Irish Steerage Passengers
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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 ... | |||||
| Joplin Independent | (2007) | TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION HOSTS IRISH FESTIVAL The Titanic Museum Attraction is hosting an Irish Festival on March 1-16, 2007 to honor the Irish passengers aboard the ill-fated luxury liner. ... | 5th March 2007 | |||
| ADDERGOOLE PARISH 2008 This view of Addergoole Parish Co Mayo Irish Republic, where fourteen steerage passengers left for RMS Titanic, was taken in May 2008 fro... | ||||||
| Western People | (1912) | AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Ann Arbor News | (2007) | GAELIC STORM OF 'TITANIC' FAME AT THE ARK Gaelic Storm, at The Ark tonight, can thank a movie about a famous shipwreck for providing a stepping stone to fame. Remember the lively Irish band that played for the steerage passengers in the 1997 movie "Titanic?'' That was Gaelic Storm.... | 3rd August 2007 | |||
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(1909) | DAVID CHARTERS Irish steerage passenger David Charters on a horse with a white star.... | 1909 | |||
| ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po... | ||||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Waterford News | (1912) | ASPERSION CAST ON FRANK DWAN AMONG THE TITANIC'S PASSENGERS One of the men connected with the alleged pilfering at Bonmahon mines is also stated to have been on the Titanic. ------ [Theft cases at Bonmahon copper mines occupied newspaper co... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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| Chicago American | (1912) | TITANIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS LEFT TO DIE, SAYS GIRL Fears are entertained by Dr. Thomas J. O’Malley, who is attending Miss Annie Kelly, the seventeen-year-old girl survivor of the Titanic, that she will never gain her normal condition as a result of her harrowing experiences when the sh... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | KARL MIDSTJO AND OTHERS ARE TO BE ASKED ABOUT RUMORS OF DISCRIMINATION Third cabin passengers on the lost Titanic who arrive in Chicago during the next few days will be met by representatives of the Immigrants’ Protective league and closely interrogated in regard to treatment received at the hands of officers a... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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Sunday Independent | (1912) | SUFFERERS BOTH By the terrible disaster to the "Titanic", both America and Ireland have been plunged into the most profound grief. The Irish names were many in the list of passengers; in the list of survivors they are painfully few. ... | 21st April 1912 | ||
| Chicago Evening Post | (1912) | ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Coventry Standard | (1912) | IRISH PRIESTS LOST Amongst various stories of church services after the disaster, Roman Catholic priest of St Mary’s Church in Coventry; on Sunday morning Reverend R. F. Rea said in church that amongst those lost were two Irish priests and a number of Catholics belongi... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Branson Courier | (2009) | TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction.... | 9th March 2009 | |||
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(1912) | TITANIC POSTCARD FROM ONE SURVIVOR TO ANOTHER From Eugene Daly (uileann piper) to Bertha Mulvihill, his fellow Irish steerage passenger. Addressed to Miss [Bertha] Mulvihill City Hospital, Providence, R. I. [Rhode Island[ Postmarked Brooklyn, New York, August... | 20th August 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | 3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00... | 10th May 1907 | |||
| The Times | (1918) | THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning.... | 20th July 1918 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1912) | SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | FEAR ELIZABETH FOLK WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC ELIZABETH, April 17---Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, is fearful that his two brothers, Ernest and Robert, were among those lost on the steamship Titanic. Mr. Peacock's wife and two children were also passengers on the boat, but it is p... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES By Jon Reeve MILLVINA Dean, the last survivor of Titanic, died today at the age of 97.Miss Dean was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Sou... | 31st May 2009 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | ARTHUR KEEFE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD THE TITANIC New York Papers This Morning Give His Name In List of Passengers Embarking at Southampton ---------- FEAR HE IS AMONG MISSING ---------- His Sister in East Rahway Feels That He Met His Fate When The Ill Starred Vessel Sank... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| (1913) | DOROTHY GIBSON: STAR STYLE Model and actress Dorothy Gibson and her mother, Pauline C. Gibson, filed suit against the White Star Line for recovery of property they lost on Titanic. Their damage claims were fairly modest, compared to other female petitioners, amounting to $2,38... | 31st January 1913 | ||||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| THE ADDERGOOLE PARISH LOSS John Bourke, his wife Katherine, his sister Mary, Honora Fleming and Mary Mangan were from the townland of Carrowskeheen (quarter land of the little bush), Lahardane, Addergoole Parish, Co Mayo, Irish Republic. All perished. Data from the 1911 cen... | ||||||
| Chicago American | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1889) | THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ... | 20th January 1889 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | STEERAGE VICTIM LIVED HERE Friends Are Taking up Fund for Relief of the Widow of Nathan Goldsmith --- Nathan Goldsmith was lost when the Titanic went down, his wife believes. She lives at 2017 S. 7th st. She heard from Goldsmith three weeks ago. H... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LOST FATHER IN SHIP; HAS MENTAL COLLAPSE JERSEY CITY, April 19---The police found it necessary yesterday to take care of Frederick Myles, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., is among the lost passengers of the Titanic. Young Miles appeared to be under s... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Record Herald | (1912) | NONE PICKED UP CELTIC General Passenger Agent Jeffries of the White Star Line today denied the report that an officer and woman steerage passenger of the Titanic were picked up by the Celtic, which arrived in this city on Saturday morning, as related in a dispatch last... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | 95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ... | 12th July 2006 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | BOUND FOR BELMAR; SINK WITH TITANIC BELMAR, April 10---Engwell and Conrad Hugwell, brothers, bound for here from Sweden, went down among the steerage passengers with the liner Titanic. The two men were coming to Belmar to work in the local fisheries where two other brothers are now em... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com... | 8th March 1907 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 276. (Irish). Unmarried woman, 23 years old, coming to live with her sister in New Jersey, was severely injured. ($50).... | 1913 | ||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1997) | UNKNOWN TITLE Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b... | 1997 | |||
| Ottawa Citizen | (1912) | SYRIAN WOMAN'S THRILLING NARRATIVE Ship's Officers Fired into Steerage: Panic Amid Rush for Lifeboats Mariana Assaff says Ten People on Doomed Ship were Bound for Ottawa but Two survive. ...How Mrs. Assaf views the Horror and Catastrophe of Her Rescue. "Mariana Assaf a... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Evening Post | (1912) | DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Sunday Press | (1952) | TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR Sunday Press: Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r... | 21st September 1952 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| ET Research | (2005) | MAGGIE MADIGAN - AN IRISH IMMIGRANT'S DREAMS UNFULFILLED ... | 1st January 2005 | |||
| Irish Independent | (2006) | IRISH TITANIC LETTER UP FOR AUCTION A LETTER on ship's stationery, written by Ireland's only first-class passenger on the Titanic, is expected to fetch more than €50,000 when it is auctioned next month.... | 21st August 2006 | |||
| Irish Independent | (2009) | TITANIC'S LAST PORT OF CALL HONOURS VICTIMS THE 97TH anniversary of the sinking of the legendary liner Titanic will be commemorated at a special ceremony in the Irish town that was the doomed ship's last port of call.... | 11th April 2009 | |||
| Galesburg Evening Mail | (1912) | TELLS OF RESCUE FROM TITANIC Frank Kurun of Galesburg Tells How He Saved Himself and Daughter WAS IN A BOAT FIRST PICKED UP Jumped from Lower Deck Into Life Boat As It Was Being Lowered His Brother Drowned Frank Kurun,... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Daily Mail | (2009) | LAST SURVIVING PASSENGER OF THE TITANIC MILLVINA DEAN DIES AGED 97 The Titanic's last surviving passenger has died today at the age of 97.Millvina Dean, who was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912, died in the early hours of this morning after being cared for at a Southampton nursing... | 31st May 2009 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | GIRL VICTIM OF TITANIC NEAR DEATH; GOT ONLY $25 Margaret McGowan, in Chicago, Tells How official of Line Gave Her “Recompense” Margaret McGowan, one of the few steerage passengers who started for America on the Titanic and reached here, is at the home... | 25th April 1912 | |||
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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. ... | |||||
| Tampabay.com | (2008) | THIS MOLLY IS STILL UNSINKABLE Long before Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin was born, a gal from Missouri was shattering glass ceilings of her own.Molly Brown, the child of Irish immigrants, married a lucky gold prospector in 1886 and came into money. But it was her unlikely survival of the Titanic disaster in 1912 that made her famous.... | 30th September 2008 | |||
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COBH MEMORIAL Memorial to all Irish emigrants at Cobh (formerly Queenstown), the memorial is accompanied by a plaque to those that lost their lives in the Titanic disaster.... | |||||
| Western People | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER The lamentation, mourning, and woe for the ill-fated Titanic shall rise in hundreds of sorrow-stricken hearts for at least half a century. In a little while and its unparalleled awfulness shall be well nigh forgotten by the world at large --shall be ... | 11th May 1912 | |||
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ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR This anchor was fashioned following the disaster by Irish AB William McCarthy, of Cork, who was saved in lifeboat 4. McCarthy was praised for his heroism by Mrs Walter Miller Clark, who said he had conducted himself "most commendably." ... | |||||
| The Mayo News | (2007) | ¢€ËœTITANIC' SAILS FOR BALLINROBE BALLINROBE Musical Society are preparing to take on their biggest challenge to date, with the staging of the Irish premiere of the epic musical ¢€ËœTitanic' this February.... | 3rd October 2007 | |||
| Dive | (2007) | CARPATHIA SURVEYED A British-led team of technical divers has successfully completed a survey of the Titanic's rescue ship, the Carpathia, which lies at 160m in the north Atlantic. The team, led by Ric Waring and including Rich Stevenson and Jeff Cornish, penetrated the wreck situated 200 miles from the Irish Coast... | 1st November 2007 | |||
