Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
STORY PREFACE RMS Titanic leaving Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. Photo by F.G.O (Francis Goldophin Osbourne) Stuart, a Scottish photographer who turned many of his photographs into postcards. Image online, courtesy U.S. National Archives.
Frank Browne’s uncle had given his nephew a unique present: a ticket for the first two legs of Titanic’s maiden voyage. As the world’s largest ship left her home port of Southampton to pick up passengers in Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, Frank (soon to be ordained as a Jesuit priest) was aboard. Such a gift was everything the picture-taking young man could have imagined. But there was one more thing he desired: to stay aboard Titanic as the world’s largest ship completed her maiden voyage to New York. An American millionaire offered to pay his way. Excitedly, Frank sought permission from his superior. The answer was not what the traveler wanted to hear:
Turns out, it was the best message Frank could have received. And, because of it, his world-famous photographs still enlighten people about the doomed ship. (Follow the link to one of Frank Browne’s last photos of Titanic as she left Queenstown for New York.)
Original Release Date: March, 2004
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Table of Contents
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion