Hi everyone, your hopeful resident Andrews novelist here - Ireland obviously had a horrid famine in the 19th-20th century which almost halved their population (either by death or emigration), and I was just wondering how this would have affected Thomas Andrews and his family?

As an upper class family, I'd assume they were well-off enough to survive, but were they perhaps involved in offering charity and aid to other families? Perhaps they grew contempt for the British government in the process?

Also bonus points if anyone can help me deduce their opinions on the forthcoming war by the time Titanic set sail?

Any help would be appreciated - thank you!

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Hello everyone, I am a current undergrad college student and I’d like to write a thesis about the Titanic! I was wondering if there are any particular aspects about the ship that are lacking in terms of reading and scholarship. Any input is greatly appreciated, I’m sure many of you people know more than I do. Thank you!

In Shan Bullock's biography, Andrews' mother is written to have offered a prize to the boys if they could abstain from alcohol and strong drink to 21 - does anyone know what the prize is/might have been? I want to say money, but not sure how much.

Also, there is an instance where his father gives him bodily punishment for a rare instance of mischief, but Andrews Sr. ended up "boxing" the wrong boy - does anyone know what the mischief was, or who ended up with the wrongful punishment?

I'm a hopeful Thomas Andrews novelist, and want to make it as accurate and relevant as possible, as it should be.

Any help would be super appreciated - thanks!

I'm looking to write a novel about Thomas Andrews, the incredible man that he is, and in my research I'm just wondering where he lived when he moved away from Comber to work at H&W? Did he have his own small apartment, or did he stay with his uncle?

It's well known that the survivors from the Titanic were taken to New York by means of the Carpathia.

It's also well known that the deceased were taken to Halifax by means of the ships Mackay-Bennett, Minia and Montmagny (along with Algerine from Saint John's, Newfoundland).

But were any deceased taken to New York, or survivors taken to Halifax? And if so, who?

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Highlights from previous NSQ threads (questions paraphrased/condensed):

• How were male survivors treated during the sinking and after it?

• Have there been any attempts to find the wreck of the Californian?

• What did the damage inflicted by the iceberg actually look like?

• Could survivors on the lifeboats see dead bodies in the water post sinking?

• What's the current thought on where Titanic's break up occurred?

• How did early Titanic conspiracy theories emerge?

• Did the ship get faster as she burned through her coal reserves?

• What were pricing tiers like when buying a ticket on Titanic?

• Were Titanic's funnels hot to the touch?

• If you swam out to a lifeboat, would you have been picked up?

• What happened to Thomas Andrew's family?

• Why did Murdoch order hard to starboard as opposed to hard to port?

• Why are there so many conspiracy theories surrounding Titanic?

• How did the coal workers strike turn out?

• Was everyone indoors during the collision?

• Is it true three dogs were saved?

• What are the 'V''s seen in wireless transmission log?

• How did White Star Line assist survivors/families of the lost after the sinking?

• Did Olympic put up holiday decorations?

• How were survivors who maintained the ship broke in two treated (before it's discover in 1984)?

• What ships visited the wrecksite immediately after the Carpathia?

• Do most historians subscribe to the water refraction theory as to why the iceberg wasn't sighted?

• How quickly did the watertight doors closed/What happened to those who were trapped?

• If Thomas Andrews had survived, would have have faced the same level of scrutiny as Ismay?

• Were there any repercussions for papers who were misreported information about the sinking in the early hours/days of the sinking?

• How much of the inside of the wreck has been explored?

• Is Lightoller indirectly responsible for scores of deaths since he misinterpreted the 'woman and children first' order?

• How were lifeboat drills conducted on Titanic?

• Did a feud between 5th Officer Lowe and other officers result them purposefully not waking him during the sinking?

So I am working my way through the inquiry of the Titan disaster and I am currently listening to Mr Nissem’s testimony.

Reading the comments on the video, a lot of people on there are saying “he is a snake” or “looks creepy” etc.

To me, I am listening to his testimony and it does not appear to me at all that he is shirking responsibility for his part in the disaster.

His answers have been articulate and also insightful into the process of the design of the Titan and the behind the scenes issues going on within OceanGate at the time.

Am I missing something?

She is famous for having lost what is equal to millions of dollars of fashion on the titanic. She filed a claim for some 177,000 pounds. But how much did she actually receive from White Star lines? Does anybody know?

So, i know there are a lot of mail bags on board the Titanic, and they weigh 100 pounds or so, but the question remains:

It would be too much of a challenge and too expensive to raise and restore some of the mail bags and their contents? And the most important question: 112 years later, do they even exist at this point? (like, you guys think any mail survived after all this time that can be restored and we can read?)

I saw a documentary that showed some weird fungus/organism growing on the mail bags, so i don't know. why there is no interest in salvaging some of them?

So we know there were 8 Chinese men onboard of which 2 died in the disaster: Len Lam and Lee Ling which leaves us with 6 of them.

Chang Chip died of pneumonia in 1914 in London and was buried in an unmarked grave in a London Cemetery. He left no wife or children.

Fang Lang (Wing Sun Fong) returned to Hong Kong married a local Chinese woman who became known as Marie Fong when they legally migrated to the USA later on. Marie was alive as late as 2021. Fang Lang himself died in 1986 and his son Tom Fong IDK if he's still alive or not.

Now the remaining 4 are the men on whom I cannot find any information at all. If anyone can tell me what happened to them I would be grateful. Their names are as follows:

1. Lee Bing - Encyclopedia Titanica says he was married to Too Bing but mentions nothing further
2. Ah Lam (Ali Lam)
3. Choong Foo
4. Ling Hee

• No plans to recover items at this time: Reiterated the point of this expedition was to map to the site and assess current state of things FOR future expeditions. Main focus of this expedition was the debris field.

• Processing of footage and photos: The majority of processed footage and photos have not yet been received. This includes footage of the Marconi room, so it’s unclear if the roof has collapsed.

• Titanic’s decay: Further details on the Titanic’s decay will be available once the processed footage is reviewed. The raw/live footage that was available to them during the dive was of low resolution and a limited field of view compared to the final processed footage.

• Propellors: It was asked if they would be able to see the propellors with the magnetometer, but only ferrous materials are visible. It is uncertain whether sonar will be able to detect other materials.

• Historical coal findings: The last time coal was recovered was in 1996, and it has held up very well. But it sounds like the majority of it was brought up in 1994. If your coal is labeled 94-0036, it is from the substantial coal collection retrieved in 1994, which is still available for sale. (Not related to the dive but I thought that was interesting).

This live stream happened a few days ago but I just now got around to watching it.

TL;DW they don't have and haven't studied most of what was collected during the dive yet. But a lot more information is coming!