A Night To Remember Movie

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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER PREMIERE   A NIGHT TO REMEMBER PREMIERE
Stars and Titanic survivors gather for the London premiere of A Night to Remember. 1st July 1958....
1st July 1958
WILLIAM MACQUITTY, BOXHALL AND PITMAN AT THE PREMIERE OF A NIGHT TO REMEMBER   WILLIAM MACQUITTY, BOXHALL AND PITMAN AT THE PREMIERE OF A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Taken at the "Odeon" Leicester Square London July 3rd 1958 on the occasion of the premiere of the Titanic film "A Night to Remember". Left to Right. Wm McQuitty [sic] Director of th...
3rd July 1958
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER   A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Kenneth More as Second Officer Lightoller in a publicity still for the 1958 film A Night to Remember...
Unidentified Newspaper ELEANOR I. SHUMAN, 87, TITANIC SURVIVOR
ELGIN, Ill. -- Eleanor I. Shuman, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, has died at age 87. After suddenly taking ill, Mrs. Shuman died Saturday in Elgin's Sherman Hospital. Mrs. Shuman, who was less than 2 years old when the...
10th March 1998
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser MR. AND MRS. CHAPMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Liskeard, were also among the lost. Mrs. Chapman declining to go without her husband. Mrs. Hocking tells of how Mrs. Chapman was behind her when they were getting into the lifeboat. But when Sarah found that her husband J...
April 1912
EDITH RUSSELL ON THE SET OF 'A NIGHT TO REMEMBER'   EDITH RUSSELL ON THE SET OF 'A NIGHT TO REMEMBER'
1957
LA RESCAPEE DU TITANIC N'A PAS PU RETENIR SES LARMES Paris Presse LA RESCAPEE DU TITANIC N'A PAS PU RETENIR SES LARMES
LA RESCAPEE DU "TITANIC" N'A PAS PU RETENIR SES LARMES Stewardess à bord du Titanic, Mrs Emma Bliss fut une des rares rescapées du naufrage. Aujourd'hui âgée de 92 ans, et hospitalisée à Toronto, elle a assisté à la projection du film 'Une nui...
12th March 1959
  TITANIC : IN PICTURES AND SOUND
This video contains a lot of (very old) pictures on Titanic, and even two short (original) films. It also contains pictures from the famous movie "Titanic" with Kate and Leonardo as actors. It's a monochrome film. ...
Wells Journal LADY'S PRAISE OF A TITANIC SEAMAN
One of the able seamen on the Titanic, Thomas Jones, a native of Anglesey has received the following letter from New York:- ''I feel I must write and tell you how splendidly you took charge of our boat on the fatal night. There were on...
30th May 1912
New York Times SCREEN: SINKING OF THE TITANIC
Review...
17th December 1958
  JONES ADMIRATION FOR COUNTESS OF ROTHES
Jones apparently admired the Countess of Rothes very much indeed. In fact he later presented her with the brass number plate of the boat and in later years they maintained a correspondence. The countess's cousin Miss Gladys Cherry was also in ...
  ACCOUNT BY GERALD DUQUEMIN
His brother, Gerald, of Capelle's Building Stores, Guernsey, takes up the story: ''I was only ten years old at the time the Titanic went down but I can remember very well what results the sinking brought home. We heard about it on the ...
  TITANIC LIFEBOAT MOVIE
RAISE THE TITANIC (POSTER)   RAISE THE TITANIC (POSTER)
A French movie poster...
1980
CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?   CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?
Senan Molony
(William McQuillan, from a family photo)...
HMS HECATE'S ROLE IN DISCOVERY OF TITANIC WRECK   HMS HECATE'S ROLE IN DISCOVERY OF TITANIC WRECK
John Bibby
I read with interest on this site regarding HMS Hecate's apparent role in the discovery of Titanic in 1977. Actually this is a mistake. I served on board HMS HECATE between 1980...
