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Illustrated London News	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
	TINTED VIEW OF THE FIRE 1942 Why didn't experts foresee the danger or capsizing before it was too late....	1942
Cork Examiner	BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE ...	11th May 1912
BBC News	GODALMING VANDALISED TITANIC MEMORIAL 'COULD COLLAPSE' A Godalming memorial is in danger of collapse if a spate of vandalism continues according to Surrey Police....	9th December 2010
Newark Evening News	MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o...	19th April 1912
New York Times	SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....	26th June 1915
New York Times	ANCESTOR OF ROTHES SAVED A PRINCESS Bit of Ancient Family History May Have Inspired the Countess-Oarswoman. --- "GRIP FAST," SAID RESCUER --- "Gin the Buckles Bide," Replied the Princess--Coat of Arms and Motto Derived from Incident --- By Marc...	23rd April 1912
The New York Times	MRS. ASTOR IN NO DANGER Suffering Now Only from Grief, Says Her Physician --- Dr. Ruel B. Kimball of 136 East Fifty-fourth Street, who is attending Mrs. John Jacob Astor at her home, 890 Fifth Avenue, said last night: "Mrs...	21st April 1912
Chicago American	TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...	25th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	CHICAGO GIRL LAST TO LEAVE TITANIC Miss Annie Kelly Reaches Home Here and Tells of Her Thrilling Experiences White Escaping From the Sinking Liner The last woman to leave the sinking Titanic was Miss Annie Kelly, 17 years old, sister of Miss Beatrice Kelly,...	23rd April 1912
Washington Times	FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br...	19th April 1912
Graphic	A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER ‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times...	18th May 1912
The Independent	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
Denver Post	LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...	19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY . . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...	21st April 1912
	THOMAS SILVA LETTER Dearest Eff,After a long hard journey I arrived in New York on the 29th of April. The trip was certainly a long one and I was glad indeed when it was over. The first thing that I endeavoured to do was to try to get my passport. After t...	1st May 1915
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)	GENERAL PROTEST---BROADCAST PLAY DROPPED GENERAL PROTEST --- BROADCAST PLAY DROPPED --- LONDON, 10th March. --- "The whole thing should be forgotten. There is no excuse for reminding the survivors of the horrors, which will ...
Chicago Daily Journal	SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...	19th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...	20th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN WARNED OF HUGE FILED OF ICEBERGS Operator on La Bretagne Tells How Messages Were Sent in All Directions From Near Cape Race....	18th April 1912
Denver Post	PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK 'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat...	19th April 1912
Newark Star	STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-...	24th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	NIAGARA NEAR TITANIC'S FATE French Liner Arrives Under Own Power After Striking Iceberg. New York, April 16—Close to where the Titanic sank the new French line steamer Niagara on the night of April 10 crashed into an ice field and sent out a wi...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
New York Times	12 DEAD IN CEDAR RAPIDS But Searchers Still Hunt for 20 More Missing --- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23---With twelve bodies recovered from the ruins of the Douglas Starch Company's plant, wrecking crews today and tonight searched the debris for the...	24th May 1919
Rockford Morning Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...	26th April 1912
Christian Science Sentinel	TESTIMONIES OF HEALING Lawrence Beesley It would be impossible within a limited space to do more than enumerate the profound changes of thought which Christian Science has wrought in me during the seven years I have known of it. When I first saw the text-book, "Science and Health with Key ...	20th December 1912
Washington Herald	STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina...	22nd April 1912
San Francisco Bulletin	SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ...	19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge...	28th October 1913
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
New York Times	MONEY LOSS NOTHING---MORGAN But He Is Upset by Loss of Life, Due to Faith in Boat --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 21---An interesting interview was obtained by a correspondent at Aix w...	22nd April 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
Washington Times	MISS GRACIE GOES TO NEW YORK TO GET INFORMATION Worn to a point of desperation by the suspense she has undergone since receiving news that her father, Col. Archibald Gracie, was among those saved from the sea tragedy, Miss Edith Gracie, of 1527 Sixteenth street northwest, gave way to her anxiety t...	17th April 1912
Washington Herald	ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...	19th April 1912
New York Herald	THOMAS WHITELEY : THREE WARNINGS WERE GIVEN TO THE OFFICER ON THE BRIDGE Thomas Whiteley, Tells of Hearing Men Who Were in Crows Nest Express Indignation Because Mr. Murdock, the First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger. ...	21st April 1912
Newark Star	C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ...	19th April 1912
Hudson Observer	LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf...	23rd April 1912
Bridgwater Mercury	T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...	April 1912
RTE	FUNERAL FOR TITANIC'S LAST SURVIVOR The funeral has taken place in England of the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Millvina Dean. The private service, attended by family and friends, took place at Southampton Crematorium, the funeral directors confirmed....	16th June 2009
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER Brian J. Ticehurst 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
Voyage	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...
