Senan Molony

5 lessons from the loss of the Titan
Five lessons the operators of the Titan submersible could have learned from the original Titanic disaster...

Beesley (et al) and the Aft Port Side Boats
Lawrence Beesley helps to re-write the Titanic’s lifeboat departure story...

Coming to the Boyle
Titanic fire evidence prompts ‘Problems!’ remark...

Face to Bareface Liar!
Titanic survivor confronts his own impostor....

Titanic : Triumph and Tragedy
The third edition of the seminal reference book on the Titanic...

Lifeboats extinguished their lights!
Lifeboats from Titanic doused their lights to avoid dying swimmers after the sinking....

How to Survive the Titanic. Or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
Ismay as Ecce Homo...

Night and a Titan
What did Titanic look like at night?...

The Band That Played On
Senan Molony reviews Steve Turner's new book about the musicians aboard the Titanic The Band that Played On...

Violet's Barren White Star Wedding
The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time....

Rostron's Monster
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology......

The Hart of the Matter
FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…...

Captain Lord 1961 Interviews Transcript
Captain Stanley Lord master of the SS Californian, interviewed by Leslie Harrison...

Groves' Inappropriate Joke
The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captain, ...

Master and Commander
Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed...

Rostron's Lost Report
Titanic survivors could have been marooned in the Azores! Captain Rostron of the Carpathia considered landing them in the mid-Atlantic island chain for their treatment and onward travel – while he would continue his...

When did Titanic try for help?
When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...

WHO talked to Titanic?
Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...

Last Lap of the Largest
10 April 1912 marked Olympic's last arrival as the largest liner in the world...

The Turn of a Card
When Captain Smith gave the alarm, three gentlemen were in the Café Parisien playing bridge. One of them gathered up the cards and put them in his pocket, expecting to resume the game. Later the survivors autographed them and sent them to their friends in France......

Mount Temple Temp's Memories
Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple...

Ernest Gill in Australia
The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter....

The informative 'Morning News'
TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published in 1914 in the Sa...

McGough the Key?
Can a Titanic seaman be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures?...

McGough the Killer
Two killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage…...

The Riddle of the Sphinx
Passengers’ Egyptian experiences before boarding the Titanic, including premonitions, artefacts, and myths linking Egypt to the ship’s fateful voyage....

12.45am - A Time to Go!
What time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?...

Ice: Clear and Absent Danger
An argument hewn from ice!...

Honour & Glory: Crowing Time!
What did Titanic's famous grand staircase clock symbolise?...

The Unknown Adult
One of the opening scenes of the 1997 James Cameron movie Titanic has a parallel in real life....

The Fleecing of Hugh Woolner
Titanic victim faced bankruptcy...

Birma's wireless bears witness!
We have struck an iceberg sinking fast!...

Captain Ludwig Stulping of the s.s. Birma
CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...

Titanic's Supreme Survivor
How the President of the Board of Trade misled parliament and got away with it...

Let the record speak for itself!
THERE is an old adage that the argument is not always about what the argument is about....

Hugh Woolner's US evidence is highly unreliable.
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible ...

A PV Solves a Puzzle
THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study....

Loaded and the Tramp
Colonel John Jacob Astor was a hero of the Titanic disaster, putting his pregnant wife into one lifeboat and helping a child into another - defying an officer to do so. ...

The Portrush Letter
An insight into the character of Titanic Chief Officer Henry Wilde...

Lifeboats Don't Lie!
FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...

A Birthplace Reborn : The Titanic Quarter
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next seven y...

Lord Mersey — Obiter Dicta
HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusio...

Identifying Stewards
What are the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea?...

A Tale of Hoffman
A boy wakes, and he is on a train.The world is wriggling past the window.Papa looks, but does not say anything.Nor does he try to smile. ...

The Average Lifeboat
Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing...

On the Trail of 'Lucky' Tower
Titanic legend's most elusive man....

Rubáiyát reflections on Titanic
Mythical decorated book that went down with the Titanic...

The Middle Watch
Revealing Californian’s role in the Titanic disaster and unresolved questions of accountability....

Guinness 'Titanic' TV advert banned
Drinks commercial does not survive Titanic treatment A Guinness 'Titantic' ad has been banned because it could have caused offence to descendants of people who lost their lives in the tragedy. SINKING a pint has taken on a ...

A Last Bright Shining Lie
THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensive mythol...