An Encyclopedia Titanica member since 30th January 2004 Senan Molony has added 239 items to Encyclopedia Titanica.
| Titanic Research | FACE TO BAREFACE LIAR! A steerage Titanic survivor confronted his own impostor in 1912... |
16th January 2012 | |||
| Titanic Review | TITANIC : TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY The third edition of the seminal reference book on the Titanic... |
8th December 2011 | |||
| Titanic Research | LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS! Lifeboats from the Titanic extinguished their lights in order not to become attractive beacons for swimmers after the sinking.... |
6th December 2011 | |||
| Titanic Review | HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY Ismay as Ecce Homo... |
11th August 2011 | |||
| Titanic Research | NIGHT AND A TITAN What did Titanic look like at night?... |
10th August 2011 | |||
| Titanic Review | THE BAND THAT PLAYED ON – REVIEW Senan Molony reviews Steve Turner's new book about the musicians aboard the Titanic The Band that Played On... |
3rd June 2011 | |||
| Titanic Research | VIOLET'S BARREN WHITE STAR WEDDING The story of Titanic survivor Violet Jessop's short-lived marriage revealed for the first time.... |
27th April 2011 | |||
| Titanic Research | ROSTRON'S MONSTER Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a lifelong believer in the existence of sea serpents and other forms of cryptozoology...... |
16th December 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE HART OF THE MATTER FIREMAN Hart stands on the deck of the Titanic, knowing he has no entitlement to a lifeboat place, and prepares to die…... |
11th October 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captai... |
11th September 2010 | |||
| CAPTAIN LORD 1961 INTERVIEWS TRANSCRIPT Transcript of a recorded conversation between Leslie Harrison and Captain Stanley Lord, held at 13 Kirkway, Wallasey, [Lord’s Merseyside home] in February 1961 [6-8.30pm], and a further discussion recorded on 19 August 1961.... |
1961 | ||||
| STANLEY LORD IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE HARRISON Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961.... |
19th August 1961 | ||||
| Titanic Research | MASTER AND COMMANDER Titanic's Surviving Master-at-Arms Revealed... |
5th September 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT ... |
13th June 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP? When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?... |
7th April 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | WHO TALKED TO TITANIC? Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors... |
11th March 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST APRIL tenth, 1912 – A day tinged with sadness for the RMS Olympic. She put in to New York for the last time as the Ship of Superlatives, or so she thought. The next White Star Line leviathan to dock here wou... |
12th February 2010 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE TURN OF A CARD HERE is the Two of Hearts… signed by three survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This picture appeared in the New York Sun on Sunday April 21, 1912. It seems richly symbolic of the hand... |
25th November 2009 | |||
| THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards. The m... |
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| Titanic Research | MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was ... |
8th October 2009 | |||
| Titanic Research | ERNEST GILL IN AUSTRALIA Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia. The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter. A do... |
29th July 2009 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE INFORMATIVE 'MORNING NEWS' TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ... |
12th February 2009 | |||
| Daily Sketch | STEWARD'S PREMONITION : THOMAS WHITELEY Mr. Thomas Whiteley, a steward on the Titanic, who was saved. He states that the two men in the crow's nest, who were rescued, were very indignant, and said that their warnings concerning the presence of an iceberg ... |
April 1912 | |||
| The Times | THOMAS WHITELEY : ANOTHER TITANIC CASE In Mr Justice Darling's court yesterday Mr [W. Norman] Raeburn on behalf of the defendants in Whiteley v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (Limited), asked that a date should be fixed for the hearing. He said that the plaintiff, who was a ... |
17th January 1914 | |||
| Titanic Research | MCGOUGH THE KILLER TWO killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage… Not the stuff of lurid pulp adventure, instead actual fact. The two wrongdoers were a fireman and an able bodied seaman. Stoker William Mintra... |
5th September 2008 | |||
| Titanic Research | MCGOUGH THE KEY? THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No. ... |
5th September 2008 | |||
| ERNEST GILL |
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| GEORGE FRANCIS MCGOUGH |
April 1912 | ||||
| NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck ... |
