Helen Churchill Candee was on board the RMS Titanic on its one and only voyage. On the memorable night of April 14, 1912, the mighty Titanic rubbed its side along a massive iceberg, and the damage was severe enough that the ship was doomed to sink in a matter of … Read More
Whether people are the survivors of a terrible disaster, like the sinking of the RMS Titanic, or some other disaster, it takes an incredible amount of courage to be able to face certain death, and then pick the pieces up of their life, in order to go on. Once the … Read More
On April 15, 1912, the great ship, the RMS Titanic went down with over 1500 people still on deck. Even though the ship went down in 1912, people still did not understand that they were in the 20th century. The sinking of the RMS Titanic was such a shock that … Read More
When the great ship, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, no one who saw her leave, or who was on board her, would have any idea that they were literally watching history unfold before their very eyes. The passengers that were on the biggest … Read More
There were 705 survivors that escaped the sinking RMS Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912 (you can read more about survivors of this great tragedy here). The sixteen regulation lifeboats, and two canvas boats, got as many people as possible off of the doomed liner, and some of … Read More
The night of April 15, 1912 was the night that the world’s biggest and most famous ship, the RMS Titanic sank beneath the cold dark waters of the North Atlantic. When rescue ships finally made it to the Titanic’s last reported position, all they wound was debris, bodies, and the … Read More
“In my mind, the world of today awoke April 15, 1912,” is a famous quote by 17-year-old Titanic survivor Jack Thayer. The quote that he said over 100 years ago seemed particularly significant because the young man was saying a lot, not only about the age he came from but … Read More
Among the 705 Titanic survivors was a science teacher named Lawrence Beesley. The fact that Beesley had survived the disaster as a man was surprising, but he was not branded a coward because of the circumstances of his being saved. As the number 13 lifeboat was being lowered, the crew … Read More
On April 15, 1912, the biggest ship in the world, the RMS Titanic sank into the waters of the North Atlantic. Up until the Titanic sank, it had been hailed as being the biggest ship in the world, was called practically unsinkable, and the richest men and women in the … Read More
Anyone that has seen the movie, A Night To Remember saw a paragraph that talked about the fact that Joseph Boxhall, along with many of the survivors, that spoke to Walter Lord, and helped him write what is considered to be one of the best books ever about the RMS … Read More
