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Daily Graphic (1912) HERBERT PITMAN AND CHARLES LIGHTOLLER AT THE BRITISH INQUIRY
  May 1912  
  (1912) STANLEY ADAMS (WIRELESS OPERATOR - MESABA) TESTIMONY (BRITISH INQUIRY)
11th June 1912  
  TITANIC INQUIRY PROJECT
The site contains the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports....
   
  SENATE INQUIRY SUMMONS
Summons ordering Able Seaman Thomas Jones to attend the Senate Sub-Committee inquiry into the Titanic disaster...
   
  (1912) MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY
This picture, isolated and improved from a 1912 original by the contributor, shows Arthur Peuchen, the Toronto yachtsman saved in lifeboat 6 by climing down the falls, listening to the testimony of Herbert Pitman at the US Inquiry in Washington, A...
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  
Daily Sketch (1912) THE SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE TITANIC
The surviving officers of the Titanic - Messrs. Lightoller, Lowe, Boxhall and Pitman - reached Liverpool by the same ship as Mr. Ismay - the Adriatic. The fifth officer, Mr. Lowe, who told the American Court of Inquiry that he asked Mr. Is...
13th May 1912  
  (1912) GEORGE WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 3)
7th May 1912  
  (1912) JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 13)
22nd May 1912  
  (1912) JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 14)
23rd May 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) NO SIGN OF WRECK
Steamer Bruce Sends One Brief Message Reporting Storms. By the Associated Press ST.JOHN'S, N.F., April 17.- Henry Duff Reid, vice president of the Reid Newfoundland Co., owner of the steamer Bruce, said he has re...
18th April 1912  
  (1912) FREDERICK BARRETT TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 3)
7th May 1912  
  (1912) FREDERICK BARRETT TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 4)
8th May 1912  
The Evening Post (1912) BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS
Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...
2nd May 1912  
  (1948) PITMAN'S MBE
I Have the honour to send to you herewith the warrant under The King's Sign Manual granting you the dignity of a member of the Civil Division, of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and to inform you that the insignia has been sent ...
13th March 1948  
The Independent (2006) LAST BRITISH 'TITANIC' SURVIVOR DISGUSTED BY SALVAGERS SELLING OFF SHIP'S TREASURES
The last British survivor from the Titanic has condemned the people plundering the ship's wreckage where the bodies of hundreds, including her father, remain. Milveena Dean, 94, was shocked to learn that parts from the ship that is her father's grave are on sale on the black market as salvage companies and divers plunder the wreck....
30th October 2006  
  (1912) CHARLES ALFRED BARTLETT (MARINE SUPERINTENDENT - WHITE STAR LINE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY)
11th June 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  
The Washington Post (1912) BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR
President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...
22nd May 1912  
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  
New York Times (1926) MAURETANIA'S CAPTAIN IS HONORED BY KING
Roston [sic]Is Made a K. B. E. in Delayed Birthday List---48 Other Knights Created --- Copyright, 1926, by The New York Times Company --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The King's Bi...
3rd July 1926  
Je Sais Tout (1910) GUGLIELMO MARCONI
About eighteen months after this picture was taken, Marconi would be a key witness at the Senate enquiry into the loss of the Titanic....
15th December 1910  
The Times (1912) THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE
The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L...
21st May 1912  
The Times (1912) THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY’S RETURN
The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq...
13th May 1912  
ET Research (2002) A TITANIC COINCIDENCE
Most steamship researchers/scholars/enthusiasts know the many similarities between the Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland and the famous White Star Line leviathan Titanic. Both ships were express line...
9th July 2002  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
   
