marcos lalo
❤ Do you know how many dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic? Do you know which breed of dog is most likely to help you get a date? (True!) ❤
alyssa.mcintosh.908
Douglas Spedden with his beloved stuffed polar bear. He survived the sinking of the Titanic only to be killed at the age of nine, after having been hit by a car.
bessie
Titanic steward Sidney Daniels who saved numerous lives and survived by climbing on to an upturned lifeboat has been hailed a hero by his children. When disaster struck the brave 18-year-old roused dozens of sleeping passengers and helped launch a lifeboat that saved 24 people. He then leaped from the doomed liner into the icy sea and later clambered on to the capsized vessel. He would go on to wed, have seven kids and die in 1983, aged
bessie
Sailor David Blair forgot to leave a key as the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage.His shipmates were unable to open a locker containing the binoculars that were to look out.Lookout Fred Fleet, who survived the disaster later told an official inquiry that if they had binoculars they would have seen the iceberg sooner,"Enough to get out of the way." 95 years later, the key is up for auction along with a postcard from Mr Blair telling of his disappointment at not being on the maiden voyage.
dolores
The Unsinkable Molly Brown - who survived the sinking of the Titanic (1912). A remarkable woman who would later have a musical created about her life and times.
marina
Maggie Brown - Most people will remember her from the Titanic movie, but according to our tour guide, she was quite as abrasive as Kathy Bates portrayed her. And she wasn't some backwater ignorant redneck. At the time of the Titanic sinking she spoke 6 languages and acted as a translator and advocate for the immigrant widows who survived the wreck.
corina
Titanic Mourning Postcard from 1912. Many survivors remembered that the Titanic’s eight musicians played the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” immediately before the ship sank. The hymn became a popular theme on Titanic memorial postcards. None of the musicians survived. Courtesy Dr. Edward and Joanne Dauer.
nona
First-class Titanic passenger Harry Elkins Widener, a 27-year-old Philadelphia businessman and book collector who had graduated from Harvard College in 1907, perished in the boat's sinking along with his father, George D. Widener. His mother, Eleanor Elkins Widener, survived, floating to safety aboard lifeboat No. 4. Not long after the Titanic went down, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library went up at Harvard, thanks to a generous donation
katelyn
*Documentary about the recent attempts to identify some of the victims retrieved from sea after the Titanic was lost. Very interesting...have a look.
vivian
From the site of the sinking of the Titanic. So sad; it's a graveyard. "This is an appropriate time to note the human cost of that event, and the fact that in this special place at the bottom of the sea, evidence of the human cost, in the form of the shattered wreck, the scattered luggage, fittings and other artifacts, and the faint but unmistakable evidence that this is where people came to rest, is present," says James Delgado, Dir of NOAA.
andrea.slee3
Since the Titanic was both a fabulous luxury liner and the largest ship ever to sail the seas, passengers were understandably excited about being aboard. These souvenir photos were taken on the ship as mementos of the journey....se
stormbou_3
Seven year old Eva Hart immigrating to Canada with her parents as 2nd class passengers on the Titanic. Eva and her mother survived (Lifeboat 14), but her father did not. Eva Hart never forgot what she had seen and heard that night. She is famous for the line: "If a ship is torpedoed, that's war. If it strikes a rock in a storm, that's nature. But just to die because there weren't enough lifeboats, that's ridiculous."
hellowordone
The dollar bill was carried by 50-year old August (Augustus) H. Weikman of Palmyra, New Jersey, a barber on the ship, who was helping crew members launch lifeboats from an upper deck when one of the ship’s boilers exploded and he was blown into the water. But Weikman survived and later wrote on the back the dollar bill: “This note was in my pocket when picked up out of the sea by ‘S.S. Carpathia’ from the wreck of ‘S.S. Titanic’ April 15th
valerie
Seven year old Eva Hart immigrating to Canada with her parents as 2nd class passengers on the Titanic. Eva and her mother survived (Lifeboat 14), but her father did not. Eva Hart never forgot what she had seen and heard that night. She is famous for the line: "If a ship is torpedoed, that's war. If it strikes a rock in a storm, that's nature. But just to die because there weren't enough lifeboats, that's ridiculous."
rachelle
Titanic Archive - 1957 - Video interviews with passengers who survived. - Picture quality not the best, but I had not seen this recording before and the interviews are fascinating!
limeyey
Major Frank Brown.... A passenger, he took the last photos aboard Titanic. Father Browne made the journey from Southampton to Cherbourg, and Cherbourg to Cobh, Co Cork.
