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| Newark Evening News | WORD RECEIVED HERE OF C. M. HAYS'S RESCUE Among those well known in this city and suburbs whose name has been flashed as among the rescued from the Titanic, is Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway companies, of Canada, of Canada, a nephew of... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Globe and Mail | LAST REMAINING CP STEAMSHIP COMING HOME TO CANADA The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era. The elegant ship, with its oak and mahogany dining room and stained-glass windows, ferried passengers and freight from Georgian Bay to Lake Superior for more than 50 years, until it was decommissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1965.... |
14th October 2011 | |||
| The Times | MR. CHARLES M. HAYS MISSING (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) --- MONTREAL, APRIL 18 --- A message by wireless telegraphy from the Carpatlhia was received at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal this morning signed ... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Montreal Gazette | HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg.... |
3rd August 2006 | |||
| New York Times | CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ... |
1st May 1915 | |||
| ca | HALIFAX EXPLOSION VESSEL'S REMNANTS LIE IN FALKLANDS Built in 1889 by White Star, the same company that built the Titanic, it was first called the SS Runic, then the Tampican, and transported passengers on the Atlantic. In 1912, it was sold to Norway's South Pacific Whaling Company. The Imo amazingly survived its only terrible accident in Halifax but, with its new name, lasted only a few years.... |
6th December 2011 | |||
| PRINCESS SOPHIA OFF TAKU GLACIER Canadian Pacific's liner Princess Sophia is seen off Taku Glacier in this 1913 photograph.... |
1913 | ||||
| New York Times | DYING MAN'S SON FOUND Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite ... |
29th October 1910 | |||
| Titanic Research | A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters.... |
9th July 2002 | |||
| New York Times | A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974 Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f... |
1st February 1913 | |||
| Gare Maritime | THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED: ONE BLACK WEEK IN 1875 Jim Kalafus The double tragedy of the Pacific and the City of Waco... |
28th June 2007 | |||
| The Mercury (Hobart) | THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York... |
27th October 1910 | |||
| EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S... |
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| Washington Times | WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Examiner | HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | ISMAY IS TO QUIT Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ... |
1st January 1913 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | WIDOW AND DAUGHTERS OF HAYS SPEED HOME New York, April 18---Mrs. Charles M. Hays and her two daughters, Miss Margaret Hays and Mrs. Thornton Davidson, survivors of the Titanic wreck, were met at the pier by a large party of friends. Mr. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Railw... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Rood, Mr. Hugh Roscoe. Missing. Ritz Hotel, London, W. Black Moore & Co., 5 East India House, London, E.C. Hotel Regina, Paris. Seattle. Travelling to USA. Vice president of The Pacific Creosoting Company. Cabin A32.... |
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| The San Francisco Call | SEATTLE MAN ON LINER SEATTLE, April 15 - Hugh R. Rood, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Creosoting company, whose name appears in the list of the Titanic's passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man who had been spending the winter on the continent w... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | 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 | |||
| SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS A panoramic view of Southampton Terminus railway station, circa 1912, at which time it was known as Southampton Town & Dock.... |
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| New York Times | MORGAN HOPEFUL FOR OUR STOCKS Tells a Doubtful Fellow-Traveler He'll Change His Mind About Them --- A BIG DECLINE YESTERDAY --- Erie Issues Lead It-Dividend on the Second Preferred May Be Passed---Gold Coming Soon --- Special Cabl... |
23rd March 1907 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT: ARTHUR WARD Ward Arthur of Manor House, Palmerston Street, Romsey, Hants. Administration London 6th June 1912 to Alfred Ward, Railway Agent. Effects Ł193.12s.1d. ... |
6th June 1912 | ||||
| Chicago Examiner | JOHN HUGO ROSS AMONG THOSE NOT RESCUED J. H. ROSS EXPECTED. One of the Titanic victims was to visit Dr. Hugh H. Perry, 9515 Commercial avenue, the latter part of this week. He was J. Hugo Ross, cousin of Dr. Perry and a wealthy re... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | BOSTON BANKS TO MERGE H. K. Hallett to Head Combined Atlantic and Fourth National --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, July 21---The death of Arthur W. Newell, President of the Fourth National Bank, who was lost on the Titanic, is abou... |
22nd July 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... |
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| PRINCESS SOPHIA'S MAST MARKS HER GRAVE For a few weeks after the disaster, the Princess Sophia's mast marked her grave near Vanderbilt Reef. Some accounts claim that a winter storm toppled the last visible trace of the liner,... |
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| ATLANTIC CITY 1909 (BACK) Atlantic City. April 1, 1909. "We are having a pleasant stay here. The weather is fine. Love to all from Uncle Henry and Lee."... |
1st April 1909 | ||||
| EDWARD DODD The William Salt Library, Stafford Dodd, Edward C. Son of Mr. Dodd former electrical engineer and contractor of Crewe. Formerly in Crewe railway Works, was 3rd engineer on the Titanic.... |
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| San Francisco Bulletin | LOCAL MINING MAN IS ON TITANIC'S DEATH LIST Colonel John Weir, a well known mining man of the Pacific Coast, was one of the victims of the Titanic horror. It has been learned by his friends that he took passage on the ill fated steamer on an unexpected trip to California, probably on urgent bu... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| RIO CRUISE BROCHURE - MAP AND ITINERARY CRUISE PROGRAM New York . . . . Sail on Feb. 5, 1 p.m. Nassau, Bahamas . . . Feb. 7 A forenoon to see the island, its fashionable hotels and splendid bathing beaches. Port of Spain, Trinidad. . . Feb. 9 & 10 An afterno... |
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| PROBATE REPORT LOBB William Arthur of Bugle St Austell Cornwall engine driver died 14 April 1912 at sea Administration Bodmin 3 August 1912 to George Lobb clay labourer Effects Ł50 NB. Engine driver in this sense is a mine engine rather than conventional r... |
