Lynette Horsburgh, “Wallace Hartley Sheet Music Part of Manchester Titanic Exhibition,” last modified July 5, 2025, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dd5np2mjo.

Rare artefacts from the Titanic shipwreck including the sheet music from the ship’s band leader Wallace Hartley who died in the sinking are to go on display in Manchester. The RMS Titanic sank in April 1912 after it struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York killing more than 1,500 people. The Titanic Exhibition Manchester will open from 31 July to 24 August at Manchester Central. It will feature items such as the largest surviving fragment of the Aft Grand Staircase and the personal belongings of passengers and crew, including those from Mr Hartley, from Colne, Lancashire, who is said to have played on as the ship went down.

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Daniel Lai, “Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Immersive Titanic Experience Docking in Singapore in August,” The Straits Times, July 4, 2025, https://www.straitstimes.com/life/near-far-wherever-you-are-immersive-titanic-experience-docking-in-singapore-in-august.

Come August, visitors here will experience a visceral re-creation of what cruise passengers on board the fateful Titanic faced, through virtual-reality (VR) technology at Titanic: An Immersive Voyage – Through The Eyes Of The Passengers. It will be the first time the exhibition is coming to Asia, having been staged in places such as Cincinnati, New Orleans and Copenhagen. Its creator, Exhibition Hub, is leveraging technology such as 3D projections, video animations and VR to capture the sundry of emotions faced by the ship’s passengers.

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Analisa Novak, “Underwater Archaeologist James Delgado Reveals the Stories Behind History’s Most Haunting Shipwrecks,” CBS News, last modified July 4, 2025, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/underwater-archaeologist-james-delgado-stories-behind-historys-most-haunting-shipwrecks/.

“Nothing prepares you for seeing ‘Titanic,'” he said. After a 2.5-hour descent in a Russian submersible, with pressure so intense that “a regular styrofoam coffee cup gets squeezed down” when strapped to the outside, Delgado said the anticipation suddenly disappeared when the ship appeared. “There it was looming out of the darkness,” he recalled. “This massive hull rising twice as high as the ceiling here. Still painted but streaked with rust and rusticles that are orange and yellow and red. And then a porthole that’s open and another closed.” Delgado described one particularly eerie moment: “One of the spookiest moments — because ‘Titanic’ is a ship of the dead — is when I first looked through the porthole, 2.5 miles down, the lights — I could see a face looking back at me in the porthole. It was my own reflection.”

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Eve Lazarus, “How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor,” The Walrus, last modified July 5, 2025, https://thewalrus.ca/empress-of-ireland-survivor-mystery/.

Davidson stripped off his nightshirt and swam away from the ship. The suction took him down, and when he came up, he swam into a frenzied crowd. “They tramped me under three times before I got through them. I swam on a little farther, but the water was fearfully cold, and I was out of practice swimming,” he said. Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the Storstad, which survived the collision. None of what appeared in the Vancouver Province actually happened. It was all one reporter’s wild speculation. And even though Davidson tried to correct the information himself, that one reporter’s version from two days after the shipwreck is what was repeated and embellished in newspaper articles, in books, and even in his own obituary eight years later.

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Suggested  Reading

Lord, Walter, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, New York, 1955. Multiple revisions and reprints, notably Illustrated editions (1976,1977,1978 etc.)

Lord, Walter, THE NIGHT LIVES ON, Willian Morrow and Company, New York, New York, 1986 (First Edition)

Marshall, L. (2019). Sinking of the Titanic: The Greatest Disaster At Sea – Special Edition with Additional Photographs. Independently Published.

Rossignol, K. (2012). Titanic 1912: The Original News Reporting of the Sinking of the Titanic. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

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