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Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact Titanic ' s sister ship Olympic, disguised as Titanic, as an insurance scam by its owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American ...
He was born in the suburb of Oxford, Headington on 24 May 1947, the middle child of three, his parents were Harold Gardiner, a military man, and Audry Gardiner. His fascination with the RMS Titanic started during his childhood and he researched her history until his death, writing several books where he covered his controversial theory.
Some of the wealthier survivors chartered private trains to take them home, and the Pennsylvania Railroad laid on a special train free of charge to take survivors to Philadelphia. Titanic ' s 214 surviving crew members were taken to the Red Star Line's steamer SS Lapland, where they were accommodated in passenger cabins. [193]
According to History.com, RMS Carpathia had been taking journeys across the Atlantic for decades before the Titanic sank, but it actually ended up sinking as well. The ship was torpedoed by German ...
Frederick Dent Ray was born in Southwark, London, England on June 20, 1879. He was the son of Charles Adolphus Hopson Ray (1847-1913) and Sarah Newport (1848-1919). In 1908, he was married in Berkshire to Annie Beatrice Burt (b.1855) and they remained childless.
Evelyn Marsden (later married as Evelyn James) (15 October 1883 – 30 August 1938) was the only Australian female survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic. She was rescued in lifeboat 16. [1] [2] She was the daughter of railway worker Walter Henry Marsden (Hoyleton Stationmaster in 1912) and Annie Bradshaw.
The story of the Titanic fascinates people to this day for many reasons, Ballard said. It was at the time the world's largest ocean liner and was supposed to be virtually unsinkable.
RMS Titanic Survivor Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈmaɵrɪʈs hoːkan bjœrsʈrœːm-sʈe:ffanssɔn'] ) (also referred to as Hokan B. Steffanson), (9 November 1883 – 21 May 1962) was a Swedish businessman who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.