| Whittier Daily News | (2010) | TAKE A TRIP ON THE TITANIC Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she went to sea (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank.... | 28th February 2010 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 378. (Irish). A housemaid, 26 years of age, returning from a visit to Ireland, was lost, leaving dependent parents in Ireland. This Committee refunded to a brother in New York $50 of the money advanced to his sister for passage, which he ... | 1913 | ||||
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MARY CANAVAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Mary Canavan attended Massbrook School in Addergoole Parish. She was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage at Queenstown (now Cobh). ... | |||||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Evening World | (1912) | HEROIC PRIESTS GAVE UP LIVES TO QUIET CROWDS Went Down on Titanic With Men and Women Grouped About Them. ------------- ALL CREEDS IN PRAYER ------------- Three Girl Survivors Tell How They Chose Death to S... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1956) | TV: LAST HOURS OF TITANIC Tense, Technically Brilliant Portrayal of Tragedy on Kraft Show --- By JACK GOULD --- A technically brilliant re-enactment of the last hours of the Titanic was presented last night on the "Kraft Television Theatre" over Ch... | 29th March 1956 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe... | 25th April 1912 | |||
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(1879) | MARY BOURKE - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Mary Bourke attended Rathkell School in the Parish of Addergoole. She was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage... | 29th May 1879 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SURVIVOR VISITS MONTCLAIR One of the survivors of the Titanic, Miss Edwina Trout, of Bath, England, is the guest of Miss Jennie Holwell, of 209 Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair. “I can never forget the experience,” said Miss Trout today. “As we pulled away fro... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Manchester Evening News | (2007) | DIVE TO TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP A SALFORD fireman has led the world's first successful dive to the wreck of a ship which steamed to the rescue of the Titanic.A 10-strong amateur dive team led by Ric Waring entered the record books by reaching the wreck and then salvaged artefacts from RMS Carpathia, which sits on the bottom of the north Atlantic some 500ft below the surface, 200 miles from the Irish coast.... | 19th September 2007 | |||
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SHRINE TO THOMAS KILGANNON A family shrine to Irish victim Thomas Kilgannon, including locks of his hair and a number of differing memorial cards which record his death by drowning in the RMS Titanic disaster. Retained by his nephew. Kilgannon left a lock of his hair behind hi... | |||||
| MKKZ | (1987) | UNTITLED 'In the Titanic were two Catholic priests: Professor Byles, an Irish man [sic], who wanted to act in the marriage of his brother and his bride and a German monk (Padre). They helped women and children, climbing into the boats. The people on the last ... | 12th April 1987 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | AWAIT COMING OF CARPATHIA WITH RESCUED Relatives of Titanic Passengers Here Grief-Stricken Because of Suspense. ---------- SISTER OF ENGINEER SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK ---------- Almost crazed by grief and anxiety over the fate of relatives who are known to have be... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Irish Independent | (2007) | COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912.... | 15th August 2007 | |||
| Evanston Daily News | (1912) | MARY HEWLETT - SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE Mrs. Mary Hewlitt, of Lucknow, India, Was Rescued From the Disabled Craft, Gives Description of Disaster Was Traveling Alone Woman Stops Here At Home of J. L. Hebblet... | 25th April 1912 | |||
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(1878) | JOHN BOURKE - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY John Bourke attended Rathkell School in Addergoole Parish. He was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage... | 24th September 1878 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THREE BRAVE OFFICERS Dr. O'Loughlin and Pursers McElroy and Barker on Honor Roll --- In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers. Three men who lost their lives were well known to... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | THOMAS FOLEY'S BROTHER GONE Thomas Foley, 3157 Harrison street, a street car conductor, a well built young man, with an unspoiled Irish burr in his speech, called to ask if the ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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The Times | (1912) | ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC The Corsican's Injuries As announced in the later editions of the Times of yesterday, the Allan liner Corsican struck an iceberg at 4pm on Monday (August 12, 1912). The vessel was at the time about 120 miles east of Belle Isle, and was... | 14th August 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 | |||
| BASIC STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER 324 1st class passengers, 201 survived. 277 2nd class passengers, 118 survived. 708 3rd class passengers, 181 survived 885 crewmembers, 212 survived 13 postmen/musicians, none lived. Grand total: 2,207 on board, 712 s... | ||||||
| North American | (1912) | WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Herald | (1912) | SILENCE ENJOINED ON MANY SURVIVORS Officers of the Titanic Taken from the Carpathia Secretly by Third Class Passengers' Gangway Mrs. Antoinette Fliggenheim, who would not give her address, but friends who met her at the pier said she was Philadelphia, made the statemen... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | PRIEST GIVES AWAY A LIFEBELT OFFERED HIM Special Service of the NEWS WHIPPANY, April 23---More about the heroism of Rev. Thomas R. Byles, of England, who lost his life on the Titanic, was told yesterday by his brother William, of Brooklyn, who was a guest of Father Clifford, ... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1912) | DR. DODGE'S WIFE TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK Reaches Home with Husband and Son after Terrible Experience at Sea. Seated in the library of her home on Washington street, amid a profusion of flowers sent by friends to express their welcome home, Mrs. Washington Dodge again told th... | 30th April 1912 | |||
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Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS Titanic Survivor Got $25 Damages From White Star Line Chicago, April 25 — Annie Kelly, a young Irish girl, a Titanic survivor, for a consideration of $25 was forced to sign a waiver of damages by agents of the White Star Line, according to... | 25th April 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN IN PARIS London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi... | 6th January 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1974) | HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ... | 6th November 1974 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | LOSS OF THE TITANIC. Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c... | 25th May 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1912) | DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS White Star First Class Passengers During the last year the White Star Line carried 21,600 first class passengers from European ports to America, and 21,314 from America to Europe, the largest numbers taken by any British or Continental... | 26th January 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1898) | PIRRIE BECOMES FIRST HONORARY BURGESS OF BELFAST BELFAST, JULY 24 Mr. W. J. Pirrie, High Sheriff of county Antrim, and ex-Lord Mayor of the city, entertained at Ormiston on Thursday the Judges of Assize, Lord Chief Baron Palles and Lord Justice... | 25th July 1898 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | CAMBORNE AND REDRUTH PASSENGERS There were no passengers on Titanic from Camborne, and only one from Redruth. Mr Frank Andrew (30 years), of Pencoys, who is missing. He leaves a wife (Rhoda) and one child (Lucy) at Pencoys. ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1959) | MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr... | 4th November 1959 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ... | ||||||
| The Times | (1958) | 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Semi Weekly Iowegian | (1912) | MYSTIC MAN LOSES WIFE AND CHILDREN - MRS. FRANK LEFEBRE COMING ON TITANIC FROM FRANCE REPORTED AMONG THOSE MISSING Frank Lefebre, of Mystic, has almost given away to despair of ever seeing his wife and four children who were on board the ill fated Titanic. They were coming from France to join him after separation of a year while he worked hard in the mines to ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT H. B. Stephenson, one of the Survivors, who, it was said, is attached to the Swedish legation at Washington, made the following statement: "At the time of the collision a Mr. Woolner and myself were seated in the cafe. There was only a ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The New York Times | (1909) | ADRIATIC GOT ON A MUD BANK White Star Liner Stuck Fast Five Hours Till a Tug Hauled Her Off --- The big White Star Line steamship Adriatic, incoming with many cabin passengers, spent five hours early yesterday morning on a mud bank on the so... | 5th November 1909 | |||
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(2005) | BULGARIA (aka Canada, Hercules, Philippines,Drachtenstein) Hamburg-Amerika Line On Tuesday, April 9, while traveling westbound Hamburg-Southampton-Baltimore, received a wireless message from the Caledonia ... | 24th June 2005 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | REPORT LOSS OF 5 PERSONS COMING HERE Two Women Only Ones of Reniff Party on Titanic Believed Saved ---------- FAMILY OF BENJAMIN PEACOCK UNACCOUNTED FOR ---------- There is mourning in several Elizabeth households to-day, as a result of the loss of the Titan... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THOSE WHO SAW THE RESCUE Carpathia's Passengers, Who Were Bound for Mediterranean, Back. The passengers on the Carpathia, whose trip to the Mediterranean was interrupted to aid those saved from the Titanic, are: Rev. R. B. Anderson, Baltimore,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) | SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes... | |||||
| The Armenian Weekly | (2009) | SURVIVING THE TITANIC: THE SAGA OF DAVIT VARTANIAN Davit (David) Vartanian was one of five young Armenian men making their way to the Free World for freedom, opportunity, and to earn money to send to loved ones back home in Tzermag, Keghi in Historic Armenia. Their misfortune was that as third-cla... | 11th August 2009 | |||
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(1909) | LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909... | 1909 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt... | 10th January 1907 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | A TENDER NAMED AMERICA ... | 13th February 2001 | |||
| Kenosha Telegraph-Courier | MRS. HANSON IS HOME MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________ ... | |||||
| New York Times | (1918) | CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED 215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N... | 20th July 1918 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | SOME ARMENIAN VICTIMS Mr G.Hagoian writes from 25, Chesilton Road, Fulham:- In the disaster to the Titanic Armenia has furnished more than her quota of unfortunate passengers. Six Armenians from Keghi, travelling to Marseilles, had proceeded to Cherbourg and t... | 13th May 1912 | |||
| ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW 'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a... | ||||||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | SUFFERED IN TITANIC HORROR, IS PAID $25 Girl Says She Signed Waiver of Further Damages While Semiconscious Twenty-five dollars is the estimate put on the damages suffered by one survivor of the Titanic... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | (2009) | VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from £2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 ki... | 8th October 2009 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Press Association | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN : YOUNGEST PASSENGER, LAST SURVIVOR LONDON - Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic.Dean lived to become the disaster'... | 1st June 2009 | |||
| Salt Lake Tribune | (1912) | FEAR PROVO WOMAN DISASTER VICTIM Page 3 Special to The Tribune PROVO, April 1900 Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no word had been received in this city of the fate of Mrs. Irene C. Corbett who is supposed to have been a passenger on the Titanic when it... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ... | 24th January 1912 | |||
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Excelsior | (1912) | PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS The French paper Excelsior dedicated its 17 April issue to the sinking of the Titanic. They published the pictures of many famous passengers (Mme Aubart, JJ Astor and Madeleine Astor), but also: (1) J.B. Ismay, (2) Countess of Rothes, (3) Lord Ashbur... | 17th April 1912 | ||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Hampshire Observer | (1912) | WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec... | 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | RESCUED UNION HILL GIRL'S STORY A story entirely different from that of those rescued from the Titanic is told by Miss Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill. When seen at her home last night Miss Dowdell was very emphatic in telling about the treatment received on board ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Evening Post | (1912) | CHICAGO HEARS ECHO OF NEW TITANIC WOE French Miner From Iowa Arrives Here and Learns Wife and Children Were Lost With the Liner Sons Ignorant of Wreck Passengers at Union Station Take Up Collec... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | UNION HILL WOMAN SAYS BAND DIDN'T PLAY ON TITANIC ---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell Heard Only the Cries and Sobs of the Passengers as the White Star Liner Went Down at Sea ---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell, 30 years old, of 215 Park avenue, Union Hill, one of the Tit... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(2004) | DUKE OF ALBANY (F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m... | 31st October 2004 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1987) | UNTITLED EXTRACT Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ... | 1987 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | W. HULL BOTSFORD, OF ORANGE, MAY BE LOST W. Hull Botsford. of Orange, is believed to be among the second cabin passengers on the Titanic who were lost. Mr. Botsford has been touring in Europe since early in February, and although he was not expected home before the end of the month, the nam... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand | (1890) | ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o... | 31st January 1890 | |||
| Irish Independent | (2009) | 'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR By ALISON O'RIORDANSunday April 26 2009An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. ... | 29th April 2009 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD PIRRIE TO RETIRE His Harland & Wolff Interests Sold to Brown & Co., Report Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, March 13---It is reported from Belfast on good authority that Lord Pirrie has intimated his intention not o... | 14th March 1912 | |||
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ADDERGOOLE TITANIC MEMORIAL The Addergoole Titanic Society erected this memorial in St Patrick’s Church, Lahardane, Addergoole, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on... | |||||
| (2005) | EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec... | 8th December 2005 | ||||
| ET Research | (2007) | CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD AFTER the Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th April, 1912 the sea around the site was littered with the flotsam and jetsam of the liner. Among the broken decking, furniture and fittings were hundreds of bodies floating around. Eac... | 31st March 2007 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY . . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1959) | MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi... | 4th October 1959 | |||
| New York Herald | (1912) | WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Among the passengers of the Titanic was Mr. Charles Whilems, 31, a foreman in the employ of Messrs. Robinson King’s glass works, London. Mr. Whilems was taking the trip in order to visit some relatives in New York, and intended returning to London b... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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Irish Independent | (2004) | 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 | ||
| ANNIE MCGOWAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Annie McGowan attended ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Charleroi Mail | (1912) | MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER. SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Irish Independent | (2009) | 'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR By Alison O'RiordanSunday April 26 2009An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. ... | 26th April 2009 | |||
| ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t... | ||||||
| Rockford Register Star | (1997) | TITANIC SURVIVOR HAD ROCKFORD CONNECTION Dagmar Bryhl: The young woman from Sweden was on the ocean liner with her brother and her fiancé to visit relatives in Rockford. By David Shultz Rockford Register Star. Rockford's connection to the Titanic spent less th... | 21st December 1997 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC [The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| UTV | (2006) | HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912.... | 16th May 2006 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER Save this Document Titanic's... | 14th February 2001 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| THE ROSSENDALE BARD FROM ADDERGOOLE Andrew Houston was born in Doonbreedia in the parish of Addergoole, Lahardane, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on 1st May 1849, and would have attended Rathkell National School w... | ||||||
| ELOPEMENT Mr Denis Lennon and Mary Mullin were actually eloping to the United States together, hence the shroud of secrecy and the reason why the two are listed as brother and sister. The truth is Denis found a job as barman in the Mullin family's ... | ||||||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La... | 12th July 1913 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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ADDERGOOLE'S ANNUAL RINGING OF THE TIMONEY BELL The Timoney Bell was erected by the renowned Addergoole Irish scholar, Míchéal Ó Tiomanaidhe (Michael Timoney) in the 1930’s in St Patrick’s Church grounds, Lahardane. In days past... | |||||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | STEWARDESSES INTERVIEWED Shortly before the special train steamed out of the docks, two of the stewardesses who are returning to their homes – Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Martin – granted a brief interview, in which they narrated their experiences. They were first-class stewardesses ... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | TITANIC ARRIVES AT CHERBOURG. 274 additional passengers embark, 22 disembark.... | 10th April 1912 | ||||
| Exeter Flying Post | (1912) | DEVONIANS ON BOARD Passengers: Plymouth: Mrs. Quick and two children (saved). ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Republican | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR, MILLVINA DEAN, WILL BE MISSED BY SPRINGFIELD-BASED TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY By RAY KELLY rkelly@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Millvina Dean kept a low profile about her connection to one of the world's most well known disasters until she was urged into the media spotlight by the Indian Orchard-based Titanic Historical Society.... | 3rd June 2009 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Daily Journal (Vineland, N.J., U.S.A.) | (2009) | EXTRA-BIG LESSON AT V'LAND SCHOOL Third graders research and imitate Titanic passengers.... | 21st April 2009 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | LIST OF WASHINGTONIANS ON FATED STEAMER GROWS As the list of passengers sailing from Southampton on the Titanic last Wednesday is made more complete, the list of Washingtonians known to have been on board grows larger. The list now contains the names of five Washingtonians who make this city the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3) Titles "Elevators and grand stair cases afford easy access from deck to deck "Dancing is an evening pastime on every voyage." "The smoking room is an apartment of much elegance, with the atmosphere and servcie of a metropolitan club. ... | ||||||
| (1912) | TITANIC ARRIVES AT QUEENSTOWN 113 additional passengers embark. Seven disembark and one crew member deserts.... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | ONLY ONE OF IRISH PARTY BOUND FOR CHICAGO LIVES Of the five members of a party that included the Burke family, who left Castlebar, Ireland, to come to America, there was only one aboard the Carpathia when it crept up to its dock in New York. She was Annie Kelly, 16 years old. Her si... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital... | 15th May 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS” Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t... | 24th December 1912 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | (1912) | HOPE FOR THE SAFETY OF MISSING PASSENGERS BULLETIN New York, April 17 (Wednesday), 1:30 A.M.---A vague hope for the safety of some of the missing passengers was given last night by the captain of the tramp steamer Ultonia, whic... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | THE TITANIC MCCOYS Save this Document My story of the Titanic McCoys begins in the aftermath of James Cameron's blockbuster movie,... | 28th January 2001 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [The preceeding paragrpahs of this article can be found through the summary pages for the Renouf/Jefferys family, the Carter family and the Peacock family, in that order.] From early this morning when the first dispatches began to come... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Weekly Irish Times | (1912) | 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| Washington Post | (1974) | THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le... | 9th January 1974 | |||
| The Times | (1918) | THE LOSS OF RMS LEINSTER THE SUNK IRISH PACKET DEATH ROLL 451 STERN PROTEST BY MR BALFOUR Further details of the loss of the Royal Mail steamer Leinster, the torpedoing of which was announced yesterday, emphases the ... | 12th October 1918 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Free Press | (1912) | WEST BROMWICH MEN MISSING Among the passengers were the following West Bromwich people, who were on their way to America: Alfred Davies (24), of Harwood Street, West Bromwich: John Davies (22), of the same address; Joseph Davies (17) of the same address; James Lester (39) ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Bournemouth Echo | (1912) | A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e... | 1912 | |||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | (1912) | THE LOCAL PASSENGERS The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ... | 15th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPITAL RESIDENTS IN NEW YORK FOR CARPATHIA'S COMING Anxious for News From Friends Aboard the Titanic --- With barely one thread of hope that three of the Washingtonians who sailed from Southampton on the ill-fated Titanic a week ago yesterday are still alive, a party of Washingtonians to... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | ALL SAFE AFTER COLLISION This article published on 15 April 1912 headlined that 'Both passengers and crew are safe'... | 15th April 1912 | ||
