Titanic Conspiracy Theory

It would seem that you can´t have a good story without a conspiracy theory raising its ugly head these days, and the story of the Titanic is no exception. Robin Gardiner, a plasterer from Oxford, England, has written a book, ´Titanic – The Ship That Never Sank´, in which he goes to great lengths to persuade the …

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Captain Edward John Smith Of The Titanic

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 …

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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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