Luke Milner
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Writer, Maritime History, Travel, and Film enthusiast. Here you can find my many articles on such topics, and learn more. You may also find my recommendations for films, and traveling.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) An Analysis
Who are you going to call? Again? After the disaster that the 2016 film was, we’re ready to call the originals again I’m pleased to say. Only this time, we’re not in New York City, and we have newer faces again… or do we?
By Luke Milner2 years ago in Education
Titanic's Sister: A Dark Secret? PART ONE
Prologue The sinking of the passenger ship Titanic is one of the most tragic and famous stories of all time. Her story is known all over the world, thanks to how well documented it is. From books, film, websites, social media, video games and music. But with any disaster, as long as there are unanswered questions, research will continue. While research continues, newer evidence will always be uncovered, and sometimes evidence that may pull us away from the accepted story as we have been told. Newer evidence has been uncovered regarding the Titanic, that may point us towards a horrifying new reality. A reality in which the ship that fell two and a half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, was NOT the Titanic, but her sister ship Olympic, and that the disaster was not a pure, simple accident, but something very sinister. With evidence on both sides, we are left with a chilling question, which of the two ships rests on the ocean floor today?
By Luke Milner2 years ago in FYI
Titanic's Sister: A Dark Secret? PART TWO
...CONTINUED FROM PART ONE Coal Strike/Crew Refusing To Sail On Titanic's Maiden Voyage/Coal Fire It should be noted that at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic, Britain was in the middle of a heavy coal strike thanks to coal miners fighting for minimum wage. Thanks to no coal being mined, train and shipping schedules were dramatically hindered and hundreds of ships were laid up. Due to how desperate White Star Line were to get Titanic's maiden voyage underway, there was only enough coal for her thanks to old coal from other ships being cannibalised of it. Thanks to the coal strike, many of Titanic's passengers were transferred from other ships to her. One such passenger was Millvina Dean and her family, Millvina would become the last living survivor of the Titanic before her death on May 31st 2009, exactly 98 years to the day Titanic was launched.
By Luke Milner2 years ago in FYI
Titanic's Sister: A Dark Secret? BIBLIOGRAPHY
This is the bibliography for both portions of the article "Titanic's Sister: A Dark Secret?". This bibliography has been written separately from the two documents as I was having trouble putting it into the official documents due to a persistent parsing problem. At the end of both parts, I have provided a guide to the reader informing them to look at this bibliography for references.
By Luke Milner2 years ago in FYI
S.S. Atlantic
The steamship Atlantic (1871) was built for the White Star Line, as part of a class of sisters. She was the second one after the Oceanic (1870). Following Oceanic and Atlantic were the Baltic (1871) and the Republic (1871). Following these would be the Adriatic (1871) and the Celtic (1872). These ships were built between 1870 and 1872, by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, which had been specified by a contract between Gustav Schwabe and Thomas Ismay that finance would be provided for the White Star Line on the condition it have its ships built by Harland and Wolff.
By Luke Milner4 years ago in Wander
HMS Birkenhead
Introduction Hopefully, none of you readers have been in a shipwreck before. But if you have and were lucky enough to get off alive, I’m sure you’ve heard this phrase which is most commonly associated with the sinking of the Titanic: “Women and Children first” when loading the lifeboats, which is the general protocol. However, have you ever wondered where this protocol was first established? Well that’s a good question, and this article details the origins of the women and children first protocol when we look at an extraordinary tale of bravery in the face of terrible circumstances in the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in February 1852.
By Luke Milner4 years ago in Serve
