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Titanic Musician And Palace Intruder In Biographical Dictionary (27 May 2010, BBC News)
A teenager who broke into Buckingham Palace three times and the Titanic band leader are among 90 people added to the updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dictionary editor Philip Carter said they were examples of lives that were connected with well-known events. Edward Jones claimed he sat upon the throne during his palace escapades in the late 1830s, his entry says. Wallace Hartley famously played on deck as the Titanic sank in 1912. The dictionary was first published in 2004, and now contains 57,348 lives, with about 300 added every year. No living person is included in the dictionary.

Student Embark On Titanic Learning Voyage (26 May 2010, Montgomery Newspapers)
Dressed to the nines, third-grade students in Angie Cannon and Mary Chalmers class boarded the Titanic May 19 to bring their study of the early 20th century disaster to life — with one small change, their boat would not be sinking.With passports in hand, the Upper Moreland Intermediate School students walked the ramp and entered the boat that would be taking them from England to America.To simulate the journey the classrooms were decorated with portholes, first-, second- and third-class menus as well as the outline of the ship around their desks.

Titanic Survivor Remembered And Family Feud Healed (24 May 2010, Irish Central)
Sixteen of Buckley’s descendants each laid a rose on her grave after two of her great-great-grandnieces unveiled the marker. “I think Catherine would be very proud right now,’’ said Charles A. Haas, president of the Titanic International Society. Buckley’s death led to a rift in the family with her half sister blamed for her death. Only on Saturday was the family able to achieve closure. Relatives of Margaret her half sister and her Irish family were there. In a strange twist, Buckley was never supposed to be on the Titanic. Buckley’s ticket was originally for Boston aboard the Cymeric, a smaller ship owned by the White Star Line but a strike intervened. She was transferred to the “unsinkable’’ Titanic, set to arrive in New York in April 1912.

Titanic Victim Gets Headstone In West Roxbury (19 May 2010, WBZ )
A Titanic historian, Bracken discovered Buckley's plot and was shocked to find no stone.  He worked to have one donated by a local monument company Thomas Carrigg and Sons, whose owner says he gets many requests from families when they discover unmarked graves.  This one was historically different.  "I always thought everyone had been buried up north, in Nova Scotia or Maine, or even buried at sea," said Thomas Carrigg.

Titanic Artefacts On Show-Melbourne (17 May 2010, Australian Geographic)
Battered and scarred from decades on the seafloor, each artefact – from a bronze cherub to a child’s marbles – has its own story to tell. A two-tonne fragment of the ship’s hull and a massive steel entrance door hint at the Titanic’s sheer size. A twisted chandelier frame and an ornate bench end, perfume vials and gold jewellery, all echo the grandeur of the 'Gilded Age.' Hand-cut crystal dishes used by first-class passengers contrast with plain, heavy crockery from the third class. Luggage bags, items of clothing – some marked with identifiable names – and even paper documents, amazingly preserved, evoke the stories of passengers from all walks of life, so many of whom were never to reach their destination.

Titanic Exhibit Worth The Drive-Pigeon Forge (16 May 2010, Clarksville Leaf Chronicle)
It is an unusual scene when one visits the Great Smoky Mountains and suddenly spies a life-size replica of the RMS Titanic. There's no ocean anywhere near, but there it is in beautiful Pigeon Forge, looming above the buildings and scenery as if it had completed its voyage across the sea. We were pleasantly surprised that Ernest and his guests are eligible for tickets at half price because he is a resident of the county. Tickets are about $25 but well worth it. The walk through the exhibit is slow because of the large amount of information and number of artifacts, retrieved years ago from the sunken ship. Seats are available along the way for those who need to rest during the trek.

24 Hours In Halifax (15 May 2010, Sydney Morning Herald)
9.30am The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic has about 26,000 items in its collection but it's the handful of artefacts from the Titanic that lures most visitors into the waterfront museum. Halifax was the nearest city to the world's most famous shipwreck and three Halifax ships were involved in the rescue efforts. Maritime tradition was for rescuers to take souvenirs from notable shipwrecks and in the museum are items such as a Titanic deckchair, parts of the balustrade from the grand staircase, the liner's only intact cabinet, a child's shoes and an officer's buttons. On a wall are the names of all Titanic passengers, with the survivors in white type and the dead in black.

Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition-Melbourne(14 May 2010, The Age)
With 1517 passengers killed (including the man responsible for the design), and another 706 rescued (including the White Star Line's chairman, responsible for the number of lifeboats), there is plenty of human drama. RMS Titanic Inc obtained the rights under admiralty law, after Ballard relinquished ownership rights. Over seven dives, it retrieved some 5500 artefacts. Despite this, one of the most startling images from the exhibition is pinned to the outside of the Titanic-sized Melbourne Museum. Taken in a Belfast dry dock, the photograph depicts the ship's builders dwarfed next to the propellers.

(Editors note: The writer is incorrect about Ballard reliquishing ownership rights. At the time Ballard was under contract with the U.S. Navy and maritime law forbids those in government employ (or its agents) from asserting salvage rights over civilian wrecks. RMS Titanic Inc went out, retrieved items from the wreck, and went to federal court to prove it had a claim. They were awarded salvor-in-possession status.)

Nomadic Trust 'Time Capsule' Plan (13 May 2010, BBC News)
The body set up to oversee the restoration of the SS Nomadic has delayed a key bid for lottery funds. It has done so in order to incorporate an idea to turn the clock back a century at Belfast docks. Initially, it was expected that the Nomadic Trust would seek £1.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help restore the White Star vessel. Its bid for more money - to be submitted this year - will now include a "1911 time capsule concept." The Nomadic Trust decided it needed to broaden the project's scope following discussions on the matter.

Titanic Treasures (9 May 2010, Leader News)
Many of the 5000-odd artefacts plucked from the seabed since the wreck’s discovery have made their first journey to Australia for the Melbourne Museum exhibition. Cheryl Mure, vice-president of the company that owns the salvage rights to the wreck, said seeing the artefacts first-hand would give patrons a new understanding of the horrific events of April 15, 1912. “When you get to stand there surrounded by objects that were on that ship and hear the stories of people who survived and those who perished, it can be a very moving experience,” Ms Mure said.

