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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member  BAH HUMBUG
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Titanic love gem goes on display  The sapphire pendant is going displayThe sapphire pendant which is believed to have inspired the love story in the film Titanic is to go on display in Belfast. In the movie, actress Kate Winslett is presented with a necklace. The real-life pendant was given by an English businessman to his lover. He drowned, but the woman survived and passed the jewel on to her daughter. The pendant, along with a purse and trunk keys, will now go on display aboard the Nomadic, the ship which ferried passengers out to the Titanic. David Scott-Beddard of the Nomadic Trust said the artefacts would be kept in a secure cabinet but, from Monday, would be exhibited on the Nomadic which is berthed near Belfast's Odyssey complex.  The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage to New York "The pendant that we have just acquired and is going to go on display on Nomadic, isn't actually the fictitious Heart of the Ocean from James Cameron's film," he said. "This pendant is from the Titanic and was the inspiration for James Cameron to write the love story that he included in his film with Kate Winslett." Mr Scott-Beddard described the pendant as being "quite small, only about an inch long," with an "oblong sapphire surrounded by diamonds and attached to a very simple thin chain". "The true story is that a businessman from the English Midlands, who owned three or four confectionary stores, left his wife and children, for a young lady called Kate Florence Philips who worked in one of his stores." He said the man drowned when the Titanic sank, but the woman survived, managing to hang on to the pendant, her purse and the keys to her trunk. "She also found out four weeks later that she was pregnant," he said. "A friend of mine has had the necklace for quite some time. He bought it from Kate Philips's daughter, a lady called Ellen Mary Walker, who lived in Worchester.  The Nomadic as she looked early in the 20th century "She died last year and her ashes were scattered on the site of the wreck site of the Titanic." He said a friend bought the necklace, purse and keys "quite a few years ago". A pocket-watch recovered from the wreck of the Titanic was also bought by Mr Scott-Beddard and will go on display along with the other items. "We are pretty sure that, because of the fictitious story and the fascination with Kate Winslett's Heart of the Ocean necklace, a lot of people will want to come and see the real necklace," he said. Built in 1911, the Nomadic was bought by the government to be restored and taken from France to Belfast last July. Thousands of people have visited the Nomadic since it was berthed beside the Odyssey at Easter. It is hoped the vessel will become a major tourist attraction and be fully restored for its 100th anniversary in four years time.
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Lady Cop wrote: i think this is the best book everI remember this as being one of the first books I ever read as a boy. LC, you must be a little on the over 29 side!!! 
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Titanic survivor dies at 96 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_us/obit_titanic_survivor;_ylt=AjakHWSp7a3a3MlS_W
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low-grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book. The Titanic left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912 on its ill-fated maiden voyage. The company, Harland and Wolff of Belfast, Northern Ireland, needed to build the ship quickly and at reasonable cost, which may have compromised quality, said co-author Timothy Foecke. That the shipyard was building two other vessels at the same time added to the difficulty of getting the millions of rivets needed, he added. "Under the pressure to get these ships up, they ramped up the riveters, found materials from additional suppliers, and some was not of quality," said Foecke, a metallurgist at the U.S. government's National Institute of Standards and Technology who has been studying the Titanic for a decade. More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic, advertised as an "unsinkable" luxury liner, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912 and went down in the North Atlantic less than three hours later. "The company knowingly purchased weaker rivets, but I think they did it not knowing they would be purchasing something substandard enough that when they hit an iceberg their ship would sink," said co-author Jennifer Hooper McCarty, who started researching the Titanic's rivets while working on her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1999. The company disputes the idea that inferior rivets were at fault. The theory has been around for years, but McCarty and Foecke's book, "What Really Sank the Titanic," published last month, outlines their extensive research into the Harland and Wolff archives and surviving rivets from the Titanic. McCarty spent two years in Britain studying the company's archives and works on the training and working conditions of shipyard workers. She and Foecke also studied engineering textbooks from the 1890s and early 1900s to learn more about shipbuilding practices and materials. "I had the opportunity to study the metallurgy of several rivets," McCarty said. "It was a process of taking thousands of images of the inside of these rivets, finding out what the structure was like, doing chemical testing and computer modeling. "Seeing the kind of levels we saw in different areas, in different parts of the ship led us to believe they would have ordered from different people," she said, adding this may have led to the weaker rivets. The two metallurgists tested 48 rivets from the ship and found that slag concentrations were at 9 percent, when they should have been 2 to 3 percent. The slag is a byproduct of the smelting process. "You need the slag but you need just a little to take up the load that's applied so the iron doesn't stretch," Foecke said. "The iron becomes weak the more slag there is because the brittleness of the slag takes over and it breaks easily." Foecke