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Christina Lubicz (1934-2019), a Polish-born actress, appeared as the "Polish Girl" in A Night to Remember (1958), one of the passengers in the steerage party scene. Later, with her husband, ran a translation firm serving the pharmaceutical industry. #titanic #britishfilm
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Christina Lubicz (1934-2019), a Polish-born actress, appeared as the "Polish Girl" in A Night to Remember (1958), one of the passengers in the steerage party scene. Later, with her husband, ran a translation firm serving the pharmaceutical industry. #titanic #britishfilm
A newly surfaced French newspaper article seems to reveal that Alfred Nourney, alias “Baron von Drachstedt,” occupied the same cabin as Noël Malachard and René Lévy. The piece names a “baron of German origin” as Malachard’s surviving cabin mate. #titanic http://titanica.org/b/220
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A newly surfaced French newspaper article seems to reveal that Alfred Nourney, alias “Baron von Drachstedt,” occupied the same cabin as Noël Malachard and René Lévy. The piece names a “baron of German origin” as Malachard’s surviving cabin mate. #titanic http://titanica.org/b/220
A previously unknown photograph of Titanic survivor Lucy Ridsdale. Frequently, she is mistaken for her namesake, the wife of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin! Our Lucy was a Yorkshire-born nurse.
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Lucy Ridsdale : Titanic Survivor
Miss Lucy Ridsdale, a Yorkshire-born nurse afflicted with a club foot, survived the Titanic disaster while travelling second class to join her sisters in America, later settling in Chicago.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A previously unknown photograph of Titanic survivor Lucy Ridsdale. Frequently, she is mistaken for her namesake, the wife of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin! Our Lucy was a Yorkshire-born nurse.
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❝No, never as long as I live, shall I forget it, nor the brave souls who perished.❞ – Titanic survivor Kate Buss.
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Kate Buss's Titanic Letters Home
In letters home, some of which were reproduced verbatim in her local newspaper, Second Class passenger Kate Buss gave a colourful and detailed account of her time aboard the Titanic and of her rescue.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
❝No, never as long as I live, shall I forget it, nor the brave souls who perished.❞ – Titanic survivor Kate Buss.
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Miss Anne K. Eastman and her chaperone Mrs Charlton T. Lewis were booked on the Titanic but for some reason cancelled their passage, learn more...
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Margaret Lewis had been travelling in Europe and intended to return on the Titanic, but for some reason, she cancelled her ticket.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Miss Anne K. Eastman and her chaperone Mrs Charlton T. Lewis were booked on the Titanic but for some reason cancelled their passage, learn more...
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The true story of Titanic Lifeboat No. 8 — when a Welsh sailor and a Countess rowed side-by-side through the night... www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/sailor-count...
The sailor and the countess: Lifeboat No. 8
The true story of Titanic Lifeboat No. 8 — when a Welsh sailor and a Scottish countess rowed side-by-side through the night, and forged a lifelong friendship.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The true story of Titanic Lifeboat No. 8 — when a Welsh sailor and a Countess rowed side-by-side through the night... www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/sailor-count...
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/law-women-ch... How the #Titanic disaster was used by both critics and supporters of women’s rights to debate gender roles, contrasting the protective maritime code of “women and children first” with the harsher social realities faced by women on land.
The law of the sea: women and children first. The law of the land - that’s different
An analysis of the ways in which the treatment of women differed between the land and sea during times of strife.
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June 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/law-women-ch... How the #Titanic disaster was used by both critics and supporters of women’s rights to debate gender roles, contrasting the protective maritime code of “women and children first” with the harsher social realities faced by women on land.
Meticulous notes by a Dutch shipping line official provide fascinating details of what it was like to sail on Olympic. — www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/voyage-olymp...
A Voyage on the Olympic
Meticulous notes by a Dutch shipping line official provide fascinating details of what it was like to sail on Olympic.
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February 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Meticulous notes by a Dutch shipping line official provide fascinating details of what it was like to sail on Olympic. — www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/voyage-olymp...
Hugh Woolner was a British stockbroker. He was a member of Colonel Gracie's exclusive 'coterie' of first-class passengers. Woolner survived by leaping onto Collapsible Lifeboat D. He later testified at the American inquiry into the disaster. — www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-surv...
February 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Hugh Woolner was a British stockbroker. He was a member of Colonel Gracie's exclusive 'coterie' of first-class passengers. Woolner survived by leaping onto Collapsible Lifeboat D. He later testified at the American inquiry into the disaster. — www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-surv...
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January 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Why were Titanic's reported positions so far from her actual location? — https://titanica.org/i/985/
January 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Why were Titanic's reported positions so far from her actual location? — https://titanica.org/i/985/
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George Floyd Eitemiller : Titanic Victim
George had been abroad as a European representative of a Cincinnati automobile company and his local address prior to joining the Titanic was the Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row, London.
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January 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Charles C. Puffer: Cancelled Titanic First Class Passenger | Encyclopedia Titanica www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biog...