| Evanston Daily News | (1912) | NO EVANSTONIANS ABOARD There were no Evanstonians aboard the ship. Arthur Ryerson and family, formerly of Lake Forest and well known in local social circles were among the passengers. All are reported saved except Mr. Ryerson. Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and daughter Jean... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The New York Times | (1901) | PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED [Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner... | 8th September 1901 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | TELLS OF WOMEN PULLING AT OARS Page 1 Youngstown Woman Relates Story of Escape from Sinking Titanic Men Tire and Passengers Row Boats to Safety From Disaster From reports received from the steamer Carpathia when it docked at New York ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Post | (1912) | ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Akron Beacon Journal | (1912) | MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A. ------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | BAYONNE MAN SAVED, HOBOKEN BOY LOST Joy and Sorrow in Hudson County Homes---Son of Victim Temporarily Insane from Grief ---------- With the latest revision of the lists of saved and lost from the Titanic disaster, joy and sorrow were brought to several ho... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (2009) | 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 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED Lord Mersey, the specially appointed Commissioner of Wrecks to enquire into the loss of the White Star Liner Titanic, on Tuesday delivered the finding of the Court. The attendance at the London-Scottish Hall, Westminster, where the in... | 3rd August 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t... | 18th June 1911 | |||
| Concord Enterprise | (1912) | MRS. J. MURRAY BROWN "Among the passengers o the Titanic was Mrs. J. Murray Brown, widow of the late J. Murray Brown, and mother of Mrs. George S. Keyes of Concord. Mrs. Brown went to England in the early part of March, accompanied by her sisters, Mrs. E. D. A... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| LA Times | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the legendary ocean liner Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, died today. She was 97.She died at a nursing home near Southampton... | 31st May 2009 | |||
| ET Research | (2007) | 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 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA By the Associated Press GIVES RESCUED AS 705 Boston Man On Franconia Reports Communicating With Carpathia NEW YORK, April 17.-... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ... | ||||||
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(2005) | TITANIC MEMORIAL IN GREECE Memorial for the Greek victims of the Titanic tragedy... | 6th October 2005 | |||
| Boston Globe | (1912) | OTHERS OF REPUTED WEALTH Among the others of reputed wealth who were on board are Christopher Head a London barrister and one of the senior member of Lloyds, underwriters, was among the passengers.... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Le Matin | (1912) | MISSING: ASTOR AND STEAD Two famous anglo-saxon passengers: Stead and Astor.... | 17th April 1912 | ||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | FROM WESTCOUNTRY - FURTHER PERSONAL DETAILS It was reported yesterday at Okehampton that amongst the missing passengers in the third class list of the Titanic was John Lovell, son of John Lovell (farmer) of Northlew.... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| msnbc.com | (2009) | "TITANIC" STARS HELP SHIPWRECK'S LAST SURVIVOR LOS ANGELES - The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is getting a hand from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.The 'Titanic' stars, along with director James Cameron, have contributed to a $30,000 fund for Millvina Dean, ... | 11th May 2009 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | WALTER PORTER AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC Miss. Carrie Endres Sister of Worcester Man Also on Board Lost Liner When The Telegram informed Mrs. Albert J. Gifford, 9 King street last night that the 318(?) saloon passengers on the wrecked Titanic had been reported saved and would... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. DESHLER HEARS HER SISTER-IN-LAW IS SAFE; NO WORD FROM BROTHER "God grant that my brother, too, is safe," said Mrs. Frances Silvey Deshler of the Wilmington apartments Wyoming avenue northwest, when told today by a Times' reporter that her sister-in-law, Mrs. William B. Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., was among the pa... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Unknown | (1912) | LEST WE FORGET by Marie G. Young - A Survivor of the Titanic Miss Marie G. Young, Former Music Teacher at the White House, Rescued From the Titanic, Describes the Sufferings of Some of the Survivors Six months have elapsed since the ... | 1912 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER It is feared that Rev. E. C. Carter and Mrs. Carter, of St. Jude’s, Whitechapel, are among the lost passengers. The rev. gentleman was a brother of the Rector of St. Mary Arches, Exeter, and was taking a holiday. Mrs. Carter was a niece of Mrs. E. ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | UNTITLED On Sabbath last the preacher in the Baptist Church - The Rev. D. Merrick Walker paid a high tribute to the Rev. John Harper, whose name appears among the list of missing passengers of the Titanic. A man of deep spiritual insight, and whose sole aim w... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | 50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA New York, April 19.- Mrs. C.F. Crane of Fort Sheridan, Ill, a passenger on the Carpathia, today gave this graphic account of the Carpathia's thrilling race with death. She said that news of the disaster had become known to the passengers on board the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | OTHER PASSENGERS Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger... | 5th March 1910 | |||
| (2009) | NOVELIST POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH TITANIC BOOK June 2009 - Vineland, N.J. - In an ambitious first novel, author W. Mae Kent accomplishes a literary feat that has never been attempted before: she tells the story of the only black passenger traveling on the ill-fated Titanic. While Kent’s ... | 9th September 2009 | ||||
| Chatham, Rochester, and Gillingham News | (1912) | LIFE INSURANCE ''The life insurance's on lost passengers must also represent a very high figure. Mr. Christopher Head, recently Mayor of Chelsea and himself an underwriter at Lloyds, is reported lost; he was insured against accident during his trip to America fo... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | THE HERO’S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Among the passengers on the Titanic were Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cavendish of London, and their two children. Mrs. Cavendish is a daughter of Henry Siegel, President of the Simpson-Crawford Company. She was making the trip here to visit her father at his ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Daily Mirror | (1912) | CHARLES VALENTINE CLARKE AND HIS WIFE, ADA MARIA CLARKE The Daily Mirror, April 19, 1912, Page 5 Caption: Mr. C. V. Clarke, one of the second-class passengers who is missing, and his wife, who is reported to have been saved. ... | 19th April 1912 | ||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Richard Nosworthy, son of Mr J Nosworthy, Fisher Road, Newton Abbot, was going to Canada to join friends there. He was to have sailed in the Olympic, but through disorganised train services he missed that boat and joined Titanic.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Independent | (2007) | TITANIC RESCUE SHIP YIELDS UP ITS TREASURE Almost a century after it steamed to the rescue of the stricken Titanic, saving the lives of more than 700 stranded passengers, and 89 years after it was sunk, the wreckage of the RMS Carpathia has finally been explored, yielding precious artefacts. ... | 16th September 2007 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | JERSEY CITY MAN HEARS FATHER AND SISTER ARE SAFE Among the passengers aboard the ill-fated steamer Titanic were MissGertrude Myles, of 266 Grove street, Jersey City, and her father,Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., who was her companion on a trip toLondon. Frederick Myles... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVORS TELL DRAMATIC STORY OF SEA'S GREATEST DISASTER IN HISTORY --------------- Union Hill Woman Relates Her Experience, and How She Saved Child--Pathetic Meeting of Little One By Grandparents When the Carpathia Docked--Many Describe Mournful Scenes of Rescue and Picture Graphically the Going Down of the ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | THRILLING STORIES BY TITANIC’S SAVED; TEN ON WAY TO ELIZABETH LOSE LIVES ELIZABETH WOMAN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, TELLS OF TRAGEDY ---------- Mrs. Peter Reniff, Only Rescued Member of Local Party of Eight, Gives to Journal Story of Most Appalling Calamity in History of Navigation--Peacock Party Lost -------... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | THRILLING STORIES BY TITANIC’S SAVED; TEN ON WAY TO ELIZABETH LOSE LIVES ELIZABETH WOMAN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, TELLS OF TRAGEDY ---------- Mrs. Peter Reniff, Only Rescued Member of Local Party of Eight, Gives to Journal Story of Most Appalling Calamity in History of Navigation--Peacock Party Lost -------... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1955) | THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912 A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. By Walter Lord. Illustrated. 209 pp. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $3.50. By BURKE WILKINSON The night which Walter Lord reconjures for us in tense and telling detail is the night of April 14, 1912. It... | 20th November 1955 | |||
| FOXNews.com | (2009) | AMERICAN RESEARCHERS DISPUTE CLAIMS OF 'POLITE' TITANIC VICTIMS American researchers are firing back at a Swiss university researcher's report that 'politeness' led to the deaths of 225 British passengers aboard the Titanic.... | 23rd January 2009 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ... | 9th May 1913 | |||
| The Plain Dealer | (2007) | AKRON MAN'S FIRM BUYS TITANIC RESCUE SHIP Akron businessman Joe Marsh's company has bought the ownership rights to the wreckage of the Carpathia, the steamship famous for rescuing hundreds of passengers after the Titanic sank in 1912, for $3 million. ... | 13th March 2007 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Halifax, April 16—Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless s... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Statesman Journal | (2009) | MOBILE MUSEUM TO SHOW TITANIC ITEMS "Titanic: Treasures From the Deep," a new mobile museum featuring artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic, will appear Thursday through Sunday at Lancaster Mall. Admission will be free.The tour will highlight the story of t... | 13th May 2009 | |||
| Peninsula News Review | (2007) | TITANIC RELICS WANTED The Royal BC Museum is looking for British Columbians with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard the Titanic 95 years ago. With just six weeks until the April 14 opening of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, the RBCM is collecting local links to the historic liner.... | 10th March 2007 | |||