British Warship Rescues Family After Yacht Hits Iceberg (9 May 2010, FOXNews)
Carl Lomas and Tracey Worth, also known as Lord and Lady Hollinsclough, were sailing to Cape Town with their daughters, Caitland and Morgause Lomas, believed to be in their teens. They ran into trouble in the South Atlantic after hitting a low-lying iceberg similar to the one that sank the Titanic. Falmouth Coastguard helped authorities in the Falkland Islands locate the vessel - named Yacht Hollinsclough - which had taken on water and suffered engine failure. "What they've hit is a 'growler', where hardly anything is out of the water and the majority is submerged," a coastguard spokesman explained. "It is very similar to what the Titanic hit. You can track them by radar or visual lookout, but you can't see them all."

Titanic's 'Kate' Found Buried In Boston (7 May 2010, thebostonchannel.com)
Her body had been found by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, chartered by White Star Line, a week after the sinking. According to the ship’s log, she would have been wearing a long blue overcoat, a blue serge jacket and skirt, a white blouse, blue corsets and gray knickers. While most were buried in Nova Scotia, Kate’s sister Margaret asked that Kate complete her journey and be brought to Boston for burial. While she was buried in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in West Roxbury, her grave was unmarked and lacking a headstone. In 2004, her grave was located by Bracken and another member of the historical society. (Hat tip to Mike for sending news tip.)

Titanic Attraction Remarkably Engaging And Respectful (7 May 2010, Asheville Citizen-Times)
But beyond the goofball exterior is a remarkably informative, entertaining and, yes, respectful museum. In addition to its treasure trove of authentic artifacts — a deck chair, Mrs. Astor's actual life jacket, a crew member's penknife — it recounts in detail the lives of dozens of the ship's passengers who might otherwise have been forgotten.

Titanic Exhibit Returns To COSI (6 May 2010, NBC4i.com)
Now back for a return engagement this spring and summer at COSI: "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition." This time around, there are new attractions. A partnership with the Phoenix Children's Theater brings actors in costume and character to mingle with guest passengers on the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic, which sunk in 1912.

Staff Says Goodbye To St. Vincent's Hospital (1 May 2010, New York Times)
The exodus of Village residents to other hospitals is backed up by State Health Department data, which show that before the closing, the 11 nearest zip codes accounted for only 37 percent of St. Vincent’s patients. When the Titanic sank, Sister Kevin said, the Sisters of Charity wired the rescue ship, the Carpathia, that St. Vincent’s ambulances would be waiting at the dock, but would take only passengers from steerage. They knew, she said, that the rich passengers would be taken care of.

APRIL

Niece Of Scots Titanic Violinist Releases Cook Book In His Memory (30 April 2010, stv.tv)
Yvonne Hume is the great nice of Scottish violinist John Law Hume, who died after the liner struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. He drowned after continuing to play the violin while the ship sank, as he tried to ease the huge panic onboard. And Yvonne, who has been fascinated by the story of the sinking of The Titanic for some years, has now decided to release a book all about the decadent surroundings on board, focusing on the food served to passengers, to honour John’s memory.

The Titanic Honour And Glory Exhibition Travels Back In Time (28 April 2010, Daily Echo)
Exhibits range from authentic White Star line china to furniture and more personal items of memorabilia, showcasing letters, photographs and clothing from almost a hundred years ago. The artefacts include extremely rare objects such as the silver cup presented to Captain Smith to mark his 25th year with the White Star Line and an original port ledger. This record of the Port of Southampton includes details of Titanic’s arrival and departure. One of the most poignant artefacts is a pocket watch which stopped at 2.28am, the moment Titanic sank below the waves reminding us of the thousands of people left to the mercy of the freezing ocean.

Mystery Over Titanic Hero Tributes Is Solved (23 April 2010, Get Surrey)
The mystery of who leaves flowers on the Godalming memorial to Titanic hero Jack Phillips on his birthday each April has been solved after more than two decades.  It has been revealed the floral tribute is sent by an author who lives on Jersey and visits the town each spring.  Mandy Le Boutillier, a compliance officer who writes in her spare time, is not a relative but said she was fascinated by Mr Phillips' story and had spent the past few years calling at places he regularly visited and writing a biography on his life. She visits the British Titanic Society’s convention in Southampton annually and on her return places flowers on the fountain in the Phillips Memorial Cloister and on the family grave in Nightingale Road. Ms Le Boutillier said she always left her initials on the card along with her message ‘TU OM GN’ – Marconi wireless code for ‘Thank you old man, good night'.

Titanic Resurfaces in the Gumoshtnik Village, Bulgaria (April 2010, Balkan Travellers)
“These are the two memorials for those who died in the Balkan Wars, and behind them is that for the Titanic victims,” Doycho explains. The stone human-size obelisk looks quite tidy – tilted with the years, it has been straightened back up, and the faded names of the eight men from Gumoshtnik have been refreshed with bronze used for stoves. It was built by the victims’ relatives with part of the money they got from Lloyd’s, the company that insured the passengers. Besides Bulgaria, the only countries that have made memorials to the drowned people are the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. “In memory of those who sunk in the Atlantic Ocean with the ship Titanic in the year 1912,” the writing on the monument reads, in old Bulgarian style, followed by the names of the deceased.

Titanic's Only Donegal Casualty Remembered (20 April 2010, Derry Today)
Neal McNamee, (27), was born in Ruskey, Convoy, on 29th August, 1884, son of William McNamee,Farm Labourer and Catherine (née Gordon). Like so many young Donegal people, he took the emigration trail to England to escape the poverty of Ireland. Securing employment as Provisions Manager with Bournemouth and Salisbury based Liptons Tea, where he married Plymouth born, 19 year old Eileen O'Leary. After a period working for Lipton's, Neal was offered a position at Lipton Ltd in America. Sir Thomas Lipton himself wrote a letter of introduction to his General Manager in New York. The newlyweds boarded the vessel at Southampton as third class passengers (ticket number 376566, price £16 and two shillings), on the 10th April.

Heston Blumenthal's Titanic Menu Slammed (18 April 2010, Daily Echo)
He’s considered Britain’s finest chef, but his latest culinary creation has left a bad taste in Southampton.
The multi-Michelin starred Heston Blumenthal will next week serve up a Titanic-themed menu – billed as the “greatest feast never eaten: the last meal on the Titanic” – on his new Channel 4 show. A group of six celebrities will dine on an extravagant offerings finishing with a dessert known as a flambéed iceberg, which translates as “flamed iceberg”. Local experts and relatives of Titanic survivors and victims last night branded Heston’s Titanic Feast as “sick” and “disrespectful”.

Letter From First-Class Titanic Passenger Fetches £55000 At Auction (18 April 2010, Daily Mail)
A letter from a first-class passenger on the Titanic fetched £55,000 at auction - a record price for a piece of written correspondence from the ship. The piece was penned by Adolphe Saafeld, on three sides of stationery from the doomed vessel, to his 'wifey.' His words give a rare glimpse into day to day life on the maiden voyage of the Titanic which sank on April 15 1912 taking 1,517 people with it. The letter was one of 350 lots of White Star Line memorabilia sold on Saturday by auctioneer Henry Aldridge and Son, in Devizes, Wiltshire. The letter, composed five days before the disaster, was sold to an unidentified museum in Britain, which has yet to formally announce its purchase.

A Titanic Event (17 April 2010, Waterbury Republican American)
Ninety-eight years later, Foxwoods Resort Casino is paying tribute to a tragedy that continues to resonate, with "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition." The exhibit contains more than 125 artifacts conserved from the ship's debris field. The showcase offers visitors a poignant look at this iconic ship and its passengers. On Thursday, a somber celebration marked the anniversary of the ship's sinking. Chris Reimer, fourth-class cadet with the Coast Guard Academy, performed "Taps." Organizers placed a ceremonial wreath outside the exhibit, which read: "In memory of the 1,517 souls who lost their lives when Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m., April 15, 1912."

International Ice Patrol Honours Titanic Victims (16 April 2010, TheChronicleHerald.ca)
The patrol will drop three wreaths into the Atlantic today from a U.S. Coast Guard plane in memory of the Titanic victims. A 16-member unit of the U.S. Coast Guard, the patrol deploys a team to Newfoundland every two weeks during iceberg season, which runs January to August. It issues a daily report for mariners in the Grand Banks area. The patrol works closely with the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Ice Service, which is operated by Environment Canada, Rogerson said. More than two dozen people attended the memorial including three members of the First Armdale Boy Scout Troop and their leader Peter Koskolos.

Descendants Toll Bell For Mayo 11 Who Perished On Board 'Titanic' (16 April 2010, Irish Times)
The bell ringers, several of whom are descendants of those lost, performed in St Patrick’s church, Lahardane, at 2.20am – the estimated time the ocean liner sank after it hit an iceberg off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks on April 15th, 1912.Three of 14 emigrants from Addergoole parish were saved, and a granddaughter of Delia McDermott (31), one of the three survivors, travelled to the parish from New Jersey in the US a week ago. Lahardane is the only place in Europe where the ship’s sinking is marked every year during the very hour when 1,517 people on board perished. Pupils from three Addergoole parish national schools – at Lahardane, Rathbane and Rathkell – attended the 2am to 3am ceremony which also included recitations, poetry and music.

Titanic Diver Details Exploration Of Doomed Ship (15 April 2010, Texas A&M The Battalion)
“She sank on her maiden voyage because they were trying to set a speed record across the Atlantic Ocean,” McLaren said. “When other liners of the time would have been more cautious and stopped at sunset, the Titanic continued speeding across the Atlantic Ocean. She had received at least six to eight messages warning her to slow down. There was no moon out that night, and the sea actually became flat calm.” Other possible reasons for her failure, McLaren said, were more superstitious.

Ed note: Capt. McLaren is incorrect that Titanic was trying to set a speed record, if he means being the fastest ship on Atlantic. It was built for luxury and not speed. Titanic slowly increased her speed up to 22½ knots before the collision. Evidence does indicate Ismay wanted Titanic to beat Olympic's maiden voyage arrival time. Both ships were traveling the same route across the Atlantic. Olympic's best speed was over 21 knots but less than 22. Titanic, if she had not sunk, would have beaten the record. (Source: George Behe, Titanic: Safety, Speed and Sacrafice, Transportation Trails, 1997.)

Captain McLaren notes "there was said to be between one to three bodies from workers that had been sealed inside...." According to Stephen Cameron, the final figures reported to the managers on 10 April 1912 shows 8 deaths, 28 severe injuries, and 218 slight accidents. Nothing indicates the story is true and largely considered a myth. (Source: Stephen Cameron, Titanic: Belfast's Own,Wolfhound Press, 1998.)

Titanic Brochure Expected To Fetch £15000 At Auction (14 April 2010, The Guardian)
The rare postcard-sized booklet, soon to be auctioned and expected to fetch up to £15,000, includes a tiny sketch of a half-open porthole, showing the kind of view passengers could expect if they were fortunate enough to secure a passage on a ship which, the text promised, "will rank high in the achievements of the 20th century". The idyllic view, framed by the window, is of white-sailed yachts bobbing on a millpond sea, under a sky with fluffy, bright clouds – far from the last sights the terrified passengers would see through the portholes, of the iceberg in the black waters of the north Atlantic, the flares, the inadequate lifeboats, the bodies in the deathly cold waves.
Bethany Community in Alexandria is proud to present “Titanic, A Night to Remember,” a fundraising event for the residents. The event will take place Saturday, April 17 at Bethany. Social hour is set for 5:30 p.m. with seating for dinner to begin at 6:30 p.m. Guests are invited to experience the Titanic’s final evening of its maiden voyage. This historic evening will include a seven-course dinner as served in the first-class dinning room with music, facts and dramatic portrayals. Apparel of the early 1900s or formal attire is encouraged.

Butt Memorial Bridge Will Soon See Less Traffic (13 April 2010,Augusta Chronicle)
It's Augusta's most ornate bridge -- with gilded lions, glass globes and masonry eagles adorning its sides. It also has a reinforced concrete arch, which was a relatively new technique at the time it was built, according to Tom Robertson of Cranston Engineering Group on Ellis Street. "I don't know of another bridge like it," he said. More than that, it is the only memorial to a true hero. The bridge's namesake, Maj. Archibald Butt, died while on special assignment from his friend, President William H. Taft.

Individuals With Link To Historic Sinking Meet In La Grande (13 April 2010, La Grande Observer)
The families’ paths intersected when Howard Ostby of Milton-Freewater and Gordon Leitch of Dundee met Saturday at the fifth annual Titanic Dinner and Historic Artifact Viewing in La Grande. Ostby and Leitch are the descendants of the Frank Warren and Engelhart Ostby families who last met during the sinking of the Titanic 98 years ago. Two families who each lost a loved one in the historic tragedy but also can boast of a survivor. Survivors who sat next to each other in a lifeboat during the sinking of the Titanic April 15, 1912.