Charles C. Puffer: Cancelled Titanic First Class Passenger
Businessman who booked passage on Titanic from Cherbourg but cancelled before sailing.
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January 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Michel Navratil : Titanic Victim
Biography of Michel Navratil : Titanic Victim
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January 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The Johnson family, Alice, Eleanor and Harold, in 1958 at a screening of A Night to Remember... what do you think might be wrong in this photo?
January 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The Johnson family, Alice, Eleanor and Harold, in 1958 at a screening of A Night to Remember... what do you think might be wrong in this photo?
A charming portrait of Titanic passengers Anna Hämäläinen and her son Wiljo, with Anna's husband John. Anna and Wiljo were travelling to join John in Detroit, Michigan. — https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/anna-hamalainen.html
December 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
A charming portrait of Titanic passengers Anna Hämäläinen and her son Wiljo, with Anna's husband John. Anna and Wiljo were travelling to join John in Detroit, Michigan. — https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/anna-hamalainen.html
A picture of a young Jack Odell. He travelled on the #Titanic with his family and some friends from Southampton to Queenstown, where, fortunately for them and fortunate for us, they disembarked since he and his sister took some iconic photos of the maiden voyage. https://www.titanica.org/b/2217/
December 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM
A picture of a young Jack Odell. He travelled on the #Titanic with his family and some friends from Southampton to Queenstown, where, fortunately for them and fortunate for us, they disembarked since he and his sister took some iconic photos of the maiden voyage. https://www.titanica.org/b/2217/
Brothers and shipmates: Clifford and Charles Harries lived, worked, and died together as crew aboard the Titanic. Aged just 16 and 19, respectively, Clifford served as a bellboy and Charles as a steward in Second Class. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/clifford-henry-harris.html
December 19, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Brothers and shipmates: Clifford and Charles Harries lived, worked, and died together as crew aboard the Titanic. Aged just 16 and 19, respectively, Clifford served as a bellboy and Charles as a steward in Second Class. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/clifford-henry-harris.html
They lived to see it re-enacted on screen. What did real survivors make of the Titanic movies? Mike Poirier investigates... https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/survivors-give-their-impressions-of-the-titanic-movies.html #titanic #titanichistory #titanicsurvivors #titanicmovies
December 19, 2024 at 11:44 AM
They lived to see it re-enacted on screen. What did real survivors make of the Titanic movies? Mike Poirier investigates... https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/survivors-give-their-impressions-of-the-titanic-movies.html #titanic #titanichistory #titanicsurvivors #titanicmovies
Popular evangelist Rev. J. Stuart Holden booked a first-class ticket on Titanic but cancelled due to his wife’s illness, almost certainly saving his life. He returned the ticket but kept the envelope as a souvenir, later framing it for his study. www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biog...
December 18, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Popular evangelist Rev. J. Stuart Holden booked a first-class ticket on Titanic but cancelled due to his wife’s illness, almost certainly saving his life. He returned the ticket but kept the envelope as a souvenir, later framing it for his study. www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biog...
The Titanic’s fourth funnel wasn’t purely decorative, though its limited function suggests aesthetics played a role. Critics often say artists wrongly show smoke coming from it, but this photo of #Titanic leaving Belfast proves otherwise—some smoke is clearly visible.
December 6, 2024 at 8:20 AM
The Titanic’s fourth funnel wasn’t purely decorative, though its limited function suggests aesthetics played a role. Critics often say artists wrongly show smoke coming from it, but this photo of #Titanic leaving Belfast proves otherwise—some smoke is clearly visible.
There's a wonderful level of detail in the medals that were awarded to the crew of #Titanic rescue ship Carpathia. Most crew members got a bronze one... this one was later gilded. The stewardess it was awarded to fell on hard times, left the medal at a pawnbroker's shop, and never returned for it.
November 18, 2024 at 8:51 AM
There's a wonderful level of detail in the medals that were awarded to the crew of #Titanic rescue ship Carpathia. Most crew members got a bronze one... this one was later gilded. The stewardess it was awarded to fell on hard times, left the medal at a pawnbroker's shop, and never returned for it.
A Tiffany Gold Watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia was sold today for an incredible £1,310,000 at auction. The 18ct. gold pocket watch is inscribed as presented by three survivors of the #Titanic April 15th 1912 Mrs John B. Thayer, Mrs John Jacob Astor and Mrs George D. Widener.
November 16, 2024 at 6:47 PM
A Tiffany Gold Watch presented to Captain Rostron of the RMS Carpathia was sold today for an incredible £1,310,000 at auction. The 18ct. gold pocket watch is inscribed as presented by three survivors of the #Titanic April 15th 1912 Mrs John B. Thayer, Mrs John Jacob Astor and Mrs George D. Widener.
Discovery leads to new concerns about deterioration of Titanic hull — https://titanica.org/i/815/
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Discovery leads to new concerns about deterioration of Titanic hull — https://titanica.org/i/815/
J. Bruce Ismay at different ages https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
November 15, 2024 at 2:40 PM
J. Bruce Ismay at different ages https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/