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| San Francisco Chronicle | DR. DODGE AND HIS FAMILY ARE SAFE Page 1 Assessor Sends Two Messages From Carpathia to His Son Here-- Mayor Wires Reply Relieving the deep anxiety of his relatives and thousands of friends in this city, Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco, ... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four... |
3rd July 1913 | |||
| EDWARD DODD MEMORIAL On the west wall of the chancel in Christ Church Crewe is a plaque to the memory of Edward Dodd. It reads "In Memory of E... |
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| ATLANTIC CITY 1909 (FRONT) Atlantic City; Boardwalk and Hotel Blenheim, 1909.... |
1st April 1909 | ||||
| Cork Examiner | UNTITLED A list of survivors published today contains no reference to the names of Mr. Patrick Colbert, Kilconlea, Abbeyfeale (Not Limerick as given) Mr. James Scanlon, Rathkeale, nor of other young men said to have been on board from East and North Kerry. Pa... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | HAYS HEADS GRAND TRUNK Directors of Canadian Line Elect Rock Island, Ill., Man Present [sic] --- LONDON, Jan. 7---At a meeting to-day of the Directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, Charles M. Hays was elected President. ... |
8th January 1910 | |||
| MEMORIAL In Memory of William Stone, late Inspector of L & S W Railway, died November 13th 1909 aged 64. Also of Agnes Mary Jane, wife of the above, died March 3rd 1929 aged 85. Also of Edmund Stone, son of the above, who was lost ... |
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| QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold... |
1956 | ||||
| New York Times | MEMORIAL NOTICE HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR... |
28th April 1912 | |||
| Standard Union | FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | REPORT FUTRELLE SAFE By The Associated Press 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 | |||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Harry Cotterill's father, Thomas Cotterill died in November 1898, aged 45. He was buried in Penzance Cemetery. Harry's mother died on 6 June 1940, aged 81 and was buried with her husband, there is no gravestone marker. Her administration repo... |
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| The Times | TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ... |
2nd November 2006 | |||
| CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t... |
1912 | ||||
| Voyage | GLENDUN John P. Eaton GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway... |
26th October 2004 | |||
| The Times | MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil... |
1st January 1913 | |||
| Toronto Star | NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic.... |
16th April 2009 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | PRES. HAYS WIDOW LEAVES FOR HOME New York, April 19- Upon the arrival of the Carpathia, Mrs. Charles M. Hays, wife of the president of the Grand Trunk railway, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic and her two daughters, Mrs. Thornton Davidson and Miss. Margaret Hays, were met by... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| WALTER DOUGLAS CROSSING THE ATLANTIC Walter Douglas (in hat) crossing the Atlantic c.1910.... |
1910 | ||||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | BROTHER OF BROOKLYNITE, A PRIEST, WAS ON TITANIC Two of the visitors to the White Star line offices were Laurence M. Byles, Vice President of the W. E. Byles Company, Ltd., of 90 Wall street, Manhattan, and his brother, W. Hunter Byles, of Omaha. They went to inquire as to the safety of another bro... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | OBITUARY Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ... |
27th April 1967 | |||
| Branson Courier | 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 | |||
| New York Times | GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ... |
24th February 1904 | |||
| NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS The Los Angeles Times of April 17th 1912 stated that he was a brother of E. D. Rood of El Centro, California. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) of April 13th 1992 stated that he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Coast Creosotin... |
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| New York Times | LORD PIRRIE DIES ON SHIP BOUND HERE Head of Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Stricken With Pneumonia --- ON TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA --- A Leader in the Formation of the International Mercantile Marine --- Viscount Pirrie, head of the famous firm of... |
9th June 1924 | |||
| nationalpost.com | STEALING THE TITANIC: ARTIFACTS AUCTION DRAWS ACCUSATIONS OF GRAVE ROBBERY On April 15, on the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking, an auction house in New York will sell off $185-million-worth of items salvaged from the wreck: Eye-glasses, antique currency, jewellery, clothing and — the pičce de resistance — a 17-tonne section of the hull ripped clean in the ship’s final violent moments. In Halifax, the burial place of 150 Titanic victims, news of the auction prompted disgust. “We’re into preserving and documenting — not into pillaging,” Lynn-Marie Richard, registrar for the city’s Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, told The Chronicle Herald. The man who located the Titanic sitting upright at the bottom of the Atlantic would agree.... |
28th January 2012 | |||
| New York Times | OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr... |
14th June 1924 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | THE SAGE FAMILY LOST In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an... |
April 1912 | |||
| STONE FAMILY INFORMATION Edmund Stone was born in Southampton in 1879. He was the son of William Stone (Railway Inspector) and Agnes Mary Jane Stone. In 1881 the UK Census has the family at 7 Brinton's Terrace, Southampton. With William and Agnes Stone were their 4 ... |
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| Titanic Stories | THE TITANIC & THE BATTLE FOR THE HIGH SEAS: CUNARD V. WHITE STAR LINE White Star Line and Cunard compete for passenger trade across the Atlantic.... |
16th May 2011 | |||
| The Times | FUNERALS---MR. BRUCE ISMAY The funeral service of Mr. Bruce Ismay was held yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. E. K. C. Hamilton officiated. Members of the family and others present included:--- Mrs. Bruce Ismay, Mr. and Mrs. ... |
22nd October 1937 | |||
| BOARDWALK 1909 (BACK) Atlantic City,.Aug 2/09 "Wish you were here. You would enjoy the bathing here- it's fine. Love to all & yourself. Uncle Henry and Lee."... |
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| Glasgow Courier | SERVICES FOR TAMPICO MAN SET FOR TODAY Page 1, Column 5 Funeral services for William DeMessemaker, 79, early-day Tampico homesteader and a survivor of the Titanic sinking, Atlantic disaster of 1912, were to be held at 3 this afternoon in St. Raphael's Catholic Church. The ... |
