The oak Jacobean style chair is one of the originals made when Olympic began her transatlantic service. The wood has never been refinished. The leather type seat and backing was changed by Lady Kylsant, one of the many redecorating changes …
Titanic’s hull was made of steel plates fastened with iron rivets. Each plate had many holes drilled so rivets could be driven in. Some of the steel pieces punched out like the hole in a donut were kept and presented …
J. Bruce Ismay at the time of the disaster, as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, was held to blame for the loss of the Titanic by the American press; largely controlled by William Randolph Hearst a …
The famous Letter to Gladys was written mailed and one of the few rare correspondence that survived. Edwina Troutt wrote it to her friend describing how lovely the ship is. Many years later at a Titanic Historical Society meeting, which …
The diagonal patterned green carpet square from a first class stateroom on C deck was given to Edward Kamuda by Frederick Dent Ray, a first class dining saloon steward on Olympic who was transferred to Titanic at Belfast when she …