by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Children of the Titanic
I am the great-grand daughter of Ernest Edward Archer, who was a deckhand on the Titanic. He survived the disaster, being rescued in lifeboat #16. He was born the son of a farm laborer in Romsey Hampshire, in 1876 and died of tuberculosis in 1917, brought on...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Believe it or Not
A floating palace sailed from Southampton in 1898 on her maiden voyage it was the biggest and grandest liner ever built, and rich passengers savored its luxury as they journeyed to the United States. But the ship never reached its destination: Its Hull was ripped open...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Believe it or Not
Donald Allen Kirch, author of Still Waters and KA-RE KA-RE Book Description Once they said, “God Himself Could Not Sink Her!” The maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic was to be the toast of Europe. Filled with the richest people in the world, there was no...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
LOS ANGELES (AP) Ralph Bradshaw White, whose film footage provided the world with its first look at the Titanic wreckage, died on Feb. 4 in Glendale, Calif. He was 66. The cause was complications of an aortic aneurysm, his daughter, Krista Few, told The Los Angeles...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
It is almost 100 years since the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean after striking a floating mountain of ice on a frigid April evening. And in the decades that followed this catastrophe, humanity grew confident it had learned from and...