  PICTURE STAR GIVEN RECEPTION AT WEBER'S
Dorothy Gibson Introduced, Applauded by "Movie" Crowd A distinct treat was enjoyed by a large audience of devotees of the motion pictures yesterday when Mr. White, manager of Weber’s New York, spied among the evening’s patrons M...
1912
New York Times RENEE HARRIS, 93, FIRST WOMAN TO PRODUCE PLAYS HERE, IS DEAD
p.47, col. 5 Mrs. Renee Harris, New York's first woman theatrical producer, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died yesterday at Doctor's Hospital. She was 93 years old and lived at 140 West 69th Street. A former owner...
3rd September 1969
  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...
BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC   BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC
Picture from Hollywood 1953 movie...
1953
WILLIAM HARBECK WITH MOVIE CAMERA Calgary Herald WILLIAM HARBECK WITH MOVIE CAMERA
Well known in Calgary, who is said to have been on the Titanic. Mr Harbeck was engaged, it is said, to take a series of pictures of the Titanic's first voyage. He took many pictures in Alberta in connection with C.P.R. advertising. ...
20th April 1912
Chicago American 3 VICTIMS LAUD TITANIC FILM
Ann Marsters
Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y...
25th February 1959
  WRECK MOVIE
Possibly what held the Titanic together after the ship broke apart aft of the third funnel - causing the stern to be pulled vertical as the ship sank. This piece is located in the debris field, approx. 900 meters away from the stern section. ...
Southern Evening Echo TITANIC MEN FOR PREMIERE OF NEW FILM
A HANDFUL of survivors from the Titanic disaster in 1912, some of whom have not seen each other since, will be at the Odeon, Leicester Square, tonight, to see the premiere of the new Rank Organisation film, A Night To Remember. The fil...
3rd July 1958
New York Times Book Review THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956
Chicago Tribune SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES
Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ...
21st November 1966
BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC Mon Film BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC
This studio picture of Miss Barbara Stanwick was published on 14 September 1955 in the French weekly 'Mon Film'. The Fox version of the Titanic disaster by Jean Negulesco was just about to open in France and this magazine published a two page coverag...
14th September 1955
  THE BABY OF THE TITANIC
Don Mullan Talks to Millvina Dean "I first met Millvina Dean at a HMS Titanic Convention in Southampton in 1997 with my children. It was my eldest daughter Therese's fascination with the James Cameron's movie 'Titanic' that brought us there. From the moment we met Millvina, there was an instant friendship....
New York Times FIERMONTE THREATENS DIVORCE
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 9---Enzo Fiermonte, husband of Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, today took a screen test at Fox Movie Studio. Discussing the status of his marriage with the wealthy New Yor...
10th August 1934
New York Times STORY OF BOYS' FALL AS TOLD BY MOTHER
Dr. Norris Makes Public the Official Record of Mrs. Waidman's Examination --- MEMORY IS FRAGMENTARY --- Unable to Recall Where She Sat or Exactly How Sons Plunged to Death From Hotel Roof --- Dr. Charles Norr...
28th October 1928
Burlington Hawk Eye SWEDE SURVIVED LINER'S SINKING DURING SEARCH FOR HIS AMERICAN DREAM
There's another love story connected to the Titanic....
1st January 1998
  TITANIC 1912 ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
Original archive film of the Titanic....
The Times 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
JACK THAYER JR. AND BARBARA STANWYCK L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse JACK THAYER JR. AND BARBARA STANWYCK
A man identified as "Jack Thayer Jr", shown visiting Barbara Stanwyck on the set of Fox movie "Titanic" (1953). Jack told star Barbara Stanwyck about his mother, who inspired Miss Stanwyck's character. [Jack Thayer Jr died in 1945 ed.]...
13th September 1956
TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP Belfast Titanic Society TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP
On Friday 15th April at 12 noon, members of the Belfast Titanic Society will gather at Belfast City Hall to remember those from the city who were lost aboard RMS Titanic in 1912. Wreaths will be placed at the Titanic Memorial, on the Donegall Square East side of the City Hall grounds....
