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Concord Journal (1928) CAROLINE LAMSON BROWN
The death of Mrs. John Murray Brown on Tuesday, June 26th, at the Emerson Hospital in Concord, removed from the scene a type of the handsome, accomplished woman who so well represented old New York in the late sixties and seventies of the last centur...
28th June 1928  
Belfast Telegraph (2008) NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS
The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars....
5th September 2008  
New York Times (1899) THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD
Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died...
24th November 1899  
ET Research (2002) WAS THE TITANIC’S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH?
There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic’s rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and t...
29th September 2002  
New York Times (1931) A CUNARD COMMODORE
HOME FROM THE SEA. By Arthur H. Rostron. Illustrated. 259 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. --- Sir Arthur was commodore of the Cunard fleet when recently he retired from active service. For four years and more he commanded t...
8th November 1931  
ET Research (2003) TRUE COURSE
An explanation of the use of magnetic compasses, how to plot courses and how these procedures on the Titanic compared to their use other ships in 1912...
9th December 2003  
  TITANIC TOWN - CROSBY, MERSEYSIDE'S LINKS TO THE TITANIC AND OTHER SHIPS
   
New York Times (1911) AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911  
New York Times (1912) JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...
16th April 1912  
  FRED HUMBY
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  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Allsop, Alfred Samuel, of 134 Malmesbury Road, Freemantle, Southampton. Ships Electrician. Administration London 10th May 1912 to Hilda Allsop widow. Effects £152.6.7d....
10th May 1912  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Rogers, Edward James William of 120 Oxford Avenue, Southampton. Ships storekeeper. Administration Winchester 31st July to Elizabeth Rogers, widow. Effects £131.5s.0d....
31st July 1912  
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  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Murdoch, William McMaster, of 94 Belmont Road, Portswood, Southampton. Ships Officer. Administration, London 22nd July 1912 to Ada Florence Murdoch, widow. Effects £1141.9.4d....
22nd July 1912  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
He was a First Class passenger registered on the ships passenger list under the assumed name of Mr. George Thorne, travelling with his mistress, Mrs. Gertrude Thorne, a survivor....
   
  DISCHARGE BOOK
Bath Steward Frank Herbert Morris' Discharge Book. A continuous record of the ships he worked on and his conduct....
   
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Hodgkinson, Leonard of Thurnham Street, Liverpool. Ships engineer. Administration Liverpool 8th July 1912 to Sarah Hodgkinson, widow. Effects £116.10.10d....
  1912  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Hamblyn Ernest William, of 2 Norman Villas, Dyer Road, Shirley Southampton. Ships Steward. Probate registered London 3rd June 1912 to Henry Archibald Jamieson, journalist. Effects £320.0.0....
3rd June 1912  
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  
  KNORR
The Research Ship Knorr, from which the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, 1st September, 1985The vessel is pictured at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in October 1999....
   
Dallas Morning News (2007) MAN WHO FOUND TITANIC WRECK VISITS KIDS AT FAIR PARK
Robert Ballard divides his time between the past and the future. He journeys centuries back by finding wrecked ships and other accidental time capsules that rest on the ocean floor. ...
13th February 2007  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT: WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
Farquharson, William Edward, of 90 Wilton Avenue, Southampton. Ships engineer. Administration, London 24th May 1912 to Martha Ellen Farquharson, widow. Effects £428.7.0d....
24th May 1912  
  (2004) ROYAL STANDARD
White Star Line The White Star Line was founded in 1845 by two Liverpool ship brokers, Henry Threlfall Wilson and...
14th November 2004  
Liverpool Echo (2008) ART ON THE HIGH SEAS
SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic....
23rd February 2008  
LiveScience.com (2007) TITANIC EXPLORER TO SEARCH FOR SHIPWRECKS IN BLACK SEA
The explorer who discovered the Titanic shipwreck now plans a robotic expedition to look for sunken ships on the floor of the Black Sea as well as clues to its geologic history. ...
20th August 2007  
Southport Visiter (2007) LOCAL MAN WAS TITANIC CAPTAIN
The human cost of three sea disasters involving ships captained by men from Crosby, Blundellsands and Waterloo is on show in Liverpool.Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, looks at the trio of catastrophes that shook the world between 1912 and 1915....
14th September 2007  
The Times (1913) ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN
The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto...
12th July 1913  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Moody, James Paul of 136 Fildes Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Ships Officer. Probate registered: London 16th September 1912 to Christopher William Moody solicitors clerk and Margaret Moody spinster. Effects £449.8.8d....
16th September 1912  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT: NORMAN HARRISON
Harrison Norman. Of Baden Road. Knotty Ash, Liverpool. Ships engineer. Administration: Liverpool, 1st July 1912 to Mary Harrison, widow. Effects £405.8.8d...
1st July 1912  
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier (2007) BRANSON TITANIC EXHIBIT CALLED WORLD'S LARGEST MUSEUM ATTRACTION
As a family, several of our vacations have involved cruising on the seas - sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, but in the end, always a treat.And our love of ships, water and sunshine goes beyond a weeklong vacation. This fascination with ocean liners also stretches into museums, movies, reading and researching on the topic....
13th August 2007  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT
Bell, Joseph of Barnton, 1 Belvidere Road, Great Crosby, Liverpool. Ships Engineer. Probate registered, London 2nd August 1912 to Maud Bell, widow and William Ralph Bates, Iron Works Manager. Effects £6457.0s.10d....
  1912  
Rocky Mountain News (2007) TITANIC'S TRAGIC SISTER
When and where: 8 p.m. Sunday, The History Channel Hubris notwithstanding, television often has something to teach us. For instance, I never knew the fabled Titanic had two sister ships, the Olympic and the Britannic. I never knew that the Britannic also sank, taking dozens, rather than hundreds, of lives with it....
11th October 2007  
  WHAT PASSENGER LISTS ARE ONLINE?
Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records & Indexes...
   
