Titanic Historical Society of the disaster in Boston, Massachusetts. The event brought together several living survivors, including Eva Hart, Louise Pope, Michel Marcel Navratil, and Beatrice Sandstrom, who enthralled those in attendance with their vivid first-person accounts of the night the "Titanic" foundered in the north Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord, author of his seminal "Titanic" work, "A Night to Remember", was another featured guest. The Society also works to preserve the history of other ocean liners, especially the "Titanic" 's sister ship, the White Star Line's HMHS "Brittanic", which sank after hitting an enemy mine in World War I, and the Cunard ship
Semyon Budyonnyy (ship) Semyon Budyonnyy (ship) The Semyon Budyonnyy () is a "Valerian Kuybyshev"-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga basin. The ship was built by "Slovenské Lodenice" at their shipyard in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, and entered service in 1981. At 3,950 tonnes, "Semyon Budyonnyy" is one of the world's biggest river cruise ships. Her sister ships are "Valerian Kuybyshev", "Fyodor Shalyapin", "Feliks Dzerzhinskiy", "Sergey Kuchkin", "Mikhail Frunze", "Mstislav Rostropovich", "Aleksandr Suvorov" and "Georgiy Zhukov". "Semyon Budyonnyy" is currently owned and operated by Vodohod, a Russian river cruise line. Her home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod. The ship has two