The Dal Libraries’ impressive Thomas Head Raddall collection includes a unique window into the sinking of the Titanic.

In response to a telephone request for information about the role of the cableship “Mackay-Bennett” in the Titanic rescue operation, Raddall sent Bill Harper of CBC Television (Halifax) four photographs and a newspaper clipping, related stories he had heard from members of the “Mackay-Bennett” crew when he served on it in 1920, and offered leads on how to contact surviving “Mackay-Bennett” crew members.

View the original letter, photographs and clipping here.

PRINT SOURCE: Thomas Raddall Fonds, Correspondence. From Thomas Raddall to Bill Harper (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), 27 June 1972. MS-2-202 S-103