| RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/15/03 8:16 PM | Thought a string of Titanic-related sites might be interesting. (Guess I'll find out). In my childhood home town lies the family estate of Harry Elkins Widener who went down with the ship. The home ( Lynnewood Hall ).... is in disrepair and now |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/16/03 2:13 PM | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute where the original expedition that found the Titanic in 1985 was based. The berthed ship at center could be the RV Knorr . This is the boat that led the mission. |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/17/03 9:13 PM | Jack Thayer,Jr. survived Titanic by jumping into the sea, and being rescued by men on an overturned life boat. He was the first to claim that the ship had broken in two before sinking. The placemark lies on the approximate address on his street (near |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/17/03 9:44 PM | Jack Thayer's father, John Borland Thayer went down with Titanic. His mother and her maid survived. Later, in 1944, Jack lost a son in WW2. Jack comitted suicide at this location (Then fashionable) in 1945, by slitting his own throat in his car. |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | elclassico | 8/18/03 9:46 PM | do have the location of the wreck itself? |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/18/03 11:09 PM | Classic Point. Using latlon function, Titanic's collision occurred: Quote: The collision with the iceberg occurred at 11:40 p.m. (Titanic time) at 41° 46’ north latitude , 50° 14’ west longitude. The sinking occurred: Quote: The Titanic sank off t |
| Titanic Placemark | seer | 8/19/03 7:32 AM | According to Jumble's location data: 41d 44'N, 49d 55'W. According to this web site, the Titanic's location is as follows. Quote: Lying 450 miles south-east of Halifax in the North Atlantic the Titanic now sleeps in a deep frigid watery, grave two |
| Titanic Bow | seer | 8/19/03 6:35 PM | Photograph copyright Buena Vista Pictures Distribution and Walden Media, LLC Edited to make bow location match that of the Irish Tribune article. |
| Titanic Stern | seer | 8/19/03 6:36 PM | (obviously a before shot.) |
| Titanic Debris | seer | 8/19/03 6:37 PM | >From the Irish tribute to the Titanic Disaster of 1912 web site. |
| Re: Titanic Debris | Jumble | 8/19/03 7:45 PM | Seer, Great stuff! I've never seen the "Irish Tribute" site. By the way, the ships boilers rest at 41D43MN32SEC N, 49D46MN49SEC W. According to Titanic-Titanic Website. Another surviver was James Robert McCough : He lived at the site of this large |
| Re: Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/22/03 8:53 PM | John Jacob Astor IV was the richest passenger on Titanic (Think Waldorf Astoria). His major family summer home was in Newport and called Beechwood . He inherited it from his father, and you can see it today, or book it for a wedding. Astor's weddin |
| Re: Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/22/03 9:00 PM | Astor's second summer home was called Ferncliff, in Rhinebeck, NY, on the Hudson. He, you guessed it, inherited it from his father. One of my son's went to Bard College near there, so I have seen it. The placemark is in a low-res area, but you can ge |
| Re: Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/22/03 9:13 PM | Astor's body was one of the first to be recovered by the Mackay-Bennett out of Halifax. He was in evening dress with $2,500 dollars in his pocket. He is buried in Teinity Cemetery in the Bronx. |
| Re: Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/22/03 9:15 PM | Astor's primary residence was at 840 Fifth Avenue in NYC. Still prime real estate, but the building may have been replaced by the large-roofed structure in the attachment. |
| Re: Titanic Locales | Jumble | 8/23/03 9:57 AM | Days are numbered for the wreck. Recent news articles say it's collapsing at a rather rapid rate. Quote: The Titanic, assailed by rust as well as by hundreds of explorers and moviemakers, salvors and tourists (including a couple who were married in a |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 6/29/04 8:22 PM | Harry Elkins Widener died on the Titanic. As a child I played on his family's estate (See above First Post). His mother paid for the Widener Library at Harvard in memory of her son. This is the school's main library. Yes, I'm a bit old, but not th |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | lunatech | 7/1/04 12:57 PM | This triggers a memory of having a tour of the place several years ago, I seem to remember that Harry's study is still there intact inside the library, and I think there was some part of the library where you have to go through a window to get to it. |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 7/1/04 3:02 PM | Moonman, Here is a reference to that study: Quote: In the center of the building, on the mezzanine between the first and second floors, is the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room. Finished in English oak, carved in England and brought over in panels, |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | lunatech | 7/6/04 1:28 PM | I bow to your greatness, oh Jumbled web searcher! Thanks for the info...sometimes I think I may have dreamed up some of these arcane facts! |
| Re: Titanic Locales | charlemagne | 7/13/05 4:47 AM | the bronx? the placemark is at trinity churchyard, but that would be in manhattan around 154th. |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales Anyone w/ more info | glen1n1m | 7/25/05 12:50 PM | I live near this crumbling mansion (The Widener Estate:Lynnewood) and was wondering if anyone had any information on the future of this building? I have seen early photos and it was a truly amazing piece of architechture. It was desinged and build by |
| Re: Titanic Placemark | beno | 7/25/05 1:15 PM | Great Thread - well it sank on 15th April but hit the iceberg on my birthday, 14th April - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_14 Beno |
| The lookout | fleetpeople | 10/26/05 1:37 PM | The lookout in this crows nest was Fred Fleet who despite popular belief did actually report the iceberg dead ahead in plenty of time. However, the White star liner was trying to break the transatlantic record and gain the Blue Riband for the company |
| Re: Titanic Locales | srosenstock | 4/9/06 12:31 AM | Quote: He is buried in Trinity Cemetery in the Bronx. Trinity Cemetery, 153rd to 155th & Broadway, is in Manhattan. |
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| Isidor & Ida Straus | LuciaM | 8/27/06 5:06 PM | |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Roseb44170l | 11/21/06 9:21 PM | |
| Re: RMS Titanic Locales | Jumble | 11/21/06 10:12 PM | |
| Widener Estate! | Roseb44170l | 11/24/06 5:08 PM | |
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