When Animals Travelled First Class
White Star was a serious player in the world of cargo, and the carriage of livestock...

William MacQuitty : Tribute to a Titanic Film Producer
Producer of the film version of A Night to Remember...

At Rest - The Memorial Service for Miss Lillian G. Asplund
The service for Titanic survivor at the Nordgren Memorial Chapel situated on Lincoln Street, Worcester....

Searching for Kirkland
The story of Titanic’s least-known clergyman....

A Captain's Career
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say- uneventful. Of course there have been winter storms and gales and fog and the like, but in all my experience I have never...

Several interview excerpts by Helen and family details
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Oceanic
White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks f...

Bulgaria
(aka Canada,Hercules, Philippines,Drachtenstein)Hamburg-Amerika LineOnTuesday, April 9, while traveling westbound Hamburg-Southampton-Baltimore,received a wireless message from the Caledonia warning of ...

Caledonia
Anchor LineOn 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra.Port of Registry: GlasgowFlag of Regist...

Cassandra
(Donaldson Brothers)On 9 April, while eastbound St. John, New Brunswick to Glasgow, Cassandra transmitted a warning of ice at 43 degrees 38’ N. by 49 degrees 16’ W. which was relayed at 2:55 p.m. by the Caledonia to the Bulga...

The Boxhall Letters
The following five letters, written to Mr. Joe Carvalho ofMassaschusetts by Commander Joseph G. Boxhall span the time period ofApril 1961 through July of 1962, and reveal the sentiments of the Titanicofficer regarding...

Royal Edward
Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd.Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 10’...

Annie
West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.Port of Registry: West HartlepoolFlag of Registry: BritishSignal letters: P Q N SSteel hull, one funnel, two masts...

Rio Pirahy
European and Brazilian Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. ...

Armenian
Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion.(courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Fam...

Hector
Port of Registry: SouthamptonFlag of Registry: BritishFunnel: Red, black topCompany flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal trianglesBlue at ...

Neptune
Port of Registry: SouthamptonFlagof Registry: BritishFunnel:Red, black topCompanyflag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles. Blue at ho...

Ajax
Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Div...

Hercules
One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock.Port of Registry: Southampt...

White Star Line Officer's Uniform Circa 1912
By and large the various British steamship company's officer's uniforms of the E...

Vulcan
Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)...

The tugs at Titanic's Departure
Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune...

Samara
Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers)Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued the c...

United Steamship Co. : Alexandra
Det Forenede Dampskibs Selsk (United Steamship Co.) Departed Emden, Germany for Boston, 13 March. On 3 April at 45 degrees 04'N. by 56 degrees 38'W. saw drifting ice and ice fields. Arrived at Boston 7 April....

Lord Cromer
Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...

Lucigen
Lucigen – Lucigen Steamship Co., (H.E. Moss & Co.) Departed Bremen, Germany 8 March for New York. On 24 March at 46 degrees N, 46 degrees West, encountered heavy pack ice with numerous bergs, an...

Maggie Madigan - An Irish Immigrant's Dreams Unfulfilled
It was August 11, 1890 in the small County Limerick village of Askeaton. On this bright sunny Irish day a thi...

Kura
Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.)(Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees 11&#...

Musgrave
On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the Musg...

Hornby - Tug that assisted Titanic at Belfast
May 31, 1911 Assisted following the launch of Titanic April 2, 1912 Assisted Titanic on her sea trials Port of Registry Liverpool Flag of Registry British Funnel Buff, blac...

Jackal
While the Titanic was outfitting, Jackal served as an auxiliary vessel moored alongside, her generator providing light and power aboard the ship for the outfitting workers. Also used as a yard tug. ...

Collingwood
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished state, were...

Alexandra Towing Co. : Alexandra
Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. Alexandra assisted during Titanic’s launch on 31 May, 1911 and during her sea trails Port of Registry...

Royal Standard
The story of a White Star liner that struck an iceberg 47 years before the Titanic......

Herculaneum
In addition to maneuvering Titanic after launch, Herculaneum also assisted during Titanic’s sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April 1912. Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. ...

Duke of Albany
(F. Kemp & Company)The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the many an...

Wallasey
Wallasey assisted during Titanic's launch on May 31, 1911 and stood by on her sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April, 1912. Port of Registry: LiverpoolFlag of Registry: Briti...

Glendun
GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway...

Titanic Sisters: The Newell girls
The saga of the Newell family of Lexington, Massachusetts is one known to many, especially the memories of Marjorie Newell Robb who in later years gave many lectures and spoke in many publc venues about her Titanic experience...

Stand up and Wave!
Ellen Mockler's Story...

The Mystery of Rhoda Abbott Revealed
Unravelling a Titanic enigma...

Moore family head stone, Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich, New York

Stead's Brother Indignant-Asks What Right Ismay Saved from Wreck
London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe...

Among the Souvenirs
A Daughter Remembers Margaret Devaney O'Neill...

Amy Stanley, Grave Marker

Dorothy Harder in 1922

Lillian Asplund's first Worcester Home
Lillian Asplund's first home at 6 Rodney Street, Worcester, Massachusetts...

The Tanner home on Eliza St., Providence, R.I.

151 Vernon Street Home and Asplund Destination
151 Vernon Street, Worcester, Massachusetts was the home of Titanic passengers the Asplund family....

Account by Marshall Drew
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...