Titanic Pages

I am proud to host the work of New Zealand Titanic researcher Graeme Jupp, who has created an 849 page document, "Titanic in 366 Days", a lavish and detailed work describing many of the key dates in the history of the Titanic and her sisters, and also encompassing the White Star Line and Harland and Wolff. Please note that the file size is 175 MB and may take a minute or two to download; you may wish to right-click the link and save it locally to your own hard drive. Please click here, or the thumbnail to the left to view this exemplary work.

Essays and research compiled and written by friends who have allowed inclusion on this site:

• Thanks to the generosity of Spanish Titanic researcher José Martinez, a 1959 interview with survivor Doña Fermina Oliva y Ocaña
• Thanks to the courtesy of Brian Hill, an essay that destroys the provenance of the iceberg allegedly seen from the Prinz Adalbert. This article first appeared in the British Titanic Society newsletter, "The Atlantic Daily Bulletin."
• Again, thanks to the courtesy of Brian Hill, an essay that discusses Captain Smith's experience with ice, and the ice conditions of 1912. This article also first appeared in the British Titanic Society newsletter, "The Atlantic Daily Bulletin."

• A frequently updated compilation of memorials and other locations relevant to the Titanic that you can visit (and a few, like wrecks, that you can't, sadly) and a calendar of scheduled Titanic-related events.
  Click here - Calendar updated March 30th 2022

• Some photographs of the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic.
• Shipping line's funnels and flags from the 1930s.
• Photos of ships from various encyclopedias.
• The White Star Line Pamphlet distributed to 1st class passengers of the Titanic.
• In March 1912, Bruce Ismay wrote to Director Bellin of the Hamburg-American Packet Company pondering on the issue of dry-docking a huge vessel in the event of an accident
• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Material gathered during my trip to Southampton, April 2014:
  • "The White Star Magazine" - photos of the Olympic.
  • Southampton Council interview with Edith Haisman, 1985
  • Southampton Council interview with Eva Hart, c.1987
  • Southampton Council interview with Sydney Daniels, 1982
  • Miscellaneous Southampton Council interviews with relatives of survivors
  • Photographs used in the book "Titanic Voices."
  • Titanic related buildings and memorials in Southampton.
• Photos of Lightoller's yacht Sundowner and the Ramsgate Maritime Museum.
• The Musician's Memorial in Soho, London
• A newspaper interview with Jack Podesta from 1968, printed posthumously.
• Titanic and Olympic related pages from the Illustrated London News of 1911 and 1912.
• British and Cambridge University Library research trip data.
• Adverts of suppliers to the Olympic class vessels.
• Clippings from the British Newspaper Archive. - Updated February 4th 2022
• Titanic and White Star Line artefacts from the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
• Artefacts from the Honour and Glory exhibition at the Time and Tide museum in Great Yarmouth.
• Harland and Wolff weren't happy with the lack of publicity for Hingley's anchors: page 1 and page 2

• The mistakes of "A Night To Remember" (1958)
• The mistakes of "Raise The Titanic" (1980)
• The mistakes of the 1996 miniseries
• The mistakes of James Cameron's version (1997)
• The mistakes of Julian Fellowes's "Titanic" (2012)
• The 2016, 2019 and 2020 Honor and Glory movies

The death of Walter Lord in 2002 deprived the Titanic community of its greatest, and possibly its best loved author. In over five decades he had amassed an enormous resource of interviews, letters, newspapers, paraphernalia, many of them rare and unique. Fortunately, Lord had bequeathed his collection to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and it now encompasses other Titanic related items of his friend, Bill Macquitty, who had seen the ship launched, and then, as Arthur C. Clarke once said "sank her again a second time" for the 1958 film adaptation of his friend's book, "A Night To Remember." Now, these files and items which helped to generate "A Night To Remember" and "The Night Lives On" are indexed and open for perusal in their museum's Caird Library ... at least for those of us for whom a trip to Greenwich is no problem. But what about the rest of us? Very few seem to have seen his private files, and it is the opinion of this author that the priceless information should be available to everyone, free. Hence, the purpose of this section: a transcription of Lord's, and Macquitty's, notes and letters. Although fasincating, the usual caveat should apply, viz. that the information given contemporaneously in 1912 should be regarded as more accurate than tainted or faded recollections more than 40 years after the event. Still, this does not necessarily mean that the information contained in these documents should be dismissed! They also show how some survivors were less than candid and open in their recollections, and, in a few cases, how Lord himself missed golden opportunities to further his knowledge (see his correspondence with Sylvia Lightoller and Eleanor Cassebeer as examples), and how Lord was taken in by opportunistic hoaxers (eg Walter Belford and Charles Reginald Burgess, who had a very similar name to a real survivor).

