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United Press International | (2009) | TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release.... | 2nd January 2009 | ||
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The Argus | (2008) | TITANIC WATCH WITHDRAWN FROM AUCTION A collector who was selling a pocket watch found on the frozen body of the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic had a change of heart and cancelled the auction.The watch, which had belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, was put up for sale on internet auction site eBay on March 13 with a starting bid of only $100 (£50).... | 28th March 2008 | ||
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Vancouver Sun | (2009) | TITANIC LETTER NETS $14,000 US AT AUCTION A letter written aboard the Titanic by George Graham, a T. Eaton Co. Ltd., department store buyer from Winnipeg who died in the sinking, sold at auction in New York on Friday for $14,000 US.... | 19th January 2009 | ||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC WATCH UP FOR WEB AUCTION A pocket watch found on the body of the last victim of the Titanic to be recovered has been put up for sale.The item, which belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, hopes to attract bidders on the internet auction website eBay.... | 19th March 2008 | ||
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Romsey Advertiser | (2009) | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FROM THE GRAPES UP FOR AUCTION A FORMER Southampton pub's collection of Titanic memorabilia is to go under the hammer at a Dorset auction house today.The Grapes in Oxford Street was steeped in Titanic folklore and, according to city legend, was where six lucky crew were drinking when they forgot the time and missed the liner's doomed maiden sailing. ... | 2nd March 2009 | ||
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BBC News | (2006) | NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST NULL... | 26th January 2006 | ||
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CCTV | (2007) | BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ... | 28th June 2007 | ||
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Roanoke Times | (2008) | VESTED IN THE TITANIC After Christie's got $119,000 for a Titanic life jacket at an auction in London last year, Gregg Dietrich was not surprised that his phone kept ringing with offers of other items from the ill-fated ship."When we sell one ... more seem to come out of the woodwork," said Dietrich, who heads the maritime (or "ocean liner") division of the auction house here. "We're been inundated with Titanic offers."The problem was, many of the calls came from people like the man who was certain he had all sorts of valuable Titanic keepsakes: a first-class passenger list, a menu from its Cafe Parisienne, even a passenger ticket that would have been the first ever auctioned.Except it wasn't.... | 7th July 2008 | ||
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TeleText | (2009) | TITANIC IMAGE UNDER HAMMER A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at a Belfast auction, the artist behind it has said.Cheques issued by the Harland and Wolff shipyard where it was built were used to create the image by Rita Duffy, who hopes to ra... | 29th April 2009 | ||
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NY Daily News (4/20/08 | (2008) | TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction.... | 20th April 2008 | ||
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Ulster Star | (2009) | AUCTION OF TITANIC FURNITURE PIECE IT may only be a small piece of furniture, but its special link to the Titanic means it is set to create a buzz when it goes under the hammer at an auction in Lambeg Parish Church next Saturday (May 30th).Nearly 100 years after its launch... | 22nd May 2009 | ||
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The Sun | (2008) | TITANIC IS A ¢€ËœBEAUTIFUL SIGHT' THE last written description of the Titanic before it sank is up for auction this week.... | 15th April 2008 | ||
| The Times | (1935) | AUCTION OF OLYMPIC FITTINGS SALE CONCLUDED The sale at Jarrow of the fittings of the Olympic concluded today, which was the tenth day, and the last lot offered was No.4,456.. The total realized was not announced, and several lots were not sold. On some days during ... | 19th November 1935 | |||
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BBC News | (2006) | TITANIC LIFE VEST FETCHES £43,000 One of the Titanic's few remaining lifejackets has been sold to a private collector for £43,000 ($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 | ||
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Mirror.co.uk | (2007) | £22K TALE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR A Titanic survivor's letter giving her account of the disaster has sold for £22,000 at auction.The writer tells how her party was last off the doomed liner and nearly froze to death in a lifeboat before being rescued.... | 1st October 2007 | ||
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Irish Independent | (2006) | IRISH TITANIC LETTER UP FOR AUCTION A LETTER on ship's stationery, written by Ireland's only first-class passenger on the Titanic, is expected to fetch more than €50,000 when it is auctioned next month.... | 21st August 2006 | ||
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BBC News | (2007) | TITANIC KEY IS SOLD FOR £90,000 A tiny key that might have helped prevent the Belfast-built Titanic sinking has fetched £90,000 at auction. The key, with the tag "Crows Nest Telephone Titanic" opened the binoculars store, but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton. ... | 23rd September 2007 | ||
