Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats, but Alexander Carlisle, one of the managing directors at Harland and Wolff, had suggested using a new type of larger davit, which could handle more boats, giving Titanic the potential of carrying 48 lifeboats, providing more than enough seats for everybody on board. But in a rare cost-cutting exercise, the White Star Line decided that only …
Location: 67-75 Albert Rd, Colne, BB8 0BP, United Kingdom Almost two weeks after the Titanic disaster, Wallace Hartley’s body was recovered from the icy North Atlantic, still wearing his bandsman’s uniform, and with his music box and violin case reputedly strapped to his body. Wallace Hartley’s body arrived back in England at Liverpool on the 12th May, aboard the White Star liner Arabic. …
It took an incredibly short period of time, a mere six months, from the meeting in London between Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie to discuss the new Olympic-class liners, and the actual keel-laying in December 1907 of the first of the trio, Olympic, yard No. 400. On October 20th, 1910, Olympic was launched at Harland and Wolff’sBelfast yard, and she immediately entered the …
Age: 39 Date of Birth (D.O.B.): 7th February, 1873 Place of Residence: Belfast, Ireland Embarked at: Belfast, Ireland (Harland and Wolff Guarantee Group) Ticket Number: 112050 Price Of Ticket: Cabin Number: A-36 Class: First Class Passengers Destination: New York City, New York Survived: No Died: 15th April, 1912 at sea Thomas Andrews boarded the Titanic at Belfast, Ireland, traveling to New York City, New York. Thomas …
Since picking-up Titanic’s distress call, the Cunard Line’s RMS Carpathia had made an heroic all-out dash to the area where Titanic’s senior radio operator, Jack Phillips, had last radioed its position. Her captain, Arthur Rostron, had made a frantic bid to coax as much speed out of his ageing vessel as was possible, and he had ordered all of the off-duty firemen …