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  HENRY WILDE AND CAPTAIN SMITH
   
  HENRY T. WILDE
   
  HENRY WILDE IN WHITE UNIFORM
Henry Tingle Wilde pictured in Summer White uniform...
   
Newark Evening News (1912) LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES
NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....
20th April 1912  
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  
  TITANIC DECK CHAIR
A deck chair thought to have been recovered from the scene of the disaster in April 1912....
   
  (1912) LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH
11th April 1912  
Southern Evening Echo (1970) ARTICLE
Titanic survivor 77-year-old Mr Lee James Hyland, of Sarnia Court, Boniface Crescent, Lordshill, Southampton who recalls Fred Allen a boy crew member mentioned in reference the playing of the Titanic Hymn. Allen, who lost his life in the disaster was...
24th November 1970  
  (2006) TITANIC RELIEF FUND – CREW “MASTER LIST” CASE NUMBERS
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29th April 2006  
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  
New York Times (1912) ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN
"Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w...
22nd April 1912  
  CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE
   
  (1912) EDWARD JOHN SMITH WITH DOG
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Newark Evening News (1912) BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER
The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...
19th April 1912  
  BOAT DECK AT NIGHT
Computer Generated 360 degree view of the boat deck at night. Requires the IPIX plugin. ...
   
North American (1912) WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ...
20th April 1912  
Chicago Record-Herald (1912) SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO
Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr...
23rd April 1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR
Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam...
19th April 1912  
Gettysburg Complier (1912) REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY
Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners are Referred to as Floating Palaces While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most respects like the Olympic there is a pronounced diff...
19th June 1912  
The Sun (2008) SACK FOR THE TITANIC CREW
A LETTER showing the crew of the Titanic were sacked when news of its sinking reached Britain has been valued at £1million. The document, never seen in public before, has been loaned to an exhibition on the 1912 disaster....
24th July 2008  
The Toronto World (1912) SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING
SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic.  The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t...
17th April 1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES
Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa...
20th April 1912  
Cincinnati.com (2009) NKU CLIMBS ABOARD 'TITANIC'
A cast of 36, a construction crew of 60, production crew of 25 - more than 200 people get involved in Northern Kentucky University's sweeping musical telling of an epic human drama - the life and death of RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912....
1st December 2009  
New York Times (1943) ROBERT J. HOPKINS
Member of Titanic Crew Aided in Rescue of Mrs. John J. Astor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. 18---Robert J. Hopkins, who was a member of the crew of the ill-fated liner Titanic when it struck an ...
19th November 1943  
New York Times (1913) LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN
Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...
9th May 1913  
New York Times (1912) MEDALS FOR RESCUING CREW
Bill Introduced in House to Decorate Men on the Carpathia --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 22---Representative Francis of Ohio to-day introduced a resolution calling for Federal recognition and deco...
23rd April 1912  
New York Times (1911) THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY
Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t...
18th June 1911  
  CARPATHIA PASSENGERS AND CREW LIST
   
  TITANIC BOAT DECK
Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
  (1911) FILM OF THE OLYMPIC
These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...
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New York Times (1912) $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY
Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...
14th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT
Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...
19th April 1912  
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  
Daily Northwestern (1912) A SAD FAREWELL
William F. Bonnell, a cousin of the party, made the following statement as coming from Mrs. Wick: "When the collision occurred, Mrs. Wick and her husband were In their Stateroom. They thought that a boiler, had exploded. When they reached ...
17th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS
New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...
20th April 1912  
Central Florida News (2007) TITANIC: THE EXPERIENCE EVICTED FROM I-DRIVE BUILDING
A moving crew began hauling items out of Titanic: The Experience museum on International Drive Monday. The museum renters said their landlord told them last week they were being evicted. Less than a week later, they showed up with the sheriff's office and a moving crew....
21st August 2007  
The Witney Gazette (1912) TITANIC SURVIVORS' STORIES ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH
One hundred and sixty-seven survivors of the crew of the Titanic landed at Plymouth on Sunday from the Red Star liner Lapland. They told a large number of full and graphic stories of the disaster. One of the chief facts brought to light i...
4th May 1912  
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  
Brighton Argus (1912) SUSSEX AND THE DISASTER: WORTHING ASSOCIATIONS
Among the crew of the Titanic was a young man named Crosby a nephew of Mrs. Sole, of Langleigh, Ham-road, Worthing, who was one of the Turkish bath attendants on the liner. Another member of the crew was Mr. A. D. Eagle, a nephew of Mr. E. Best, of L...
20th April 1912  
Cambridge Independent Press (1912) ARTHUR WILLIAM BARRINGER
Mr. Arthur William Barringer, son of Mr. William Barringer, of 15 Thoday Street, Cambridge, was a Steward on the Titanic. It is hoped that he may be among those of the crew who were rescued, but his name has not appeared among the survivors. Mr. Barr...
19th April 1912  
  (1912) LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD
Dear Miss Field, On boar...
10th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW
White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ...
11th June 1912  
icCoventry (2006) HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC
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20th January 2006  
  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...
   
