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Titanic Engineers' Memorial in Glasgow. A memorial to thirty-six engineers aboard Titanic is located in the offices of the Scottish Opera at 39 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow – formerly the headquarters of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, whose members funded the memorial.
Duff-Gordon is best known for the circumstances in which he survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, along with his wife and her secretary, Laura Mabel Francatelli. Duff-Gordon and his wife had cabin A16 in the First Class quarters on the Titanic. [8] The three were among only 12 people who escaped in Lifeboat #1, which had a capacity ...
The Jack Phillips memorial cloister in Godalming, commemorating the radio operator who remained at his post while Titanic sank Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Titanic Memorial .
Scottish Opera has also staged many successful productions abroad, including Albert Herring in Florence, [6] Egisto (opera) in Venice, [7] tours in Germany, Austria, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Iceland and recent years including Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde in Lisbon; Macbeth at the Vienna International Festival and the European premiere of MacMillan's Ines de Castro ...
In his home town, Comber, one of the earliest and most substantial memorials for a single victim of the Titanic disaster was built. The Thomas Andrews Jr. Memorial Hall was opened in January 1914. The architects were Young and McKenzie with sculpted work by the artist Sophia Rosamond Praeger. The hall is now maintained by the South Eastern ...
The Titanic Memorial is a granite statue in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that honors the men who gave their lives so that women and children might be saved during the sinking of the Titanic. Ten days after the sinking on April 25, 1912, a group of women formed a committee to raise money for a memorial to honor the ...
Before 2002, Sidney was known simply as "The Unknown Child". His body, identified as that of a child around two years old, was initially thought to be that of either a two-year-old Swedish boy, Gösta Pålsson; or a two-year-old Irish boy, Eugene Rice, two other fair-haired toddlers who perished in the sinking.
A memorial to the 244 engineers, firemen, trimmers, and greasers who lost their lives during the sinking of the Titanic is located in the ship's port of registry, Liverpool. It is named the Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic. A memorial to the Titanic Engineers in Southampton, from where many of the crew members came.