First Hand tid-bit

Hi my name is Davin Cranston and I work in Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast N.Ireland,where Titanic was built. Just to give you some first hand tit bits! The site where she was built has been built over to make way for other shipyard needs but the Thompson dock...

The Titanic That Really Won’t Sink

Ms. Kalstrom, 61, plays Ms. Brown in period dress in a new Titanic exhibit at the here in Denver, where the Browns once lived. In April, Ms. Kalstrom will embark from Southampton, England, on a re-enactment of the Titanic’s fatal cruise, planning to lead fireside...

Which is true

I heard this from a Titanic-Buff friend of mine, so excuse me if it seems a little rough around the edges…it’s second hand! 😉 Some say that when the Titanic was almost completed in her construction, they heard faint knocking on the other side of a...

20 Lifeboats, Each a Poetic Story

A lifeboat from the Titanic, about to be picked up by the R.M.S. Carpathia. To mark the 101st anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the City Room comment stalwart known as Lifeboat No. 6 has bestowed upon us a mini-epic: a long, traditional-form haiku of 20...

The Myths of the Titanic

Recently I was watching a special on the History Channel dispelling some of the myths surrounding the tragedy. They had both historians and direct descendants of the passagers and crew supplying interviews. Much of this is hearsay, but these are the statements they...