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  BOAT DECK AT NIGHT
Computer Generated 360 degree view of the boat deck at night. Requires the IPIX plugin. ...
   
New York Times (1912) ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN
"Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w...
22nd April 1912  
Daily Sketch (1912) MAN WHO WAS PULLED BACK
Says Officer Shot Two Men Who tried to Enter Boat A graphic description of the scene on the Titanic after the boats had gone is given by an Athlone survivor, Mr Eugene Daly, in a letter to his sister. He says he arouse...
4th May 1912  
  TITANIC BOAT DECK
Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
Newark Evening News (1912) LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES
NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) 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  
Daily Northwestern (1912) A SAD FAREWELL
William F. Bonnell, a cousin of the party, made the following statement as coming from Mrs. Wick: "When the collision occurred, Mrs. Wick and her husband were In their Stateroom. They thought that a boiler, had exploded. When they reached ...
17th April 1912  
The Times (1912) MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking-room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck. He described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted the foremast was listin...
20th April 1912  
Brighton Argus (1912) MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on the deck. he described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted that the foremast w...
19th April 1912  
Southern Evening Echo (1970) ARTICLE
Titanic survivor 77-year-old Mr Lee James Hyland, of Sarnia Court, Boniface Crescent, Lordshill, Southampton who recalls Fred Allen a boy crew member mentioned in reference the playing of the Titanic Hymn. Allen, who lost his life in the disaster was...
24th November 1970  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) E.Z. TAYLOR'S ACCOUNT
E. Z. Taylor of Philadelphia, one of the survivors, jumped into the sea just three minutes before the boat sank, He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia. "I was eating when the boat struck the iceberg," he maid. "There was an...
18th April 1912  
ET Comment (2006) HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) ASTOR PUT BOY BY WIFE'S SIDE
A fine act of heroism by Col. John Jacob Astor was told by George A. Harder, a Brooklyn man, who survived the Titanic disaster. "When Col. Astor had assisted his tearful young wife and her maid into a life boat, he tried to put in a yo...
19th April 1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) I CAN ROW, BUT LET A WOMAN GET INTO BOAT
Mrs. Cavendish, a Survivor, Refers Highly to the Work of Major Peuchen --------------- ...
19th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA
White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...
19th April 1912  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) BUTT A COURTIER TO DEATH, SAYS WOMAN
Washington, April 19 – A graphic story of the heroism of Maj. Archibald W. Butt on the Titanic was told today in an interview given by Miss Marie Young, a former resident of Washington. Miss Young is believed to have been the last woman to leave the ...
20th April 1912  
North American (1912) WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ...
20th April 1912  
Western Daily Mercury (1912) ARTICLE
Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...
29th April 1912  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) BISHOP'S ARRIVE HOME AND RELATE MANY THINGS ABOUT TITANIC NOT BEFORE TOLD
Waited Over to Take Passage on This Ship From Cherbourg DETAILS RESCUE Ship Slowly Sank to Watery Grave While They Watched One Mile Away - Did Not Break In Two Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Bishop, who were among ...
10th May 1912  
Akron Beacon Journal (1912) AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP
HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...
20th April 1912  
Bridgwater Mercury (1912) T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN
T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...
  April 1912  
  TITANIC DECK CHAIR
A deck chair thought to have been recovered from the scene of the disaster in April 1912....
   
Washington Herald (1912) MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...
21st April 1912  
Chorley Guardian (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED
Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...
27th April 1912  
Cornishman (1912) CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE
(courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ...
16th May 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS
New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...
20th April 1912  
  (1912) 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...
  1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Leatherhead, Advertiser, Epsom District Times and County Post (1912) 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  
Newark Evening News (1912) THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD
Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titanic disaster, are at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Flack, of 458 Central avenue, East Orange. ...
19th April 1912  
Cork Examiner (1912) BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE
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11th May 1912  
  (1911) FILM OF THE OLYMPIC
These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...
  1911  
  (1912) LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD
Dear Miss Field, On boar...
10th April 1912  
Gettysburg Complier (1912) 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  
The Times (1912) MRS W. D. MARVIN
Mrs W. D. Marvin, of New York, who was on her honeymoon trip, was almost prostrated when she learned on reaching the dock that her husband had not been picked up by some other boat:- As I was put into the boat he cried to me "It's alright, little gir...
20th April 1912  
  CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?
AT THE START of Chapter 5 in Walter Lord's A Night To Remember, the author writes: ...
   
Newark Evening News (1912) HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM
It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ...
19th April 1912  
Akron Beacon Journal (1912) MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL
Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ...
20th April 1912  
Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times (1912) ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL
Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's...
4th May 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) ARCHIE PUT ME IN A LIFEBOAT
Miss Marie Young, of Washington, Tells of Aid's Heroism and Calmness --- By MISS MARIE YOUNG --- Musical tutor to the younger children of former President Roosevelt. She had been studying music in Europe and was returning...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH
Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...
25th April 1912  
  RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3)
Titles "Elevators and grand stair cases afford easy access from deck to deck "Dancing is an evening pastime on every voyage." "The smoking room is an apartment of much elegance, with the atmosphere and servcie of a metropolitan club. ...
   
Newark Evening News (1912) BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER
The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...
19th April 1912  
New York Herald (1912) 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  
  NESHAN KREKORIAN : CLARIFICATIONS
Mr. Krekorian had 3 children, not 4.  Minor spelling error:  city is St. Catharines, not St. Catherines. He was single when he left for North America - his first wife was killed by the Turks. My recollection of how he got into bo...
   
Bernardsville News (1912) SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT DISASTER
Mrs. Harman and Daughters Interviewed---Before and after the awful Casualty---Husband and Father gone and all their Property Lost---A Trouble too Deep for Words --- Mrs. Jane Harman, widow of Samuel Harman, who met his death at sea last...
26th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT
Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...
20th April 1912  
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN
Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1911) THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY
Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t...
18th June 1911  
Calgary Herald (1912) THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED
Special Dispatch to the Herald...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1912) THREE BRAVE OFFICERS
Dr. O'Loughlin and Pursers McElroy and Barker on Honor Roll --- In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers. Three men who lost their lives were well known to...
23rd April 1912  
Evanston Daily News (1912) MARY HEWLETT - SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE
Mrs. Mary Hewlitt, of Lucknow, India, Was Rescued From the Disabled Craft, Gives Description of Disaster Was Traveling Alone Woman Stops Here At Home of J. L. Hebblet...
25th April 1912  
Chicagto Daily Journal (1912) SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH
C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC
Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...
22nd April 1912  
Hudson Observer (1912) LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES
Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf...
23rd April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1987) UNTITLED EXTRACT
Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ...
  1987  
Ottawa Citizen (1912) 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  
Gettysburg Complier (1912) REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY
Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners are Referred to as Floating Palaces While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most respects like the Olympic there is a pronounced diff...
19th June 1912  
Washington Times (1912) ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT
Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...
19th April 1912  
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
   
New York Times (1912) EDGAR J. MEYER ANOTHER HERO
Helped Mrs. Harris Into a Boat and Died with Her Husband --- Edgar J. Meyer is a name to be added to the list of those who perished nobly on the Titanic. His wife was saved. It has been impossible to interview her, but through ...
23rd April 1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) 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  
The Washington Post (1912) RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC
From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ...
20th 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...
   
Chicago Record-Herald (1912) SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO
Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr...
23rd April 1912  
Cork Examiner (1912) ECHO OF DISASTER : BOAT PICKED UP BODIES ON BOARD
New York, Wednesday The White Star Line has received a marconigram from the Oceanic, dated May 13th, latitude 39.56, longitude 47.01, reporting that she had picked up a collapsible boat of the Titan...
16th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE
Thinks She Got Into Last Boat as She Left Husband on Deck --- COMPELLED TO HANDLE OAR --- Rowed Back After Liner Went Down and Helped to Rescue six struggling Men----Maid Aids --- Mrs. John Jacob Astor and he...
22nd April 1912  
Niles Daily News (1912) SURVIVOR FROM TITANIC ARRIVES IN NILES
Philip Zanni Tells a Tragic Story of His Rescue - Assisted in Rowing Lifeboat Away from Sinking Ship --------------- The first survivor of the ill fated ship the "Titanic" that has reached Niles is Philip Zanni [sic],...
25th April 1912  
Standard Union (1912) FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC
Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita...
4th May 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...
20th April 1912  
  REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT]
Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
   
Jersey Journal (1959) MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr...
4th November 1959  
Vineland Times Journal (1953) SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER TELLS OF GRIM EXPERIENCES
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  
MKKZ (1987) UNTITLED
'In the Titanic were two Catholic priests: Professor Byles, an Irish man [sic], who wanted to act in the marriage of his brother and his bride and a German monk (Padre). They helped women and children, climbing into the boats. The people on the last ...
12th April 1987  
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) UNKNOWN TITLE
Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...
  1997  
  (2006) MY GOD THE BOAT IS LEAVING US
Boat 8 and the Vestris...
18th December 2006  
The Charleroi Mail (1912) MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER.
SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...
23rd April 1912  
Rockford Morning Star (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD
DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...
26th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT
New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ...
19th April 1912  
Hudson Dispatch (1959) MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi...
4th October 1959  
Chicago Evening Post (1912) DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD
DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...
23rd April 1912  
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier MRS. HANSON IS HOME
MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________   ...
   
