1899

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wired.com	AUG. 23, 1899: FIRST SHIP-TO-SHORE SIGNAL TO A U.S. STATION 1899: The first ship-to-shore wireless message in U.S. history is sent by Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at the Cliff House in San Francisco. “Sherman is sighted,” the message said, referring to the troopship Sherman, which was returning a San Francisco regiment from the battlefields of the Spanish-American War. It marked the first use outside England of this technology, still in its infancy....	23rd August 2011
	MAX FROLICHER IN 1899	1899
	TOMMY ANDREWS WITH MOUSTACHE Thomas Andrews circa 1899, or possibly earlier, sporting a moustache....	1899
Dictionary of National Biography (1901)	ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY Prof. Sir John Knox Laughton, Litt.D. ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (...
	WEIKMAN HEADSTONE WEIKMAN AUGUSTUS H. WEIKMAN 1860-1924 MARY WEIKMAN 1860-1926 GEORGE W. WEIKMAN 1865-1952 (On reverse) WEIKMAN FRANK S. WEIKMAN 1890-1962 A. HARRY WEIKMAN...
New York Times	FREDERICK K. SEWARD Frederick K. Seward is a member of the firm of Curtis, Mallet, Prevot & Colt of 30 Broad Street, and had been to Europe on business for his firm. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1899, bring a prominent member of the Glee Club during his ...	16th April 1912
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER Brian J. Ticehurst OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...	22nd November 2005
Liverpool Echo	THE FAMOUS WHITE STAR LINE WHICH LATER INCLUDED THE TITANIC AMONG ITS FLEET WAS FOUNDED IN LIVERPOOL IN 1869 BY SHIPPING MOGUL THOMAS HENRY ISMAY. Known also as the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, White Star eventually led the way in building prestigious luxury liners such as Titanic and her almost identical sisters Olympic and Britannic.When Ismay died in 1899 his elaborate tomb can still be seen in Thurstaston churchyard, Wirral White Star was the most successful transatlantic passenger line....	23rd June 2008
Voyage	OCEANIC John P. Eaton White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...	11th July 2005
	WENDRON PARISH, CORNWALL. 1901 CENSUS The 1901 census for Wendron, Cornwall reveals Frederick James Banfield, aged 17. A grocers assistant he was at home with his widowed mother, Ellen (his father had died in September 1900)and younger brother William John. Also in Wendron was hi...	1901
	FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN MEMORY OF HUGH MCELROY WHO DIED ON THE 3RD DAY OF APRIL 1870 AGED 56 YEARS. ALSO OF RICHARD, SON OF HUGH MCELROY WHO DIED ON THE 9th DAY OF JUNE 1888 AGED 44 YEARS. AND OF MARY HANNAH MCELROY DIED 9th APRIL 1890 AGED 44 YEARS. ...
	REV. HARRY PARSONS (YOUNGER BROTHER OF EDWARD PARSONS) Rev. Harry Parsons was born on 26 November 1878 in Barnstaple but spent his early years living with his family in Plymouth. He entered the Ministry of the Bible Christian Church in 1899 and subsequently spent a short time at Cheriton F...
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	ISMAY, JAMES [SIC] BRUCE Ismay, James [sic] Bruce (b. Liverpool, 1862). President and Managing Director of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Educated Harrow, and on leaving school entered the office of Messrs. Ismay, Imrie and Co. (White Star Line). After se...	1908
New York Times	DR. CHARLES D. EASTON DIES AFTER OPERATION Physician Here and in Newport, of Distinguished Ancestry, Had Served in the War Dr. Charles D. Easton of 510 Park Avenue, who had practiced medicine in Newport, R.I., for many years and in this city since the Armistice, died yesterday ...	5th October 1934
The Times	OBITUARY: MARGARET ISMAY MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in Cad...	10th April 1907
New York Times	CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo...	6th June 1911
	DYER FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Ryland Dyer, or Harry, was born in Jhansi, India on 21 December 1887 during the time that his father was serving with the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment as a Quartermaster Sergeant. Harry’s father, Henry Thomas Dyer was born a...
	FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Philip Creese was born in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1868. He was the son of Charles and Jane Creese. He had an elder brother, William Creese who was to lose his life on 19 November 1917 when the submarine, SS Jutland, was torpedoed off the Britta...
	ERNEST WALDRON KING FAMILY INFO I believe E. W. King's father, Thomas Waldron King, was my great-great-grandfather John King's brother, and that their parents were Thomas King, who was a Church of Ireland scripture reader in Selerna, County Galway, and Elizabeth. Here's ...
Voyage	ARMENIAN John P. Eaton Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion. (courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Famous Liner...	27th March 2005
Philadelphia Inquirer	LOIS THAYER OF ROSEMONT; ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS Lois Thayer, 82, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family, died Saturday a the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She lived at 103 Airdale Rd., Rosemont, PA. The former Lois Buchanan Cassatt, she was a great-great-niece of Jame...	26th June 1977
Voyage	BULGARIA John P. Eaton (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
The Times	DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble....	24th November 1899
	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...
New York Times	LADY PIRRIE DEAD; HEADED SHIP FIRM Widow of Belfast Builder of Many Vessels Succeeded Him in Control of Concern --- ADVISED HIM FOR YEARS --- He Had Often Publicly Paid High Tribute to Her Assistance---Daughter of Professor --- LONDON, June 19...	20th June 1935
Santa Barbara News-Press	RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...	8th July 1990
Transactions of the Devonshire Association	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
Voyage	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
New York Times	HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...	27th February 1932
The Times	LORD PIRRIE - DOMINANT FIGURE IN SHIPBUILDING PEACE AND WAR SERVICES ...	9th June 1924
Daily Telegraph	ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED! (Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action broug...	1908
	HUSBAND OF HELEN ALICE WILSON Axel Johannas Rosenquist was the husband of Helen Alice Wilson who survived the sinking of the Titanic, the following information gives brief details of how their lives continued after the disaste...
	PENGELLY (PENGILLY) FAMILY INFORMATION Frederick (Fred) William Pengelly was born in the parish of Calstock, East Cornwall in early 1893 whilst his father was working in the area as a mining engineer. Fred’s father, Frederick William Cardell Pengilly (sic) was born in 1861 ...
New York Times	CARLISLE, DESIGNER OF TITANIC, IS DEAD Member of Privy Council and Noted Engineer Stricken at 72 --- DISASTER BROKE HIS HEART --- Recently Visited Old Friend, Ex-Kaiser---Wanted “Merry Widow Waltz” Played at Funeral --- ...	6th March 1926
Voyage	THE TUGS AT TITANIC'S DEPARTURE John P. Eaton Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years...	6th February 2005