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Rostron Watch on Display; Warehouse where Titanic Artifacts are stored; Black Passenger on Titanic; OceanGate Sued

Capt. Arthur H. Rostron, R.D., R.N.R, while serving as master of the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia in 1912
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Titanic Museum displays pocket watch presented to Heroic Captain. (2024, August 15). WatchPro. https://www.watchpro.com/titanic-museum-displays-pocket-watch-presented-to-heroic-captain/

A pocket watch with a very heroic backstory has gone on display at Titanic Belfast. The timepiece is a Tiffany & Co. pocket watch that was presented to a ship’s captain for saving hundreds of passengers from the doomed Titanic. The 18th century 18k gold Rostron Pocket Watch was presented to Captain Rostron by the widows of three wealthy businessmen who were lost on the Titanic.

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The first class gymnasium on Titanic.
Photo: Robert Welch (1859–1936)
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Kennedy, S. (2024, August 14). Thousands of Titanic artifacts are stored in a ‘secret’ warehouse somewhere in Atlanta, Georgia. MotorBiscuit. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/titanic-artifacts-secret-warehouse/

The storage facility is home to thousands of recovered Titanic artifacts. Its inventory includes everything from ship parts to personal possessions. Due to the value of these items, the location of the warehouse is kept private. We do know it’s somewhere in Atlanta, Georgia, though. The company operates under strict regulations regarding the recovery, storage, and display of artifacts in its exhibits worldwide. For example, the items can’t be sold separately and are considered a single, unified collection. Some of these artifacts are photographed and explained on the company’s site, like a bracelet with the jewel-studded name “Amy.”

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Wade, A. (2024, August 14). Titanic’s Only Black Passenger and a Tragic Twist of Fate. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13738611/Titanic-black-passenger-Joseph-Laorche.html

Channel 4’s, Titanic in Colour, has shed light on some of the lesser-known personal stories, including that of a mixed race family who were on their way to build a new life and escape racial prejudice – only to be cruelly torn apart by the tragedy. In the first episode, which features newly colourised photos of the ship and its passengers, historians detailed the heartbreaking fate of Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, believed to have been the only black man on board the Titanic. He was on his way home to his native Haiti from France with his pregnant wife and two daughters, after swapping their tickets from another vessel, which had a policy of separating children from their parents on board.

 

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Paul-Henri Nargeolet 1946-2023
Image: Harper Collins (®) via Wikimedia Commons

Hewson, S. (2024, August 7). French explorer’s family sues for $50 million over implosion death. Fortune. https://fortune.com/2024/08/07/titanic-implosion-french-explorer-death-terror/

The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence The lawsuit blames the implosion on the “persistent carelessness, recklessness and negligence” of Oceangate, Rush and others.“Decedent Nargeolet may have died doing what he loved to do, but his death — and the deaths of the other Titan crew members — was wrongful,” the lawsuit states.

 

Suggested Reading

Behe, G. (2012). On board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage. The History Press.

Brewster, H. (2013). Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World. National Geographic Books.

Eaton John P. & Haas Charles, TITANIC TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY, SECOND EDITION, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, 1995 First American Edition

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)

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Joseph Laroche (seated right), with his family; wife, Juliette (centre), elder daughter, Simonne (left) and younger daughter, Louise (centre, seated).1911
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Titanic’s only black passenger: Noble Maritime Collection hosts virtual seminar on the ‘untold stories’ (silive.com, 25 Feb 2021

The wreck killed more than 1,500 people, and the last survivor who was aboard the Titanic passed away in 2009. While there were many victims taken by the Titanic sinking, history has unveiled that there was just one black passenger aboard the ship. That man was Joseph Laroche. The Noble Maritime Collection, located on the grounds of Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston, will virtually present the story of Laroche through a lecture titled “Untold Stories of the Titanic: The Only Black Passenger,” by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson Saturday, March 6.

The history of the Titanic connected to southeast Iowa (KTVO, 25 Feb 2021)

Research has found that Iowa has ties to the most famous shipwreck in history. Some of the people who were on the Titanic on that fatal day had connections with Iowa. Many of the passengers were immigrants who were coming to the Midwest for opportunity. Some passengers were directly tied to farming while others were looking for job opportunities.Although Iowa story teller Darcy Maulsby knew of a few Iowa families who were on the Titanic, she was surprised to discover that there were even more involved.

Triton’s Titanic Explorer will reach new depths for luxury bubble-subs (newatlas.com, 24 Feb 2021)

The Triton 13000/2 Titanic Explorer will be the deepest diving acrylic bubble sub ever built, by a long way. It’ll be capable of diving to 4,000 m (13,123 ft), making it the only transparent sphere that can take you and a buddy down to the wreck of the Titanic, some 3,800 m (12,500 ft) under the surface. Triton’s dropped in on Jack and Rose’s love nest once before, mind you, back in 2019. But to do so, it needed to use its monstrous 36000/2 sub, which has a titanium sphere hull capable of taking two people to the bottom of the Marianas trench. Indeed, it was the first manned mission to the Titanic wreck in some 14 years, so rather a special achievement.