Michael Poirier

An Encyclopedia Titanica member since 31st December 2004 Michael Poirier has added 88 items to Encyclopedia Titanica.


Gare Maritime	THE SINKING OF THE SEA DIAMOND The sinking of the Costa Concordia has drawn inevitable comparisons with both Titanic and other maritime disasters. In this verbatim interview by Michael Poirier, a young survivor of the April 2007 Sea Diamond sinking, Zak Hayes, recalls the experience of evacuation at sea....	17th January 2012
The Violinist	THE ORCHESTRA ON THE TITANIC A review of Hume by people who knew him...	1912
	GEORGE HARDER 1920 PASSPORT George Harder ...
	MARY NATALIE WICK 1915 Natalie Wick in 1915 ...	1915
	TILLIE TAUSSIG SAMUEL 1923 Tillie Taussig Samuel ...	1923
	WILLIAM CARTER 1919 PASSPORT William Carter's 1919 passport...
	DOROTHY HARDER 1922 PASSPORT Dorothy Harder's 1922 Passport Photograph ...	1922
	JAMES R. MCGOUGH 1920 PASSPORT James McGough Passport Photograph ...
	TILLIE TAUSSIG SAMUEL 1921 Tilie Taussig Samuel in 1921 ...	1921
	MARIAN THAYER 1924 PASSPORT Marian Thayer 1924 passport photograph ...
	FREDERIC SPEDDEN 1921 PASSPORT Frederic Spedden's passport photograph from 1921 ...
	MRS. M. SPEDDEN 1922 PASSPORT Passport photograph of Margeretta Spedden from 1922 ...
	ROBERT W. DANIEL PASSPORT PICTURE 1916
	DICK BISHOP AND FAMILY PASSPORT 1921	1921
	NORA KEANE 1916 PASSPORT	1916
	LENA EVANS, SISTER OF EDITH 1922 passport picture ...
	PHILIPP MOCK 1920 PASSPORT
	LUCILE CARTER BROOKE 1922 PASSPORT
	ELEANOR HAMILTON RICE 1923
	GEORGE RHEIMS PASSPORT 1917
	NELLA GOLDENBERG PASSPORT 3
	NELLA GOLDENBERG PASSPORT STATUS
	RENE HARRIS 1922 PASSPORT
	RENE HARRIS BARBER PASSPORT 1923
	EDITH RUSSELL 1921 PASSPORT PIC
	ELEANOR CASSEBEER 1909 PASSPORT
	ELEANOR GENEVIEVE CASSEBEER 1914 PASSPORT
	VIRGINIA CLARK PASSPORT PICTURE Passport Photo of Virgina Clark ...
Gare Maritime	RMS OLYMPIC: THE EARLY YEARS It's easy to start the story of Olympic by talking about a limousine pulling up in front of Downshire House. However this has been over-used in many books and articles. What can one say about the career of Titanic's sister-ship...	7th February 2011
	MRS. FLEGENHEIMER OVERVIEW A researcher on Ancestry.com has identified the following info on the elusive Mrs. Flegenheimer She was born circa 1871 to Wm. Wendt and Pauline Wagner Her 1891 address was 135 E58 St *She was married to Alfre...
Daily Mirror	AUBART ACCOUNT May 13, 1912 : I had in my cabin jewels worth 4,000 (GPB) as well as many trunks of dresses and hats. One does not come from Paris and buy one's clothes in America. That is understood, is it not? Nothing could I take with me; not...	13th May 1912
	MARY GREGSON * Mary Josephine Gregson * According to a posting on Ancestry.com * Birth 31 Mar 1867 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England * Death 23 Feb 1923 in New York,...
	FLORENCE THORNEYCROFT MARRIAGE Several months after the sinking Florence Kate Thorneycroft married Albert T. White in early 1913. She died in 1950 in Bromley, Kent ...
	MARGARET GRAHAM MOORE	1920
	CAROLINE BONNELL	1923
	GEORGE BRERETON	1925
	NORMAN CHAMBERS	1916
	JAMES MCGOUGH	1920
	MARGARET FLEMING	1924
	HARRY ANDERSON	1919
	MARGARET 'MOLLY' BROWN	1920
	AMELIA LEMORE	1921
	ELISABETH ROBERT	1919
	MAHALA DOUGLAS
	JACK RYERSON	1924
	HARRIETTE CROSBY	1920
	FRED SEWARD	1925
	ELIZABETH SHUTES	1919
	WILLIAM SLOPER	1921
	MARIAN THAYER	1924
	HARRY HOMER	1921
	EDITH 'RUSSELL' ROSENBAUM	1919
	SUSAN RYERSON	1918
	SAMUEL GOLDENBERG	1916
	RUTH AND WASHINGTON DODGE	1920
	ROBERT DANIEL	1915
	RICHARD NORRIS WILLIAMS	1920
	RENE HARRIS	1920
	NELLA GOLDENBERG	1916
	MARTHA STONE- NARA 1920
	MARIE JERWAN	1923
	LEILA SAKS MEYER RANGER	1924
	GRETCHEN LONGLEY LEOPOLD	1924
	GEORGETTE MADILL	1917
	GEORGE RHEIMS	1917
	ELMER AND JULIET TAYLOR	1922
	ELIZABETH NYE DARBY	1920
	BLANCHE GREENFIELD	1919
	WILLIAM T CARTER
	HELEN CANDEE	1920
	ANNIE STENGEL	1921
	JAMES MCGOUGH	1920
	EDWARD CALDERHEAD	1915
	SAILED ON LUSITANIA William Greenfield sailed to England on the Lusitania in March. Henry Blank was also on this voyage and this is where they most likely met, unless they were acquainted earlier....
Binghamton Press	MRS. CASSEBEER ACCOUNT Mrs. Henry Arthur Casebeer, Jr., of New York City, who is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, was in Binghamton this morning visiting her mother, Mrs. L.V. Fosdick at the House of the Good Shepherd and to a representative of the Bingham...	29th April 1912
Newark Daily Advociate	HAD COUSIN ON TITANIC Mrs. Cassebeer...	23rd April 1912
Lincoln Daily News	MAJOR BUTT DESTROYED PAPERS Mrs. Cassebeer statement...	29th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	ASTOR'S OLD BUTLER A HERO Tribute to Victor Robbins...	20th April 1912
	TITANIC SURVIVOR WHO HAD THRILLING EXPERIENCE Emily Badman photo...	24th April 1912
	CHARLOTTE CARDEZA NEWSPAPER PICTURE Picture of Mrs. Cardeza...
The Post Standard	TITANIC SURVIVOR FINALLY AWARDED $280 Roberta Maioni Compensation...	27th May 1961
	GEORGE RHEIMS CLAIM itemized claim...
	NEAR TRAGEDY ON THE SEAS FOR STRAUS FAMILY The following year both Captain Barr and myself were transferred to the Caronia for a voyage down to Alexandria from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) were on board, and occupying one of the suites on the upper deck. ...	1926
	THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo...	1926
	RADIOS FROM NOTABLE PASSENGERS "The next day, which was Sunday, we passed the Titanic, receiving many friendly radios from our friends on board. Personally, I exchanged messages with Mr. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) and Mr. John Jacob Astor. Captain Barr received a wirele...	1926
	REMINISCENCES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS There are a great many fallacies in connection with the loss of the Titanic, the chief one being that she was trying to break the record. As a matter of fact, she had not averaged twenty-one knots up to the time she struck, three knots le...	1926
	EMILY RYERSON AND FORSYTHE SHERFESEE
Ship to Shore	WILLIAM SLOPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER "I walked into the palm court of the Carleton hotel on Pall Mall in the middle of the afternoon. The streets around the hotel and the hotel itself were deserted except for one group of people...	1984