The statue here on the left is the Titanic Women’s Memorial, and it was erected in Washington, D.C. in Rock Creek Park. The statue was designed by Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbuilt Whitney, and depicts a partially-clad male figure, facing East. The face is said to resemble her brother, who coincidentally died on the Lusitania. It was unveiled on 26th May …
The original Titanic Musicians Memorial was unveiled on 19th April, 1913, and was located in Southampton library. It bore the dedication, but the library, along with the memorial, were destroyed during World War Two, and for over forty years, Southampton was without a tribute to the heroic members of the ship’s band. The replica Memorial that now sits on the same site …
Many of the bodies recovered in the days and weeks after the sinking were sadly never identified, although many have been tentatively identified in the 90 years since the disaster, using information and personal effects collected from the body, such as hair colour, height, quality of clothing, country of origin of currency, etc. But this …
This fountain memorial was built to commemorate the couple who founded Macy’s Department Store, Isidor Straus and Ida Straus. It was, of course, Ida Straus who famously refused to board a lifeboat without her husband, Isidor Straus, and the two of them were lost in the sinking of Titanic . The memorial was funded by grieving staff at the store, together with people from …
Location: East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0, United Kingdom There stands in East Park, Southampton, a magnificent granite memorial, pictured here on the left, dedicated to the heroic engineering staff, which was unveiled on April 22nd, 1914, in front of a crowd of nearly 100,000 people, a real indication of the loss felt by the city. It …