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (1999) PURSER MCELROY
Hugh Walter McElroy was born on 28th October 1874 at 3, Percy Street, Liverpool, the son of Richard McElroy, and his wife Jessie (nee Fox). On Hugh’s certificate his father’s occupation is shown as Shipbuilder, [he was a ships carpenter] and he was k...
  April 1999  
Belfast Telegraph TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE
The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago. Led by Belfast Harbour and Titanic Quarter, the process has been more than 12...
   
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  
Sunderland Echo (2007) WEATHERMAN SEARCHES FOR CLUES TO TITANIC SINKING
Titanic investigators have enlisted a Wearside expert to help reveal the weather conditions during the doomed liner's final voyage. Sunderland University climatologist Dennis Wheeler has made a name examining ships' logs dating back to the seventeenth century to understand weather patterns....
30th July 2007  
Duluth (MN) News Tribune (2008) DIVES TO THE FITZGERALD SHOULD BE BANNED ALTOGETHER
The Titanic, Empress Of Ireland, Lusitania and Andrea Doria are ships that all share an unfortunate bond: Their wrecks have been picked over mercilessly for artifacts.That's especially true of the wreck site of the Titanic, which has become a tasteless carnival for tourist dives. (Note: Registration at site may be needed to read entire article.)...
11th November 2008  
  (1912) BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912
THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...
  1912  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT: HESKETH
Probate Report: Hesketh, John Henry of Garnett Avenue, Kirkdale, Liverpool. Ships engineer. Administration, Liverpool 8th July 1912 to Henry Hesketh, engine driver. Effects. £447.10.0d....
8th July 1912  
BBC News (2006) NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST
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26th January 2006  
Weekly Irish Times (1912) GIGANTIC TO EXCEED 'AQUITANIA'
Gigantic to Exceed Aquitania Two of the greatest ships are, at present, being built on the Clyde; one the Aquitania, and the other the cruiser Tiger. The Aquitania, when launched, will be the largest vessel in the world, measur...
14th December 1912  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) FAILS TO FIND BROTHER AMONG TITANIC’S DEAD
(Special to the Journal) Rahway, May 11---Mrs. Margaret O’Brien, of 90 Monroe street, returned last evening from a several days’ stay in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she went to see if any trace could be found of her brother, Arthur Kee...
11th May 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) TITANIC'S ¢€ËœLITTLE SISTER', NOMADIC, MAY BE SHIPSHAPE FOR SUMMER
Titanic's ¢€Ëœlittle sister' could be opened to the public during the Tall Ships festival in August, according to the team behind her restoration. There is no completion date yet for the refurbishment of SS Nomadic's new home at Hamilton Dock, but Nomadic Charitable Trust says it hopes the work will finish during the summer. ...
26th January 2009  
Cape Cod Today (2009) 1912: CAPE LISTENS AS TITANIC SINKS
Shortly after midnight on this day in 1912, on the 13,600-ton Cunard liner Carpathia approximately 1,100 miles east of Cape Cod, wireless operator H.T. Cottam was preparing for bed after a long night of sending and receiving messages.Three hours earlier, the Carpathia's captain, Arthur H. Rostrom, alarmed by warnings from other ships of ice in the vicinity, asked Cottam what other vessels were within range of the wireless....
16th April 2009  
  (1901) 1901 CENSUS, POOLE, DORSET
Frank Couch, aged 16, born Port Isaac, Cornwall is shown as a ships cook on board a vessel named 'Deveron'. Moored at Poole Quay, Dorset at the time of the census the Master was shown as Charles Couch, aged 24, born in Plymouth, Devon ...
  1901  
  GREAT LAKES TITANIC SOCIETY
GLTS is an informal association of Titanic enthusiasts which got its start in the Great Lakes region. The website highlights the maritime connections of the region to the Titanic and other White Star Line ships. Great Lakes and North Atlantic maritime history are also explored....
   
