Empress of Ireland — Pride of Canada
Canadian Pacific Line’s Empress of Ireland was launched on 27 January 1906 at Glasgow’s Fairfield…
Monthly Archives: January, 2017
Laurentic’s Lost Gold
The former White Star liner Laurentic (1908) struck two mines off Lough Swilly, Ireland, on…
Cassandre — The Man and the Poster
Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron), the Ukrainian-French artist who created the iconic and widely reproduced poster…
The Forgotten Titanic Baseball Game
Less than a week after White Star Line’s Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to…
The Italian Oceanic
Home Lines’ Oceanic (1965) was launched on 15 January 1963 at Italy’s Cantieri Riuniti dell’…