New evidence has experts rethinking how the luxury passenger liner sank... By Justin Ewers For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank. The Titanic left Queenstown... Read Full Story
INTRIGUING items salvaged from the wreck of the Titanic are to go on public display in Liverpool for the first time. The objects, including pince-nez spectacles, a ladys wrist watch, a third-class White Star Line cup, a ventilation grille, five tie-pins and a five-dollar bank-note will go on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum on Friday. Read Full Story
OASIS OF THE SEAS vs RMS TITANIC
RMS TITANIC is dwarfed by the new OASIS OF THE SEAS - A comparison in size.
Size Matters: Big Media Coverage For The World’s Biggest Cruise Ship Creates Cruise Ship History
Cruise Ship History: Before Royal Caribbean’s new “Oasis of the Seas” begins its first voyage on December 1, it will already have drawn more pre-inaugural media attention than any cruise ship in modern history. To begin with, WABC’s top-rated “Good Morning America” show will be... Read Full Story
I have decided to take a break from cooking today. While, this is not something that I will do often, I thought that many of you would enjoy this. My best friend (who is more like a brother) works for the National Park Service and is currently stationed at Fort Sumter. Today he was able to wrangle a trip for us to the top of Sullivan's Island lighthouse (which just came under control of the park service). For those of you familiar with lighthouses, this is the ugly boxy black and white one... Read Full Story
Three ships lost at sea..., and their stories live on in books, movies, our minds and hearts..., and you've probably seen them all, except maybe number 2 ... Andrea Gail: The Perfect Storm (2000) ... a sword fishing boat out at sea with six men when a storm stronger than any in recorded history hit the coast off Gloucester, Massachusetts on October 30, 1991. The movie The Perfect Storm, based on Sebastian Junger's best-selling novel, so called because it was three storms combined into one... Read Full Story
Lighthouse structures are placed on dangerous coasts and shoals located in exposed environments. Lighthouse keepers inhabited these locations.
My great great Uncle, Captain Claude Sutton served the longest of all lighthouse keepers - 40 years on the Page Rock Lighthouse off Coke in Gloucester, Virginia. Captain Sutton liked for people to stop by the lighthouse. He told someone he had just returned from his home on Cedar Bush Creek and that his wife said to him “go down to the pig pen... Read Full Story
Barbara Stanwick says goodbye to Clifton Webb in the 20th Century TITANIC
NIGHT TO REMEMBER.
The band plays as the TITANIC sinks.
Scene from the 1943 Nazi produced version of the Titanic.
The TITANIC Movies - Complete List - From the Cinema to TV
Cruise History: The RMS TITANIC has been the subject of many films. From the Cinema to TV. From Nazi produced to James Cameron’s over the top Titanic. Here is a list of Titanic movies - including many of the posters along with... Read Full Story
These two photos show the Longships Lighthouse - and the second was taken from helicopter (flying to the Isles of Scilly - 45 km /28 miles off Land's End ). Longships is the name given to a group of rocks situated 1.25 miles to the west of Land's End , in Penwith, Corwall, united Kingdom. Longships Lighthouse is situated at Longships and the original was built in 1795 on the highest point of the largest rock. However, this was only 40 feet above sea level, and the tower itself was only 40... Read Full Story
please read this as it may save someone's life. INFORMATION EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW......................... B lood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters.... S.T.R. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.. It only takes a minute to read this... STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call... Read Full Story
“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.” - Charles Simic
This is one of two "twin" lighthouses in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It was originally built in 1828. In 1924 the Lighthouse Service ruled that all twin lights must be converted to single beacons. The lighthouse is located on private property but easily photographed from the street.
Humor for the day - A group of girlfriends is on vacation when they see a 5-story hotel... Read Full Story