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  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) CARPATHIA'S CAPT. ALL WORN OUT
New York, April 19- Capt. A.H.Rostron of the Carpathia, who was in a state of great exhaustion last night when the steamer arrived here, is fast recovering today and will soon be able to give a detailed account of the rescue of the passengers of the ...
20th April 1912  
  (1912) PROBATE REPORT: WILDE HENRY TINGLE
Probate Report: Wilde Henry Tingle, of 25 Grey Road, Walton, Liverpool. Ships Officer. Probate registered London, 12th July to Richard Owen Jones rubber merchants clerk and Owen Jones Williams estate agent. Effects: £6783.3.9d....
12th July 1912  
  (1912) LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN
Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ...
11th April 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) DIVERS PROBE SECRETS OF TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP
A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.Divers and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) have penetrated the wreck of the former hospital ship, which has lain close to the Greek port of Kea in the Aegean Sea since her sinking in November 1916 as she passed through a minefield. The resulting footage will be screened in a History Channel documentary....
27th September 2006  
BBC Northern Ireland (2006) NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER
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11th January 2006  
New York Times (1939) CAPT. JOHN W. BINKS OF WHITE STAR DIES
Retired Skipper of Olympic Served in the British Navy During the World War --- SPENT 45 YEARS AT SEA --- Commander of Leviathan and Majestic on Last Voyages They Ever Made --- News was received yesterd...
6th February 1939  
National Roll of the Great War WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD
FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
   
24 hour museum (2006) LIGHTOLLER TITANIC BOOK ACQUIRED FOR RAMSGATE MARITIME MUSEUM
Gorringes in Worthing were auctioning Titanic memorabilia, including the 1st edition, cloth-bound book "Titanic and other ships" by Commander Lightoller, senior surviving officer of the Titanic. Ramsgate Maritime Museum has care of the restored Motor Yacht Sundowner, a veteran of the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940, and the former property of Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller. The museum made a successful bid for the book. ...
19th April 2006  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (1992) THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES
SOME of you who were on the Titanic's re-enactment voyage on the Waterfront Ferry Hotspur VI, out of Southampton docks back at the Convention in April, may remember that the Captain of the Ferry we were aboard passed me a note sa...
  1992  
  (1901) CENSUS
Thomas Blake is shown aged 25 living in Woolwich, London. He was described as a ships fireman and stated as born in St. Austell, Cornwall. Reference to the 1881 census shows Thomas Blake aged 5, the son of Guy Blake (gardener) and Harriet. At...
  1901  
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  
  (1881) 1881 CENSUS - LIVERPOOL
Hugh Richard Walter McElroy was born at 3 Percy Street, Liverpool on 28 October 1874. He was the son of Richard R. McElroy and Jessie (formerly Fox). At the time of the 1881 census he was living at 6 Eversley Street, Toxteth, Liverpool with h...
  1881  
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  
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  
Lisburn Today (2009) TITANIC SET TO 'MAKE A SPLASH' AT LEGACURRY
ONE of the most iconic ships in history, R.M.S Titanic, is set to make headlines again as Larchfield Community Development Association is hosting a festival to mark the centenary of the laying down of the keel of the famous White Star Liner....
8th September 2009  
The Times (1952) COMMANDER C. H. LIGHTOLLER
Commander C. H. Lightoller died at his home at Twickenham yesterday at the age of 78. He was for many years with the White Star Line and was second officer in the Titanic when on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1912 she struck and iceb...
9th December 1952  
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
He was saved in Lifeboat Englehardt C. His home address was Fanners Lane, Lymington, Hants. His official occupation was - Fireman's Messman and he was 39 years old . (He was originally born in Hampshire). Last ship before the Titanic was the RMS ...
   