13th April 2011
PITMAN GRAVESTONE   PITMAN GRAVESTONE
In Love We Remember. Herbert John Pitman M.B.E. 1877-1961. Merchant Navy 1895-1947 Rest In Peace. 3rd Officer S.S. Titanic 1912....
New York Times TV: LAST HOURS OF TITANIC
Review...
29th March 1956
Hudson Observer ONE SURVIVOR REACHES HOME OF BROTHER
Thomas Percy Oxenham, 22 years old, brother of Charles Oxenham, of 966Tonnele avenue, New Durham, is now resting after his frightfulexperience in the Titanic wreck. He came from Pondersend, Eng., to livewith his North Hudson re...
20th April 1912
  TITANIC : REAL ARCHIVE FILM 1912
Original archive movie film of the Titanic entering dock at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast,....
THE DAY I MET A TITANIC SURVIVOR Titanic Research THE DAY I MET A TITANIC SURVIVOR
Gregg Jasper
Liner enthusiast recounts 1968 meeting with Renee Harris Introduction Until the death in 2009 of Millvina Dean, the oldest living Titanic survivor, meeting a passenger who sailed on the legend...
24th March 2011
New York Times MARGARET MOORE, 83, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Margaret Graham Moore of Greenwich, Conn., a passenger on the Titanic when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, died in Greenwich Hospital yesterday. She was 83 years old. The 882-foot luxury liner, crowded with celebriti...
27th April 1976
DOROTHY GIBSON IN 'HANDS ACROSS THE SEA'   DOROTHY GIBSON IN 'HANDS ACROSS THE SEA'
A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enacting events of the American Revolut...
1911
New York Times THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912
Review...
20th November 1955
Toronto Daily Star RESCUED BY THE SAME LIFEBOAT TITANIC SURVIVORS UNITED AGAIN
"A tragedy so great that it forever gives its survivors a common bond was the sinking of the Titanic. Sgt. John Collins was so impressed by his experiences of that famous occasion that he is trying to form a Titanic Association. He found three other ...
16th April 1939
Hampshire Magazine DID THIS MAN SURVIVE THREE DAYS IN THE ICY OCEAN?
By far the most exciting story concerning a Titanic crewman has survived through Mrs. Louise Parker of Golden Grove, a surviving daughter of greaser George Prangnell. The story of Prangnell's escape is truly incredible, and is told here in print for ...
1980
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER"
Edward C. Burks
GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo...
9th October 1973
Chicago Record-Herald SLUMS MOURN STEAD : OLD-TIMERS IN CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN REMEMBER
SLUMS MOURN STEAD Old-Timers in Chicago’s Chinatown Remember English Author as “Billy, the Bum” Cleaned Streets in Chicago ...
18th April 1912
RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA   RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA
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Kerry Sentinel KERRY SURGEON ON TITANIC
Dr Wm F N O'Loughlin, the senior Surgeon of the S.S. Titanic, and who went down with that great steamer on the morning of the 15th inst, was born in Tralee. He was second son of the late Mr William O'Loughlin, and some of the older inhabitants may re...
27th April 1912
Ottawa Citizen 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
New York Times MRS. EDWARD B. MAYER
Mrs. Edward B. Mayer died suddenly last night at her home, 21 East Eighty-second Street. She was the former Miss Benita Rosalind Guggenheim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim. Her father was drowned in the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Mayer was ...
22nd July 1927
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
Chicago Tribune PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY
Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...
3rd April 1966
BERTHE LEROY IN 1956   BERTHE LEROY IN 1956
From 'Santa Barbara News Press'...
1956
Chicago Examiner NIGHT CLEAR, SAYS MARINER
Boston, Mass., April 18---Captain Franz Huber of the German Freighter Trautenfels, which arrived here today, said he passed over the spot where the Titanic sunk ten hours before the accident and that the night was clear. ...
19th April 1912
NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION Titanic Research NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION
Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins
On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of where she had reportedly foundered. Shortly after t...
7th November 2002
Shoreham Society Newsletter A TITANIC LINK
Little did any of us realise as we beat a path to South Coast Cinema doors to see that blockbuster movie Titanic that it had a Shoreham connection. A prominent Shoreham family lost one of their sons on the so-called ‘unsinkable ship’. Henry Head, ...