Irish Titanic Victim To Be Given Memorial Headstone (April 2010, The New York Irish Emgirant)
Now, 98 years later, the Titanic International Society along with the descendants of Margaret, will unveil a brand new memorial head stone at the grave of Kate Buckley – commemorating Kate’s tragic fate aboard the most talked about maritime disaster in history. Thomas Carrigg and Sons Monument Company in West Roxbury donated the new marker and St. Joseph’s Cemetery waived the preparation and placement fees for the memorial. To the descendants of Margaret Buckley, however, the ceremony is more than a tribute to Kate and the victims of Titanic. It has a deeper, more personal meaning.

Titanic Exhibition A Realistic Voyage (13 April 2010,The Australian)
Almost a century after the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, it seems our fascination with the doomed passenger liner has not dimmed.Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition is a large-scale touring display of 280 artefacts, all salvaged by deep-water craft from the debris field of the Titanic, 4km beneath the Atlantic.The show will open at the Melbourne Museum next month. According to Cheryl Mure, of US-based company RMS Titanic Inc, which is presenting the show in collaboration with Michael Gudinski's Frontier Events and the Victorian government, the fact that these are the belongings of real people is the compelling factor.

Titanic Museum Sails Into Sea Of Pigeon Forge Tourists (12 April 2010, The Tennessean)
Paul Kurzman, a descendant of passengers on the Titanic, grasped Titanic Museum Attraction owner John Joslyn’s right hand and said simply, “Thank you.” Kurzman, 71, of New York, is the great-grandson of RMS Titanic passengers Isidor and Ida Straus. Isidor owned Macy’s Department Store; he and Ida were coming home on the ship after a French Riviera holiday. When the elderly Isidor declined an offered lifeboat spot, Ida refused to leave him. They both died when the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean on her April 1912 maiden voyage.

Cobh Sailor Recollected At 'Titanic' Ceremony (12 April 2010, Irish Times)
Of special note this year was the remembrance for the first time of able seaman Lionel Leonard. Leonard was born in Queenstown (now Cobh) in 1876. Christened Andrew Shannon in St Colman’s Cathedral, he went to England at the age of 16 and joined the royal navy. He went absent from the navy in 1908 and married Annie Matilda Gould in Poole, Dorset, the same year. In 1912, having become a US citizen and changing his name to Lionel Leonard to work in the merchant fleet, he was a quartermaster on the SS Philadelphia of the American Line.

Week's Delay For Titanic Exhibition (9 April 2010, Daily Echo)
 Roger Hardingham, one of the exhibition promoters, said: “Many of the exhibits are already in Southampton but some of the most important display items are only expected this afternoon, which makes the scheduled opening on Saturday simply impossible.’’ Titanic, Honour and Glory, will now open for business on Friday, April 16, just in time for a series of events in the city commemorating the sinking of Titanic in April, 1912. Among the items still to arrive from Scotland are four replicas of Titanic funnels and a display of china which was used on the ill-fated White Star liner.

Titanic Pigeon Forge Opens To Public (9 April 2010,The Chattanoogan)
Titanic Pigeon Forge, a 30,000-square-foot ship-shaped structure situated on 5.69 acres, opened to the public on Thursday. The new $25 million permanent museum is a half-scale, three-deck reproduction of the Titanic. The museum houses 20 galleries that display hundreds of authentic Titanic artifacts that were carried from the ship and into lifeboats by passengers and crew and those found afloat soon after the ship sunk.

New Tour Offers A Taste From Titanic (8 April 2010, Belfast Telegraph)
The five-stop foray into Belfast's Edwardian past will take in the sights, sounds and tastes of establishments from Nick's Warehouse to St George's Market. The Belfast Bred theatre-tour, which is organised by Belfast City Council, will be led by RMS Titanic chef Barney, played by Fra Gunn, in a sketch written and directed by the Kabosh Theatre Company. After enjoying sausages and bacon as part of a traditional Ulster Fry at the century-old Sawers Deli, tourists will head to the Mourne Seafood Bar to sample fresh fish from the waters off Northern Ireland's coast, before quenching their thirst at the award-winning John Hewitt bar. Next on the menu is a range of Irish cheeses at Nick's Warehouse in the Cathedral Quarter, followed by a Paddy's pizza - using a base of soda bread - at the Kitchen Bar. A whizz round St George's Market, accompanied by one of the traders, completes the tour which aims to leave visitors full of food and knowledge of Belfast's historic past.

The RMS Titanic Sinks Anew Every Year In La Grande, 300 Miles From The Ocean (8 April 2010, Wallowa County Chieftain)
A chef, Merlyn Baker, and a historian, John Lamoreau, teamed to recreate the last meal eaten by Titanic's passengers on the moonless night the ill-fated ocean liner hit an iceberg and sank on April 14, 1912. Baker, owner and chef at the Foley Station, pored over historic recipes in preparation for the first Titanic dinner five years ago. "There were menus that survived," Baker said. "A lot of the dishes were French and the Russian influence was huge. Italian cuisine was also important and represented on the menu." The pace is hectic for Baker as he prepares stock, consommé and various sauces. "This is old European cuisine - it takes time," he said. "It takes a few weeks to pull it all together."

Fine Food And Fine Wine: The First Class Menu On The Titanic Had It All (7 April 2010 BBC News)
When Conor came upon a book of old Titanic recipes, he began a culinary journey into the past that led him to recreate the last meal on board the Titanic. "There are nine courses in all," he said. "In the original, there could have been 13 courses but nine courses is really more than enough. "At that time, they would have served pates and terrines at the end of the meal just before desserts. But today, that would seem very strange." Instead, the chef settled for a menu which starts with canapes a l'amiral before moving on to cream of barley soup flavoured with Bushmills whiskey. "There were cases of Bushmills on board the Titanic of course," he said.

