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Titanic News For 9 Nov 2011

1. Surviving Titanic Tale Has ‘Lord Jim’ Twist (6 Nov 2011, Dubuque Telegraph Herald)
Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” is about a sailor who flees in a moment of crisis and is forever labeled a coward. In “How to Survive the Titanic,” British writer Frances Wilson tells the story of a real life Lord Jim: J. Bruce Ismay, heir to the White Star Line fortune. Fleeing the ship in a lifeboat, Ismay himself survived this most mythologized of all maritime disasters, even as thousands of women and children perished on that fateful night in 1912.
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2. Titanic Exhibition Opens In Cork (5 Nov 2011, Irish Central)
A farewell message in a bottle that was thrown from the Titanic can now be seen at the Titanic Exhibition in the Cobh Heritage Center. The letter, which was presented by a family member of the victim, goes on display just as next year’s centenary of the ship’s sinking approaches. Jeremiah Burke didn’t have much time to write a last note to his family as  the Titanic went down. The 19-year-old, who was traveling from his home in Glanmire, Co. Cork with his 18-year-old cousin Nora Hegarty, simply said “goodbye all” in his last note.


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Titanic News for 27 Oct 2011

1.  Titanic Victim Sent Last Message In Bottle (26 Oct 1011, Belfast Telegraph)
Jeremiah Burke didn’t have time to write a lengthy farewell. In the early hours of April 15, 1912, as the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic, a 19-year-old from Glanmire, in Cork, put his short note into a holy water bottle given to him a few days earlier by his mother at the quayside in Cobh and threw it overboard. “From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Glanmire, Cork,” it simply said. The teenager drowned along with 1,517 others.

2. Son In Step With Titanic Memory (25 Oct 2011, BBC News)
John Flynn’s grandfather, also called John, was a joiner who worked on the original staircase. It was one of the most spectacular sights on board the most famous ship to sail from Belfast. However, Mr Flynn did not talk about the staircase often. His grandson said: “I think at that time the workers would have felt deflated and let down to see their craftsmanship at the bottom of the sea.”

3. Auctioned Photos Show The Salvage Of The Titanic (24 Oct 2011,Popular Photography Magazine)
Earlier this month, auction house Weiss Auctions sold of an incredible lot of memorabilia from the disaster, including the photos above and below.  Pegged at being worth between $50,000 and $75,000, the price was realized but not disclosed, and the archive came from the descendants of two survivors of the wreck, John and Nelle Pillsbury Snyder. The pair were quick to evacuate while others didn’t believe the seriousness of the situation, and so were on one of the early life boats which was not fully loaded with passengers.