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STEWARD'S BADGE 3rd class steward's badge found on the body of Thomas Mullen and sold at auction in 2004 for £31,000.... | |||||
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Telegraph.co.uk | (2009) | RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION By Andrew Alderson The key and other artefacts were recovered when Mr Stone's dead body was recovered from the water Photo: Christopher Jones The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could s... | 11th April 2009 | ||
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Glasgow Daily Record | (2006) | TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday.... | 7th December 2006 | ||
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Bukowskis | (2009) | RARE COLLECTION OF R.M.S. TITANIC ARTEFACTS AT BUKOWSKIS AUCTION HOUSE Rare Collection of R.M.S. TITANIC Artefacts at Bukowskis Auction House, Stockholm, Sweden Third class passenger Malkolm Johnson CollectionThe Titanic watch Bukowskis has the privilege of offering a piece of 20th century history at the I... | 8th May 2009 | ||
| TITANIC SURVIVOR SINKS IN DEBT Millvina Dean is the last living survivor of the Titanic and, at 96 years old, she has been forced to auction off her valuable Titanic souvenirs to pay for her nursing home. Mark Phillips reports. ... | ||||||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2008) | TITANIC SHOE BOX SALE HITS £100,000 A treasure store of Titanic memorabilia, kept in a shoe box by a woman who survived the 1912 disaster, has sold at auction for £100,000.Among Lillian Asplund's shoe box treasures was one of the last four remaining tickets for the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage. ... | 20th April 2008 | ||
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WSHM-TV | (2008) | BAYSTATE NATIVE'S TITANIC ARTIFACTS SOLD The last American survivor of the Titanic was a Massachusetts native.Although Lillian Asplund died several years ago, only her memory will remain in the state since the artifacts of her trip were sold unexpectedly at an auction in England.... | 22nd April 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC LETTER COULD FETCH £9,000 A letter penned by a passenger of the doomed Titanic which sank in 1912, killing 1,522 people on board, is expected to raise £9,000 at auction.Charles Jones, who worked for the Colgate firm in New York, was returning to the US after a UK trip to buy sheep from Dorset farmer James Foot.... | 18th March 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby.... | 20th October 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby.... | 20th October 2008 | ||
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Worksop Today | (2008) | RARE TITANIC POSTCARD UP FOR AUCTION A rare postcard celebrating the maiden voyage of the Titanic is to go on sale in Derbyshire. The postcard, which was printed four days before the Titanic sank in April 1912, depicts the ship setting sail.... | 2nd December 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Legend" Bring $3,100---$1,400 Paid for Christopher Columbus's "Epistola” --- "The Golden ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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Westmorland Gazette | (2008) | TITANIC ARTEFACTS SET TO RAISE THOUSANDS A RARE first-hand account of the Titanic tragedy written by the great-uncle of a South Lakeland resident is expected to fetch more than £15,000 when it is sold at auction.Having always been interested in the voyage of the ill-fated vessel, Joyce Ireland from Burneside read with interest an article previewing the sale of Titanic memorabilia at Sotheby's in London.... | 2nd December 2008 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued.... | 20th October 2008 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued.... | 20th October 2008 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC SALE SURVIVOR SELLS MEMORABILIA Titanic survivor Millvina Dean is to put up more of her family memorabilia for auction to raise money to pay for her nursing home fees. In an interview with Ronan Corrigan from the Nomadic Charitable Trust, the 96-year-old woman revealed that she has another 17 items available to put on the market and will be auctioning some of them at Devizes in Southampton next month.... | 6th February 2009 | ||
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Liverpool Echo | (2007) | TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers.... | 11th October 2007 | ||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC LIFE VEST TO MAKE $80,000 A life-jacket from the ill-fated Titanic could make $80,000 (£40,570) when it goes up for auction next month. The life-preserver was found during the initial recovery operation after the liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. The item is one of several linked to the Titanic which are being sold off by Christie's in Manhattan, New York.... | 30th May 2008 | ||
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ARTINFO | ARTWORK SALE TO FUND TITANIC MUSEUM OPPOSED IN ENGLAND SOUTHAMPTON, England— The Southampton City Council’s plans to auction off two artworks to help fund a museum dedicated to the Titanic is drawing art world opposition, with some critics fearing the precedent the sale might set.... | ||||
