by Lady Kathleen | Jan 18, 2019 | Believe it or Not
The Canadian Hugh Brewster joined the committed ranks of Titanic-philes in the mid-1980s, when he spent a year creating a book from images and data of Robert Ballard’s discovery of the wreck. In Brewster’s new book, “Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage,” he revisits the...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 16, 2019 | Believe it or Not
Why after 100 years does a relative of Charles Lightoller make claims that the Titanic was sunk by a steering mistake? Is this a book promotion or is this really the truth? This new book claims that the Titanic had plenty of time to dodge out of the way of the fatal...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 14, 2019 | Believe it or Not
I was on a website doing some research on Titanic and I saw a section like this that was a section of myths that were going around about the Titanic. One of the stories caught my eye and I thought I would share it. On Titanic’s sailing day two engineers were...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 7, 2019 | Believe it or Not
IT was a disaster that wrenched New York. When the Titanic went down in 1912, hundreds of souls vanished without a trace, leaving survivors clinging to faint hopes. ‘THE AVERAGE PERSON SO SOON FORGETS’ The Titanic Memorial Lighthouse atop the...
by Lady Kathleen | Jan 4, 2019 | Believe it or Not
A surprising amount of ephemera defied logic to survive the sinking of the unsinkable ocean liner that went to the bottom 100 years ago on April 15. Most astonishing of all the recovered items, it would seem, were the articles of clothing either carried or worn by...
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...
