Titanic Engineers Memorial Southampton
Southampton's Titanic Memorial To the memory of the Engineer Officers of the R.M.S. Titanic, who showed their huge conception of duty and their heroism by remaining at their posts, 15th April 1912.
The R.M.S. Titanic, which was built in Belfast, en route from Southampton to New York, tragically collided with an iceberg and sank on 15th April 1912, with the loss of 1514 lives.
The Southampton Titanic Engineers Memorial was restored in 2010, and is located Southampton's Andrews Park (Also known as East Park) in Hampshire, England.
I filmed this video, which was previously featured on my channel My World Through a Lens, whilst walking around the city on a very rainy 3 April 2012.
Days after filming this, a new museum of the Titanic and Historic Maritime Southampton, called SeaCity Museum and located in Southampton's Civic Centre opened it's doors on 10th April 2012.
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No single memorial to the Titanic victims was ever contemplated, and most are still un-commemorated.
Sectional memorials in Southampton are as follows:
1) Engineer Officers: Situated in East Park opposite the Cenotaph, it is the largest and probably the most well-known. It is dedicated to the engineer officers, none of whom survived the disaster. It was designed by Messrs. Whitehead and Son and unveiled in April 1914. It is built of grey granite and bronze, and is 30 feet long by 20 feet high. In the centre a winged angel is flanked by relief representations of engineer officers. It is Grade II listed.
2) Titanic Crew: This memorial to the crew of the Titanic (stewards, sailors and firemen) originally stood at the southern end of the Common near the end of Cemetery Road. It is a drinking fountain made of Portland Stone by Garret and Haysom of East Street. It was unveiled in 1915 by Mr. Bullions Moody. It now stands in Holy Rood Church.
3) Musicians: A plaque to the memory of the musicians, who, according to reports, played on almost to the moment the ship sank, was erected in the old Central Library, Cumberland Place, in 1913 by the local branch of the Amalgamated Musicians Union. The building and plaque were destroyed by enemy action during the Blitz in 1940. An exact replica was commissioned in 1990 and placed on the wall of a modern office building in Cumberland Place.
4) Sea-post officers: A bronze tablet set in a pillar in the main post office on the High Street was was erected by members of the postal and telegraph services.
5) Musicians: A further memorial to the musicians, a metal tablet, was erected in St Mary’s Church. It survived the Blitz and was subsequently re-erected on a wall in the Seamen's Chapel.
6) Restaurant staff. A brass plate in St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Bugle Street commemorates the restaurant staff of the Titanic. Many were local men, but about sixty were Italians, and probably attended St Joseph’s when they were in Southampton. Luigi Gatti, who managed one of the restaurants on board, lived in Southampton and also ran a restaurant in the town.
7) A plaque on the wall of Canute Chambers in Canute Road records the fact that this was the headquarters of White Star Line in 1912 and that hundreds of people waited here for news of their loved ones.
8) Two memorials to local victims were erected in local churches, one in St Augustine’s Church in Northam and the other at Holy Trinity, Millbrook. The wooden tablets erected in St Augustine’s were later moved to the Maritime Museum on Town Quay and are now in SeaCity Museum.
9) There are other memorials to individuals in the churchyards of the town.
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The Titanic Engineers' Memorial is a memorial in East (Andrews) Park, Southampton, United Kingdom, to the engineers who died in the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912. The bronze and granite memorial was originally unveiled by Sir Archibald Denny, president of the Institute of Marine Engineers on 22 April 1914. The event was attended by an estimated 100,000 Southampton residents.
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Southampton Cenotaph, situated in Watts Park, is listed at Grade I for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this community, and the sacrifices it made in the conflicts of the C20; * Architect: by the nationally renowned architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944), who designed 58 memorials at home and abroad including the Cenotaph in Whitehall; * Architectural interest: the first iteration by Sir Edwin Lutyens of a template which was to be adopted across the nation for some of its most notable war memorials, most notably the Grade I-listed Whitehall cenotaph; * Design: the elaborate design is notable for the wealth of carved decoration in comparison to the austerity of cenotaphs that were to follow; * Group value: the memorial is a prominent feature of the registered Central Parks (Grade II), in which stand a number of listed statues and the nearby Monument to the Engineers of the Titanic (1912).