9th June 1955 | |||
| Washington Herald | COMMANDER OF THE ILL FATED TITANIC Capt. Smith was known for years as "The grand old man of the sea" and was probably one of the oldest and one of the most reliable mariners or ocean liners on the Atlantic.... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Gare Maritime | SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Gavin Murphy Story of the Empress of Ireland whose loss resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the Titanic disaster.... |
20th June 2001 | |||
| Voyage | DUKE OF ALBANY John P. Eaton (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 | |||
| BOARDWALK 1909 (FRONT) Atlantic City, 1909.... |
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| The Times | FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w... |
28th November 1899 | |||
| The Times | LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte... |
1st January 1916 | |||
| The Times | THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL---The will of the late Mr. THOMAS HENRY ISMAY, head of the White Star Line, has been proved. The value of the real and personal estate is sworn at £1,297,881 14s. 1d. g... |
12th March 1900 | |||
| WOOD-TV | NEW IMAGES OF TITANIC WRECKAGE SURFACE Nearly 100 years after an iceberg sent it to the bottom of the North Atlantic the Titanic remains a topic of fascination around the world.... |
1st September 2010 | |||
| New York Times | WILL PAY A BET TO MORGAN Gen. Gill to Give Him a Fine Maryland Dinner To-night --- Special to The New York Times --- BALTIMORE, Md., Jan 14---Gen. John Gill, while returning from Eur... |
15th January 1910 | |||
| THE LOST TITANIC "Her passenger list was one of the greatest ever carried by an Atlantic liner."(Harpers Weekly 20 April 1912)... |
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| Philadelphia Inquirer | J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found dead, his wrists and throat cut, in a parked automobile near the P.... |
23rd September 1945 | |||
| THE SAGE FAMILY OF PETERBOROUGH Geoffrey E. Whitfield John George Sage was born in Hackney, London in 1867. He followed a number of trades until his marriage, on 2nd November 1890 to Annie Elizabeth Cazaly. The Cazaly family were originally Huguenot refugees, and had been settled in the London are... |
2001 | ||||
| New York Times | ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth... |
16th January 1913 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | DEATH NOTICE: HERBERT JOHN PITMAN At Pitcombe, Bruton, Somerset, aged 84. A survivor of the Titanic disaster; was third officer on the liner, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage.... |
18th December 1961 | |||
| CNN News | TITANIC 100TH CRUISES SPARK BUZZ DEBATE The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history.... |
28th September 2010 | |||
| WEAU-TV 13 | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC Imagine seeing the Titanic, in person, deep under the waves in the north Atlantic. An author from Los Angeles with local roots is teaching kids about the disaster, with unique insight.... |
22nd April 2009 | |||
| Boston Herald | TITANIC 3-D MAPPING EXPEDITION SETS SAIL TODAY Imagine swimming through the wreckage of the RMS Titanic peeking in portholes and seeing artifacts from nearly 100 years ago sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.... |
19th August 2010 | |||
| New York Times | GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| 6abc.com | LOCAL CONNECTIONS TO THE TITANIC Since she sank back in 1912, only a few scientists have actually seen the Titanic where it sits on the bottom of the northern Atlantic Ocean.Millions saw the recent movie, but experts say that was largely fiction.... |
11th April 2008 | |||
| MSNBC.com | UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT LAUNCHED IN TITANIC SEARCH The wind and the seas have not been cooperating with a group of scientists effort to document the debris field where the Titanic sank in the middle of the North Atlantic.... |
31st August 2010 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Chicago American | 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 | |||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | JOHN B. "JACK" THAYER III:OBITUARY J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found d... |
23rd September 1945 | |||
| KOLO | TITANIC MESSAGE: DREAM BIG The blue wall at Dilworth Middle School represents the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland. It's a project the seventh grade was doing in preparation for the visit of the world famous explorer Dr. Robert Ballard.... |
22nd April 2010 | |||
| MR BENJAMIN HOWARD & MRS ELLEN HOWARD Marion James Mr & Mrs Benjamin HOWARD On researching Benjamin Howard and his wife Ellen Howard who both perished, their bodies were never found. I have been able to locate some details about them and their family members.... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC'S SECRETS OF THE DEEP SHE lies in cold, still waters deep beneath the Atlantic, the once proud and pristine Ship of Dreams is now slowly but surely crumbling away as time, inexorably, takes its corrosive toll.... |
14th April 2008 | |||
| Irish Independent | A STORY THAT WAS NEARLY LOST IN THE ICY ATLANTIC Martina Devlin, author of Ship of Dreams, had a family connection with the Titanic, which sank shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912 when it hit an iceberg. The largest steamer in the world took with her the lives of 1,500 people. But what was to happen to those who escaped?... |
4th February 2008 | |||
| Newark Star | WILL BRING TITANIC VICTIM'S BODY HERE Arrangements were made to have the body of John S. Marsh, the Newark superintendent of mails on the Titanic, brought to the home of the daughter, Miss Nellie Marsh, 39 Emmett street. His body was recovered by the cable ship at the scen... |
30th April 1912 | |||
| Barking Chronicle | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner.... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC LIFE VEST FETCHES Ł43,000 One of the Titanic's few remaining lifejackets has been sold to a private collector for Ł43,000 ($80,000). The auction at Devizes in Wiltshire also featured dozens of letters sent by some of the 1,500 people who died when the ship sank in the Atlantic in 1912. ... |
1st October 2006 | |||
| The Move Channel | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination...... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC DISASTER REMEMBERED About 100 people assembled to commemorate one of the darkest days of Southampton's maritime history.They gathered at Holyrood Church for a service remembering the victims of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic 96 years ago tomorrow.... |
14th April 2008 | |||
| MPNnow.com | A 'TITANIC' EXHIBITION AT RMSC Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, a little over 450 miles from Newfoundland. The Olympic-class passenger liner sank in fewer than three hours, claiming the lives of 1,517 people.... |
1st October 2009 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | UNTITLED Mr Frank Andrew, a married miner, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, near Redruth, was on his first trip across the Atlantic. He has a wife and one child, aged 2 years at Pencoys. Mr Andrews was originally from Lanner. (sic)... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Waterbury Republican American | A TITANIC EVENT On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shattering the world's confidence in technology.... |
20th April 2010 | |||
| TIME | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TITANIC DISCOVERY Almost 25 years to the day after the R.M.S. Titanic was discovered two and a half miles below the surface of the Atlantic an expedition to the ocean floor has transmitted brand new images of history's most famous shipwreck.... |
2nd September 2010 | |||
| The Age | TITANIC THE ARTEFACT EXHIBITION WHEN oceanographer Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic in 1985 4km below the Atlantic surface the debris of the ship was scattered over 2.5 kilometres of ocean floor. Since then those remains have been scattered around the world.... |
25th May 2010 | |||
| The Times | JUDICIAL CHANGES His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of... |
4th February 1909 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC Neil Hotson Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive... |
16th February 2002 | |||
| Rutherford Republican | MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| La Voix du Nord | MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t... |
8th July 1972 | |||
| Stage | THE MAN WHO LEFT THE TITANIC Twenty years after the tragic sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage the White Star chairman is holed up in his Connemara cottage having another wakeful nightmare as he reflects on the horrors of 1517 souls perishing in the icy waters of the north Atlantic.... |
14th September 2010 | |||
| telegraph.co.uk | THE TITANIC SANK INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANKIND In Belfast yesterday, they put out at City Hall a plan of the RMS Titanic, drawn for the Board of Trade inquiry into its sinking, at 2.20am on April 15, 1912, in mid-Atlantic with the deaths of 1517 passengers and crew. Those statistics chill us still. ...... |
23rd April 2011 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC SURVIVOR AUCTIONS RELICS The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Now 96, Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.... |
16th October 2008 | |||
| BBC Berkshire | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC A Crowthorne man has written a poem dedicated to a member of his wife's family who survived the sinking of the Titanic. Percival Blake, known as 'Nunk' to Paddy Boyle, miraculously survived after being plucked from the freezing Atlantic.... |
4th June 2009 | |||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest Charles Cann was born in the village of Chapel Amble in the parish of St Kew near Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1883. He was the son of William Cann (labourer)and Sarah Jane Cann. (Sarah was 27 years younger than her husband and had been widowed sh... |
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| The Times | MR. BRUCE ISMAY AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a... |
18th October 1937 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND 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 sta... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ... |
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| Belfast Newsletter | TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking.... |
24th April 2008 | |||
| KOLD-TV | TITANIC EXHIBIT COMES TO TUCSON You can see a piece of history come alive at a new exhibit in Tucson. It's all about Titanic and that fateful night in the North Atlantic in April of 1912.... |
3rd April 2009 | |||
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| The Gazette (Montreal) | TITANIC SETS SAIL The sinking of the allegedly unsinkable Titanic has fascinated few more than it has Paul-Henry Nargeolet. He was among the very first to see the sunken ocean liner in its final resting place, 12,600 feet at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 645 kilometres southeast of Newfoundland. That was over 20 years ago.... |
17th November 2008 | |||
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| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC'S LINKS TO LIVERPOOL TITANIC had strong links with Liverpool although she never visited her home port – by 1912 the White Star Line's largest and fastest Atlantic steamers were sailing from Southampton.... |
31st October 2009 | |||
| GRAVE Here Rest In Christ Owen George Allum Shipwrecked on the Titanic and Drowned At Sea April 14th, 1912, Aged 17 years. Nearer My God To Thee [In the Winter 1989 issue of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin it was repo... |
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| Lancaster Newspapers | 'TITANIC' TASK FOR A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Sweating under unforgiving stage lights, the Solanco teens imagine a frigid April night, when the North Atlantic's icy waters swallowed 1,500 souls aboard a doomed ship.Sometimes after a scene, the young actors crack a few jokes backstage, just to keep from crying.... |
7th April 2008 | |||
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | SHIPBUILDER THINKS SMALL IN A BIG WAY Jerry Guenther says he was a typical kid who built a couple of airplane models here, a few model cars there, with no real desire to delve deeper. Look at him now. At 67, the Town of Merton retiree has turned his reading of a book about a salvage tug that sailed the North Atlantic into a nearly three-decade-long hobby of shipbuilding.... |
30th January 2010 | |||
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| Norwalk Plus Magazine | TITANIC EXHIBIT AT FAIRFIELD MUSEUM This past April 14 marked the 96th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. On that fateful night in 1912, hundreds of men, women and children lost their lives in the waters of the North Atlantic, and those who survived went on with lives that were forever altered.... |
23rd April 2008 | |||
| CTV.ca | SCIENTISTS TO SET SAIL FOR TITANIC WRECKAGE SURVEY A team of scientists setting sail Sunday from St. John's harbour hope their expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck will help in the search of a more recent tragedy in the Atlantic Ocean -- that of the Air France Flight 447 crash last year. ... |
24th August 2010 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC NECKLACE STOLEN FROM SHOW It is believed the necklace belonged to first-class US passenger Eleanor Widener, who survived the 1912 sinking. More than 1500 passengers and crew died when the Titanic foundered in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage.... |