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CNN | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLING MEMENTOS TO PAY BILLS LONDON, England (CNN) -- The last survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills.The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR Sunday, 26 April 2009 A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been... | 26th April 2009 | ||
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Discovery Channel News | (2007) | TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ... | 13th April 2007 | ||
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Yorkshire Post | (2009) | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000 20 April 2009 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about ?300,000 at auction.Millvina De... | 25th April 2009 | ||
| (1912) | LETTER TO HIS MOTHER Mrs. Thomas Mudd, The Street, Hunting Field, Halesworth, Suffolk. Dear Mother, Arrived at Southampton safe - The Titanic is a splendid boat and you hardly know you are moving. Will write more fully later Your loving Son Tom. PS ... | 1912 | ||||
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Ireland Online | (2006) | LAST CHANCE FOR NOMADIC NULL... | 25th January 2006 | ||
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Canada.com | (2008) | TITANIC LIFE JACKET SELLS IN NEW YORK FOR $68,500 An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.The cork-filled life preserver - still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts - was thought to have been found by farmer John James Dunbar on the Halifax shoreline after the passenger ship sank off Newfoundland in April, 1912.... | 27th June 2008 | ||
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Scotsman | (2008) | IN HIS OWN WORDS MAN WHO SURVIVED TITANIC AND SINKING OF HER SISTER SHIP LETTERS written by a seaman who survived the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship the Britannic four years later only to die in a German torpedo attack are expected to raise up to £20,000 at auction.Archie Jewell was on board the Titanic on the night of 14 April, 1912, and his writings describe the horror of watching the great ship sink and hearing the cries of passengers drowning in the icy seas.... | 23rd November 2008 | ||
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Toronto Star | (2009) | 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 | ||
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Macclesfield Express | (2006) | 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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AP | (2006) | TITANIC LOCKET FETCHES $100,000 A locket that went down with the Titanic and a survivor's handwritten account of the 1912 disaster fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction Saturday.American passenger Helen Churchill Candee's 36–page description of the ship's sinking, which fetched US$85,000 in the sale, describes how she gave her locket to Edward Kent, a friend on board the ship, for safekeeping after the Titanic hit the iceberg that destroyed it.The locket, which sold for US$100,000, was found in the drowned Kent's jacket pocket when his body was recovered soon after his death.... | 4th May 2006 | ||
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Irish Examiner | (2006) | TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED NULL... | 26th January 2006 | ||
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World Records Academy | (2009) | MOST EXPENSIVE LETTER FROM TITANIC-WORLD RECORD SET BY SPINK SMYTHE letter, dated April 10, 1912, from a first class passenger onboard the Titanic (written by passenger George Graham of Harriston of Canada, a sales manager for the Eaton's department store company, to a business colleague in Berlin, Germany) was sold at auction by Spink Smythe in New York City for $16,100-setting the world record for the Most expensive letter from Titanic.... | 24th February 2009 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST ON A BARGE SS Nomadic will return to Belfast on a barge brought from the other side of the world specially for the task.It will take five days to ferry the former Titanic tender from the French port of Le Havre to Belfast, where she was built 95 years ago.The Department of Social Development (DSD) has confirmed that the final remaining White Star Line vessel will return in July this year.She was saved from the scrapyard when she was bought at auction in Paris by DSD for the reserve price of €250,000.The Belfast Telegraph has spearheaded the media campaign to rescue Nomadic. ... | 16th May 2006 | ||
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Daily Mirror | (2006) | £10,000 PRICE ON 'TITANIC IS SAFE' TELEGRAM A TELEGRAM saying the Titanic was safe 18 hours after it sank is set to fetch £10,000 at auction. It was sent by the ship's owners White Star Line to US senator James Hughes who had heard rumours of the tragedy in which 1,523 died. The message said: "Titanic proceeding to Halifax, passengers will probably land there Wednesday all safe." His newlywed and pregnant daughter Eloise Smith, above, did survive but she had to kiss goodbye to husband Lucian. The telegram led to initial reports the Titanic had not sunk. It will go on sale tomorrow at Henry Aldridge and Sons in Devizes, Wilts. ... | 29th September 2006 | ||
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BBC News | (2006) | RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP Return for 'living history' ship [Photo] The Nomadic took passengers out to the TitanicThe ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought b... | 5th July 2006 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | 95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ... | 12th July 2006 | ||
