Hello readers and welcome back to the Library blog. For those of you who are unaware, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has just released construction plans for the proposed cruise liner Titanic II. No, I did not mistype that – this man seriously wants to rebuild the Titanic. According to the proposed plans, the Titanic II [...]
Before I let RMS Titanic go as a topic of this blog, I have one more image I feel compelled to share with you. This is the cover of a brochure we have in the Steamship Ephemera collection, in which White Star Line advertises both its new super liners, Olympic and Titanic. This brochure has some magnificent [...]
Like many of you, I have been fascinated with the story of RMS Titanic for as long as I can remember. I’m not sure why, exactly. I wasn’t a particularly sympathetic child, grieving over the story of hundreds of lives lost. That was a characteristic I developed in adulthood. I also don’t think that I had [...]
Today, Archives staff has put up on the web finding aids for letters in our collections from two survivors of the Titanic disaster. Have a look at the finding aids for the Mary Lines Letter and the Helen R. Ostby Letter under Special Collections and choose the category “Shipwrecks, Collisions, Salvage and Underwater Archaeology.” Both these [...]
Here’s an interesting, yet sad, story on the wreck of the Titanic. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/11/new-metal-eating-bacteria-found-on-titanic/?iref=allsearch Scientists have discovered that a new species of metal-eating bacteria are eating away at the remains of the famous liner. In 1995, scientists estimated that wreck would survive another 30 years. Now they believe it is disappearing at a much faster rate. What a [...]
