Discovery Of Titanic

On 1st July, 1985, a combined collection of scientists from Woods Hole Deep Submergence Lab (D.S.L.), Massachusetts, led by Dr. Robert Ballard and the French Institute Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation des Mers (I.F.R.E.M.E.R.), led by Jean Jarry, prepared to locate the wreck of Titanic. Armed with practically the most sophisticated equipment ever to set …

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Titanic’s Band

Titanic’s popular and well-respected bandleader, Wallace Hartley, was no stranger to the oceans, or the big liners that crossed them, having previously been the bandleader on the rival Cunard line’s quadruple-funneled sister ships Lusitania and Mauretania, but the lure of playing on the biggest and most decadent ship in the world, and playing to the richest and …

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