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The Titanic Museum Attraction is a museum located in Branson, Missouri, United States, on 76 Country Boulevard. It is one of two Titanic-themed museums owned by John Joslyn (who headed a 1987 expedition to Titanic's final resting place); the other is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in 20 ...
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Southhampton, England to New York City. But a few days into the trip, the ship hit an iceberg and sank within hours. Approximately ...
Thomas Andrews Jr. (7 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a British businessman and shipbuilder, who was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.
CS Mackay-Bennett was anchored close to but not within the recovery area, and she offloaded her skiff lifeboats. Crews then rowed into the recovery area and manually recovered the bodies into the skiffs. After recovering as many bodies as they deemed safe for the return journey (51 corpses), the crews then rowed back to the CS Mackay-Bennett.
There were probably more dogs aboard, but their details (and owners) have not survived. Passenger Charles Moore of Washington, D.C. made a last-minute change to his plans to transport aboard the Titanic 100 English foxhounds, which he intended to use to start an English-style fox hunt in the Washington area. They were instead shipped aboard ...
The building and sinking of the Titanic took place at the same time as the debates on Irish Home Rule. [48] In the radio play The Iceberg (1975), Stewart Parker , a Northern Irish playwright , allows the ghosts of two shipyard workers who perished during the construction of the Titanic to speak about the Northern Ireland conflict .
Carlisle was one of the men who designed the three ships of the Olympic class: the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic. In the design of the Olympic and the Titanic, he was responsible for the decor, the equipment and general arrangements, as well as the implementation of the davits system for the lifeboats. After 40 years at Harland and ...
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has noodled for years with the idea of building Titanic II: a full replica of the doomed luxury liner that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Now he’s set a ...