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MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97 Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97.Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known as Millvina, died today at the nursing home near Southampton where he... |
31st May 2009 | |
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TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ... |
2nd November 2006 | |
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TINY FLAWS THAT CAUSED A TITANIC WASTE OF LIFE New evidence suggests that the rescue of 1,500 people would have succeeded but for weak rivets that allowed the hull to 'unzip', Mark Henderson reports THE most celebrated disaster in maritime history owed as much to substandard rivets as it did to the iceberg, an analysis of the sinking of the Titanic has revealed. The liner would have survived the collision for long enough for most of, or even all, its passengers to be rescued had it not been put together with weak rivets that caused its hull to 'unzip' on impact with the ice, according to the new research.... |
16th September 2006 | |
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HAROLD COTTAM Wireless operator in rescue of Titanic survivors page 18 Mr Harold Cottam, who died yesterday in Nottingham at the age of 93, was the wireless operator on he Carpathia on the night of April 12 (sic) 1912, when the Titani... |
31st May 1984 | |
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DEATH NOTICE OF HELEN ANDREWS HARLAND HARLAND. On August 22nd, 1966, HELEN REILLY HARLAND, of Phoenix Lodge, Dunmurry, co. Antrim, daughter of John Barbour, of Conway, Dunmurry, widow of Thomas Andrews, of Comber, co. Down, ... |
24th August 1966 | |
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THE RT. REV. ALOYSIUS SMITH The Rt. Rev. Aloysius Smith was the eldest brother of Reginald George Smith, one of the saloon stewards on Titanic. This is his obituary- FIRST ABBOT OF BODMIN The Rt. Rev. Abbot Aloysius Smith, C.R.L., First Abbot of Bo... |
23rd August 1960 | |
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TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi... |
2nd July 1958 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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COMMANDER C. H. LIGHTOLLER Commander C. H. Lightoller died at his home at Twickenham yesterday at the age of 78. He was for many years with the White Star Line and was second officer in the Titanic when on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1912 she struck and iceb... |
9th December 1952 |
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