The Olympic Class ships were intended to be the greatest liners to ever sail the oceans, but the Britannic sank only four years ...
When the Titanic set sail in 1912, the “onboard storage pantry” had 40,000 eggs. Today, in 2025, we’ve had much murmuring ...
The White Star Line, hoping to compete with its main rival, countered by ordering three massive ocean liners—the Olympic, ...
Titanic, and Britannic. It was an opulent but ill-fated trio, and Jessop happened to be working on each ship when disaster struck. The first in this series of maritime misfortunes was the ...
You can still visit it today. The architect of Titanic and its sister ships Olympic and Britannic was Alexander Carlisle. The designer was born in Ballymena and is generally thought to have been ...
Actor and historian Leslie Goddard has returned to the Theatre at the Center stage in Munster to share this true account of the twin nautical disasters Jessop survived in vivid and fascinating detail ...
Violet Jessop was a career woman, a rarity at the turn of the century, working as a cabin maid crew member of luxury ...