The Olympic-class liners were designed to rival the Cunard Line’s greyhound steamers Mauretania and Lusitania, however, there was one vital area where the Olympic-class liners lagged far behind the state-of-the-art Cunard sisters – speed. Cunard had borrowed money at very favourable rates from the U.K. Government to enable them to design and build the two …
Captain Edward John Smith was born on 27th January 1850, in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Smith’s parents, Edward and Catherine were married in 1847. In July, 1887, Captain Edward John Smithmarried Sarah Eleanor Pennington, and two years later, Sarah gave birth to their only child, a daughter called Helen. Smith lived in Southampton on England’s south coast in a large …
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 …
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 …