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) STILL PLAYING AS WATER CREEPS UP
New York, April 19- Mrs. John Murray Brown of Acton, Mass, who with her sister, Mrs. Robert C. Cornell and Mrs. E.D. Appleton, was saved, was in the last life-boat to get safely away from the Titanic. "The band played marching from dec...
20th April 1912  
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse (1956) WALTER BELFORD
Walter Belford did not appear on the Titanic's crew lists. In fact, he never was a Titanic crewman, he just told Walter Lord he was, and became famous as a "fake" Titanic survivor. At the time when this picture was published in Switzerland, in Septem...
20th September 1956  
The Times (1918) THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED
The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning....
20th July 1918  
  (1912) FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS
The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ...
30th April 1912  
Vineland Times Journal (1953) SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER TELLS OF GRIM EXPERIENCES
It was around midnight on April 14, 1912. The luxury liner "titanic", the finest passenger vessel afloat was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, To New York. The ship collided with an iceberg off Newfoundland in the fog and sank. ...
25th March 1953  
Branson Courier (2009) TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE
Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction....
9th March 2009  
The Syracuse Herald (1912) ISMAY AND OFFICERS OF TITANIC GO TO EUROPE
New York May 3 – In a state of near collapse, J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, sailed for England yesterday on the White Star Liner Adriatic. He made only this brief statement to the newspaper men....
3rd May 1912  
Daily Enterprise (1912) LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...
20th April 1912  
The Times (1912) MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking-room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck. He described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted the foremast was listin...
20th April 1912  
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  
Chicago Daily News (1965) CLAIMED TO BE THE OLDEST SURVIVNG MEMBER OF THE CREW OF THE TITANIC
Deaths Elsewhere Jacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, England....
2nd March 1965  
Brighton Argus (1912) MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on the deck. he described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted that the foremast w...
19th April 1912  
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Daily Northwestern (1912) SAW THE ICEBERG
S. V. Silverthorne of St. Louis. was one of the three or four saloon passengers on the Titanic who saw the deadly iceberg just after the collision. "I was in the smoking room reading near a bridge whist game at one of the tables," he said....
17th April 1912  
  (1919) LIGHTOLLER TAKES 36 GERMAN NAVAL LIVES IN WAR
On July 19, 1918, HMS Garry, Lieut Cmmdr C.H. Lightoller DSC, was cruising in the North Sea and was in Latitude 54.39 N. and Longitude 0.55 W., when an enemy submarine, which proved to be the UB-110, was observed. The Garry, having ...
14th July 1919  
  PARTICULARS OF ENGAGEMENT
   
New York Times (1912) TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH
Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...
25th April 1912  
San Francisco Bulletin (1912) DR. DODGE'S WIFE TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK
Reaches Home with Husband and Son after Terrible Experience at Sea. Seated in the library of her home on Washington street, amid a profusion of flowers sent by friends to express their welcome home, Mrs. Washington Dodge again told th...
30th April 1912  
Chicago Evening Post (1912) DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD
DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...
23rd April 1912  
Daily Sketch (1912) MAN WHO WAS PULLED BACK
Says Officer Shot Two Men Who tried to Enter Boat A graphic description of the scene on the Titanic after the boats had gone is given by an Athlone survivor, Mr Eugene Daly, in a letter to his sister. He says he arouse...
4th May 1912  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY
City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti...
5th May 1912  
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  
  CREW PHOTOGRAPH : THOMAS WILLIAM HANKINSON
   
