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1. _Updated November 6th, 2014_Ismay's Escape - the chairman of the White Star Line leaves the sinking Titanic in its final moments. But did he jump or was he pushed?_Updated November 6th, 2014_
2. _Updated December 8th, 2014_Who really found the Titanic?- was it the French-American team in 1985, or did the Royal Navy unearth the wreck in the 1970s? Or was it another team entirely?_Updated December 8th, 2014_
3. Who watched the Titanic go down? - was it just the SS Californian, or were there others in the area, unknown to this day?
4. _Updated September 8th, 2014_The Olympic-Titanic switch - fact or fallacy?_Updated September 8th, 2014_
5. The Titanic and the Californian part 1
6. The Titanic and the Californian part 2 - my attempt at a possible solution
7. An essay that I wrote on the mystery of times, rockets, the first lifeboat launching and the lies of Senan Molony.
8. _Updated October 24th, 2014_A collection of ice warnings, and reports of wreckage and bodies from 1912._Updated October 24th, 2014_
9. The Titanic, The White Star Line and The Bank of England.
10. What did Herbert Stone of the Californian see?
11. Some unknown aspects of Captain Lord's life...
12. The SS Birma's PV resurfaces at last
13. The BBC interview with Titanic Survivors from 1956.
14. _Updated October 4th, 2014_What happened to the Titanic's crow's nest? Please be patient while the javascript loads the images._Updated October 4th, 2014_
15. _Updated November 8th, 2014_A complete record of wireless messages, and the timing of the first wirless and last Marconi messages, and Titanic's final plunge_Updated November 8th, 2014_
16. _Updated November 8th, 2014_An analysis of some of the vessels sharing the North Atlantic at the time of the disaster_Updated November 8th, 2014_
17. The antics of Daniel Allen Butler
18. _Updated December 8th, 2014_Below Decks - while passengers and crew were preparing for the evacuation, what was going on inside the ship?_Updated December 8th, 2014_
19. _Updated November 17th, 2014_"Iceberg, Dead Ahead Sir!" - what did the lookouts actually see?_Updated November 17th, 2014_
20. _Updated November 30th, 2014_The Britannic - the third in the Olympic class of vessels. Was she really to have originally been called the Gigantic?_Updated November 30th, 2014_
21. _Updated December 8th, 2014_The Sinking of the Titanic - what happened, and what did people see? This needs Java to run._Updated December 8th, 2014_
22. Is the wreck really disintegrating or is this a ploy to justify salvage?
23. What happened to the THS plaque?
24. _Updated December 18th, 2014_An essay describing the survivor's experience of the actual collision itself: this is graphics intensive and works best on a desktop or laptop computer with Firefox or Chrome._Updated December 18th, 2014_
25. The sad end of lookout Frederick Fleet
26. _New November 17th, 2014_The ice warnings received by the Titanic _New November 17th, 2014_

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).
_Updated November 20th, 2014_Click here_Updated November 20th, 2014_

1. _Updated August 19th, 2014_Some photographs of the Olympic, the Titanic's sister._Updated August 19th, 2014_
2. Shipping line's funnels and flags from the 1930s.
3. Photos of ships from various encyclopedias.
4. The White Star Line Pamphlet distributed to 1st class passengers of the Titanic.
5. 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
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6. Material gathered during my trip to Southampton, April 2014:
   • "The White Star Magazine" - photos of the Olympic.
   • Southampton Council interview with Edith Haisman, 1985
   •  New August 9th 2014 Southampton Council interview with Eva Hart, c.1987 New August 9th 2014 

1. _Updated October 18th, 2014_The mistakes of "A Night To Remember" (1958)_Updated October 18th, 2014_
2. The mistakes of "Raise The Titanic" (1980)
3. The mistakes of the 1996 miniseries
4. The mistakes of James Cameron's version (1997)
5. _Updated October 19th, 2014_The mistakes of Julian Fellowes's "Titanic" (2012)_Updated October 19th, 2014_

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
• Harry Giles, Fireman_NB: Giles would seem to be another 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.
• 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
• _New January 12th, 2015_Leo James Hyland, 3rd class steward_New January 12th, 2015_
• Passengers
• 1st class
• Alice Cleaver
• Hedwig Margaritha Frölicher
• Helen Ostby
• Emma Schabert
• Laura Francatelli
• Eleanor Cassebeer
• 2nd class
• Lillian Bentham
• Sylvia Caldwell
• Albert Caldwell
• Mary Hewlett
• Jessie Leitch
• Lilli/Lyyli Silven
• Edwina Troutt
• Bertha Watt
• Elizabeth Nye
• 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
• _New December 8th, 2014_The photographic archives of the Lord-MacQuitty collection_New December 8th, 2014_

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. George Behe's Titanic Tidbits
3. Bill Wormstedt's excellent Titanic pages
4. All At Sea With Dave Gittins
5. Dave Billnitzer's pages on the Titanic-Californian controversy. Well worth reading.
6. Sam Halpern's excellent Titanicology
7. Roy Mengot's Titanic Wreck and modelling pages
8. Parks Stephenson's pages on the Titanic.
9. The invaluable Titanic Inquiry Project
10. The Titanic News Channel
11. The Titanic Research And Modelling Assocation
12. Dan Parkes' William Murdoch website.
13. Gunter Babler's and Susanne Stormer's Titanic Files page.

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