99 items found relating to : Band
| Lancashire Telegraph | HONOUR FOR COLNE'S TITANIC BAND MASTER THE band master of the ill-fated Titanic and one of Colnes most famous sons has earned an entry into a distinguished literary canon.... |
28th May 2010 | |||
| New York Times | CAPT ROSTRON AT CONCERT For the Benefit of Titanic's Musicians---Receives $10,000 To-day --- Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia returned last night to the Carpathia after his trip to Philadelphia, where he had been the guest of Mrs. John ... |
3rd June 1912 | |||
| ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND This 1911 record made by the Victor Military Band is very well recorded and gives an idea of the fast pace the song used to be played at. This is one song that many survivors recall being played on the night of the sinking. In fact it is not r... |
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| PURSUIT OF GRACE: ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND A new historical fiction novel about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. This historically accurate account is written by a Salvation Army Staff Band member, the same band whose predecessors were aboard the Empress the night the ship sank.... |
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| Liverpool Echo | THE BRAVE BANDSMEN - A BELGIAN MEMORIAL A movement has been started at Liege to commemorate, by a suitable and picturesque monument, the heroic behaviour of the band on board the Titanic. Of the eight members of the band, one, George Krins, was a young and most promising musician, born at ... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | MADNESS STAR SUGGS COMES TO COLNE TO RESEARCH TITANIC BAND LEADER WALLACE HARTLEY MADNESS frontman Suggs toured East Lancashire in the search of its Titanic legacy. He stopped off at Blackburn train station before boarding the train to Colne on his voyage of discovery yesterday. Along with the production team from UKTV, he filmed near The Crown pub, at Colne Cemetery and at the statue of Wallace Henry Hartley who famously led a band as RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. ... |
3rd November 2011 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | ST LUKE'S CHURCH HOSTS SPECIAL TITANIC FILM SCREENING A FAMOUS feature film about the tragic liner Titanic will get an outdoor screening at one of Liverpool's landmark buildings on Saturday evening.There will be free entry to the acclaimed 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, at St Luke's Church, Leece Street, at 8pm. A young string quartet will perform some of Titanic's band repertoire played while the ship sank. Titanic's band leader was former Liverpool Philharmonic musician Wallace Hartley.... |
11th April 2009 | |||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC'S BAND: KILLING THEM SOFTLY. Senan Molony Just how many people did the ship's orchestra kill?... |
17th February 2004 | |||
| New York Times | CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. J. ASTOR Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Meets Again Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Cumings --- GOES TO SEE MRS. WIDENER --- With the Crew of the Carpathia He Will Attend Concert for Musicians' Families --- Capt. Arthur Henry Ros... |
1st June 1912 | |||
| VIOLIN PLAYED AS TITANIC SUNK IN 1912 FINALLY DISCOVERED! A new book to be published this week, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner, claims that the violin which band leader Wallace Hartley played as the Titanic sank in April 1912 survived, and may be offered for sale at the time of next year's centenary.... |
28th March 2011 | ||||
| TITANIC HYMN, 1912 This is another french hymn in honour of the band of the Titanic. 'Plus près de toi, mon dieu' is the translation of 'Nearer my god to thee'... |
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| TITANIC HYMN, 1912 As every other country in the world, France published many hymns celebrating the band of the Titanic.... |
1912 | ||||
| TITANIC HYMN, 1912 This is another hymn published in France to honour the band of the Titanic... |
1912 | ||||
| Times Online | TITANIC KEY TO A POSTMAN'S BRAVERY The band played on, engineers fought to maintain power and the captain remained at his post as the Titanic went down on the night of April 14, 1912. To these stubborn acts of courage can be be added those of the ship's five postmen.... |
13th April 2007 | |||
| Eastbourne Gazette | DEATHS : WOODWARD April 14, J. Wesley Woodward, a member of the Titanic orchestra, and formerly 'cellist in the Eastbourne Municipal Band and the Duck of Devonshire's Eastbourne orchestra.... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| The Bookseller | HODDER ACQUIRES TITANIC MEMOIR Hodder has acquired the rights to an "extraordinary" memoir of the Titanic As the Band Played On by journalist and publisher Christopher Ward.... |
30th October 2010 | |||
| EUGENE DALY WITH PIPES, 1910 Eugene Daly as a member of the Irish National Foresters band, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, 1910. Contributor's collection. ... |
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| GEORGES ALEXANDRE KRINS: RECORD OF BIRTH 18 March 1889 / 15 April 1912... |
20th March 1889 | ||||
| WALLACE HENRY HARTLEY MEMORIAL ... |
