BY JACK KOPSTEIN Introduction Countless books and articles have been written about one of the greatest maritime disasters in world history, the sinking of the Titanic on the evening of 15 April 1912. The White Star Line ship struck an iceberg and sank on it’s maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with a loss of two-thirds of the more than 2,200 people aboard, claiming …
Builder: Harland and Wolff Yard No.: 400 Launched: October 20th, 1910 Maiden Voyage: 14th June, 1911 Gross Tonnage: 45,324 tons Length: 852.4 ft. Beam: 92.5ft. Decks: 5 Funnels: 4 Masts: 2 Propellers: 3 Engines: 2 x four cylinder triple expansion engines + 1 l.p. turbine to center propeller Boilers: 25 double ended, 4 single ended Speed: 21 knots Port of Registry: Liverpool Carrying Capacity: 1.054 first class, 510 second class, 1,020 …
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 …