Titanic News and Current Affairs

In a month's time, this will be running fingers crossed!
As you can see it's grown immensely and is just short of 2200 posts.
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Another Titanic event added to my map/calendar: White Star Heritage is at the NEC in Birmingham this April and May. #titanic

"Titanic: The Human Story" opens in Austin, Texas on April 9th. I've put details on my interactive map from a few days ago. #titanic

Latest additions are Liverpool Cathedral (open now) and OMSI in Portland, Oregon (opens in March)

I've just finished adding Titanic events and attractions to my map for the foreseeable future. You can click on the icons, (including bouncing ones) for more information, or look at the calendar

www.paullee.com/titanic/tita...

Historic Southampton is well worth following #titanic

The next Henry Aldridge auction of Titanic, ocean liner and transport items is on April 18th. The sales catalogue should be available a few weeks in advance. #titanic

Thank you, I wasn't aware of this. I shall put in on my "on this day in history" on my website for September 27th.

Critically Acclaimed Boiler Room Six Embarks on UK Tour to Mark Titanic Anniversary - Theatre Weekly Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and multiple five-star reviews, Tom Foreman Productions has announced its biggest tour yet with Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story

Boiler Room 6, a play about Fred Barrett and the efforts by the staff below decks to keep the Titanic afloat, embarks on a nationwide tour in April #titanic

theatreweekly.com/critically-a...

One man stage play about Titanic survivor Edward Dorking to open in Belfast in March #titanic

www.pressreader.com/uk/belfast-t...

Titanic crew member's incredible first-hand account of survival Survivor Thomas Patrick Dillon said "I would rather die a hundred times than go through such an experience again"

I provided a copy of the Daily Mail interview with Paddy Dillon to the Liverpool Echo and they have just put it on their website - and a link to this page!

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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Paddy Dillon also gave an interview to the Daily Mail in May 13th 1912, soon after he gave testimony at the London Titanic Inquiry. If you want to read it (sorry about the scanner faults!) look at www.paullee.com/titanic/Dail...
- replace the last number, up to 7 to get all the pages
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I'd be very interested to learn more about this!

'Luckiest man on the Titanic' laid in unmarked grave for 86 years Thomas Patrick Dillon went down with the doomed ship, but was miraculously saved from the freezing ocean

There's a Titanic exhibition in Liverpool (at the old White Star HQ) and to mark this the local paper is running local stories. This is about trimmer Paddy Dillon

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Daughter of Titanic survivor spent whole life searching for truth Ellen Mary Walker was born nine months after her mum miraculously escaped the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912

A clandestine love affair on the Titanic

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The Derbyshire man with inexplicable foresight who survived the Titanic In the latest edition of our 'Little Did You Know' series, we take a look at the Derbyshire man who, against the odds, survived one of the world's most well-known shipping disasters

Derby's connections to the Titanic, including Lawrence Beesley, one of the few 2nd class passengers to survive

www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

For instance, the date of the first charitable function post disaster (music, theatre, sport etc), which is proving very hard to pin down.

I finally finished transferring my existing files last night. 2171 posts in total for April. There are a few new ones that I might add.

King's New Year's Honours celebrate contributions to the community in Hampshire A historian who has become a pioneer in recovering relics from the Titanic, a medical director who helped establish the first Paediatric ICU, and…

Peter Boyd-Smith is awarded the MBE

www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2572819...

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! #HappyNewYear #Titanic

Absolutely no surprise what the most used word and busiest month were!

titanic1912.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025 Check out titanic1912.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!

This year on Bluesky I wrote 2,196 posts and 108 replies. I received 10,513 likes, whereas 52 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "titanic" and 😉!

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The Devon man at Titanic's wheel when disaster struck Robert Hichens - who was at the wheel when the doomed liner hit the iceberg - lived a colourful life

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www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Honour and Glory crowned by tinsel
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Happy Christmas from the White Star Line

Happy Christmas! #HappyChristmas #HappyHolidays #Titanic

Previously unpublished postcards — including one written aboard the Titanic — provide fleeting biographical insight into the life of Sarah Daniels, whose trail vanishes after April 1912. www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/sarah-daniel... - #titanic #historicalresearch #history

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