| The Independent | (1875) | THE PERILS OF PASSENGERS ANOTHER very terrible wreck of an iron steamship has been reported and a loss of human lives has been the consequence, which must cause a shudder to the intending passengers to Europe this season. The unfortunate ship was the "Vicksburg"... | 24th June 1875 | |||
| The Washington Post | (1912) | RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Sun | (2008) | POSSESSIONS OF TITANIC LIFESAVER THIS is the first picture of Titanic hero Edmund Stone - and the possessions recovered from his body.Steward Edmund, 33, used the master key to enter first-class cabins and alert sleeping passengers as the ship began to sink.... | 9th October 2008 | |||
| Worcester News | (2008) | JUMP ON BOARD FOR FUN TITANIC PARTY THE 10-course meal enjoyed by passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic will be recreated for an end-of-summer party at a Worcestershire pub. Staff from the Swan in Birlingham, near Pershore, have turned a copy of the original menu from the evening the ship went down into a buffet-style spread.... | 4th September 2008 | |||
| 9NEWS.com | (2009) | TITANIC TREASURES ON VIEW FOR FREE BROOMFIELD‚ - Two metro area shopping malls, along with Country Financial have teamed up to offer a free historic exhibit for the public.Titanic, Treasures of the Deep is a traveling exhibit that is in the Denver area for the next two wee... | 29th April 2009 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. HARVEY COLLYER Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Collyer and their little daughter. Mother and daughter saved; Mr. Collyer missing. Mr. Collyer's parents live in Leatherhead, Surrey. Leatherhead passengers One taken and two left. Among the passengers were Mr. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | (2006) | RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP Return for 'living history' ship [Photo] The Nomadic took passengers out to the TitanicThe ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought b... | 5th July 2006 | |||
| Brighton Argus | (1912) | FORMER MAYOR OF CHELSEA ''The passengers included Mr. Christopher Head, a former Mayor of Chelsea, director of Henry Head and Co. (Limited), insurance brokers and underwriters, and son of the late Mr. Head, J.P., who resided at Buckingham, Shoreham.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Irish News | (2009) | MILLVINA PURSUED BY COMPELLING STORY OF DISASTER Rescued from the stricken ?€˜Titanic' as a baby, Millvina Dean has been pursued by the ship's compelling story ever since. Now a special fund is helping to make a great survivor's future more secure. The 97-year-old talks to FIONOLA MEREDITH... | 21st May 2009 | |||
| (2006) | THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ... | 21st July 2006 | ||||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | UNKNOWN TITLE Other Cornish passengers were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman, who were going to Chicago. Mr. Chapman, a son of Mr. Chapman, Carpuan Farm, St. Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at h... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | GIANT SHIPS SOON TO JOIN THE ATLANTIC FLEET Olympic and Titanic, Carrying 5,000 People---12,000 Tons Heavier, 50 Feet Longer Than Any Ship Afloat VISITORS to the commercial capital of Ireland by way of the Victoria Channel through Belfast Lough for the first time ca... | 12th December 1909 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank.... | 22nd April 2009 | |||
| Andover Townsman | (2007) | ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15.... | 9th November 2007 | |||
| Atlanta Journal Constitution | (2008) | GEORGIA AQUARIUM: IS TITANIC HAUNTED? No one noticed activity by passengers and crew when the Titanic artifact exhibit was in Miami, but there have been some strange happenings at the exhibit in the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Experts were brought in to check it out.... | 27th October 2008 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS Mr. Frank Andrew, a young married man, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, about 3 miles from Redruth en route to America to seek his fortune - his first trip across the seas - by the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Andrew has a wife and one child, age ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| News Letter | (2008) | SPECIAL TOURS AS NOMADIC RENOVATION PROCEEDS THE SS Nomadic is once again being opened up to the public due to exceptional interest from tourists on the Titanic trail in Belfast. The tender vessel, which was used to ferry first and second class passengers to the Titanic, was open to the public for six months after returning to Northern Ireland at Easter last year.... | 14th October 2008 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | (1912) | TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| NBC Connecticut | (2010) | STORY OF TITANIC RECREATED AT FOXWOODS Nearly a century after the sinking of the Titanic, Foxwoods will pay tribute to the tragedy through a unique exhibit. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opens at the Casino on Saturday, February 13th and has more than 100 artifacts from the Ship’s debris giving history buffs an inside look at the iconic ship and its passengers.... | 19th January 2010 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| (2004) | ROYAL STANDARD White Star Line The White Star Line was founded in 1845 by two Liverpool ship brokers, Henry Threlfall Wilson and... | 14th November 2004 | ||||
| Nova News Now | (2008) | TITANIC SAILS INTO LIVERPOOL Over 1,500 lives were lost on April 14, 1912 when the ill-fated RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Ninety-six years later, the cast and creative team of the Winds of Change will bring the legendary story of the RMS Titanic and its passengers back to life, beginning on April 18, 2008.... | 15th April 2008 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | NOMADIC REFLOATS TITANIC'S TALE The tragic tale of the Titanic is to be performed over three nights — onboard her tender. GCSE Drama students from Dominican College in Fortwilliam will stage the play ‘Titanic’ on the SS Nomadic, the Belfast-built vessel that carried first class passengers on to the legendary liner before she set off on her doomed maiden voyage.... | |||||
| BBC News : Northern Ireland | (2006) | NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ... | 30th October 2006 | |||
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| (2007) | NOMADIC RETURNS The SS Nomadic is the last White Star Line vessel still afloat and the last real maritime link with Titanic. Built on No.1 Slip by Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, and fitted out in the Abercorn Basin, Nomadic attended ... | 3rd January 2007 | ||||
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(1911) | RESTAURANT à LA CARTE COUPON (BACK) This is the back of the coupon that was to be found inside the brochure the White Star Line handed to 1st and 2nd class passengers, presenting the Restaurant à la Carte. This one was saved by Mme Laroche.... | 1911 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | LANDING MOST PATHETIC SIGHT New York, April 19. Worcester Evening Gazette. Worcester, Mass. Have just left Cunard docks after witnessing arrival of Titanic's rescued passengers on the Carpathia. It was the most pathetic and tr... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Yeovil Express | (2007) | TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil.... | 25th July 2007 | |||
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(2005) | DETAIL OF TITANIC MEMORIAL IN GREECE The Titanic engraved on the white marble of the Greek memorial.... | 6th October 2005 | |||
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RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA THE weather-beaten remains of the giant model used for the 1981 film flop "Raise the Titanic" is rapidly disintegrating in the village of Kalkara, Malta. The 55-foot-long steel hull now provides an uncanny above-sea-level glimp... | |||||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1912) | TWO WEST HOBOKEN MEN WERE AMONG VICTIMS ON TITANIC So far as can be learned two of the victims of the Titanic disaster lived in West Hoboken. They are John Ashby, father of Arthur Ashby, of 629 Traphagen street, and Albert Walker, father in law of Charles Robertson, proprietor of the Colonial Theatre... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ... | ||||||
| Liverpool Echo | (2007) | TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers.... | 11th October 2007 | |||
| The Stevens Point Journal | (1912) | FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| U.S. News & World Report | (2008) | THE SECRET OF HOW THE TITANIC SANK For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank.... | 30th September 2008 | |||
| Henley Standard | (2008) | HAODS TO STAGE A TITANIC MUSICAL HISTORY'S most famous shipwreck comes to the stage of the Kenton Theatre next month, when HAODS stages Titanic - The Musical. It tells the story of the hopes, loves and dreams of the real-life passengers and crew as the gigantic liner embarked on her maiden voyage in April 1912.... | 4th November 2008 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | (2009) | SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated.... | 18th March 2009 | |||
| (1912) | BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912 THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her... | 1912 | ||||
| Cornishman | (1912) | ANOTHER PENZANCE PASSENGER SAVED Among the further list of passengers this morning appears the name of Ellen Wickes (Wilkes). Mr. Ludlow has received the following telegram: Name reported on Carpathia as Ellen Wickes. As we have no passenger of that name I think it must be E... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Highland News | (1912) | CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | (2008) | ABOARD THE TITANIC Twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than freezing. Colder than an iceberg.That was the temperature of the ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British steamer Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Of the more than 2,200 passengers aboard, 1,500 died in water made colder than ice by the ocean's salt level.... | 10th October 2008 | |||
| KPVI-TV | (2009) | MUSEUM OF IDAHO NEEDS VOLUNTEERS FOR TITANIC EXHIBIT In just two weeks, the Museum of Idaho unveils its latest and very exciting exhibit. In 1912 the world's largest ship, the Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg. Now, 96 years later, you can get up close and personal with the story from the iconic ship to the fate of its passengers.... | 20th February 2009 | |||
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TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ... | |||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | WEALTHY YOUNGSTOWN FOLK ABOARD YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 15---Mr. and Mrs. George D. Wick and their daughter, Miss Natalie, Miss Caroline Bonnell and Miss Lily Bonnell of Birkdale, England, her cousin, were among the Titanic’s passengers. The Wicks and Bonnells are among the wealthy... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | CHICAGO GIRL IN LAST LIFEBOAT There was only one seat in the last lifeboat of the Titanic and had Mrs. John Burke taken it the chances are that Miss Annie Kelly, a seventeen-year-old Chicago girl, might be at the bottom of the sea, she told friends to-day who had gathered at h... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
