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
HNoMS Glommen (1916) HNoMS Glommen (1916) The minelayer HNoMS "Glommen" was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War I, as the lead ship of the two ship "Glommen" class of mine layers. Her sister ship was "Laugen". "Glommen" and her sister ship were kept in service until the German invasion of Norway in 1940. "Glommen" surrendered to the Germans on 14 April 1940, and was rebuilt as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was scuttled at Kirkenes in 1944 by the retreating Germans. "Glommen" was built at Akers mekaniske verksted in Kristiania. She was named after the Glomma - the longest and