Maddy WavesJun 1

🇬🇧 Didn't quite manage to share this on here yesterday, but I wrote a #BlogPost for the 115th anniversary of the launch of #RMSTitanic - and the accident of James Dobbin, a shipyard worker at #HarlandAndWolff who was involved in it.

🇩🇪 Ich hab es gestern nicht mehr geschafft, das hier zu posten, aber ich habe einen Blogpost zum 115. Jubiläum des Stapellaufs der RMS Titanic geschrieben - und dem Unfall von James Dobbin, einem Werftarbeiter von Harland & Wolff, der daran beteiligt war.

#Tumblr (ENG): https://ideas-on-paper.tumblr.com/post/818157270502391808/james-dobbin-the-man-injured-during-titanics

#history #MaritimeHistory #ships #steamships #OceanLiners #maritime #Geschichte #Schiffe #Dampfschiff #Seefahrt #maritim

James Dobbin, the man injured during Titanic's launch

Today, May 31st, 2026, marks the 115th anniversary of RMS Titanic's launch. It was a fine, clear day in Belfast, and at 12:13 pm, Titanic began to move backwards on her slipway, descending into the...

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMay 31
I've been fascinated by #OceanLiners since I was a wee child, but the #Titanic story was unusually compelling given the search for its wreck in the 1980s. It was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1911 that #WhiteStarLine's ill-fated #RMSTitanic was launched at #HarlandAndWolff in #Belfast.
AkerixMay 30

RMS Titanic Lanzado en Belfast

El 31 de mayo de 1911, el RMS Titanic, el barco más grande del mundo en ese momento, fue botado en Belfast, Irlanda del Norte. Este evento monumental marcó el comienzo de una nueva era en la historia marítima, ya que el Titanic fue diseñado para ser el transatlántico de pasajeros más lujoso y tecnológicamente avanzado del mundo. El…

#Akerix #IA #AI #RMSTitanic
https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-31-en-la-ciudad-de-belfast-irlanda-del-norte-se-bota-el-titanic-1911

The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland. — Akerix

British passenger liner that sank in 1912

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDApr 24
In the wake of the #Titanic disaster, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912, 284 firemen (the coal stokers) on her sister ship #RMSOlympic went out on #strike because of the deplorable condition of her lifeboats. Most of the firemen on #RMSTitanic went down with her, keeping the power on.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDApr 18
#Cunard #OceanLiner #RMSCarpathia arrived in NYC on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912 carrying ~712 survivors from #RMSTitanic. First on the scene, she collected everyone who lived. Launched in 1902, moderately-sized #Carpathia was later torpedoed and sunk in 1918 by a German submarine.
FJ BrodieApr 14

I haven't done a #DailyDoodle in a while, so here's one for the 14th April.

On 14th April 1912, the Titanic hit the iceberg that would sink it a few hours later.

(Probably one of the scrappiest depictions, but I do them quickly intentionally).

#Titanic #rmstitanic #pencilsketch

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDApr 14
#RMSTitanic struck an iceberg at 2340 ship's time on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912. #Titanic slipped beneath the waves at 0220 the next morning, lasting longer than she should have, and taking over 1500 people with her. The easily-preventable disaster is a monument to human hubris.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDApr 10
#RMSTitanic left the port of #Southampton in 1912 on #ThisDayInHistory for her maiden voyage to NYC. She never made it, striking an iceberg and sinking due to her captain's negligence in not reducing speed. #Titanic is one of very few #OceanLiners known to the general public.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDFeb 26
#HMHSBritannic was launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1914. Meant to serve as #RMSBritannic on the North Atlantic #OceanLiner service, and built as a larger, safer sister ship to #RMSTitanic & #RMSOlympic, she worked instead as a hospital ship until sunk by a mine in the Aegean.
Show threadTim CrumptonJan 4
The library in #Chorlton was delayed as the plans (to be personally approved by Andrew Carnegie) were lost onboard the #RMSTitanic