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(1911) | RESTAURANT à LA CARTE COUPON (FRONT) This is the front of the coupon that was to be found inside the brochure the White Star Line handed to 1st and 2nd class passengers, presenting the Restaurant à la Carte. The original illustration was pink, as well as the text at the back of the coup... | 1911 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Shaldon has a particular interest in the loss. George Fox Hosking is senior third engineer on the Titanic. He is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs Hosking of The Green, Shaldon, and resides in London. He has a wife and three children. The parents... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ROEBLING IS EXCUSED FROM JURY Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 16---When the panel for the April term of the United States Grand Jury reported to-day, Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, and father of Washingto... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(1908) | ST-LAZARE TRAIN STATION, PARIS The passengers who boarded in Cherbourg travelled on the Atlantic Train from St-Lazare station in Paris. Only Alfred Fernand Omont, French 1st class passenger, arrived in Cherbourg in a different way: his chauffeur drove him there from Le Havre.... | 1908 | |||
| The Argus Observer | (2007) | RE-CREATING THE TITANIC La Grande - Ninety-five years ago today the R.M.S. Titanic and more than 1,000 of its passengers plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, entombing their place in history.Saturday and tonight, thanks to a determined collector and an unwavering chef, anyone can experience the final First Class dinner - served only hours before the ship struck an iceberg around 11 p.m. April 12, 1914, during its maiden voyage - at Foley Station in La Grande. ... | 30th April 2007 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FEAR ANOTHER NEWARKER GONE ---------- Augustus Smith, Passenger on Titanic, Whose Name Is Not Among Saved. ---------- HAYS ALSO AMONG MISSING ---------- The name of Augustus Smith, twenty-two years old, of 59 Halsey street, was added ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Mail | (1912) | SWANSEA VALLEY VICTIMS It now transpires that the Titanic has claimed another victim from the Swansea Valley. In addition to Mr. W. J. Rogers, whose name appeared in the list of passengers in the Western mail in the early part of the week, it seems that he was accompanied ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| PRLog.Org | (2009) | EAST TENNESSEE ABUZZ OVER APRIL LAUNCH OF TITANIC MUSEUM The 30,000-square-foot Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. is featured in The Mountain Press as it prepares to set sail in 2010. The world's largest Titanic Museum will feature hundreds of artifacts, interactive galleries, exclusive onboard photographs and will tell the stories of the legendary ship and its passengers.... | 8th December 2009 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Examiner.com | TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America..... | |||||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.] New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
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(1900) | ONLY KNOWN PICTURE OF MARIE LEFEBVRE Marie Lefebvre and her children were the only known French passengers in 3rd class. They all were victims. Their bodies, if recovered, never were identified.... | 1900 | |||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | A SIDMOUTH FAMILY. FATHER DROWNED: WIFE & CHILDREN SAVED Mr. and Mrs. Dean, of Branscombe near Sidmouth, with their two children, were passengers in the Titanic. Mrs. Dean and children were among the saved, but Mr. Dean perished.... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | TO FIND BODIES HALIFAX N.S., April 16- The Parisian steamed through much he??? field of ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian rep... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1903) | THE CUNARD STEAMER CARPATHIA From Wednesday morning until that of Saturday of last week a party of visitors, which included Sir William White (late Director of Naval Construction), Messrs Moorhouse and Maxwell (General Manager and a director of the Cunard Company), were carri... | 27th April 1903 | |||
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | (2009) | COUNTESS ENACTOR IS TOUR GUIDE FOR DOOMED VOYAGE OF TITANIC The lovely Countess of Rothes stands on the deck of the ship docked in Milwaukee and cheerfully waves passengers aboard with her white-gloved hands. "Hurry," she says, "It's departure time, and you won't want to miss this wonderful voyage."The name of the ship she beckons travelers aboard? The RMS Titanic.... | 12th January 2009 | |||
| Hagerstown Morning Herald | (2008) | TITANIC MODEL ON DISPLAY AT DISCOVERY STATION A working replica of the RMS Titanic was on display Tuesday during a fundraiser at Discovery Station at Hagerstown Inc. The model is a precise replica of the White Star liner that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, taking the lives of more than 1,500 passengers.... | 4th December 2008 | |||
| Toronto Sun | (2008) | SAIL THE TITANIC - AND LIVE A travelling exhibit showcasing hundreds of salvaged artifacts from the Titanic is drawing crowds here.The show, which runs until April 2009, incorporates artifacts from the vessel and replicates sections of the ship.Viewers can admire the grand staircase, peer into first- and third-class quarters, walk down the halls and discover the personal stories of passengers on board the doomed ship.... | 22nd December 2008 | |||
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | (2009) | 'TITANIC' EXHIBIT SAILING ON FROM MUSEUM NEXT MONDAY "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" closes next Monday at the Milwaukee Public Museum, so visitors who want to catch the exhibit have to plan ahead to get the most out of these last days.The exhibit is a fascinating array of articles from ... | 19th May 2009 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Milton Keynes Today | (2006) | NOMADIC : SAVE THE LAST LINK WITH THE TITANIC NULL... | 10th January 2006 | |||
| Times Union | (2006) | MEMORIES OF TITANIC HAUNTED SURVIVOR Even 94 years later, the accounts of survivors from the RMS Titanic make for gripping reading. Through luck and a young lady's attention, Gilbert M. Tucker Jr. of Albany landed on the first lifeboat to leave the ship April 15, 1912. Tucker, whose father published the weekly magazine-style "Country Gentleman" in Albany, was one of about 705 survivors -- out of more than 2,200 passengers.... | 6th November 2006 | |||
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Breeder’s Gazette | (1893) | RACEHORSES TRANSPORTED BY WHITE STAR STEAMER Thoroughbred racehorses were frequently passengers aboard the White Star livestock carriers. This illustration, “from a photograph taken on board a White Star steamship,” appeared in the Breeder’s Gazette in March 1893.... | March 1893 | ||
| BBC NEWS | (2009) | NOMADIC AT 'CRUCIAL' REPAIR STAGE Work to restore a ship that ferried passengers to the Titanic has entered a "crucial" stage, according to the organisation overseeing the project. A team of engineers will look at how the SS Nomadic can be restored and become a tourist attraction in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. Denis Rooney, of the Nomadic Charitable Trust, said the work could take six months. ... | 12th January 2009 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | (1912) | AMONG THE MISSING One of the Titanic’s first-class passengers not yet accounted for is Mr. W. H. Parr, a young electrical engineer, whose wife, with her infant child, is now in Northwich on a visit to her father, Mr. Joseph Poole, a guardian over-seer and a well-known... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | (2008) | TITANIC LUNCH FOR COMMEMORATION PLAN LIVERPOOL Lord Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday hosted a lunch identical to the last meal eaten by passengers onboard the Titanic.It was part of the first gathering of the 'Titanic Cities' event, aimed at bringing together representatives from places with a connection with the ill-fated vessel. The ship was registered in Liverpool and had the city's name on her stern, although she was built in Southampton.... | 15th July 2008 | |||
| UTV | (2006) | BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ... | 29th November 2006 | |||
| BBC Northern Ireland | (2007) | NOMADIC TO LEAVE CITY CENTRE BERTH The SS Nomadic, the ship which ferried passengers to the Titanic, is to leave its berth close to Belfast city centre.The tender will be removed on Wednesday from Queen's Quay to Barnett's Dock for maintenance ahead of her planned move to dry dock before the end of the year. ... | 31st October 2007 | |||
| Yorkshire Post | (2009) | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000 20 April 2009 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about ?300,000 at auction.Millvina De... | 25th April 2009 | |||
| ET Research | (2005) | 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 | |||
| BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ... | 19th July 2006 | |||
| Daily News | (2008) | LOCALS WITH TITANIC TIES CALL MOODY GARDENS Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship's maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner.... | 2nd April 2008 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE “Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Central Florida Future | (2009) | NEW TOUR ON INTERNATIONAL DRIVE IS OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS Nearly everyone's seen the movie Titanic, but not enough have seen Titanic: The Experience. The exhibit takes visitors out of the movie theater and into the ship's hallways.Ninety-seven years to the week after that fateful night, the exhibit guides people on a tour of the Titanic while giving them a taste of what life was like for the ship's passengers - pre-iceberg of course.... | 22nd April 2009 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | MISS EARNSHAW'S MYSTERIOUS SECOND CLASS LIST This water stained list was annotated by Miss Earnshaw. Over 20 second class passengers' names were ticked and their graves numbers added. So far, no one can explain why Miss Earnshaw, who was a 1st class passenger, felt so interested in 2nd class vi... | 1912 | |||
| United Press International | (2009) | TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release.... | 2nd January 2009 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Moving Picture World | (1912) | MISS DOROTHY GIBSON Popular Éclair leading photoplayer reported to be among those saved of the passengers of the ill-fated steamship Titanic. Miss Gibson and her mother were returning from a trip to Egypt, where she went for rest and recuperation. It has also been repor... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SOCIETY NOTES FROM ABROAD *** Miss Gladys Cherry, who was one of the passengers rescued from the Titanic, is a cousin of the Earl of Rothes, being a daughter of the late J. F. Cherry and Lady Emily Cherry. Miss Cherry was on her way to New York with Lady Rothes. She an... | 12th May 1912 | |||
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(2005) | THE VILLAGE OF AYIOS SOSTIS, GREECE The village of Ayios Sostis is located on the mountains of the province of Messinia. The four Greek passengers of the Titanic were from this place. The memorial dedicated to them (completed on June 3rd, 2001) can be found near the small church ... | 6th October 2005 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SAVES DOGS WHILE PASSENGERS PERISH New York, April 19- A narrative of the disaster to the Titanic as prepared by one of the stewards of the rescuing ship Carpathia contains the following: "One of the earlier boats to arrive was seen to contain a woman tenderly clasping ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | MRS. CHARLES ASPLUND AND THREE CHILDREN ARE SAVED Her Husband and Two of Their Sons Are Believed to Be Among Those Lost on the Titanic, Though Names Sent Show Slight Varience Charles Asplund, formerly of Worcester, his son Carl, 6 years old, and a baby boy 2 years old, are pro... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | WHITE STAR LINE OFFICES IN PARIS This picture of the Parisian offices of the White Star Line was published by a French paper. It shows poeple rushing to get news of passengers aboard. A policemen is guarding the entrance of the office.... | 17th January 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | HOW THE HARRISES PARTED "Of Course, Ladies First," Said Mr. Harris, and Stayed on Board --- George Brayton, an asphalt manufacturer of Los Angeles, who was on the Titanic, last night gave an account of the parting of Henry B. Harris and his wife. He said:... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | (2006) | NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ... | 16th July 2006 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH’S HEROISM After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | (2006) | MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ... | 18th July 2006 | |||