Chef Recreates Titanic's Last Menu (6 April 2010, Belfast Telegraph)
Chef and proprietor Conor McClelland of Rayanne House in Holywood spent two months researching the last menu served on board the ill-fated liner. The nine-course culinary extravaganza will launch this week for the Titanic Made In Belfast Festival in the guest house’s private dining room. “It was such a beautiful menu. There was so much attention to detail in the food that it really was a first-class feast,” said Mr McClelland. The banquet, last serviced on April 14 1912, includes delicacies such as foie gras pate, asparagus and watercress salad served with Champagne, and rose water and mint sorbet.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, A Refuge During WWII Is The Final Resting Place For Titanic Victims
(4 April 2010, Dallas Morning News)
"As far as the eye could see, the ocean was strewn with wreckage and debris, with bodies bobbing up and down in the cold sea," recalled Arminias Wiseman, a sailor aboard the Mackay-Bennett, the first cable ship to arrive at the disaster site on April 20. So many bodies were found that the vessel's embalming supplies ran out, and 116 of the dead had to be buried at sea. In total, 328 bodies were found, but 1,200 were never recovered. A photo in the museum shows the Mackay-Bennett arriving in Halifax on April 30, 1912, with coffins stacked in the stern.

Titanic Passengers Remember In Co. Mayo (April 2010, The New York Irish Emgirant)
Every year on the early morning of April 15, one town in Ireland goes to great lengths to remember those who died on the RMS Titanic. The people of Lahardane Village from the Addergoole Parish in Co. Mayo remember 14 emigrants from their parish who were on the Titanic 98 years ago. Eleven women and three men from Addergoole were aboard the luxurious ship, only three of the women survived. Lahardane had the most people aboard the Titanic from a single town in Europe.

Wave Of Tourists For Titanic Salute (3 April 2010, Irish Independent)
Ireland will be central to the biggest marine-tourism event in history to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. The Titanic centenary occurs in 2012 and talks are under way between Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, France and the United States on an international series of events aimed at marking the maritime tragedy. The anniversary is set to prove a multi-million euro tourism spectacular. Central to the entire programme will be the Cork town of Cobh which, when known as Queenstown, was the last port of call for the Titanic in April 1912.

Local Family's Brush With Titanic Disaster (3 April 2010, The Daily News of Newburyport)
Upon the arrival of the Titanic, the porters immediately lined up the passengers. By the wave of the porters' hands, the separation was made in the crowd of passengers as to who would board which ship. The dividing line was drawn in front of young Jenny Niarhos. The three sisters with their father were directed onto the Greek ship. Jenny turned 12 years old on this journey. One night, while out on sea, a huge ship with colorful lights passed them up. It resembled the Titanic that departed from France after them. It had caught up with them and passed them. They continued on, never knowing what really happened to the Titanic until they reached Philadelphia. Neither of them spoke or understood English, and to their amazement when they landed, they were told that the Titanic had sunk on April 15. Sad as it was, the terrible fate of the people on the Titanic was something that stayed on Jenny's mind forever. It could have been them on that ship.

Full Steam Ahead As Titanic Festival Gets Set To Draw In Huge Crowds (3 April 2010, Belfast Telegraph)
Titanic fever will grip Belfast this week with the launch of the annual Titanic Made in Belfast Festival. Hundreds of Titanic and White Star Line artefacts and memorabilia including a postcards written by a passengers on board the doomed vessel, a man’s watch valued at £90,000, and the keys to a family treasure chest that went down with the stricken ship are due to go on display in Belfast today. This year the eight-day festival is centred around a variety of events at Belfast City Hall, while special Titanic themed tours, on both land and water, will give visitors an opportunity to learn more about the famous liner's ill-fated maiden voyage to New York in 1912.

Jones In Talks To Raise Titanic? (1April 2010, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth -blog)
According to reports, Jones is in talks to have a piece of the RMS Titanic's hull removed from its watery grave off Newfoundland and put on display in Cowboys Stadium. The piece will be accompanied by a litany of artifacts taken from the site since its rediscovery in 1985, and may only be the first step in adding a full-fledged museum to the palatial venue. Premier Exhibitions (formerly RMS Titanic Inc.) refused comment, but word has surfaced that the historic wreckage may be only one result of the possible partnership. One source tells NBC-DFW that the company, which also runs the controversial traveling "Bodies" exhibit, may also provide JerryWorld with "one to three" cadavers, which are preserved and then posed. Any display in Cowboys Stadium, the source said, "would likely come in the form of a football stance or something related."

(Congratulations to NBC Dallas on a good Titanic spoof!)


MARCH

Artefacts To Reveal The Story Of Titanic (30 Mar 2010, Belfast Telegraph)
Over 200 Titanic artefacts and memorabilia are to go on display in Belfast. The Titanic Made in Belfast festival begins on Saturday and features a series of talks on the doomed vessel. There will also be themed tours on land and water plus special screenings on the famous liner's 1912 sinking.

Lottery Cash For Southampton's Titanic Museum (29 Mar 2010, BBC News)
A new maritime museum in Hampshire has moved a step closer after the plan was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant. Southampton City Council had planned to sell off artwork to raise £5m of the total £15m cost but dropped the idea after criticism. The heritage museum, which will house a Titanic collection, is due to open in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the liner's ill-fated voyage from the city. The council said money would also come from selling land and partnerships.
Titanic Letter Expected To Fetch £25,000 At Auction (30 Mar 2010, guardian.co.uk)
A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner. The letter, dated 10 April 1912, the first day of the voyage, reads: "Dear Wifey, Thanks for your wire ... The weather is calm and fine, the sky overcast.

Never-Before-Seen Titanic Artifacts On Display At Harrisburg’s Whittaker Center(29 Mar 2010, York Daily Record)
An exhibit of artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic brings to town 150 pieces never before seen at Harrisburg's Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts  "It's about 20 percent bigger than the exhibit we had back in 2005," said Steve Bishop, Whitaker's vice president for science and IMAX films. "Not only have none of the artifacts been seen in Harrisburg, but 11 have never been seen anywhere before." "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" opened Saturday, and Titanic fans can visit through Sept. 5.


Pennsylvania Postcard Survived Sinking Of Titanic (27 Mar 2010, PennLive.com)
The majority of Titanic’s mail has disintegrated in the ocean, but among 11 never-before-seen artifacts in a new Titanic exhibit opening today at Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center is a fragile postcard of a Pennsylvania railroad station recovered during a 1993 salvage dive on the wreck site. The postcard, postmarked Jan. 20, 1910, from Coraopolis, Pa., was not part of Titanic’s mail, but was instead one of 140 postcards tied with a string that were found inside a leather trunk owned by Howard Irwin, who was supposed to be a passenger on the Titanic but never boarded.

The weekend-long Titanic Museum Attraction Grand Opening Celebration, hosted by Regis Philbin, will also feature a free concert by country music legend Neal McCoy.  The event, which is open to the public, also will be attended by descendants and family members of those on board the Titanic and includes a christening of the ship.