April 1998
New York Times SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC
Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...
18th May 1964
New York Times STRAUS'S SECRETARY WAITS ALL NIGHT
A representative of the Straus family was at the White Star steamship office continuously yesterday, waiting for news of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. Sylvester Byrnes, Mr. Straus's secretary, had remained in the office all night. With ...
17th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...
2nd February 2001
  NOTE BY FRANCES WILSON ON THE ISMAY FAMILY ARCHIVE
Frances Wilson
Frances Wilson, author of How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay discusses her enduring interest in the Titanic and her discovery of the Ismay family archive...
11th August 2011
New York Times STRAUS MEMORIALS HELD
Anniversary of Titanic Disaster Marked by Two Meetings --- Memorial services for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, were held yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Straus Memorial Hall of the Edu...
16th April 1913
MUNCHEN 1908 (BACK)   MUNCHEN 1908 (BACK)
Munchen. August 1908. Lee Schwabacher sends Herman Praetorius a friendly card, in which his apparent joke about Henry is obscured by a word I cannot decipher. "Munchen. Aug. 22, 1908. Your letter to ahnd, and we wre very much plased with same, and to learn that you were promoted and doing so (?) with your music. And I hope you play so well that Uncle Henry will not ruin it with his (?) Soon you will start back to school~ guess before we get home. Remember me to all at home. With lots of love which Uncle Henry joins me. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
Gare Maritime
  A NAME TO REMEMBER
Not many of Titanic's 'black gang' are remembered in the towns in which they once lived, but residents of West End on the outskirts of Southampton now have good reason to know the name of greaser Jim Jukes. For several years ...
Washington Herald CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE
CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON
The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic...
19th April 1912
The New York Times THINKS TIMES LIST SAVED FATHER'S LIFE
Survivor Says Aged Man Got Hope from Interpretation of Faulty Wireless Message --- 'WILLIAMS' MEANT 'WILHEMS' --- ...
21st April 1912
New York Dramatic Mirror A LIVING MEMORY
movie review...
3rd April 1912
ALL THE HORRORS SEEM TO HAPPEN AT NIGHT Titanic Research ALL THE HORRORS SEEM TO HAPPEN AT NIGHT
Inger Sheil
31st August 2005
SINKING ANIMATION   SINKING ANIMATION
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Hudson Observer WEST HOBOKEN MAN'S RELATIVES HAVE NOT ABANDONED ALL HOPE
Nothing has been heard of John Ashby, listed as second cabin passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, and the family, in West Hoboken, with the Rev. Edmund J. Cleveland, would be pleased for any information. No satisfaction can be obtained at the Whit...
22nd April 1912
Chorley Guardian WIDOW OF TITANIC OFFICER VISITS CHORLEY
Seeks Family Crest Motto - ''Let your light shine'' By a coincidence, a visitor to Chorley this week was Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the late Cdr. C. H. Lightoller, who is played by Kenneth ...
18th July 1958
Nord-Matin SINKING OF THE TITANIC: "I WAS THERE" TOLD US A LADY FROM BéTHUNE
Gérard COUCKE
Picture by Jean HEMERY On Sunday evening(a), an American movie by Jean Negulesco opened on the 1st channel; it was dedicated to the dramatic sinking of the Titanic which, in the night of April 14th/15th, 1912, caused the death of 1695 ...
1966
Times-Tribune 50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC
Rosemary Mossien
BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....
1962
Daily Mirror AUBART ACCOUNT
May 13, 1912 : I had in my cabin jewels worth 4,000 (GPB) as well as many trunks of dresses and hats. One does not come from Paris and buy one's clothes in America. That is understood, is it not? Nothing could I take with me; not...
13th May 1912
Worcester Telegram NEVER NEAR TITANIC
Article...
