constructed replicas of Titanic's first and third class cabins and Verandah cafe.
"In 2002, Titanic: The Artifact...
We had enjoyed 'Titanic' the movie so much that we had made up our mind to visit the house of Margaret Tobin Brown, the woman who inspired the character of Molly Brown, when we visited Pennsylvania this summer.
Reaching the place was not a problem. At the 17th street in Pennsylvania, everyone seemed to know about the famous house, identifiable from a distance because of its Victorian architecture.
The entry hall showcases Margaret's black moor statues. From here, a staircase takes you to the upper chambers. The parlour, the dining room, the ...
When the owners of the defunct Mercado entertainment center on International Drive pulled the plug on the Titanic -- The Experience show last summer, it was unclear what would happen to the long-running memorial to the ill-fated ocean liner.
But the show's owners have found a temporary home for the exhibit at the Orlando Science Center, where Titanic will replace the outgoing exhibit, Our Body: The Universe Within. Titanic is expected to reopen at the East Princeton Street center next month and remain there through 2008.
Titanic's owners are ...
A lot has been written about the Titanic. In fact, it might seem that there’s nothing else to write about it. But then, surprise, it seems that there was a pig on board the ship — a true story.
Sasha Nelson, assistant librarian for children’s services at the Moffat County Library, left this week’s picture book for me at the library’s front desk. “Pig on the Titanic: A True Story” was written by Gary Crew with pictures by Bruce Whatley.
Maxixe, the pig, is white-gray colored and has a curly tail. He also has a cute grin, and his ...
Have you ever pondered what it was like to be a passenger on the Titanic?
Sulphur resident Katharine Butt-Barbier has. In fact, she grew up hearing stories of Major Archibald Butt, her seventh cousin once removed who helped women and children board lifeboats when the ship sank in April 1912.
Butt didn't survive the accident. He was a military war correspondent serving in both the Philippines and Cuba before becoming a personal aide to Presidents William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt and Taft eventually had a dispute leaving Butt cau...
News today that the Titanic Signature Project is not to receive money from the Big Lottery Fund is indeed a bitter blow. But it need not be a mortal one.
The signature project is a bold and visionary statement that will connect the city of yesteryear with the Belfast that all of us are building for tomorrow.
The failure to win through to the next round of the Big Lottery's Living Landmarks programme, worth £25 million, will doubtless deflate the many people who have toiled so valiantly to get the project to where it is today.
However, key...
TITANIC buffs are set to make a new 'voyage of discovery' to the legendary liner's final resting place - thanks to a new online education website.
For BBC Northern Ireland has just launched a new 'Learning' website - with internet explorers able to take a journey to the bottom of the sea and learn more about the Belfast-born ocean liner, which sank in April 1912.
The jewel in the treasure trove of information on the Titanic Journey site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/titanic