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| Gare Maritime | LUSITANIA: FINAL VOYAGE FOLIOS Examining the saloon berth list for the final, fatal voyage of May 1915.... |
21st July 2008 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX WHAT goes on four legs, then two legs, then three? The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Greek mythology, denotes the eternal voyage of man… from crawling on all fours, to walking proudly erect, to finally ending up hunched over a... |
1st June 2008 | |||
| PRONUNCIATION OF "ROTHES" DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915 ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie) [Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”] Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl and a Represen... |
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| HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL Wall plaque at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Harry Elkins Widener A Graduate Of This University Born January 3, 1885 Died At Sea April 15, 1912 ... |
May 2008 | ||||
| HARRY ELKINS WIDENER LIBRARY Exterior, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Endowed by his mother Eleanor, and opened in 1915.... |
May 2008 | ||||
| Titanic Research | 12.45AM – A TIME TO GO! WHAT time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?Many will immediately offer: ‘12.45am.’ But this response should be... |
10th March 2008 | |||
| ALFRED CHARLES SHIERS |
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| DICKINSON H. BISHOP |
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| JOSEPH BOXHALL CARTOON |
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| Gare Maritime | DOUBLE JEOPARDY – LUSITANIA'S UNIQUE VICTIM The astonishing story of the woman whose body was twice claimed by the same German submarine.... |
15th October 2007 | |||
| Titanic Research | ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies.... |
14th October 2007 | |||
| CAPTAIN LORD AND OFFICERS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON |
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| STANLEY LORD AT THE WHEEL |
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| CAPTAIN LORD WITH OFFICERS OF A LATER COMMAND. Captain Stanley Lord (centre) of the Californian pictured with officers of a later command.... |
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| CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD AND HIS WIFE IN THEIR CAR Stanley Lord at the wheel of a car accompanied by his wife Mabel... |
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| LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909... |
1909 | ||||
| CAPTAIN LORD'S CHART COMPASS |
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| CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD |
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| CAPTAIN LORD IN SUMMER WHITES ABOARD A LEYLAND LINER |
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| FIELD ICE PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 15, 1912, Ice seen in the general vicinity of the Titanic sinking. Photographed by Dr Marloth, ship's surgeon aboard the NDL Frankfurt.... |
15th April 1912 | ||||
| Titanic Research | HONOUR & GLORY: CROWING TIME! WE KNOW well the allegorical figures of Honour and Glory… They appear as heraldic supporters to the clock located in the alcove atop the Tita... |
20th August 2007 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE UNKNOWN ADULT COUNTERFOIL number 30887 lay on the wooden surface. Money joined it for a few minutes, and then money took wing and parted from the ticket. A moment later the ticket itself was taken up. One of the opening scenes of the 19... |
26th June 2007 | |||
| Gare Maritime | PASSPORT TO PERDITION How an expired passport could have prevented an untimely death on the Lusitania.... |
18th March 2007 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE FLEECING OF HUGH WOOLNER Thomas Woolner... |
4th February 2007 | |||
| Titanic Research | BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS! Birma from a contemporary postcard (Courtesy of Senan Molony) JOSEPH Cannon was a newly-qualified, newlywed wi... |
28th December 2006 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | RUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE – ICEFIELD DESCRIBED SS. Birma (off Dover), Monday, April 22. We left New York in the Birma, of the Russian East Asiatic Company, on Thursday afternoon, the 11th inst., bound for Rotterdam and Libau (Russia), in splendid we... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ... |
28th December 2006 | ||||
| EUGENE DALY - BY HIS DAUGHTER Eugene Daly with his wife Lil and their only child Marion (Mary) in 1929. Mary is now a widow, living in Missouri.... |
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| GRAVESTONE OF EUGENE DALY EUGENE DALY'S gravestone in St Raymond's cemetery, the Bronx. The Titanic survivor, a 'beloved father and grandfather' is said to be "safely home at last." Died October 30, 1965. ... |
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| MEMORIAL CARD FOR EUGENE DALY |
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| EUGENE DALY WITH PIPES, 1910 Eugene Daly as a member of the Irish National Foresters band, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, 1910. Contributor's collection. ... |
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| EUGENE DALY AND GRANDSON Eugene Daly, in the last years of his life, with his grandson Brendan and family pet.... |
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| TITANIC NEWS VENDORS IN WASHINGTON D.C. Washington news vendors at the time of the Titanic disaster. Headline to The Washington Post: Mission of two United States cruisers fails; ... |
April 1912 | ||||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR Sydney Buxton as a new MP SYDNEY BUXTON, President of the Board of Trade... |
13th December 2006 | |||
| ET Comment | LET THE RECORD SPEAK FOR ITSELF! THERE is an old adage that the argument is not always about ‘what the argument is about.’ This is a case in point. Three commentators of common interest have decided to fight the validity of Hugh Woolner’s evidence to the US Titan... |
7th December 2006 | |||
| DR HENRY FRAUENTHAL ONE OF TITANIC SURVIVORS Dr Henry W. Frauenthal, noted New York Surgeon and head of the Hospital for Deformative and Joint Diseases, of which he was one of the organisers. He was a native of Wilkes-Barre and recently went to Europ... |
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| CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR? (William McQuillan, from a family photo)... |
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| Hampshire Chronicle | SURVIVOR FROM “TITANIC” A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| ET Comment | HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible... |
6th November 2006 | |||
| Calgary Herald | THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED Special Dispatch to the Herald... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| Calgary Herald | ANOTHER ADDED TO LIST OF LOST IS ALBERT MALLET, A TRAVELLER MONTREAL, April 20.- The disaster to the Titanic was brought poignantly home to Montrealers today by the arrival in the city of some of the Montreal survivors. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a special train pulled into the Grand Trunk st... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Research | A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James... |
13th October 2006 | |||
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15th June 2006 | |||
| Calgary Herald | WILLIAM HARBECK WITH MOVIE CAMERA Well known in Calgary, who is said to have been on the Titanic. Mr Harbeck was engaged, it is said, to take a series of pictures of the Titanic's first voyage. He took many pictures in Alberta in connection with C.P.R. advertising. ... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE PORTRUSH LETTER THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp... |
31st January 2006 | |||
| The Times | LAURELS ON STEAD'S OCEAN GRAVE The Franconia stopped on Sunday over the place where the Titanic went down, whilst wreaths of laurel, picked in the garden of the late Mr Stead, were cast to the sea. ... |
1st August 1913 | |||
| The Times | ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto... |
12th July 1913 | |||
| The Times | FILM "ATLANTIC" - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF "TITANIC" SCENES Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice... |
30th July 1930 | |||
| The Times | ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER Action in the French courts Nice, February 9th (1914). An action against the White Star Line arising out of the loss of the Titanic began today before the Civil Court here. The Plaintiff, Mme Navr... |
10th February 1914 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | BELFAST FIREMAN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE The story of a fireman's fortunate escape from sailing in the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic was told yesterday in the Belfast Custody Court, when, before Sir Andrew Newton-Brady, RM, [Resident Magistrate] Patrick Morgan... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH MEMORIAL A committee has been formed for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a suitable memorial to the late Commander Edward John Smith RNR, the Captain of the Titanic. It is proposed that it should take the two-fold form of ... |
27th September 1913 | |||
| Titanic Research | LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE! FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca... |
13th November 2005 | |||
| BIRTH CERT OF KATE'S DAUGHTER ELLEN |
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| KATE PHILLIPS' DAUGHTER'S STORY (CONCEIVED ON TITANIC CLAIM) Submitted by Senan Molony... |
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| KATE PHILLIPS AND HER DAUGHTER ELLEN |
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| HENRY MORLEY |
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| Titanic Research | A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the ne... |
21st October 2005 | |||
