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| ET Comment | (2006) | 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 | |||
| Cork Examiner | (1912) | ECHO OF DISASTER : BOAT PICKED UP BODIES ON BOARD New York, Wednesday The White Star Line has received a marconigram from the Oceanic, dated May 13th, latitude 39.56, longitude 47.01, reporting that she had picked up a collapsible boat of the Titan... | 16th May 1912 | |||
| St. Paul Daily News | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER - Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T... | 17th May 1912 | |||
| ET Comment | (2006) | THE RECORD SPEAKS! In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ... | 13th December 2006 | |||
| (1912) | PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Erna Alexandra Andersson, 17, the daughter of Mr Anders Israelsson, was born in Finland. She lived in Kulla gard, Lovisa, Finland. Erna boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destinatio... | 1912 | ||||
| Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times | (1912) | ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| New York World | (1912) | LOOKOUT CLAIMS MURDOCH SHOT HIMSELF "As we stood there on Collapsible B, each man holding on to his neighbours shoulder fearful every moment that some lurch would send us off again into that icy water, two of the men I knew had been on watch in the crow's nest... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Worcestershire Chronicle | (1912) | FIRE UP HARD ''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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(2005) | OCEANIC White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following... | 11th July 2005 | |||
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ET Research | (1999) | PLUCKED FROM THE SEA? Survivors who claimed to having been in contact with the water. Name Comments ... | 11th July 1999 | ||
| LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo... | ||||||
| The Times | (1912) | THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale... | ||||||
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ET Research | (1999) | NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS When it comes to deciding how the survivors escaped the Titanic, there are often contradictory ideas / theories, e.g. Edwina Celia Troutt, who some people claim left in collapsible D, whereas others claim she was in boat 16. Edwina herself... | 11th July 1999 | ||
| Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser | (1912) | MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ... | 11th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| ET Comment | (2006) | SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i... | 5th December 2006 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO DOROTHY OCKENDEN Richmond County Country Club, N.Y.: ''Dear Dorothy (Ockenden), I was so pleased to receive your letter and to find you had not forgotten me. I had intended writing to you before but I was ashamed of my writing. You see ... | 9th May 1912 | ||||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight men, all Sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton with third class ticket #1601 at a cost of £56 9s 11d. Six of the men: Lee Bing, ... | ||||||
| Bridgwater Mercury | (1912) | T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ... | April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Christian Science Sentinel | (1912) | TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi... | October 1912 | |||
| ET Comment | (2006) | 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 | |||
| (1912) | BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th... | 1912 | ||||
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ET Research | (2008) | RHEIMS, LIGHTOLLER, AND THE OFFICER'S SUICIDE ENIGMA If the enigma of the "officer’s suicide" had been a work of fiction created by Rex Stout, creator of the legendary fictional sleuth Nero Wolfe, chances are Stout would have called it "Too Many Questions". For the q... | 14th October 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | HEARD DEATH CHORUS FOR OVER AN HOUR PARIS, April 19---Three French survivors---Fernand Omont, Pierre Marechal, son of the French Admiral, and Paul Chevre, the sculptor---jointly cabled to The Matin a graphic narrative of the Titanic disaster, in which they repeatedly insist that mor... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | MISS FUNK ONE OF THE DEAD Former House Secretary of the Local Y. W. C. A. Was on Titanic ---------- COMING FROM INDIA ---------- Was Missionary There and Intended Spending Part of Furlough in Paterson ---------- A large number... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1973) | COPY OF LETTER SENT BY MR. KNOWLES'S DAUGHTER Dear Cousin, What a pleasant surprise to receive your letter on November 22nd. I am Thomas Knowles's daughter. My father would have been 104 years old last May, therefore he would, I presume, be the ninth generation. I myse... | 28th November 1973 | ||||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti... | 5th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC In over 2000 pages of testimony at the two official inquiries into the sinking of Titanic, there are only three documented cases in which a gun was fired, however, only one was thoroughly investigated. This case involves Fifth Officer Harold ... | 30th July 2001 | ||
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Daily Telegraph | (1908) | 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 brought by M... | 1908 | ||
| Evening World | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng... | 20th April 1912 | |||