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  
  (1908) SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON
  1908  
Graphic (1912) SKETCH OF HAROLD LOWE
Sketch of Harold Lowe by L. F. Grant in New York, 1912. Special to 'The Graphic' ...
11th May 1912  
Discovery Channel News (2007) TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR
The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ...
13th April 2007  
  (1975) GUS COHEN, 1975
From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]...
  1975  
New York Times (1907) WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC
Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...
8th January 1907  
The Evening Telegram (1912) THE SECOND OFFICER
LIGHTHOLDER [sic] The man who directed Major Peuchen to enter the Titanic lifeboat.  Telling of his own escape before the Senate Inquiry, he was asked: "Did you leave the sh...
22nd April 1912  
  (1912) ERNEST EDWARD ARCHER TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY)
4th June 1912  
  (1912) BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE
A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...
11th July 1912  
Daily Home News (1912) HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA’S LANDING
New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu...
19th April 1912  
  (1912) SENATOR W. A. SMITH
Portrait of Senator W. A. Smith, from an unidentified French paper (Le Matin, 23 May 1912 ?)...
  1912  
Southampton Echo (1965) TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED
Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ...
11th January 1965  
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  
Daily Telegraph (1913) FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN"
A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...
3rd July 1913  
ET Research (2002) NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION
On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of where she had reportedly foundered. Shortly after t...
7th November 2002  
  EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL, 1975
From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]...
   
  (1975) EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL'S PIG
From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]...
  1975  
  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, ...
   
New York Times (1937) J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937  
New York American (1935) DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON
Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,...
22nd April 1935  
New York Times (1907) CONSULT BURKE'S PEERAGE
For News of the Arrival Here of the Sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn --- Lady Duff Gordon, a sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn, arrived yesterday at the Hotel Plaza.  Lady Duff Gordon went to her room.  Presently Mrs. Glyn approached the inquir...
21st November 1907  
  (1912) JAMES CLAYTON BARR (MASTER - SS CARONIA) - BRITISH ENQUIRY TESTIMONY
17th May 1912  
New York Times (1929) LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR
Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
4th September 1929  
New York Times (1922) COMES FOR $250,000 HE RISKED IN WAR
Fighting Kept Captain Douglas From Earning $2,500 a Year Prescribed by Will --- BROTHER GETS HIS SHARE --- British Officer on Way to Minneapolis to Lay Hi...
19th August 1922  
Southern Daily Echo (2009) TITANIC DISASTER'S LAST SURVIVOR MEETS ENTHUSIASTS
ALL eyes were on Millvina Dean when hundreds of enthusiasts from all over the world descended on Southamp-ton for the annual British Titanic Society convention....
7th April 2009  
  S.S. CHICAGO
As she could not stand the idea of sailing again on a British liner, Mme Laroche decided that she would return in France on a French ship. She chose the French Line S.S. Chicago. She and her two daughters landed in Le Havre on 1 May 1912....
   
  (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  
Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal (2007) THE TITANIC TALES
THE TITANIC Tales, about the ill-fated British luxury liner, is written by Rory Thersby and is about nine individual characters out of the many thousands that boarded the ship that fateful night in Southampton in 1912. ...
20th February 2007  
The Times (1935) TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC
A coincidence between the Titanic and the Titanian was magnified in an article written by ex-sailor William Reeves in the April 1967 issue of the Sea Breezes magazine. Reeves was on lookout on the cargo vessel Titanian in April 1935 in the...
27th April 1935  
New York Times (1965) TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o...
12th January 1965  
  CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?
AT THE START of Chapter 5 in Walter Lord's A Night To Remember, the author writes: ...
   
  (1912) GERHARD CHRISTOPHER AFFELD (MARINE SUPERINTENDENT - RED STAR LINE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY)
21st June 1912  
  (1912) WILLIAM DAVID ARCHER (PRINCIPAL SHIP SURVEYOR - BOARD OF TRADE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY)
17th June 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  
FOXNews.com (2009) AMERICAN RESEARCHERS DISPUTE CLAIMS OF 'POLITE' TITANIC VICTIMS
American researchers are firing back at a Swiss university researcher's report that 'politeness' led to the deaths of 225 British passengers aboard the Titanic....
23rd January 2009  
Peninsula News Review (2007) TITANIC RELICS WANTED
The Royal BC Museum is looking for British Columbians with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard the Titanic 95 years ago. With just six weeks until the April 14 opening of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, the RBCM is collecting local links to the historic liner....
10th March 2007  
BBC News (2009) UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT
A British man has died during an underwater filming mission, the Greek government has said.The diver, 37, was part of a National Geographic crew exploring a British ship, which was sunk during World War I and is owned by a UK businessman....
24th May 2009  
Liverpool Daily Post (2008) TITANIC CONVENTION HELD IN LIVERPOOL
THE annual convention of the British Titanic Society begins today in Liverpool.More than 100 delegates from the UK, Europe and the United States will meet in the city for a weekend of events marking the 96th anniversary of the tragedy....
14th April 2008  
The ChronicleHerald.ca (2008) TITANIC FILE GETTING DIGITAL UPDATE IN N.S.
The Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is digitizing the Titanic-related coverage, including maps, drawings and photographs, from April-May 1912 issues of The Sphere and The Daily Graphic, two British news magazines, in order to share them with a wider audience....
15th April 2008  
The Toronto World (1912) THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE
Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...
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 Research (2006) A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE
THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James...
13th October 2006  
United Press International (2009) BUYER RETURNS MEMENTO TO TITANIC SURVIVOR
DEVIZES, England, April 19 (UPI) -- An anonymous British buyer who bought a canvas bag belonging to a 97-year-old Titanic survivor has asked the auctioneer to return the memento to the seller....
22nd April 2009  
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  
Liverpool Echo (2008) EXHIBITION MODEL IS A PERFECT MATCH FOR DOOMED TITANIC
A GIANT model of the Titanic made entirely from matches will be launched at a special convention to commemorate the ship next week.The British Titanic Society convention is being held at Liverpool's Liner hotel....
7th April 2008  
Dive (2007) CARPATHIA SURVEYED
A British-led team of technical divers has successfully completed a survey of the Titanic's rescue ship, the Carpathia, which lies at 160m in the north Atlantic. The team, led by Ric Waring and including Rich Stevenson and Jeff Cornish, penetrated the wreck situated 200 miles from the Irish Coast...
1st November 2007  
New York Times (1940) CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES
Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
11th May 1940  
The Times (1918) DAVID BLAIR DECORATED
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 13--- The King held an Investiture of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at 10.30 o'clock this morning. The following were severally introduced into the presence o...
14th February 1918  
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2008) ABOARD THE TITANIC
Twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than freezing. Colder than an iceberg.That was the temperature of the ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British steamer Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Of the more than 2,200 passengers aboard, 1,500 died in water made colder than ice by the ocean's salt level....
10th October 2008  
The Sun Online (2007) LETTER PREDICTED TITANIC DANGER
A TITANIC passenger's chilling final letter from the ship, in which he PREDICTED its tragic end, has finally emerged - 95 years after the disaster. British farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, described the giant liner as 'too big' and a 'positive danger' in the letter home to wife Constance....
30th March 2007  
The Sun (2007) LETTER PREDICTED TITANIC DANGER
A TITANIC passenger's chilling final letter from the ship, in which he PREDICTED its tragic end, has finally emerged - 95 years after the disaster. British farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, described the giant liner as 'too big' and a 'positive danger' in the letter home to wife Constance....
1st April 2007  
Chicago Tribune (1912) SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM
Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ...
21st July 1912  
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  
New York Times (1932) OPPOSE LONDON RADIO PROGRAM ON SINKING OF THE TITANIC
By The Associated Press --- LONDON, Feb. 24---Many protests have been made against the proposal of the British Broadcasting Corporation to present a radio representation of the sinking of the Titanic. "That borrible scene...
25th February 1932  
Washington Times (1912) TITANIC’S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS
As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S...
17th April 1912  
United Press International (2009) TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION
Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release....
2nd January 2009  
The Telegram (2007) WAKING THE GHOSTS OF THE TITANIC
I've got a ticket to sail on the Titanic and I'm feeling a little apprehensive about it. My name is Jennie Louise Howard and I'm a 45-year-old third-class passenger from Racine, Wisconsin who's returning home after visiting family in Denmark. It's the first time my husband and I have been back in 21 years. That might be the reason behind that feeling of apprehension, which had led me to tell my brother what type of funeral I want. At least that's what my boarding pass/admission ticket to the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria says....
8th August 2007  
Daily Telegraph (1962) ESTATE OF HERBERT JOHN PITMAN
Mr Herbert John Pitman, of Pitcombe, Somerset, retired purser, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, left estate in Great Britain valued at pounds 21,158 gross, pounds 21,116 net. He left the residue of his estate to his niece [name withheld] for life,...
9th April 1962  
New York Times (1924) CAPT. BOWER ISMAY DIES
British Shipping and Racing Man Succumbs to Sleeping Sickness --- LONDON, May 25---Captain Bower Ismay, the shipowner and racehorse fancier, died today at Hazel Beech Hall, Northamptonshire. He had been ill since Feb. 8 with sleeping ...
26th May 1924  
New York Times (1912) BOY WIRELESS SAVED THEM
Rescues Resulted from Coltain's [sic] Untiring Devotion to Duty --- Harold Thomas Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia, through whose efforts more than to any one [sic] else the saving of a part of the Titanic's passengers wa...
19th April 1912  
  BLUE JACKET
(Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days...
   
ET Research (2003) TITANIC'S FINAL MANOEUVRE
She never was under a port helm? - She did not come on the port helm, Sir - on the starboard helm. ------Titanic’s QM Robert Hitchens to the British enquiry At both inquiries it was adduced that, at the time of the look...
8th February 2003  
New York Times (1913) SIR WILLIAM ARROL
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 a...
21st February 1913  
New York Times (1928) DEATH OF BOYS HELD ACCIDENT BY NORRIS
Medical Examiner Announces Finding After Iquiry Into Waldman Tragedy --- HEARS SEVEN WITNESSES --- Absolves Police for Moving Bodies and Says Their Inquiry Was Thorough --- WORKER TELLS OF FALL ---...
25th October 1928  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (2005) SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER
OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...
22nd November 2005  
Daily Express (1912) TITAN HAS SUNK - JANUARY 1912
Steamer Founders Four of crew drowned A Lloyd's Constantinople messages says - The steamer 'Titan', late Craigearn, foundered 20 miles off Cape Doron. The crew was picked up by the British steamer 'Empress'. Four were dro...
2nd January 1912  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale...
   
Irish Examiner (2006) TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED
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26th January 2006  
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Percy Andrew Bailey was born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1894, he was the eldest child of Joseph Bailey (butcher) and Edith Bailey. The 1901 British Census shows the family at 25 Gwavas Street, Penzance along with Percy's younger siblings, Ada (b...
   
ABC News (2006) PLUNDERING THE TITANIC
The last British survivor of the Titanic disaster condemned black-market dealers today, after it emerged that relics from the world-famous shipwreck were up for sale. Millvina Dean, 94, of Hampshire, England, who was just an infant when the ship went down, said the sale of items from the Titanic was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved. "My father [who died on the ship] is still on there," she said to ABC News. "It's awfully wrong to take things especially from a ship where so many people perished. I don't suppose these people thought of that. ¢€¦ They just thought of the money." ...
31st October 2006  
The Times (1907) LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder...
16th July 1907  
Southern Daily Echo (1913) LINK WITH THE TITANIC: DEATH OF LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON
A notable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by death at the Sailors' Home at Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) yesterday afternoon. Le...
8th August 1913  
ET Reviews (2009) THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT
The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost The “Californian Incident”, as it has become known, has probably generated more debate, destro...
16th June 2009  
New York Times (1912) CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. B. THAYER
Philadelphia Survivor of the Titanic Entertains Commander of the Carpathia --- NOTABLES AT THE TABLE --- Skipper and His Surgeon Go to Haverford with Hostess Following Astor Luncheon---Come Back To-day --- S...
2nd June 1912  
Arcadia News Leader (2009) BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF THE TITANIC
April 15, 1912--One of the most infamous calamities in recent history occurs: the largest and most opulent ship of its time, and the vessel most people deemed to be unsinkable, British luxury passenger liner, the Titanic, meets its demise during its maiden voyage. 1,500 people were killed as the stricken vessel sank into the icy waters about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, its massive body snapping in two before becoming completely immersed. "The whole thing was a tragedy from start to finish," said Don Lynch, leading Titanic historian, during the presentation he held this week in the Arcadia High School auditorium....
25th April 2009  
ET Research (2001) THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER
Save this Document Titanic's...
14th February 2001  
New York Times (1912) ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS
Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in...
15th May 1912  
NY Daily News (4/20/08 (2008) TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES
A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction....
20th April 2008  
Washington Times (1912) WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN
William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho...
16th April 1912  
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  
ET Research (2005) A CAPTAIN ACCUSED
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1st July 2005  
The Times (1912) FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS
White Star First Class Passengers During the last year the White Star Line carried 21,600 first class passengers from European ports to America, and 21,314 from America to Europe, the largest numbers taken by any British or Continental...
26th January 1912  
  ANCESTORS ON BOARD
Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. With ancestors...
   
  (1912) STAND TO YOUR POST / BE BRITISH
Recorded in London May or June 1912 "Stand To Your Post" by Bennett Scott "Be British" by Lawrence Wright and Paul Pelham ...
  June 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  
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  
  (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  
The Times (1906) THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h...
28th February 1906  
Washington Times (1912) SMITH VOUCHED FOR BRAVERY OF CREW
Told Shipbuilder His Men Would Die Like Those on Birkenhead --- LONDON, April 22---Manager Director Kemster, of the shipbuilding firm which constructed the Titanic, while speaking to a meeting at Belfast today, said that just before the...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1925) CLEARS HOTEL MEN IN PALM BEACH FIRE
Florida Commissioner After Inquiry Says That They Provided All Necessary Safeguards --- GUESTS’ LOSS $2,000,000 --- Thousands of Dollars in Scattered Belongings Reclaimed---First of Victims Arrive HERE --- Special to ...
21st March 1925  
UTV (2006) HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME
A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912....
16th May 2006  
  (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  
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express (1912) MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER
Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula...
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2005) WHITE STAR LINE OFFICER'S UNIFORM CIRCA 1912
By and large the various British steamship company's officer's uniforms of the Edwardia...
15th February 2005  
New York Times (1913) ROSTRON GETS MEDAL TO-DAY
Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Arrives in Washington to Receive Honor --- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28---Capt. A. H. Rostron, who, as commander of the steamship Carpathia, directed the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, arrived here ...
1st March 1913  
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  
Daily Express (1932) BBC DENY TITANIC RADIO PLAY TO BE BROADCAST
BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster has been issued by the...
25th February 1932  
ET Research (2001) SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES
Introduction ...
20th June 2001  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) MISS HILDA SLAYTER
Miss Hilda Slayter, one of the first class passengers saved from the Titanic was coming back to Canada on the Titanic to marry Mr Reginald Lacon, one of the big ranch owners of British Colombia, and son of the late Hon. Mr. Lacon.  Miss Slater, wh...
18th April 1912  
The Times (1902) FIREMAN KILLED WIFE
Western Assizes William Mintram, 33, a mariner, was tried for the wilful murder of Eliza May Rose Mintram, his wife, at Southampton, on October 18th [1902].    Mr Evans Austin, and Mr E. L. Craik appeared for the prosecution on beh...
24th November 1902  
  (1937) MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937
TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ...
  1937  
  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...
   
New York Times (1929) ROSTRON'S CAT LEFT HERE
Berengaria Master Sails Alone Because of British Quarantine --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunarder Berengaria, sailed early yesterday morning for the first time in many years without his pet Persian cat Abdul. The animal...
6th January 1929  
Irish Independent (2004) J. BRUCE ISMAY RETREAT FOR SALE
The fishing lodge at Casla, Co Galway, where J. Bruce Ismay spent many happy years after his retirement from the White Star Line in 1913. There is a memorial stone to Ismay in the extensive gardens. This property, being sold by Agnes Toohey...
9th July 2004  
New York Times (1930) SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA
Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ...
1st November 1930  
New York Times (1904) GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE
J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ...
24th February 1904  
  FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Fifty-five year old Ella White, the wealthy widow of a Manhattan businessman, was short and stout with an outspoken, often brash personality. Her companion, Marie Grice Young, 36, tall, slim and soft-spoken, was a music teacher from Washington. The p...
   
Associated Press (2006) TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS
Associated PressJune 9, 2006 at 4:45 PM EDTWashington - The United States, Canada, Britain and France will work together to increase protection for the Titanic and its wreck site under legislation the U.S. administration sent ...
10th June 2006  
Evening Star (1912) MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST
STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t...
22nd April 1912  
Chicago Tribune (1990) ANN STRAUBE
Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s...
31st January 1990  
ET Reviews (2002) COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK
It is often not an easy task, nor a popular enterprise, to be a revisionist of ocean liner history. Proof of this is found, for example, in Coli...
29th September 2002  
  CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY
RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah...
   
ET Research (2004) 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG
WILLIAM McMaster Murdoch lost his life, in common with one and a half thousand others, in April 1912. He had tried to “port around” an iceberg, but “she was too close.” First Officer Murdoch tried to slalom the berg by orde...
6th February 2004  
The Times (1912) SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH
DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b...
29th April 1912  
The Times (1937) MR. BRUCE ISMAY
AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a...
18th October 1937  
  FILLBROOK FAMILY INFORMATION
Joseph Charles Fillbrook (k/a as Charles) was born in Truro, Cornwall in 1894. He was the son of William Fillbrook, a mason by occupation and Kate (nee Vincent). He had five siblings, Edward John, William Arthur, George, Rose Hetta (k/a Rosetta) and...
   
  (2004) MUSGRAVE
On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...
12th December 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  
Washington Times (1912) CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE
That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in which...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1914) DISPUTE J. M. SMART'S WILL
Many Claimants Now for Estate of Titanic Victim --- Surrogate Fowler reserved decision yesterday on the contested will of James Montgomery Smart, a victim of the Titanic disaster. The authenticity of the will which bears the date of Jul...
4th February 1914  
The Times (1912) MR H.FORBES JULIAN
The Carpathia has brought to New York no news of Mr H Forbes Julian, who was well known among metallurgical engineers. From 1886 to 1893 he was consultant for mines at Barberton, Johannesburg, and Kimberley, superintending the op...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1940) CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER
Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE...
6th November 1940  
New York Times (1913) CAPT. ROSTRON GETS MEDAL
Taft and Bryce Both Praising the Titanic Rescuer --- WASHINGTON, March 1---President Taft presented to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron to-day the gold medal authorized by Congress for his courage and gallantry in rescuing the survivors of the T...
2nd March 1913  
ET Research (2002) THE BOY IN THE PICTURE
Perhaps one of the most evocative images of the Titanic ...
28th March 2002  
New York Times (1912) THE TITANIC
Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...
28th July 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  
New York Times (1912) PRESIDENT TAFT STUNNED
Wires White Star Line for News of Major Butt --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---President Taft did not know of the sinking of the Titanic or of the danger of his old friend, Major Archibald Butt, ...
16th April 1912  
ET Research (2002) HARD A-STARBOARD
"Iceberg, right ahead!" These three words were spoken by Lookout Frederick Fleet at 11:40 p.m. on 14 April 1912 from the crow’s nest of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. The story has come down that, ...
12th February 2002  
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  
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  
The Times (1913) MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE
IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil...
1st January 1913  
New York Times (1900) YACHT ELEANOR'S LONG CRUISE
Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza's steam yacht Eleanor has been prepared at Tebo's basin, South Brooklyn, for another of the many long voyages she has made during the six years of her existence, and will probably sail within a wek [sic] or ten days for...
16th June 1900  
  (2004) DUKE OF ALBANY
(F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m...
31st October 2004  
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) CHICAGOAN CREATES SCENE IN OFFICES OF THE WHITE STAR LINE
Special Dispatch to the Inter Ocean New York, April 18—Late this afternoon John Gillespie of Chicago, accompanied by a friend, entered the offices of the White Star line. His voice rang through the big rooms as he demanded informati...
19th April 1912  
ET Research (2004) OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR "SLEEPING ROUGH"
YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ...
10th June 2004  
ET Research (2005) LORD MERSEY— OBITER DICTA
HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusion with...
13th March 2005  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (1993) MEMORIAL TO JAMES MOODY
From Rev'd Anthony Stratford, SCARBOROUGH. British Titanic Society Member Rev'd Tony Stafford a lifetime lover of ships, the sea and the Titanic has recently retired to Dulverton Hall, St. Martin's Square, Scarborough. O...
  1993  
ET Research (2004) WHY DID WHITE STAR SETTLE WITH WHITELEY?
THOMAS Whiteley was an unimportant member of crew on the latest White Star liner. He was only eighteen, a solid and presentable youth with some s...
26th April 2004  
New York Times (1924) LADY PIRRIE MAY HEAD HARLAND & WOLFF, THE GREAT BRITISH SHIPBUILDING FIRM
Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 16---It is the general belief in shipping circles that Lady Pirrie will assume the post of President of the great shipbu...
17th July 1924  
stv.tv (2009) 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER
A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth. It was sent from Canada to Moray in Scotland on May 21, 1912 - around a month after...
15th October 2009  
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  
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  
ET Research (2007) KEEPING TRACK OF A MAIDEN VOYAGE
On Thursday the 11th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic departed Queenstown on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic ocean to New York. About 2:20 PM GMT, she took departure from the Daunt’s Rock light vessel, and pro...
20th February 2007  
  (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  
  (2005) HERCULES
One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock. Port of Registry: South...
20th February 2005  
Staffordshire Advertiser (1912) STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER
Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr....
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2009) THE INFORMATIVE "MORNING NEWS"
TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case.   There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ...
12th February 2009  
  (2004) JACKAL
While Titanic was outfitting, Jackal served as an auxiliary vessel moored alongside, her generator providing light and power aboard the ship for the outfitting workers. Also used as a yard tug. ...
5th December 2004  
ET Research (2004) ASQUITH AND THE CONSPIRACY TO SINK TITANIC
“The architect, the owner, and the Captain were partners in an infamous conspiracy to repair their desperate fortunes by sinking the ship and sharing the insurance money.” ...
9th July 2004  
The Times (1912) MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION
The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me...
22nd April 1912  
ET Research (2004) IMPACT OF TITANIC UPON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW
No other shipwreck in history has left such an indelible imprint upon the public consciousness as that of the RMS Titanic. Ninety-two years after her loss, the story of that great liner continues to...
31st August 2004  
ET Research (2009) IT’S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST
This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the Titanic wreck site. Note to...
9th January 2009  
  (1912) CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE
THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s...
  1912  
  (2005) CASSANDRA
(Donaldson Brothers) On 9 April, while eastbound St. John, New Brunswick to Glasgow, Cassandra transmitted a warning of ice at 43 degrees 38’ N. by 49 degrees 16’ W. which was relayed at 2:55 p.m. by the Caledonia to the Bul...
23rd May 2005  
  (2004) WALLASEY
Wallasey assisted during Titanic’s sea trials and launch on May 31, 1911 and stood by on her sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April, 1912. Port of Registry: Liverpool Flag of Regi...
30th October 2004  
Connaught Telegraph (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED
Lord Mersey, the specially appointed Commissioner of Wrecks to enquire into the loss of the White Star Liner Titanic, on Tuesday delivered the finding of the Court. The attendance at the London-Scottish Hall, Westminster, where the in...
3rd August 1912  
Rutherford Republican (1912) MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY
Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee...
20th April 1912  
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  
Western People (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER
The lamentation, mourning, and woe for the ill-fated Titanic shall rise in hundreds of sorrow-stricken hearts for at least half a century. In a little while and its unparalleled awfulness shall be well nigh forgotten by the world at large --shall be ...
11th May 1912  
The Times (1919) CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETIREMENT
MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING --- CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETlREMENT --- The Prime Minister and the Shipping Controller have consented to the release from the end of the present month of the Right Hon. Lord Pirrie, ...
23rd December 1919  
ET Research (2006) A PEN TO SINK A THOUSAND SHIPS
THE BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY AND THE ART OF FORTUNINO MATANIA Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) was, without doubt, the greatest of the Edwardian illustrators, in the long sha...
7th March 2006  
  (2004) ALEXANDRA
Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. Alexandra assisted during Titanic’s launch on 31 May, 1911 and during her sea trails Port of R...
14th November 2004  
ET Research (2009) DEFENDING FLEET AND LEE
The iceberg that doomed the Titanic and 1,523 people to die left a gash of about 300 feet in the ship’s side from beneath the stem of her bow to the boiler room number 6. The 1997 film that took her name as it’s title go...
14th January 2009  
ET Research (2007) OLYMPIC AND TITANIC : MAIDEN VOYAGE MYSTERIES
ROUTES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC The new White Star liner Olympic, the first of three gigantic liners ordered by the White Star Line for the highly competitive transatlantic service, was launched from the Queen’s Island yard of Harlan...
29th April 2007  
  PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION
Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ...
   
New York Times (1913) ISMAY IS TO QUIT
Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...
1st January 1913  
  PRONUNCIATION OF "ROTHES"
DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915   ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie) [Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”]   Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl and a Represen...
   
Chicago Sun-Times (1990) ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER
Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan...
2nd February 1990  
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  
  (2005) VULCAN
One of two tugs that threw lines aboard New York, keeping her from striking Titanic as the latter, while leaving the dock at Southampton, pulled the New York toward her. ...
13th February 2005  
ET Research (2005) LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE!
FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...
13th November 2005  
New York Times (1912) DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH
Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i...
16th April 1912  
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (1915) TITANIC OWNERS OFFER TO SETTLE FOR $664,000
New York, Dec 17 – The White Star line has agreed to pay $664,000 in settlement of all claims arising for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, when more than 1,5000 persons were drowned, the line announced here to-day. Of this amo...
18th December 1915  
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  
ET Research (2008) WHY A LOW ANGLE BREAK?
In the James Cameron film "Titanic," we all saw the stern of the ship rise up in the air and take on a relatively steep angle as the bow of the ship sank deeper and deeper into the water. Suddenly, the hull split and the stern came...
23rd October 2008  
Hudson Dispatch (1943) HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES
Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice...
18th November 1943  
  (2008) ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY
King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...
28th May 2008  
Hudson Observer (1912) CRAZED WITH GRIEF BY FATHER'S DEATH
Jersey City Man Whose Father was Aboard the Titanic Taken Into Custody---Driven to the verge of insanity by the thought that his father in allprobability went down with the ill-fated Titanic, Frank Myles, 29 yearsold, liv...
18th April 1912  
ET Research (2006) BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS!
Birma from a contemporary postcard (Courtesy of Senan Molony) JOSEPH Cannon was a newly-qualified, newlywed wi...
28th December 2006  
  (2005) SAMARA
Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers) Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued t...
23rd January 2005  
The Times (1984) HAROLD COTTAM
Wireless operator in rescue of Titanic survivors page 18 Mr Harold Cottam, who died yesterday in Nottingham at the age of 93, was the wireless operator on he Carpathia on the night of April 12 (sic) 1912, when the Titani...
31st May 1984  
  (2005) LUCIGEN
Lucigen – Lucigen Steamship Co., (H.E. Moss & Co.) Departed Bremen, Germany 8 March for New York. On 24 March at 46 degrees N, 46 degrees West, encountered heavy pack ice with numerous bergs...
2nd January 2005  
  (2005) RIO PIRAHY
European and Brazilian Steam Ship Cp., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. by 49 ...
12th April 2005  
ET Research (2003) TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS
One of the thorniest questions about the Titanic disaster is, how her clock was changed during the journey. Several events observed by differing observers at different locations add to the confusion about the difference between Titani...
16th February 2003  
New York Times (1912) HAROLD BRIDE RESTING
The Titanic's Wireless Man Sends Messages Home Through The Times. -- Following the publication of the story of Harold J. Bride, wireless operator on board the Titanic, in all of the leading English dailies yesterday, the following ...
21st April 1912  
  BRISTOW FAMILY INFORMATION
Harry Bristow was a son of John Bristow and Mary Ann (nee Barnes). He was born in 1873 at the south Cornwall coastal town of East Looe in the part of the town known as Shutta. His father, John Bristow worked for British Railways and was born...
   
New York Times (1958) SCREEN: SINKING OF THE TITANIC
'A Night to Remember' Opens at Criterion --- By BOSLEY CROWTHER --- EVEN though the tragic story of the sinking of the Titanic is an old and oft-repeated one, it still makes for tense, exciting and supremely awesome drama ...
17th December 1958  
 

 
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