19th September 2011 | |||
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| Newark Evening News | NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC'S MAILS John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| CAP ARCONA AT SEA The Cap Arcona's profile, like that of the later l'Atlantique, differed from those typical of the North Atlantic express liner. Her foreshortened bow and extended superstructure gave her a rather squared off appearance externally... |
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| Oak Leaves | TITANIC DISASTER : OAK PARK TOUCHED BY GREATEST SHIPWRECK TITANIC DISASTER Oak Park Touched by Greatest Shipwreck Carelessness on Lake The Atlantic Wreck of 1873 Oak Park, like hundreds of o... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| pocklingtonpost.co.uk | CHILDREN RAISE TITANIC'S AWARENESS WITH PROJECT Youngsters at Mount Pleasant Junior School in Market Weighton have submerged themselves into a topic looking at Titanic, the ship that sank in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York almost 100 years ago...... |
13th May 2011 | |||
| Voyage | TUNISIAN John P. Eaton Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. On 10 April reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site. Port of Registry: Glasgow ... |
12th November 2005 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | 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 | |||
| Daily Mail | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE AMERICAN TOWN BUILDS GIANT REPLICA OF ICONIC DOOMED LINER The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Daily Mail | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE AMERICAN TOWN BUILDS GIANT REPLICA OF ICONIC DOOMED LINER The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Evening Star | MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | MESABA WARNED DOOMED TITANIC OF ICEBERGS Mesaba Reports That It Warned The Doomed Ocean Vessel of Presence of Icebergs in Vicinity and Got "Thanks" ... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Nova News Now | 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 | 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 | |||
| MEMORIAL PLAQUE Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ... |
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| Seacoastonline | THE TITANIC MUSEUM: A MORNING REMEMBERED Briny icy air bit the pale cheeks of the 9-year-old boy as he looked up into the clear black sky studded with brilliant stars. It was after 2 a.m. in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Shivering in the crowded lifeboat bobbing on the brutal waves of the Atlantic, he huddled against his fear filled mother who shielded him from the sight of the sinking ship.... |
30th April 2007 | |||
| Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | SCIENCE CENTER GETS SET FOR 'TITANIC' SUMMER The Carnegie Science Center will open a special summer exhibit on the Titanic, the ship that struck an iceberg 96 years ago on the night of April 14th, and sank into the Atlantic Ocean early the next morning. ... |
19th April 2008 | |||
| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM ARTWORK, 1938 This 1965 view shows the Joep Nicolas panels intact.... |
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| BBC News | BRASS BOX HOLDS TITANIC 'SECRET' It was a small brass trinket box that held safe its secret link to the Titanic across the years and thousands of miles. The box was picked up by an Irishman at a flea market in New York.He brought it home across the Atlantic - across the site where in 1912 more than 1,500 people perished in the icy waters of the ocean.... |
8th April 2009 | |||
| USA Today | FEDERAL JUDGE TO RULE ON FATE OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS Nearly a century after the Titanic struck ice in the North Atlantic, a federal judge in Virginia is poised to preserve the largest collection of artifacts from the opulent oceanliner and protect the ship's resting place.... |
24th March 2009 | |||
| New York Times | AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne... |
9th January 1911 | |||
| The New York Irish Emgirant | IRISH TITANIC VICTIM TO BE GIVEN MEMORIAL HEADSTONE Of the 1,513 people who perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, only 330 bodies were recovered for burial. The rest, victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic, either plunged to the ocean floor with the doomed vessel or simply floated south, away from the reaches of recovery ships.... |
14th April 2010 | |||
| The New York Irish Emgirant | IRISH TITANIC VICTIM TO BE GIVEN MEMORIAL HEADSTONE Of the 1,513 people who perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, only 330 bodies were recovered for burial. The rest, victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic, either plunged to the ocean floor with the doomed vessel or simply floated south, away from the reaches of recovery ships.... |
14th April 2010 | |||
| Norwich Evening News | TITANIC MUSICAL AT THE THEATRE ROYAL Take a trip across the seas with the cast of the award-winning Titanic musical. The show comes sailing into the Theatre Royal to retell the tale of the historic and tragic night in April 1912, when so many lives were lost in the icy Atlantic waters.... |
28th January 2008 | |||
| Toronto Star | TINY LOCAL LINK TO THE TITANIC 12 streetcar tickets unearthed from Titanic are remnants of wealthy living in Toronto in 1912From the depths of the Atlantic, among the ruins of the legendary ship Titanic, comes a forgotten piece of Toronto history and the story of a once-notorious local survivor, now faded from collective memory. ... |
4th January 2008 | |||
| The Times | FILM "ATLANTIC" - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF "TITANIC" SCENES Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice... |
30th July 1930 | |||
| Mail on Sunday | FAMILY OF 'COWARD' WHO STEERED THE TITANIC INTO AN ICEBERG REVEAL HIS 'LIFE-LONG GUILT AND SHAME' The sinking of the Titanic left a legacy of grief and heartbreak for hundreds of the survivors. But the suffering was not confined to those who lost loved ones in the icy seas of the North Atlantic. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was at the wheel of the liner on April 15, 1912, when she struck the iceberg that destroyed her. ... |
18th August 2008 | |||
| Times Colonist | TITANIC OFFERS BEER INSPIRATION Paul Hadfield has dredged the Atlantic for inspiration for a trio of new brews at Spinnakers Gastro Brewpub.While the publican brews something new and quirky at least twice a year, just because he can, this time the beer will serve a purpose beyond quenching a thirst as it's promoting the imminent Titanic exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum.... |
2nd April 2007 | |||
| thisisstaffordshire.co.uk | 'TERRIBLE NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC' THAT is how The Staffordshire Sentinel reported the sinking of the Titanic in ...Stoke & Staffordshire. The story read: 'The terribly alarming news reached us this morning that the new White Star Line Titanic, which was proceeding upon her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, has been in collision with an iceberg, and was in a sinking condition. ...... |