| FRANK DWAN TITANIC MEMORIAL Memorial to Titanic third class passenger Frank Dwan at Bunmahon, Co Waterford, Ireland.... |
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| MORGUE PHOTO OF WENDLA MARIA HEININEN Wendla Maria Heininen (body number 8) in the morgue on Agricola Street, Halifax, NS.... |
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| Titanic Research | LORD MERSEY— OBITER DICTA HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusion with... |
13th March 2005 | |||
| Titanic Research | IDENTIFYING STEWARDS WHAT ARE the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea? Better than impossible - fair, in some cases. One of the early bodies picked up by the search ves... |
13th February 2005 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED! (Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action broug... |
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| Daily Post and Mercury | FREDERICK TAMLYN Courtesy of Senan Molony... |
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| BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to... |
11th July 1912 | ||||
| Irish Independent | THE GOLDSMITH FAMILY, CIRCA 1911 Frank Goldsmith Snr, his wife Emily, Frank Junior, and the baby that died before the family embarked on the Titanic.... |
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| The Times | FIREMAN KILLED WIFE Western Assizes William Mintram, 33, a mariner, was tried for the wilful murder of Eliza May Rose Mintram, his wife, at Southampton, on October 18th [1902]. Mr Evans Austin, and Mr E. L. Craik appeared for... |
24th November 1902 | |||
| Titanic Research | A TALE OF HOFFMAN A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ... |
18th January 2005 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four... |
3rd July 1913 | |||
| The Times | LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ... |
23rd September 1953 | |||
| Daily Express | BBC DENY TITANIC RADIO PLAY TO BE BROADCAST BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster has been issued by the... |
25th February 1932 | |||
| Daily Sketch | SID DANIELS IN WW1 The only man who had not been to the front - and he was very angry that he had not - was an Army Service Corps man, who had driven up a Lewisham contingent in a motor-omnibus. He, to make up for having no fighting, was a survivor from the T... |
4th September 1915 | |||
| The Times | AROUND THE WORLD IN A YACHT [ADVERTISEMENT] Commander C. H. Lightoller, DSC, RD, RNR, and Mrs Lightoller are inviting ladies and gentlemen to join in a ten months cruise on their 3,000-ton motor sailing yacht "Westward." Sailing end of October, visiting West Indies, South Sea islands an... |
30th August 1924 | |||
| Illustrated London News | THE SEA MESSENGER THE SEA MESSENGER The little vessel represented in our illustration has been invented by Mr J. A. R. Vandenbergh of Portsmouth (Eng.), to be freighted with letters and papers belonging to any ship in danger of foundering at sea, or in ... |
21st May 1870 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing with statistics, some d... |
17th December 2004 | |||
| Graphic | A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER ‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times... |
18th May 1912 | |||
| DANIEL BUCKLEY AS US INFANTRYMAN Titanic survivor Daniel Buckley in the uniform and puttees of the United States Army. Buckley fought and died in World War One, and is now buried in his home town of Ballydesmond, Co. Cork, Ireland. Titanic crewman Sid Daniels also fought i... |
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| Daily Graphic | EMILY RICHARDS AND SONS Emily Richards and the two sons who were with her on the Titanic.... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| WW1 LETTER FROM THE FRONT - BY DANIEL BUCKLEY A letter to his mother from US infantryman Daniel Buckley, originally from Co. Cork, Ireland. Buckley was killed a month before the end of the war. He served with Company K of the 165th US Infantry, and wrote copious missive, some of ... |
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| ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL One of a series of pages illustrating a detailed article by Elinor Glin, one of the "It" Girls, relating to the Titanic ordeal and the experiences and attitudes of those it involved. Elinor's sister, Lady Duff Gordon, was prominently saved with... |
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| HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED) IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ... |
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| Titanic Research | ON THE TRAIL OF 'LUCKY' TOWER Is this the face of Titanic legend’s most elusive man? ’Lucky Tower’ is the moniker given... |
16th November 2004 | |||
| GEORGE HENRY HUNT WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC George H. Hunt, of 1309 Sotuh Ruby Street (Philadelphia), it was discovered yesterday, was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. He had been visting his parents in England for several months and h... |
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| WILLIAM ALEXANDER |
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| Titanic Research | RUBáIYáT REFLECTIONS ON TITANIC AWAKE! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight… ... |
14th October 2004 | |||
| FREDERICK TAMLYN |
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| Titanic Research | THE MIDDLE WATCH WHAT follows is the complete text o... |
16th September 2004 | |||
| Pall Mall Gazette | COAL STRIKE NEWS BILLBOARD Advert for the Pall Mall Gazette in March 1912, suggesting that miners are "blackmailing the nation" (with obvious pun intended) by failing to work pits in their demand for better pay. If the coal strike had continued a few days longer, the... |
23rd March 1912 | |||
| Irish Independent | GUINNESS 'TITANIC' TV ADVERT BANNED Drinks commercial does not survive Titanic treatment A Guinness 'Titantic' ad has been banned because it could have caused offence to descendants of people who lost their lives in the tragedy. SINKING a pint has tak... |
3rd September 2004 | |||
| IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 1) |
16th February 1926 | ||||
| IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 2) |
8th March 1926 | ||||
| IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 3) |
2nd March 1926 | ||||
| IN SEARCH OF WILLIAM GILLESPIE (LETTER 4) |
12th April 1926 | ||||
| WILLIAM MCCARTHY, LIFEBOAT 4 CREWMAN MR WILLIAM McCARTHYGrattan Hill, Cork, who is fortunately amongst the survivors. Elite, San Francisco... |
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| WILLIAM MCCARTHY AFTER THE TITANIC DISASTER |
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| JONATHAN SHEPHERD |
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| Titanic Research | A LAST BRIGHT SHINING LIE THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensiv... |
24th August 2004 | |||
| The Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri... |
17th February 1956 | |||
| MEMORIAL TO THE ENGINEERS |
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| Daily Sketch | THE HEROIC ENGINEERS Mr. Arthur Ward, one of the Titanic's engineers. In all the messages received no mention is made of what happened in the engine-room, of the gallant engineers sticking to their post with the water pouring into the bowels of the ship. That not one was... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| BERTIE WILSON |
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| JOSEPH BELL |
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| Daily Sketch | THE HEROIC ENGINEERS WHO WENT DOWN TO A MAN |
26th April 1912 | |||
| THOMAS DILLON |
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| Titanic Research | PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG ... |
19th July 2004 | |||
| The Sphere | OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill... |
30th September 1911 | |||
| Sphere | 1911 EVENTS OF THE SEASON Olympic maiden voyage; Titanic launch... |
28th February 1911 | |||
| Cork Examiner | TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Sir William Arrol and two disasters... |
8th February 1913 | |||
| The Times | TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC Cargo vessel's encounter with ice... |
27th April 1935 | |||
| Graphic | SKETCH OF HAROLD LOWE Fifth Officer attends New York Inquiry... |
11th May 1912 | |||
| Hexham Courant | OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF Summer 2004 news report... |
21st May 2004 | |||
| Irish Independent | J. BRUCE ISMAY RETREAT FOR SALE A Titanophile's Dream for $1.5 million... |
9th July 2004 | |||
| Sphere | TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Children emulate lifeboat scene... |
30th August 1913 | |||
| Sphere | SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY At sea in boats, August 1913... |
30th August 1913 | |||
| Titanic Research | ASQUITH AND THE CONSPIRACY TO SINK TITANIC “The architect, the owner, and the Captain were partners in an infamous conspiracy to repair their desperate fortunes by sinking the ship and sharing the insurance money.” ... |
9th July 2004 | |||
| Weekly Irish Times | A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ... |
21st September 1912 | |||
| Sphere | INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT The Lukin Grave in England... |
21st December 1912 | |||
| Syren & Shipping | 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING Castings for the Queen Elizabeth... |
15th April 1937 | |||
| Sphere | LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY Mary Eloise Smith pregnant on Titanic... |
28th December 1912 | |||
| The Times | ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC Wild panic reported in August 1912 emergency... |
14th August 1912 | |||
| The Times | FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911... |
26th January 1912 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York... |
27th October 1910 | |||
| Sunday Independent | SUFFERERS BOTH Hibernia and Columbia United in Grief... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Eagle | LUSITANIA ICEBERG Original Caption:... |
11th May 1915 | |||
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| Waterford News | ASPERSION CAST ON FRANK DWAN Linked to thefts at Bonmahon Mines... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| DESIGN FOR AMERICAN TITANIC MEMORIAL Rejected submission by Dana Gibson... |
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| Titanic Research | OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR 'SLEEPING ROUGH' YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ... |
10th June 2004 | |||
| TITANIC POSTCARD FROM ONE SURVIVOR TO ANOTHER From Eugene Daly to Bertha Mulvihill... |
20th August 1912 | ||||
| DAVID CHARTERS Irish steerage passenger David Charters on a horse with a white star.... |
1909 | ||||
| Titanic Research | THE CHEEK OF WILLIAM WELLER Research Article... |
3rd June 2004 | |||
| The Times | BEESLEY CLAIMS WAR COMPENSATION At the Defence of the Realm Losses Commission yesterday, Mr L. Beesley, described as a practitioner of Christian Science, claimed compensation in respect of the requisitioning by the War Office of rooms at Pembroke House, Oxford Street, in May 1917, ... |
22nd January 1919 | |||
| MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY Awaiting His Opportunity To Testify... |
23rd April 1912 | ||||
| MAGGIE DALY Missing Survivor... |
1912 | ||||
| New York Times | BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS Two Marconi Men Worked to the Last... |
28th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Express | TITAN HAS SUNK - JANUARY 1912 Article... |
2nd January 1912 | |||
| The Times | WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED Article... |
4th April 1913 | |||
| The Times | BEESLEY THE SCIENCE TEACHER ON SOLAR PANELS "Cookery by Sunlight" To the Editor of the Times Sir - Your leading article on this subject in to-day's issue reminds me that in 1913 I was the guest of friends in Pasadena, California, whose house was fitted with an apparatus f... |
26th January 1922 | |||
| Weekly Irish Times | BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON Article... |
7th September 1912 | |||
| Weekly Irish Times | GIGANTIC TO EXCEED 'AQUITANIA' Article... |
14th December 1912 | |||
| GUS COHEN, 1975 From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]... |
1975 | ||||
| EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL'S PIG The Musical Toy That Played 'The Maxixe'... |
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| Limerick Leader | JOHN KENNEDY Survived Titanic to Die of Anthrax... |
1912 | |||
| SHRINE TO THOMAS KILGANNON Including a lock of hair... |
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| Titanic Research | A HOLY GRAIL — THE MISSING DEPOSITIONS THERE is an undiscovered Titanic out there… one that may hold greater meaning than relocated rust at the bottom of the North Atlantic. The lost Titanic arguably resides in 138 crew depositions of the su... |
6th May 2004 | |||
| The Times | PARTNER DEPARTED Stockbroker Lost in the Titanic Disaster It is observed with great regret in the Stock Exchange that the name of Mr Austin Partner is not among the list of those saved from the Titanic. Mr Partner was making one of his annual... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| WHITE STAR TENDERS AT QUEENSTOWN A contemporary postcard showing the Clyde Shipping Co.'s tenders "Ireland" (outboard)and "America" (inboard) at the rear of the Jas Scott & Co shipping agency offices in Queenstown. ... |
1909 | ||||
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| TOMMY ANDREWS WITH MOUSTACHE Thomas Andrews circa 1899, or possibly earlier, sporting a moustache.... |
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| CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER. RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St... |
27th April 1912 | ||||
| MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937 TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ... |
1937 | ||||
| THE ENGLISHMAN Poem composed on Olympic, April 18, 1912... |
18th April 1912 | ||||
| Daily Telegraph | ESTATE OF HERBERT JOHN PITMAN Mr Herbert John Pitman, of Pitcombe, Somerset, retired purser, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, left estate in Great Britain valued at pounds 21,158 gross, pounds 21,116 net. He left the residue of his estate to his niece [name withheld] for life,... |
9th April 1962 | |||
| Titanic Research | WHY DID WHITE STAR SETTLE WITH WHITELEY? Steward's sensational claims were never tested in court.... |
26th April 2004 | |||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC: THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH? THIS photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. It was taken at Crosshaven, Co Cork, Ireland, just after the vessel departed Queenstown. In September 2003, an album of photographs originally ow... |
23rd April 2004 | |||
| JOHN MORROGH'S ESCAPE DIARY A companion piece to "Titanic: The Last Photograph" by Senan Molony "IT ALL happened because 45-50 of us argued with a German divisi... |
23rd April 2004 | ||||
