355 items found relating to : Board Of Trade
| The Washington Post | BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the... |
22nd May 1912 | |||
| BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to... |
11th July 1912 | ||||
| The Scotsman | STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES COMMITTEE, 1888 MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1888.-The first meeting of the comnmittee appointed under the provisions of the "Merchant Shippng (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888," took place at the Board of Trade... |
19th November 1888 | |||
| TITANIC INQUIRY PROJECT The site contains the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports.... |
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| 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 | |||
| TITANIC BISCUIT A biscuit with an impressed image of the Titanic measuring 2 ½ in. diameter, made by Carr, Carlisle. Removed from the ship by Board of Trade official Captain Morris Harvey Clarke, Southampton 1912.... |
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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 | |||
| New York Herald | EDWARD A. KENT Edward A. Kent, who is a well-known architect at Buffalo, N. Y. and whose brother, William Kent, is an architect in New York city, was a passenger on board the Titanic who is not reported among the rescued. Mr. Kent, who is fifty-eight years old, is... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| 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 Evening Telegram | HUGO ROSS WAS ABOARD Newspaper article... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Article... |
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| Connaught Telegraph | THE TITANIC DISASTER, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED Lord Mersey, the specially appointed Commissioner of Wrecks to enquire into the loss of the White Star Liner Titanic, on Tuesday delivered the finding of the Court. The attendance at the London-Scottish Hall, Westminster, where the in... |
3rd August 1912 | |||
| Brighton Argus | MR. PITMAN Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w... |
24th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ... |
1st November 1930 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | A TASTE OF ULSTER WHETS US APPETITES THE arrival of Ulster's sizeable contingent of Government ministers, representatives of trade and industry, culture, tourism and leisure is the culmination of a four-month appetiser being served up in Washington DC. ... |
28th June 2007 | |||
| The Gazette (Montreal) | THOUSANDS VISIT LAURENTIC Thousands of interested sight-seers, each provided with a pass of admittance, without which the vessel would without doubt have been packed even beyond her great capacity, yesterday visited the new White Star-Dominion li... |
10th May 1909 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | HADDONFIELD MAN ON BOARD TITANIC Nothing Yet Heard from Frederick W. Sutton Whose Name is on Passenger List --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- Fredrich [sic] W. Sutton, a highly esteemed wealthy resident of Haddonfield is said to have been on board... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo... |
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| Guernsey Weekly Press | MR. H. MITCHELL Mr. H. Mitchell, who was aged 73, was on his way to pay a visit to his brother and other relatives. He was an ex-Donzenier of Canton No. 1 and was for some years in business in the boot trade in Mill-street. He was a widower and resided with his daug... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| TITANIC ICEBERG PICTURED FROM SS AMERIKA Postcard sold on board SS Amerika... |
8th May 1912 | ||||
| Western Morning News | WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS Mr. Frank Andrew, a young married man, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, about 3 miles from Redruth en route to America to seek his fortune - his first trip across the seas - by the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Andrew has a wife and one child, age ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton...... |
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| NORMANDIE AND NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE 1936 The Normandie, outward bound on a 1936 voyage, passes lower Manhattan. The area cleared in the 1960s to make way for the World Trade Center lies between her first and third funnels.... |
1936 | ||||
| New York Times | J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7... |
19th October 1937 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES Brian J. Ticehurst SOME of you who were on the Titanic's re-enactment voyage on the Waterfront Ferry Hotspur VI, out of Southampton docks back at the Convention in April, may remember that the Captain of the Ferry we were aboard passed me a note sa... |
1992 | |||
| The Times | SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times Book Review | BOOKS AND MEN Elinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" and the recently published "Reflections of Ambrosine," is Mrs. Clayton Glyn, a sister of Lady Duff Gordon. She is an intimate friend of Lady Warwick. Lady Gordon is one of the well-known titled En... |
15th November 1902 | |||
| Worcester Magazine | WALTER C. PORTER, 46 YEARS, 11 MO. AND 2 DAYS OLD OF S. PORTER & CO., DROWNED AT SEA. Worcester's Toll in Titanic Disaster Walter C. Porter, of the Samuel Porter Company, a Member of this Board on Ill-fated Ship, Returning from European Business Trip. His Body Found by Crew of Mackay-Bennett after the Mighty Ocean Liner... |
May 1912 | |||
| Telegraph.co.uk | TITANIC BOUNCY CASTLE WITH INFLATABLE ICEBERGS IS A 'BOUNCY GRAVEYARD' A bouncy castle in the shape of the doomed ship Titanic complete with inflatable icebergs has been condemned as a "bouncy graveyard" by critics at a toy trade fare.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| New York Times | HOW THE HARRISES PARTED "Of Course, Ladies First," Said Mr. Harris, and Stayed on Board --- George Brayton, an asphalt manufacturer of Los Angeles, who was on the Titanic, last night gave an account of the parting of Henry B. Harris and his wife. He said:... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died... |
24th November 1899 | |||
| Bucks Free Press | THE TITANIC DISASTER - J. BROOKS [Annual Meeting of Board of Guardians and Rural District Council, Amersham Union] Mr F Nash, the Chairman, and other members expressed the sympathy of the Board with those bereaved by the great shipping disaster. Mr Grice remarked th... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | UNIDENTIFIED TITANIC SURVIVORS ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA This picture, supposedly of unidentified Titanic survivors on board the Carpathia, was published in Switzerland in 1956.... |
27th September 1956 | |||
| The Times | WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED Article... |
4th April 1913 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| The San Francisco Call | OREGONIANS ON SHIP PORTLAND, Ore., April 15 -Among the Portland people on board the Titanic are F. M. Warren and wife. Warren is president of the Warren Packing company and is rated a millionaire. Herman Klaber. also a passenger, is a Portland... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Graphic | A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER ‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times... |
18th May 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble.... |
24th November 1899 | |||
| HAROLD VICTOR GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parent... |
29th May 1904 | ||||
| The Evening Post | BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ... |
2nd May 1912 | |||
| INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst... |
17th November 1911 | ||||
| WILLIAM FREDERICK GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names... |
29th May 1904 | ||||
| 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... |
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| Worcester Telegram | 3500 SACKS OF MAIL ON TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16- Postmaster Edward M. Morgan stated today that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3500 sacks of mail. It is not likely, he said that the mails were saved because during the few hours that the vessel floated after running int... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | RED CROSS BOARD FILLS VACANCIES WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (AP)---Chief Justice Hughes presided today as the incorporators of the American Red Cross elected five new members to fill vacancies caused by deaths. Those named were Newton D. Baker, Frank T. Heffelfinger of Minneapolis, J. Fran... |
10th December 1931 | |||
| JESSIE ALLIS MARY GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names... |
29th May 1904 | ||||
| irishtimes.com | PROTESTANTS ON TOP: 'TITANIC' WAS A MICROCOSM OF ULSTER SOCIETY Designed and built by unionist Freemasons at exactly the moment they were plotting partition, the ship contained many coded references to their secret political goal. The most obvious of these were the watertight compartments, any four of which could flood without sinking the vessel. Likewise, Northern Ireland was designed to stay afloat even if four counties filled up with Catholics. The decision to include lifeboats for only two-thirds of the people on board reflected the idea of Northern Ireland itself as a lifeboat for only two-thirds of the people on board. But there were life-vests for everyone, which frankly was more than some of them deserved.... |
1st June 2011 | |||
| Newton Abbot Western Guardian | UNTITLED Captain and Mrs. Hosking of Shaldon have received a telegram from Mr. Bock, Captain Hosking’s cousin in America, who had travelled about 300 miles to meet Mr. George Fox Hosking, the Senior Third Engineer on the ‘Titanic’ who he was hoping would be a... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | JUDGMENT FOR $266,249 LOAN Judgment for $266,249 was entered by default yesterday against John D. Baumann & Co., a New York corporation, in favor of Charles G., Hugh L., Herbert R., and William R. Arbuthnot, merchants of London. The judgment was entered for amounts claimed as ... |
4th February 1909 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | DIRECTORS OF BANK MOURN FOR SUTTON Collingswood Board May Elect Successor to President Who Was Titanic Victim --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH The Titanic disaster is the cause of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Collingswood National Bank t... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o... |
25th November 1899 | |||
| CHARLES EDWARD GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names... |
29th May 1904 | ||||
| Liverpool Echo | MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED Stephen Guy IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea.... |
10th October 2009 | |||
| Hudson Observer | WEST HOBOKEN MAN'S RELATIVES HAVE NOT ABANDONED ALL HOPE Nothing has been heard of John Ashby, listed as second cabin passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, and the family, in West Hoboken, with the Rev. Edmund J. Cleveland, would be pleased for any information. No satisfaction can be obtained at the Whit... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| CAPTAIN SMITH ON BOARD THE MAJESTIC |
29th May 1903 | ||||
| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD F. Allsop (sic) 41, steward.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD John P. Penrose, 49, steward.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Associated Press | PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| LILIAN AUGUSTA GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's... |
29th May 1904 | ||||
| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD Walter Jarvis, 37, of Dartmouth, fireman.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD C. Hodge, 28, senior assistant third engineer.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | BETWEEN SIPS OF TEA Lady Duff-Gordon is one of the English titled women who are "in trade," as it is termed in England. She started a dress-making establishment some years since in London, and, having energy and taste, it has proved most successful. She is a Canadian... |
11th December 1904 | |||
| Titanic Research | COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? Dave Gittins If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ... |
28th February 2008 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | E.Z. TAYLOR'S ACCOUNT E.Z. Taylor jumps into the sea... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| THE FIRST MEAL ON BOARD Menu... |
2nd April 1912 | ||||
| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD Passengers: Plymouth: Mrs. Quick and two children (saved). ... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES... |
11th May 1940 | |||
| Jersey Journal | BROTHER CLAIMS DISTRACTED SON OF WRECK VICTIM Frederick Myles of 256 Grove Street, the young man who was picked up for safe keeping Wednesday night by Patrolman May of the City Hall station, grief-stricken because of the loss of his father, Thomas F. Myles, in the Titanic... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | WON'T AFFECT STOCK MARKET Newspaper article... |
16th April 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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| New York Times | ROSTRON'S CAT LEFT HERE Berengaria Master Sails Alone Because of British Quarantine --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunarder Berengaria, sailed early yesterday morning for the first time in many years without his pet Persian cat Abdul. The animal... |
6th January 1929 | |||
| Titanic Research | OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR 'SLEEPING ROUGH' Senan Molony YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ... |
10th June 2004 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist. Her mother marrie... |
4th August 1907 | |||
| MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937 TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ... |
1937 | ||||
| Nottingham Daily Express | DERBYSHIRE VICTIM Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| The San Francisco Call | RESIDENTS OF SACRAMENTO ON BOARD VESSEL Stephen Hold and Wife and H. Klaber Passengers on the Titanic --- [Special Dispatch to The Call] --- SACRAMENTO, April 15 -Three Sacramento persons were on board the ill fated liner Titanic, which sank in... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Research | PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG Senan Molony ... |