The Independent (1875) THE PERILS OF PASSENGERS
ANOTHER very terrible wreck of an iron steamship has been reported and a loss of human lives has been the consequence, which must cause a shudder to the intending passengers to Europe this season. The unfortunate ship was the "Vicksburg"...
24th June 1875  
The Times (1913) INVENTIONS SURGE AFTER TITANIC DISASTER
page4 INVENTIONS OF 1912 The Influence of the Titanic Disaster The 20th report of the Comptroller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks was issued as a parliamentary paper last night. The loss of the Titanic was fo...
19th April 1913  
  THE WHITE STAR LINE
THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"...
   
Toronto Daily Star (1912) JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER
Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:...
19th 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  
Derbyshire Times (1912) CHESTERFIELD VICTIM
A young lady who has intimate relatives in Chesterfield was among the officers on the ill-fated Titanic. She is Miss Evelyn Marsden, and is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson, Ash Tree, Chesterfield. A nurse-stewardess in the first saloon, Miss Mars...
  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  
Worcester Telegram (1912) STORM STOPS NEWS: SABLE ISLAND COMMUNICATES BRIEFLY WITH THE CARPATHIA.
By the Associated Press HALIFAX. N. S., April 17.- The wireless station at Sable Island was in communication for a time this morning with the Cunarder Carpathia, bound for New York with the survivors of the Titanic on board....
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1935) LADY PIRRIE DEAD; HEADED SHIP FIRM
Widow of Belfast Builder of Many Vessels Succeeded Him in Control of Concern --- ADVISED HIM FOR YEARS --- He Had Often Publicly Paid High Tribute to Her Assistance---Daughter of Professor --- LONDON, June 19...
20th June 1935  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH
Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P....
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1930) GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq...
9th November 1930  
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  
Southport Visitor (1912) MR. JAMES WALPOLE
As stated in Tuesdays Visitor among the crew of the ill fated liner was Mr. James Walpole, brother of Mr. Horace Walpole, of 17 Line-street, Southport and brother-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Browne. A native of Southport...
18th April 1912  
ET Reviews (2004) THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC BY MARK CHIRNSIDE
Titanic is arguably the most famous ship in history, and her popularity has often come at the expense of her siblings. Yet she was but one of a trio of sister ships. The number of titles that have attempted to tell the story ...
6th December 2004  
  (1987) FAMILY INFORMATION
Re: Liverpool Echo article. "Henry had four children and his wife died on 24th December 1910, hardly shortly before sailing!. Of the four children, Jane, Harry, Arnold, and Nancy, Arnold is the sole survivor - he also happened to be ...
23rd June 1987  
  NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS
The Los Angeles Times of April 17th 1912 stated that he was a brother of E. D. Rood of El Centro, California. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) of April 13th 1992 stated that he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Coast Creosotin...
   
  THE LAURENTIC/MEGANTIC EXPERIMENT
The Olympic-class liners were fitted with two triple expansion engines, which powered the port and starboard propellers, and a low-pressure turbine, which powered the center propeller. This propulsion system was first tested on the White Star sister...
   
Illustrated London News (1870) THE SEA MESSENGER
THE SEA MESSENGER The little vessel represented in our illustration has been invented by Mr J. A. R. Vandenbergh of Portsmouth (Eng.), to be freighted with letters and papers belonging to any ship in danger of foundering at sea, or in ...
21st May 1870  
  ARTEMIS OF VERSAILLES
The Artemis of Versailles, a small copy of the classical statue, lay on the mantle piece above the fireplace in the Titanic's first class lounge. The statue was one of the artefacts photographed when Dr Robert Ballard and ...
   
  (1912) DER ROSENKAVALIER
This popular waltz by Strauss appears on repertoires for White Star Line Orchestras (#115). It is one of the pieces that musicians on ships like the Titanic would be expected to know by heart. This recording features bass violins. ...
  1912  
New York Times (1952) C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC
Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic...
9th December 1952  
Washington Times (1912) MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC
Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the...
16th April 1912  
ET Reviews (2004) SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE
OLYMPIC & TITANIC - The Truth Behind The Conspiracy by Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge The Olympic–Tit...
12th July 2004  
The Evening Post (1912) MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...
16th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY
Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo...
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  
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  
  MR WILLIAM ANGLE & MRS FLORENCE AGNES ANGLE NEE HUGHES
Mr William ANGLE & Mrs Florence Agnes ANGLE nee HUGHES Researching Mr William ANGLE I have been able to trace the following information. William Angl...
   