| The Times | TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA DISASTERS REVEAL DIFFERENCE IN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS Almost 100 years after the Titanic and the Lusitania sank in the North Atlantic, the contrasting fates of their passengers have helped to explain how altruism can take over from the selfish instinct to save oneself. A scientific comparison of the two maritime disasters, which together claimed more than 2,700 lives just three years apart, has suggested that self-preservation can be trumped by social pressure to stand back while others are rescued, but only when people have sufficient time to think. ... | |||||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | (1912) | ABERDEEN ENGINEER ABOARD As indicated on Monday, there were no Aberdeen passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel, but we learn that a Torry engineer was a member of the crew. About ten days ago Mr. James Fraser, 85 Menzies Road, received a letter from his son, Mr. James Fra... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | 1ST CLASS MENU SAVED BY MISS ELISE LURETTE Miss Elise Lurette, a French passenger who was Mrs Spencer's travelling companion (more than 'maid'), used to lose her way on the Titanic. She did not speak English and she had crossed her cabin on a plan she showed to other passengers when she did n... | 12th April 1912 | |||
| (1911) | FILM OF THE OLYMPIC These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt... | 1911 | ||||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | BROTHER OF MONTCLAIR MAN ON MISSING LIST Henry Mitchell, one of the second-cabin passengers on the Titanic, who is among the missing, was on his way from Guernsey, England, to visit the family of his brother, John C. Mitchell, of 19 Portland place, Montclair. The brothers had pla... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| MSNBC | (2009) | LAST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC DIES, AGED 97 LONDON - Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was 97 years old, and she d... | 9th June 2009 | |||
| Canada News Wire | (2007) | COUNTDOWN IS ON: ONLY 30 DAYS LEFT FOR TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Visitors have only thirty days left to experience the internationally acclaimed Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre. The exhibition has engaged and intrigued adults and children around the world. The tragic tale of the famous ship Titanic is brought to life through photographs, sounds and stories of the passengers and crew members.... | 7th December 2007 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | (2006) | 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 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | CARPATHIA'S CAPT. ALL WORN OUT New York, April 19- Capt. A.H.Rostron of the Carpathia, who was in a state of great exhaustion last night when the steamer arrived here, is fast recovering today and will soon be able to give a detailed account of the rescue of the passengers of the ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | REPORT FUTRELLE SAFE London Hears Boston Author Is on Board Carpathia. London, April 17.-The list of survivors of the Titanic disaster as given out by the White Star line offices, contains the names of both Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Boston. Previous l... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Orland Park Prairie | TITANIC ARRIVES IN ORLAND PARK It was a honeymoon gone wrong for John Henry Chapman and his bride, Sarah Elizabeth Lawry. Lawry, 29, of Spokane, Wash., was headed from Southhampton, England, to Fitzburn, Wisc. with her husband to be closer to her brother, William. The... | |||||
| Elmer Times | (1912) | MARINE DISASTER [The following paragraph is the only passenger-specific one in a longer article.] Among the Titanic’s passengers reportedly was Frederick Sutton, whose home was at Haddonfield, but who had large business interests in Wildwood. He was ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Rockford Morning Star | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Scotsman | (2008) | IN HIS OWN WORDS MAN WHO SURVIVED TITANIC AND SINKING OF HER SISTER SHIP LETTERS written by a seaman who survived the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship the Britannic four years later only to die in a German torpedo attack are expected to raise up to £20,000 at auction.Archie Jewell was on board the Titanic on the night of 14 April, 1912, and his writings describe the horror of watching the great ship sink and hearing the cries of passengers drowning in the icy seas.... | 23rd November 2008 | |||
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(1911) | BROCHURE SAVED FROM THE TITANIC BY MME LAROCHE Mme Laroche saved a White Star Line brochure from the sinking. This 32 page document contained many pieces of information for second class passengers. From the notes on the cover: 'Nicholas Martin, 9, rue Scribe, Paris', it seems that this brochure w... | 1911 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | (2002) | RECOLLECTIONS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR EDMOND RYAN I JOINED the ship at Queenstown, County Cork and had to go out in a tender, about three miles I think, to get on board the ship. The tender looked like a match stick alongside the great liner. A big door opened in her side, and a ... | 9th July 2002 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | TITANIC SURVIVOR BACKS NOMADIC APPEAL NULL... | 19th January 2006 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Express Times | (2008) | 'TITANIC THE MUSICAL' A TITANIC SHOW William Sanders was busy Monday "refining and tweaking" cues with his technical crew in preparation for tonight's opening of "Titanic the Musical" at Civic Theatre of Allentown. Sanders says the Tony Award-winning musical focuses on the actual passengers aboard the trans-Atlantic liner, RMS Titanic, on that fateful night of April 15, 1912, as the "ship of dreams" was making her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.... | 6th June 2008 | |||
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Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | MAJOR PEUCHEN AND HIS FAMILY Left to Right: Mr. Alan Peuchen, Mrs Peuchen, Major Peuchen, Miss Jessie Peuchen. When the New York Central Express was stalled a few miles outside Hamilton for two hours Saturday on account of a wreck ahead, Major Peuchen a... | 23rd April 1912 | ||
| Liverpool Daily Post | (2008) | WORLD SHOULD UNITE TO COMMEMORATE THE TITANIC TRAGEDY WITH time not dispelling the ever- growing worldwide interest in the sinking of the White Star Line's RMS Titanic, it is reassuring to know that Liverpool is already planning to commemorate the centenary of the tragic loss of this superliner, which was owned and registered in the city.A special lunch, with a menu replicating that served to first-class passengers on Titanic's final, fatal night, has already been hosted by Judith Feather, Liverpool Culture Company's head of events, to bring together the ports associated with the liner.... | 16th September 2008 | |||
| Bureau County Republican | (1912) | EDWARD DORKING, SHIP WRECK SURVIVOR, APPEARS AT STAR THEATRE PICKED UP BY THE CARPATHIA Young Englishman Relates Experiences in Greatest Maritime disaster in World's History. Seven hundred persons, who packed the Star theatre to its capacity at three performances Tuesday night, ... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | MORGAN ON THE OCEAN Sailed Yesterday on the Baltic to be Gone Until July --- J. Pierpont Morgan sailed for Liverpool yesterday on the White Star Line steamer Baltic. On account of the tide the Baltic sailed at 5 o'clock in the morning. M... | 14th March 1907 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | CHICAGO GIRL LAST TO LEAVE TITANIC Miss Annie Kelly Reaches Home Here and Tells of Her Thrilling Experiences White Escaping From the Sinking Liner The last woman to leave the sinking Titanic was Miss Annie Kelly, 17 years old, sister of Miss Beatrice Kelly,... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | THE GERMANIC AGAIN IN PORT The White Star steamer Germanic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port late yesterday afternoon. This is the first trip the vessel has made since she sank alongside her pier on the North River last Winter from the weight of sno... | 16th June 1899 | |||
| Villages Daily Sun | (2008) | FIRST BAPTIST OF OXFORD USING STORY OF THE TITANIC TO ILLUSTRATE BIBLICAL MESSAGE When the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, the ship was deemed the biggest, fastest ship in the world, and most importantly, it was called unsinkable. Tragically, five days later, the ship struck an iceberg and sank, taking with it 1,523 lives out of the 2,228 passengers on board.The story of the Titanic is probably one of the most well-known tragedies in history. In the eyes of the Rev. Don Manley, of First Baptist Church of Oxford, it is also an event that illustrates the uncertainty of life and the need to be spiritually prepared for whatever might come.... | 15th September 2008 | |||
| Awake | (1981) | I SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC IT BEGAN while I was visiting my elderly parents and uncle in , Florida. This was shortly before my uncle died a few months ago. As usual, we went to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesse... | 1981 | |||
| The Times | (2006) | 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LAKEWOOD INQUIRIES Special Service of the NEWS LAKEWOOD, April 16---Included among the first cabin passengers on the Titanic were Mrs. A. T. Compton, her daughter, Miss S. W. Compton, and her son, A. T. Compton Jr., of Lakewood and New York. The last-na... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Irish Examiner | (2006) | TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED NULL... | 26th January 2006 | |||
| ET Research | (2006) | 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 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among those on board the Titanic was a son of Mrs Parsons of Bronshill Road, Torquay. Mr Edward Parsons had been in the service of the White Star Line practically all his life and has a wife and five children at Southampton. He was visiting his mot... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | (2006) | NOMADIC GOES ON SHOW AT ODYSSEY A clean-up operation has begun on the SS Nomadic before it is unveiled to the public on Monday. The ship, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, will dock at the Odyssey in Belfast at about 1830 BST. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A reception, including a brass band, has been prepared for the ship which saw action as a troop carrier in both world wars. It arrived in Belfast at the weekend after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre. ... | 17th July 2006 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | (1912) | 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 | |||
| St. Annes on the Sea Express | (1912) | LOCAL PASSENGERS There were at least three local residents on board the Titanic' Amongst the passengers was Mr. Arthur Gee, who resided at Morningside, Riley Avenue, St. Annes. Mr. Gee represented Messrs. Whitehead, Summer, Harker, and Company, machinery exporters, o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | COL. ASTOR IMPORTS A NEW BREED OF DOG Animal, Which Society Is Expected to Take Up, Is a Cross Between a Bear and a Hound --- GROWLS AT CUSTOMS MEN --- Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Praises Hammerstein's Productions---Duchess of Marlborough's Return Delayed --... | 22nd September 1908 | |||
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(1912) | CUP & SAUCER FROM TITANIC This Spode Coplands gold and cobalt blue cup and saucer were made specially for Titanic. This cup and saucer, along with a few more pieces in this pattern, were taken off the ship before it left Queenstown as souvenirs by crew or passengers. This rem... | 1912 | |||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | NO NEWS OF MR F. ANDREW, OF REDRUTH Among the passengers of whose fate nothing is yet definitely known is Mr. Frank Andrew (30), of Pencoys, near Redruth. Mrs. Andrew, who lives at Pencoys, with one little child about two years of age, received a postcard from a friend in Plymouth, on ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Arizona Republic | (2007) | TITANIC EXHIBITION IS MORE THAN DISPLAY OF ARTIFACTS The artifacts alone would be reason enough to welcome Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition's return engagement to the Arizona Science Center. There's the massive steel door that first-class passengers entered to board the "unsinkable" ship that fateful night in 1912, the ruins of a chandelier that hung above their heads in the exclusive first-class restaurant, personal items ranging from hair-tonic bottles to jewelry to toothpaste containers, and dishes arranged as divers found them on the ocean floor, like dominoes in the sand.... | 7th November 2007 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Scotsman | (1907) | THE MAURETANIA'S SECOND VOYAGE The Mauretania sails from Liverpool on her second voyage this evening, being due to leave the Liverpool landing stage at seven o’clock. All her saloon accommodation, including the Regal Suites, is fully booked. Amongst the passengers are Lord Stra... | 14th December 1907 | |||
| Transactions of the Devonshire Association | (1912) | HENRY FORBES JULIAN 'Mr Julian, one of the noble band of heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Titanic disaster on 14 April 1912, so that the women and children might be saved, was the son of Mr Henry Julian, of Cork and Bolton, and belonged to a mixed... | 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FATHER AND BROTHER ON TITANIC’S DEATH LIST ROEBLING, April 30---In the death list of the Titanic Mrs. Olaf Swanberg of Third avenue, yesterday discovered the names of her father and brother among the third-class passengers who were lost. The brother, a prosperous settler in Minnesota, had re... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| TIME | (2008) | REVEALING THE TITANIC'S SECRETS In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic.... | 6th October 2008 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | VAN BILLIARD BOYS MAY HAVE STUCK TO FATHER Relatives, However, Hope That They May Be Among the Titanic Waifs in New York---Father Was Returning Home With Many Diamonds. ---------- Many tales of heroism displayed by men, women and children aboard the Steamer Titanic during the la... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Daily Mail | (2009) | REVEALED: HOW HERO FATHER DIED ON TITANIC AFTER LEAVING LIFEBOAT TO FETCH FLASK OF MILK FOR WIFE AND CHILDREN An heroic father perished on the Titanic while his wife and children sang songs to drown out the screams of drowning passengers, it has been revealed.New archives reveal how brave Arthur West helped wife Ada and daughters Constance and Barbara onto a lifeboat before dashing back to their cabin to grab a flask of hot milk for them.... | 26th March 2009 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT "SAILING ON THE TITANIC" Major Peuchen is Safe. Well Known Business and Military Man is Listed as Being Among the Survivors--Nothing Definite "Major Arthur G. Peuchen, 599 Jarvis street, wh... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Reporter | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER - WELL-KNOWN MISSIONARY AMONG THE DROWNED. The Rev. John Harper, formerly pastor of Paisley Road Baptist Church, Glasgow, who appears to be among the victims of the Titanic disaster, was known in the Newtown and St. Boswells district. A few years ago Mr. Harper conducted the closing meeting o... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | GIRL SAYS FATHER SAVED HER IN WRECK Miss Lillian Cribb Led Through Passageways on Titanic to Lifeboat --- To the rare presence of mind of her father, John H. Cribb, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, Miss Lillian M. Cribb, 17 years old, believes she owes her life. C... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Our Gunnislake correspondent writes that William Ware, who was 22 years of age, returned from South Africa six weeks ago. His mother resides at King Street, Gunnislake; his father in South Africa. Frederick Pengelly is 21 years of age, his mother r... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | ADRIATIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE Great New White Star Liner Leaves Liverpool for New York --- LIVERPOOL, May 8---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic left here to-day for New York. The Adriatic was launched at Belfast last September. She has an... | 9th May 1907 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | CLINGING TO HOPE SON DIDN’T SAIL ON TITANIC Although nothing has been heard from W. Hull Botsford, the member of the Orange Y. M. C. A., whose name appeared on the list of passengers on the Titanic, his parents have not given up hope. His father and mother live in Elmira. N. Y., and during th... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| The Greenwich News | (1912) | GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER NULL... | 11th January 2006 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LOST TWO IN IROQUOIS FIRE Daughters of Rescued Titanic Passenger Killed in Chicago Holocaust --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Ill., April 16---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, wife of L. A. Hippach, manufacturer, of 7,352 Sheridan Road, and Miss ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MOORE’S PARTNERS GIVE UP HOPE OF HEARING FROM HIM H. W. Hibbs, of Hibbs & Co., the brokerage firm with which Clarence Moore was connected, definitely gave up hope this morning that his partner had been saved from the Titanic. Moore’s friends are said to have generally come to the same conclusion.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | W. B. SILVEY KNOWN HERE Missing Titanic Passenger's Family Prominent in Army --- William B. Silvey, who is one of the missing passengers of the ill-fated Titanic, is well known in Washington. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the First United States Arti... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | HUDSON COUNTY SURVIVORS TELL OF SEA TRAGEDY Union Hill Governess Gives Graphic Recital of Scenes After Giant Ship Hit Iceberg and Went Down---Praises Bravery of Men Passengers---Complains of Treatment on Carpathia --- BAYONNE YOUT... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Port Huron Times Herald | (1952) | BERT JOHNS, SURVIVOR OF 1912 TITANIC DISASTER, DIES Page 1, columns 6-7 Bert Johns, 66, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, operator of Bert's Tavern, 622 Water Street, for 15 years, Port Huron resident 32 years, died Saturday in his home, 216 Broad Street, after an illness of on... | 3rd February 1952 | |||
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La Chronique de Bayonne | (1912) | S.S. NIAGARA HITS AN ICEBERG « New York. Le transatlantique « Niagara » est arrivé. Il rapporte que dans la nuit de mercredi, presque à l’endroit où le « Titanic » a coulé, le « Niagara » est venu donner dans un banc de glace. Le choc fut si violent qu’aussitôt le commandant fit... | 17th April 1912 | ||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | FRIEND OF REV. HUDSON'S PERISHED IN WRECK Among the passengers who perished on the Titanic was Frederick Sutton of Haddonfield, a personal friend of Rev. Birney S. Hudson, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Sutton was a member of the Haddonfield Baptis... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | FAR ROCKAWAY GIRL SAFE ON CARPATHIA Miss Edith Louise Rosenbaum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenbaum, of Merrill road, Far Rockaway, was among the passengers on the Titanic who were rescued by the Carpathia. Mr. and Mrs. Roosenbaum were distracted from the time they heard of the ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | (1956) | WALTER BELFORD Walter Belford did not appear on the Titanic's crew lists. In fact, he never was a Titanic crewman, he just told Walter Lord he was, and became famous as a "fake" Titanic survivor. At the time when this picture was published in Switzerland, in Septem... | 20th September 1956 | ||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(2005) | NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic... | 20th July 2005 | |||
| Daily Mail | (2008) | FIRST MODEL OF THE TITANIC BUILT FROM SHIP'S ORIGINAL PLANS WILL SET YOU BACK A COOL £1.3M The world's first model of the Titanic to be built from the ship's original plans has been revealed - but if you want to lay your hands on it it will cost you a whopping £1.3m. The stunning 1:48 model is a precise replica of the White Star liner which famously hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, costing the lives of more than 1,500 passengers.Made from brass, wood and fibreglass, the model took seven years to build using the original plans, drawings and measurements from the liner.... | 27th May 2008 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC'S "LITTLE SISTER" MAY MISS ANNIVERSARY REFIT DATE The £7m restoration of a tender ship that ferried passengers on board the doomed Titanic may not be finished in time for the centenary of its launch, an official report warns today. The charitable trust responsible for refitting the derelict... | 24th June 2009 | |||
| Daily Mirror | (2006) | £10,000 PRICE ON 'TITANIC IS SAFE' TELEGRAM A TELEGRAM saying the Titanic was safe 18 hours after it sank is set to fetch £10,000 at auction. It was sent by the ship's owners White Star Line to US senator James Hughes who had heard rumours of the tragedy in which 1,523 died. The message said: "Titanic proceeding to Halifax, passengers will probably land there Wednesday all safe." His newlywed and pregnant daughter Eloise Smith, above, did survive but she had to kiss goodbye to husband Lucian. The telegram led to initial reports the Titanic had not sunk. It will go on sale tomorrow at Henry Aldridge and Sons in Devizes, Wilts. ... | 29th September 2006 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Le Journal de Genève | (1912) | THE KINK FAMILY The Kaiser & C° Agency received a telegram from the White Star Line stating that Mr. and Mrs. Kink, and their child, from Zurich, who were passengers on board the "Titanic", are listed among the survivors, but Kink's two sisters are drowned. ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | PEACOCK STILL HOPING TO FIND BROTHERS Benjamin Peacock, who lost his wife and two children in the Titanic disaster, returned to his work in the Public Service power house on South avenue, Cranford, yesterday. He told his friends that his wife and two children had been placed in one of t... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY By Linda McKee25 April 2009The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's ¢€Ëœlittle sister' is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what th... | 25th April 2009 | |||
| Scarborough Mercury | (1912) | HULL MAGISTRATE REPORTED SAFE Mother Staying at Scarborough Mr. Algernon H. Barkworth, J.P., of Tranby House, Hessle, Hull, who was one of the first-class passengers on the Titanic, is a young man of independent means, and had booked a passage on the Titanic in pre... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | CHAMPION AT RACQUETS LOST. [BY CABLE TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE] London, April 17---Among the Titanic’s passengers was Charles Williams, the professional racquet champion of the world who was on his way to New York to play Standing, the Americ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
