Where to start with Titanic?

If you are new to Titanic, or are looking for a book to tell you a little more you really can't go wrong with this one:-

 Titanic, The full story of a tragedy, by Michael Davie (published 1986).

I've spotted it with several different covers over the years.

Michael Davie (sadly no longer with us) was a journalist. Maybe because of this he had checked, and researched his facts so throughly. Mr Davie interviewed some of the men who worked on the Titanic and you will find extracts from those interviews in the book.

Its not a 'coffee table' book and my copy (now getting very brown around the gills) is weather beaten and has no illustrations.

It is however, a cracking good read. No wishy stories of 'legends' or curses' but the truth and a good investigative report.

Over the years it has been in an out of print, I suspect as 2012 comes along it will be reprinted (hopefully without a lot of gaudy photos). Please look out for it.

Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581

TITANIC - Message In a Bottle

From Irish Central News 5/11/11

A farewell message in a bottle that was thrown from the Titanic can now be seen at the Titanic Exhibition in the Cobh Heritage Center.

(If you haven't visited Cobh and are thinking of going do!)
The letter, which was presented by a family member of the victim, goes on display just as next year's centenary of the ship's sinking approaches.

Jeremiah Burke didn’t have much time to write a last note to his family as the Titanic went down. The 19-year-old, who was traveling from his home in Glanmire, Co. Cork with his 18-year-old cousin Nora Hegarty, simply said “goodbye all” in his last note.

The note was left in a holy water bottle which Jeremiah was given at the quayside in Cobh by his mother before he set off for the United States.

As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle and message into the sea.

: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581

titanic The Sage Family, A Peterborough Link

John Sage

As I live in Peterborough Cambridgeshire, I wanted to highlight our local link to RMS Titanic.

This relates to the Sage family, John & Annie of 237 Gladstone Street, Peterborough and their 9 children. The Sage family had recently bought a farm in Jacksonville Florida, where they planned to grow Pecan nuts.

Mr Sage was working in Peterborough as a baker, having had previous careers which included a stint working on the Canadian Pacific railroad.

The family were sadly all lost, with conflicting reports that one daughter chose to leave her seat in a lifeboat. When it became clear the rest of her family could not go with her, she chose instead to stay and perish with them on the striken liner.

Gladstone Street, Peterborough,Cambridgeshire.

Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581