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BRAVE COUNTESS TAKES CHARGE OF LIFEBOAT
New York, April 19- Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a New York physician escaped from the Titanic on the same boat which carried the Countess Rothes. " The countess is an expert oarswoman." said Dr. Leader, " and thouroughly at home on the water. She pract...
19th April 1912  
Democrat and Chronicle (1931) ROCHESTER WOMAN TELLS OF TITANIC SINKING IN 1912
Mrs. John Black Barely Reached Last Boat To Leave Ship, And Tiny Craft Was Nearly Drawn Into Great Vortex by Samuel B. Covey "No, I am not averse to another ocean voyage, although I have not been on one since, for I re...
15th April 1931  
New York Times (1964) SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC
Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...
18th May 1964  
Chicago American (1912) TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH
TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...
25th April 1912  
Chicago Daily News (1912) GIRL TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HERE
Miss Annie Kelley Last Woman to Leave Sinking Ship, She Says Miss Annie Kelley, 17 years old, a sister of Miss Beatrice Kelley, 303 Eugenie street, arrived in Chicago last night and told of her escape from the sinking Tit...
23rd April 1912  
Chicago Tribune (1912) DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912  
San Francisco Bulletin (1912) DR. DODGE'S WIFE TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK
Reaches Home with Husband and Son after Terrible Experience at Sea. Seated in the library of her home on Washington street, amid a profusion of flowers sent by friends to express their welcome home, Mrs. Washington Dodge again told th...
30th April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS
Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-...
24th April 1912  
  REPORT FROM DR. DODGE
Dr. Dodge says he believes this young mans story implicitly: He, Mellors, "was standing by this boat when one of the crew was endeavouring to cut the fastenings that bound it to the vessel just as the onrush of waters came up which tore it loose....
   
Western Morning News (1912) LEAP OF 75 FEET
A fireman named Walter Hurst, of Southampton, said he was off watch at the time, and made his way to the boat deck. He was, of course, told to stand back and about five minutes before the liner sank he jumped the 75 feet to the sea, having a lifebel...
29th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED
New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...
20th April 1912  
Rahway Daily Record (1912) STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR
William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ...
19th April 1912  
ET Comment (2006) THE RECORD SPEAKS!
In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ...
13th December 2006  
San Francisco Bulletin (1912) SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ...
19th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) SAYS ISMAY CHOSE OWN BOAT CREW
New York- April 19- According to Mrs. W.J. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, after she had arrived at the Ritz-Carlton with T.D.M. Cardeza, J.Bruce Ismay was not only safely seated in a lifeboat before it was filled, but he also selected the crew that rowed ...
20th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA
New York, April 19.- Mrs. C.F. Crane of Fort Sheridan, Ill, a passenger on the Carpathia, today gave this graphic account of the Carpathia's thrilling race with death. She said that news of the disaster had become known to the passengers on board the...
20th April 1912  
Paterson Morning Call (1912) JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP
Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ...
23rd April 1912  
The Times (1912) THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT
BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ...
30th May 1912  
Christian Science Monitor (1912) WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP
Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...
19th April 1912  
Tipperary Star (1948) DEATH OF TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Catherine Croke, Ballinntemple, Dundrum, whose death has occurred is believed to have been the last survivor in Ireland of the ill-fated Titanic. She was aged 21 at the time of the disaster and it was her first experience of being aboard a ship....
20th November 1948  
San Francisco Bulletin (1912) DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE
Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the...
20th April 1912  
Galesburg Evening Mail (1912) TELLS OF RESCUE FROM TITANIC
Frank Kurun of Galesburg Tells How He Saved Himself and Daughter WAS IN A BOAT FIRST PICKED UP Jumped from Lower Deck Into Life Boat As It Was Being Lowered His Brother Drowned Frank Kurun,...
23rd April 1912  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY
City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti...
5th May 1912  
Bristol Times and Mirror (1912) GRAPHIC STORIES OF HEROISM
The New York correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'' cables a special and graphic message regarding the heroism of some of the women in the wreck. According to this source of information: The heroism of Edith Evans, who gave up her own life that ano...
27th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) TELLS OF SEEING MEN SHOT DOWN ON TITANIC
Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19---Almost prostrated by the terrible experiences which she had undergone since the Titanic went down, Mrs. Peter Renouf, of 21b Florida street, returned to her home here today. She told o...
19th April 1912  
Daily Sketch (1912) HOW CAPTAIN SMITH DIED
His Last Act was to Save a Child's Life Refused to get into a boat. Of all the wild and irresponsible messages that were sent to this country in the first hours following the sinking of the Titanic the one that caused th...
30th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT’S HEROISM
"The Action of Men of the Titanic Was Noble," She Writes --- By MRS. CHURCHILL CANDEE, Of Washington. --- New York, April 18---The action of the men on the Titanic was noble. They stood back in every instance that ...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...
20th April 1912  
The Times (1912) OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Harper, Miss Nina. Saved in Lifeboat number 11 with her cousin Jessie Leith. Returned to England via SS Celtic, 25th April 1912. Aged 6 years. Later (1934) became Mrs. Pont, died 1986. (Gleaned from the Internet 20th S...
   
The Times (1912) 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  
  (1972) ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972  
Chicago Daily News (1912) SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...
27th April 1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT
H. B. Stephenson, one of the Survivors, who, it was said, is attached to the Swedish legation at Washington, made the following statement: "At the time of the collision a Mr. Woolner and myself were seated in the cafe. There was only a ...
19th April 1912  
  WILLIAM GREENFIELDS ACCOUNT
William was involved in his Father's fur business and sailed to Russia once a year to purchase pelts. Blanche went with him this time to buy silk in Paris for the linings of the coats. William met his ...
   
Guernsey Evening Press (1912) 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  
Bournemouth Echo (1912) 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  
Jersey Journal (1912) BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK
McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...
23rd April 1912  
Western Daily Mercury (1912) STEWARDESSES INTERVIEWED
Shortly before the special train steamed out of the docks, two of the stewardesses who are returning to their homes – Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Martin – granted a brief interview, in which they narrated their experiences. They were first-class stewardesses ...
30th April 1912  
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1931) SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP
MRS. EDWARD BEANE, THEN BRIDE OF 17, SAW SHIP SINK AS SHE CRUISED NEARBY IN BOAT; HUSBAND SWAM AROUND TILL PICKED UP; NOW HAVE 2 CHILDREN It was a strange honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beane of 44 Michigan Street when on April 14, ...
15th April 1931  
Newark Evening News (1912) 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 Times (1912) SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS
Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz...
22nd April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM
NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo...
20th April 1912  
BBC News (2006) MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING
The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ...
18th July 2006  
Washington Times (1912) MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK
Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...
19th April 1912  
  ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER
Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
   
icCoventry (2006) HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC
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20th January 2006  
Daily Home News (1912) JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES
EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish...
20th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) LIGHTS AID BOATS KEEPING TOGETHER
New York, April 19.- G.E.H.Stengel of Newark escaped in the only life boat which carried lights. He believes that a number of persons owe their lives to the forethought of a member of the crew who was quickwitted enough to snatch up three green glass...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1913) LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN
Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...
9th May 1913  
  PETER DENNIS DALY BY HIS GRANDSON
"What follows is the story of PDD and his Titanic involvement as told to me by my father (Richard) and supplemented by my uncle Nicanor (who in the 20's settled in Buenos Aries, Argentina) joining other established Dalys there: Paul, (bachelor), Vict...
   
The Daily Banner (1912) STORY TOLD OF SINKING OF THE TITANIC
By A Nephew Of A Mt. Vernon Man Who Was Rescued In One Of The Life Boats Charles Burgess Arrives At Home In England ...
16th May 1912  
  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...
   
Irish Examiner (2006) TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED
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26th January 2006  
Worcester Telegram (1912) CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY
Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon....
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2005) RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC
ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world. The Ritz Restaurant (as it was called) was situated on B deck and was for the exclusive use of First Class passengers only. Th...
19th September 2005  
Binghamton Press (1912) MRS. CASSEBEER ACCOUNT
Mrs. Henry Arthur Casebeer, Jr., of New York City, who is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, was in Binghamton this morning visiting her mother, Mrs. L.V. Fosdick at the House of the Good Shepherd and to a representative of the Bingham...
29th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY
D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...
23rd April 1912  
Chicago American (1912) CHICAGO GIRL IN LAST LIFEBOAT
There was only one seat in the last lifeboat of the Titanic and had Mrs. John Burke taken it the chances are that Miss Annie Kelly, a seventeen-year-old Chicago girl, might be at the bottom of the sea, she told friends to-day who had gathered at h...
23rd April 1912  
Christian Science Sentinel (1912) TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD
It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi...
  October 1912  
Daily Northwestern (1912) SAW THE ICEBERG
S. V. Silverthorne of St. Louis. was one of the three or four saloon passengers on the Titanic who saw the deadly iceberg just after the collision. "I was in the smoking room reading near a bridge whist game at one of the tables," he said....
17th April 1912  
Wells Journal (1912) LADY'S PRAISE OF A TITANIC SEAMAN
One of the able seamen on the Titanic, Thomas Jones, a native of Anglesey has received the following letter from New York:- ''I feel I must write and tell you how splendidly you took charge of our boat on the fatal night. There were on...
30th May 1912  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (2002) RECOLLECTIONS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR EDMOND RYAN
I JOINED the ship at Queenstown, County Cork and had to go out in a tender, about three miles I think, to get on board the ship. The tender looked like a match stick alongside the great liner. A big door opened in her side, and a ...
9th July 2002  
  OREGON'S ONLY FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS: THE WARRENS
Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class passengers on the Titanic from the state of Oregon. They were returning from Europe after a three month celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary. Frank Warren may wel...
   
  (1962) JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL - RADIO INTERVIEW
Joseph Boxhall  Radio Interview, October 1962 Transcribed by Capt. Charles B. Weeks and Cathy Akers-Jordan On that Sunday night the, 14th, of April, along with Moody who was the Si...
  October 1962  
Newark Evening News (1912) JUST TOLD SEA TOOK HUSBAND
---------- News that Gwinn Perished on Titanic Long Kept from Asbury Park Woman ---------- WAS MAIL CLERK ON LINER Special Service of the NEWS ASBURY PARK, April 26---It was not until today that the ...
26th April 1912  
Sphere (1912) LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY
The picture on the left [above] shows the infant born at Cincinnati to Mrs Mary Eloise Smith, one of the widows of the Titanic disaster. The boy will be named Lucien P. Smith II, after his father, whom the young widow saw for the last time on the nig...
28th December 1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital...
15th May 1912  
BBC News (2006) BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING
By Julian O'Neill BBC Newsline reporterAmid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. [Ph...
11th July 2006  
Denver Post (1912) LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER
Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...
19th April 1912  
ET Research (1999) NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS
When it comes to deciding how the survivors escaped the Titanic, there are often contradictory ideas / theories, e.g. Edwina Celia Troutt, who some people claim left in collapsible D, whereas others claim she was in boat 16. Edwina herself...
11th July 1999  
  JONES ADMIRATION FOR COUNTESS OF ROTHES
Jones apparently admired the Countess of Rothes very much indeed. In fact he later presented her with the brass number plate of the boat and in later years they maintained a correspondence. The countess's cousin Miss Gladys Cherry was also in ...
   
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND AND WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC.
Chooses To Die With Husband Woman Defies Command Of Titanic Officer to get into lifeboat DAUGHTER PERISHES TOO. Milwaukee ...
20th April 1912  
The Times (1912) FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT
PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ...
20th April 1912  
Evening World (1912) HEROIC PRIESTS GAVE UP LIVES TO QUIET CROWDS
Went Down on Titanic With Men and Women Grouped About Them. ------------- ALL CREEDS IN PRAYER ------------- Three Girl Survivors Tell How They Chose Death to S...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
New York Times (1912) BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT
Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
Mrs. J. J. Brown of Denver Tells Story of Her Seven Hours In Lifeboat --- *** --- Mrs. J. J. Brown, wife of a Denver mine owner, told yesterday afternoon to a reporter for THE TIMES at the Ritz-Carlton the story of her se...
20th April 1912  
The Witney Gazette (1912) GAMBLERS ON TITANIC ESCAPE BY DRESSING AS WOMEN
An extraordinary story is reported in New York of the escape from the sinking Titanic of two well-known gamblers who, for some years, have frequented the Atlantic liners, and against whose card-sharking tricks notices have been posted on ...
11th May 1912  
Times-Tribune (1962) 50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC
BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....
  1962  
Toronto Daily Star (1939) RESCUED BY THE SAME LIFEBOAT TITANIC SURVIVORS UNITED AGAIN
"A tragedy so great that it forever gives its survivors a common bond was the sinking of the Titanic. Sgt. John Collins was so impressed by his experiences of that famous occasion that he is trying to form a Titanic Association. He found three other ...
16th April 1939  
Washington Herald (1912) 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  
The Toronto Daily Star (1912) LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A.
------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft...
19th April 1912  
Boston Daily Globe (1912) GIRL WENT DOWN TO SAVE ANOTHER
Miss Evans Gave Up Place in Boat That a Mother Could Live --- Mrs Brown of Acton Tells of Her Rescue Due to Other's Sacrifice --- Saved through the heroic generosity of a young and b...
21st April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) 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  
  (1912) LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO DOROTHY OCKENDEN
Richmond County Country Club, N.Y.: ''Dear Dorothy (Ockenden), I was so pleased to receive your letter and to find you had not forgotten me. I had intended writing to you before but I was ashamed of my writing. You see ...
9th May 1912  
ET Research (2008) LOADING THE REAR BOATS
While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti...
29th May 2008  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) MR. AND MRS. BISHOP GIVE FIRST AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW CONCERNING TITANTIC [SIC] DISASTER
THEY RECITE A GRAPHIC TALE OF THE GREAT SEA DISASTER OF A WEEK AGO. "Ladies and Grooms First" Was Order They Obeyed and Both Left the Ship Together TELL EXPERIENCES WHILE AFLOAT German Baron Would Not A...
20th April 1912  
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO CHARLES LIGHTOLLER
Mortlake Crematorium, London SW4. Is the site of his scattered ashes. Unmarked, plot 22. also he has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which ...
   
Evening World (1912) TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF
Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...
22nd April 1912  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) LITTLE DISORDER ON TITANIC
E. Z. Taylor, of London, Gives Graphic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue ---------- E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia and London, and stockholder in the American Mono- Service Co., told his story of the disaster and rescue in a cal...
20th April 1912  
Daily Enterprise (1912) LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...
20th April 1912  
Portland Oregonian (1912) PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK
Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho...
27th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO
Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ...
22nd April 1912  
Evening Banner (1912) 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  
Portland Oregonian (1912) MRS. FRANK WARREN DESCRIBES THE TRAGEDY TO THE OREGONIAN
Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class couple from Oregon on the Titanic. Mrs. Warren, who was 60 years of age at the time of the sinking, reported in great detail the horrific events of the tragedy. Her account was published in Orego...
27th April 1912  
Sunday Press (1952) TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR
Sunday Press:  Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r...
21st September 1952  
Hudson Observer (1912) UNION HILL WOMAN SAYS BAND DIDN'T PLAY ON TITANIC
---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell Heard Only the Cries and Sobs of the Passengers as the White Star Liner Went Down at Sea ---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell, 30 years old, of 215 Park avenue, Union Hill, one of the Tit...
20th April 1912  
Daily Mirror (2006) TITANIC DEATH FALL
20/12/2005 A TOURIST may have been copying a Kate Winslet pose from the film Titanic when she fell off a ferry and drowned.Emma Blackwell, 31, plunged from the ninth deck 80 miles off France heading home from Spain. ...
1st January 2006  
Guernsey Evening Press (1912) MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN
A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...
2nd May 1912  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) BISHOPS GO BEFORE SENATE BOARD OF INQUIRY TO GIVE STORY OF TITANIC DISASTER
Both Are Called to Stand At Washington on Tuesday PUSHED TO SAFETY Mrs. Bishop Tells How They Were Hurried Aboard the Lifers When the Titanic Struck Huge Berg --------------- Mr. and Mrs....
26th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- TWO YOUNG MEN'S HEROISM --- Woman Tells How Roebling and Case Saved Her---Others' Tribute to Dead --- Among the chivalrous younger heroes of the Titanic disaster were Washington A. Roebling, 2d, of Tr...
20th April 1912  
Syracuse Herald-Journal (1987) MARY WILBURN, OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES
pp. B1 and B4 Mary Davis Wilburn, 104, oldest known survivor of the Titanic disaster, died peacefully Wednesday at Community-General Hospital, leaving behind unpleasant memories of death and terror in the North Atlantic. She was one o...
30th July 1987  
Examiner.com TITANIC MEMORIAL IN DC
Admit it, you've done it too. You and a significant other have probably stood at some point at or near the bow of a boat and imitated the doubleheaded flying figurehead pose from the 1997 film "Titanic" (If you haven't, you surely know s...
   
Washington Herald (1912) LIFEBOATS WOULD HAVE SAVED MORE
Titanic's Steward, in Giving Story, Says Great Loss of Life Was Due to Their Absence --- SHIP'S ENGINEER, CAUGHT IN DOOR, BEGS TO BE SHOT TO END AGONY --- New York, April 18---The following statement made to-day by Alfred ...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) PROVING FOREMAN ON TITANIC
Brother Files Letters of Survivors in Asking for Administration Papers --- Edwin H. Foreman obtained yesterday from Surrogate Fowler letters of administration on the $10,000 estate of his brother, Benjamin L. Foreman, who was drowned on ...
15th May 1912  
The Evening Telegram (1912) HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS
ON STEAMER TITANIC Each Boat Would Accommodate Fifty People---Equipped with All Modern Improvements. Speaking about the lifeboat equipment of the Titanic, M...
16th April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) RESCUED UNION HILL GIRL'S STORY
A story entirely different from that of those rescued from the Titanic is told by Miss Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill. When seen at her home last night Miss Dowdell was very emphatic in telling about the treatment received on board ...
20th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK
Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care To the Rescued---Four Buried At Sea --- BY MISS CAROLINE BONNELL (Copyrighted, ...
19th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES
Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa...
20th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) COL. GRACIE DIES, HAUNTED BY TITANIC
"We Must Get Them All in the Boats," Last Words of the Man Who Helped to Save Many --- SAW PARTING OF THE ASTORS --- And Testified to the Devotion of Isidor and Ida Straus, Who Preferred Death to Separation ---...
5th December 1912  
  (1912) LIFEBOAT 3 IS LAUNCHED
At 1:00 A.M. boat 3 was launched with less than half capacity full....
15th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN
Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa...
19th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) WESTCOUNTRY CONNECTIONS
A representative called at the residence of Mr. J. A. Pascoe, Crownhill, whose brother, Mr. C. H. Pascoe, is believed to be the only Westcountry member of the crew saved in the Titanic disaster, and had the pleasure of an interesting conversation wit...
29th April 1912  
  (1912) LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH
11th April 1912  
Titanic Commutator (1982) FATE DEALS A HAND
Artist Frank Millet, and a fourth gentleman unknown to Gracie. They seem oblivious to the happenings on the deck outside, preferring to sit alone in the room where they had spent many enjoyable hours during the last few evenings. [THS Comm...
  1982  
  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...
   
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...
20th April 1912  
Chicago American (1912) TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT
The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...
25th April 1912  
  (1912) SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY
    Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia.  Miss Wilson is at...
22nd April 1912  
  (1912) MAGGIE DALY
No-one has yet adequately explained what became of Maggie Daly after 1912. She is believed to have been pictured on the deck of the Carpathia in New York before moving to the upstate area. After that, she disappears. ...
  1912  
The Evening Telegram (1912) HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY
BROTHER STEWARD ON TITANIC Charles Lydiatt Had Been Steward on Every Boat on White Star Line--Brother Waiting for News "Only last Friday Sergeant George Lydiatt, of No. 4 Police Stat...
16th April 1912  
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST
MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...
22nd April 1912  
  (1912) LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB
New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ...
22nd April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK
Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina...
22nd April 1912  
  (1987) CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO
NO disaster of modern times has quite excited the same horror and at the same time, fascination, doubt, bravery and cowardice as the sinking of the Titanic. Fred Barrett lived in Hanley with his wife ...
26th February 1987  
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) TITANIC MEN FORCE GIRL TO SIGN PAPER
Rescued Chicagoan Declares When She Was Dazed in New YorkHospital, Line’s Agents Made Her Attest Exonerating Document That agents for the White Star line forced her to sign an exonerating statement ...
25th April 1912  
Oxford Times (1912) STEWARD'S STATEMENT
Propped up on pillows in bed at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thomas Whiteley, steward of the First Class Saloon of the Titanic, described the scene in the dining-room on the night of the disaster. ''We had made great time,...
27th April 1912  
Santa Barbara News-Press (1956) MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP
Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa...
27th May 1956  
Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard (1912) UNTITLED
(incorporating "The Henley Free Press") In an interview Jones said that there were thirty-five ladies and three men in his boat. When he saw that the Titanic had sunk he wanted to go back and save some of those struggling in the water, but w...
7th June 1912  
Galesburg.com (2008) GALESBURG MAN LED A CHARMED BUT HARROWING LIFE
Tracking History — On Sunday evening, April 14, 1913, a wall caved in at the historic Lindell House Hotel on Depot Street near the Knox College campus. Originally known as the American Hotel it...
16th May 2008  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) LONE SURVIVOR IS PENNILESS
Mrs. Peter Reniff is Left Destitute ---------- SAW NO LIGHTS OF OTHER SHIPS AS TITANIC SUNK Made penniless by the recent Titanic disaster in which she lost her husband, two brothers, cousin and two friends, Mrs. Peter Ren...
26th April 1912  
Christian Science Sentinel (1912) TESTIMONIES OF HEALING
It would be impossible within a limited space to do more than enumerate the profound changes of thought which Christian Science has wrought in me during the seven years I have known of it. When I first saw the text-book, "Science and Health with Key ...
20th December 1912  
Telegraph.co.uk (2009) RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION
By Andrew Alderson The key and other artefacts were recovered when Mr Stone's dead body was recovered from the water Photo: Christopher Jones The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could s...
11th April 2009  
Galesburg Republican Register (1912) FRANK KORUN REACHES HOME
Titanic Survivor, Daughter and Austrian Friend Saved From Ocean Grave TELLS EXPERIENCES Last Man to Get in Boat — For Hours Among Ice Floes. When Frank Korun, one of the Titanic survivors, stepped from th...
23rd April 1912  
  (1926) MY MAIDEN VOYAGE
When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr...
  1926  
Evening Bulletin (1912) HAD PREMONITION OF HARM
Annie Ward, Cardeza Maid, Saved from Titanic, Didn't Want to Go Aboard --- Miss Annie Ward, maid to Mrs. J. W. M. Cardeza, of Germantown, who was saved from the wreck of the Titanic, had a premonition that something was going to happen ...
16th April 1912  
  (2004) GLENDUN
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 (1974) MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT
He Recalls Sinking 62 Years Ago --- The Easter season is never a completely happy time for Tom McCormack of Elizabeth, N.J. It always brings memories of his escape from the sinking Titanic, which went down in the freezing Atlantic 62 ye...
15th April 1974  
ET Comment (2006) SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i...
5th December 2006  
Connaught Telegraph (1912) LOSS OF THE TITANIC.
Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c...
25th May 1912  
Las Vegas Weekly (2009) TITANIC EXHIBIT AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CHILLING REMINDER OF HISTORICAL TRAGEDY
There's a definite chill in the air when you step out on the deck re-creation of the new Titanic exhibit. One moment you are marveling at the stunning staterooms and grand lobby of the great ship, and the next you're so close to the icebergs, you can actually touch them....
2nd January 2009  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) ALARMED COUNTY MAN FINDS SISTER WAS RESCUED
D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, Reassured as Carpathia Docked ---------- MRS. THOMAS POTTER TELLS ABOUT ASTORS ---------- Weikman, Titanic Barber, Saved, Known to George Lipipncott [sic] ---------- ...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1935) FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP
Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t...
29th January 1935  
Chicago Daily Journal (1912) LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE
Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash...
19th April 1912  
  HENRY WILDE AND CAPTAIN SMITH
   
The Evening Post (1912) LEAPS FROM LINER’S DECK.
Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea   ...
20th April 1912  
Ship to Shore (1984) WILLIAM SLOPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
"I walked into the palm court of the Carleton hotel on Pall Mall in the middle of the afternoon. The streets around the hotel and the hotel itself were deserted except for one group of people...
  1984  
Rahway Daily Record (1912) NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY
Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ...
26th April 1912  
ET Research (2003) THE BROWNS PREPARE TO ABANDON SHIP
Her father stood in the doorway of their cabin and said, ''There's talk that the ship has hit an iceberg.'' It was those fateful words that were to change their lives forever. Edith, along with her mother Elizabeth, were sharing a Secon...
3rd August 2003  
Newark Evening News (1956) MRS. C.E.H. STENGEL
Widow of Patent Leather Manufacturer Dies; Was Survivor of Titanic Disaster --- Special to Newark News --- NORWALK, Conn.---Mrs. Annie May Stengel of Montclair, widow of Charles E. H. Stengel, Newark patent leather manufac...
24th January 1956  
ET Research (2003) ANATOMY OF A BOAT DECK PORTRAIT
Who was the real Leonardo of the Titanic? Not the sun-blessed Di Caprio: a man with a far more convincing claim to be the Da Vinci of disaster is a 31-year-old Neapolitan w...
3rd December 2003  
Andover Townsman (2007) ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS
Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15....
9th November 2007  
  CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE
   
  (1912) EDWARD JOHN SMITH WITH DOG
  1912  
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) CHICAGO GIRL LAST TO LEAVE TITANIC
Miss Annie Kelly Reaches Home Here and Tells of Her Thrilling Experiences White Escaping From the Sinking Liner The last woman to leave the sinking Titanic was Miss Annie Kelly, 17 years old, sister of Miss Beatrice Kelly,...
23rd April 1912  
The Times (1912) ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA
HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus...
20th April 1912  
Camden Daily Courier (1912) EXPLOSION PITCHED HIM INTO SEA
Titanic's Barber Passes Through Camden on Way to Palmyra Home --- WAS SAVED BY SAILOR SAVED BY HIM --- The 5.28 train to Palmyra from this city last night carried the only survivor of the Titanic wreck from this part of th...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1910) BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910  
ET Research (2008) RHEIMS, LIGHTOLLER, AND THE OFFICER'S SUICIDE ENIGMA
  If the enigma of the "officer’s suicide" had been a work of fiction created by Rex Stout, creator of the legendary fictional sleuth Nero Wolfe, chances are Stout would have called it "Too Many Questions". For the q...
14th October 2008  
  HENRY T. WILDE
   
Unidentified Newspaper (1936) SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES
This article was published at the time of Sam Goldenberg's death, in October 1936. The paper is unidentified, it could be The Herald Tribune, a paper published in Paris in English, for the English speaking community in France. ...
  1936  
The Daily Banner (1912) FOR THE CHILDREN
Two Baby Waifs Rescued From the Sunken Titanic. When the steamship...
9th May 1912  
Chicago Daily Journal (1912) THE HERO’S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND
The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind   From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ...
19th April 1912  
  MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR C. H. LIGHTOLLER, TWICKENHAM
Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller RNR, DSC* 1874-1952 RICHMOND SLIPWAYS, 1 DUCK'S WALK Commander Lightol...
   
New York Times (1912) ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS
Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome...
21st April 1912  
ET Research (2002) ICE ON DECK
My first article about the newly discovered Bremen Iceberg that appeared in Encyclopedia Titanica in July 2001 (The Iceberg — resurfaced?) was about the photograph itself. This second article ...
12th February 2002  
Providence Journal (2005) SEVERAL INTERVIEW EXCERPTS BY HELEN AND FAMILY DETAILS
The Oslo-born family sent its first members to America in 1866 to establish the foundation on which the family would build for decades to come. Englehart studied at the Royal School of Art in Oslo and apprenticed as a jeweler.  Com...
11th August 2005  
Southend Standard (1912) TITANIC VICTIM'S FUNERAL
Pathetic Ceremony at Liverpool. Impressive Scenes at the Funeral of Steward Lawrence. A funeral unique in the history of Liverpool was solemnised at the West Derby Cemetery, on Monday, when the body of Arthur Lawrence, ...
16th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) CAPTAIN'S OFFICIAL REPORTS
Rostron Tells How the Carpathia Did Work of Rescue --- Just before the Carpathia sailed yesterday afternoon on her interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Capt. Rostron, her commander, gave out what he declared to be the first and only...
20th April 1912  
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser (1912) MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH
Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ...
11th May 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Mr Richard Nosworthy, son of Mr J Nosworthy, Fisher Road, Newton Abbot, was going to Canada to join friends there. He was to have sailed in the Olympic, but through disorganised train services he missed that boat and joined Titanic....
17th April 1912  
ET Research (2005) MAGGIE MADIGAN - AN IRISH IMMIGRANT'S DREAMS UNFULFILLED
...
1st January 2005  
Western Morning News (1912) 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  
Newark Evening News (1912) SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ...
20th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o...
19th April 1912  
ET Research (2004) STAND UP AND WAVE!
"Ellie Mockler-if ye be in this room- stand up and wave!" April would prove to ...
2nd July 2004  
Outlook (1912) THE RESCUED : BY AN EYE-WITNESS ON THE CARPATHIA
The Cunard steamship Carpathia was on its way from New York to Europe when it was arrested in its course by the wireless calls for help from the Titanic. The story of how it abandoned its trip and returned at full speed to rescue the survivors fro...
27th April 1912  
Rockford Daily Register Gazette (1912) DAGMAR BRYHL TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER
Established 1840 - Twelve Pages (EXCLUSIVE AFTERNOON FRANCHISE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Young Woman Reaches Rockford Today, in Company of Her Uncle WOULD HAVE DIED HAD SHE REALIZED THAT SWEETHEART AND BROT...
25th April 1912  
Isle of Man Today (2008) 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  
The Sun (2006) TITANIC MEMOIRS UNEARTHED
SHE was the Titanic survivor whose story inspired Kate Winslet's role in the blockbuster movie.Now a haunting account of her inspiring real-life ordeal has emerged for the first time.In it, Helen Churchill Candee describes in harrowing detail the final moments of the ill-fated ship as it sank in the icy Atlantic - claiming 1,523 lives while many still clung in hopeless terror to its deck....
18th April 2006  
ET Comment (2006) LET THE RECORD SPEAK FOR ITSELF!
THERE is an old adage that the argument is not always about ‘what the argument is about.’ This is a case in point. Three commentators of common interest have decided to fight the validity of Hugh Woolner’s evidence to the US Titan...
7th December 2006  
New York Evening Journal (1912) ASTOR TO DYNAMITE TITANIC
A plan to blow up the wreckage of the Titanic with a powerful explosive in order to recover the body of John Jacob Astor, one of the passengers who was carried down, is being seriously considered to-day by Vincent Astor, son of the late Colonel....
20th April 1912  
Bureau County Republican (1912) EDWARD DORKING, SHIP WRECK SURVIVOR, APPEARS AT STAR THEATRE
PICKED UP BY THE CARPATHIA Young Englishman Relates Experiences in Greatest Maritime disaster in World's History. Seven hundred persons, who packed the Star theatre to its capacity at three performances Tuesday night, ...
2nd May 1912  
Examiner.com (2009) TITANIC SAILS AGAIN IN ORLANDO
After being left homeless when the Mercado shopping center was emptied and demolished, Titanic: The Experience has a new, permanent home in a prime location on I-Drive. Whether you're fascinated by the history of the doomed oceanliner or just a fan of the movie, you'll be impressed by the extensive collection of memorabilia, including relics from Titanic herself, and the recreations of the Grand Staircase, a typical first class stateroom, the promenade deck, and other areas of the ship....
2nd January 2009  
Paterson Morning Call (1912) MET DEATH LIKE A HERO
---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...
3rd May 1912  
  (1912) MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY
The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
23rd July 1912  
CCTV (2007) BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG
elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ...
28th June 2007  
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2009) COUNTESS ENACTOR IS TOUR GUIDE FOR DOOMED VOYAGE OF TITANIC
The lovely Countess of Rothes stands on the deck of the ship docked in Milwaukee and cheerfully waves passengers aboard with her white-gloved hands. "Hurry," she says, "It's departure time, and you won't want to miss this wonderful voyage."The name of the ship she beckons travelers aboard? The RMS Titanic....
12th January 2009  
  (1912) MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY
The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were report...
23rd July 1912  
Newark Star (1912) C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES
Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ...
19th April 1912  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) CARPATHIA LANDS IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE BISHOPS WIRE THEY’RE SAFE
Mrs. Bishop Is First Lady to Leave the Wrecked Ocean Liner SEND A WIRELESS First Direct Tidings Came Last Night, and Again This Morning They Send a Message Home --------------- Mr. and Mr...
19th April 1912  
Yorkshire Post (2009) TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000
20 April 2009 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about ?300,000 at auction.Millvina De...
25th April 2009  
New York Times (1889) THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED
A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...
20th January 1889  
Newark Star (1912) GIRL SAYS FATHER SAVED HER IN WRECK
Miss Lillian Cribb Led Through Passageways on Titanic to Lifeboat --- To the rare presence of mind of her father, John H. Cribb, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, Miss Lillian M. Cribb, 17 years old, believes she owes her life. C...
20th April 1912  
Hudson Observer (1912) ONE SURVIVOR REACHES HOME OF BROTHER
Thomas Percy Oxenham, 22 years old, brother of Charles Oxenham, of 966Tonnele avenue, New Durham, is now resting after his frightfulexperience in the Titanic wreck. He came from Pondersend, Eng., to livewith his North Hudson re...
20th April 1912  
  (2007) THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER
The Cap Arcona Perhaps the loveliest of the “forgotten” liners is Hamburg-Sudamerikanische’s Cap Arcona. She was conceived and built in the mid-1920s for service between Northern Europe and Argentin...
14th July 2007  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) 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  
Worcester Telegram (1912) ICE CAKE HELPED HIM TO ESCAPE
New York, April 19.- A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding Emilo Portaluppi of Aricgabo, Italy, in escaping death when the Titanic went down. Portaluppi, a second class passenger, was awakened by the explosion of one of the boilers of the ship. ...
20th April 1912  
North American (1912) BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK
Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the sinking of the Titanic was told yesterday by Charles Weikman, chief barber on the liner, at his home i...
20th April 1912  
Telegraph.co.uk (2007) TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP TO BECOME DIVERS' PARADISE
When it was launched in 1914 it was intended to be superior to its sister ship the Titanic but, two years later, the Britannic lay at the bottom of the Aegean Sea - the victim of a mine laid by a German U-boat.Now a project is under way to transform it into a subaquatic paradise for divers and a haven for tourists....
2nd August 2007  
  (1912) LETTER TO HIS OLD FRIEND ALFRED PARSONS
''On board R.M.S. Titanic April 11, 1912. Dear Alfred I got yours this morning and was glad to hear from you. I thought I told you my ship was the Titanic. She has everything but taxicabs and theatres., Table D' Hote, Restau...
11th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) PHILADELPHIAN RESCUED BY PARTY IN LIFEBOAT
NEW YORK, April 19---Richard Williams, of Philadelphia, remained on the Titanic until she sank. He was standing at the extreme stern when the final plunge came. "After we hit the water the Titanic rebounded," he said, "and I was hurled...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1975) MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC
TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...
26th November 1975  
Daily Gleaner (2008) TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY
The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912....
22nd August 2008  
BBC News (2008) TITANIC LIFE-SIZE REPLICA PLANNED
A life-size replica of parts of the Titanic could be added to Belfast's Odyssey Arena if a US-backed development plan is accepted. Suspended behind glass, the £64m scale model of the boat would incorporate a five-star hotel, an exhibition area and conference rooms....
20th June 2008  
  HENRY WILDE IN WHITE UNIFORM
Henry Tingle Wilde pictured in Summer White uniform...
   
New York Times (1901) BIG BET ON SHAMROCK DOUBTED BY BROKERS
F. H. Brooks Does Not Believe Any One Will Give Odds of 5 to 3 --- J. A. Chambers of Pittsburg Says that No Such Wager Was Made in That City --- There is doubt in Wall Street and thereabouts as to the "big money" said to h...
5th September 1901  
Highland News (1912) CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP
Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ...
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2004) A LAST BRIGHT SHINING LIE
THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensiv...
24th August 2004  
Daily Gleaner (2008) TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY
The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912....
22nd August 2008  
Rockford Republic (1912) TITANIC'S SURVIVOR COMES TO ROCKFORD
MISS DAGMAR BRYHL, AFTER LOSING BROTHER AND SWEETHEART ON FATEFUL TRIP FROM SWEDEN TO ROCKFORD FINALLY REACHED HERE 6:30 THIS MORNING - WAS SECOND CLASS PASSENGER ABOARD THE DOOMED TITANIC - HER FIRST WARNING OF DANGER ...
25th April 1912  
Cambridge Independent Press (1912) MR. R. C. COLERIDGE MISSING
Page 5 There seems every reason to fear that Mr. Reginald C. Coleridge, of Hartford, who was among the second-class passengers on the Titanic, has lost his life. Every day since the disaster his friends have anxiously scanned the lists...
19th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) THOMAS WHITELEY : DESCRIBES LAST MEAL ON TITANIC
“It Was the Gayest Night of Trip Among Diners,” Says Assistant Steward --- New York, N. Y., April 20---Propped up on pillows in a bed in St. Vincent's Hospital this afternoon, Thomas Whitely, an assistant steward in the f...
21st April 1912  
  (1912) THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
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  
  (1912) 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  
Redding.com (2007) RODRIGUEZ SPREADS WEALTH, HELPS TURTLE BAY RAISE 'TITANIC'
Will Redding developer Rod Rodriguez float Turtle Bay's boat?Rodriguez's Shasta Enterprises is the "presenting sponsor" for Turtle Bay Exploration Park's "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" (Feb. 24-May 28) that park CEO and former Redding City Manager Warren green-lighted at a cost of $250,000....
13th February 2007  
Milton Keynes Today (2006) NOMADIC : SAVE THE LAST LINK WITH THE TITANIC
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10th January 2006  
  (1912) THE TITANIC : OUR STORY
SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an...
  1912  
Washington Post (1912) TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT
New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN HOME FROM EUROPE
Financier Refuses to Discuss Business or Politics J. Pierpont Morgan returned yesterday on the White Star liner Olympic from his seven months' stay abroad. He was met at Quarantine by his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., who ha...
25th July 1912  
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
   
UTV (2006) BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY
The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ...
29th November 2006  
New York Times (1931) BOOK NOTES
Macmillan has obtained what are believed to be the only pictures of the rescue of the Titanic’s survivors and these will be used to illustrate Sir Arthur Rostron's forthcoming autobiography, "'Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, in command of the Ca...
22nd July 1931  
  (1912) LETTER TO HIS MOTHER
Mrs. Thomas Mudd, The Street, Hunting Field, Halesworth, Suffolk. Dear Mother, Arrived at Southampton safe - The Titanic is a splendid boat and you hardly know you are moving. Will write more fully later Your loving Son Tom. PS ...
  1912  
Newark Star (1912) WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED
A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin...
19th April 1912  
The Times (1913) 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  
New York Times (1912) MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER
Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...
3rd March 1912  
Ilford Graphic (1912) THE TALE OF THE TITANIC (2ND PAGE OF THE ARTICLE)
And now, I come to a part of my story that I shrink from telling. Indeed, I think I have lingered over the first part because I dread relating the events of that awful night. I have read some where of people living a whole lifetime in a few hours. I ...
10th May 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) MRS. CHARLES ASPLUND AND THREE CHILDREN ARE SAVED
Her Husband and Two of Their Sons Are Believed to Be Among Those Lost on the Titanic, Though Names Sent Show Slight Varience Charles Asplund, formerly of Worcester, his son Carl, 6 years old, and a baby boy 2 years old, are pro...
18th April 1912  
Daily Sketch (1935) DEATH OF LUCILE
Page 1 Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile," the fashion expert whose articles in the Daily Sketch were for years a notable and most popular feature has died in Putney. Her husband Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bt., died in April four y...
22nd April 1935  
BBC News (2006) NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST
The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ...
16th July 2006  
Belfat Telegraph (2006) TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR ?57,000
A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night.Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US expect the chair, taken from the first-class Promenade deck of the Belfast-built liner, to go for between $$75-100,000 (?43-57,000) when it is auctioned off next month.The original beech framed chair, one of only six left in the world, is to be sold off at the auctioneer's annual Marine Paintings, Ship Models, Scrimshaw and Ocean Liner Memorabilia Sale at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 7....
12th April 2006  
ET Research (2002) TITANIC'S ROCKETS
HOW MANY rockets were fired by the Titanic? "Eight!" It’s one of those facts we have unquestioningly received; an answer that comes automatically from the sam...
15th March 2002  
Newark Evening News (1912) SWAM TO BOAT; SAYS SAILORS BEAT HIM
Special Service of the NEWS BAYONNE, April 20---The story that he was beaten by sailors when he swam to a lifeboat is told by Thomas McCormack, one of the Titanic survivors, who is now at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York. ...
20th April 1912  
Bristol Times and Mirror (1912) UNTITLED
Of Miss Bentham it is related that she was sleeping soundly when the stewards came for her. She arose, dressed herself warmly and was handed into a boat. This was very crowded; so much so that one sailor had to sit with his feet dangling in the icy-c...
27th April 1912  
Hudson Dispatch (1912) HARROWING TALE OF SCENES ON TITANIC BY MISS DOWDELL
--------------- Many Men Sacrificed Their Lives in Forming Human Ladder to Help Women and Children to the Lifeboats---To Prevent Frantic Women from Hearing the Shrieks of Their Loved Ones, Those in the Boats Sank [sic], "We Parted on the Shor...
20th April 1912  
Clare Journal (1912) 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  
Channel 4 - Tuesday - 9:00pm - 10:30pm (2005) TONY ROBINSON TITANIC TRIP PREMIERES TUESDAY
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31st December 2005  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN IN PARIS
London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi...
6th January 1912  
Southern Evening Echo (1952) UNTITLED
A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living...
14th May 1952  
ET Research (1999) PLUCKED FROM THE SEA?
Survivors who claimed to having been in contact with the water. Name Comments ...
11th July 1999  
  (2005) TRAFFIC
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  
ET Research (2008) MCGOUGH THE KEY?
THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No. ...
5th September 2008  
North Berks Herald (1912) REVD. CARTER
Page 7, Column 1 Amongst those who went down with the Titanic were the Rev. Ernest Courtney [sic] Carter and his wife. Mr Carter was a St John's man, who later than usual in life became ordained and did some wonderfully good work, espe...
4th May 1912  
Le Journal (1912) HOW MRS. MEYER ESCAPED
Mrs Meyer told reporters that her husband and herself hurried to the lifeboats as soon as the first jolt was felt. She wanted to stay with him but he strongly pushed her inside a boat and told her about their nine year old son, for whom she had to su...
20th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) ASTOR'S OLD BUTLER A HERO
Special to the Star by a staff reporter New York, April 20. --- In the register of the Titanic's heroes the name of Robbins should appear.  He was Colonel Astor's old butler, and like the Colonel's valet, always travelled wi...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) JOHN BRADLEY CUMINGS
John Bradley Cumings, a member of the brokerage firm of Cumings & Marckwald, 30 Wall Street, came to this city ten years ago from Boston, where he was brought up and where he held a position with Estabrook & Co. Mrs. Cumings, who is with him, was Fl...
16th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) ELIZABETH RESIDENTS WERE ON THE TITANIC
ELIZABETH, April 17 --- Former Elizabeth residents on the boat were Mr. and Mrs. William E. Carter and their children, Lucille, aged thirteen, and William, aged ten, of Philadelphia. They were accompanied by a maid. Mr. Carter, who is t...
17th April 1912  
ET Research (2002) MOLLY BROWN: MYSTERY UNRAVELLED
"At Cherbourg, a woman came aboard named Margaret Brown. We all called her &q...
21st July 2002  
New York Times (1912) HEARD DEATH CHORUS FOR OVER AN HOUR
PARIS, April 19---Three French survivors---Fernand Omont, Pierre Marechal, son of the French Admiral, and Paul Chevre, the sculptor---jointly cabled to The Matin a graphic narrative of the Titanic disaster, in which they repeatedly insist that mor...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) CHANGE FATAL TO GUGGENHEIM
Had Booked Passage on the Lusitania, Whose Sailing Was Canceled --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 18---A business friend of Benjamin Guggenheim says that had the Lusitania sailed as arranged on Apri...
19th April 1912  
Belfast Newsletter (1912) THE LADY PALMIST AND TITANIC PASSENGER
Page 9The Central News says - Of the second class passengers of the Titanic, Walter Harris, of Enfield Highway and Percy Thomas Oxenham, of Ponders End, were booked on the "Philadelphia" for New York. Owing to the coal strik...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY
Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...
14th May 1912  
  (1912) MARCONIGRAMS
Marconigram dated 18th April 1912 to: Mr. J. Rosenshine, 1 W. 92nd Street, New York City. ''Am safe - Pray God George was rescued by another boat with rest of men. Arrive Carpathia. Mabelle Thorne.'' Marconigram sent 18th April 1912 to: Mrs. J. Co...
18th April 1912  
  (2005) EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC
Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec...
8th December 2005  
Lloyds Weekly News (1912) LORD CHARLES BERESFORD TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK SQUAD
A fine tribute to the engineers and boiler room staff of the ‘Titanic’, the ’Black Squad’, who stood their posts in the bowels of the ship, to the last, was paid by Lord Charles Beresford in a letter to the Times. He Wrote: - “In the lat...
  1912  
ET Research (2001) JOHN EDWARD HART: DUBIOUS HERO
1 In Walter Lord’s seminal A Night to Remember (1955), and the host of other books and films on the Titanic that have followed in its wake, only a few figures have emerged as heroes who provided aid ...
26th January 2001  
Berkshire Chronicle (1912) DETAINED AT WASHINGTON
Detained at Washington. Among those who were expected to have arrived home on the Lapland was Mr, Frederick Dent Ray, of 'Akbar' 56 palmer Park Avenue, Reading. Mr Ray, who was a steward on the Titanic, cabled home to his relatives informing them...
29th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) FATHER AND BROTHER ON TITANIC’S DEATH LIST
ROEBLING, April 30---In the death list of the Titanic Mrs. Olaf Swanberg of Third avenue, yesterday discovered the names of her father and brother among the third-class passengers who were lost. The brother, a prosperous settler in Minnesota, had re...
30th April 1912  
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) CAPT SMITH UNCLE OF RED BANK MAN
Capt. E. J. Smith, R. S., who was in charge of the Titanic, was an uncle of Alex. Smith of White street, Red Bank. The latter Mr. Smith has been a resident of Red Bank for some time, conducting a garage in White street, near Broad street. He stated...
17th April 1912  
  (2005) OCEANIC
White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...
11th July 2005  
Graphic (1912) 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  
  (2005) NEPTUNE
Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal...
6th March 2005  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ...
17th April 1912  
Guernsey Evening Press (1912) 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  
Hudson Dispatch (1912) TITANIC SURVIVORS TELL DRAMATIC STORY OF SEA'S GREATEST DISASTER IN HISTORY
--------------- Union Hill Woman Relates Her Experience, and How She Saved Child--Pathetic Meeting of Little One By Grandparents When the Carpathia Docked--Many Describe Mournful Scenes of Rescue and Picture Graphically the Going Down of the ...
19th April 1912  
Chicago Daily News (1912) BOY FAILS TO TAKE SHIP
After searching the list of survivors in vain for the name of her brother, John Meehan, Miss Mary Meehan, 4458 Drexel boulevard, was overjoyed last night when she received a cablegram from her mother in Ireland saying that the boy had no...
19th April 1912  
Cornishman (1912) NEWLYN MAN RESCUED
AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi...
18th April 1912  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) LOSES ALL HIS MONEY
NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1956) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Mrs. Annie May Stengel, 88, Was in Third Lifeboat --- Special to The New York Times --- MONTCLAIR, N. J., Jan. 24 ---Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Annie May Stengel, a survivor of the sinking of the Tita...
25th January 1956  
  (2005) HECTOR
Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles...
13th March 2005  
ET Research (2005) TITANIC’S CARGO GEAR
Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...
11th January 2005  
Southern Evening Echo (1967) OBITUARY
Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ...
27th April 1967  
The Toronto World (1912) MAJOR PEUCHEN BLAMES CAPTAIN WHO WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP
Loss of Titanic, He Says, Was Due to Criminal Carelessness in Running at Full Speed Thru the Ice With a New Crew--Capt. Smith Was Having His Dinner When Crash Came--Major Peuchen Left in Third Boat, Which Had Only 22 People and Could Have...
20th April 1912  
Lowell Sun (1912) THOMAS WHITELEY TO SPEAK AT MASSACHUSETTS THEATRE
The 27th May 1912 Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachsetts, carried the following advertisement: Merrimack Square Theatre "The Coolest Spot in Town" QUALITY AND QUANTITY THE WATCHWORDS FOR&nb...
27th May 1912  
The Times (1934) THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE
FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir...
10th September 1934  
ic Birmingham (2006) LABOUR TO THE RESCUE
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27th January 2006  
MinnPost (2009) TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS ST. PAUL; RESEARCHER SAYS HIT MOVIE NOT ACCURATE
As the Titanic exhibit opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- with artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck along with newly discovered articles from the ship that rescued many of the passengers -- a Minnesota writer with a passion for the top...
14th June 2009  
Newark Evening News (1912) STENGEL TELLS TRAGEDY STORY
Home with Wife, Depicts Wreck Scenes and Perils of Survivors. ---------- DEATH NEAR, VICTIMS JOKED ---------- Days of suspense had been borne by the family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of 1075 Broad str...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER
Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning --- Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to t...
19th April 1912  
Primitive Methodist Leader (1912) OUR BOYS ON THE 'TITANIC'
April 1912 Extract ‘…anxiously we have waited for tidings, and now they are come. George (Hocking) a member of the Young Men’s Christian Association Choir, was accompanied on the voyage by his widowed mother and two sisters, one of wh...
  1912  
The Times (1958) TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC
The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi...
2nd July 1958  
The Toronto World (1912) HOW MAJ. PEUCHEN ESCAPED.
----------------- Second Officer Lightholder (sic), who had charge of the lifeboats: "In the fourth lifeboat I was running short of seamen.  I put two seamen in and one of them jumped out.  ...
20th April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) HUDSON COUNTY SURVIVORS TELL OF SEA TRAGEDY
Union Hill Governess Gives Graphic Recital of Scenes After Giant Ship Hit Iceberg and Went Down---Praises Bravery of Men Passengers---Complains of Treatment on Carpathia --- BAYONNE YOUT...
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2001) MY TITANIC DIVE
Arrival in St. Johns, Canada: We're hoping hurricane Henry ...
30th November 2001  
ET Research (2001) GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC
In over 2000 pages of testimony at the two official inquiries into the sinking of Titanic, there are only three documented cases in which a gun was fired, however, only one was thoroughly investigated. This case involves Fifth Officer Harold ...
30th July 2001  
Newark Star (1912) FEAR ELIZABETH FOLK WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC
ELIZABETH, April 17---Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, is fearful that his two brothers, Ernest and Robert, were among those lost on the steamship Titanic. Mr. Peacock's wife and two children were also passengers on the boat, but it is p...
18th April 1912  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) THRILLING STORIES BY TITANIC’S SAVED; TEN ON WAY TO ELIZABETH LOSE LIVES
ELIZABETH WOMAN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, TELLS OF TRAGEDY ---------- Mrs. Peter Reniff, Only Rescued Member of Local Party of Eight, Gives to Journal Story of Most Appalling Calamity in History of Navigation--Peacock Party Lost -------...
19th April 1912  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) THRILLING STORIES BY TITANIC’S SAVED; TEN ON WAY TO ELIZABETH LOSE LIVES
ELIZABETH WOMAN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, TELLS OF TRAGEDY ---------- Mrs. Peter Reniff, Only Rescued Member of Local Party of Eight, Gives to Journal Story of Most Appalling Calamity in History of Navigation--Peacock Party Lost -------...
19th April 1912  
  (1912) CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER.
RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...
27th April 1912  
Detroit Journal (1912) MRS. JANE QUICK
Mrs. Jane Quick, wife of Frederick Quick 383 Brooklyn Avenue, with her two daughters, one aged eight and the other three years, all survivors of the Titanic, also arrived on the same train with Mrs Hamlin. ''Jane''! cried a mans voice as Mrs....
20th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) ELIZABETH MAN’S WIFE AND CHILDREN PERISH
Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19--- The wife and two children of Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, perished on the Titanic, according to the list of those who were on the boat and whose names do not appear in ...
19th April 1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR AT ELKS' TO-MORROW
Gus Weikman, Ship's Barber, Will Tell Camden Lodge of His Experience --- Picked up by one of the lifeboats after being blown overboard by an explosion just before the boat went down, Gus Weikman, head barber on the Titanic, will be the ...
13th May 1912  
Weekly Advocate (1912) NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE
Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ...
2nd May 1912  
New York Times (1912) SHIPS SIGHT MORE ICEBERGS
Italian Liner Finds One in Lat. 40:39, Extremely Far South --- Captains of incoming steamships are still bringing reports of ice. Capt. Domeniconi of the Principe di Piemonte, in yesterday from Naples, reported that on April...
27th April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) ONLY 1 OF 10 IN PARTY ON TITANIC SAVED
Hackensack, April 22---One of the fortunate survivors of the ill-fated steamship Titanic was Miss Anna Nyster, a Swedish girl who sailed from England to accept a position as mother's helper in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen,...
22nd April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1975) THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82
Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t...
4th November 1975  
Lincoln Daily News (1912) MAJOR BUTT DESTROYED PAPERS
That Major Archibald Butt, shortly before the last lifeboat went away from the Titanic, retired to his cabin and burned up many papers which he believed were "diplomatic papers" was the statement made this afternoon by Mrs. H.A. Cassebeer, jr, a T...
29th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) MRS. ASTOR NEAR COLLAPSE AT PIER
Young Bride of New Yorker Who Perished on Point of Hysteria --- New York, April 18---Mrs. John Jacob Astor was assisted to the pier from the Carpathia by two officers of the boat. She was hysterical, and so plainly upon the point of col...
19th April 1912  
  CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC
Eight men, all Sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton with third class ticket #1601 at a cost of £56 9s 11d. Six of the men: Lee Bing, ...
   
Concord Enterprise (1912) MRS. J. MURRAY BROWN
Mrs. J. Murray Brown, who upon her return from New York, where she was taken to the home of her sister, wife of Judge Cornell, upon the arrival of the Carpathia, came to Concord and went to the home of her daighter, Mrs. George S. Keyes. She is now a...
24th April 1912  
Sphere (1913) SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY
JOLLY DAYS FOR SEAMEN'S ORPHANS A Visit to the Isle of Wight Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton who are enjoying a Summer Holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight Among them are many youngsters whose father...
30th August 1913  
  (1934) RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT HORSWILL
...
10th May 1934  
Falmouth Packet (1912) FALMOUTH MAN DROWNED
The name of Mr. H. Creece (sic), deck engineer, does not appear amongst the survivors and he has been given up as lost. The deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and her two children in their great sorrow. Obituary WAS born at ...
26th April 1912  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
   
  (2004) KURA
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  
ET Research (2005) TITANIC'S HIDDEN DECK
Published plans of the Olympic & Titanic show deck arrangements from the Tank Top up to the Boat Deck. But there is one deck plan that doesn’t normally show up, and that is the plan of the inn...
8th April 2005  
Brighton Argus (1912) 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  
Greensburg Herald Tribune (1912) YOUNG GREENSBURG WOMAN WAS PASSENGER ON ILL-FATED SHIP
"Oh, I feel bad, ver' bad, los' money, los' friend. When I stand up I see ship come again, when I shut my eyes. I see people go down, down, down--Oh ver' bad time." And, with the remembrance of it, Mrs. Sophie Abraham, 20 years old, shuddered and bur...
22nd April 1912  
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE
Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma...
25th April 1912  
Montreal Daily Witness (1912) YOUNGEST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, GLEEFUL WITH FOSTER PARENTS
Boy, Eleven Months Old, Saved When Parents Went Down With Wreck, Becomes Centre Of Much Attention And Smiles Happily. Although Travers J.[sic] Allison, eleven months old, did not realise it yesterday, much interest was centred in his c...
22nd April 1912  
ET Research (2004) OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR "SLEEPING ROUGH"
YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ...
10th June 2004  
Providence Journal (1912) STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK
London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe...
20th April 1912  
Chicago American (1912) LOSES FAMILY BY WRECK
Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry...
21st April 1912  
ET Reviews (2009) E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC
THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...
5th May 2009  
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser (1912) MR. AND MRS. CHAPMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Liskeard, were also among the lost. Mrs. Chapman declining to go without her husband. Mrs. Hocking tells of how Mrs. Chapman was behind her when they were getting into the lifeboat. But when Sarah found that her husband J...
  April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR TO THE DEFENSE OF ISMAY
Special Service of the NEWS PLAINFIELD, April 23---Miss Georgette Alexander Magill, aged sixteen years, who was among the first of those rescued from the Titanic to be put aboard the Carpathia, yesterday at Plainfield defended J. Bruce...
23rd April 1912  
  (1929) GOD MOVES ON THE WATER
Blind Willie Johnson was born in Marlin, Texas c.1902. A Gospel singer and guitarist, he recorded just 30 pieces at a variety of locations between 1927 and 1930. He was accompanied on some songs by his wife Angeline. During the depression reverted...
11th December 1929  
Daily Telegraph (1908) ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED!
(Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action brought by M...
  1908  
Washington Times (1912) SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD
Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...
22nd April 1912  
  (1912) MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAMME
The Central North Chicago Ministerial Association at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. "The Offering" "The Nana Harper Fund to maintain and educate Nana, the six year old daughter of Rev. John Harper, pastor, Walworth Road Chu...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1907) BIGGER THAN THE LUSITANIA
White Star Line Decides to Build Vessel---Speed to be 22 Knots --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 11---A Belfast correspondent telegraphs that Harland & Wolff have officially admitted that the...
12th September 1907  
ET Research (2004) THE MYSTERY OF RHODA ABBOTT REVEALED
Rhoda Abbott was a survivor of one of the most tragic maritime disasters in history, the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic...
7th June 2004  
  MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT'
Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
   
Evening Bulletin (1912) 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  
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit...
   
  (1912) FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS
The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ...
30th April 1912  
ET Research (2006) THE PORTRUSH LETTER
THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp...
31st January 2006  
New York Times (1910) DYING MAN’S SON FOUND
Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite son, Wil...
29th October 1910  
New York Times (1947) DIES IN SWIMMING POOL
F. O. Spedden, Retired Banker Here, Stricken in Palm Beach --- Frederic O. Spedden of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., retired New York banker, died yesterday of a heart attack while in the swimming pool of the Bath Club in Palm Beach, Flori...
4th February 1947  
Surrey Advertiser and County Times (1912) AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG
Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ...
  April 1912  
  (2004) COLLINGWOOD
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...
28th November 2004  
  (2005) AJAX
Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag:...
27th February 2005  
  (2004) TITANIC (1888)
Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ...
22nd November 2004  
Hibbing Daily Tribune (1912) MISS WILLARD TELLS OF WRECK
Girl Well Known Here, Who was on the Titanic has reached St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn. - April 23 - Miss Constance, the 20-year-old daughter of David Willard, formerly of Duluth, has arrived at the home of her sister, Mrs. Hope McCall, on ...
23rd April 1912  
New York Times (1915) 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  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES
Mrs. William Baird Silvey Lost Her Husband in the Disaster. Mrs. William Baird Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., a survivor of the Titanic, arrived in Washington last night from New York, on a visit to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Will...
25th April 1912  
Inverness Courier (2006) STAN'S 'TITANIC' AMBITION IS A MUSEUM OF THE SEA
11 July, 2006THE Titanic has not sunk - it is all shipshape and has been seen at the entrance to the Caledonian Canal.However, this version is just a tenth the size of the original liner which sank with the loss of 1503 lives ...
11th July 2006  
New York Times (1908) J. P. MORGAN SAILS
Has Six Staterooms on the Adriatic---Mrs. Waldorf Astor Also Departs --- Many passengers sailed yesterday in the outgoing liners for Europe. On the Adriatic went J. Pierpont Morgan and his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterl...
27th February 1908  
Sphere (1912) INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT
The grave of John Lukin, the original inventor of the lifeboat. He received the King’s patent for his invention in the year 1784, according to his gravestone. (The Sphere, December 21, 1912.) Lukin predates by ...
21st December 1912  
New York Times (1918) 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 Daily Mercury (1912) A PLYMOUTH PASSENGER
One of the second class passengers on the Titanic is Mr. Fred Banfield, who left Plymouth on 9th inst., to join the vessel. He spent some years in business with a well known firm in Bedford-street, Devonport, but previously had worked as a miner in ...
17th April 1912  
White Plains Daily Argus (1912) TALKED WITH STEAD'S SPIRIT, WOMAN SAYS
TELLS SPIRITUALISTS LOST EDITOR APPEARED TO HER Pittsburgh, April 24 - "Happy, but preparing to be with us in the spirit," was the way Mrs. Mary L. Feldman of Carrick, a delegate to the fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania...
24th April 1912  
Southern Daily Echo (2002) HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC
Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive...
16th February 2002  
  (1912) LETTER WRITTEN BY MISS BRIDGET DELIA HENERY TO MRS. M. S. CURLEY, HER AUNT IN USA
Clonown, Athlone, Ireland. Friday 5th My Dear Aunt, Just a line to let you know that I am to leave Athlone on Wednesday 10th April. I hope to God that we will get there all right. The ship...
5th April 1912  
Denver Post (1912) LENA STOIBER ROOD SEEKS HUSBAND BY ADVERTISING
He Was On Titanic - She Hopes He May Have Escaped Death. Hoping against hope that her husband, Hugh Rood may have by some chance escaped death in the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Lena Stoiber Rood is making every effort to locate him, if he ...
6th May 1912  
ET Research (2004) THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT
Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing with statistics, some d...
17th December 2004  
Newark Star (1912) SIX BULLET HOLES TITANIC MEMENTOES
Survivor Tells of Being Shot at by Officers While Entering Lifeboat --- WILKES BARRE, [sic] Pa., April 22---The story of having been shot at by officers on the Titanic when he sought to enter a lifeboat when the great liner was going...
23rd April 1912  
The Times (1918) THE LOSS OF RMS LEINSTER
THE SUNK IRISH PACKET DEATH ROLL 451  STERN PROTEST BY MR BALFOUR Further details of the loss of the Royal Mail steamer Leinster, the torpedoing of which was announced yesterday, emphases the ...
12th October 1918  
Chicago Tribune (1912) SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH
F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the...
16th April 1912  
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser (1912) UNKNOWN TITLE
The party of seven adults and four young children from Penzance were all bound to Akron. Mr. George Hocking, his mother (Mrs. Guy), who is a widow, and his sister, Miss Hocking, were of St Mary-street, and with them were Mrs. Emily Ri...
18th April 1912  
Rockford Register Star (1997) TITANIC SURVIVOR HAD ROCKFORD CONNECTION
Dagmar Bryhl: The young woman from Sweden was on the ocean liner with her brother and her fiancé to visit relatives in Rockford. By David Shultz Rockford Register Star. Rockford's connection to the Titanic spent less th...
21st December 1997  
New York Times (1983) ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90
ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So...
20th September 1983  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) TELLS OF WOMEN PULLING AT OARS
Page 1 Youngstown Woman Relates Story of Escape from Sinking Titanic Men Tire and Passengers Row Boats to Safety From Disaster From reports received from the steamer Carpathia when it docked at New York ...
19th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) ELIZABETH RESIDENTS WERE ON THE TITANIC
(Newark Evening News, 17 April 1912) ---------- ELIZABETH, April 17---Two residents of this city and several former residents are known to have been on the Titanic when she sailed for this country. Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Renouf, of 20B...
17th April 1912  
  MEMORIAL
There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
   
Rahway Daily Record (1912) ARTHUR KEEFE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD THE TITANIC
New York Papers This Morning Give His Name In List of Passengers Embarking at Southampton ---------- FEAR HE IS AMONG MISSING ---------- His Sister in East Rahway Feels That He Met His Fate When The Ill Starred Vessel Sank...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1931) SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON
Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6...
21st April 1931  
Southern Evening Echo (1952) UNTITLED
GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ...
9th December 1952  
New York Times (1932) MRS. J. J. BROWN DIES; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Was Rescued by the Carpathia After Hours in Row Boat-- Long a Newport Colonist.Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown of Denver, Col., widow of James J. Brown, mine owner, died...
27th October 1932  
New York Times (1924) OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE’S BODY HOME
White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...
14th June 1924  
St. Paul Daily News (1912) TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER
- Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...
17th May 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1967) MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was...
  1967  
  (2005) CALEDONIA
Anchor Line On 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra. Port of Registry: Glasgow Flag of ...
11th June 2005  
  (2006) STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS
The ill-fated liner passes onlookers off Gourock, Scotland. This film is by the same photographer as our Queen Mary film but taken a year later. ...
21st July 2006  
ET Research (2001) THE FATAL JOURNEY OF THIRD CLASS MEN ON THE TITANIC
1Given the well-documented practice of those in authority during the immediate aftermath of the collision to downplay its seriousness 1, how aware a Third Class passenger o...
3rd July 2001  
Ilford Graphic (1912) THE TALE OF THE "TITANIC" TOLD BY A RESCUED ILFORD LADY. MRS BEN HART'S PERSONAL AND THRILLING NARRATIVE. EXCLUSIVE TO THE "ILFORD GRAPHIC"
I can honestly say that from the moment the journey to Canada was mentioned, till the time we got aboard the Titanic I never contemplated with any other feelings but those of dread and uneasiness. It was all done in a hurry. My husband of late had no...
10th May 1912  
  (2005) GERMANIA
Fabre Line Eastbound.  On 10 April reported heavy ice conditions in an area that later included the disaster site. Port of registry:   Marseilles Flag of registry:  French...
4th October 2005  
Port Jefferson Echo (1912) A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER
J. CLINCH SMITH NOT SAVED James Clinch Smith, of Smithtown, one of the passengers of the steamship Titanic, whose name is not reported among the survivors, was well known on Long Island as a sportsman and society man. ...
20th April 1912  
  (2004) HORNBY
May 31, 1911 Assisted following the launch of Titanic April 2, 1912 Assisted Titanic on her sea trials Port of Registry Liverpool Flag of Registry British Funnel B...
5th December 2004  
New York Times (1912) GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS
Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ...
21st April 1912  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) REMAINS IN HOPE HUSBAND IS SAVED
Mrs. Geo. D. Wick, Denies All Evidence That Youngstown Man is Lost First of Rescued From Titanic Pass Through Cleveland Holding onto what is more than a forlorn hope, when hope in all other breasts is dead, Mrs. George...
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2008) DEFENDING ERNEST GILL
One night in 1994, at the tender age of 14, I sat glued to the TV watching the superb A&E documentary about the Titanic disaster. Having read and heard little of the Lordite claims about the SS Californian, however, save ...
15th November 2008  
Denver Post (1912) PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK
'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat...
19th April 1912  
ET Research (2005) A TALE OF HOFFMAN
A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ...
18th January 2005  
 

 
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