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Olympic

June 26, 2019June 13, 2019 by Kane Dane

It took an incredibly short period of time, a mere six months, from the meeting in London between Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie to discuss the new Olympic-class liners, and the actual keel-laying in December 1907 of the first of the trio, Olympic, yard No. 400. On October 20th, 1910, Olympic was launched at Harland and Wolff’sBelfast yard, and she immediately entered the …

Captain Edward John Smith Of The Titanic

June 12, 2019 by Kane Dane

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 …