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Joseph Groves Boxhall: Titanic’s Fourth Officer
Joseph Groves Boxhall, fourth officer on Titanic (1912), was born on 23 March 1884 in…
William Murdoch, Titanic’s First Officer
William McMaster Murdoch, first officer of Titanic (1912), was born in Dalbeattie, Scotland, on 28…
Cassandre — The Man and the Poster
Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron), the Ukrainian-French artist who created the iconic and widely reproduced poster…
Harold Bride — Titanic Wireless Operator
Harold Sydney Bride, Titanic’s heroic junior wireless telegraph operator, was born on 11 January 1890…
Nellie Bly Boards Oceanic (1871)
Journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, traveling under the pseudonym Nellie Bly, boarded White Star Line’s Oceanic…
J. Florence Ismay — Dedicated Wife
On 31 December 1963, a Titanic victim who wasn’t even on board the doomed liner…
The Sinking Dollar (Line)
Dollar Line sank in 1938 after (ironically) running out of money.
The Great Christmas Eve Broadcast of 1906
On the evening of 24 December 1906, shipboard and other maritime radio operators along the…
J. Bruce Ismay: A Media Hit Job?
J. Bruce Ismay, the White Star Line managing director and Titanic survivor, was born on…
John Brown Was Never a Shipbuilder
John Brown & Co. built many of the world’s great ocean liners, as well as…