OTD 112 Years Ago:

OTD 112 years ago:

RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and began sinking.

At 2:20 AM the following morning, she would go down, taking the lives of 1,496 men, women, and children.

May they never be forgotten.

If I’m correct that’s the SS Anne right??? Been a while since I’ve seen the 97 series but I do recall that it didn’t go well for the Anne…..

IS THAT A CUNARD FUNNEL IN THE POKEMON ANIME?!?!?!?!.!.!?!?!

OTD 159 years ago:

The SS Sultana, dangerously overcrowded with returning Union soldiers, many of whom starving, sick, and wounded from poor conditions in southern prisons, exploded on the Mississippi from a faulty boiler. She caught fire and began to sink. 961 crew, passengers, and soldiers, both Union and Confederate, died that night. The explosion was caused by quick, incompetent repairs to a buckled pipe in the boiler room , and greed. May those 961 live who burned and drowned, who would never see their loved ones again, rest in peace.

Got an old Cunard Line sailing schedule from a 1895 Newspaper off EBay a day or 2 ago.

Bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey Barbecue Sauce™ scale.

Today in history - the RMS Titanic would have set sail from New York back to Southampton. If only...