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TITANIC LINKS
last updated July 26, 2004

Titanic Historical Society: the premier souce of historical information on the ship and related themes. Maintains a museum in Indian Orchard (near Springfield), Massachusetts, and publishes the Commutator, the primary journal for Titanic studies.
www.titanic1.org

Titanic International Society is another, smaller organization devoted to things Titanic. It is based in Freehold, New Jersey.
www.titanicinternationalsociety.org

Encyclopedia Titanica is a comprehensive online source of data relating to the ship, including articles on passengers, engineering, and every detail of the ship.
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Titanic-A Voyage of Discovery is a Dutch site (in English) with some duplication with Encyclopedia Titanica and some oringal material (It has, for example, an excellent passenger list).
www.euronet.nl/users/keesree

Titanic Titanic is another large online collection of data and articles.
www.titanic-titanic.com

Titanic Book Site is probably the most comprehensive collection of publications relating to the Titanic.
www.titanicbooksite.com

RMS Titanic, Inc. , is the salvor of record for the Titanic, and organizes Titanic: the Exhibition, which in various forms has traveled the globe.
www.titanic-online.com

The city government of Southampton, England, maintains a web-site devoted to Southampton’s role in the disaster: much of the crew was from there, and the town includes several memorials to the lost.
www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/

The Jason Project is Robert Ballard’s online, interactive program for schools, using expeditions to provide curriculum enrichment.
www.jasonproject.org/

The International Ice Patrol was founded in the wake of the Titanic Disaster to better monitor and inform ships of ice danger, especially in the North Atlantic.
www.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/

The current text of the “law of the sea,” SOLAS, is at:
www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?topic_id=257&doc_id=647

The text of the 2004 agreement among the US, Canada, France and the UK is at:
www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/or/2004/33709.htm
The curtent status of the agreement can be found at:
www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/029_titanic.pdf

Harland & Wolff, the shipbuilder, is still in business in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There is no Titanic information on their web site.
www.harland-wolff.com

Cunard Lines took over the White Star Line in the 1930’s, and remains the primary operator of ocean liners (as opposed to cruise ships). It includes brief histories and data about most ships from their line (not the Titanic, though)
www.cunard.com