Ill-Fated Ocean Liner Returns For Another Run (25 Mar 2010, Columbus Dispatch)
When "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" opens Saturday at COSI Columbus, the attraction will make history at the science museum. "This is the first traveling exhibit that we've had return," said John Shaw, director of exhibit operations. Since the six-month run in 2005, he said, COSI has received numerous requests for an encore. "It is definitely one of our most well-attended exhibitions." "Titanic" drew more than 226,000 visitors five years ago, when COSI had hours only five days a week.This time around, the venue - open daily - has high expectations for even higher attendance figures.

Belfast's Big Wheel To Close (23 Mar 2010, Belfast Telegraph)
The wheel’s arrival in 2007 sparked controversy among some organisations. Titanic enthusiasts called for the dismantling of the wheel as it overshadowed a memorial to the 1912 disaster within the City Hall grounds. Una Reilly, from the Belfast Titanic Society, said: “It is with great relief, and no little pleasure, to learn that the Big Wheel was to move from its current location astride the Titanic Memorial at Belfast City Hall. “The society never had a problem with a Belfast Wheel, just its inappropriate location.”

Titanic Exhibit Set To Re-Dock Satuday At Harrisburg's Whitaker Center (23 Mar 2010, Patriot-News -blog)
That was apparent five years ago, when more than 52,000 people came to see an exhibit about Titanic at Whitaker Center in downtown Harrisburg. That exhibit, featuring a touchable iceberg that kids in particular loved, remains the best draw in the arts and science center’s history. And it helps to explain why Whitaker is resetting for success with a new Titanic exhibit that opens to the public on Saturday and features 150 artifacts not seen in Harrisburg before. Eleven of the items, including postcards, an itinerary and a $1 silver certificate, have never been publicly displayed before.

Belfast's Titanic Quarter To Move Forward After Green Light From Planners (17 Mar 2010,Belfast Telegraph)
Planning permission has been granted to Titanic Quarter projects worth over £500m, the Environment Minister said yesterday. Edwin Poots confirmed the massive investment being poured into the area during a visit to the 185 acre site yesterday. The Minister said: “This is a very exciting development. An estimated £7bn is to be invested in the area over the next 25 years. So far planning approval has been granted to projects worth in excess of £500m.

Titanic Memorial Damage Will Cost £1000 To Repair (15 Mar 2010, Get Surrey)
Vandals have destroyed part of a memorial to Jack Phillips, the Farncombe-born chief wireless operator of the Titanic. The offenders smashed a stone water fountain and covered a nearby surface with graffiti. The damage was discovered by a member of staff at Waverley Borough Council and will cost more than £1,000 to repair.  A spokeswoman for Surrey Police said officers believe the offence happened between February 9 and 26. “A number of broken bottles were also found at the scene,” she added. Historian John Young said he felt "saddened and sickened" by the damage. “It does make me very disappointed in the people who did this,” he said.

Titanic Food Menu To Be Re-Created (14 Mar 2010,Times of India)
The different delicacies served in the ship 'Titanic', which drowned in 1912, will be available to cruisers who get onboard the Titanic Memorial Cruise. Yvonne Hume, the great-niece of the vessel's first violinist John Law Hume, has compiled the dishes available in the ship in her new book. "Over the years I have become fascinated with not only this majestic liner, but also the food served on board," the Scotsman quoted Hume as saying. She added: "I just researched and found the actual menus themselves and then brought them up to date as well as simplifying them so that cooks of all skills can actually recreate the menus."

Titanic Museum Unexpected Attraction For Pigeon Forge (9 Mar 2010, NAPSI)
The Titanic Museum Attraction may be the most unexpected addition to a mountain town. It's a $25 million, half-scale, permanent, three-deck reproduction of the ill-fated ship. It displays hundreds of priceless artifacts in more than 20 galleries that include replicas of the "Grand Staircase," a first-class suite, a third-class cabin and the bridge.

Just Who Was 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown'? (7 Mar 2010, Voice of America)
Margaret Brown lived an interesting life, but not all the stories about her are true. For example, a Denver newspaper reporter named Gene Fowler wrote that she survived a tornado as a baby, refused to attend school and chewed tobacco. Fowler wrote about Brown and others in his book "Timber Line," published after her death in nineteen thirty-two. Kristen Iversen is an English professor and author of "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth." She says the stories did contain some truth, though, which is that Brown went West to follow a dream and that dream came true. In the nineteen sixty-four movie "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" she was played by Debbie Reynolds.

Baltic Sea Ferries Slammed For 'Titanic Syndrome' (6 Mar 2010, The Local)
A number of ferries operating between Sweden and Finland took difficult ice-bound routes without contacting the ice breaker service and against the advice of maritime safety authorities, said Johnny Lindvall from the maritime administration's ice breaker service. "They've got Titanic Syndrome - they think they are immortal," he told Svenska Dagbladet newspaper's on line edition.

Titanic's Evolving History (5 Mar 2010, NorthJersey.com)
Although the Titanic’s first and last voyage was nearly a century ago, interest in the luxury ocean liner — then the largest man-made movable object — still abounds. Charles Haas, co-founder and president of the Titanic International Society, revealed new discoveries about the doomed ship during a lecture Wednesday night at the Passaic County Historical Society....

Oceanographer Who Found Titanic To Be Honored (4 Mar 2010, KTVN)
 The man who led the international team that found the Titanic in 1985 is the winner of the Desert Research Institute's 2010 Nevada Medal. Robert Ballard will give presentations at public dinners on April 20 in Reno and April 22 in Las Vegas.

How The Men Reacted As The Titanic And Lusitania Went Under (2 Mar 2010, New York Times)
Records from two nearly 100-year-old shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, have given researchers new insight into human selfishness — and altruism. On one boat, it seems, the men thought only of themselves; on the other, they were more likely to help women and children. This occurred for one key reason, researchers said: time. The Lusitania sank in about 18 minutes, while the Titanic took nearly three hours. Women and children fared much better on the Titanic.

Titanic Exhibition Reveals Ocean Liner's Lost Treasures (2 Mar 2010,The Age)
Ninety-eight years after it sank, the Titanic is steaming into Port Phillip. Melbourne Museum will host Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition from May 14 to October 17.  "This is a terrific exhibition, and what's particularly exciting is it gives us yet another opportunity to showcase this wonderful museum," said Sir Rod Eddington, chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, at a press conference called this morning to announce the exhibition.