19th July 2004 | |||
| New York Times | SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Grimsby Evening News | UNTITLED As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t... |
April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | SUBMARINES SINK FOUR MORE SHIPS Three British and a French Steamer Destroyed, All Probably in Mediterranean --- 2 U-BOATS REPORTED LOST -- And a Third Is Said to Have Been Captured and Taken to Port by British Warships --- LONDON, Nov... |
11th November 1915 | |||
| The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand | ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o... |
31st January 1890 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | A MENU WITH REAL TITANIC SERVINGS For first class diners on board the Titanic it was a last supper to remember.... |
16th March 2011 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | CHARLES LYDIATT Steward on Board Titanic, and Brother of Sergeant Lydiatt of Toronto Police Force.... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD Edward Parsons, chief storekeeper, son of Mrs. Parsons, Torquay, leaves a widow and five children.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | SEAMEN'S STRIKE ABROAD LIVERPOOL, May 22---The projected move of the White Star Line to Southampton is responsible for a dispute between seamen and firemen and the company which threatens to spread. A hundred men belonging to the Oceanic refused to sai... |
23rd May 1907 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | PASSENGER WED A CHICAGO GIRL Mrs. Nelson L. Barnes Discusses Trip of J. Clinch Smith J. Clinch Smith, artist, reported to be on board the Titanic, is the husband of a former Chicago girl, Bertha Barnes, sister of Nelson L. Barnes, a broker in th... |
15th April 1912 | |||
| 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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| Excelsior | LE CHICAGO A RAMENé HIER AU HAVRE DES SURVIVANTS DU TITANIC Mme Laroche, survivante du terrible naufrage du Titanic, est arrivée, hier, au Havre, à bord du Chicago. Elle était sur le paquebot géant au moment de la catastrophe, ainsi que son mari, qui, malheureusement, disparut dans le desastre, et ses deux... |
2nd May 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [Links to the earlier parts of this article can be found on the summary pages for the members of the Renouf/Jefferys family and the Carter family.] Among those who visited the White Star steamship offices in New York to-day in an endea... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| PINCUSHION A pin cushion bought on board the Titanic. Probably in the barber's shop which stocked toys and novelty items for sale as souveniers.... |
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| Exeter Flying Post | DEVONIANS ON BOARD George Fox Hosking, 36, senior third engineer, eldest son of Captain Hosking, The Green, Shaldon, leaves a wife and three children.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Evening Post | AMERICANS IN PARIS MOURN LOST KINSMEN Hundreds in French Capital Had Relatives Aboard the Titanic... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Dictionary of National Biography (1901) | ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY Prof. Sir John Knox Laughton, Litt.D. ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (... |
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| WVLT | TITANIC'S TALE OF TWO PENNIES The Titanic Museum keeps the memories of those on board the ship alive throughout the year but this month it honors the hardworking men and women of Ireland.... |
26th March 2011 | |||
| R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY. A large scales plan of the Titanic used during the Titanic enquiry is offered for sale...... |
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| Reading Observer | DODD Much sympathy is felt with Mr. Dodd, the meat inspector of Reading, whose brother, Mr. E. C. Dodd, was an assistant engineer on board. His name does not appear among the survivors. [Page 5]... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| St. Ives Times & Express | UNKNOWN TITLE Died January 9th 1988. RICHARDS, William (Willie) Rowe Richards of Carbis Bay whose death at the age of 78 is reported on page 7 was one of the few survivors remaining of the Titanic disaster in which in April 1912 claimed 1,500 lives.... |
22nd January 1988 | |||
| The ChronicleHerald.ca (Halifax Herald) | EMOTIONAL STORY FOR VICTIM'S COUSIN Interview with Edith Benoit, of Halifax, NS, whose cousin, George Wright, a self-made millionaire businessman, perished on board Titanic. His body was never recovered.... |
15th April 2007 | |||
| Wiltshire Times | TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ... |
23rd September 1953 | |||
| Boston Globe | OTHERS OF REPUTED WEALTH Among the others of reputed wealth who were on board are Christopher Head a London barrister and one of the senior member of Lloyds, underwriters, was among the passengers.... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Craig Daily Press | A STORY OF THE PIG AND THE TITANIC A lot has been written about the Titanic. In fact, it might seem that there's nothing else to write about it. But then, surprise, it seems that there was a pig on board the ship - a true story.... |
24th October 2007 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC LETTER SELLS FOR A RECORD £55,000 A letter from a first-class passenger on board the ill-fated Titanic has been sold at auction for £55,000.... |
20th April 2010 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- William E. Carter, 37 years old, of Philadelphia, a nephew of Joseph W. Carter, of 43 South Broad street, a well-known Elizabeth resident, is one of the pas... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| La Science et la Vie | WATERTIGHT DOORS ON BOARD A WHITE STAR LINER From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913... |
1913 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW An Exonian on board was Mr Harry Dyer, second son of Q.M.S. Dyer and Mrs Dyer of Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter. A smart young fellow, 25 years of age, he was fourth engineer, having transferred from the Olympic. He was in Exeter for a short holiday a... |
1912 | |||
| Bridgwater Mercury | NOTABLE PEOPLE ON BOARD Mr. Christopher Head, former mayor of Chelsea. Much interested in art matters, and the donor of one of the panels to be placed in Chelsea Town hall. Took a prominent part in the discussions at the Mansion House on the King Edward Memorial. ... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Research | TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR Senan Molony Sydney Buxton as a new MP SYDNEY BUXTON, President of the Board of Trade... |
13th December 2006 | |||
| Washington Times | DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Research | A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters.... |
