by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Among the graves of Fairview Lawn Cemetery, there is one that was a magnet for bouquets and weeping girls in the 1990s. The name on the tombstone: J. Dawson. Jack Dawson, you might recall, is the name of the character played by Leonardo...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
New London The U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol dedicated three wreaths this morning to be dropped near where the RMS Titanic sunk years ago. The Titanics maiden voyage ended tragically in the late evening of April 14, 1912, when the ship struck an iceberg....
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
HALIFAX – A tiny pair of shoes retrieved from the remains of a toddler have helped solve one of the enduring mysteries surrounding the sinking of RMS Titanic almost 100 years ago. The youngster’s body was found floating in the icy North Atlantic in the...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
Researchers have discovered that the builder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough good rivets and riveters and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday. The builders own archives, two scientists say,...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
The RMS Titanic prior to her maiden voyage from Southampton, England bound for New York City. Shortly after midnight on April 15, 1912, the owner of the RMS Titanic leaped into one of the last lifeboats to be launched from the ship’s flooded deck. In saving his...
by Lady Kathleen | Feb 27, 2019 | Titanic in the News
One hundred years ago, when the ocean liner broke apart with a roar of grinding metal and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the disaster sent ripples of shock and amazement around the globe. The Titanic, which sank in 1912. Some of them lapped across...
