Category: Wonders Of The World

Titanic

History

RMS Titanic.  RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship.  While it was a luxurious passenger carrier, it was also specifically designed to carry mail from place to place – that was kinda the purpose of it, otherwise it wouldn’t have been named RMS

Sister Ships

HMHS Brittanic

  • 1915-1916
    • HMHS | Her/His Majest’s Hospital Ship
    • It was sunk by a german submarine off the coast of Greece in 1916. 
Gibbs Bridge

Haunted Bridges

Tower Bridge/Dead Mans Hole

Constructed 1894 | London Dead Man’s Hole actually refers to a mortuary that at one time was housed beneath the north tower of the bridge.

 

As you’ll probably be aware, the Thames is tidal, and for one reason or another, corpses that found their way in to the river; either suicide, by accident or dumped, those executed at the Tower of London, only a stone’s throw away, were also transferred to Dead Man’s Hole.