Commander Bill Wilson, U.S. Coast Guard Retired, an active member of the Titanic International Society, will share facts you never knew about the Titanic at the Lincoln Home in Newcastle on June 29 at 3 p.m.

While stationed in Greenland nearly 53 years ago, he began serious studies and research about RMS Titanic as the iceberg Titanic collided with was calved from a glacier in Baffin Bay near where he was stationed.

When the sea ice melted in the short summer months, many multi-ton icebergs drifted southward from Baffin Bay into Davis Strait, then the Labrador Sea, and ultimately into the shipping lanes where Titanic met its fate.

Wilson will explain why the three Olympic Class of ships (one of which was RMS Titanic) needed to be built, who were the "movers and shakers" at Harland & Wolff where Titanic was built in Belfast in Northern Ireland, comment on the three shipboard classes of people and the names of some of those on board, what life was like aboard the ship, and the collision with the iceberg and rescue of less than a third of those on board.

The public is invited to the talk in the Lincoln Home's living room, overlooking the beautiful Damariscotta River.

The Lincoln Home is located at 22 River Road, Newcastle. For more information, contact Activities Director Rhonda Hanna at 207-563-3350.