As a part of our Centenary year wreath laying programme, we are planning to lay a wreath on the grave of Titanic’s Third Officer Herbert John Pitman MBE. Pitman’s grave is located at St Leonard’s, Church Lane, Mill Lane off A359, Pitcombe, Somerset, BA10 0PE  We invite members to join with Nigel Wright, in laying the society’s [...]

Officers will meet shortly to discuss feedback from Convention 2012, and also discuss details for Convention 2013. Details for Convention 2013 will appear here, and in the Atlantic Daily Bulletin, in due course.

British Titanic Society member Mike Peach, kindly agreed to represent the society at the events held at Lichfield, to mark the centenary. Here are a selection of the photographs he took. Mike’s report of the event will appear in the June 2012 edition of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin.  

THE MILLVINA FUND Administrators: Charles A.Haas David Hill Una Reilly OPENING OF THE MILLVINA DEAN MEMORIAL GARDEN.   The Administrators of the Millvina Fund are pleased to announce that the opening of the Millvina Dean Memorial Garden, in Southampton, will take place at 2.00pm on Thursday, 31st May 2012. The Mayor of Southampton will be [...]

Here are a few photographs of the convention 2012 so far.  Please email into us any photos you have for inclusion here – info@britishtitanicsociety.com Note – We do not have any restriction on how many photos we can display here.  

We have just returned from a fantastic convention in Southampton. We are now busy preparing a report for the June Atlantic Daily Bulletin, but we have already received a number of feedback questionnaires from delegates and here are a selection of comments from them. I was so impressed with how well organized it all was – well done! The [...]

Wreaths have been laid on the memorial tablet to Millvina Dean and the grave of Fred Fleet. Please use Twitter to follow events at Convention 2012 in realtime @BritTitanicSoc via  www.twitter.com/BritTitanicSoc. The convention became that busy, that we were unable to post in realtime updates – see the June 2012 issue of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin for a full [...]

This is the programme for the Convention as appears in the March 2012 Atlantic Daily Bulletin. Thursday 12th April 11.00 am onwards Wreath laying around Southampton. To view a detailed schedule Click Here 1 pm Visit to St. Joseph’s Church in Bugle Street to view the memorial to the staff of Titanic’s á la carte restaurant. [...]

The  lecturers for the 2012 Convention on Saturday 14th April have now been confirmed as follows, 11.00am – 12 Noon: “Icebergs and shipping – was the Titanic the start of a trend” by Dr. Simon Boxall. Dr. Simon Boxall is from the University of Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre. 1.00pm – 2.00pm: “From the Potteries to [...]

During the Exhibition / Sales Fair / Lectures on Saturday the 14th April at the 2012 Convention, there will be a series of book signings by the authors of recently released books about Titanic. This is your chance to have the following books signed by the author on the historic date of the 14th April [...]