The New York Times	THINKS TIMES LIST SAVED FATHER'S LIFE Survivor Says Aged Man Got Hope from Interpretation of Faulty Wireless Message --- 'WILLIAMS' MEANT 'WILHEMS' --- ...	21st April 1912
Southampton Echo	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
New York Times	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
	LIGHTOLLER OF THE THE FORTY NINTH Jim Currie Recent revelations by the grand daughter of Herbert Lightoller, the most senior surviving officer of the Titanic have...	22nd October 2010
Chicago Daily Tribune	SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND AND WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC. newspaper aticle...	20th April 1912
BBC News	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died aged 97....	31st May 2009
Maidenhead Advertiser	AN ACCOUNT OF MY JOURNEY ON THE TITANIC Nellie Walcroft Sir, I am sending the account of my journey on the Titanic thinking that it will interest those at Maidenhead whom I know. I left Maidenhead on April 9th., stayed in London and caught 'the special train to Southampton at...	29th April 1912
Dowagiac Daily News	CARPATHIA LANDS IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE BISHOPS WIRE THEY'RE SAFE Mrs. Bishop Is First Lady to Leave the Wrecked Ocean Liner SEND A WIRELESS First Direct Tidings Came Last Night, and Again This Morning They Send a Message Home --------------- Mr. and Mr...	19th April 1912
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
	THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC William Baltzell A Descriptive Composition for Piano Solo By William Baltzell Published 1912 by Aubrey Stauffer & Co., Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [Midi] ...	1912
New York Times	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
	ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE The Hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. William Whiting (1825-1878) wrote the lyrics, in 1860, as a poem for a student about to sail for America. T...
Newark Evening News	TELLS OF SEEING MEN SHOT DOWN ON TITANIC Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19---Almost prostrated by the terrible experiences which she had undergone since the Titanic went down, Mrs. Peter Renouf, of 21b Florida street, returned to her home here today. She told o...	19th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...	20th April 1912
Gare Maritime	DESCRIPTION OF A CORK WAISTCOAT The first lifejacket?...	1st December 2006
Chicago Tribune	JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England...	21st April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune	HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma...	25th April 1912
Evening Bulletin	HAD PREMONITION OF DISASTER Nurse in Home of Mrs. J. B. Earnshaw Distrusted Early Despatches of Safety of Passengers --- A curious instance of the premonitions which are communicated to members of a family or even a household in time of disaster, was illustrated i...	17th April 1912
	MY MAIDEN VOYAGE Roberta Maioni When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr...	1926
New York Times	ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome...	21st April 1912
Evening Bulletin	TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE “Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New...	20th April 1912
Newark Evening News	STENGEL TELLS TRAGEDY STORY Home with Wife, Depicts Wreck Scenes and Perils of Survivors. ---------- DEATH NEAR, VICTIMS JOKED ---------- Days of suspense had been borne by the family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of 1075 Broad str...	19th April 1912
Akron Beacon Journal	AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...	20th April 1912
Rockford Republic	TITANIC'S SURVIVOR COMES TO ROCKFORD MISS DAGMAR BRYHL, AFTER LOSING BROTHER AND SWEETHEART ON FATEFUL TRIP FROM SWEDEN TO ROCKFORD FINALLY REACHED HERE 6:30 THIS MORNING - WAS SECOND CLASS PASSENGER ABOARD THE DOOMED TITANIC - HER FIRST WARNING OF DANGER ...	25th April 1912
Daily Sketch	TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the...	25th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon....	20th April 1912
Rockford Daily Register Gazette	DAGMAR BRYHL TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER Established 1840 - Twelve Pages (EXCLUSIVE AFTERNOON FRANCHISE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Young Woman Reaches Rockford Today, in Company of Her Uncle WOULD HAVE DIED HAD SHE REALIZED THAT SWEETHEART AND BROT...	25th April 1912
Ottawa Citizen	SYRIAN WOMAN'S THRILLING NARRATIVE Ship's Officers Fired into Steerage: Panic Amid Rush for Lifeboats Mariana Assaff says Ten People on Doomed Ship were Bound for Ottawa but Two survive. ...How Mrs. Assaf views the Horror and Catastrophe of Her Rescue. "Mariana Assaf a...	24th April 1912
Portland Oregonian	PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho...	27th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. ASTOR IS ILL, BUT NOT CRITICALLY Alarming Reports as to Her Condition Formally Denied by Secretary --- VINCENT ASTOR STILL HOPES --- Mrs. Henry B. Harris Slowly Regaining Her Strength --- Robert W. Daniel Receives Friends at...	20th April 1912
Portland Oregonian	MRS. FRANK WARREN DESCRIBES THE TRAGEDY TO THE OREGONIAN John Lamoreau Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class couple from Oregon on the Titanic. Mrs. Warren, who was 60 years of age at the time of the sinking, reported in great detail the horrific events of the tragedy. Her account was published in Orego...	27th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and...	16th 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	MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS--- A Special Meeting of the Board Of Directors of Montefiore Home, held April 21, 1912. The President, Jacob H. Schiff, announced the melancholy death of the Honorable Isidor Straus and his devoted wife in the dis...	22nd April 1912
The Times	TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi...	2nd July 1958