anniversaries

For the Lucy buffs here, how will you honor the memory of the ship and her victims on the anniversary of her sinking? I have read there might be a couple survivors buried outside of my native Boston- anyone know precisly where? I might be inclined to drop off some flowers... regards...

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it is the 90th anniversary of the sinking and i think all of us should lite a candle at the time of the sinking for all of the people who were on the titanic dead or alive and for people we have lost in our lives and also for all of the people who lost there lives on 9/11! I have just had my...

It is a difficult period for me in the next week, simply becuase of 2 incidents. And id like to take this oppurtunity to write an open letter in this forum to all those involved in them all. The first being to Titanic and her souls. It has now been 90 years since your fate was met, and it was a...

As I think I've mentioned in the past, there have been plans afoot for some time to erect a new memorial to James Moody in his birthplace, Scarborough. Thanks to the energy and talents of the Friends of HMS Conway (Moody trained in HMS Conway for his career in the mercantile marine), this...

Hi, Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster when 200 people were killed when the Townsend Thoresen car ferry they wewre on capsized just outside of Zeebrugge Harbour in Belgium. The cause of the accident was found to be that the front loading doors of the ship had not...

Hi Shipmates, I was wondering if anyone knew of any 90th. Commemoration doings? April 14, 2002 should be memorialized. I know I'll be raising a bumper in silence to her and all who sailed her on that night. Cheers all, Bill

Although she lived to be 103, surpassing her mother by a year- nine years ago today we were stunned and saddened by her death. It was the end of an era -she was the last first-class Titanic survivor, and hers were real memories as she was nearly 20 at the time of the disaster. Many of her...

Went out to the cemetery this week and thought of you all. Fifteen years goes by fast- well, he wasn't famous or First Class but what a great man- am lifting one Irish Whiskey tonight to you Old Friend! Sing a chorus with us! http://www.geocities.com/revdma2/Marshall.html

What with all the hype about Pearl Harbor lately, I had forgotten about today's D-Day anniversary until the news tonight. NBC had a segment on the son of a Navy Vet who is currently using various new technologies to locate the many items off Omaha and Nebraska beaches- tanks, weapons, personal...

Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon (5th Baronet of Maryculter) 22 July 1862 - 20 April 1931. Age 68. _______ Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon (nee Sutherland) 13 June 1863 - 20 April 1935. Age 71. _________________________________________________ TIME magazine, May 4, 1931: "Milestones"...

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the loss of the ore carrier Carl D. Bradley. Here's a short summary on this tragic ship: The S.S. Carl D. Bradley was once the largest Great Lakes ore boat until, ironically, the Edmund Fitzgerald's entrance of service the very same year the Brad would be lost...

The 25th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is November 10, 2000. Although not a major disaster in terms of loss of life, much has been written about the Fitzgerald. The wreck is perfectly preserved, and even some of its crewman are still down there, also perfectly preserved...