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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, US. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The RMS Titanic, the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast with Thomas Andrews as her naval architect. Andrews was among those lost in the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.
Under the command of Edward Smith, the ship's passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America. A high-power radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger marconigrams and for the ship's operational use. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard due to outdated maritime safety regulations. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, and one-third her total capacity.
After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.[2] On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. The collision caused the ship's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a women and children first protocol followed by some of the officers loading the lifeboats.[3] By 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic foundered, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene of the sinking, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors.
The disaster was greeted with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that had led to it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to major improvements in maritime safety. One of their most important legacies was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety today. Additionally, several new wireless regulations were passed around the world in an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications—which could have saved many more passengers.[4]
The wreck of Titanic remains on the seabed, split in two and gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (3,784 m). Since her discovery in 1985, thousands of artefacts have been recovered and put on display at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, her memory kept alive by numerous books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials.
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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912, after it collided with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the ship, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. The Titanic was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster.
Titanic was under the command of Edward Smith, who also went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger marconigrams and for the ship's operational use. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard, due to outdated maritime safety regulations. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, and one third of her total capacity.
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In the dead night of the 14th April 1912, RMS Titanic sank in North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1500 passengers on board and crew making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters. The RMS Titanic at that time was the largest moving object ever built by the mankind and due to its top class naval architecture and engineering was considered unsinkable.
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Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches. Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet. She measured 46,328 gross register tons and with a draught of 34 feet 7 inches, she displaced 52,310 tons.
Titanic was equipped with three main engines—two reciprocating four-cylinder, triple-expansion steam engines and one centrally placed low-pressure Parsons turbine—each driving a propeller. The two reciprocating engines had a combined output of 30,000 hp and a further 16,000 hp was contributed by the turbine. They were powered by steam produced in 29 boilers, 24 of which were double-ended and 5 single-ended, which contained a total of 159 furnaces.
Boilers were heated by burning coal, 6,611 tons of which could be carried in Titanic's bunkers with a further 1,092 tons in Hold. The furnaces required over 600 tons of coal a day to be shovelled into them by hand, requiring the services of 176 firemen working around the clock.
Titanic's electrical plant was capable of producing more power than an average city power station of the time.
The passenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. According to Titanic's general arrangement plans, the ship could accommodate 833 First Class Passengers, 614 in Second Class and 1,006 in Third Class, for a total passenger capacity of 2,453. In addition, her capacity for crew members exceeded 900, as most documents of her original configuration have stated that her full carrying capacity for both passengers and crew was approximately 3,547. Her interior design was a departure from that of other passenger liners, which had typically been decorated in the rather heavy style of a manor houseor an English country house.
Passengers could use an on-board telephone system, a lending library and a large barber shop. The First Class section had a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a squash court, a Turkish bath, an electric bath and a Verandah Cafe. First Class common rooms were adorned with ornate wood panelling, expensive furniture and other decorations, while the Third Class general room had pine panelling and sturdy teak furniture. The Café Parisien was located on a sunlit veranda fitted with trellis decorations and offered the best French haute cuisine for First Class passengers.
On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south ofNewfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. The collision caused the ship's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a women and children first protocol followed by some of the officers loading the lifeboats. By 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic foundered, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene of the sinking, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors.
The film Titanic that starred Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet beautifully yet heart-wrenchingly displayed the chronology of the events that preceded the disastrous event with the love story of Jack and Rose subtly intertwined with it. The film was a true depiction of the loss of lives that happened on a massive scale with the rich and upper class benefiting even here by receiving preference over the poor for the inadequate number of life boats aboard.
