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In the News (Fri 25 Jul 08)

  
  RMS TITANIC, INC
Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 15 April 1912 with the loss of 1,522 lives.
Unlike earlier ships, many staterooms onboard Titanic were fitted with freestanding beds rather than less desirable built-in berths.
Omagh author Martina Devlin was doing some research for a book, she stumbled upon some facts which suggested that in her own family history, there was Titanic tragedy and romance to rival that of the greatest of Hollywood love stories.
www.titanic-online.com   (885 words)

  
  Titanic Disaster - MSN Encarta
The Titanic sailed under British registry as part of the White Star Line, which was owned by a United States company controlled by the financier J.P. Morgan.
Sonar experts, naval architects (including one from the shipyard that built the Titanic), a microbiologist, and historians of the shipwreck were among the experts accompanying the expedition.
At the time of the Titanic's sinking there were conflicting reports as to whether the ship broke up at the surface or sank intact.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564059/Titanic_Disaster.html   (1250 words)

  
  RMS Titanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Titanic was 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long and 92 ft 6 in (28 m) at its beam, it had a Gross Register Tonnage of 46,328 tons, and a height from the water line to the boat deck of 60 ft (18 m).
Titanic was divided into 16 compartments with doors that were held by a magnetic latch and would fall by moving a switch on the bridge; however, the watertight bulkheads did not reach the entire height of the decks (only going as far as E-Deck).
Titanic was once used in the plot of the NBC soap opera Passions, where the lovers Luis and Sheridan discovered that they were passengers on the ship in past lives (and that the witch Tabitha caused the iceberg).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RMS_Titanic   (8069 words)

  
 Titanic Times - Belfast at the time of the Titanic
HE TITANIC sank over ninety years ago but it has continued to interest and fascinate generations of readers, film makers, scientists and historians.
A novel, "The Wreck of the Titan", published in 1898 is often touted as a literary prediction of the ship's fate.
The Titanic sailed from Queenstown, County Cork, on 11 April 1912 with many Irish emigrants as third class passengers intent on embarking on a new life in America.
www.irelandseye.com /titanic/times.html   (596 words)

  
 Titanic (1997 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bulk of the plot is set aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage in 1912.
Titanic was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won in 11 categories while The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was nominated in 11 categories, and won all 11 with a clean sweep.
Titanic was first released to DVD in 1999 in a widescreen-only (non-anamorphic) single disc edition with no special features.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)   (5983 words)

  
 Normal Access to Titanic: The Legend Below.
Titanic's Maiden Voyage was the Atlantic Crossing, one of the most lucrative routes, which began in Southampton and concluded in New York.
Many people lost their lives on the Titanic and many survived; In this section you will find a list of survivors, a map of the crew and passenger quarters, a description about each of the passengers, and much more.
Unfortunately, because of the chaos and havoc aboard the Titanic, many of the survivors were unable to give cogent and understandable recollections of the incident.
library.thinkquest.org /18626/Normal.html   (1022 words)

  
 Facts about the sinking
But the maiden voyage of the Titanic came to a tragic end after it collided with an iceberg approximately 650 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland on the night of April 14, 1912.
On September 1, 1985, the wreck was discovered and RMS Titanic, Inc. was formed to explore the sunken ship and surrounding areas, to obtain oceanographic material and scientific data, and to use the data and retrieved artifacts for historical verification, scientific education and public awareness.
TITANIC LIVE, transmitting from the wreck site, is seen worldwide in over 140 countries.
www.exn.ca /titanic/details.cfm   (490 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Seahawks: Titanic turnabout for Tennessee
The Titans cornerback intercepted two passes and had a 23-yard punt return that revived teammates in the fourth quarter.
The Giants (6-5) lost their third straight in a titanic collapse, and coach Tom Coughlin called it a "terrible shock." They fell a game behind the Dallas Cowboys (7-4) in the NFC East going into next week's game in the Meadowlands.
The Titans forced the Giants to punt, and Jones almost dared New York to kick toward him.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/seahawks/2003449301_titans27.html   (642 words)

  
 Titanic Historical Society, Inc. - Titanic Past and Present
The first Olympic, would begin a new era of luxury travel; Titanic was next incorporating various improvements learned from the operation of her sister.
However the Titanic disaster is what people remember and in the process of editing company literature in newspapers and other publications, the word "practically" was dropped and the myth of "unsinkable" was born.
Titanic Commutator - Issue # 154 shows the massive Arrol Gantry at the shipyards of Harland and Wolff where Olympic and Titanic were Built.
www.titanic1.org /articles/titanicpastandpresent1.asp   (1566 words)

