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This fountain memorial was built to commemorate the couple who founded Macy’s Department Store, Isidor Straus and Ida Straus. It was, of course, Ida Straus who famously refused to board a lifeboat without her husband, Isidor Straus, and the two of them were lost in the sinking of Titanic . The memorial was funded by grieving staff at the store, together with people from …
Titanic’s Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall was born on 23rd March, 1884, in Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He had served almost thirteen years at sea when he joined Titanic, starting his nautical career at William Thomas of Liverpool, where he was an apprentice. He then joined the Wilson Line of Hull where he became an officer, …
Builder: Harland and Wolff Yard No.: Launched: 1889 Maiden Voyage: 1889 Liverpool – New York Gross Tonnage: 9,984 tons Length: 565.7 ft. Beam: 57.7 ft. Decks: 3 Funnels: 2 Masts: 3 Propellers: 2 Engines: 2 x triple expansion Boilers: 12 double Speed: 16 knots Port of Registry: Liverpool Carrying Capacity: 300 first class, 190 second class, 1000 steerage Sister Ships: Majestic I In the March of 1887, the keel of the White …
Although Titanic was the latest and greatest vessel afloat, boasting the latest equipment, and decorated in a style more lavish than any hotel of the era, its radio room was little more than a cupboard with a Morse Code transmitter and key, like the one pictured here on the left. Radio communications were not exactly …
When Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of Titanic in 1985, the position and state of the wreck were no longer open to guesses and conjecture; the truth was now known, and only a few days after the discovery of the wreck, Robert Ballard held a press conference at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to tell the world’s press about his team’s amazing discovery – Titanic – and …