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HMHS Britannic
HMHS Britannic was the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, and was intended to enter service as the transatlantic passenger liner, RMS Britannic. The White Star Line used Britannic as the name of two other ships: SS Britannic (1874), holder of the Blue Riband and MV Britannic (1929), a motor liner, owned by White Star and then Cunard, scrapped in 1960.
She was launched just before the start of the First World War and was laid up at her builders in Belfast for many months before being put to use as a hospital ship in 1915. She was shaken by an explosion, caused by an underwater mine, in the Kea Channel off the Greek island of Kea on the morning of 21 November 1916, and sank 55 minutes later, killing 30 people.
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Canadian Halifax Memorial
The Halifax Memorial took place Sunday the 13th of November at 15:00 hrs. Some Sixty people attended the Memorial service. Thank's to all those that attended.
The proceedings was marshaled by the club chairman Mr Paul Hocking. The service was taken by the Rev Molly Langridge. The last post and Reveille was beautifully played by John Pearson. Wreaths were laid by the Veterans, Parish council, Club Captain (Bob Palmer), Seniors Captain (John Swift) and for the Ladies (Joy Butler).
The afternoon turned out to be a beautiful autumn day warm and sunny. Good weather for the older ones like me. The service was poignant and brought a tear to a few eyes. Following the service we retired to the club house for coffee and beer and a good old chat.
A special thanks must go to Paul Hocking for his hard work in arranging proceedings.
The Canadian crew members:
Flying Officer Lester Lyle WHITHAM (Navigator) Age 23. He was the son of Harry and Agnes Catherine Whitham (nee Huffman) of North Bay , Ontario, Canada .
Pilot Officer Alan Edward MacKENZIE (Air Gunner) Age 18 (one of the youngest Canadians to be killed on bomber operations) He was the son of Kenneth Bruce and Margaret MacKenzie of Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada .
Flying Officer Robert George EATON (Pilot) Aged 31. He was the son of Bertram Holtby and Florence Myers Eaton and the husband of Elizabeth Ramsden Eaton of Thornhill , Ontario , Canada
Flying Officer Allen Keith HODGKINSON, (Pilot).
Flying Officer Bruce Alan ELMORE (Air Bomber).
The British crew members:
Sergeant Harry Bernard SHIMWELL (Air Gunner) Age 19. He was the son of Humphrey and Ada Matilda Shimwell of Balby, Doncaster S.Yorkshire.
Sergeant Albert Edward MOSS (Flight Engineer) Aged 23. He was the son of Thomas and Margaret Moss from Seaham, Tyne and Wear.
Sergeant Allan Desmond WEIGH (Wireless Op/Air Gunner) Son of Edwin McRobie and Nellie Weigh of Chester
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Edward Smith (sea captain)
Edward John Smith, RD, RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was an English naval reserve officer who served as commanding officer of numerous White Star Line vessels.
He is best known as the captain of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912; Smith and over 1,500 others perished in the sinking. There is a statue of him in Beacon Park, Lichfield, England.
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Chirac visits scene of liner tragedy
1. Wide shot of boat, pans to site of accident
2. Collapsed gangway on the floor
3. Pull out from broken support bar to medium of gangway
4. Police examining collapsed gangway
5. Collapsed gangway
6. Wide of site of accident
7. French President Jacques Chirac arrives at site and shakes hands with fire brigade workers
8. Chirac listening to explanations about the accident
9. Wide of Chirac and entourage by the boat
10. Chirac walking towards reporters
11. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Chirac, President of France:
We were preparing a party here in Saint Nazaire with the departure of the biggest and probably the most beautiful boat in the world, and the tragedy just hit the shipyard, the city, the region. Words are meaningless in such circumstances but I would like to say that we are thinking of the victims and we share our emotion, solidarity and pain with their relatives.
12. Locals watching
13. Chirac's car passes by and he waves at locals
14. Locals
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French President Jacques Chirac, flanked by his Prime Minister and several Cabinet ministers, on Sunday visited the Saint Nazaire shipyard where 15 people died the day before when a gangway leading to the cruise liner Queen Mary 2 collapsed.