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| thestar.com | GETTING READY FOR 100 YEARS OF THE TITANIC In a graveyard in Halifax, I brushed the dead leaves from the wintered grave stone of John Clarke, the bass fiddle player from Liverpool, England, who played with the band while the Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 14, 1912. “How will the world remember the sinking of the Titanic?” I asked myself, and set off to find out.... |
9th September 2011 | |||
| THE BAND PLAYED NEARER MY GOD TO THEE AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN In Memory of the Heroes of the Ill-Fated Titanic Words by Mark Bean Music by Harold Jones Published 1912 by Joe Morris Music Co., New York, USA ... |
1912 | ||||
| Birkenhead News | AN ARGYLE THEATRE'S BANDSMAN AMONG THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA One of those on board the Titanic and who it is feared is amongst those who have perished, is Mr. J. F. P. Clarke, formerly a member of the orchestra of the Argyle Theatre of Varieties. Mr. Clarke in his short time he played... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| EdinburghGuide.com | TITANIC AND THE BAND PLAYED ON REVIEW Although listed under Dance in the Fringe programme, this is not a dance performance per se, but more of a dramatised play with film, music and short dance sequences. This devised theatrical piece based on Titanic survivors' stories is performed by a group of six young dance and performing arts students.... |
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| Cleveland Plain Dealer | SAYS MUSICIANS KNELT AS THEY PLAYED HYMN Mrs Ada M Clarke, one of the survivors, went to the White Star offices today to arrange for her passage back home to Southampton, England. Her husband, Charles S. Clarke, with whom she was on her way to California to make her... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | TITANIC HAD MANY LIVERPOOL LINKS, REPORTS PETER ELSON ALTHOUGH she never visited Liverpool, Titanic had strong links with her home port.... |
29th April 2009 | |||
| KRINS FAMILLY TOMBSTONE IN SPA CEMETERY (BELGIUM) ... |
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| Lancashire Telegraph | NEW COLNE PUB TO BE NAMED AFTER TITANIC HERO A NEW £1.4million pub in Colne will be named after one of the town's most famous sons. Wetherspoons has announced that its new premises will be called The Wallace Hartley after the Titanic's bandleader. Hartley, who was born in Greenfield Road, famously instr-ucted the band to continue to play as the ship started to sink after hitting an iceberg.... |
29th October 2008 | |||
| Lancashire Telegraph | TITANIC BANDMASTER'S VIOLIN MAY BE SOLD Peter Magill Tests are being carried out on a violin thought to have belonged to Wallace Hartley, who famously played on as the White Star Liner sank in April 1912. And if the instrument turns out to be genuine experts believe it could break the £100,000 record for an artefact from the wreck. ... |
2nd April 2011 | |||
| burnleycitizen.co.uk | NEW TITANIC IN LANCASHIRE MUSEUM TO OPEN IN COLNE THE story of the RMS Titanic and her maiden voyage will be brought to life at a new museum set to open in Colne - home to the ship's famous band leader. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson is putting the finishing touches to the Titanic in Lancashire... |
1st June 2011 | |||
| The Times | THE TITANIC BAND MEMORIAL CONCERT THE TITANIC BAND MEMORIAL CONCERT Under the auspices of the Orchestral Association a concert was given yesterday at the Albert Hall in honour of the musicians who peris... |
25th May 1912 | |||
| The Ann Arbor News | GAELIC STORM OF 'TITANIC' FAME AT THE ARK Gaelic Storm, at The Ark tonight, can thank a movie about a famous shipwreck for providing a stepping stone to fame. Remember the lively Irish band that played for the steerage passengers in the 1997 movie "Titanic?'' That was Gaelic Storm.... |
3rd August 2007 | |||
| Gazette & Herald | SONG PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHILD TITANIC VICTIM A poignant song about the youngest victim of the Titanic disaster will feature in a concert at Seend Cleeve this month. The electric folk band Sackful of Sovereigns, with Potterne bass player Steve Sawyer, will debut the song Unknown Child at the concert on October 18.... |
14th October 2008 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | FRESHFIELD AIRMAN - ONE OF THE TITANIC'S ORCHESTRA Our photo is of Mr. William T. Brailey, who was a member of the now famous and heroic orchestra of the Titanic. Mr. Brailey was at one time associated with Mr. Compton Paterson at the Freshfield aerodrome, and Mr. J. Gaunt at the Southport hanger. He... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| CONCERT BY THE APOLLO CLUB, BROOKLYN IN AID OF MUSICIANS' FAMILIES This is a booklet presenting the concert given by the Apollo Club, in Brooklyn, on 9 May 1912, "in aid of the families of the musicians who perished by the sinking of the Titanic". This document was presented to us by the family of Roger Bricoux, cel... |
9th May 1912 | ||||
| yesweekly.com | STORIES FROM THE TITANIC Imagine, as I am now, that my name is Mr. Wallace Henry Hartley, 33, of Dewsbury, England, a violinist and bandleader. The year is 1912, and a couple days earlier I was chosen to lead the band on the brand new showpiece of the White Star cruise line: the RMS Titanic. Hartley is the name on my boarding pass, handed to me at the entrance to the new Titanic exhibition at the Greensboro Natural Science Center, which runs through Nov. 27 — everybody gets one, embossed with an actual name of one of the 1,316 passengers on board for the vessel’s maiden voyage.... |
