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Morro Castle Pathe Newsreel
May 10, 2016
1934 Pathe newsreel; an intrepid cameraman is hoisted aboard…
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Queen Mary at Southampton Docks
May 4, 2016
A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen…
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Antiques dealer and family lost in disaster
May 7, 2015
The tragic story of Lusitania victim Edward Booth-Jones his wife and two children.
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The Voyager’s Dream
March 18, 2015
The story of Lusitania Victim William Henry Helm Brown. William…
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The Champagne King, the playwright and the Savoy Hotel
October 24, 2014
Lusitania survivior George Kessler. In 1889, the Savoy Hotel…
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Philadelphia Banker and wife – Harry J & Mary Keser
September 23, 2014
Two victims of the Lusitania sinking Mr Harry J. Keser, Born…
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William Meriheina : An inventive survivor
March 29, 2014
The story of William Meriheina, Lusitania survivor and inventor…
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The Lusitania : Part 1 : Contents
Stories life and death from the sinking of the Lusitania. …if…
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The Lusitania : Part 2 : Three Narratives
May 7, 2013
Each May marks the anniversary of one of the 20th century’s…
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The Lusitania : Part 3 : The Survivor
May 7, 2013
Lusitania survivor Barbara McDermott tells her story. There…
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The Lusitania : Part 4 : The Families
May 7, 2013
Only a handful of the Lusitania’s families, and we are expanding…
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The Lusitania : Part 5 : The Struggle to Abandon Ship
May 7, 2013
Robert William Whaley, John Idwal Lewis and Walter Dawson Robert…
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The Lusitania : Part 6 : The Port Boats
May 7, 2013
One enduring Lusitania myth is that of the chaos that reigned…
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Lusitania : Passengers of Distinction
May 7, 2013
Stories of some notable Lusitania passengers. Douglas Hertz Photograph…
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The Lusitania : Part 8 : A Hint of Scandal
May 7, 2013
Sensational and scandalous stories associated with passengers on the Lusitania...
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The Lusitania : Part 9 : Earlier Voyages
May 7, 2013
Lusitania, Eluding Enemy Nears Port... The general perception…
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The Lusitania : Part 10: The Warning
May 7, 2013
THE WARNING: “Now, if your upper classes run away like this…
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The Lusitania : Part 11: In The Water; A Lethargic Drift into Death
May 7, 2013
Passengers who sank with the Lusitania who did not drown in the…
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The Lusitania : Part 12 : Gone Forever: The Dead and the Missing
May 7, 2013
Eyes picked out by birds... An elderly lady, between 40…
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Mike Poirier
The Lusitania : Part 13 : The Morning After: Post Traumatic Stress
May 7, 2013
A deck view in Second Class Jim Kalafus Collection The…
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The Lusitania : Part 14 : Casualties of War
May 7, 2013
Sitting at Barbara’s kitchen table, on a late summer visit,…
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The Lusitania : Part 15 : Happy Ending/Immortality
May 7, 2013
We part from Barbara McDermott on a happy note. We always do.…
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The Lusitania : Part 16 : Appendices
May 7, 2013
Appendix A. Cunard confidential list of unidentified victims The…
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Morro Castle: Inferno at Sea
August 7, 2012
Jim Kalafus reviews Inferno at Sea : Stories of Death and Survival…
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I Was Shipwrecked on the Andrea Doria!
April 1, 2012
Michael Poirier reviews a new book on the sinking of the Andrea…
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Costa Concordia Eyewitness Accounts
January 26, 2012
Michael Poirier interviews Brandon Warrick and his sister Amanda who survived the sinking of the Costa Concordia in January 2012.
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The Sinking of the Sea Diamond
January 17, 2012
The sinking of the Costa Concordia has drawn inevitable comparisons…
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New books celebrate Italian Ocean Liners
December 10, 2011
In a world increasingly glutted with coffee-table format books,…
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Travels in Many Lands : 1920s Travel Documentary
November 18, 2011
7 travel films from the 1920s. 1 : Historic Bruges 2 :…
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Morro Castle : Deck Plans
June 14, 2011
Explore the Morro Castle through the deckplans of the ill-fated…
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Morro Castle : Passenger and Crew List
June 14, 2011
Passengers and crew aboard the Morro Castle at the time of disaster... Morro…
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Morro Castle : The Forgotten Voices
June 14, 2011
One night out from Havana. Aboard the Morro Castle, passengers…
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Morro Castle Newsreel
June 13, 2011
A newsreel from 1934 showing scenes of the fire that engulfed…
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Lest We Forget : The Coughlin Family
September 14, 2010
A beautiful spring day had brought together a band of people…
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Lest We Forget : Albert Arthur Bestic
August 1, 2010
“To me she was my dream ship. I saw her first when in her regal…
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The Price of Fame
May 7, 2010
Rose Ellen Murray, the Lusitania's Titanic Survivor Rose Ellen…
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Lusitania : Final Voyage Folios
July 21, 2008
The Irish State recently acquired at auction some unique Lusitania…
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Sky Cruise : A Flight on the Hindenburg
March 1, 2008
A unique photographic and documentary record of the tragic airship. Additional…
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Hindenburg
March 1, 2008
Gallery of images of the airship Hindenburg
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R100
March 1, 2008
The airship R100
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Graf Zepellin
March 1, 2008
Gallery of images of the Graf Zepellin
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Double Jeopardy – Lusitania’s Unique Victim
October 15, 2007
The astonishing story of the woman whose body was twice claimed…
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Recalling the USS Indianapolis
July 30, 2007
I was in the water, I was swimming away from the ship in the…
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London’s River
July 21, 2007
This 9.5mm pathescope film illustrates a 1920s tour down the Thames. From Hampton Court to the Pool of London the viewer is taken on an evocative journey through the historic heart of England's capital.
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The Cap Arcona
July 14, 2007
Perhaps the loveliest of the “forgotten” liners is Hamburg-Sudamerikanische’s…
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The Leaving of Liverpool
July 10, 2007
A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s. The…
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The Public Be Damned: One Black Week in 1875 – The SS City of Waco
June 28, 2007
The Loss of the City of Waco, November, 1875. “If Mallory…
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