Is this the iceberg that sunk the Titantic? Survivor's original photograph reveals the site where the doomed ship was last seen before it sank. By Hannah Rand.
As the centenary of the Titanic disaster approaches and with a gripping drama on ITV, we present a cut-away guide to the ship. How Titanic captain's steward wrote of fears that doomed liner was cursed just days before it sank. Arthur Paintin expected to be away at sea all summer 'bar accidents'He hoped Titanic's near-collision with another vessel in port days earlier was not a sign of things to comeLetter could fetch £36,000 at auction By Nick Enoch Published: 12:35 GMT, 28 March 2012 | Updated: 16:00 GMT, 28 March 2012 Enlarge Arthur Paintin, the captain's steward (seen here in a previously unpublished photo), said he hoped a near-collision Titanic had with another vessel when it left port was not a sign of things to come A Titanic-headed letter by the captain’s personal steward in which he wrote of his fears that the doomed liner was cursed with bad luck is tipped to sell for £36,000.
In his note days before the ship sank, Arthur Paintin said he hoped a near-collision Titanic had with another vessel when it left port was not a sign of things to come. Chillingly, he also told his parents in England that he expected to be away at sea all summer ‘bar accidents’. The Titanic Orphans: Brothers Michel and Edmond Navratil escaped on the sinking vessel's last lifeboat.
By Kerry Mcqueeney Published: 18:12 GMT, 25 March 2012 | Updated: 14:20 GMT, 26 March 2012 Michel and Edmond Navratil must have felt a sense of relief when they finally made it on to the last lifeboat to be successfully launched from the sinking Titanic.
Despite their tender years, the brothers - aged just four and two - would have been aware of the terror and hysteria that had engulfed those still trapped on the stricken vessel. They were placed on the lifeboat by their father - but it was the last time they ever saw him. 'Louis and Lola': Michel and Edmond Navratil were the only children to be rescued from the Titanic without a parent or guardian Lost boys: The pair were reunited with mother Marcelle when she sailed to New York City after seeing the newspaper articles about them - which included their photographs. Pictured: The Titanic shown on the base of the ocean nearly 100 years from that fateful night. By Meghan Keneally Published: 16:12 GMT, 21 March 2012 | Updated: 18:45 GMT, 22 March 2012 The sinking of the Titanic is one of the 20th century's great dramas, a mystery that has confounded scientists and historians for decades.
There is still an aura of mysticism that remains around that fateful ship and new photos that will be published in the April 2012 edition of National Geographic Magazine provides for the first time a sense of what the wreck looks like today. These new photographs, shot using state-of-the-art technology by independent research group Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, provide a greater understanding of what happened on that fateful April 15, 1912. Did a MIRAGE sink the Titanic? New research finds that freak weather might have 'hidden' the iceberg until it was too late. 'Killing zone of nature', says British scientistLookouts would have been unable to see iceberg until too lateRare 'cold weather mirage' caused by cold front colliding with warmer air By Rob Waugh.
Titanic Belfast: a sneak peek inside the visitor attraction. Beverley Farmer: 'I owe my life to the Titanic' By Emma Reynolds Published: 17:02 GMT, 15 March 2012 | Updated: 08:36 GMT, 16 March 2012 Blockbuster inspiration: Beverley Farmer with a replica of the necklace she says was given to her great-grandmother by her married lover on board the Titanic While most people associate the sinking of the Titanic only with tragedy, one woman claims she owes her life to the doomed ship - because her grandmother was conceived on it.
Beverley Farmer says she is the great-granddaughter of a woman who was eloping with her married lover on the liner when it went down. But bride-to-be Kate Florence Phillips had her heart broken when Henry Morley died in the disaster, said Mrs Farmer, and the young woman returned to Worcester, where she realised she was pregnant. Relatives of the star-crossed lovers believe they inspired the relationship between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s characters in 1997 blockbuster Titanic. Before she died, she told how her mother escaped. 'My father’s body was never found. Did the MOON sink the Titanic? New study suggests freak tidal event caused icebergs to fill shipping lanes 100 years ago. By Rob Waugh Updated: 13:43 GMT, 6 March 2012 The iceberg that sank the Titanic was sent on its deadly path by the closest approach of the moon to the Earth in 1,400 years, say astronomers.
A once-in-a-lifetime lunar event created an super-high tide on January 12, 1912 - setting loose a deadly fleet of icebergs, three months before Titanic sank on April 14, 1912 with the loss of approximately 1,500 lives. The tide dislodged icebergs from shallow waters off the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland, filling shipping lanes with icebergs. The White Star Liner RMS Titanic, built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, 4th February 1912, aided by four tugs preparing to leave for Southampton for her maiden voyage to New York on April 10th 1912 Peter McDonald in the ITV series Titanic: A once-in-a-lifetime lunar event created an super-high tide on January 12, 1912 - setting loose a deadly fleet of icebergs, three months before Titanic sank on April 14, 1912 with the loss of approximately 1,500 lives. Titanic pictures: Extraordinary sonar images show full map of shipwreck on ocean floor. Researchers hope the map will provide new clues about what happened when the famous vessel sank 100 years agoExpedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the detailed mapIt shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed By Daily Mail Reporter.
Letter claims Titanic's captain Edward Smith was drunk on the night ship sank. By Damien Gayle Updated: 08:04 GMT, 9 March 2012 Drunk?