9th July 2002 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA Article... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | OTHER PASSENGERS Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Gettysburg Complier | RESCUE OF MRS BECKER Dr L. B. Wolf Secretary of Foreign Missionary Board of The General Synod Lutheran Church, tells that he met Mrs Becker, a Lutheran missionary from India, returning on the ill-fated Titanic, at New York when the Carpathia docked with the Titani... |
15th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS-Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (Orphan Asylum,) passed at a meeting specially called for the purpose of considering the tragic and untimely death of Isidor Straus: Isidor Straus t... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| CARPATHIA MENU Menu for the last dinner served to Titanic survivors on board Carpathia, April 18th, 1912... |
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| Brockton Daily Enterprise | BROCKTON AND STOUGHTON MEN ABOARD TITANIC Among the passengers of the Titanic are Frank D. Millet, the distinguished artist, once of East Bridgewater, and a brother of Dr. Charles S. Millett of Brockton; George Q. Clifford, of the Belcher Last Co. of Stoughton and widely known among the shoe... |
15th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | RECOVER MARCH'S BODY On board the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, whicn [sic] is due in Halifax to-morrow with the bodies of nearly 200 dead recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic are the remains of John S. Marsh, of Newark, father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles st... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | NEW TITANIC LINK TO THE PAST The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum says it has launched the most wide-ranging website ever dedicated to the Titanic and its place in Belfast's history. The site is backed by the NI Tourist Board and is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of virtual visitors. ... |
5th March 2007 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | MEEHAN KIN ESCAPE Mrs. John Worthington, 4458 Drexel boulevard, sister of John Meehan, who was reported to have had relatives on board the Titanic, denied there was any truth in the report. Chicago Record-Herald, Saturday, April 20, 1912, p. 4, c. 7... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| mirror.co.uk | TITANIC VOYAGES SELLING OUT A cruise on Fred Olsen's Balmoral, re-tracing Titanic's route, has been sold out for months, but places are still available on board Azamara Journey which is due to leave from New York on April 10 and will rendezvous with Balmoral at the wreck site ...... |
3rd August 2011 | |||
| channelnewsasia.com | SINGAPORE UPS SECURITY FOR TITANIC ARTIFACT EXHIBITION The Titanic theft which happened in Copenhagen during the opening hours of the exhibit at Tivoli Park involved the disappearance of a necklace belonging to the Widener family, one of the richest families on board the Titanic in 1912...... |
27th September 2011 | |||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | HARLAND AND WOLFF, LTD. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast. Shipbuilding in Belfast as a progressive industry is of comparatively recent growth, and yet there is probably no commertial [sic] centre more prominently identified with the trade to-day than th... |
1908 | |||
| Titanic Stories | A LUCKY ESCAPE FROM THE TITANIC - FATHER BROWNE Titanic Stories Hear the story of the man who captured unique photos of Titanic before she sank. He was luckily summoned back to his duties instead of going on the maiden voyage.... |
12th May 2011 | |||
| New York Times | CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED 215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N... |
20th July 1918 | |||
| Western Morning News | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had br... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had bro... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Isle of Man Today | A BOAT IN THE EVENING AT THE GAIETY THE Manx Operatic Society is working on one of the most expensive and challenging productions of its 60-year history. Titanic the Musical will be hitting the stage of the Gaiety Theatre in March, complete with custom sets and computer graphics to make the audience feel as if they are really on board the ship.... |
30th September 2008 | |||
| LETTER POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE LUSITANIA One of Berthe's 19 transatlantic voyages was on the Lusitania sometime between 1912 and 1915. She wrote to her brother Samuel: "Another couple of days on board this ship. It is not too bad a trip but I cannot help feel... |
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| Today's TMJ4 | RAW VIDEO: TITANIC EXHIBIT COMING TO PUBLIC MUSEUM One of the most popular exhibits in the world is coming to Milwaukee. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" shows hundreds of relics from the sunken ship. There will also be information about people from Milwaukee who were on board.... |
19th April 2008 | |||
| Worcester News | JUMP ON BOARD FOR FUN TITANIC PARTY THE 10-course meal enjoyed by passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic will be recreated for an end-of-summer party at a Worcestershire pub. Staff from the Swan in Birlingham, near Pershore, have turned a copy of the original menu from the evening the ship went down into a buffet-style spread.... |
4th September 2008 | |||
| Irish Central | 100 IRISH ON BOARD FOR THE TITANICS MEMORIAL CRUISE - SEE VIDEO More than 100 Irish have signed up to the cruise which will commemorate the Titanic. The cruise will follow the exact fateful route that the Belfast-built Titanic took 100 years ago.... |
1st September 2010 | |||
| New York Times | DEATH NOTICE OF TYRELL CAVENDISH CAVENDISH---At sea, on April 15, Tyrelll William Cavendish, only son of the late Charles T. Cavendish of Crakemarsh Hall, Uttoxeter, England, and son-in-law of Mr. Henry Siegel of New York. Funeral services private. "I will not leave the ship while... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| MARCONIGRAM FROM ALGERNON BARKWORTH Recd. 2.28 p.m. reads. Barkworth, Whites, Belmont, Scarborough. All well Algy. === Marconigram dated April 18th 1912 to Barkworth, Hessle, England. ''Am safe on board Carpathia - Algy''.... |
13th April 1912 | ||||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | THAYER FAMILY GETS BACK MISSING WATCH Timepiece, Gone when Body was Found, Returned Mysteriously The missing gold watch of John B. Thayer, 3d, who was found dead in his parked automobile last Friday, has turned up. The watch was missing when Thayer's... |
24th September 1945 | |||
| BBC News | 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 | |||
| New York Times | HENRY BLANK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWARK, N. J., March 17---Henry Blank, chairman of the board of Henry Blank & Co., manufacturing jewelers here, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J., after a brief illness, at... |
18th March 1949 | |||
| The Times | MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | 14 IN GLASS TRADE FINED IN TRUST CASE They Plead Nolo Contendere at Chicago on Price-Fixing --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Jan. 22---Fourteen corporate and individual defendants in the glazing industry, accused of fixing prices of glass... |
23rd January 1941 | |||
| Isle of Man Today | THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE TITANIC ARRIVES IN DOUGLAS THE Manx Operatic Society will be taking theatre-goers on a week-long journey on board the Titanic. Titanic the Musical docks at the Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, this Saturday until March 28.... |
20th March 2009 | |||
| New York Times | LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele... |
22nd April 1935 | |||
| Camden Daily Courier | NOTHING HEARD OF FREDERICK SUTTON Relatives and friends of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, who was on board the Titanic when she sank on Sunday night after colliding with a huge iceberg, have given up all hope of his survival. Mr. Sutton was president of the Collingswood National B... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| liverpoolecho.co.uk | TELESCOPE BELONGING TO TITANIC CAPTAIN FAILS TO SELL - LIVERPOOL ECHO Chief among the items going under the hammer at the Cato Crane auction house was a telescope which belonged to the captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith. He used it while serving on board the sister ship to the Titanic, ...... |
29th July 2011 | |||
| The Times | THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY'S RETURN The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq... |
13th May 1912 | |||
| BBC News | 'JACK PHILLIPS' - THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE TITANIC John George Phillips who was nicknamed 'Jack' gained posthumous fame as the man who tried to save the Titanic and all those on board.... |
15th July 2010 | |||
| The Times | LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ... |
12th October 1935 | |||
| New York Times | GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| The Times | OLYMPIC BERTHED AT JARROW FAREWELL SALUTE FROM SIRENS The Olympic, which is to be broken up by Messrs.T.W.Ward and Co at Jarrow to provide employment, was safely berthed alongside Palmers shipyard today. The coming of the liner to the Tyne attracted many thousa... |
14th October 1935 | |||
| L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | TITANIC LIFEBOAT HOISTED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA From 'L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse'... |
20th September 1956 | |||
| Event Magazine | £11M TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN BELFAST Belfast is to host an £11m Titanic-themed visitor attraction, to open for the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the famous vessel.Event Communications is creating the exhibition, after winning a competitive pitch tendered by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.... |
12th December 2008 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | SORROW AT HARDER HOME DESPITE HOPEFUL MESSAGES Word was received at the home of Victor A. Harder, at 117 Eighth avenue, that his son George A. Harder and the latter’s young bride, who was Mrs. Dorothy Annan, of Manhattan, daughter of the late Edward Annan, of Brooklyn, who were passengers on the ... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- COUNTESS ROTHES BRAVE --- Took Charge in Her Boat-Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- *** --- COUNTESS IN CHARGE OF BOAT --- Sat at Tiller Five Hours--Survi... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | DID JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY DRESS AS A WOMAN TO FLEE TITANIC? Ismay has gone down in history as one of the 20th century's greatest cowards for fleeing the foundering Titanic while women and children were still on board. But a new play premiering in Belfast this week could cast Joseph Bruce Ismay in a new light.... |
5th April 2011 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | UNTITLED In many cases reference was made to the disaster in the sermons, and the Dead March in ''Saul'' or another of the classic funeral marches was played. Memorial services were conducted in Maxwelltown Parish Church, of which Mr. Thomas Mullins, one of t... |
1912 | |||
| SHIP MANIFEST on 15th April 1911, Hudson arrived at New York from Liverpool, England. He was on board the S.S Campania, 29 years old, married his occupation was a broker, he could read and write, his residence was Montreal, Canada. he had no nearby freinds or rela... |
15th April 1911 | ||||
| The Lindsay Daily Post | LINDSAY'S TITANIC CONNECTION; NEW EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS LINDSAY MAN'S BELONGINGS A Lindsay native's personal belongings lost at sea are one of the main focal points of a Titanic Exhibit currently on display in Toronto. The irony is that although Harold Irwin's luggage was on board the Titanic, he wasn't.... |
28th January 2008 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| RIA Novosti | TRAVEL COMPANIES CRITICIZED OVER TITANIC WRECKAGE CRUISES Travel companies that offer 15-day dive cruises to the Titanic's remains have come under under criticism from relatives of those killed in the tragedy. The participants of the cruisecritic.co.uk forum hit out at the first passengers of the scandalous cruise who discussed how they would dress up as “characters” who were on board the Titanic when it sank, the Daily Mail said.... |
16th November 2011 | |||
| San Diego Union Tribune | TRAVEL TITANIC A DISASTER TO REMEMBER Its never too late to board the Titanic. The irrepressible story of the worlds most famous ship is coming to the forefront once again in places ranging from Cobh Queenstown Ireland where Titanic made its last port call to cities in the United States. All this leads up to April 15 2012 the 100th anniversary of the sinking of what was then the worlds most elegant and largest ocean liner.... |
25th March 2011 | |||
| thestar.co.uk | MUSEUM HOSTS NEW TITANIC SHOW A GLIMPSE into life on board doomed cruise liner the Titanic is being offered by Barnsley’s Cannon Hall Museum next Friday to mark the 99th anniversary of the disaster. The museum is hosting an exhibition of costumes, historical documents and testimonies from survivors who travelled on the ship’s only voyage in April 1912...... |
6th April 2011 | |||
| New York Times | MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS--- A Special Meeting of the Board Of Directors of Montefiore Home, held April 21, 1912. The President, Jacob H. Schiff, announced the melancholy death of the Honorable Isidor Straus and his devoted wife in the dis... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Examiner.com | TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America..... |
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| New York Times | CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE... |
6th November 1940 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | UNTITLED April/May 1912 In the boat with Mrs. Renouf were the Misses Lillian Bentham (of Jersey) and Miss Emily Rugg. When the boat left the ship's side there were 30 on board, but later 30 men were taken from a raft, of whom one... |
1912 | |||
| Breeder’s Gazette | RACEHORSES TRANSPORTED BY WHITE STAR STEAMER Thoroughbred racehorses were frequently passengers aboard the White Star livestock carriers. This illustration, “from a photograph taken on board a White Star steamship,” appeared in the Breeder’s Gazette in March 1893.... |
March 1893 | |||
| MOHAWK BROCHURE 2 "Handy reading lights, electric fans, hot and cold running water - you will look in vain for a stateroom that has more comforts than these." "Charting a course on the trackless sea call for a fine skill and accuracy." "The ship's o... |
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| New York Times | DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | HENRY BLANK, 76, GLEN RIDGE, DIES Head of Newark Jewelry Concern Was Titanic Disaster Survivor --- Henry Blank, board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, after a short illness. He ... |
17th March 1949 | |||
| ALFRED NOURNEY : TITANIC TELEGRAM Wolff Cöln Sachsenring Titanic gesunken! Gerettet an Bord von Carpathia. Cunard Line. Vollständig mittel und kleiderlos. Alfred (Titanic sunk! Saved on board Cunard Line Carpathia. Completely dest... |
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| The Guardian | TITANIC LETTER EXPECTED TO FETCH £25,000 AT AUCTION A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner.... |
30th March 2010 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | DEATH NOTICE: KIRBY & MCMULLEN In loving and honoured memory of our dear cousin THOMAS KIRBY also our dearest friend JACK McMULLEN who both laid down their lives at Duty's call on board the SS Titanic, April 15, 1912. Greatly missed but never forgotten by all of us at Sholi... |
19th April 1913 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE “Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| STEPHEN & ANNIE HOLD Newly married at St. Keverne, Cornwall on 18 October 1909, Annie's first trip to America with her husband Stephen Hold was on board Teutonic. They arrived at New York on 24 November 1909 having departed from Southampton. The ship's manifest sh... |
1909 | ||||
| guardian.co.uk | TITANIC LAUNCH MARKED 100 YEARS ON efore he left Belfast on board the Titanic, deck engineer Thomas Millar, 33, gave both his sons two new pennies, telling them: "Don't spend those until I see you again." He never came back. His younger son kept those pennies and passed them on to his daughter, Susie Millar, who was present at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the launch of the luxury liner into the river Lagan in Belfast, where the ship had been built.... |
31st May 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Worksop Today | TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD AN AFTERNOON surfing on the internet led a Creswell woman to the discovery that a Titanic survivor, who died in the First World War, is believed to be buried in the village. Rita Williams, 63, of Wood Avenue, spotted the biography of Reginald Hardwick while surfing for stories about her village."I think this discovery is fantastic. It's really exciting, I have only had my computer a year. When I came across a Titanic survivor in Creswell, I passed it to my friends straight away," said Rita.Reginald is believed to have been working as a kitchen porter on board the ill-fated voyage of 1912 when the famous ship hit an iceberg.But he managed to escape on lifeboat 11. He was then taken on board the rescue ship Carpathia with other survivors which docked in New York.... |
22nd June 2006 | |||
| ORIZABA PASSENGER LIST COVER A passenger list cover from peak season 1928. On board were three Reverends; one Priest, and at least 8 families traveling with children. When looking over Ward Line Passenger lists from the '20's and'30's it is hard to reconcile the family-friendly passenger makeup with the liners' reputations for rumrunning and smuggling, and with their nickname "The Floating Whorehouses."... |
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| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | TOUCHING MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN'S WIFE Shortly before three on Thursday afternoon the following message from Mrs. E. J. Smith, the wife of the Captain of the lost liner, was posted on the notice-board at the White Star office, Canute Road, Southampton. TO MY POOR FELLOW SUF... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| BASIC STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER 324 1st class passengers, 201 survived. 277 2nd class passengers, 118 survived. 708 3rd class passengers, 181 survived 885 crewmembers, 212 survived 13 postmen/musicians, none lived. Grand total: 2,207 on board, 712 s... |
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| Cambridge Chronicle | A CAMBRIDGE VICTIM Mr. A. W. Barringer [photo] The greatest sympathy is felt with the relatives of Mr. A. W Barringer, whom as reported in last week's issue, was amongst those who lost their lives in the terrible Titanic disaster. The dece... |
26th April 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 | |||
| Clare Journal | THE TITANIC DISASTER A telegram received in Ennis during the week confirmed the worst fears that had been entertained as to the safety of a young man named Martin McMahon, from the Craigbrien district, about five miles from Ennis. It was known... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| 1901 CENSUS, POOLE, DORSET Frank Couch, aged 16, born Port Isaac, Cornwall is shown as a ships cook on board a vessel named 'Deveron'. Moored at Poole Quay, Dorset at the time of the census the Master was shown as Charles Couch, aged 24, born in Plymouth, Devon ... |
1901 | ||||
| pendletoday.co.uk | TITANIC MUSEUM TO SET SAIL IN PENDLE A NEW museum opening in Colne will bring the stories of the people of Lancashire, on board the Titanic when it sank, to life. The Titanic in Lancashire Museum will be located in the old Colne Grammar School, off Church Street, and will feature photographs and models of the ship. Visitors will also be able to get a closer look at fittings identical to those seen on the Titanic from its sister ship, RMS Olympic.... |
7th June 2011 | |||
| Castle Carey Visitor | CARYITES ON BOARD The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H... |
April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | CRAZED WITH GRIEF BY FATHER'S DEATH Jersey City Man Whose Father was Aboard the Titanic Taken Into Custody---Driven to the verge of insanity by the thought that his father in allprobability went down with the ill-fated Titanic, Frank Myles, 29 yearsold, liv... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| BBC News | SON IN STEP WITH TITANIC MEMORY The living links to the workers who built the Titanic are becoming fewer as time passes. But one got in touch with me after seeing my report on BBC Newsline about the joiners in County Londonderry who are building a replica of the Titanic's grand staircase. John Flynn's grandfather, also called John, was a joiner who worked on the original staircase. It was one of the most spectacular sights on board the most famous ship to sail from Belfast. ... |
25th October 2011 | |||
| Women's Wear Daily | EDITH L. ROSENBAUM REPORTED HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT A number of the daily papers this morning have the following press dispatch from Rouen, France: "Rouen, Monday: – Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured today in an automobile accident while on her way to this city from Paris. A Ger... |
22nd August 1911 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | FULL STEAM AHEAD AS TITANIC FESTIVAL GETS SET TO DRAW IN HUGE CROWDS Titanic fever will grip Belfast this week with the launch of the annual Titanic Made in Belfast Festival. Hundreds of Titanic and White Star Line artefacts and memorabilia including a postcards written by a passengers on board the doomed vessel, a man’s watch valued at £90,000, and the keys to a family treasure chest that went down with the stricken ship are due to go on display in Belfast today.... |
2nd April 2010 | |||
| HMS HECATE'S ROLE IN DISCOVERY OF TITANIC WRECK John Bibby I read with interest on this site regarding HMS Hecate's apparent role in the discovery of Titanic in 1977. Actually this is a mistake. I served on board HMS HECATE between 1980... |
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| The Times | THE TITANIC'S WIRELESS OPERATORS It has been decided to erect a memorial fountain at Godalming in memory of Mr Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on board the Titanic, who was a native of the town. The Mayor (Alderman E Bridger) has received letters from all par... |
20th May 1912 | |||
| Scotsman | 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 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | DIGBY COUNTY AND THE TITANIC DISASTER... Question: What do the sinking of the Titanic and Digby County have in common? Answer: The rescue ship, Carpathia's Chief Officer was Thomas W. Hankinson. Thomas William Hankinson, born 1857, was ... |
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| LETTER FROM WILLIAM BYLES TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW Bernards' Inn Bernardsville, N.J. April 21, 1912 My dear Mamma, Here we are at Bernardsville...went to St. Vincent's Hospital, when we met first some young boys and afterwards some girls who had been on the... |
21st April 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 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | TITANIC QUARTER: UNSINKABLE ADVENTURE Titanic Belfast will take each visitor on an interactive journey from Boomtown Belfast, through to Titanic Beneath, which will have live feeds to Professor Ballard’s expeditions to the wreckage and his other ongoing ocean explorations. It will encourage people to interpret the story for themselves. “The Titanic story really draws you in. It is essentially a human story about the people who built the ship and those passengers and crew who were on board. The main draw is the authenticity of Titanic Belfast. ... |
6th September 2011 | |||
| THE ENGLISHMAN Poem composed on Olympic, April 18, 1912... |
18th April 1912 | ||||
| Titanic Stories | TITANIC FASHION, AN EDWARDIAN MAKEOVER Titanic Stories For first class passengers on board Titanic, status was everything. Where you sat at dinner, the size of your suite and who you played cards with all marked out your position in society.But perhaps the most visual way to make your social statement was by what you wore. For the ladies in particular, an ensemble by the latest on trend designer could put you ahead of the game. You certainly could not be seen at dinner in the same dress as the night before.It was an era when fashion trends were moving quickly and even amongst the older generation there was a need to be seen to embrace modernity. One fashion faux-pas could knock you down the social ladder. It was a complicated game to play.... |
26th August 2011 | |||
| CHEROKEE 1930s snapshot of the Mohawk's sister ship Cherokee. She proved to be the least lucky of the Clyde-Mallory sisters. She collided with a sailing vessel, the Bright in 1927, and rammed and sank the British vessel Welcombe off Jacksonville Florid... |
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| Hampshire Chronicle | SURVIVOR FROM “TITANIC” A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | MILLVINA DEAN TO BE BURIED TODAY Mourners are due to gather in Southampton to say a final farewell to Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster, today. Millvina, who died aged 97, was the youngest passenger on board the illfated White Star liner when the ship left on her maiden voyage from Southampton in April, 1912 The funeral service at Southampton Crematorium was set to include the seafarers' hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, which includes the famous chorus: For those in peril on the sea.... |
16th June 2009 | |||
| PA | TITANIC MISSION BRINGS TITANIC LUXURY TO LIFE The luxurious surroundings enjoyed by some of the passengers on board the doomed Titanic can be seen for the first time in almost 100 years after a team of experts recreated parts of the ship.... |
27th September 2010 | |||
| New York Times | MORGAN ON THE OCEAN Sailed Yesterday on the Baltic to be Gone Until July --- J. Pierpont Morgan sailed for Liverpool yesterday on the White Star Line steamer Baltic. On account of the tide the Baltic sailed at 5 o'clock in the morning. M... |
14th March 1907 | |||
| New York Times | THE GERMANIC AGAIN IN PORT The White Star steamer Germanic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port late yesterday afternoon. This is the first trip the vessel has made since she sank alongside her pier on the North River last Winter from the weight of sno... |
16th June 1899 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY IT ALL started with an innocent game of billards in one of Liverpool's great merchant palaces.... |
29th April 2009 | |||
| Villages Daily Sun | FIRST BAPTIST OF OXFORD USING STORY OF THE TITANIC TO ILLUSTRATE BIBLICAL MESSAGE When the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, the ship was deemed the biggest, fastest ship in the world, and most importantly, it was called unsinkable. Tragically, five days later, the ship struck an iceberg and sank, taking with it 1,523 lives out of the 2,228 passengers on board.The story of the Titanic is probably one of the most well-known tragedies in history. In the eyes of the Rev. Don Manley, of First Baptist Church of Oxford, it is also an event that illustrates the uncertainty of life and the need to be spiritually prepared for whatever might come.... |
15th September 2008 | |||
| New York Times | WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem... |
8th January 1907 | |||
| thisiswiltshire.co.uk | WELCOME ON BOARD DEVIZES is becoming closely associated with the ill-fated ocean liner SS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic 100 years ago next April. Local auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son held their latest sale of Titanic memorabilia on Saturday and now writer John Blake has made a contribution to the literature on the subject. To mark the centenary, Mr Blake, a retired Royal Navy lieutenant-commander who lives in Devizes, was commissioned to write a book commemorating the “unsinkable” ship which was the state of the art in travel 100 years ago. ... |
6th November 2011 | |||
| WONNACOTT FAMILY INFORMATION Dorothy Wonnacott was born in Plymouth in 1885. She was a daughter of Arscott and Mary Jane Wonnacott. Her parents, both originally from the Holsworthy area of mid-Devon had married in about 1878 and were living in Plymouth from that time.... |
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| Chicago Daily News | LEARNS OF RELATIVE'S RESCUE Daniel Tobin of Denver, Col, now in Chicago and a guest at the Palmer house, passed most of the morning in the offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown, also of Denver. When finally a report... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among those on board the Titanic was a son of Mrs Parsons of Bronshill Road, Torquay. Mr Edward Parsons had been in the service of the White Star Line practically all his life and has a wife and five children at Southampton. He was visiting his mot... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | TITANIC'S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ... |
11th April 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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| derryjournal.com | BOOK CLUB FOR CHILDREN GETS A TITANIC START A thrilling read for older children, ‘Spirit of the Titanic’ follows the infamous journey and demise of the Titanic through the eyes of Sam, a fifteen year-old who plunges to his death whilst building his beloved Titanic. Now, as the greatest ship the world has ever seen, crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Sam finds himself on board – as a ghost. His spirit roams the ship, from the glamour of first class to the party atmosphere of third class. Sam shares the excitement of Jim, Isobel and their children - on their way to a new life in America.... |
23rd August 2011 | |||
| Cork Examiner | BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE ... |
11th May 1912 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | JACK BUTTERWORTH Brian J. Ticehurst Butterworth, Jack. Lived at 270 Priory Road, St Denys, Southampton. Was 23 years old. Occupation on board the Titanic - Saloon Steward. (Born in Manchester). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913). Number 326. Butterwort... |
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| Hampshire Observer | WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec... |
1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | TELLS OF HER FINANCIAL LOSS Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, wife of Samuel Herman, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, said yesterday that her husband had with him a check for a large sum, a gold watch and chain belo... |
24th April 1912 | |||
| AP | 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 | |||
| newsletter.co.uk | PENSIONERS TELL OF PRIDE OVER TITANIC DISPLAY A LARGE outdoor ceramic artwork on the Titanic created by a group of pensioners has gone on display in north Belfast. The display put together by 15 people was inspired by personal memories and a trip to ‘TITANICa’ at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s — an exhibition which opened earlier this year to mark the centenary of the launch of the ship. As part of the creative process, the pensioners explored the history of Edwardian Belfast, the shipbuilding industry in Belfast and the on-board lifestyle of passengers who travelled on the Titanic. ... |
3rd November 2011 | |||
| New York Times | LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | CHILD OF LOVERS WHO INSPIRED TITANIC HAS ASHES SPREAD AT SEA A surviver of the Titanic, whose story was said to have inspired the Oscar-winning film, has had her ashes scattered at sea in Cornwall. One of Ellen Walker's last wishes was to have her ashes scattered at sea. She was conceived on board the Titanic by her runaway parents, whose story was said to have inspired the Oscar-winning film.... |
4th November 2006 | |||
| Lakeshore Weekly News (Minnetonka, MN) | DEEPHAVENS TITANIC TIES April 15, 1912. Arthur Rostron, master of the liner Carpathia, stood on his bridge watching a green flare flickering in the darkness ahead. At first he had hoped it meant the vessel he had driven 58 miles in response to her distress call was still afloat. Now he knew such hopes were in vain. He carefully maneuvred his vessel around an iceberg to take alongside the lifeboat the flare had come from. Then the night was suddenly marked by a woman\\\'s voice. A desperate, anguished voice cried \\\"The Titanic has gone down with everyone on board!\\\" That woman was Mahala Douglas of Deephaven.... |
17th April 2009 | |||
| 4ni.co.uk | WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory.... |
26th September 2011 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks... |
April 1912 | |||
| Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate, and Cheriton Herald | HYTHE MOURNERS Page 11 There are at least two Hythe residents mourning the loss of relatives who were on the ill-fated Titanic. One is Mr. W. R. Wood, the popular Postmaster, whose brother, Mr. J. T. Wood, aged 49 years went down with the great major... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Le Journal de Genève | THE KINK FAMILY Newspaper article... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| The Gazette (Montreal) | LAURENTIC IS HERE The Gazette, Montreal, 8 May 1909 Maiden Voyage Upholds the Satisfactory Results Achieved on Trial Trip --- AN EPOCH IN SHIPPING --- P... |
8th May 1909 | |||
| TITANIC CUTLERY RECREATED Arthur Price & Co. were one of the suppliers of premium quality flatware to the luxury dining sections on board the Titanic and other ships in the White Star Line fleet. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Titanic's launch, Arthur Price have recreated the Panel Reed Sterling Silver cutlery used onboard. Each knife features the ship owner, White Star Line's famous logo on its blade, as originally supplied.... |
30th August 2011 | ||||
| New York Times | PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED [Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner... |
8th September 1901 | |||
| Lakeshore Weekly News (Minnetonka, MN) | DEEPHAVEN'S TITANIC TIES April 15, 1912.Arthur Rostron, master of the liner Carpathia, stood on his bridge watching a green flare flickering in the darkness ahead.At first he had hoped it meant the vessel he had driven 58 miles in response to her distress call was still afloat. Now he knew such hopes were in vain.He carefully maneuvred his vessel around an iceberg to take alongside the lifeboat the flare had come from.Then the night was suddenly marked by a woman's voice. A desperate, anguished voice cried "The Titanic has gone down with everyone on board!"That woman was Mahala Douglas of Deephaven.... |
14th April 2009 | |||
| BBC News | MONEY WORRIES FOR NOMADIC PROJECT The project to restore the Nomadic has received a £500,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, bringing the total pledged to £4m. However, less than £8,000 has been raised from corporate donors and a 'Sponsor a rivet' delivered just £330. ... |
16th September 2009 | |||
| The Cadet | MOODY MEMORIAL CUP The Cup presented by Mrs Day and other relatives of J P Mood, who was lost in the "Titanic", to perpetuate his memory on board, reached the Ship during the Easter holidays, and is a great acquisition to our collection of trophies in the way of cup... |
13th June 1914 | |||
| Daily Home News | WRECK VICTIM KNOWN HERE Henry B. Harris, the well-known theatrical man who lost his life in the sinking of the Titanic last week, was a very intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Tepper, of this city, and had been touring Europe in company with Mr. Tepper’s brother-in-l... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
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