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James Paul Moody was born in Scarborough, England on the 21st August 1887. His family were not a seafaring family, far from it, but the pull of the sea must have been fairly strong, because at the age of 14, Moody went to sea to serve his apprenticeship under sail. In 1911, at the age of …
Many of the bodies recovered in the days and weeks after the sinking were sadly never identified, although many have been tentatively identified in the 90 years since the disaster, using information and personal effects collected from the body, such as hair colour, height, quality of clothing, country of origin of currency, etc. But this …
Margaret Tobin Brown, or the ‘Unsinkable Molly Brown’ as she would undoubtably be remembered by the history books, was a forthright and often outspoken 45-year old lady from Denver, Colorado, but whose roots lay in Ireland. She was born on July 18th, 1867, in Hannibal, Missouri, she was the wife of James Joseph Brown, the …
When Titanic’s crew and officers were being drafted-in to join the ship at Belfast, the six officers were, from Chief down to Sixth, William Murdoch, Charles Lightoller, David Blair, Herbert Pitman, Boxhall, Harold Lowe and James Moody. This was the line-up for Titanic’s sea trials, and also for the positioning trip from Belfast to Southampton. Looking at the upper-part of the table below, it’s quite clear to see that …
