Titanic Memorial Cruise has been forced to turn round just hours after leaving the dock, having set sail to retrace the doomed liner’s voyage across the Atlantic. MS Balmoral – carrying relatives of Titanic victims among its 1,309 passengers, the same number as on the doomed ship – was forced to turn around and head towards the Irish coast after a passenger became unwell on board. A spokesp…
The Titanic disaster has been revealed in extraordinary detailed images after researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field. Researchers hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened on that fateful night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg and plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic…
Relatives of some who died on the Titanic have set sail aboard of MS Balmoral to retrace the journey of the doomed liner to mark 100 years since the disaster. MS Balmoral has left Southampton docks, retracing the route of the ill-fated cruise liner’s maiden voyage. The ship, carrying 1,309 passengers – the same number as were on the Titanic – is due to reach the wreck site next…
A hundred years after Titanic sank, expeditions to the ship, in depths of the Atlantic Ocean, are coming to close to allow the ship to rest in peace. Rob McCallum, who works for the deep-sea exploration company that took 150 people down there, describes what they saw. “As the craft glides through the freezing depths of the ocean, more than two miles below the surface, I stare out through the thic…
Several events across the world are marking today the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, including the ship’s birthplace Belfast. A Titanic Memorial Garden – with the names of 1,512 victims etched on five bronze plaques – is being opened close to where the liner was launched. A service is being held in Southampton where the voyage to New York began. And at the Nort…
A collection of more than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic has been published online to mark the 100th anniversary from the ship’s sinking on 15 April 1912. The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, including a number of wills and hundreds of coroner inquest files. The collection has been gathered by the subscription-based family history website…
…weeks after the centenary of the sinking of the ill-fated Titanic. The vessel, the largest luxury ship in its time, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. It went down on 15 April 1912, leaving more than 1,500 people dead. Australian Clive Palmer has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic “Of course it will sin…
Titanic Memorial Cruise is finished as Balmoral ship has arrived in New York, after completing its journey to mark the centenary of the Titanic disaster. The ship left Southampton on 8 April, and traced the route of Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage. The MS Balmoral held a ceremony above the wreck on 15 April, exactly 100 years after the Titanic sank. Many of those on board the memorial cruise…
Relatives of victims of the Titanic today threw roses off the Southampton dockside in memory of their loved ones during a moving 100th anniversary memorial service. A minute’s silence was also held today in remembrance of the 1517 passengers and crew who lost their lives on the famous liner’s ill-dated maiden voyage. The south coast city has special reason to mark the Titanic disaster…
…the provocative portrait, and the doomed lovers begin a tragically short-lived affair. Cinemagoers took to the internet to express their dismay after watching the new version of James Cameron’s 1997 disaster epic, which won 11 Oscars after its first release. Offbeat China, a blog about the country’s internet culture, quoted one commenter as saying: “I waited 15 years to see 3D boobs,…
After seven years of investigation, auctioneers found out that the violin thought to be the one played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank is genuine. Wallace Hartley and his orchestra famously played on as the Titanic sank in 1912 and were among the 1,500 who died. In 2006, Titanic specialist auction house Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire were approached by the violin’s owner w…
…life in its pod. White whales of various species are occasionally seen; but the only known white orcas have been young, including one with a rare genetic condition that died in a Canadian aquarium in 1972. The sightings were made during a research cruise off Kamchatka by a group of Russian scientists and students, co-led by Erich Hoyt, the long-time orca scientist, conservationist and author who…
…row of the ship. And the whole dramatic scene is lit up like a Hollywood movie by the many lights on the cruise ship, which would soon plunge into darkness as it sank into the water, claiming at least 16 lives. Today, search efforts aboard the doomed liner continued, but an official overseeing the operation acknowledged for the first time that it would take a miracle to find any more survivors. L…
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Investigating the horrifying bacteria hidden in restaurants’ most unlikely places, Anderson Cooper has revealed the top three dirtiest culprits are beverage lemons, lettuce wedges and the condiment racks found on tables. “I get self conscious with the salt things,” Anderson Cooper said. “How many people with dirty hands and snotty noses have been playing with the salt on the condiments rack…
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Kate Winslet has married boyfriend Ned Rocknroll in a secret ceremony in New York. Kate Winslet, 37, was given away by her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio at an intimate service in New York. A spokesperson for the actress said: “I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rock’nRoll in NY earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and fami…
…and his family, which is based in the Naples town of Meta. Members of his family have said they are no longer giving interviews to the press. Francesco Schettino lives in Meta with his wife and their 15-year-old daughter. But speculation is swirling about how Costa Concordia, the vast ship he captained, almost a floating city with its 4,300 passengers and crew members, ended its journey aground a…
…from Earth in the southern constellation Corvus, also known as “The Crow”, says Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. The star is cooler and smaller than our sun. The coordinates of LHS 2520 are: Right Ascension: 12 hours, 10 minutes, 5.77 seconds Declination: -15 degrees, 4 minutes, 17.9 seconds Proper Motion: 0.76 arcseconds per year, along 172.94 degrees from due north Superman’s home planet, Krypton, has…
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…sie” now the most searched-for term on their website. Marks & Spencer and Debenhams have reported staggering sales results too, with M&S saying last month they would be producing an additional 10 styles of the onesie in time for Christmas, and Debenhams reporting a 155% rise in sales in October than the previous month. A spokesman said at the time they’d sold 2,075 units in just one…
Bill Clinton is known as a vegan now, though he was once a ravenous diner with an insatiable hunger, Roland Mesnier, the former White House pastry chef, revealed. Roland Mesnier described former President Bill Clinton’s appetite as “scary” saying: “He could eat five or six pork chops in a day.” The former White House pastry chef added that his kitchen staff “had to be ready”. Bill Clinton is kno…
Sam Eshaghoff, 19, was arrested in September along with 20 other students for either paying to have the test taken or providing them with the service Sam Eshaghoff, a teenager from Long Island, who charged students thousands of dollars to take their SATs (Scholastic Aptitute Tests) for them has spoken out for the first time about the scam, calling the security at the tests “uniformly pathetic”….
…of Greenland’s ice was already freezing again. Until now, the most extensive melting seen by satellites in the past three decades was about 55% of the area. Ice last melted at Summit station in 1889, ice core records show. The news comes just days after NASA satellite imagery revealed that a massive iceberg, twice the size of Manhattan, had broken off a glacier in Greenland. “This eve…
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