18th April 1912
  LEAD KINDLY LIGHT
The Hymn "Lead Kindly Light" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. Verses 1-3 were written in 1833 by John Henry Newman (1801-1890). While traveling in Italy as a young priest...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO CHARLES LIGHTOLLER
Mortlake Crematorium, London SW4. Is the site of his scattered ashes. Unmarked, plot 22. also he has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which ...
SAVED FROM OCEAN THANKS TO A TOY PIG Doncaster Evening Post SAVED FROM OCEAN THANKS TO A TOY PIG
Shirley Davenport
A PROMISE and a toy pig saved an American woman from drowning on the Titanic's maiden voyage 62 years ago....
7th June 1974
THE SINKING OF THE SEA DIAMOND Gare Maritime THE SINKING OF THE SEA DIAMOND
Mike Poirier
The sinking of the Costa Concordia has drawn inevitable comparisons with both Titanic and other maritime disasters. In this verbatim interview by Michael Poirier, a young survivor of the April 2007 Sea Diamond sinking, Zak Hayes, recalls the experience of evacuation at sea....
17th January 2012
New York Herald THOMAS WHITELEY : THREE WARNINGS WERE GIVEN TO THE OFFICER ON THE BRIDGE
Thomas Whiteley, Tells of Hearing Men Who Were in Crows Nest Express Indignation Because Mr. Murdock, the First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger. ...
21st April 1912
Leatherhead, Advertiser, Epsom District Times and County Post WRECK OF THE TITANIC LITTLE GIRLS ACCOUNT
Mrs. Tate, of Elm Villas, Leatherhead, has just received from her daughter (Mrs. Collyer) a copy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, containing an account of the wreck of the Titanic, as depicted by her daughter Margery, eight years of age. It will be remem...
18th May 1912
  LETTER FROM STAGG TO HIS WIFE
Dear Bertie, Just a few lines to let you know I arrived on board all right but what a day we have had of it, it's been nothing but work all day long but I can tell you nothing as regards what people I have for nothing will be settled ...
1912
Akron Beacon Journal 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
FILM OF CARPATHIA RETURNING SURVIVORS TO NEW YORK   FILM OF CARPATHIA RETURNING SURVIVORS TO NEW YORK
The Carpathia arrived in New York on the evening of 18 April 1912. ...
18th April 1912
The Times INVENTIONS SURGE AFTER TITANIC DISASTER
Article...
19th April 1913
The New York Times OLYMPIC CUTS HER OWN TIME
Five Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes from Daunt's Rock to the Lightship --- The new White Star liner Olympic, which arrived in Quarantine last night and anchored, has made even better time on her second voyage th...
19th July 1911
Worcester Telegram FOUR OF THE ASPLUNDS ARE TITANIC VICTIMS
Searching dilligently in New York Thursday night and all day yesterday at the pier where the rescued passengers of the ill-fated Titanic were delivered Thursday night by the Cunard liner, Carpathia, John Carlson, 193 Vernon Street, a brother-in-law o...
20th April 1912
  ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER
Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
The Times MR. BRUCE ISMAY
"B. B. H." writes:--- As secretary for 13 years to a charitable fund for young people of which Mr. Ismay was chairman, I know something of the loss which has befallen us this week. One could not have wo...
21st October 1937
Press Release TITANIC WALKS : IPHONE APP : TITANIC TRAIL IN SOUTHAMPTON, UK
Almost a century on, Southampton, England—the home port of RMS Titanic—carefully preserves the memory of the ship and those who tragically lost their lives on her ill-fated maiden voyage. Locals and visitors to Southampton who, in t...
20th October 2010
A MATTER OF COURSE Titanic Research A MATTER OF COURSE
Randy Bryan Bigham
There was more to Great Britain’s fashionable Countess of Rothes than banquets and garden parties. She proved that the night Titanic went down. ...
22nd September 2006
  EDITH LOUISE ROSENBAUM RUSSELL (1879-1975)
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 June 1879, the fashion writer, consultant, importer, buyer and stylist Edith Louise Rosenbaum began her career abroad as a saleswoman in 1908 for the Maison Cheruit in the Place Vendome in Paris. Later she wrote for th...
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER
Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...