Titanic Exhibit Nearing End Of Successful Run (1 Mar 2010, Louisville Courier-Journal)
Since it opened Oct. 3, nearly 70,000 people have viewed the exhibit on the Titantic at the Louisville Science Center, said Joanna Haas, the center’s executive director. Visits to the exhibit, which ends March 7, have exceeded expectations and pushed the center’s attendance for the fiscal year that began July 1 to about 50 percent more than it was at this time a year ago, Haas said. “We are doing very, very well,” she said. Through Feb. 20, center visitors in the current fiscal year had totaled 140,882, compared with 94,156 through the same period for the previous fiscal year, according to figures provided by center spokeswoman Danielle Waller. Officials credited the Titanic exhibit for nearly all the increase.

FEBRUARY

Take A Trip On The Titanic At The Whittier Public Library (Whittier Daily News, 27 Feb 2010)
On Wednesday, the Whittier Public Library will present "Tea on the Titanic" at 6:30 p.m. at Parnell Park Community Center, 15390 Lambert Road. "The Titanic is a theme that always draws interest," said Paymaneh Maghsoudi, director of library services. "It's dramatic and mysterious." In addition to the tea, the evening will feature Suzan Gallerita performing as Titanic's famous stewardess Violet Jessop.

Denton DAR Members Learn Titanic History (Little Elm Journal, 25 Feb 2010)
The guest speaker was Pat Jurey, a member of the Ardmore chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Oklahoma. She is the great granddaughter of a survivor of the Titanic. Her program was titled “The Titanic, beyond the mystery and majesty of the Titanic”. Jurey talked about eight of her family members who were on board the doomed ship. She learned of these relatives through her research. She told of the historic voyage and the actual sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Her program gave relevance to the importance of writing and telling life's stories.

Titanic Messages To Be Auctioned (Cambridge News, 23 Feb 2010)
The telegram from a brother to his siblings, who got off the ship in Ireland before it continued on its fateful journey, describes how fortunate they were to have got off the doomed vessel. Charles Ashton, an auctioneer at Cheffins which is selling the collection, said: "To find original communications about the Titanic is rare and exciting.  "One telegram is from a young man in London who wrote to his brothers who luckily got off the ship in Ireland to tell them what a close shave they had. I expect there to be quite a lot of interest in them on the day."

Book Review: Titanic and the Californian (19 Feb 2010, Washington Times)
Not only did the ship dubbed "unsinkable" founder on its maiden voyage, but in trying to avoid the iceberg bearing down upon its bow, it swerved just enough to sustain fatal damage to its side while a full-on collision would have been far less catastrophic. No matter how often the Titanic saga has been rendered, there always seems to be appetite for a fresh account. And this one, by a British investigative journalist, does have a couple of genuinely new points of view to contribute.

Titanic Museum Grand Opening Will Feature Regis Philbin (16 Feb 2010,WBIR-TV)
On April 8, the Titanic Museum Attraction will welcome aboard passengers for the very first time.
The Grand Opening of the $25-million attraction begins at 10 a.m. Regis Philbin will host the star-studded event. Descendants and family members of Titanic passengers will help the talk show host christen Pigeon Forge's newest attraction.

Titanic Relics Take Anchor At Astoria History Group (11 Feb 2010,YourNabe.com)
After 55 years in that home on 11th Street, Colletti has tired of the neighborhood and moved to an apartment in Sunnyside. But he was at the historical society’s offices Monday cataloging the photographs, drawings, letters and other items related to the famed White Star liner that struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank April 15, 1912. “I didn’t realize how much stuff I’d collected over the years,” Colletti said. “It took over three hours to catalog everything.” Bob Singleton, vice president of the historical society, said three floors worth of artifacts required three van trips to collect from the home.

Display Takes Visitors On 'Titanic' Journey (8 Feb 2010, Turnto10.com)
A new exhibit at Foxwoods Resort Casino gives a glimpse into the RMS Titanic and her passengers primarily through 125 artifacts recovered from the sea floor. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opens this week and takes visitors on a chronological voyage from shipbuilding through modern recovery efforts. The display is set in a number of galleries featuring staterooms, artifacts and personal belongings. Visitors are shown first-class staterooms costing $2,500 a ticket and in contrast shown the dormitory like $40 a ticket accommodations too.

Retired Teacher Donates Titanic Memorabilia To Library(8 Feb 2010, The Morning Sun)
Retired Alma High School Teacher David McMackin first became interested in the Titanic when he was looking for a non-fiction story his students could study. "It was 'A Night to Remember' by Walter Lord," he said. "That was available at the time." That one book got things started. "It's a good topic." he said. "I bought a couple of other books. And in 1979 I joined the Titanic Historical Society. There are several. This is the oldest society and they publish a quarterly. I started collecting books and I concentrated on non-fiction."

Titanic Teaches Students Nearly 100 Years Later (8 Feb 2010, Southtown Star)
Nearly 100 years after her famed sinking, the world's most famous ocean liner paid a visit to a school in Oak Lawn. Teachers Ron Selle and Darlene Agner led spirited presentations about the Titanic for students at St. Louis de Montfort School, 8840 S. Ridgeland Ave. Agner, the school's curriculum director, who also teaches science, recently had mentioned to Selle she was teaching students about buoyancy. That's when Selle told her about his collection of Titanic-related items. "I've been a collector for many years, just a Titanic buff," Selle said. The two teachers "combined our ideas" for the presentation.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition Prepares to Set Sail from New York City (3 Feb 2010, PR Newswire -press release)
RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRXI), in association with Running Subway Productions, LLC, today announced the final weeks of the New York City showing of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Discovery Times Square Exposition (www.DiscoveryTSX.com). After telling the most famous and beloved story of the 20th century to hundreds of thousands of visitors since opening in June 2009, the 12,000 square-foot blockbuster Exhibition will set sail on February 28, 2010.


JANUARY

Shipbuilder Thinks Small In A Big Way (29 Jan 2010, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Not big ships, of course, but detailed replicas built from scratch and to scale, one-eighth of an inch to the foot, using authentic plans - each one taking a year or more. "I work (building them) in the winter and I research in summer," he said, as we talked at the Hartland Public Library this week. Twenty-two of his models, protected under glass cases he built, line the tops of bookshelves throughout the library, where they're on long-term display. He scrounges up materials wherever he can - balsa wood for the main form, copper wire for ship's rope, rivets for portholes, tiny pulleys and bollards available from marine hobbyists. His primary tools? An X-Acto knife and a Dremel rotary tool.