New York Times (1928) SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE
Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr...
29th July 1928  
Redditch Advertiser FORGE MILL'S TITANIC EXHIBITION
REDDITCH residents are being taken on a dramatic trip back in time at the Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition at Forge Mill Needle Museum. The award-winning exhibition will be on at the Redditch Council-run museum in Needle Mill Lane, Rive...
   
Newark Star (1912) WILL BRING TITANIC VICTIM'S BODY HERE
Arrangements were made to have the body of John S. Marsh, the Newark superintendent of mails on the Titanic, brought to the home of the daughter, Miss Nellie Marsh, 39 Emmett street. His body was recovered by the cable ship at the scen...
30th April 1912  
  (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  
  TITANIC BLUEPRINT
"R.M.S. Titanic" Harland & Wolff design dept schematic scale blueprint of "Titanic's" plumbing & water systems. Approx 9ft x 20ins. This drawing was the personal property of W.D. Wilson esq., leading draughtsman at Harlan...
   
Chorley Guardian (1958) WIDOW OF TITANIC OFFICER VISITS CHORLEY
Seeks Family Crest Motto - ''Let your light shine'' By a coincidence, a visitor to Chorley this week was Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the late Cdr. C. H. Lightoller, who is played by Kenneth ...
18th July 1958  
  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 ...
   
examiner.com (2009) 'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE
There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Hi...
8th July 2009  
The Times (1924) LORD PIRRIE - DOMINANT FIGURE IN SHIPBUILDING
PEACE AND WAR SERVICES ...
9th June 1924  
Newark Evening News (1953) JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82
New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest...
8th October 1953  
The Times (1913) WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED
THE WHITE STAR LINE AND ITS OFFICERS IMPROVED CONDITIONS The Imperial Merchant Service Guild is officially informed by the White Star Line of substantial improvements in the pay and general conditions of the officers of ...
4th April 1913  
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  
Paterson Evening News (1956) CHARLES JOUGHIN RITES TOMORROW; TITANIC SURVIVOR
A service for Charles Joughin, 78, of 574 E. 23rd St., who survived the sinking of the trans-Atlantic liner, Titanic, will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the R. Charles D. Legg and Sons Home for Funerals, 384 Broadway. The Rev. Wi...
10th December 1956  
Belfast Today (2006) EVERY DAY IS A POTENTIAL ANNIVERSARY ON THE RIVER LAGAN
Published Date: 01 June 2006 Every day is a potential anniversary on the River Lagan. There are no blind dates in Belfast's maritime diary! Centuries of shipbuilding and millions of tons of ships means that the city can rendez...
5th June 2006  
Daily Telegraph (1910) TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION
Proposed new port for White Star Liners (From Our Correspondent) New York, October 27 (1910). The report that a new terminal for the White Star Line will be established at Fort Pond Bay, in the eastern end of Lon...
27th October 1910  
  (1926) THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA
At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo...
  1926  
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  
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  
Duluth Weekly (2009) TITANIC AQUATIC AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM
Historical Exhibition Welcomes 150,000th Visitor This WeekATLANTA (April 22, 2009) Premier Exhibitions, Inc. today announced its new blockbuster attraction, Titanic: Aquatic at the Georgia Aquarium, will be extending its run through Sept...
29th April 2009  
San Francisco Chronicle (1912) TITANIC CAPTAIN BLAMED FOR WRECK
Senate Committee Also Scores [sic] Captain of the Steamer Californian. COULD HAVE SAVED ALL. Praise for Carpathia Crew and Gold Medal for her Captain. WASHINGTON. May 28. –The Titanic disaster of April ...
29th May 1912  
New York Times (1924) LORD PIRRIE DIES ON SHIP BOUND HERE
Head of Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Stricken With Pneumonia --- ON TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA --- A Leader in the Formation of the International Mercantile Marine --- Viscount Pirrie, head of the famous firm of...
9th June 1924  
  MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS
  Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ...
   
  (2005) THE TUGS AT TITANIC’S DEPARTURE
Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years...
6th February 2005  
Liverpool Daily Post (2009) LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY
by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009Today, Liverpool starts planning the centenary of Titanic's sinking in three years' time. Peter Elson reportsIT ALL started with an innocent game of billiards in one of Liverpool's great me...
29th April 2009  
 

 
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