Evanston Daily News (1912) MARY HEWLETT - SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE
Mrs. Mary Hewlitt, of Lucknow, India, Was Rescued From the Disabled Craft, Gives Description of Disaster Was Traveling Alone Woman Stops Here At Home of J. L. Hebblet...
25th April 1912  
Western Daily Mercury (1912) STEWARDESSES INTERVIEWED
Shortly before the special train steamed out of the docks, two of the stewardesses who are returning to their homes – Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Martin – granted a brief interview, in which they narrated their experiences. They were first-class stewardesses ...
30th April 1912  
  JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
   
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1924) OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE’S BODY HOME
White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...
14th June 1924  
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN
Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng...
20th April 1912  
Evening World (1912) TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF
Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...
22nd April 1912  
  TITANIC DISCHARGED CREW
Crew members, most of whom had "signed-on" but, for one reason or another, failed to board the ship or were not aboard when the accident occurred. ...
   
Rockford Morning Star (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD
DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...
26th April 1912  
  RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3)
Titles "Elevators and grand stair cases afford easy access from deck to deck "Dancing is an evening pastime on every voyage." "The smoking room is an apartment of much elegance, with the atmosphere and servcie of a metropolitan club. ...
   
  (1973) COPY OF LETTER SENT BY MR. KNOWLES'S DAUGHTER
Dear Cousin, What a pleasant surprise to receive your letter on November 22nd. I am Thomas Knowles's daughter. My father would have been 104 years old last May, therefore he would, I presume, be the ninth generation. I myse...
28th November 1973  
  (1912) TITANIC ARRIVES AT QUEENSTOWN
113 additional passengers embark. Seven disembark and one crew member deserts....
11th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER
O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ...
16th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) SAYS ISMAY CHOSE OWN BOAT CREW
New York- April 19- According to Mrs. W.J. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, after she had arrived at the Ritz-Carlton with T.D.M. Cardeza, J.Bruce Ismay was not only safely seated in a lifeboat before it was filled, but he also selected the crew that rowed ...
20th April 1912  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) BISHOP'S ARRIVE HOME AND RELATE MANY THINGS ABOUT TITANIC NOT BEFORE TOLD
Waited Over to Take Passage on This Ship From Cherbourg DETAILS RESCUE Ship Slowly Sank to Watery Grave While They Watched One Mile Away - Did Not Break In Two Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Bishop, who were among ...
10th May 1912  
  (1912) BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT
Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th...
  1912  
The Epsom, Ewell & Banstead Post (2005) TITANIC SURVIVOR TO BE COMMEMORATED
Titanic disaster survivor George Pelham, a one-time patient of one of the Epsom cluster of former psychiatric hospitals, will be commemorated. One of the roads on the Livingstone Park housing development being built by Charles Church, on t...
23rd March 2005  
New York Times (1917) INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER
Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here...
28th January 1917  
Chicago Tribune (1912) DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912  
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  
Chicagto Daily Journal (1912) SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH
C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...
19th April 1912  
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1931) SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP
MRS. EDWARD BEANE, THEN BRIDE OF 17, SAW SHIP SINK AS SHE CRUISED NEARBY IN BOAT; HUSBAND SWAM AROUND TILL PICKED UP; NOW HAVE 2 CHILDREN It was a strange honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beane of 44 Michigan Street when on April 14, ...
15th April 1931  
Guernsey Evening Press (1912) MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN
A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...
2nd May 1912  
Mid Cumberland and Westmoreland Herald (1912) UNKNOWN TITLE
Another Cumberland man who appears on the list of the crew is J. Shepherd, the junior assistant second engineer. He cannot be traced at the moment, as the name of the town from which he came is not stated. His age is given as 35....
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY
Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...
23rd April 1912  
The Syracuse Herald (1912) FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS
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20th April 1912  
  TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL
Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
   
