TITANIC FANS' HOPES SINK WITH FAILED SALVAGE OPERATION.Byline: Randy Kennedy The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times At sunrise Sunday, an 11-ton section of the Titanic was to have made its way into New York Harbor New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the Ports of New York and New Jersey". on a salvage ship, symbolically ending the doomed journey the ocean liner began 84 years ago from Southampton, England. Instead, a cruise ship that was intended as a mere traveling companion to the Titanic slipped into the harbor alone, bearing about 600 disappointed but congenial passengers who had paid anywhere from $500 to more than $10,000 to witness the historic moment when the rusted piece of hull - measuring 24 feet by 20 feet, with four portholes - broke the surface of the North Atlantic. Each passenger seemed to have a unique reason for taking the trip - thrill-seeking, nostalgia, obsession, and in at least one case, memory. As they filed off the Island Breeze on Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
``I was positive it was going to happen, and I really wanted to have my picture taken beside that piece of hull,'' said Beverly Sweeney of Denver. ``I have to say I am a little disappointed, but I would do it again tomorrow if I could.'' The salvage crews managed to lift the section to within 70 yards of the surface using four diesel-filled balloons, but mechanical problems kept it suspended underwater. And then, Friday, stormy seas broke the piece away from two balloons. It plummeted 2-1/2 miles back to the ocean floor, near the rest of the ship, without having been seen by any of the passengers on the Island Breeze or another ship, the Royal Majesty from Boston, even with the help of underwater video cameras. For at least two people on board the blue and white cruise ship, the trip had little to do with the salvage effort. Edith Brown Edith Eileen Brown (27 October, 1896 – 20 January, 1997) was one of the last remaining survivors of the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912. Edith was 15 years old when she boarded the RMS Titanic with her parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (née Ford) Brown, as Second-Class Haisman, who will be 100 years old in October and is the oldest living survivor of the sinking, went to participate in a memorial surface at the site, where her father drowned after placing Haisman and her mother on lifeboat No. 14. In an account distributed by RMS Titanic The RMS Titanic, a British Olympic-class ocean liner, became famous as the largest ocean liner built in her day and also for sinking on her maiden voyage in 1912 with a huge loss of life. , the Manhattan company conducting the salvage operation 1. The recovery, evacuation, and reclamation of damaged, discarded, condemned, or abandoned allied or enemy materiel, ships, craft, and floating equipment for reuse, repair, refabrication, or scrapping. 2. , Haisman recalled that she last saw her father standing on a deck of the ship calmly smoking a cigar and drinking brandy. He called out, ``I will see you in New York,'' before the ship, which had struck an iceberg, was lost. Sunday, Haisman, who now lives in Southampton, England, said in a whisper that despite the failure of the salvage effort, the trip to the site had been ``very nice indeed.'' Michel Navratil, 88, who was only 3 years old when he and his brother, Edmund, were placed in a lifeboat by their father, also watched the ceremony. He then visited his father's grave in Halifax, Nova Scotia For other uses, see Halifax. Halifax, Nova Scotia may refer to any of the following:
While some Titanic survivors have condemned the salvage effort, and the company has been accused of desecrating a gravesite grave·site n. A place used for graves or a grave. , its president, George Tulloch, has responded that the artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. are providing the public with ``emotional closure'' on a traumatic event. |
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