19th April 1912
Sunday Press 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 DR. RICE, IN WILDS OF BRAZIL, IN TOUCH BY RADIO WITH HIS FRIENDS IN NEW YORK EVERY NIGHT
Deep in the wilds of Brazil, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, surgeon and explorer, is encamped on the Rio Brancho in Manaos, studying tropical diseases. New York, although long ago over its uneasiness for the safety of the Rice party which arose late la...
16th December 1924
Adams County News LOCAL INTEREST IN TITANIC LOSS
Wife of Lutheran Missionary Returning Home with Three Children All Saved in Midnight Transfer to Life Boats Many Gettysburg people are keenly interested in the welfare of four passengers who were o...
20th April 1912
Cork Examiner BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE
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11th May 1912
RETURN TO TITANIC, BY DR. ROBERT D. BALLARD Titanic Review RETURN TO TITANIC, BY DR. ROBERT D. BALLARD
Richard A. Krebes
Minnetonka, Minnesota. May, 1988... In a one-level rambler on a street with the pretty name "Croftview Terrace", a young boy sits mesmerized. A letter in his hand. A letter written on the stationary of the Wood...
9th April 2009
New York Times MRS. FIERMONTE RITES
Dr. Sargent to Officiate Monday at St. Bartholomew's Service --- A funeral service for Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, who died of a heart ailment at her Winter home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, will be held here on Mon...
29th May 1940
Jersey Journal THOS. MCCORMACK OF BAYONNE AT ELLIS ISLAND
After hours of anxious searching relatives to-day learned that Thomas McCormack, the young Bayonne man who was on the Titanic, was at Ellis Island where he is being detained prior to his readmission to this country. ...
19th April 1912
GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE Titanic Research GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE
Senan Molony
The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captai...
11th September 2010
Boston Daily Globe WOMAN LEAPS FROM DEVONIAN
Formerly Stewardess on the Titanic Passengers on the Leyland Line steamship Devonian, in yesterday afternoon from Liverpool, reported that Mrs. Anna Robinson, a widow, aged 44, who was...
11th October 1914
RECALLING THE INDIANAPOLIS - CLEATUS LEBOW Gare Maritime RECALLING THE INDIANAPOLIS - CLEATUS LEBOW
Cleatus Lebow
I was in the water, I was swimming away from the ship in the dark... I heard the loudest, worst noise I’d ever heard...
30th July 2007 Gare Maritime
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Doris Robertson Polley
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
New York Times LOUIS BUTT DIES HERE
Brother of Roosevelt’s Aid Was a Cotton Buyer of Georgia --- Louis Butt of Augusta, Ga., a cotton buyer and cotton exporter, died at 11:05 last night in Roosevelt Hospital of intestinal hemorrhages caused by an intestinal abscess.&...
1st August 1924
Jerseyman MRS. PATTERSON IS CALLED BY DEATH
(Morristown, New Jersey) Page 1 Wife of Editor of Jerseyman Dies in Memorial Hospital Mrs. Susan Ryerson Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago, and wife of George W. Patterson, Jr., editor of THE J...
14th January 1921
ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY   ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY
Bill Headdon
King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...
28th May 2008
Oxford Times STEWARD'S STATEMENT
Propped up on pillows in bed at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thomas Whiteley, steward of the First Class Saloon of the Titanic, described the scene in the dining-room on the night of the disaster. ''We had made great time,...
27th April 1912
TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS   TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
Authored by Michael B. Wehrli, Michael B. Wehrli Based on the Senate Hearing transcrip...
New York Times LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE
Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Plaza last night, said that Capt. Smith had been informed by the White Star Company that he was to ret...
16th April 1912
New York Times MR. STRAUS'S HORSE DEAD
Found Lifeless in Stable the Morning After the Titanic Sank --- Friends of Isidor Straus, who, with his wife, perished in the Titanic disaster, told yesterday of a peculiar coincidence concerning Mr. Straus and his favorite horse Bess. ...
26th April 1912
Cornishman CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE
(courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ...
16th May 1912
  THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK
John Lamoreau
William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska...
