Charles Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley, on March 30, 1874, the youngest of seven children to army captain Frederick James Lightoller ...
Titanic Captain Edward Smith bore the lion's share of the responsibility for the lives lost. But the disaster was only the start of his family's tragic legacy.
She died in 1971 at age 83. Frederick Fleet, a British sailor, was just 25 years old when he signed on as a crewman on the Titanic. He was one of five lookouts on the ill-fated voyage, and it was ...
He died in the sinking. Another passenger featured in the simulation is a Chinese sailor – based on one of the six Chinese sailors who were onboard the Titanic. In the simulation, you hear the ...
The launch of Titanic in May 1911 was the peak of Belfast’s golden age of shipbuilding. Titanic was the largest man-made object ever to have taken to the seas. Harland and Wolff employed ...
A Sussex author has examined the surprising connection between the captain of the Titanic and the mysterious death of an MI5 spy.