26th May 2011 | |||
| U.S. News & World Report | 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 | |||
| Daily Gleaner | TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912.... |
22nd August 2008 | |||
| Daily Gleaner | TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912.... |
22nd August 2008 | |||
| The Local | TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS IN STOCKHOLM It was April 15th, 1912, when the world's first unsinkable ship sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.Since then, the Titanic has rested at the bottom of the sea. Her story left a legacy that has resonated around the world for nearly a century after her demise, and has now been captured in a new exhibition, Titanic, opening to the public on Friday, May 29th.... |
2nd June 2009 | |||
| philly.com | 99 YEARS AFTER THE TITANIC SANK, ITS RIPPLE EFFECTS ARE STILL FELT Ninety-nine years ago tonight the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the still, starlit waters of the North Atlantic. Spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie: The Titanic sank. Much of the good that came from the maritime disaster is lasting.... |
14th April 2011 | |||
| The Argus Observer | 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 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | BALLARD RETURNS TO TITANIC The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic is to return to its final resting place to capture new images of the ship for the Ł100m visitor attraction in Belfast. Dr Robert Ballard will journey two-and-a-half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean next month to film the mangled stern section, which broke off from the rest of the liner as she sank on her maiden voyage in 1912.... |
4th August 2011 | |||
| Inside Smithsonian Research | OSCAR SCOTT WOODY'S KEYS Stamped "Sea Post 101/US Mail 19," the antique, flat metal key has a patina of orange rust from its immersion in salt water nearly 100 years ago-while still in its owner's pocket. The key opened locks on the 200 bags of registered mail being carried across the Atlantic to New York City aboard the White Star Line steamship R.M.S. Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage in April 1912.... |
20th November 2007 | |||
| New York Times | NOTES OF THE YACHTSMEN The following have recently been elected members of the Atlantic Yacht Club: J. Pierpont Morgan, Alexander King, Isaac Stern, James D. Smith, John J. Slater, and Mrs. J. W. Cardeza. Mrs. Cardeza owns the steam yacht Eleanor, and is elected a flag me... |
25th December 1898 | |||
| 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.... |
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| Norwich Bulletin | TITANIC EXHIBITION VISITS FOXWOODS RESORT CASINO The story is one that has been passed down throughout the years, told in countless ways in books, movies and TV specials. On April 15, 1912, the world’s largest ship at that time, the Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg. The disaster claimed more than 1,500 lives. All that’s left is the wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic: A debris field stretching about a mile long with items from the period.... |
13th February 2010 | |||
| canadaeast.com | GEOLOGIST TAKES ON TITANIC RESEARCH Steve Blasco, a Nova Scotia-based researcher, had spent countless hours beneath the waves during his career, exploring seascapes at depths never before experienced by human beings. But this was different. Nearly 4,000 metres below the surface of the frigid North Atlantic, 79 years after an iceberg appeared out of the mist cutting short the lives of 1,517 men, women and children, Blasco was about to see the most famous shipwreck in history. ... |
21st October 2011 | |||
| travel-news.co.uk | VOICES FROM TITANIC ARRIVE AT A SINGAPORE MUSEUM A Century after RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, just two hours and 40 minutes after striking an iceberg, and with a loss of more than two thirds of the passengers and crew. The story has lost none of its power to shock. The arrival of the long-running artifacts exhibition in Singapore brings the raw emotion of Titanic’s infamous maiden voyage, aided by an audio narrative from imagineear.... |
6th November 2011 | |||
| livescience.com | TITANIC'S UNKNOWN CHILD GIVEN NEW, FINAL IDENTITY Five days after the passenger ship the Titanic sank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled the body of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of the Atlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912. ...... |
25th April 2011 | |||
| Metro Canada - Toronto | TITANIC SERVICE AT HALIFAX CEMETERY TO MARK 98 YEARS SINCE TRAGEDY The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a memorial ceremony in Halifax next Thursday, marking 98 years since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. The service will take place at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where 121 victims who were aboard the ill-fated luxury liner are buried.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| Book of Odds | OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York 12 days later, is a memorial to a ship that never completed this particular journey: the RMS Titanic. ... |
14th April 2010 | |||
| Book of Odds | OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York 12 days later, is a memorial to a ship that never completed this particular journey: the RMS Titanic.... |
14th April 2010 | |||
| todaystmj4.com | TITANIC'S "UNKNOWN CHILD" HAS A LOCAL CONNECTION It's been one of the great mysteries of the Titanic disaster--a small boy found floating in the Atlantic, but nobody knew who he was. Now the mystery has finally been solved, and there's a local connection. ...... |
21st May 2011 | |||
| Newsweek | THE TITANIC'S LAST SECRET The Titanic sank into the North Atlantic 97 years ago. Since then, as Harvard historian Steven Biel quipped, "Only Jesus and the Civil War have been written about more." In close to 200 books, documentaries and movies-and the highest-grossing film of all time-historians, scientists and Titanic buffs have fervently debated what really caused the biggest passenger ship of her day to sink just two hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg, carrying 1,522 people to their deaths.... |
6th October 2008 | |||
| Norwich Bulletin | 'TITANIC' SAILS AGAIN IN COMMUNITY THEATER SHOW The Colchester Community Theatres production of Titanic The Musical opening Friday stands on its own. In fact town residents who volunteered to stage the play said theres hardly any resemblance to the blockbuster 1997 film about the doomed passenger liner that sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York after hitting a north Atlantic iceberg April 14 1912 killing 1517.... |
22nd February 2011 | |||
| St. Annes on the Sea Express | 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 | |||
