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The Sinking and the Salvage of ‘Tricolor’ She started life as the Nosac Sun , a vehicle carrier, built in Japan in 1987. (I had been on a...

A Set of Copper Plates that Traversed a Millennium and a Continent - Chapter 2 Chola Treasure in the Netherlands! | Anaimangalam...

A Set of Copper Plates that Traversed a Millenia - Chapter 1 Chola Treasure in the Netherlands! | Anaimangalam Seppedugal (Or the Copper...

The Cap and the Logo The Formative Years Then I am writing this at the behest of 4th Year Cadet Mr Kush Rana, who wanted me to write...

The Ten Sadans that Powered the World  A "Fall-In" in the Junior Hostel Quadrangle - A Recent Feature A largely unknown and unused tract...

The Titanic in the foreground with a modern cruise liner in the background, shown for comparison purposes Arrival in the New World, 108...

The Tysla at a berth, with ramp down What had gone on before With chutes for each raft  rigged up, the evacuation started to proceed...

USS Gerald R Ford What Had Gone on Before Captain Anantharam Srinivas (Andy) was a very highly regarded officer of the US Navy, known...

Foreword This is a work of science fiction, a road less travelled by most readers. The story has its inspiration from two places. Long...

150 foot iceberg passes through Iceberg Alley near Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada The ' Titanic' juxtaposed against a modern cruise...

SOLAS 2020 Edition TITANIC ERA MARITIME LAWS The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 and the Merchant Shipping Act of 1906 were applicable when...

Ships in the Vicinity of the Titanic TITANIC : PART XIII - CARPATHIA TO THE RESCUE -  SHIPS IN THE VICINITY Ships in the Vicinity All my...

TITANIC - Part  XII - The Sinking Titanic - The Survivors and the Martyrs Total 20 Lifeboats 14 Clinker boats, capacity 65 2 wooden...

COLLISION 1135 pm - Iceberg spotted , the bell was rung and the lookouts immediately communicated with the Bridge. The method of...

The Mesaba  sends a warning to the Titanic about an ice field that includes “heavy pack ice and [a] great number [of] large icebergs.”...

TITANIC - PART IX - AN ICEBERG’S TRYST WITH THE TITANIC Tip of the Iceberg - an oft repeated term to signify that what we are seeing is a...

My confession is near posthumous, with a watery grave in my sight, in the North Atlantic, in the last moments before I lost the little of...

Marconi A typical Wireless Operator’s Room, with Communications Equipment circa 1910 Communications and Marconi were synonymous at the...

TITANIC - PART VI - LIFEBOATS Lifeboats can be seen on the top deck Lifeboat Deck - Clinker Lifeboats - Davit Mechanism Q. Were the...

TITANIC - PART V - THE ENGINES MORE ABOUT THE THE TITANIC’S ENGINES, ENGINEERS AND MACHINERY Triple Expansion Engine - Lower Side Triple...