The Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, and was designed to compete with rival company Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania. Titanic, along with its Olympic class sisters, Olympic and the soon to be built Britannic (originally named Gigantic [3]), were intended to be the largest, most luxurious ships ever to operate. Tita ...

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Titanic was at the time one of the worst maritime disasters in history in terms of loss of life, a similar disaster of this scale having never happened out on the heavily travelled North Atlantic route. It remains the worst civilian maritime disaster in British history. However, Titanic's death toll was exceeded by the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River in 1865, where 1,700 died. The worst peacetime maritime disaster happened on December 21, 1987, when the passenger ferry Do ...

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The ship began its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, bound for New York City, New York, on Wednesday, April 10, 1912, with Captain Edward J. Smith in command. As the Titanic left its berth it passed many immobilised ships which were laid up due to a coal strike. The powerful suction created by the ship's propellers caused the liner New York, which was docked nearby alongside the Oceanic (the large number of immobilised ships in Southampton at the time and the absence of sufficient space to accommodate them meant t ...

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Margaret was on a European tour with her daughter Helen when she learned that her first grandson, Lawrence, was ill. She immediately booked first class passage back to the U.S. on the first ship that was available, the Titanic. When the ship collided with the iceberg and began to sink, she helped many others to lifeboats before being forced into one herself. Once in the water, she and the other women in the lifeboat worked together to row and keep spirits up, despite the a ...

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In 1912 Bride joined the White Star Line ocean liner RMS Titanic as the Junior Wireless operator and assistant to John "Jack" Phillips at Belfast, Ireland. Stories have appeared that Bride knew Phillips before Titanic, but Bride insisted that they had never met before Belfast.[1] The Titanic left on its maiden voyage to New York City from Southampton, England on April 10. During the voyage, from the wireless room on the Boat deck, Bride and Phillips sent out passenger's persona ...

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RMS Lusitania - Specifications. Gross register tonnage: 32,500 tons (89 340 m3) Length: 241m (790 ft) Beam: 30 m (88 ft) Number of funnels: 4 Number of masts: 2 Construction: Steel Propulsion: Quadruple screw, four direct-acting Parsons steam turbines Service speed: 26 knots Top speed: 28 knots Builder: John Brown & Co. Ltd, Clydebank, Scotland Launch date: June 7, 1906 Passenger accommodation: 563 first cl ...

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In 1907 Andrews began to oversee the plans of a new superliner, the RMS Olympic for the White Star Line. Along with Andrews, the Olympic and its sister ship the RMS Titanic, which began construction in 1909, were designed by William Pirrie and Alexander Carlisle. As with the other ships he had oversaw Andrews familiarized himself with every detail of the Olympic and Titanic to make sure they were in best working order. Andrews headed a group of Harland and Wolff workers who went on the maiden voyages ...

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Archibald Butt took a six week leave in Europe where he at one point delivered a message from Taft to the Pope in Rome. Returning to the United States Butt booked first-class passage on board the RMS Titanic. Butt boarded the Titanic at Southampton, England on April 10 and later that day was joined by his close personal friend, Francis Millet, who had accompanied Butt during a part of his vacation. At 11:40 PM April 14, while Butt was playing a card game in the first-class smoking room, the Titanic struck an iceberg and began sinking.^{See also:}

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Alvin, first of its class of DSV, was built to dive to 8000 feet. Each of the Alvin-class DSVs have different depth capabilities. However Alvin is the only one seconded to NOAA, the others staying with the USN. DSV Alvin - Sinking . In June 1969, the Alvin, aboard the NOAA tender ship Lulu was lost as it was being transported, with three crew aboard. The Lulu, a vessel created from a pair of decomissioned US Navy pontoons with a support structure added on, carri ...