Titanic Exhibit Gets Extra Week At Rochester Museum & Science Center (15 Jan 2010, The Daily News Online)
The Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave., has extended by one week the run of "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition." The exhibition, which opened in October, is now scheduled through Jan. 24 in the museum's Riedman Gallery.

Carvers Vie For Cold Cash (14 Jan 2010, News-Leader.com)
When it comes to throwing a spectacular icebreaker, Titanic Museum Branson is definitely at the cutting edge, in more ways than one. On Saturday, the popular ship-shaped attraction, which houses more than 400 artifacts originally belonging to Titanic passengers and crew, will hold its fourth annual Ice Sculpturing Competition. At the free one-day exhibition sanctioned by the National Ice Carving Association, the museum will play host to some of the nation's top professional and amateur ice carvers, plus an anticipated spectator crowd numbering in the thousands.

Branson Attraction Receives A “Titanic” Refurbishing (14 Jan 2010, Taney County Times)
Even as she said that the Titanic’s parking lot was full of vehicles however, they were not the vehicles of Branson visitors visiting the attraction. They were the vehicles of the “army” of workers that have been working virtually nonstop, 24 hours a days since it closed on the night of January 10, to make sure that the renovations are completed in time for the ship to start boarding passengers again on the morning of January 15. As we went through the ship it became clear that the “renovations” went far beyond just the painting, cleaning, and repairing of the ship. While the major refurbishing work was being done to the ship, the same detail was being given to every display and artifact. Every display case had been emptied of its artifacts and was being refinished. Kellogg pointed to a huge full wall sized photograph covering one whole wall that had just been replaced. Even the “show cards” describing each display and artifact were replaced.

Titanic Gain For Belfast (13 Jan 2010, Belfast Telegraph)
Nearly 100 years after it sank, interest in the Titanic continues to prove lucrative for Belfast. So much so that Belfast City Council has once again agreed to run two Titanic-related festivals in 2010, giving the go-ahead at the January meeting of the full Belfast City Council. Last year the Titanic Made in Belfast festival attracted over 32,000 visitors. The event is again expected to take place in April. And the Belfast Titanic Maritime Festival has seen similar success, drawing crowds in excess of 50,000 over the three years it has taken place.

Titanic Raises Louisville Science Center Attendance (12 Jan 2010, Louisville Business First)
The Louisville Science Center has seen an increase in attendance since opening “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” on Oct. 3. The exhibit features 150 authentic artifacts taken from the wreckage of the Titanic, which sunk April 14, 1912. There also is a recreation of one of the ship’s Third Class cabins and story boards with facts about the ship and its passengers. Attendance for the science center’s fiscal 2010, which began July 1, is up 30 percent over the same period in fiscal 2009, according to a news release.

Story Of Titanic Recreated At Foxwoods (12 Jan 2010, NBC Connecticut)
Nearly a century after the sinking of the Titanic, Foxwoods will pay tribute to the tragedy through a unique exhibit. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opens at the Casino on Saturday, February 13th and has more than 100 artifacts from the Ship’s debris giving history buffs an inside look at the iconic ship and its passengers.

Titanic Survivor's Items Auctioned In North Texas (12 Jan 2010, KXII-TV)
When she passed away last summer at the age of 97, she was the last known survivor of the R.M.S. Titanic. The Caraway Auction House obtained these items from overseas. "It was purchased in Europe by our suppliers over there that we sell containers for they bought it from the Dean estate from the cousins of Mrs. Dean and they put it on a ship to be shipped to the U.S. to be sold at public auction,” said Caraway. Dean's estate items include a mirror back buffet, a bookcase, and a drop-front desk.

Wiesbaden Exhibit Captures The Tragedy Of Titanic's Voyage (12 Jan 2010, Stars and Stripes)
Throughout the exhibit, rooms are re-created using furniture retrieved from the ship, offering a glimpse into the amenities aboard the Titanic.A gift shop at the end of the exhibit has a variety of Titanic-themed items, including wine from nearby Hochheim, a brand that was served on the ship. And although the exhibition is the main draw, the city of Wiesbaden is complementing the exhibit with a host of other activities. “I said I don’t want just an exhibition,” said Holger Brandt, co-owner and organizer of the Wiesbaden Titanic exhibition. “It’s a city marketing concept with several Titanic-themed events taking place throughout the city.”

Branson's Titanic Hosts 4Th Sanctioned Ice Carving Competition (11 Jan 2010, Taney County Times)
Doing its part to make sure everyone has “an ice day” on Saturday January 16, Branson’s Titanic Museum Attraction, currently billed as the world largest museum attraction, will hold its 4th annual ice carving competition. The competition will be held at the Titanic’s outdoor entertainment center located near the ship’s bow, between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., is free and open to the public. The competition is sanctioned by the National Ice Carving Association (NICA). NICA is an association with the stated objective of promoting ice sculpture through education, competitions, standardized judging, and exhibitions and is headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. In addition to competing for cash prizes the competitors will also be competing for points that add to their certification ratings within NICA.

Titanic Exhibition Continues Through Jan. 24 (6 Jan 2010, Mason City Globe Gazette)
 “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” continues through Sunday, Jan. 24, at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Originally scheduled to close on Jan. 3, the museum welcomed its 250,000th visitor to the popular exhibit on Dec. 5. “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” is the largest exhibition the Science Museum has ever hosted. Visitors will find 14,000 square feet of gallery space devoted to the artifacts that have been recovered from the world-famous ocean liner’s final resting place.

Premier Exhibitions Q3 Loss Deepens (6 Jan 2010, Atlanta Business Chronicle)
Premier Exhibitions Inc. saw a deeper loss in the third quarter of 2010, dogged by lower revenue and restructuring issues. The Atlanta-based exhibitor of Bodies: The Exhibition and Titanic Aquatic (NASDAQ: PRXI) had a net loss of $2.2 million and a loss per share of 5 cents, compared with a loss of $1.8 million and a loss per share of 6 cents in the third quarter of 2009. Third-quarter revenue fell 36 percent to $8.7 million. Last year's third quarter included $4.6 million in non-refundable license fees for future exhibitions. Average daily attendance for the third quarter of 2010 increased 2 percent to 602 compared, as total attendance dropped 15 percent to 819,941, in line with reduced days of operation.