Titanic widows' watch gift to hero rescuer: Gold timepiece given by wives of liner's wealthiest victims to captain of rescue ship after 1912 disaster is tipped to sell for £ ...
Madeline Astor, Marian Thayer and Eleanor Widener bought the 18ct gold timepiece from Tiffany & Co after they returned safely ...
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Mother Frances Cabrini: The unsinkable saint who missed the Titanic
In April 1912, Mother Frances Cabrini was in Italy with her sisters. Her plans were to visit her foundations in France, Spain ...
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A pirate ship of a pub decked with timber from railway station, convent and barracks
Gertie Browne’s in Athlone may be miles from the sea but it feels like a captain’s cabin and has links to the Titanic ‘Costs have gone crazy’: Katrina Hannon, bar and restaurant manager at ...
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The Shipwreck Detective
But he had heard of a self-taught shipwreck researcher, based in England, who was said to have an unusually broad grasp of the world’s lost vessels. Bound contacted the researcher, Nigel Pickford, by ...
Chase the Northern lights onboard a Viking cruise
We are sailing under a blanket of heavy fog somewhere between Canada and the southern reaches of Greenland in the Labrador ...
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Pabellon de la Navegación
Children can be cabin boys - hoist a sail, by pulling on a rope; smell the captain's cabin (pretty whiffy after months without ... Mirador both also house temporary exhibitions, such as the Titanic ...
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Before the Titanic Sank, a Cheerful Passenger Wrote in a Postcard That He Was ‘Leaving for the Land of Stars and Stripes’
A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...