| BBC News | VIDEO: RAISING A TITANIC STAIRCASE The best known ship to sail from Belfast had a famous set of steps inside. Anyone who has seen a film about the Titanic will remember the scenes around the grand staircase. Now Northern Ireland joiners are building a replica for the new Titanic visitor centre in Belfast. Chris Page's report begins with the exclusive pictures of the wreck on the Atlantic seabed filmed by BBC Newsline's Mike McKimm six years ago. ... |
6th October 2011 | |||
| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS COCKTAIL BAR STAINED GLASS PANEL. This panel survvied until 1961, when the entire complex of Third Class public rooms was removed and replaced by the Henry Hudson Lounge.... |
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| Southern Evening Echo | ARTICLE SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard... |
14th April 1958 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING IS JUST A SHELL, BUT ALREADY IT'S AWESOME Stepping through the entrance gates of the old Harland and Wolff drawing offices the new Titanic Belfast building looms impressively above me. The shiny aluminium shards which clad each of the four 90ft ‘hulls’ of the building glint in the sunlight, and as you walk closer you can see the different shapes which make each of them individual and give the impression of water glistening off the side of a boat as it cuts through the icy North Atlantic sea... |
31st May 2011 | |||
| OnMilwaukee.com | "TITANIC" IS A FASCINATING, EMOTIONAL JOURNEY It was nearly a century ago now that the RMS Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious vessel, sank during her maiden voyage after colliding with a North Atlantic iceberg. Most of us are familiar, if not fascinated, with this historic tragedy and the real objects and real stories presented in the Milwaukee Public Museum's "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition," opening Friday, Oct. 10 and running through May 25, 2009, bring us even closer to the fateful events of April 14 and 15, 1912.... |
9th October 2008 | |||
| Halifax News Net | HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT TITANIC SINKING, OAK ISLAND LEGENDS Author and historian Dave Drummond will give lectures on Oak Island and the Titanic at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in August. Drummond, author of The Shipyard: Will It Float?, is a retired shipbuilder, born into a shipbuilding family that spanned three generations. His anecdotal writings, narrations, and discussions are factual, often surprising, and sprinkled with humour.... |
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| Record Eagle | STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING newspaper photo... |
15th May 1953 | |||
| Pittsburgh Post Gazette | TITANIC ON THE OHIO: EXTENSIVE 'ARTIFACT EXHIBITION' SURFACES AT THE SCIENCE CENTER "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" takes visitors on a vivid journey through one of history's most tragic chapters -- the sinking of RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912.The traveling exhibition opens Saturday at Carnegie Science Center's SportsWorks.... |
22nd May 2008 | |||
| Manchester Evening News | 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 | |||
| La Voix du Nord | SHE NEARLY DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC... André Pelletier ...and almost was burned to death in a Florida hotel Mme Bourlard, 80, now lives peaceful days in Béthune Sunday May 9th and Monday May 10th, 1965 Mme Bourlard, who was born in Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, 80 ... |
9th May 1965 | |||
| The Times | LIFE-SAVING AT SEA AWARD OF THE KING'S MEDALS The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award medals for gallantry in saving life at sea to the folowing persons: A silver medal t... |
12th July 1913 | |||
| The Times | PRESENTATION OF MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY BUCKINGHAM PALACE, DEC. 16---The King this morning decorated the following with medals for acts of gallantry on land and at sea as stated against their names:--- BOARD OF TRADE MEDALS Lieutenant ... |
17th December 1913 | |||
| 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. ... |
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| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : RITZ-CARLTON ROOM WALL DECORATION. A striking wall decoration here, by Wijdeveld, shows a large red hawk making havoc in a flock of silver and golden birds. Feathers, in silhouette, fly in all directions.... |
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| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SOLARIUM. 1938. SOLARIUM: Located on the Sun Deck, adjoining the gymnasium. It is furnished with tables and reclining chairs and has a transparent glass ceiling. It is directly connected by elevator with the Turkish baths and swimming pool on E Deck.... |
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| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKE ROOM- 1938 THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM: Features walls of watered teakwood with green leather upholstery and matching curtains. Nearby, the intimate “Tourist” bar serves the needs of thirsty passengers. ... |
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| dailyecho.co.uk | GRANDDAUGHTER OF CARPATHIA MASTER SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON VISITS SOUTHAMPTON THE granddaughter of the Southampton sea captain who saved the lives of more than 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster, visited the city’s port today.Rosemary Pettet’s grandfather was Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunard liner, Carpathia, who answered the SOS from Titanic as she was sinking in the Atlantic. ... |
10th January 2012 | |||
| GREAT LAKES TITANIC SOCIETY GLTS is an informal association of Titanic enthusiasts which got its start in the Great Lakes region. The website highlights the maritime connections of the region to the Titanic and other White Star Line ships. Great Lakes and North Atlantic maritime history are also explored.... |
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| USA Today | GEORGIA AQUARIUM TO HOST EXHIBITION OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS An exhibition of artifacts from the ill-fated ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is opening at the Georgia Aquarium.The exhibition will include interactive displays, videos and recreations of rooms aboard the ship. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.... |
19th August 2008 | |||
| FIRST USE OF MORSE CODE Drawing... |
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| CAP ARCONA SMOKING ROOM The Cap Arcona's smoking room was perhaps her most North Atlantic liner-like interior. The 62' x 52 x 13.9' space was paneled in dark walnut, and featured a marble fireplalce set into a marble wall. This was as close to Moderne as any ... |