Southern Evening Echo UNTITLED
A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living...
14th May 1952
Unidentified Encyclopædia JOHN HARPER
Aguilla Webb
[Extract] John Harper, the newly called pastor of Moody Church in the early 1900's, manifested his Christian character in the sinking of the Titanic. Dr. W. B. Riley related the death of Harper. "We have the history of John Harper's en...
The Times LORD PIRRIE'S TITLE
Last night's  Gazette contains the formal notification of the new peerages included in the Birthday Honours. *** Mr. W. J. Pirrie becomes Baron Pirrie of the city of Belfast ***....
21st July 1906
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier MRS. HANSON IS HOME
MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________   ...
The Witney Gazette 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
  MY MAIDEN VOYAGE
Roberta Maioni
When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr...
1926
THE TITANIC AND THE INDIFFERENT STRANGER Titanic Review THE TITANIC AND THE INDIFFERENT STRANGER
Paul Rogers
The scandal of a ship, within sight of the sinking Titanic that did nothing to help. Rockets were seen and ignored...but was the Captain guilty of mass murder? Did 1500 people needlessly die?...
24th July 2009
THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC   THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
Jeanette Forrest
A Descriptive Piano Composition Word and Music by Jeanette Forrest Published 1912 by Frank K. Root & Co. Chicago : New York Listen to this Piece [Midi] ...
1912
Unidentified Newspaper 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
New York Times INSANE WOMAN DEPORTED
Miss Hyman, Who Came to Visit Her Brother, Had Suicidal Mania --- Closely guarded to prevent her carrying out her suicidal mania, Miss Jessie Hyman, a well-dressed woman about 28 yours old; was deported yesterday on the White Star ...
12th September 1907
Unidentified Newspaper RICHARD L. BECKWITH
Richard Lenard Beckwith who died last night in New York City will be buried tomorrow at the Cedar Hill Cemetery. Flowers will be omitted. The Rev. Raymond Cunningham will officiate. ...
12th April 1933
New York Times 12 DEAD IN CEDAR RAPIDS
But Searchers Still Hunt for 20 More Missing --- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23---With twelve bodies recovered from the ruins of the Douglas Starch Company's plant, wrecking crews today and tonight searched the debris for the...
24th May 1919
  1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC
Dennis Foley
By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
  OUR GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST
(O God, Our Help in Ages Past) The Hymn "Our God, our help in ages past" was recalled by Colonel Archibald Gracie, as the last to be sung at the morning service, presided over by Ca...
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ...
New York Times RECITES CLOSE CALL OF TITANIC RESCUE
Sir Arthur Rostron Tells How Radio Man Got S 0 S as He Prepared to Quit Post --- RECALLS 46 YEARS AT SEA --- Carpathia's Former Master, in New Autobiography, Describes "Most Memorable Night" of Career --- If ...
27th October 1931
San Francisco Bulletin 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
New York Times 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
CARPATHIA MEDAL   CARPATHIA MEDAL
Captain Rostron, the officers and crew of the Carpathia each received a medal in recognition of their efforts on the night of April 14th/15th 1912. ...
Chicago Tribune TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT
Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—...
18th April 1912
  SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at the Hotel Seville, with Mr....
22nd April 1912
ON BOARD RMS TITANIC : MEMORIES OF THE MAIDEN VOYAGE Titanic Review ON BOARD RMS TITANIC : MEMORIES OF THE MAIDEN VOYAGE
Peter Engberg
Peter Engberg reviews George Behe's compilation of letters written aboard RMS Titanic...
12th February 2012
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT Titanic Review THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers reviews a new book exploring the mystery of the "Californian Incident"...
16th June 2009
CAFE GRILL   CAFE GRILL
The Café Grill on the Boat Deck is a pleasantly sunny room by day, and by night is softly illuminated by shafts of iridescent light....
1937 Gare Maritime
Newark Evening News SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ...
