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Daily Telegraph	THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC Louise Patten whose grandfather was the only surviving officer on the Titanic reveals the truth about how it sank....	22nd September 2010
Daily Telegraph	TITANIC SUNK BY STEERING BLUNDER NEW BOOK CLAIMS It was always thought the Titanic sank because its crew were sailing too fast and failed to see the iceberg before it was too late....	22nd September 2010
Daily Telegraph	CHILD OF LOVERS WHO INSPIRED TITANIC HAS ASHES SPREAD AT SEA A surviver of the Titanic, whose story was said to have inspired the Oscar-winning film, has had her ashes scattered at sea in Cornwall. One of Ellen Walker's last wishes was to have her ashes scattered at sea. She was conceived on board the Titanic by her runaway parents, whose story was said to have inspired the Oscar-winning film....	4th November 2006
Daily Telegraph	NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO PUT TITANIC RECORDS ON THE NET ?2.5m deal to scan and place online the National Archives' entire historical database of passengers who embarked on sea voyages from Britain's shores between 1890 and 1960. This includes the one and only voyage of Titanic, which was made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio.The estimated 30m individual records include details of emigrations to Australia, North and South America, India and Africa....	2nd April 2006
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
Daily Telegraph	DEATH NOTICE: HERBERT JOHN PITMAN At Pitcombe, Bruton, Somerset, aged 84. A survivor of the Titanic disaster; was third officer on the liner, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage....	18th December 1961
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
Daily Telegraph	RUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE – ICEFIELD DESCRIBED Charles E. Walters 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
Daily Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
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...	1908