3rd August 2011 | |||
| examiner.co.uk | HUDDERSFIELD TITANIC BAND LEADER TO FEATURE IN NEW SHOW BY DOWNTON ABBEY ... - HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER People in Huddersfield recall the heroism of Titanic bandleader Wallace Hartley. Hartley was born and raised in Colne, Lancashire, and initially made his living playing in café orchestras across Yorkshire. He moved with his family to Dewsbury and then Almondbury in 1893 and joined Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, in which he played until 1901 when he moved to another orchestra in Bridlington. ... |
28th December 2011 | |||
| Voyage | ARGENTINE TRANSPORT John P. Eaton Empire Transport Co., Ltd. (Houlder Brothers, Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia. Left Narvik 3 April 1912 with a cargo of iron ore. On arrival at the intermediate stop of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, her captain reporte... |
20th March 2005 | |||
| BBC News | NOMADIC GOES ON SHOW AT ODYSSEY A clean-up operation has begun on the SS Nomadic before it is unveiled to the public on Monday. The ship, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, will dock at the Odyssey in Belfast at about 1830 BST. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A reception, including a brass band, has been prepared for the ship which saw action as a troop carrier in both world wars. It arrived in Belfast at the weekend after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre. ... |
17th July 2006 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| dgstandard.co.uk | NEW BOOK RECOUNTS LIFE OF TRAGIC TITANIC MUSICIAN Amid the chaos as the ship went down, 21-year-old John and the seven other members of his band moved from the stricken liner’s lounge to the forward half of the deck to offer a little comfort and solace in the face of hopelessness and despair. All eight members perished and John’s body was recovered without a life jacket – a poignant indication that he played to the bitter end.... |
8th April 2011 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | STILL PLAYING AS WATER CREEPS UP New York, April 19- Mrs. John Murray Brown of Acton, Mass, who with her sister, Mrs. Robert C. Cornell and Mrs. E.D. Appleton, was saved, was in the last life-boat to get safely away from the Titanic. "The band played marching from dec... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| ROGER BRICOUX ON THE CARPATHIA Letter sent by cellist on 17 March 1912... |
17th March 1912 | ||||
| lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | PRECINCT HONOUR FOR COLNE'S TITANIC HERO - LANCASHIRE TELEGRAPH COLNE Precinct could be renamed in honour of the town’s most famous son to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Talks are taking place to name the town centre shopping arcade after bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who famously lead the band as the liner sank after hitting an iceberg. His body was recovered two weeks after the ship sank, still fully dressed in his bandmaster uniform, and returned to Colne where a huge procession followed his body to its burial on May 18 1912. ... |
12th December 2011 | |||
| Leatherhead, Advertiser, Epsom District Times and County Post | WRECK OF THE TITANIC LITTLE GIRLS ACCOUNT Mrs. Tate, of Elm Villas, Leatherhead, has just received from her daughter (Mrs. Collyer) a copy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, containing an account of the wreck of the Titanic, as depicted by her daughter Margery, eight years of age. It will be remem... |
18th May 1912 | |||
| lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | COLNE TITANIC MUSUEM WANTS TO ATTRACT 100000 VISITORS A NEW museum commemorating the RMS Titanic is hoping to attract around 100,000 visitors in the run up to the centenary of when the ship sank. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson, 42, has brought the Titanic and her maiden voyage to life as he opened the Titanic in Lancashire Museum, in the old Colne Grammar School, off Albert Road, Colne on Wednesday. Nigel, of Humphrey Street, Brierfield is hoping to attract visitors from around the world with his display remembering the 71 Lancashire people who were on board the doomed vessel - including Wallace Hartley, the ship’s famous band leader from Colne. ... |
14th August 2011 | |||
| ORPHEUS This was a popular selection in the Edwardian period and very likely to have been played on the Titanic. In one of the films about the Titanic the ship's band is featured playing Orpheus. This particular re... |
1912 | ||||
| dgstandard.co.uk | RED ROSES FOR TITANIC HERO MUSICIAN - JOCK HUME ALMOST a century has past since the great ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The worst maritime disaster at peacetime in living history claimed the lives of 1,517 people on April 15, 1912, including that of one of the ship’s musicians, a young man called John Law Hume. Born and raised in Dumfries, before joining the ill-fated band of musicians on the White Star Ocean liner, the body of 21-year-old Jock was recovered from the waters of the Northern Atlantic by the MacKay Bennett shortly after the Titanic sank. His unidentified body was buried in May of that year at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.... |
4th November 2011 | |||
| New York Times | MISS ASTOR AT FESTIVAL Sees 1,000 Children In Folk Dances and a Maypole Romp --- RED BANK, N. J., June 14---Miss Muriel Alice Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor, who lost his life on the Titanic, was one of the interested spectators at the playground festiva... |
15th June 1915 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | 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 | |||
| Free Press | THE TITANIC FUND During the last week it has transpired that one of the bandsmen on board the Titanic was a man named J. W. Woodward, who was born and educated at Hill Top, West Bromwich. Woodward's father was at one time manager of the Hill Top Foundry, and W... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVORS HONOR CAPT. ROSTRON They Present Silver Loving Cup to Him and Medals to His Officers and Men --- GIVES CREDIT TO HIS CREW --- Modest Skipper Praises and Thanks His Men for Them Loyalty and Committee for Its Gifts --- When the Cu... |
30th May 1912 | |||
| Voyage | ALEXANDRA John P. Eaton Det Forenede Dampskibs Selsk (United Steamship Co.) Departed Emden, Germany for Boston, 13 March. On 3 April at 45 degrees 04'N. by 56 degrees 38'W. saw drifting ice and ice fields. Arrived at Boston 7 April. ... |
16th January 2005 | |||
| Newark Evening News | SURVIVOR VISITS MONTCLAIR One of the survivors of the Titanic, Miss Edwina Trout, of Bath, England, is the guest of Miss Jennie Holwell, of 209 Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair. “I can never forget the experience,” said Miss Trout today. “As we pulled away fro... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Herald | WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Oxford Illustrated | JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD MR WOODWARD was the youngest son of Mrs Woodward of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen College Choir, living in Oakthorpe Road, Oxford. Mr. Wesley Woodward left Oxford about a fortnight ago to joi... |
24th April 1912 | |||
| The New York Times | SINKING SHIP'S BAND CHOSE FITTING HYMN "Hold Me Up in Mighty Waters," a Suggestive Line in "Autumn" WERE NOTED MUSICIANS Friends of the Titanic's Bandmaster Say He Believed In Music's Power t... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Banner | RESCUED PASSENGER BRINGS WORD OF LOST SUPERINTENDENT A. H. BARKWORTH OF ENGLAND Tells of Acquaintance Made With Bennington Man on Steamship's First and Last Trip. The first information relative to Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of the J. C. Colgate estate, who lost his life in the T... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| Voyage | CASSANDRA John P. Eaton (Donaldson Brothers) On 9 April, while eastbound St. John, New Brunswick to Glasgow, Cassandra transmitted a warning of ice at 43 degrees 38’ N. by 49 degrees 16’ W. which was relayed at 2:55 p.m. by the Caledonia to the Bul... |
23rd May 2005 | |||
| "The Independent" newspaper of London, UK | ROBERT FISK: IN THE TITANIC CEMETERY, A DAY TO REMEMBER It comes as a shock to walk through the Titanic cemetery. A Canadian cable ship brought back dozens of bodies from the Atlantic. To walk past the headstones in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a deeply moving experience; they were "restored" some years ago and do not look as old as they should. Many of the Titanic dead in Halifax have no name. Others do.... |
25th June 2006 | |||
| Titanic Review | THE BAND THAT PLAYED ON – REVIEW Senan Molony Senan Molony reviews Steve Turner's new book about the musicians aboard the Titanic The Band that Played On... |
3rd June 2011 | |||
| Bournemouth Echo | A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e... |
1912 | |||
| Progress | PORT SUNLIGHT Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit... |
July 1912 | |||
| guardian.co.uk | SINKING OF THE TITANIC: THE WATERY SOUND MEDITATION RETURNS Gavin Bryars's piece of 'conceptual art' music has been performed in a swimming pool and water tower by child violinists and an experimental DJ. It now comes to the Roundhouse... |
11th May 2009 | |||
| Voyage | SAMARA John P. Eaton Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers) Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued t... |
23rd January 2005 | |||
| Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers | PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ... |
July 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam... |
19th April 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 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | DUMFRIES TITANIC VICTIMS Memorial unveiled on Dock Park. A very impressive ceremony, and one which attracted much public attention, took place on Saturday afternoon when the handsome memorial which has been erected on the Dock Park in honour of John Law Hume, ... |
1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | TITANIC SURVIVORS' STORIES ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH One hundred and sixty-seven survivors of the crew of the Titanic landed at Plymouth on Sunday from the Red Star liner Lapland. They told a large number of full and graphic stories of the disaster. One of the chief facts brought to light i... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC William Baltzell A Descriptive Composition for Piano Solo By William Baltzell Published 1912 by Aubrey Stauffer & Co., Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [Midi] ... |
1912 | ||||
| Vineland Times Journal | SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER TELLS OF GRIM EXPERIENCES Stan Sloame It was around midnight on April 14, 1912. The luxury liner "titanic", the finest passenger vessel afloat was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, To New York. The ship collided with an iceberg off Newfoundland in the fog and sank. ... |
25th March 1953 | |||
| Titanic Stories | TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS Speculation, exaggeration, propaganda and lies! Titanic has inspired many tall tales – but what is really true and what’s not?... |
8th July 2011 | |||
| New York Times | STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times Book Review | HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING. By Helen Churchill Candee. 12mo. Pp. ix-342. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1. --- The day has surely come when women as well as men may put their shoulders to the wheel of fortune. To meet... |
10th February 1900 | |||
| BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th... |
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| THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC Jeanette Forrest A Descriptive Piano Composition Word and Music by Jeanette Forrest Published 1912 by Frank K. Root & Co. Chicago : New York Listen to this Piece [Midi] ... |
1912 | ||||
| LETTER FROM CATERINA GILARDINO, NIECE OF VINCENZO GILARDINO I do not know the year Vincenzo Gilardino came to England but it must have been in the last years of the 1800s because in 1901 my father (Paulo) Gustavo, Vincenzo's brother, was sent to England by their father to try + persuade Vincenzo to return to ... |
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| MEXICO CRUISE BROCHURE (PAGE 1) T H E S E A V O Y A G E ... |
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| Voyage | ROSALIND John P. Eaton New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Managers) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 6 April for New York. On 7 April at 45 degrees 10 ‘ N. by 56 degrees 40” W. encountered a str... |
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| TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ... |
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| The Times | STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| LEADBELLY : THE TITANIC Huddie Ledbetter - Leadbelly Blues singer/songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana in 1885. Leadbelly remarked in th... |
15th October 1948 | ||||
| New York Times Book Review | THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT DOWN TO ETERNITY. By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com... |
19th February 1956 | |||
| Voyage | TRAFFIC John P. Eaton On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second... |
22nd September 2005 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC [The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Voyage | KURA John P. Eaton Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.) (Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees ... |
19th December 2004 | |||
| Voyage | LORD CROMER John P. Eaton Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor... |
9th January 2005 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c... |
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| Ottawa Citizen | SYRIAN WOMAN'S THRILLING NARRATIVE Ship's Officers Fired into Steerage: Panic Amid Rush for Lifeboats Mariana Assaff says Ten People on Doomed Ship were Bound for Ottawa but Two survive. ...How Mrs. Assaf views the Horror and Catastrophe of Her Rescue. "Mariana Assaf a... |
24th April 1912 | |||
| The Violinist | THE ORCHESTRA ON THE TITANIC A review of Hume by people who knew him... |
1912 | |||
| THE MOTIVES OF HEROISM Jason Lewis Heroes are iconic in past and present societies.... |
15th February 2008 | ||||
| Daily Home News | VAN BILLIARD BOYS MAY HAVE STUCK TO FATHER Relatives, However, Hope That They May Be Among the Titanic Waifs in New York---Father Was Returning Home With Many Diamonds. ---------- Many tales of heroism displayed by men, women and children aboard the Steamer Titanic during the la... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| St. Ives Times & Express | ST. IVES TITANIC VICTIM FUNERAL OF MR. W CARBINES The body of Mr. William Carbines, of Nanjivey, St Ives, one of the "Titanic" victims, was brought to St. Ives from Southampton on Monday by the 10:14 a.m. train. It was expected that the remains would have ... |
31st May 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ... |
10th April 1996 | |||
| Transactions of the Devonshire Association | HENRY FORBES JULIAN 'Mr Julian, one of the noble band of heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Titanic disaster on 14 April 1912, so that the women and children might be saved, was the son of Mr Henry Julian, of Cork and Bolton, and belonged to a mixed... |
1912 | |||
| Voyage | NOMADIC John P. Eaton One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ... |
22nd August 2005 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ... |
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