  
 PBS Online - Lost Liners - Titanic
The departure of the Titanic on April 10, 1912, on her maiden voyage made minor ripples compared with the Olympic's inaugural trip less than a year earlier.
Although her builders never claimed that the Titanic was unsinkable, she was widely believed to be so.
The glancing blow that ruptured the Titanic's hull over a distance of roughly 250 feet and admitted water into six of her compartments sealed her fate.
www.pbs.org /lostliners/titanic.html   (1890 words)

  
 Titanic History
The history of the Titanic began at a dinner party in a London mansion in 1907.
The Titanic was officially launched from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912.
Although the Titanic had received five ice warnings throughout the day on April 14, Captain Edward Smith decided not to slow down and continued on at 21 knots (25 mph).
www.titanicarchive.com /History.aspx   (675 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Last Song
He was not an excited, wild-eyed passenger, but a professional whose job required intense concentration and attention to detail and who remained at his post (at the risk of his life) even after being released from duty by the captain.
He was isolated during the trip to New York aboard the rescue ship, spending the first ten hours in the hospital and the rest of the voyage in the wireless room assisting the Carpathia's telegraph operator, and thus had little chance to be influenced by stories and rumors related by other passengers.
The tune that by far the most Titanic survivors reported as the band's final piece of music was, of course, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," a hymn manifestly appropriate in sentiment for the last moments of a doomed ship.
www.snopes.com /history/titanic/lastsong.asp   (1262 words)

  
 JOM Article on The Titanic: Did a Metallurgical Failure Cause a Night to Remember?
The construction of the Titanic was delayed due to an accident involving the Olympic.
The steel used in constructing the RMS Titanic was probably the best plain carbon ship plate available in the period of 1909 to 1911, but it would not be acceptable at the present time for any construction purposes and particularly not for ship construction.
Interestingly, although the Ulster Titanic Society opposes the salvage of the wreck, the society believes that as long as salvage work continues, RMS Titanic, Inc., is the best salvor to do the job.
www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/9801/Felkins-9801.html   (6597 words)

  
 Titanic - The crew
The maiden voyage of the Titanic was to be 62 year old Captain Smith's last voyage before he retired.
He joined the Titanic as first officer and was on the bridge at the time of the collision and gave the order to turn the ship.
After Titanic had sunk, Pitman wanted to return for more passengers but others in the boat persuaded him that they would swamp the boat and they would all die.
www.historyonthenet.com /Titanic/crew.htm   (863 words)

  
 RMS Titanic . Destination ... Cyberspace . RMS Titanic
The Titanic departed from Southampton, England on her first and only voyage Wednesday, April 10, 1912.
The Titanic could not turn out of its way in time and the iceberg scraped along the starboard side of the ship, creating a series of punctures and buckled plates 300 feet long.
The prevailing wisdom at the time was that a ship the size of the Titanic, which was "practically unsinkable," would never have a need for that many lifeboats.
home.gwi.net /~paul   (240 words)

  
 ENTERTAINMENT NEWS | KHOU.com | News for Houston, Texas
NEW YORK — The release of the blockbuster that made her a household name, "Titanic," should have been a happy time for Kate Winslet.
She recalls in the Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006's Parade magazine that when "Titanic" was released she was mourning the loss of her first love, Stephen Tredre.
Tredre was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1994, and died three years later during the opening week of "Titanic." The two had ended their relationship but "talked every day," she says.
www.khou.com /sharedcontent/features/printwire/110306cckrcwEntTitanic.bccc54.html   (385 words)

  
 Titanic.com - Welcome to the titanic community site.
A 3d Titanic model by Elissandre Rodrigues (2007/9/1)
Found here, a friendly and welcoming group of maritime enthusiasts whom learn and share facts about the Titanic and other maritime issues here.
The city where Titanic was built has been added to the Photos section the photos are devided in to 4 categories shown on the top of the photo section: 154 photos: Belfast, 83 photos: City, 32 photos: Harland & Wolff HQ Building & Drawing Office, 12 photos: Thomson Dock Pump House
www.titanic.com   (359 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Titanic (James Horner)
Titanic is easily one of the best scores of the year, if not the best.
Back To Titanic has a great piece of action music put in by Horner, "A Building Panic." At about 3:55 the music gets kickin' with the choir then joining in (the choir part was on the trailer when you see the Titanic sailing on the sunset).
Music was such an integral part of the dramatic and emotional impact of "Titanic", and yet so much of the music created by James Horner and others couldn't be included in the first album that I felt compelled to encourage James to create a second album.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/titanic.html   (3469 words)

