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Olympic-class ocean liner


with HMS "Hawke" in 1911. "Britannic" was the largest ship lost during World War I, but her sinking did not receive the same attention as the sinking of "Titanic", or the sinking of the Cunard liner , when she was sunk by a torpedo in the Irish Sea. When "Titanic" sank in 1912 and "Britannic" sank in 1916, their sinkings did not receive the same attention, due to the death toll (1,517 on "Titanic" and 30 on "Britannic")
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Olympic-class ocean liner


involved in a collision with the cruiser in the port of Southampton, leading to her repair back at Harland and Wolff and delaying the launch of her sister "Titanic". When RMS "Titanic" sank, "Olympic" was on her way across the Atlantic just in the opposite direction. She was able to receive a distress call from "Titanic" but she was too far away to reach her sister before she sank. After the sinking of "Titanic", "Olympic" was returned to dry dock in the
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RMS Titanic


result of bringing a rescue ship to "Titanic" before it sank, the use of wireless did bring "Carpathia" in time to rescue some of the survivors who otherwise would have perished due to exposure. The water temperature in the area where "Titanic" sank, which was well below normal, also contributed to the rapid death of many passengers during the sinking. Water temperature readings taken around the time of the accident were reported to be . Typical water temperatures were normally in the mid-40 °F range during mid-
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Saved from the Titanic


group boarded lifeboat no. 7, the first to be launched. Around 27 other people were on board the boat when it was lowered at 12:40 am, just over an hour after the collision. The lifeboat's plug could not be found, causing water to gush in until, as Gibson later put it, "this was remedied by volunteer contributions from the lingerie of the women and the garments of men." Around 1,500 people were still aboard "Titanic" when she sank, throwing them into freezing water where they
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Arthur Rostron


Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 – 4 November 1940) was a British sailor and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. He is best remembered as the captain of the ocean liner RMS "Carpathia", when it rescued hundreds of survivors from the RMS "Titanic" when the latter ship sank in 1912, after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Rostron won wide praise for his energetic efforts to reach the "Titanic" before she sank,
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Chelsea Piers


by German submarine U-20. The RMS "Titanic" was destined for the White Star pier 59 when she sank. Survivors were rescued on Cunard's RMS "Carpathia". The "Carpathia" dropped off the "Titanic's" lifeboats at Pier 59 before going back south to Pier 54 where she unloaded the passengers and survivors. Thousands of people assembled at the dock to greet the ship. During the summer of 1920, a dramatic rally was organized on July 31 at the White Star Line docks. This was to send
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Titanic Belfast


Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction opened in 2012, a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS "Titanic" was built. It tells the stories of the ill-fated "Titanic", which hit an iceberg and sank during her maiden voyage in 1912, and her sister ships RMS "Olympic" and HMHS "Britannic". The building contains more than of floor space, most of which is occupied by a series of
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The Titanic (song)


"The Titanic" (also known as "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" and "Titanic (Husbands and Wives)") is a folk song and children's song. "The Titanic" is about the sinking of RMS "Titanic" which sank on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg. The first folk songs about the "Titanic" disaster appeared within weeks after the disaster. Recordings of various songs about the disaster date to as early as 1913. The canonical version of the song
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Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic


The Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the "Titanic" is a granite monument located on St. Nicholas Place, at the Pier Head, in Liverpool, England. The city of Liverpool is strongly associated with the ill-fated liner that sank on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic with the loss of some 1,517 lives. The RMS "Titanic" was owned by White Star Line which was founded in Liverpool in 1840. Liverpool was also the port of registry of the liner with the words
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


inquiries into the disaster. Archibald Gracie, who was on the promenade deck with the band (by the second funnel), stated that ""Titanic"s decks were intact at the time she sank, and when I sank with her, there was over seven-sixteenths of the ship already under water, and there was no indication then of any impending break of the deck or ship". Ballard argued that many other survivors' accounts indicated that the ship had broken in two as she was sinking. As the engines are
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RMS Titanic alternative theories


Titanic" hit was not an iceberg but low-lying pack ice. He based his conclusion upon three main pieces of evidence. One of the most controversial and elaborate theories was forwarded by Robin Gardiner in his book, "Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?" Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the "Titanic", and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact "Titanic"s sister ship , disguised as "Titanic"
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Titanic 2020


Titanic 2020 is the first novel of the "Titanic 2020" series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 19 July 2007 through Hodder Children's Books. The novel in based in the year 2020 and follows a stowaway named Jimmy Armstrong and his journey on the brand new and purportedly "unsinkable" cruise ship "Titanic". Jimmys great-grandfather was on the original "RMS Titanic" and drowned when it sank. During a school trip Jimmy misses his chance to see the newly built "Titanic" and
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Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic


"Samson", in the vicinity of "Titanic" when she sank. Proponents of the theory argue either that the "Samson" was a third ship in the area the night of the sinking, in addition to the "Titanic" and the "Californian", or that the "Californian" was not near at all and it was the "Samson" which "Titanic" passengers spotted in the distance while the ship was sinking. Advocates of Captain Lord's innocence have avidly adopted the latter theory, beginning with
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Titanic replica (Sichuan)


': Su Shaojun insisted that harrowing stories that happened when the "Titanic" sank represented a concentrated release of the noblest side of human emotions hidden deep in people’s hearts for more than a hundred years. “People have never forgotten how at that time people sacrificed their lives to carry out their responsibilities, with men protecting the women and children and couples side by side in life and death. That is the "Titanic" spirit of responsibility and universal love.” He thinks the "Titanic" spirit shall be passed
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


capacity. It also means that the presence of more lifeboats would not have saved any additional lives on the Titanic, because they didn't even launch all of the boats they did have. 1,503 people did not make it on to a lifeboat and were aboard "Titanic" when she sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean at 2:20 a.m. on 15 April 1912. 705 people remained in the lifeboats until later that morning when they were rescued by RMS "Carpathia". Those aboard the lifeboats were picked up by "
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Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic


, seal-fishing waters which are physically very close to the site of "Titanic"s sinking. They argue that the Lloyd's Register dates of arrival in April are invalid because they were merely the "expected" arrival dates of the "Samson", which did not dock until the mid-May date. Such theories have been dismissed by "Titanic" historians including Leslie Reade, Walter Lord and Edward DeGroot. When "Titanic" sank, claims were made that a curse existed on the ship. The press quickly linked
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


Titanic"s lifeboats in the morning after the disaster. During the sinking of the aforementioned "Republic" in 1909, it took nearly half a day to ferry all of her passengers to rescue ships, and during the sinking of the Italian liner in 1956 it took nearly eight hours to ferry all her passengers to safety. Both liners sank at a much slower rate, roughly half a day, in contrast to "Titanic", which sank slightly shy of three hours after her collision with the iceberg. While "Titanic"s supply of
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William Robertson Coe


involved in insuring the "unsinkable" hull of the RMS "Titanic", which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Notwithstanding his involvement with the "Titanic" disaster, Coe rose to chairman of the board of Johnson and Higgins by 1916. Coe was on the Board of Directors of the Virginian Railway from 1910 until his death in 1955, and headed the company for a brief period during World War II. He was also a director of Loup Creek Colliery and the Wyoming Land Company. One of his sons,
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No Time for Nuts


him, and lands on an ice field. He is overjoyed, thinking he is home, but he soon sees the ill-fated RMS "Titanic" appear out of nowhere, heading straight towards him; he was actually in April 14, 1912 A.D. and on the frozen North Atlantic, the time and location of the ship's sinking. Scrat gets pressed into the iceberg that sank the Titanic by the ship's bow, and the time machine zaps Scrat and the acorn as they fall from the iceberg, taking Scrat
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Cultural legacy of RMS Titanic


scattered across the world in different collections, but together formed a unique archive". On 14 April BBC Radio 2 aired a three-hour minute-by-minute account of the disaster to coincide with the time it happened. Besides commemorations on land, two ships participated in memorial services at the spot where "Titanic" sank. "Azamara Journey" left New York on 10 April, with passengers interested in the "Titanic" story, many dressed in period attire. A stop was made at Halifax to visit the
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Stanley Lord


ship was not mentioned. The discovery in 1985 of the remains of the "Titanic" on the sea bed made it clear that the S.O.S. position given after the iceberg collision by the "Titanic" 's fourth officer, Joseph Boxhall, was wrong by thirteen miles. At both of the 1912 inquiries, there had been some conflict about the true position of the ship when it sank. The conclusions of the inquiries discounted the evidence of uncertainty about the position of the "Titanic". At the time, some assumed that
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Chasing Ice


of ice crashing off the glacier. "The calving of a massive glacier believed to have produced the ice that sank the Titanic is like watching a city break apart." Environmental photographer James Balog heads to Greenland, Iceland and Alaska in order to capture images that will help to convey the effects of global warming. Balog was initially skeptical about climate change when the issue entered scientific discussion, but after his first trip north, he becomes convinced of the impact that humans have on the planet and becomes committed to bringing the story
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SS Donegal


Priest had been one of her stokers. Priest had also been on the liner when she foundered on her maiden voyage in 1907, and on when she was damaged in a collision with in 1911. Priest then served on the armed merchant cruiser when she and the German armed merchant cruiser sank each other in February 1916. Both Jewell and Priest then served on "Titanic"s White Star Line sister ship , and survived when she was sunk in November 1916. When "Donegal" sank, Priest survived yet again but Jewell was killed
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Wreck of the RMS Titanic


on the posters of the subsequent film of the book. Although this was an "artistically stimulating" highlight of the film, made using a model of "Titanic", it would not have been physically possible. At the time of the book's writing, it was still believed that she sank in one piece. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had long been interested in finding "Titanic". Despite early negotiations with possible backers being abandoned when it emerged that they wanted to turn the wreck into souvenir paperweights
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RMS Titanic in popular culture


hundred musicians played to a packed Royal Albert Hall under the direction of Sir Edward Elgar to raise money for the families of the musicians lost when "Titanic" sank. Other musical responses sought to evoke the disaster in musical form. Soon after the sinking a "Descriptive Musical Sketch (Piano, Chorus and Reciter)" was staged, and those wanting to re-enact the disaster at home could listen to the recording of "The Wreck of the "Titanic"", a "Descriptive Piano Solo, right from the
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Robert Hichens (sailor)


Robert Hichens (16 September 1882 – 23 September 1940) was a British sailor who was part of the deck crew on board the when she sank on her maiden voyage on 15 April 1912. He was one of six quartermasters on board the vessel and was at the ship's wheel when the "Titanic" struck the iceberg. He was in charge of Lifeboat #6, where he refused to return to rescue people from the water according to several accounts of those on the boat, including Margaret Brown, who argued with
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Stanley Lord


of the "Titanic" or sorrow for those who had lost family when she sank is, according to Butler, compatible with sociopathy. Butler's claims about Lord have been countered by Dr Paul Lee, another "Titanic" historian, who pointed to the numerous testimonials Lord received throughout his career for good conduct and the fact that, in the aftermath of the "Titanic" furor, people were willing to risk their own reputations to help Lord find employment with a new shipping line. Lee also noted that if Lord were
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Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain


Butt left on a six-week vacation to Europe on March 1, 1912, accompanied by Millet. Butt booked passage on the RMS "Titanic" for his return to the United States. He boarded the "Titanic" on April 10, 1912; Millet boarded the ship at Cherbourg, France, later that same day. Butt and Millet were playing cards on the night of April 14 in the first-class smoking room when the "Titanic" struck an iceberg. The ship sank two and half hours later,
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George D. Widener Jr.


(streetcar) magnate Peter A. B. Widener (1834-1915) and the oil & steel financier William Lukens Elkins (1832-1903), were long-time friends and business partners. At age 23, he lost both his father and brother when the RMS Titanic sank in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. His sister married Fitz Eugene Dixon in 1912. Greatly influenced by his uncle Joseph E. Widener (1871–1943), head of New York's Belmont Park and builder of Hialeah Park racetrack
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Henry S. Harper


Henry Sleeper Harper (11 March 1864 – 1 March 1944) was an American businessman. He was an "incorporator of Harper & Brothers when the firm became a corporation in 1896." Harper is remembered as a passenger on the RMS "Titanic" when it sank on April 15, 1912, and also for his work to save the Adirondack forests from logging, and for the fact that his Pekingese called Sun Yat-sen was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the "Titanic." The son of
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


snapping when put under stress, particularly in extreme cold. Tom McCluskie, a retired archivist of Harland & Wolff, pointed out that , "Titanic"s sister ship, was riveted with the same iron and served without incident for nearly 25 years, surviving several major collisions, including being rammed by a British cruiser. When "Olympic" rammed and sank the U-boat with her bow, the stem was twisted and hull plates on the starboard side were buckled without impairing the hull's integrity. Above the waterline, there was
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The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility


was even conceptualized, there are some uncanny similarities between both the fictional and real-life versions. Like the "Titanic", the fictional ship sank in April in the North Atlantic, and there were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers. There are also similarities between the size ( long for "Titan" versus long for the "Titanic"), speed (25 knots for "Titan", 22.5 knots for "Titanic") and life-saving equipment. Similarities between the "Titanic" and the fictional
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


brought through the cordon by a man calling himself "Louis Hoffman". His real name was Michel Navratil; he was a Slovak tailor who had kidnapped his sons from his estranged wife and was taking them to the United States. He did not board the lifeboat and died when the ship sank. The identity of the children, who became known as the ""Titanic" Orphans", was a mystery for some time after the sinking and was only resolved when Navratil's wife recognised them from photographs that had been circulated
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Esther Hart (Titanic survivor)


the ship when it sank. Esther and Eva were separated from each other when their boat's occupants were dispersed among several other boats. They were later rescued by the . They stayed briefly in New York before returning to the United Kingdom, all hopes of a new life in Canada having died with Benjamin. They lived in Chadwell Heath, near London, with Esther's parents. She died on 7 September 1928 at age 65. Both she and Eva always maintained that the "Titanic" broke in half before sinking,
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Violet Jessop


1911, when "Olympic" left from Southampton and collided with the British warship . There were no fatalities and despite damage, the ship was able to make it back to port without sinking. Jessop chose not to discuss this collision in her memoirs. Jessop boarded as a stewardess on 10 April 1912, at age 24. Four days later, on 14 April, it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, where "Titanic" sank a little more than two hours after the collision. Jessop described in her memoirs how
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Robert Hichens (sailor)


him throughout the early morning. In 1906, he married Florence Mortimore in Devon, England; when he registered for duty aboard the "Titanic", his listed address was in Southampton, where he lived with his wife and two children. Hichens gained notoriety after the disaster because of his conduct in Lifeboat No. 6, of which he was in command. Passengers accused him of refusing to go back to rescue people from the water after the ship sank, that he called the people in the water "stiffs,"
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Norman Craig


a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1919. In January 1910, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Isle of Thanet, and was re-elected in 1918. In 1912, he booked a passage to America on board the RMS "Titanic". However, he cancelled his trip and was not on board when the vessel sank on 15 April. He cancelled his trip at such short notice that his name still appeared on the printed list of the "Titanic's" first-class passengers. This
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Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen


lost, up to half of them children. This remains the worst single ship sinking in history and is dubbed "the German "Titanic"." The number of casualties is six times greater than that of "Titanic". 1,215 were picked up by eight German ships that came to the rescue. "S-13" launched two torpedoes at one of them without scoring any hits. On 10 February 1945, "S-13" sank another evacuation ship SS "Steuben" that was carrying about 5,000 people where only 650 survived.
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Joseph Boxhall


including the many ice warnings. He was also the first person to testify that he saw another vessel in proximity while "Titanic" sank. Following the "Titanic" debacle, Boxhall briefly served as Fourth Officer on White Star's "Adriatic". He was promoted to lieutenant in the RNR on 27 May 1915. During the First World War, he was commissioned to serve for one year aboard the battleship before being dispatched to Gibraltar, where he commanded a torpedo boat. Boxhall returned to White Star following the war in
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Musicians of the RMS Titanic


The musicians of the RMS "Titanic" all perished when the ship sank in 1912. They played music, intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could, and all went down with the ship. All were recognized for their heroism. The ship's eight musicians - members of a three-piece ensemble and a five-piece ensemble - were booked through C.W. & F.N. Black, in Liverpool. They boarded at Southampton and traveled as second-class passengers. They were not on the White Star
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CQ (call)


1908 by the SOS code. When the "Titanic" sank in 1912, it initially transmitted the distress call ""CQD DE MGY" (with ""MGY" being the ship's call sign). "Titanic"'s radio operator subsequently alternated between SOS and CQD calls afterwards. In amateur radio usage, a CQ call can be qualified by appending more letters, as in "CQ DX" (meaning "calling all stations located in a different continent to the caller"), or the ITU call sign
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


stopped playing at least 30 minutes before the vessel sank. Several witnesses support this account including A. H. Barkworth, a first-class passenger who testified: "I do not wish to detract from the bravery of anybody, but I might mention that when I first came on deck the band was playing a waltz. The next time I passed where the band was stationed, the members had thrown down their instruments and were not to be seen." Bride heard the band playing as he left the radio cabin, which was
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RMS Titanic in popular culture


Inc, while Daniel Allen Butler provides a scholarly examination of the "Titanic" story in his 1998 book "Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic". Robin Gardiner's 1995 and 1998 books "Riddle of the Titanic" and "Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank", put forward a conspiracy theory that the wreck is actually that of the RMS "Olympic", which supposedly the White Star Line had secretly switched with "Titanic" as part of an insurance scam. A variety of novels set aboard
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Edward Kamuda


Edward Stephen Kamuda (November 10, 1939 – April 13, 2014) was an American historian who specialized in the study of the RMS Titanic. The Titanic sank on April 14, 1912, after striking an iceberg in the north Atlantic Ocean. Kamuda devoted much of his life to the preservation of the Titanic's legacy as the founder and president of the Titanic Historical Society. Much of his research focused on the biographies of the crew and passengers of the RMS Titanic. Kamuda co-founded the Titanic Historical Society on July
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Marian Thayer


shows that in 1910, Margaret Fleming was employed by the Thayer family as a maid. She travelled with John, Marian, and Jack in 1912 when they went to Europe and returned home with them on the "Titanic." The family and their maid boarded "Titanic" at Cherbourg and occupied adjoining cabins C68 and C70. On the Sunday afternoon before the ship sank, Marian and her friend Emily Ryerson went for a stroll on the deck and encountered White Star official, Bruce Ismay. According to Ryerson, Ismay showed
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RMS Titanic in popular culture


Tietgen" sank for real five years later when she was torpedoed by a German U-boat. A British film company planned to go one better by building and sinking a replica liner, and in 1914 the real-life scuppering of a large vessel took place for the Vitagraph picture "Lost in Mid-Ocean". The 1929 British sound film "Atlantic" was clearly (though loosely) based on the story of the "Titanic". Derived from Ernest Raymond's play "The Berg", it focuses on
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Charles Melville Hays


cabin B69) on B Deck, also known as the Bridge Deck. At 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912, "Titanic" struck an iceberg. Hays helped the women in his party into one of the ship's 20 lifeboats, but he, his son-in-law, and his secretary remained and perished when the ship sank, along with 1,500 other "Titanic" passengers and crew. Hays was reported to have made a prophetic remark on the evening of the disaster; deploring the way the steamship lines
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John B. Thayer


boarded the "RMS Titanic" at Cherbourg-en-Cotentin as first-class passengers and had been preparing for bed on the evening of April 14 when the collision with the iceberg occurred. As the ship sank, Thayer made sure his wife and maid boarded lifeboats, after being told by the "Titanic's" designer, Thomas Andrews, that the stricken ship did not have "much over an hour to live". His son, Jack, dove from the sinking ship and was able to swim to an overturned
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Cultural legacy of RMS Titanic


story is that of the ship's band, led by Wallace Hartley, who heroically played on while the great steamer was sinking. This seems to be true but there has been conflicting information about which song was the last to be heard. The most reported is "Nearer, My God, to Thee", though "Autumn" has been mentioned. Finally, a widespread myth is that the internationally recognised Morse code distress signal "SOS" was first put to use when the "Titanic" sank. While it is
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William Thomson Sloper


William Thomson Sloper (December 13, 1883 − May 1, 1955) was an American stockbroker and survivor of the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Sloper, who was 28 when the "Titanic" sank, traveled as a first-class passenger and was saved after boarding lifeboat #7, the first to be launched from the vessel. Sloper was born in New Britain, Connecticut, son of Andrew Jackson Sloper and Ella Thomson Sloper. In April 1912, he was returning to the United States after a three
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Roderick Chisholm (engineer)


Roderick Chisholm (20 December 1868 – 15 April 1912) was a Scottish shipbuilder. He co-designed the RMS "Titanic" with Thomas Andrews. He died when the "Titanic" sank on her maiden voyage. His father, James Chisholm (born in 1832), came from Urray, a village in Ross-shire County and was a master of ships; the mother, Sophia Voaden (born in 1841), was originally from the county of Devon. The couple had married in Devon in 1860 and had
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RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act


be in "high seas". On February 5, 1986, Jones championed a similar bill that was presented to the Senate, which proposed that until an international agreement could be negotiated, no individual would be permitted to physically alter, disturb, or salvage the wreckage. The Senate bill was signed by President Ronald Reagan on October 21, 1986, creating the RMS "Titanic" Maritime Memorial Act. The Act aimed to "encourage recognition of the wreck as a maritime memorial to those who lost their lives when it sank
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


George Rheims, who jumped moments before "Titanic" sank, described it as "a dismal moaning sound which I won't ever forget; it came from those poor people who were floating around, calling for help. It was horrifying, mysterious, supernatural." The noise of the people in the water screaming, yelling, and crying was a tremendous shock to the occupants of the lifeboats, many of whom had up to that moment believed that everyone had escaped before the ship sank. As Beesley later wrote, the
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Archibald Butt


room when the "Titanic" struck an iceberg. The ship sank two and a half hours later, with a loss of over 1,500 lives. Butt's actions while the ship sank are largely unverified, but many accounts of a sensationalist nature were published by newspapers immediately after the disaster. One account had the ship's captain, Edward J. Smith, telling Butt that the ship was doomed, after which Butt began to act like a ship's officer and supervised the loading and lowering of lifeboats. The "New York Times
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Chinese Garage


been laid out and the main traffic route was north–south between Beckenham and West Wickham; this accounts for the alignment of forecourt. Local folklore suggests that the Langley Court's former owners, the Bucknell family, were shipping magnates that underwrote the "Titanic". Subsequently when it sank they financially sank too, hence the sale of their estate. It is further reputed that during their travels, the Bucknells regularly visited the Far East and Japan and brought back many exotic plants for the Estate which is said to have inspired
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Titanic (musical)


Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway in 1997. It swept the 1997 musical Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for including the award for Best Musical and Best Score (Yeston's second for both). "Titanic" is set on the ocean liner RMS "Titanic" which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. The discovery of the wreck of the RMS "Titanic" in 1985 attracted Yeston's interest in writing a
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


leadership was supported by Helen Candee, who herself assisted in the rowing despite a broken ankle received when she fell into the boat while boarding. After "Titanic" sank, lifeboat 6 eventually tied up with lifeboat 16. It was one of the last to reach "Carpathia", coming alongside at 8:00 a.m. Mrs Elizabeth Rothschild had her Pomeranian with her in the lifeboat. Initially, crew members of the "Carpathia" refused to take the dog aboard, but Mrs. Rothschild wouldn't board the rescue ship without it. The
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Renee Harris (producer)


" had many rafts in its stern and that the men would have an opportunity at them when the women had left the ship. She remained aboard "Titanic" until the last boat, a collapsible lifeboat, was filled. Five minutes after this last lifeboat was lowered, the great ship sank. Three "Titanic" crew members accompanied the passengers of the lifeboat, but only one man was able to do any work at rowing the boat. Most of the women aboard were also unable to help at rowing, so Harris
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Crew of the RMS Titanic


up until two minutes before the ship sank. It is speculated that their actions delayed the sinking for over an hour and helped keep the ship afloat long enough for nearly all the lifeboats to be launched. Some of the men working downstairs were killed when seawater flooded this section as the ship hit the iceberg. There were 421 men and women assigned to the Victualling Department on the "Titanic". The Victualling Department provides all the services for the occupants of the ship; food, housekeeping, laundry, room service, etc
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Frank Tower


Titanic" and "Empress of Ireland" sinkings. The legend claims that he was a coal stoker on "Titanic", and survived after she sank on her maiden voyage on 14 April 1912. Two years later, on 28 May 1914, Frank was allegedly aboard "Empress of Ireland" when she collided with the Norwegian collier in the Saint Lawrence River. This disaster was considered the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history, and Tower was one of only 465 of the 1,477 aboard to survive. During World War I
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Bale, Norfolk


of Holm Oak trees and is protected by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. One man who was aboard the RMS Titanic when it hit the iceberg and sank was born in the village. Edward Rowe was born in Bale in 1882. In 1912 he was age thirty and he was a steward aboard the White Star Liner RMS Olympic. He had then become a member of the crew for the delivery voyage of the RMS Titanic from Belfast to Southampton. After the ship arrived in Southampton, Edward Rowe
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The Sinking of the Titanic


had witnessed the house band continue to perform as the ship sank. In April 1912, Bride had told the "New York Times": "[T]he band was still playing. I guess all of the band went down. They were playing "Autumn" then. I swam with all my might. I suppose I was 150 feet away when the Titanic on her nose, with her after-quartet sticking straight up in the air, began to settle - slowly...the way the band kept playing was a noble
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Cape Race


Press kept a newsboat at Cape Race to meet ocean liners passing by on their way from Europe so that news could be telegraphed to New York. These news items carried the byline "via Cape Race". In 1904, the first wireless station in Newfoundland was built at Cape Race. On the night "Titanic" sank, wireless operator Jack Phillips was sending telegraphs to Cape Race for relay to New York City. When Cyril Evans, wireless operator of the SS "Californian", sent an iceberg warning to "Titanic
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70th Academy Awards


Oscarcast." He added that Crystal's "off-the-cuff one-liners sank faster than the great ship herself." "Boston Globe" television critic Matthew Gilbert bemoaned,"There was hardly a spontaneous moment during last night's Oscarcast." Film critic Carrie Rickey from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" lamented that the inevitable "Titanic" sweep "sank a telecast loaded with montages of previous years' Oscar highlights." The popularity of "Titanic" greatly increased television ratings for the ceremony. The American telecast on ABC drew
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Saving the Titanic


Saving The Titanic, aired in Germany as Die Helden der Titanic, is 2012 Irish-German television docudrama directed by Maurice Sweeney, and written by Colin Herber-Percy and Lyall Watson. Unlike most films and series depicting the ship's passengers and senior crew, "Saving the Titanic" dramatizes the engineers and the boiler room crew who kept the furnaces and generators running as the "Titanic" sank, facilitating the survival of others. "Based on eyewitness accounts, this is the remarkable story of nine men from the engineering
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The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility


The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility (originally called Futility) is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the fictional ocean liner "Titan", which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. "Titan" and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship , which sank fourteen years later. Following the sinking of the "Titanic", the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage. The first half
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Robin Gardiner


days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the "Titanic", and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact "Titanic"s sister ship , disguised as "Titanic", as an insurance scam by her owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902. "Olympic" was the slightly older sister of "Titanic", built alongside the more famous vessel but launched in October 1910. Her exterior profile was nearly identical to "Titanic
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


that lifeboat 7 had encountered, with the lifeboat descending in fits and starts as the lowering ropes repeatedly stuck in the pulleys, but eventually reached the water safely. After "Titanic" sank the lifeboat drifted, while the bored women passengers passed the time by arguing with each other over minor annoyances. The occupants had a long wait in freezing conditions and were not rescued until about 7.30 a.m. when "Carpathia" arrived. Boat 8 was loaded with 28 people under the supervision of Second Officer Lightoller and launched at about 1:00 a.m.
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


Officer Lightoller permitted to board a lifeboat. Relations among the occupants of Boat 6 were strained throughout the night. Hichens apparently resented Peuchen's presence, perhaps fearing the major would pull rank and take charge. The two men quarreled, and Hichens refused Peuchen's request that he assist him at the oars, since there was only one other man (Fleet) rowing. When "Titanic" sank, Peuchen, Brown and others urged Hichens to return to rescue people struggling in the water. Hichens refused, even ordering the men
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


way of knowing that his revolver was not loaded. Even at this late stage some boats were leaving with plenty of space aboard; Boat 2 appears to have been lowered with only 17 people aboard, out of a capacity of 40. The occupants were principally women, plus one male Third Class passenger, Anton Kink, who joined his wife and young daughter in the boat. Fourth Officer Boxhall was given charge of the boat. When "Titanic" sank at 2:20 a.m., Boxhall suggested to the occupants that they should go
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


The sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, "Titanic" had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at around 23:40 (ship's time) on Sunday, 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (ship's time; 05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April, resulted in the deaths of
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


evacuation meant many boats were launched before they were completely full. As a result, when "Titanic" sank, over a thousand passengers and crew were still on board. Almost all those who jumped or fell into the water either drowned or died within minutes due to the effects of cold shock and incapacitation. arrived on the scene about an hour and a half after the sinking and rescued the last of the survivors by 09:15 on 15 April, some nine and a half hours after the collision. The disaster shocked the world
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Titanic replica (Sichuan)


the Fu River. The new "Titanic" is being assembled at the coordinates . In 1912, the original "Titanic" set out on its maiden and only voyage from Southampton in the United Kingdom to New York City. Five days into the voyage, the ship hit an iceberg and sank, killing approximately 1,500 of the 2,224 aboard. "Titanic" was the largest ship of its time. South African businessman mogul Sarel Gous proposed building "Titanic II" in 1998. Gous said he had acquired the original drawings for
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RMS Titanic alternative theories


1998 documentary titled "Titanic: Secrets Revealed", the Discovery Channel ran model simulations which also rebutted this theory. The simulations indicated that opening "Titanic"s watertight doors would have caused the ship to capsize earlier than she actually sank by more than one half hour, confirming the findings of Bedford and Hacket. "Titanic" researchers continued to debate the causes and mechanics of the ships breakup. According to his book, "A Night to Remember", Walter Lord described "Titanic" as assuming an "absolutely perpendicular" position
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Titan the Robot


by Tuxuan Robotics. The upper body of Titan is controlled by the operator through the operator panel. The upper part of the operator is located on the costume's chest, where a unidirectional transparent glass window is available for the operator to observe the situation ahead. Titan has a shoulder, arm and head that is higher than the actual performer's head (up to 8 feet in total). The part above its chest is a remote control mechanism. The operator in the body can manipulate the upper part of Titan through
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Titanic Historical Society


The "Titanic" Historical Society, Inc. (THS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1963, whose purpose is the preservation of the history of the famous ocean liner RMS "Titanic", which sank in 1912, in one of the greatest maritime disasters in history. Headquartered in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, (United States), its founder and president was Edward S. Kamuda, who died at 74 in April, 2014. Principal activities of the "Titanic" Historical Society include: For many years, the
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Cultural legacy of RMS Titanic


such film about the disaster, "Saved from the Titanic", is now lost. It was released only 29 days after the ship sank and had an actual survivor as its star—the silent film actress Dorothy Gibson. The story of the sinking was also told in heavily fictionalised form as a Nazi propaganda movie ("Titanic", 1943) and as an American melodrama ("Titanic", 1953). The British film "A Night to Remember" (1958) is still widely regarded as the most historically
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Dave Serrano


the 1991 season after Horton left to become associate head coach to Augie Garrido at Cal State Fullerton. Serrano returned to assistant coaching duties for 1992–94 for the Falcons before going to Tennessee, where he served two seasons as pitching coach for Rod Delmonico. The Volunteers went 97–36 and made their first trip to Omaha in 44 years in 1995, when they were twice routed by Fullerton's third national championship team. Serrano would become the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for former Titan head coach Horton and the Titans for the 1997 through 2004
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History of the Tennessee Titans


Tennessee Titans, died on October 21. The 2014 season was the first for head coach Ken Whisenhunt, the Titans finished the season 2–14, their worst record in Tennessee Titans history, tying the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the league's worst record, and their worse since 1994 when they was the Houston Oilers. In 2015, the Titans had the second pick of the NFL draft. They selected QB Marcus Mariota, one of the best prospects of the 2015 class. It was Ken Whisenhunt's second season as head coach.
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Titanic Historical Society


A Night to Remember", was another featured guest. The Society also works to preserve the history of other ocean liners, especially the "Titanic" 's sister ship, the White Star Line's HMHS "Brittanic", which sank after hitting an enemy mine in World War I, and the Cunard ship RMS "Lusitania". The society also publishes articles about various other famous ships, such as the RMS "Queen Mary" and SS "Normandie", in "The Titanic Commutator". The "Titanic"
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Sinking of the RMS Titanic


the deck itself. Part of the enduring folklore of the "Titanic" sinking is that the musicians played the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee" as the ship sank, but this appears to be dubious. The claim surfaced among the earliest reports of the sinking, and the hymn became so closely associated with the "Titanic" disaster that its opening bars were carved on the grave monument of "Titanic"s bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, one of those who perished. Violet Jessop said in her 1934 account of the
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Titanic (restaurant)


Whilst he was in charge of the Titanic, the hotel chain had been repeatedly sold. First from Forte to Granada, then to Compass Group and finally to Japanese investment bank Nomura Group. White described the end of the Titanic, saying that it "sank". Due to the number of covers, White attempted to keep the menu at the Titanic much simpler than at his other restaurants. Staples such as burgers and french fries were included (listed on the menu as "Steak Hache A La MacDonalds"), as
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The Sinking of the Titanic


The Sinking of the Titanic is a work by British minimalist composer Gavin Bryars. Inspired by the story that the band on the RMS "Titanic" continued to perform as the ship sank in 1912, it recreates how the music performed by the band would reverberate through the water some time after they ceased performing. Composed between 1969 and 1972, the work is now considered one of the classics of British experimental music. Bryars' inspiration for the work came from a report that the wireless operator Harold Bride on the "Titanic"
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Titanic (2012 miniseries)


Titanic is a four-part television miniseries and period drama written by Julian Fellowes. It is based on the passenger liner RMS "Titanic", which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912 following a collision with an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. It was released in at least 86 countries in March and April 2012 for the disaster's 100th anniversary, 15 April 2012, one of two such productions, the other was "" (April 2012). "Titanic" is a
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The Titan Games


claimed it would be similar to NBC's 2008 remake of "American Gladiators" where contenders try to defeat an existing Titan, but is was not the case; newly-victorious Titans would then defend their titles in future episodes. Competition obstacles were inspired by Johnson's personal workouts. In each episode, four male and four female contestants compete to be named Titans. In each of four preliminary heats, two men or two women compete head-to-head; the two male winners and two female winners then compete on
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Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic


There have been several legends and myths surrounding the RMS "Titanic" over the years. These have ranged from the myth about the ship being unsinkable, to the myth concerning the final song played by the ship's orchestra. Contrary to popular mythology, "Titanic" was never described as "unsinkable", "without qualification", until "after" she sank. Three trade publications (one of which was probably never published) described "Titanic" as "practically" unsinkable prior to her sinking. Many survivors recalled
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Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City


Also a part of the site is the old George's Dock wall, which dates from the late 18th century, as well as several memorials, including one built to honour the engineers who remained at their post as the RMS Titanic sank. Listed Buildings The Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses located to the south of the Pier Head. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick and opened in 1846, the Albert Dock warehouses were the first in the world to be entirely fireproof, due to their construction from
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Mary (Mai) Huttleston Rogers Coe


, and he was involved in insuring the hull of the RMS "Titanic" which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Like many other famous families of the Gilded Age, the Coe family had been booked for the ill-fated liner's return trip to Southampton, England. By 1916, Coe had been named Chairman of the Board of Johnson and Higgins. Coe was on the Board of Directors of The Virginian Railway Company from 1910 until his death in 1955, and headed the company for a brief period during World
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Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic


" and "Titanic" were assigned the yard numbers 400 and 401 respectively. At the time the "Titanic" sank, the 1 May 1912 issue of "The Popular Magazine", an American pulp magazine, was on the news stands. It contained the short story "The White Ghost of Disaster," which described the collision of an ocean liner with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, the sinking of the vessel, and the fate of the passengers. The story, by Mayn Clew Garnett (the pseudonym of
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USS Bowfin (SS-287)


waters, she headed for a station near the Japanese home islands south of Honshū where she performed lifeguard services for American planes — both naval and Army — raiding strategic enemy targets in Japan. On 17 February, "Bowfin" attacked two Japanese subchasers and sank the 750-ton "Coast Defense Vessel No. 56" with torpedoes and then survived a 26-depth-charge attack by her victim's consort which had herself barely escaped destruction when some of "Bowfin"’s torpedoes exploded prematurely. The submarine later sank a Japanese sea truck with
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Titanic Musicians' Memorial


band continued to play until the very end. The inscription 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' has an association with the RMS "Titanic" as it was reported by one passenger that the ship's band played the hymn as the "Titanic" sank. However, the actual 'final' song played by the band is unclear; "Nearer, My God, to Thee" has gained popular acceptance. Former bandmates claimed that Hartley said he would either play "Nearer, My God, to Thee" or
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RMS Titanic in popular culture


onto a sinking ship by a mysterious person named Zero. In their introduction, Zero references the "Titanic"s sinking in the line "On April 14, 1912... the famous ocean liner "Titanic" crashed into an iceberg. After remaining afloat for 2 hours and 40 minutes, it sank beneath the waters of the North Atlantic. I will give you more time. 9 hours is the amount of time you will be given to escape." It is later discovered that the "ship" they are on is a replica
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Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic


they had remained on "Titanic". Ismay sought to spur those lowering the boat to greater urgency by calling out repeatedly: "Lower away!" This resulted in Lowe losing his temper: "If you'll get the hell out of the way, I'll be able to do something! You want me to lower away quickly? You'll have me drown the lot of them!" The humiliated Ismay retreated up the deck. In the end, the boat was launched safely. After "Titanic" sank,
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Wreck of the RMS Titanic


parts of the wreck of "Titanic" present a striking contrast. Although fourteen survivors testified that the ship had broken apart as she sank, this testimony was discounted by the official inquiries, and it was supposed that the ship had sunk intact. It is now clear that the stresses on "Titanic" caused the ship to split apart between the second and third funnels at or just below the surface. The bow section, which measures about long, is thought to have descended at an angle of about 45°. Its
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Passengers of the RMS Titanic


A total of 2,224 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic", the second of the White Star Line's "Olympic"-class ocean liners, from Southampton, England, to New York City. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including about 815 of the passengers. The "Titanic"s passengers were divided into three separate classes, determined not only by the price of their ticket, but also
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RMS Titanic in popular culture


, as an indictment of the class divisions of the time, and as romantic tragedies with personal heroism. It has inspired many moral, social and political metaphors and is regularly invoked as a cautionary tale of the limitations of modernity and ambition. The RMS "Titanic" has been commemorated in a wide variety of ways in the century after she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. As D. Brian Anderson has put it, the sinking of "Titanic" has "become a part of our mythology, firmly entrenched in
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Stanley Lord


Stanley Phillip Lord (13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962) was captain of the SS "Californian", the nearest ship to the "Titanic" on the night it sank on 15 April 1912, and, depending on which sources are believed, likely the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least its rockets, during the sinking. Lord, and the Californian more generally, have been criticized for the fact that the Californian did not render timely assistance to the Titanic. Two official inquiries were critical of Lord
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Jack Thayer


Titanic" and proved that the ship had split in half as it sank, contrary to popular belief. Thayer was among those who clearly reported seeing "Titanic "break in two, as it was finally confirmed by Ballard's discovery of the wreck. Thayer's account is sometimes included jointly with the memoirs of the disaster by fellow survivor Archibald Gracie IV, in modern editions of Gracie's book "Titanic: A Survivor's Story". During World War II, both of Jack's sons enlisted in the armed services.
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Titanic replica (Sichuan)


The replica ship of the RMS "Titanic" in landlocked Sichuan province, China will be a full-scale reconstruction of the original "Olympic"-class ocean liner. It has been commissioned by Seven Star Energy Investment and is being constructed by Wuchang Shipbuilding. Despite this, the vessel is being built around the location at which it will be docked, and not at Wuchang Shipyard. The original "Titanic" sank in 1912 and is considered one of the most well-known ocean liners of all time. The rebuild project was first
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International Ice Patrol


Ice Patrol. On her maiden voyage from Southampton, England bound for New York, "Titanic" collided with an iceberg just south of the tail of the Grand Banks and sank in less than three hours. The loss of life was enormous with more than 1,500 of the 2,224 passengers and crew perishing. "Titanic", the brand new ship of the White Star Line, was the largest passenger liner of her time displacing 45,000 tons and capable of sustained speed in excess of . The loss of "Titanic" gripped the
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