20th April 1912
Corriere della Sera STILL MISSING A COMPLETE LIST OF THE ITALIAN'S SHIPWREKED
Page B07 [Translation] The enrolment of the waiters for the "Titanic" London, 17 April, night Till midnight no one new list of the survivors has reached, so except for Portaluppi and Pera...
18th April 1912
New York Times FIERMONTE VISITS HIS WIFE IN NAPLES
Italian Boxer Remains With Former Mrs. Astor an Hour Then Hurries Away --- POLICE TAKE HIS PASSPORT --- His First Wife Quits Her Job as He is Said to Have Provided for Her and Their Son --- NAPLES, Sunday, F...
10th February 1935
THE BOXHALL LETTERS Voyage THE BOXHALL LETTERS
Joe Carvalho & Shelley Dziedzic
The following five letters, written to Mr. Joe Carvalho of Massaschusetts by Commander Joseph G. Boxhall span the time period of April 1961 through July of 1962, and reveal the sentiments of the Titanic officer r...
23rd May 2005
Unidentified Newspaper MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT
Bruce Chadwick
He Recalls Sinking 62 Years Ago --- The Easter season is never a completely happy time for Tom McCormack of Elizabeth, N.J. It always brings memories of his escape from the sinking Titanic, which went down in the freezing Atlantic 62 ye...
15th April 1974
Worcester Telegram 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
Chicago Examiner ERVIN LEWY : BROTHER AWAITS NEWS
Ervin G. Lewy, 5628 South Park avenue, is treasurer of the firm of Lewy Brothers, jewelers, State and Adams streets.  No dispatches have been received by Mr. Lewy's relatives late last night to indicate whether he was among those who lost the...
16th April 1912
Newark Evening News HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM
It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ...
19th April 1912
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL Gare Maritime THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....
10th July 2007 Gare Maritime
Worcester Evening Gazette MRS ASPLUND AND CHILDREN SAFE IN HOSPITAL AT N.Y.
Article of Interest...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner MISS ANNIE KELLY IN HOSPITAL
Misses Margaret and Beatrice Kelly of 303 Eugenie street were overjoyed last night when they learned that their seventeen-year-old sister, Annie Kelly, who was a Titanic voyager, was one of the survivors picked up by the Carpathi...
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...
RECOLLECTIONS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR EDMOND RYAN Atlantic Daily Bulletin RECOLLECTIONS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR EDMOND RYAN
Edward Ryan
Notes by survivor Edward Ryan recently found and transcribed...
9th July 2002
STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Gare Maritime STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS
Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials....
21st July 2006 Gare Maritime
Camden Daily Courier NOTHING HEARD OF FREDERICK SUTTON
Relatives and friends of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, who was on board the Titanic when she sank on Sunday night after colliding with a huge iceberg, have given up all hope of his survival. Mr. Sutton was president of the Collingswood National B...
18th April 1912
New York Times SHOCK OF DISASTER KILLS WOMAN
BROCKTON, Mass., April 17---Miss Katherine E. Maguire, 50 years old, heartbroken by the news that her nephew, John E. Maguire, was among those probably lost on the Titanic, was taken violently ill to-night and died within a few moments. She had been...
18th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR FACES DEATH AGAIN
GALESBURG, Ill., Apr 14---Frank Karoun, one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, narrowly escaped death again last night, just a year after surviving that shipwreck. The Lindel Hotel, of which Karoun is the proprietor, collapsed, and the walls ...
15th April 1913
The Times HAROLD COTTAM
Obituary...
31st May 1984
  LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC
A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w...
11th April 1912
Washington Herald 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
Chicago Tribune CELTIC PASSENGERS IN PANIC
News of Titanic Disaster Spreads Despite Efforts of the Officers of Vessel New York, April 20--[Special]--The Celtic of the White Star line arrived in port today with the news that she had received the &qu...
21st April 1912
New York Times RICHARD L. BECKWITH
Richard L. Beckwith, formerly second vice president of the real estate firm of Ruland & Benjamin, died last night at his home, 224 East Sixty-first Street, after an illness of two years. He was graduated from Yale in 1898 and was a member of the Yale...
12th April 1933
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