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| KXII-TV | TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ITEMS AUCTIONED IN NORTH TEXAS It was called the "ship of dreams." Some even called it unsinkable, but the R.M.S. Titanic did sink in the northern Atlantic Ocean in April of 19-12; claiming the lives of more than 22-hundred people. Tonight, nearly 100 years later, in North Texas, furniture owned by a surviving titanic passenger was auctioned off. She wasn't well known when the ship went down, but today her name is a part of the history.... |
19th January 2010 | |||
| TriCities.com | TAKE A TOUR OF THE TITANIC MUSEUM IN PIGEON FORGE You dont have to plunge to the depths of the icy Atlantic Ocean to see the Titanic. Nope not when a replica of the doomed passenger ship now sits along the parkway of Pigeon Forge. Newly opened for 2010 the Titanic Museum boasts actual artifacts related to the Titanic once touted as the worlds largest passenger ship.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| New York Times | MRS. HENRI MARQUISAN'S FUNERAL Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Oct. 11---Funeral services were held today in the chapel of the Rue Honore d’Eylan Church for Mrs. Henri Marquisan, who was Miss Frances Moore, daughter of the late Clarence Moore, who... |
12th October 1921 | |||
| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER. 1938. THE VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER: Glass, metal, wood and fabrics in the Nieuw Amsterdam’s decorative scheme have been put to some novel uses. New techniques have been applied to old methods and some entirely original ones have appeared. ... |
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| irishtimes.com | POIGNANT MEMENTO: FAMILY DIED IN 'TITANIC' DISASTER - IRISH TIMES A REMARKABLE photograph of a widowed Irish mother and her five young sons who perished in the Titanic disaster is to be sold at auction next month. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), who lived in Athlone, Co Westmeath, all died when the infamous ship sank in the north Atlantic in April 1912.... |
21st November 2011 | |||
| New York Times | COL. THOMAS POTTER, JR. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 2---Col. Thomas Potter, Jr., a wealthy oilcloth manufacturer of Philadelphia, died here to-night. Mrs. Potter, Wilson Potter, his son, and Mrs. Allen Earnshaw, his daughter, were at the bedside when the end came. When Col... |
3rd December 1910 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | STREET NAMED AFTER CARPATHIA'S CAPTAIN ARTHUR H ROSTRON A Hampshire street has been named after the captain of the ship which sailed to the aid of the stricken RMS Titanic in 1912. Captain Arthur H Rostron diverted the Carpathia to pick up survivors when Titanic sank in the north Atlantic.... |
25th November 2011 | |||
| Royal Purple | "THE UNKNOWN CHILD" OF THE TITANIC After the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, seamen recovered a 2-year-old boy from the water who would be known as “the unknown child” for years to come. It took more than 92 years for US Armed Forces DNA identification scientists and researchers to correctly identify “the unknown child” as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, who was aboard the maiden voyage with his mother Augusta, father Frederick, and five siblings Lilian (16), Charles (15), William (14), Jessie (12) and Harold (11).... |
22nd November 2011 | |||
| CAPTAIN SMITH WAS TUSSAUDS EXHIBIT 1919 Madame Tussaud & Sons Catalogue entry 27. Commander Edward J. Smith, R.N.R., born 1853. Commander Smith was Captain of the White Star liner ''Titanic'' which went down in the Atlantic on 14 April, 1912, during her maiden voyage t... |
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| GRAVESTONE Sacred to the memory of Austin Partner of Tolworth, Surbiton who lost his life in the foundering of the steamship "Titanic" in mid-Atlantic on the 15th day of April, 1912, whose body was recovered and interred here May 23rd. Aged 40 years. ... |
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| NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THEATRE, 1938 THE THEATRE: The theatre was designed by Cornelis J. Engelen in cooperation with Mrs. Elisabeth de Boer. It is built in the shape of half an eggshell; following the contours of the vessel, and of the visual and aural points of focus. The color scheme... |
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| pantagraph.com | PLAYERS TROUPE KEEPS 'TITANIC' STEAMING ALONG Although the Titanic went down in 1912 on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, the story of how and why the "unsinkable ship" sank continues to have a firm grip on our imagination. Gracing the Broadway stage in 1997 and winning five Tony Awards, "Titanic: The Musical," which opened over the weekend at Bloomington's Community Players, stands as testament to the fact that nearly 100 years later the realization that 1,517 died because management chose deck space over life boats is still heart-wrenching.... |
10th May 2011 | |||
| The Express Times | '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 | |||
| New Mexican | BEMIS: LATEST LUSITANIA EXPEDITION WAS 'VERY USEFUL' Gregg Bemis arrived home to Santa Fe on Thursday night after spending two weeks off the southern coast of Ireland, where he explored the ruins of a ship sunk in the prelude to World War I. Bemis, a 79-year-old venture capitalist, estimated he has taken 30 trips to the area since he became interested in the Lusitania in 1969. In 1982, he became the sole owner of the wreck 300 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, about 12 miles south of County Cork in Irish territorial waters. ... |
14th August 2011 | |||
| bclocalnews.com | AUTHOR ENGAGES STUDENTS IN CANADA'S HISTORY Exploring the Titanic with his new-found friends, 14-year-old Jamie Laidlaw, has no idea that his world is about to turn upside down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down. Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the Titanic in his latest historical novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel.... |
30th August 2011 | |||
| Foxnews.com | LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass.... |
7th May 2006 | |||
| ca | TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview.... |
8th January 2012 | |||
| 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 | |||
| guardian.co.uk | TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012.... |
31st March 2009 | |||
| Macclesfield Express | TOWN?S TITANIC LINK EXPECTED TO FETCH ?6K A POIGNANT postcard sent from the doomed ship Titanic to a Macclesfield hotel is going up for auction next weekend – and is expected to fetch up to ?6,000.Second-class passenger, William Angle, sent a message from the liner to Miss Nelly Angle at the former Macclesfield Arms Hotel.He posted the card when the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Ireland, on its maiden voyage – just days before the vessel crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean.... |
19th April 2006 | |||
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