Wreckage of SS Mesaba Located — Ship That Radioed Warning to Titanic

In April of 1912, the cargo-passenger liner SS Mesaba radioed an ice warning to RMS Titanic. The message was received but never made it to the bridge.  The supposedly unsinkable Titanic then hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden … Continue reading

Searching For And Discovering the Titanic as a Cover for Surveying the Submarines Thresher and Scorpion

One 109 years ago today, the RMS Titanic slipped below the icy waters of the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Close to 1,500 passengers and crew were lost, making the sinking the deadliest peacetime sinking of a passenger liner … Continue reading

J.P. Morgan, RMS Titanic and SS United States

What does J.P. Morgan, the American financier, and the passenger ships, RMS Titanic and SS United States have in common? Everyone knows that White Star Line, the owner of the RMS Titanic, was a British Company. Fewer are aware that White … Continue reading

Letters from the Titanic – Note Returning to Belfast & Accusation of Drinking by Captain Smith

Two letters from the Titanic are in the news.  One is a letter from Dr. John Edward Simpson, who died when the ship sank,   He wrote to his mother on April 11, 1912, on notepaper headed RMS Titanic, and had it … Continue reading

The Kosher Deli Born of a Shipwreck – J.A.Hyman (Titanics) Ltd of Manchester

This story is so unlikely that it must be true.  When the Collapsible Lifeboat C from the RMS Titanic was picked up by the Carpathia, of the 41 aboard, there were two very different men, though their names, by virtue of alphabetization are adjacent to each other on … Continue reading

Celebrities and the Titanic – Then and Now

When the RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912,  a number of those who died were celebrities of their day, including the American millionaires John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggenheim.  Canadian railroad president Charles Melville Hays and Isidor Straus, American owner of … Continue reading

Owner’s Manual for a Sunken Ship – RMS Titanic Manual: 1909-1912 Olympic Class

Haynes Manuals are well known as practical guides aimed at automobile enthusiastic and mechanics.  They have also branched out into manuals for domestic appliances, personal computers, digital photography, model railways, men,  babies, sex, and women. Reportedly the last four categories … Continue reading

The Titanic – from Maritime Tragedy to Pop Culture Icon

Ninety nine years ago today, the RMS Titanic sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,517 passengers and crew.  The sinking of the Titanic had a major impact on  ship  operations.     The first International … Continue reading