  
 Salon Entertainment | Glub, glub, glub: "Titanic" goes under
In the opening scene of James Cameron's "Titanic," the most expensive movie ever made (as every review and article is duty-bound to mention), we see eerie undersea shots of the Titanic's submerged treasures and fixtures, as viewed by the movie's fictional underwater explorer, played by Bill Paxton.
That "Titanic," at three hours and 10 minutes, is a crashing bore is a big enough problem.
There's a reason seamen refer to their vessel as "she," and the Titanic, her famous and terrible fate aside, was something special.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/12/cov_17titanic.html   (1496 words)

  
 Titanic
Aboard the doomed ship of dreams that night on April 14, 1912, were the wealth and society of two continents, working professionals on holiday and immigrants hoping for a new life in America.
Titanic frozen in time -- A timeline of the history of the Titanic
Besides the Titanic exhibit, there are seven other art museums as well as non-profit art centers, college galleries and commercial showplaces.
www2.sptimes.com /titanic/default.html   (295 words)

  
 Titanic Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The ultimate irony of the story is that a young man's lucky hand of poker brings him in contact with a young woman who feels that she has nothing to live for, while on a doomed voyage.
Cameron fixates on these two characters, and it is their story, not the sinking of the ship, that is at the forefront of "Titanic"-- he has always put the relationships of his characters in the foreground, such as the Ripley-Newt relationship in "Aliens", or the Bud-Lindsey reconciliation in "The Abyss".
Whether it is the spectacular visualization of the Titanic's final death throes or something as minor as the icy breath of the shivering survivors, this film is a testament to how technology can contribute to dramatic storytelling.
users.aol.com /aleong1631/titanic.html   (1520 words)

  
 TITANIC SINKS!
Technological leaps since the sinking of the Titanic have made serious iceberg collisions a thing of the past.
Meet the machines that scientists and salvage operators have been using to study the Titanic.
Iron-loving bacteria have been feeding off the rusting hulk of the Titanic for 87 years.
exn.ca /Titanic   (234 words)

  
 Titanic
In August 2005, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, hosts of Deep Sea Detectives, led an expedition to the wreck of RMS Titanic.
On their final dive they made an extraordinary find: two large intact sections of the bottom hull of the Titanic in pristine condition with the red bottom paint still on them.
Analysis is ongoing, but preliminary indications are that these bottom sections will change our understanding of how the ship broke apart, and rewrite the story of the final moments of the Titanic.
www.history.com /minisites/titanic   (190 words)

  
 Titanic Movie: 1997 James Cameron's Titanic
Titanic had tied the 1950 Black and White film "All About Eve" starring Bette Davis as the most nominated film in Oscar history (Academy Awards held in 1951).
Titanic cruised for 15 consecutive weeks at number 1 before moving down to the number 2 spot.
The original "Titanic" soundtrack album has sold more than 25 million units worldwide and is 10 times platinum in the United States.
www.casenet.com /movie/titanic.htm   (680 words)

  
 Titanic Pictures, News, Reviews, Summary, Trailers, Cast and Crew
This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's 7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912.
Size of all sorts mattered for James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic, whose magnitude was in all ways unprecedented.
Discuss Titanic with Starpulse members in the forums...
www.starpulse.com /Movies/Titanic   (186 words)

  
 Titanic (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Did Cameron use real footage of the Titanic at the beginning, or was it computer-generated from what he saw when he went to the wreckage site?
Expecting to simply enjoy the story again, I was surprised to find that the movie has lost none of its power over these five years.
However, I doubt many of those I saw crying were Titanic buffs.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0120338   (845 words)

  
 Linux Helps Bring Titanic to Life | Linux Journal
Set on the Titanic during its first and final voyage across the Atlantic ocean, this tale had to be recreated on the screen in all the splendor and drama of both the ship and the tragedy.
Since building a full-scale model of the Titanic would have been prohibitively expensive, only a portion of the ship was built full size (by the production staff), and miniatures were used for the rest of the scenes.
During the work on Titanic the facility had approximately 350 SGI CPUs, 200 DEC Alpha CPUs and 5 terabytes of disk all connected by a 100Mbps or faster network.
www.linuxjournal.com /article/2494   (3279 words)

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