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ic Birmingham | (2006) | LABOUR TO THE RESCUE NULL... | 27th January 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1948) | ASTOR VILLA AUCTIONED AT NEWPORT; CHAIN DRUG STORE OWNER IS BUYER Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., July l7---A chain drugstore owner purchased today the fourteen-room French villa of John Jacob Astor here for less than half of its original purchase price. The showplace went under the ... | 18th July 1948 | |||
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BBC News Online | (2006) | TITANIC FERRY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF NULL... | 25th January 2006 | ||
| Brighton Argus | (2005) | CAR BOOT BARGAIN HUNT FINDS TITANIC TREASURE A rare item of memorabilia from the Titanic worth thousands of pounds has turned up at a car boot sale. Amateur historian Trevor Bailey, of Kings Road, Brighton, and his daughter Rachel paid just £10 for the bundle... | 2nd April 2005 | |||
| New York Times | (1950) | CABINET IS SALE FEATURE Mahogany Breakfront Brings $585 in $51,640 Auction --- A Regency mahogany and grillwork breakfront cabinet with Roman portrait medallions, circa 1820, was sold to a private collector for $585 yesterday at the final session of the sale ... | 24th September 1950 | |||
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UTV | (2006) | HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912.... | 16th May 2006 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT: NOMADIC SAILS INTO BELFAST Fans of the SS Nomadic will be dressing up in period costume to welcome her as she makes a triumphant return to Belfast's docks this evening.The ship has already made an appearance in Belfast Lough as she arrived on Saturday morning but her official homecoming will take place this evening.As the Titanic's 'little sister' proceeds up the Lagan to dock next to the Odyssey Arena, she will receive a chorus from a brass band as supporters dressed in Edwardian fashion cheer her.A party of members of the French Titanic Society (AFT) who worked closely with Belfast Industrial Heritage in the hard-fought campaign to save Nomadic from the scrapyard will be present this evening to welcome her home.The 95-year-old vessel was bought by the Department of Social Development in January at auction in Paris.... | 17th July 2006 | ||
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(1911) | TITANIC LAUNCH TICKET An extremely rare example of a ticket to the launch of the Titanic Launch of t... | 31st May 1911 | |||
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Khaleej Times | (2009) | THE TITANIC AND THE SINKING OF HEARTS Like most people of my generation - and I suspect many people of generations before and after me - the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was etched definitively on my mind thanks largely to director James Cameron.When Titanic re... | 4th June 2009 | ||
| ERNEST WALDRON KING : GENERAL INFORMATION King, Ernest Waldron. Lived at Currin Rectory, Clones, Ireland. Occupation - Clerk, Pursers Assistant. 28 years old. (Born in Dublin, Ireland). Body number 321. Interred at Fairview Cemetery, Halifa... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr... | ||||||
| Shepton Mallet Journal | (2000) | REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher.... | 2nd March 2000 | |||
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BBC News | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the early hours of 15 April 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton.The disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people in the north Atlantic, largely du... | 31st May 2009 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES By Jon Reeve MILLVINA Dean, the last survivor of Titanic, died today at the age of 97.Miss Dean was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Sou... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th... | ||||||
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(2005) | NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic... | 20th July 2005 | |||
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BBC News | (2006) | BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING By Julian O'Neill BBC Newsline reporterAmid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. [Ph... | 11th July 2006 | ||
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The Times | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97 Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97.Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known as Millvina, died today at the nursing home near Southampton where he... | 31st May 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2001) | MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL There is more for ocean liner enthusiasts in the English city of Bristol than simply visiting the S. S. Great Britain. The world's first great ocean liner, the Great Britain was built by the influential engineer Isambard K... | 8th November 2001 | ||
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Hexham Courant | (2004) | OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF News that the RMS Olympic collection is to be sold has caused outrage in Haltwhistle. Local people now want to know if anything can be done to prevent the impending sale. The finest collection of fixtures and fittings fr... | 21st May 2004 | ||
