Kane Dane 
To the crew of the Mackay-Bennet, a cable laying vessel chartered by the White Star Line immediately after the disaster, went the horrific job of recovering as many bodies as was possible from the North Atlantic. All of them volunteering for the harrowing task ahead, they would be paid double for the voyage that lay before them. This …
Titanic was now ready to travel. The crew were all aboard, save for a couple of thirsty firemen enjoying a last-minute pint in one of Southampton’s many public houses who would miss the departure. Luckily, there were spare members of crew on standby ready for this very situation, which obviously occurred on a regular basis, and they were duly ‘signed on’, the …
Ever since the release of James Cameron’s movie ‘Titanic’, there has been a whole host of schemes and projects all promising the same thing: the re-creation of a faithful replica of Titanic. Many people even set-up websites proclaiming to have a company which was going to build a new, all-improved Titanic , only for these sites to disappear weeks …
Builder: Harland and Wolff Yard No.: 323 Launched: 1898 Maiden Voyage: 1899 Liverpool – Cape Town – Sydney Gross Tonnage: 11,985 tons Length: 550.2ft Beam: 63.3ft Decks: 3 Funnels: 1 Masts: 4 Propellers: 2 Engines: 2 x four cylinder quadruple expansion Boilers: 4 double ended + 1 single Speed: 14 knots Port of Registry: Liverpool Carrying Capacity: 320 passengers, 100,000 refrigerated carcasses Sister Ships: Afric, Persic, Runic II , Suevic (Jubilee Class Liners) Medic was the second of …
BY PHILLIP GOWAN AND BRIAN MEISTER During the boyhood years of James Peter Boesen in Copenhagen, Denmark, a dazed, plain Hausfrau in a remote area of Austria gave birth to an illegitimate son, Alois. Maria Schicklgruber was an ungainly creature of 42 when her only child arrived in the summer of 1837, and those that knew her …