It happened a hundred years ago, but the tragedy continues to fascinate the world.
At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the pinnacle of then-modern technology, a floating palace of immense dimensions, sideswiped a North Atlantic iceberg while en route from England to New York. Riveted plates buckled and water began pouring in.
The ship sank around 2:20 a.m. on April 15. Only 710 of the 2,224 people on board survived,Burglar walks away with louisvuittonleatherhandbags from Summit home. including nine people from Southwest Michigan.
There were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all those aboard, and many victims with life jackets died from hypothermia in the icy waters.
"It's the world's most famous shipwreck," said Tracy Gierada,Visit the premier bestvalentinohandbags in Melbourne Australia. curator of the North Berrien Historical Museum in Coloma. "It's the one everyone has heard of. The fact that it was the world's largest passenger steamer on her maiden voyage, that she was supposed to be unsinkable, it was just a very tragic irony.Trade Leads for womensjacket, Search ecplaza.net for buying and selling leads, It has a very prominent place, and rightly so, in the history books."
One of the local survivors, Ruth Becker Blanchard, died in 1990 in Santa Barbara, Calif., where she had moved after retiring.
Gierada said Blanchard was cremated, and her remains were buried at sea at the site of the sinking. One other passenger and a crew member chose to be buried in the same fashion, she said.
A Titanic treat
Titanic enthusiasts are in for a double treat in the next couple of weeks.
Gierada and Jennifer Quail of the Museum at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac will present a program on "Local Links to the Titanic Disaster" at 7 p.m. April 17 at the North Berrien Historical Museum. The program is free and will include a slide show.
At the annual meeting of The History Center at Courthouse Square in Berrien Springs at 7 p.m. April 24, curator Robert Myers will present another show about local survivors of the disaster. Myers will also talk about some little-known facts behind the story and give a Power Point presentation on the wreck.
The tragedy shook the world's faith in technology,Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% hermesbirkinreplica. Myers said.
"At that time in history there was a real belief that technology would really be able to solve all the world's problems," Myers said. "There was so much changing at that time, the advent of the automobile and the airplane and radio and so on. There were immense changes going on in the world, and the Titanic really epitomized that. It was the largest moving man-made object in the world, and all the latest technology went into it. ... Here's all this wonderful technology that's going to solve all these problems, and it's destroyed, almost instantly.The next important aspect of authenticpalphlaurenpolo lies on their appearances."
The ship was part of the White Star Line, and line officials "never said it was unsinkable," Myers said. "But some publications did."
Myers said interest in the ship faded over the years until it was reawakened by Walter Lord's fine book "A Night to Remember," published in 1955. That was followed by a successful movie of the same name in 1958. James Cameron's "Titanic" was released in 1997 and introduced the story to new generations of people.
At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the pinnacle of then-modern technology, a floating palace of immense dimensions, sideswiped a North Atlantic iceberg while en route from England to New York. Riveted plates buckled and water began pouring in.
The ship sank around 2:20 a.m. on April 15. Only 710 of the 2,224 people on board survived,Burglar walks away with louisvuittonleatherhandbags from Summit home. including nine people from Southwest Michigan.
There were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all those aboard, and many victims with life jackets died from hypothermia in the icy waters.
"It's the world's most famous shipwreck," said Tracy Gierada,Visit the premier bestvalentinohandbags in Melbourne Australia. curator of the North Berrien Historical Museum in Coloma. "It's the one everyone has heard of. The fact that it was the world's largest passenger steamer on her maiden voyage, that she was supposed to be unsinkable, it was just a very tragic irony.Trade Leads for womensjacket, Search ecplaza.net for buying and selling leads, It has a very prominent place, and rightly so, in the history books."
One of the local survivors, Ruth Becker Blanchard, died in 1990 in Santa Barbara, Calif., where she had moved after retiring.
Gierada said Blanchard was cremated, and her remains were buried at sea at the site of the sinking. One other passenger and a crew member chose to be buried in the same fashion, she said.
A Titanic treat
Titanic enthusiasts are in for a double treat in the next couple of weeks.
Gierada and Jennifer Quail of the Museum at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac will present a program on "Local Links to the Titanic Disaster" at 7 p.m. April 17 at the North Berrien Historical Museum. The program is free and will include a slide show.
At the annual meeting of The History Center at Courthouse Square in Berrien Springs at 7 p.m. April 24, curator Robert Myers will present another show about local survivors of the disaster. Myers will also talk about some little-known facts behind the story and give a Power Point presentation on the wreck.
The tragedy shook the world's faith in technology,Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% hermesbirkinreplica. Myers said.
"At that time in history there was a real belief that technology would really be able to solve all the world's problems," Myers said. "There was so much changing at that time, the advent of the automobile and the airplane and radio and so on. There were immense changes going on in the world, and the Titanic really epitomized that. It was the largest moving man-made object in the world, and all the latest technology went into it. ... Here's all this wonderful technology that's going to solve all these problems, and it's destroyed, almost instantly.The next important aspect of authenticpalphlaurenpolo lies on their appearances."
The ship was part of the White Star Line, and line officials "never said it was unsinkable," Myers said. "But some publications did."
Myers said interest in the ship faded over the years until it was reawakened by Walter Lord's fine book "A Night to Remember," published in 1955. That was followed by a successful movie of the same name in 1958. James Cameron's "Titanic" was released in 1997 and introduced the story to new generations of people.
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