Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered 99 years later - VIDEO

My ancestor, Thomas Henry Conlin's surname is mispelt as Conlon, can this be corrected?

I first heard about the Titanic in 1948 from the brother of a survivor. For a 10 year old sitting on a 3 legged stool by the open hearth fire at a 'house' wedding on the Cavan/Longford border Jack McCormack's vivid telling of Thomas's ordeal was enthralling-and more so,'the rest of the story'. Tom was badly beaten with the oars as he attempted to get into the lifeboat. He made it with the help of his neighbors,the Murphy sisters from Fostra. That beating was revenged years later in a New York City Dance hall.

with the passing of the 99th anniversary the 100th is now less than one year away. Titanic Heritage Trust have launched their limited edition gold silver and bronze coins to commemorate the maiden voyage and tragic loss of that great ship RMS Titanic. Only 2000 each of these coins are available worldwide. Also a special box set of all three coins, gold silver bronze is limited to a highly desirable 500 box sets worldwide. Cheers, Firella

The sinking of the Titanic was tremendous disaster, but the death's could have been avoided had the ship the "Californian" which was only 19 miles away from the Titanic had come to help, the two wireless operators of the Titanic sent SOS messages continuously, and the "Californian" had received them, it went initially towards the Titanic, but then changed direction, it's wireless operator Cyril Evans had gone to bed, it was the only vessel that could have rescued all the passengers on the Titanic had they arrived. The 2nd vessel in the region the "Carpathia" had also received the SOS messages and sailed toward the Titanic at full speed, unfortunately it was 60 miles away and arrived some two hrs too late. The 3rd and last vessel in the region the Norwegian trawler "Samson" was only some 10 miles away, but unfortunately it had no radio, and thus was not aware of the Titanic incident. Thus the key is the conduct of the Californian vessel, it's Captain Stanley Lord was interviewed by the Investigation Team but they were unable to come to a satisfactory conclusion, as a result Captain Lord's reputation was of course totally destroyed.

I con't buy Eugene Daly's story. No matter how much clothing anyone wore would be easily penetrable by the cold water. Furthermore, The more clothing anyone had on would just add to the weigh.