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Apr 3, 2024 · The photo was taken on 11 April 1912, just after Titanic departed Queenstown with an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard as the vessel embarked on her final journey.
Jun 22, 2023 · In pictures: Last known photos of the Titanic taken by Irishman on board. The Irish priest escaped the ship's ill fate after being offered an all-expenses paid trip the whole way to New York. Photo of a little boy playing on the saloon deck, taken by Irishman Francis Browne. The boy in the photo, Douglas Spedden, survived the sinking of the ...
- Laura Grainger
Jul 19, 2023 · Mary Soames (née Spencer-Churchill) at her wedding to Capt. Christopher Soames at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, 1947. (Photo Credit: PA Images / Getty Images) Mary married politician Christopher Soames in 1947, and traveled with him to Paris and Rhodesia for his official duties.
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- The Sinking of The Titanic
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Construction of the RMS Titanic began in 1909 in Belfast, Ireland, and would take 26 months and the work of thousands of laborers to build. But though the ship attracted attention for its size — at 882 feet long, the Titanic was then the largest ship ever built— some believe that it was flawed from the start. Some have theorized that the Titanic wa...
The Titanic left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. Just days before the Titanicsank, passengers were photographed on deck strolling by the ship's lifeboats, completely unaware that they'd soon have to be put to use. Indeed, the first couple of days of the Titanic'svoyage were largely peaceful. It made stops in Cherbourg, France, and Queensto...
Upon hearing the Titanic's distress call, the Carpathiahad charged to its rescue. Its captain, Arthur Henry Rostron, steered the ship through 58 miles of treacherously icy waters and arrived at around 3:30 or 4 a.m. By then, the Titanichad disappeared into the North Atlantic. "On all sides we could see lifeboats making laboriously toward us, some d...
Why did the Titanicsink? Various theories have been suggested over the years. Some point to the ship itself. In addition to its cheaper rivets and its compartments, one theory suggest that the ship had suffered from a coal fire, which weakened its hull. Another postulates that the ship's navigation system malfunctioned because of interference from ...
- John Kuroski
Mary Soames, the last surviving child of Winston Churchill, lived a storybook life and chronicled it in her own well-received books.After her family announced her death at 91 on May 31 in London ...
By any standards Mary Soames was one of the most remarkable women of her era: close confidante (possibly the closest) to Winston Churchill throughout the second world war, dedicated political wife ...
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Apr 12, 2023 · Photo taken on April 12, 1912. This photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on the surface of the ocean. It was taken during her maiden voyage at Crosshaven, Ireland, just after the vessel departed Queenstown where it had stopped before heading westwards towards New York. Three days after this photo was taken 1,514 people would be ...
