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Where The Lost Ones Go
Apr. 15th, 2012 05:45 pm100 years ago today RMS Titanic sank.
I've been finding the daily features on South Today over the last fortnight about various different people who were on the ship absolutely fascinating. The Titanic disaster is an enduring icon of our popular culture, and yet few of us know very much about the hundreds of human stories behind it.
Yesterday morning I went to our local library, where there was a little Titanic exhibition with newspaper articles of the time, commemorative postcards that were produced at the time for the relief fund, and a feature on the ship's quartermaster, George Rowe, who was from Gosport. I'm happy to say he survived, and went on to serve with distinction in World War I.
The BBC's commemoration in film and music from Belfast last night was very moving, a fitting memorial, and the musical performances were superb, especially Katie Melua, Joss Stone and Mica Paris.
After the programme I surfed onto a web site containing various diaries and letters written by people during the voyage, arranged in chronological order, with dots on a map showing whereabouts the ship was (and how near the iceberg) at the moment each one was written. I was hooked, and ended up sitting up past 1 am browsing it - could easily have carried on longer but was getting up early for the Chinese Grand Prix.
Paused at 6.47 this morning to observe a minute's silence (the ship went down at 5.47 GMT).
Been propping my eyes open with matchsticks all afternoon.
I've been finding the daily features on South Today over the last fortnight about various different people who were on the ship absolutely fascinating. The Titanic disaster is an enduring icon of our popular culture, and yet few of us know very much about the hundreds of human stories behind it.
Yesterday morning I went to our local library, where there was a little Titanic exhibition with newspaper articles of the time, commemorative postcards that were produced at the time for the relief fund, and a feature on the ship's quartermaster, George Rowe, who was from Gosport. I'm happy to say he survived, and went on to serve with distinction in World War I.
The BBC's commemoration in film and music from Belfast last night was very moving, a fitting memorial, and the musical performances were superb, especially Katie Melua, Joss Stone and Mica Paris.
After the programme I surfed onto a web site containing various diaries and letters written by people during the voyage, arranged in chronological order, with dots on a map showing whereabouts the ship was (and how near the iceberg) at the moment each one was written. I was hooked, and ended up sitting up past 1 am browsing it - could easily have carried on longer but was getting up early for the Chinese Grand Prix.
Paused at 6.47 this morning to observe a minute's silence (the ship went down at 5.47 GMT).
Been propping my eyes open with matchsticks all afternoon.
