York Native Expert Witness on Sinkings of Both the Titanic and U.S.S. Maine
This week’s Sunday News carried a story about a new book titled What Really Sank the Titanic. The authors came to a different conclusion that that offered by Rear Admiral Richard M. Watt, expert...
View ArticleYork Descendent Shocked by Titanic Disaster
A previous post noted that a native Yorker, Richard M. Watt, was an expert witness in court concerning why the “unsinkable” Titanic sank. Click here to read that post. No one was more surprised that...
View ArticleGold Fever Hits York County
Lewis Miller Drawing of the California Company Gold was discovered in California in early 1848. By the beginning of 1849, more adventurers from York County than you might think were headed for the gold...
View ArticleRed Lion Sailor Helped Keep Pacific Fleet Armed
The photo above, of the World War II victory celebration in the Philippines Islands Leyte Gulf, was sent back home to the editor of Red Lion Echoes by John H. Eberly, Y 3/c, USS Vesuvius AE-15. It was...
View ArticleYork County Links with the Titanic
York Gazette--Titanic Disaster There has been a lot of coverage of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster this week. As with many events, there usually seems to be some kind of York County...
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