Chirac briefly visited the bodies of the victims being held in a temporary mortuary. Afterward, he said he had come to extend compassion, solidarity and sadness in the name of the French people.
The accident at the world's largest and most expensive oceanliner, currently dry-docked, initially claimed 13 lives, but two others had died of injuries by Sunday morning. A child about 10 years old has been reported among the dead.
Up to 32 others were injured, and all but two remained hospitalised, six in a critical condition.
Chantiers de l'Atlantique, the company that is building the QM2, has opened an investigation into the accident.
It is still unclear what caused the gangway to buckle.
The vessel is in its final stages of construction in St. Nazaire on the western Atlantic coast, with 26-hundred workers boarding and leaving daily.
The gangway was installed on Friday to accommodate a weekend visit by construction workers and their families of the nearly complete oceanliner before its maiden voyage in January.
About 48 people - all wearing construction helmets to protect against injury - were crowded onto the gangway when the structure collapsed, pulling down scaffolding and sending people plunging more than 15 metres (50 feet) to a concrete deck below.
About half of the victims were members of the cleaning crew who worked aboard the ship, and their families.
The gangway was used several times the night before without incident.
The ship is being built by French heavy engineering giant Alstom's Chantiers de l'Atlantique for the British ship operator Cunard Line, which is owned by Carnival Corp.
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Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR (14 May 1869 -- 4 November 1940) was a Captain for the Cunard Line and was the master of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia when it rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic which sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg.
Captain Rostron won wide praise for his energetic efforts to reach the Titanic before she sank, and his efficient preparations for and conduct of the rescue of the survivors. He was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by the U.S. Congress, and after World War I was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He was made the Commodore of the Cunard fleet before retiring in 1931.
The Carpathia was on its regular route between New York City and Fiume when early on 15 April 1912 she received a distress signal from the White Star Line ocean liner RMS Titanic[1], which had struck an iceberg and was sinking. Rostron was asleep when Carpathia's wireless operator, Harold Cottam, by chance left his headset on while undressing for bed and so heard the signal. Cottam ran to Rostron's cabin to alert him.
Rostron immediately ordered the ship to race towards the Titanic's reported position, posting extra lookouts to help spot and maneuver around the ice he knew to be in the area. About 58 nautical miles (93 km) separated the Carpathia from Titanic's position, but the Carpathia was the closest ship to respond to Titanic's distress signal. Rostron and his engineering crew skillfully obtained the maximum speed possible from the Carpathia, coaxing her up to 17.5 knots - three and a half more than she was rated for. Even so, Carpathia, travelling through dangerous ice floes, took about 3½ hours to reach the Titanic's radioed position. During this time Rostron turned off heating to ensure the maximum amount of steam for the ship's engines and had the ship prepared for the survivors; including getting blankets, food and drinks ready, and ordering his medical crew to stand by to receive the possibly injured survivors. Altogether, a list of 23 orders from Rostron to his crew was successfully implemented before Carpathia had even arrived at the scene of the disaster.
When Rostron believed he was getting close to the Titanic, he had green starburst rockets launched to encourage the Titanic if she was still afloat, or her survivors if she was not. Carpathia began picking up survivors about an hour after the first starburst was seen by those in the lifeboats. The Carpathia would end up rescuing 710 survivors out of the 2,228 passengers[1] and crew on board the Titanic; at least one survivor is said to have died after reaching the ship. After consulting with White Star Line managing director and Titanic survivor J. Bruce Ismay, Rostron decided to turn the ship around and return to New York City to drop off the survivors.
Later, Rostron testified about the events the night Titanic sank at both the U.S. Senate inquiry and the British Board of Trade's inquiry into the disaster. Titanic survivors, including Margaret Brown, presented Rostron with a silver cup and gold medal for his efforts the night Titanic sank. He was also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the Thanks of Congress, the American Cross of Honor, a medal from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society and a gold medal from the Shipwreck Society of New York.
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RMS Titanic was British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking one of modern historys deadliest peacetime commercial marine disasters. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas