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		TITANIC IN CHERBOURG This rare postcard shows the Titanic ablaze with lights heading out of Cherbourg harbour on 10 April 1912, at about 8 PM. Another image of the same series is known all over the world, but this one is totally different....	10th April 1912
		WHITE STAR LINE TENDER GALLIC, CHERBOURG The GALLIC was the White Star Line's first tender in Cherbourg. It was replaced in 1911 by the NOMADIC and the TRAFFIC, which better fitted the new giant liners OLYMPIC and TITANIC...	1910
		WHITE STAR LINE TENDER GALLIC, CHERBOURG Broad view of the White Star tender GALLIC in Cherbourg. The GALLIC was replaced in June 1911 by the NOMADIC and the TRAFFIC...	1910
		OLYMPIC IN CHERBOURG The RMS Olympic in Cherbourg - 1911...	1911
		ST-LAZARE TRAIN STATION, PARIS The passengers who boarded in Cherbourg travelled on the Atlantic Train from St-Lazare station in Paris. Only Alfred Fernand Omont, French 1st class passenger, arrived in Cherbourg in a different way: his chauffeur drove him there from Le Havre....	1908
	New York Times	FRANCE HONORS ROSTRON Cunard Commodore Receives Legion of Honor Aboard Berengaria --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHERBOURG, Feb. 27---France honored a life of heroism and seamanship tonight when she awarded the Legion of Honor to S...	28th February 1929
		OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CHERBOURG)
		TITANIC LEAVES CHERBOURG	10th April 1912
		LA GARE MARITIME (WITH NOMADIC AND TRAFFIC ALONGSIDE)
		TITANIC ARRIVES AT CHERBOURG. 274 additional passengers embark, 22 disembark....	10th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on...	4th October 1913
		RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3) Taking the elevators; the grand staircase; dancing in the saloon; smoking room; at Cherbourg; Nomadic comes alongside; passengers disembark...
		ALBERT ERVINE'S LAST LETTER "Yours received in Cherbourg, France yesterday evening. We have had everything working nicely so far, except when leaving Southampton. As soon as the Titanic began to move out of the dock, the suction caused the Oceanic, which was alon...	11th April 1912
	Voyage	NOMADIC John P. Eaton One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ...	22nd August 2005
		TITANIC SAILS At noon on 10th April 1912 Titanic departs Southampton for Cherbourg....	10th April 1912
		THE WHITE STAR TENDER TRAFFIC. Postcard...
		THE WHITE STAR TENDER NOMADIC
		GENUINE TITANIC STATIONARY Back of genuine Titanic card found in Cherbourg after the stocks were destroyed....	1911
		GENUINE TITANIC STATIONARY This card (front) is a genuine Titanic item. There were stocks of it in Cherbourg, in order to supply the liner with it at each of her stops. After the sinking, the stocks were destroyed and a few pieces survived to this day....	1911
	Tulsa World	ALL ABOARD FOR ONE TITANIC CELEBRATION She left Southampton April 10, 1912, bound for New York, with stops at Cherbourg and Queens-town â€” now Cobh, in southern Cork County, Ireland â€” in between. Before she sank famously about 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the RMS Titanic served, well, the meal of a lifetime....	15th April 2010
		RYDE PIER A postcard view of Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, looking north towards the pierhead and Spithead, circa 1912. The Titanic would have passed this structure shortly after leaving Southampton on the first leg of her journey to Cherbourg. &nb...
	Voyage	TRAFFIC John P. Eaton On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second...	22nd September 2005
		THE DOUGLASES REMEMBERED BY NIECE Ellen Williamson, niece to the Douglases, wrote a book published by Iowa State University Press: "When We Went First Class, a recollection of good times". She decribes her uncle and aunt's experience on the ship, but also on the Nomadic in Cherbourg....
	Milton Keynes Today	NOMADIC : SAVE THE LAST LINK WITH THE TITANIC John White, from Heelands, who has dedicated his life to preserving the story of the 'unsinkable' ship and toured the world telling her story to tens of thousands, is now leading a bid to rescue the SS Nomadic â€“ last of the White Star Line. The boat was the Titanic's tender and built to carry first and second-class passengers out to the liner from Cherbourg....	10th January 2006
	Newark Daily Advociate	HAD COUSIN ON TITANIC Mrs. Cassebeer...	23rd April 1912
	ie	NEW TITANIC BOOK TELLS HER STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Titanic In Photographs tells her full story, from the shipyards of Harland & Wolff and its early vessels, with the backdrop of the great race to build the biggest and best passenger liner, to the frenzy of excitement surrounding her launch. Looking at her officers and crew, as well as her stops at Cherbourg and Queenstown the photographs follow the story to its inevitable conclusion, considering the lifeboats, the presence of the Carpathia and the aftermath of the shattering disaster....	14th September 2011
	bbc.co.uk	SS NOMADIC The Titanic's tender ship, the SS Nomadic has celebrated its centenary. The ship, which is undergoing restoration at the Hamilton Dock in Titanic quarter in Belfast was used to transport first and second class passengers to Titanic at the French port of Cherbourg. The Nomadic, like the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. ...	25th April 2011
	New York Times	JESSE STRAUS TO HURRY HOME CHERBOURG, April 19---On the steamer Amerika, which arrived to-day from New York, were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Straus, son and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. News of the di...	20th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	TITANIC : NAMES NOT ON SAILING LIST List of survivors whose names do not appear on the original sailing list, probably includes a large number of those who took the ship at Cherbourg...	16th April 1912
	Belfast Telegraph	GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's "little sister" is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what they believe to be her ship's wheel and will be handing it over to the team responsible for restoring her in the next fortnight. SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and once ferried first class passengers onto the Titanic at Cherbourg on the mighty liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. ...	25th April 2009
	New York Times	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
	info	PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there....	26th August 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ...	12th July 2006
	Chicago Evening Post	AMERICANS IN PARIS MOURN LOST KINSMEN Hundreds in French Capital Had Relatives Aboard the Titanic...	16th April 1912
	The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
	The Times	SOME ARMENIAN VICTIMS Mr G.Hagoian writes from 25, Chesilton Road, Fulham:- In the disaster to the Titanic Armenia has furnished more than her quota of unfortunate passengers. Six Armenians from Keghi, travelling to Marseilles, had proceeded to Cherbourg and t...	13th May 1912
		LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD Dear Miss Field, On board ship one has little to do to fill up time so I start to write a letter to yo...	10th April 1912
	Le Petit Journal	AN ANGUISHED SISTER Melle Leroy, a maid from Bouvigny-Boyefles (Pas-de-Calais), recently received from her sister who is a chambermaid to the Douglases, a postcard telling her that she was sailing with her employers for New-York. Two days after she received the p...	20th April 1912
	Calgary Herald	ANOTHER ADDED TO LIST OF LOST IS ALBERT MALLET, A TRAVELLER MONTREAL, April 20.- The disaster to the Titanic was brought poignantly home to Montrealers today by the arrival in the city of some of the Montreal survivors. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a special train pulled into the Grand Trunk st...	20th April 1912
	Dowagiac Daily News	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
	New York Times	NEW WHITE STAR SERVICE TO TAP CHERBOURG TRADE Adriatic, Biggest Ship Yet Built, to Start It in May --- SHE WILL CARRY 3,000 SOULS --- And Have a Turkish Bath, Plunge, and Orchestra Aboard---Line to Liverpool to Stay. --- With the putting in commis...	7th January 1907
		FRIENDS FOR LIFE Randy Bryan Bigham 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...
	Titanic Research	THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER Lester Mitcham An in-depth analysis of the number of Titanic passengers lost and saved....	14th February 2001
		LETTER FROM WILLIAM J. MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - SOUTHAMPTON Letter written on RMS Titanic notepaper from second class passenger William J. Mellors to his mother...	10th April 1912
		OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN STOP IN CHERBOURG Note handwritten date: 14 June 1911 (1st stop)...	14th June 1911
	BBC News	VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from Â£2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 killing 1,517 people....	8th October 2009
	Voice	FORGOTTEN TITANIC HERO WHO SAVED HIS FAMILY Haitian Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche is not mentioned among the 1912 press descriptions of the Titanic disaster, but he is the only black man who was aboard the luxury ship when it hit an iceberg and went down on April 15, 1912, killing 1,500 passengers. ...	15th June 2009
	New York Times	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 His Case Before Father's Executor...	19th August 1922
	Voyage	OCEANIC John P. Eaton 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
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC TENDER NOMADIC RECEIVES LOTTERY BOOST Plans to restore the SS Nomadic have moved a step closer to winning more than £2 million in lottery funding....	27th September 2010
		ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY Arne Mjåland 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
	Titanic Research	NIGHT AND A TITAN Senan Molony What did Titanic look like at night?...	10th August 2011
	Voyage	NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic...	20th July 2005
		NOMADIC RETURNS Kathleen Neill The SS Nomadic is the last White Star Line vessel still afloat and the last real maritime link with Titanic. Built on No.1 Slip by Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, and fitted out in the Abercorn Basin, Nomadic attended ...	3rd January 2007
	BBC News	BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING Amid 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. The Nomadic is to return to Belfast Weeds grow on its deck, and year after year of recent neglect have taken a heavy toll. Step onboard and you see the enormity of the renovation task. Look hard enough, however, and you do glimpse the potential. The question is will the millions needed be raised to do the job? ...	11th July 2006
	Guernsey Press and Star	ISLAND'S TITANIC CONNECTION James Varley TITANIC'S journey and demise in 1912 is legendary. Archive film footage, news cuttings and big-budget movies mean the tragic tale of the ship dubbed 'unsinkable' will never be forgotten....	9th October 2009
	Connaught Telegraph	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
	Belfast Telegraph	EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over Â£2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the Â£7 million refit of the derelict SS Nomadic may not be completed, on schedule, for the centenary of its launch in Belfast in 2011 due to a cash shortfall. ...
	Le Matin	UNE RESCAPÉE DU TITANIC Chez Mme Laroche Dans une petite demueure de Villejuif, une jeune femme en deuil nous reçut hier. Bloties contre elle, deux fillettes, habillées de noir, elles aussi, lui pressaient les mains. C'était Mme Laroche, resca...	3rd May 1912
	New York Times	GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...	23rd April 1912
	Titanic Stories	99TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC'S SINKING COMMEMORATED IN BELFAST 15th April 2011 was the 99th anniversary of Titanic’s foundering after hitting an iceberg in mid Atlantic. In towns and cities throughout the world, the event is remembered in simple ceremonies. ...	16th May 2011
	Titanic Research	THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX Senan Molony WHAT goes on four legs, then two legs, then three? The Riddle of the Sphinx, from Greek mythology, denotes the eternal voyage of man… from crawling on all fours, to walking proudly erect, to finally ending up hunched over a...	1st June 2008
	New York Times	EXPLORER RICE BACK; SAW WHITE INDIANS Rare Amazonian Tribe Spoke Language of Their Own, Doctor Declares --- DISCOVERED BY HINTON --- Naval Filer Made Perilous Flight Over 75-Mile Jungle---Party Met Many Hardships --- Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, ...	11th July 1925