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 22, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Postal clerk John Richard Smith. Mr. Smith bears an absolutely AMAZING resemblance to my husband! We are not related to anyone on the titanic; however, at the Encyclopedia Titanica, there is a photo of postal clerk John Richard Smith. Mr. Smith bears an absolutely...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 21, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Here’s another story for your “Believe Ir Or Not!” section: In England, a struggling writer thought it best to write a fictional story about a news-making event. He wrote a story about the largest ship ever built. The ship was the ultimate tribute...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 11, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Instead, in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Even now, there is something surprisingly contemporary about that calamity. It is as if it were just now striking that iceberg, just now listing and sinking, if only because we can so readily imagine ourselves on board,...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 2, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Among those household names are the Acura division of Honda Motor, the CBS Corporation, the Walt Disney Company, Gannett, Geico, the National Geographic Society, The New York Times, News Corporation, PBS, the Smithsonian Institution, Time Warner, the Tribune Company...
by Lady Kathleen | Nov 30, 2018 | Believe it or Not
Lookout Fredrick Fleet, before leaving Southampton, England, complained to First Officer Murdoch about a piece of standard equipment he needed to do his job as lookout for icebergs. Murdoch told Fleet to mind his own business, and needless to say, Fleet did not get...
