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...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
Twenty years ago, a team of scientists led by Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic some 12,400 feet under the surface of the North Atlantic. It was a big deal. When the search team returned to Woods Hole, it held a brief service to honor those who died...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
LONDON Millvina Dean, who as an infant passenger aboard the Titanic was lowered into a lifeboat in a canvas mail sack and lived to become the ships last survivor, died Sunday at a nursing home in Southampton, the English port from which the Titanic embarked on its...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
LONDON, Nov. 8 (AP) Barbara West Dainton, believed to have been one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Oct. 16 in Camborne, England. She was 96. Her death, at a nursing home, was confirmed by Peter Visick, a distant relative. The...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
When first-class passengers aboard RMS Titanic sat down to dinner on the night of April 14, 1912, they came with expectations of an extraordinary dining experience. Four days out to sea, the wealthy and powerful aboard the White Star Lines newest ocean-going superstar...