• Crew
• Walter Hurst, Fireman
• Charles Joughin, Chief Baker
• George Kemish, Fireman
• Harold Lowe, 5th Officer
• Herbert Pitman, 3rd Officer
• Richard Proffer, 2nd class waiter
• Alfred Pugh, Steward
• George Thomas Rowe, Quartermaster
• Mary/May Sloane, Stewardess
• Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Stewardess
• Jim Witter, 2nd Class Smoke Room Steward
• Leo James Hyland, 3rd class steward
• Fred Dent Ray, 1st class Saloon Steward.
• Passengers
• 1st class
• Alice Cleaver
• Hedwig Margaritha Frölicher
• Helen Ostby
• Emma Schabert
• Laura Francatelli
• Eleanor Cassebeer
• The Countess of Rothes
• Irene Harris
• May Futrelle
• Mary Lines
• Edith Russell
• 2nd class
• Lillian Bentham
• Sylvia Caldwell
• Albert Caldwell
• Mary Hewlett
• Jessie Leitch
• Lilli/Lyyli Silven
• Edwina Troutt
• Bertha Watt
• Elizabeth Nye
• Madeleine Mellinger
• 3rd class
• Gus Cohen
• Katherine Gilnagh
• Anna Sjoblom
• Selini/Celiney Yazbeck
• Miscellaneous
• This'n'that
• Sylvia Lightoller
• Sidney H.V.Abbott, a shipmate of Murdoch and Wilde
• Miss E.N.Blair, the daughter of the original 2nd Officer, David Blair.
• Colin Farquhar MacDonald, Marine Engineer
• Miss E.M.German, whose brother knew 5th Officer Lowe
• A.Brian Mainwaring, Seaman
• Augusta Ogden, Carpathia Passenger
• The photographic archives of the Lord-MacQuitty collection
• Anne Harper, Henry Sleeper Harper's Second Wife
• Harry Giles, Fireman NB: Giles would seem to be a hoaxer.
• George Harris, Cook NB: While there was a 2nd class survivor with this name on the Titanic, George Harris, the cook, would seem to be an imposter.

More accounts to come soon....

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1. The Titanic-Californian debate gets quite heated, and often results in insults and personal attacks being tossed back and forth (witness Senan Molony's postings on the Encyclopedia-Titanica message board). Their tactics are obvious - avoid discussions of the case, describe dissenters and their work as "trash" with no justification, besmirch their reputation (and what has that got to do with the quality of their research or conclusions?), refuse to admit when they are wrong, or launch legal action to get skeptic's works suppressed. Heres a good example, courtesy of Mr.Rob Kamps from the Netherlands.
2. Bill Wormstedt's excellent Titanic pages including George Behe's pages
3. Mark Chirnside's pages
4. All At Sea With Dave Gittins - (His pages seem to be down at the moment, please use this archived copy.)
5. Dave Billnitzer's pages on the Titanic-Californian controversy. Well worth reading. (His page seems to be down at the moment; please click here to see an archived version)
6. Sam Halpern's excellent Titanicology
7. The late Roy Mengot's Titanic Wreck and modelling pages
8. Parks Stephenson's pages on the Titanic. (The page is down at present; an archived versions can be found on The Wayback Machine)
9. The invaluable Titanic Inquiry Project
10. The Titanic News Channel
11. The Titanic Research And Modelling Assocation - the site seems to be down at the moment; please click here to see the latest archived version)
12. Dan Parkes' William Murdoch website.
13. Gunter Babler's and Susanne Stormer's Titanic Files page.
14. Dan Parkes' Titanic Switch Page.
15. Art Braunschweiger's fantastic Titanic model.
16. Bob Read's Titanic CAD plans and research Page.
17. On Facebook, the best resources are Titanic Passengers and Crew, Encyclopedia Titanica, Titanic Enthusiasts and The White Star Liners: Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.
18. The site of David Dyer (of "The Middle Watch" fame) and his excellent demolition of the arguments of the Lordites including Senan Molony.

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