by Lady Kathleen | Jan 3, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
On my site will be found a page concerning my great grandmother’s sister – Pemmie Digby. My great grandmother told the story that Pemmie had returned from America where she had sung the lead role in Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 2, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
My grandfather was on board and survived. He met his first wife on the Carpathia, and she had seen her first husband go down with the ship. Charlotte Wray...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 1, 2019 | Believe it or Not
(Erie, PA, April 17, 1912). That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in which the...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 31, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Regarding your reprint of an article from April 11, 1912: The news report tells of a “disaster” averted in Southampton waters on April 10, 1912. The Titanic was being towed at the beginning of its ill-fated maiden journey and it narrowly avoided a collision with...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 30, 2018 | The Stories Go On
She was called “the ship that God himself couldn’t sink.” The White Star Line called it’s ship the R.M.S. Titanic. On April 10,1912,the “unsinkable” Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. On her way over, gliding...