New York Times (1964) SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC
Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...
18th May 1964  
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Newark Evening News (1912) HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM
It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ...
19th April 1912  
Daily Mirror (2006) TITANIC DEATH FALL
20/12/2005 A TOURIST may have been copying a Kate Winslet pose from the film Titanic when she fell off a ferry and drowned.Emma Blackwell, 31, plunged from the ninth deck 80 miles off France heading home from Spain. ...
1st January 2006  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST
Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ...
17th April 1912  
Akron Beacon Journal (1912) AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP
HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...
20th April 1912  
  (1911) CAPTAIN AND CREW
Captain Smith seen aboard the Olympic...
  May 1911  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) ALL SAFE AFTER COLLISION
This article published on 15 April 1912 headlined that 'Both passengers and crew are safe'...
15th April 1912  
  PETER DENNIS DALY BY HIS GRANDSON
"What follows is the story of PDD and his Titanic involvement as told to me by my father (Richard) and supplemented by my uncle Nicanor (who in the 20's settled in Buenos Aries, Argentina) joining other established Dalys there: Paul, (bachelor), Vict...
   
Washington Herald (1912) MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...
21st April 1912  
ET Comment (2006) HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006  
New York Times (1912) PROVING FOREMAN ON TITANIC
Brother Files Letters of Survivors in Asking for Administration Papers --- Edwin H. Foreman obtained yesterday from Surrogate Fowler letters of administration on the $10,000 estate of his brother, Benjamin L. Foreman, who was drowned on ...
15th May 1912  
Chicago Daily News (1912) GIRL TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HERE
Miss Annie Kelley Last Woman to Leave Sinking Ship, She Says Miss Annie Kelley, 17 years old, a sister of Miss Beatrice Kelley, 303 Eugenie street, arrived in Chicago last night and told of her escape from the sinking Tit...
23rd April 1912  
Cornishman (1912) CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE
(courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ...
16th May 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) UNKNOWN TITLE
Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...
  1997  
Hudson Dispatch (1959) MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi...
4th October 1959  
  FRED HUMBY
 ...
   
  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...
   
  (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  
Chicago Examiner (1912) INVESTIGATORS SEND TUG 25 MILES DOWN HARBOR TO TAKE SAILOR OFF LINER; INQUIRY GOES TO WASHINGTON TO PREVENT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES.
New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland ...
21st April 1912  
Titanic Commutator (1982) FATE DEALS A HAND
Artist Frank Millet, and a fourth gentleman unknown to Gracie. They seem oblivious to the happenings on the deck outside, preferring to sit alone in the room where they had spent many enjoyable hours during the last few evenings. [THS Comm...
  1982  
Worcester Telegram (1912) BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA
By the Associated Press GIVES RESCUED AS 705 Boston Man On Franconia Reports Communicating With Carpathia NEW YORK, April 17.-...
18th April 1912  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr...
   
  (1912) MAGGIE DALY
No-one has yet adequately explained what became of Maggie Daly after 1912. She is believed to have been pictured on the deck of the Carpathia in New York before moving to the upstate area. After that, she disappears. ...
  1912  
Daily Mail (2009) LAST SURVIVING PASSENGER OF THE TITANIC MILLVINA DEAN DIES AGED 97
The Titanic's last surviving passenger has died today at the age of 97.Millvina Dean, who was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912, died in the early hours of this morning after being cared for at a Southampton nursing...
31st May 2009  
Barking Chronicle (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING
There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner....
19th April 1912  
Rahway Daily Record (1912) STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR
William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ...
19th April 1912  
Gettysburg Complier (1912) RESCUE OF MRS BECKER
Dr L. B. Wolf Secretary of Foreign Missionary Board of The General Synod Lutheran Church, tells that he met Mrs Becker, a Lutheran missionary from India, returning on the ill-fated Titanic, at New York when the Carpathia docked with the Titani...
15th May 1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1939) RESCUED BY THE SAME LIFEBOAT TITANIC SURVIVORS UNITED AGAIN
"A tragedy so great that it forever gives its survivors a common bond was the sinking of the Titanic. Sgt. John Collins was so impressed by his experiences of that famous occasion that he is trying to form a Titanic Association. He found three other ...
16th April 1939  
Paterson Morning Call (1912) JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP
Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ...
23rd April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...
22nd January 1997  
Chicago Record Herald (1912) CHICAGOANS SAVED BY ASTOR
Mrs. Hippach and Daughter, at Home, Tell of Rescue From Titanic How Colonel John Jacob Astor saved the lives of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean Hippach, when the Titanic was sinking was told w...
22nd April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS