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On May 7, 1915, six days after departing from New York and already within sight of the coast of Southern Ireland, the Lusitania was discovered by the German submarine U-20, commanded by Captain Walther Schweiger. Before the voyage, a secret warning, given to the ship's wealthiest passengers, reported that U-boat activity was to be expected and advised not to travel. There was also a public warning given by the German Embassy in the U.S. and embassy officials handed out this leaflet on the dockside:

In 1912, Lucile was called to New York on business, and she and her husband, along with Lucile’s secretary Laura Mabel Francatelli, booked first-class passage on the ocean liner RMS Titanic under the names Mr. and Mrs. Morgan. On April 14, at 11:40 PM the Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink. While the lifeboats were being lowered the Duff Gordons and Lucile's secretary were able to get into lifeboat 1. The lifeboat was b ...

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Bride, who had to be carried off the Carpathia because of his injuries to his feet, was met in New York City by Guglielmo Marconi and The New York Times which gave Bride $1000 for his exclusive story. Bride later gave testimony in the American and British inquiries into the Titanic disaster describing what iceberg warnings were received and what happened the night of the disaster. In the American Inquiry Bride was also questioned about, while working on the Carpathia, ignoring requests for information about ...

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The Lusitania made her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City, NY on September 7, 1907. At the time she was the largest ocean liner in service. In October 1907, the Lusitania took the Blue Riband from the Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North German Lloyd, ending Germany's 10 year dominance of the Atlantic. The Lusitania averaged 23.99 knots westbound and 23.61 knots eastbound. With the introduction of the Mauretania in November 1907, the Lusitania and Mauretania continu ...

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She went on to head the Titanic Survivors' Committee, participated in fundraising for victims of the sinking and helped to get a memorial to the Titanic erected in Washington, D.C. Margaret also published her account of the sinking in newspapers. Her fame helped her promote the issues she felt deeply about - the rights of workers and women, education and literacy for children, and historic preservation. During World War I in France she worked with the American Committee for Devastated France to rebuild areas behind the front line, and ...

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Thomas Andrews was born in Comber, Northern Ireland, to the Right Honourable Thomas Andrews and Eliza Pirrie. The younger brother to future Northern Ireland Prime Minister John Millar Andrews, Thomas Andrews lived with his family in Comber, County Down. In 1884 Andrews began attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until 1889 when, at the age of sixteen, he began a premium apprenticeship at Harland and Wolf ...

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On May 7, 1915, six days after departing from New York and already within sight of the coast of Southern Ireland, the Lusitania was discovered by the German submarine U-20, commanded by Captain Walther Schwieger. Before the voyage, a secret warning, given to the ship's wealthiest passengers, reported that U-boat activity was to be expected and advised not to travel. There was also a public warning given by the German Embassy in the U.S. and embassy officials handed out this leaflet on the dockside:

The Lusitania is reported to have carried, under the guise of bales of fur and cheese boxes, 3 inch (76mm) shells and millions of rounds of rifle ammunition. The ship also carried 46 tons of aluminum powder and scrap headed for the Woolwich Arsenal. These materials comprised "a contraband and explosive cargo which was forbidden by American law and… should never have been placed on a passenger liner." [1] At the time of the incident, the German ...

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Margaret was born in Hannibal, Missouri, one of six children of Irish immigrants. At 18, she moved to Leadville, Colorado, with her sister, obtaining a job in a department store. It was here she met and married James Joseph Brown (J.J.) in 1886. It was also in Leadville that she first became involved in women's rights, helping to establish the Colorado chapter of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, and worked in soup kitchens to assist miners' families. The family came into great wealth when J.J's engineering efforts proved i ...

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In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Butt joined the army as a lieutenant. He served in the Philippines from 1900 through 1906 and afterwards in Cuba. After Cuba, in 1908, the now Major Butt became a military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. When William Howard Taft became President the following year, Butt stayed on in the same capacity. By 1912, Taft's first term was coming to an end and Roosevelt was known to be considering a run against him. Very close to both men and fiercely loyal, Butt was caught in the middle. As his health was deteriorating during this period, he asked Taft for a leave of absence to ...

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