to those in peril

On April 2, Titanic is finally able to conduct her sea trials. After being put through the gauntlet, the Board of Trade grants her the certificate of being aesthetically perfect

James Paul Moody, another enhancement & edit by yours truly.

remembered the date. had emotions. happy birthday king

A watercolour study in Procreate of 'Into the Night' by E. D. Walker for the 112ᵗʰ anniversary; time-lapses available here and here 💙

As always thank you to Inger Sheil for providing this beautiful photograph of Evelyn Moody. What a beautiful woman, and a spitting image of her youngest son, James,

Evelyn Moody with 3 of her 4 children. To her left is Christopher. To her right is her only daughter, Margaret. The child in the middle is her youngest (albeit tallest child pictured) James Paul.

I am going to use this blog to post updates on the progress of the book. I am really looking forward to telling his story, because in my opinion, there is no one more deserving of having their story told than our darling JP.

DID YOU KNOW: Titanic’s bandmaster received a massive funeral that rivaled that of a British Prime Minister? Wallace Hartley, the 33-year-old head of Titanic’s eight man band, was one of the bodies recovered from the sea by the CS Mackay-Bennett in late April, 1912. Hartley’s remains were returned to his hometown of Colne, Lancashire, and a massively elaborate funeral was held. Over 1,000 mourners attended the funeral itself, while between 30 and 40 thousand people lined the route from the church to the Keighley Road cemetery where Hartley was to be buried. In contrast, when Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman had died in 1908 at 10 Downing Street - to date the only Prime Minister to die at the address - his funeral was much more subdued, with only a few hundred mourners at Westminster Abbey.