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Titanic First Class Passenger – BROWN, Mrs. Margaret ‘ Molly’

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 by Kane Dane

Age: 44 Date of Birth: 18th July, 1867 Place of Residence: Denver, Colorado Embarked at: Cherbourg, France ( List ) on Wednesday, 10th April, 1912 Ticket Number: 17613 Price Of Ticket: £27 14s 5d Cabin Number: B-4 Class: First Class Passengers Destination: Denver, Colorado Survived: Yes ( List ) Lifeboat Number: No. 6 Location Buried: Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, Nassau County, New York Biography Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France on Wednesday, 10th …

Icebergs

July 3, 2019 by Kane Dane

The Norse word ‘iceberg’ translates, not surprisingly, into ‘mountain of ice’. The mountain of ice that Titanic tragically encountered in April, 1912 was first formed over 5,000 years ago, when layer after layer of snow and ice were compressed and crushed by yet more falling snow to form part of the immense Greenland Glacier. These glaciers are …

Titanic Memorials: Captain Edward John Smith, Lichfield

June 13, 2019 by Kane Dane

Location: Swan Rd, Lichfield, WS13 6QZ, United Kingdom Titanic’s Master, Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR, was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent in England, but his memorial was erected in Beacon Park, Lichfield. The memorial is a life-sized statue to remember his heroics by. It was designed by Kathleen Scott, and unveiled by Captain Edward John Smith’s daughter, Helen Melville …

Titanics Propellers

June 12, 2019 by Kane Dane

The Olympic-class liners were designed to rival the Cunard Line’s greyhound steamers Mauretania and Lusitania, however, there was one vital area where the Olympic-class liners lagged far behind the state-of-the-art Cunard sisters – speed. Cunard had borrowed money at very favourable rates from the U.K. Government to enable them to design and build the two …

Discovery Of Titanic

June 26, 2019June 11, 2019 by Kane Dane

On 1st July, 1985, a combined collection of scientists from Woods Hole Deep Submergence Lab (D.S.L.), Massachusetts, led by Dr. Robert Ballard and the French Institute Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation des Mers (I.F.R.E.M.E.R.), led by Jean Jarry, prepared to locate the wreck of Titanic. Armed with practically the most sophisticated equipment ever to set …