said the main question was not whether the Titanic would sink after hitting the iceberg, but how fast the ship went down. He believes the answer is provided by the weak rivets. His analysis showed the builders used stronger steel rivets where they expected the greatest stress and weaker iron rivets for the stern and the bow, where they thought there would be less pressure, he said. But it was the ship's bow that struck the iceberg. "Typically you want a four bar for rivets," Foecke said, using the measurement for the strongest rivets. "Some of the orders were for three bar." Harland and Wolff spokesman Joris Minne disputed the findings. "We always say there was nothing wrong with the Titanic when it left here," he said. When the iceberg hit the Titanic, it scraped alongside the ship. Foecke said this affected a number of seams in the bow and the weak rivets let go, putting more pressure on the strong rivets. "Six compartments flooded. If the rivets were on average better quality, five compartments may have flooded and the ship would have stayed afloat longer and more people would have been saved," Foecke said. "If four compartments flooded, the ship may have limped to Halifax." The company does not have an archivist, but it refers scientific questions on the Titanic to retired Harland and Wolff naval engineer David Livingstone, who also has researched the ship's sinking. He said he largely agrees with the authors' findings on the metallic composition of the rivets, but added their conclusions that the rivets were to blame for the sinking are "misleading and incorrect" because they do not consider the ship's overall design and the historical context. "You can't just look at the material and say it was substandard," Livingstone said. "Of course material from 100 years ago would be inferior to material today." He said he had found no document to support the argument that Harland and Wolff knowingly used substandard material. He pointed out that the Olympic, a ship the company built at the same time using the same materials, had a long life with no troubles. The third vessel turned out in the early 1900s was attacked and sunk in World War I. Livingstone said he was not sure why iron rivets were used in the bow and the stern but believed it may have been because a crane-mounted hydraulic rivet machine could not reach those points. He said the iron rivets were wider to compensate for the difference in strength. Contrary to Foecke's theory, Livingstone said, the Titanic did not go down fast compared to other ships that have sunk. He said the Titanic did not capsize -- as do most sinking ships -- but maintained an even keel until the last moment, going down after about two and a half hours when the weight of the water it took on became too much. William Garzke, chairman of the forensics panel of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers based in New Jersey, said wrought iron was commonly used at that time, but steel was the newer, stronger choice. Garzke, who also has studied the Titanic sinking, said the two scientists made a good point about the variability of the rivets, but "the problem is not the metallurgy of the rivets, it was the design of the riveted joints." He said that the company used only two rivets at the site of impact, when three would have provided more strength and durability.
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 AP April 17, 1998: Millvina Dean, 86, the last Titanic survivor looks up and smiles as she signs a 'Titanic' movie poster. LONDON — Millvina Dean was just two months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic. Now, more than 95 years later, Dean, the last living survivor of the disaster, is hoping to help pay her nursing home fees by selling artifacts of her rescue — a suitcase and other mementos expected to auction for about $5,200. Rescued from the bitterly cold Atlantic night by the steamship Carpathia, Dean, her brother and her mother were taken to New York with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Before returning home to England, they were given a small wicker suitcase of clothing, a gift from New Yorkers, to help them rebuild their lives. The suitcase and other mementos are to be sold Saturday at an auction organized by Henry Aldridge and Son, which specializes in Titanic memorabilia. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the key item was the suitcase that was filled with clothes and donated to Dean's surviving family members after the disaster. "They would have carried their little world in this suitcase," Aldridge said Thursday. Dean also is selling letters from the Titanic Relief Fund offering her mother one pound, seven shillings and sixpence a week in compensation. Dean, 96, has lived in a nursing home in the southern English city of Southampton — Titanic's home port — since she broke her hip two years ago. "I am not able to live in my home anymore," Dean was quoted as telling the Southern Daily Echo newspaper. "I am selling it all now because I have to pay these nursing home fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money." In 1912, baby Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean and her family were steerage passengers emigrating to Kansas City, Missouri, aboard the giant cruise liner. Four days out of port, on the night of April 14, it hit an iceberg and sank. Billed as "practically unsinkable" by the publicity magazines of the period, the Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for all of 2,200 passengers and crew. Dean, her mother and 2-year-old brother were among 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among more than 1,500 who died. Aldridge said the "massive interest" in Titanic memorabilia shows no signs of abating. Last year, a collection of items belonging to Lillian Asplund, the last American survivor of the disaster, sold for more than $175,000. Asplund died in 2006 at the age of 99. "It's the people, the human angle," Aldridge said. "You had over 2,200 men, women and children on that ship, from John Jacob Astor, the richest person in the world at the time, to a poor Scandinavian family emigrating to the States to start a new life. There were 2,200 stories."
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