| The Times | INVENTIONS SURGE AFTER TITANIC DISASTER Article... |
19th April 1913 | |||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC'S VIOLINIST AND A VILLAINOUS MURDER How Jock Hume's family met further tragedy amidst the chaos of war.... |
26th March 2004 | |||
| RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA Article... |
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| The Times | LIVERPOOL AWARDS TO CARPATHIA CREW Page 3Engineers of the Carpathia honoured The Lord Mayor of Liverpool has made various presentations to the engineers and electricians of the Carpathia who gave service on the night of the Titanic disaster. Mr A. Johnsto... |
16th December 1912 | |||
| The Times | ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had... |
24th April 1926 | |||
| The Times | PRESUMED DEATH IN THE TITANIC T. Franklin presumed deceased [Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court hearing] This was a motion to swear the death of Thomas Parnham Franklin, of Sunningdale, Ceylon Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, who is believed to have lost his... |
11th June 1912 | |||
| Daily Express | CAPTAIN SMITH AND SIGNOR MARCONI DUMMIES Madame Tussaud's Exhibition - Several additions to this exhibition have been made since Easter; and the management have made various alterations in the building. The Titanic disaster is recalled by Mr John Tussaud's model of Captain Smith, ... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | THE LADY PALMIST AND TITANIC PASSENGER Page 9The Central News says - Of the second class passengers of the Titanic, Walter Harris, of Enfield Highway and Percy Thomas Oxenham, of Ponders End, were booked on the "Philadelphia" for New York. Owing to the coal strik... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Research | RYAN V. OSNC Transcript of Precis Law Report... |
15th March 2004 | |||
| Titanic Research | RYAN'S SON A Commentary on Ryan v. OSNC... |
15th March 2004 | |||
| Daily Chronicle | LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LOST ON TITANIC In the High Court of Justice Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Before the Rt. Hon. Samuel Evans, President) In the goods of S. S. Jacobsohn, deceased. page 3 This was a motion by a wid... |
23rd July 1912 | |||
| The Times | A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat... |
23rd April 1917 | |||
| The Times | HAROLD COTTAM Obituary... |
31st May 1984 | |||
| WILLIAM LINDSAY'S DISCHARGE A BOOK. Discharge A book... |
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| Titanic Research | A RACE THROUGH A NIGHTMARE How a shipwreck a suffragette and a scandal settled the 1913 Derby... |
27th February 2004 | |||
| Titanic Research | MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE Case-closed on the Californian?... |
17th February 2004 | |||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC'S BAND: KILLING THEM SOFTLY. Just how many people did the ship's orchestra kill?... |
17th February 2004 | |||
| Titanic Research | 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG Murdoch, in death, re-wrote the seamanship manual for best practice.... |
6th February 2004 | |||
| The Times | LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder... |
16th July 1907 | |||
| The Times | TENNIS Page 21 Another of these meteoric young players from America is Mr Karl Behr, who came over to England two years ago for the Davis Cup. He has not done very much since, it is true, but there was no question of his first-class form whil... |
26th November 1909 | |||
| The Times | THE OLYMPIAN GAMES The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h... |
28th February 1906 | |||
| Titanic Research | SUN YAT SEN – WILL EAT AGAIN A PEKINGESE named after a Chinese nationalist statesman… the height of buffoonery or the peak of good taste?... |
2nd February 2004 | |||
| LIGHTOLLER TAKES 36 GERMAN NAVAL LIVES IN WAR On July 19, 1918, HMS Garry, Lieut Cmmdr C.H. Lightoller DSC, was cruising in the North Sea and was in Latitude 54.39 N. and Longitude 0.55 W., when an enemy submarine, which proved to be the UB-110, was observed. The Garry, having ... |
14th July 1919 | ||||
| Titanic Research | FATHER BROWNE: THE MISSING PHOTOGRAPHS Defamation, anonymity and some missing photographs?... |
19th January 2004 | |||
| Titanic Research | ANATOMY OF A BOAT DECK PORTRAIT Mawkish sentimentality or inspired reconstruction, the Titanic art of Fortunino Matania... |
3rd December 2003 | |||
| Titanic Research | A TENDER NAMED AMERICA A tale of the ship that brought Irish immigrants to the Titanic.... |
13th February 2001 | |||
| Titanic Research | BRUCE ISMAY AND THE RING'S TAUNT As Ismay pushed the brute oar, his eye fell on his ring. The ring inscribed:- Be Mindful.... |
13th January 2001 | |||
| Titanic Research | THE REAL JACK DAWSON New research into the life of one of the least known but most intriguing of Titanic victims... |
11th March 2001 | |||
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| Titanic Research | TITANIC'S ROCKETS Why more were fired and why it matters.... |
15th March 2002 | |||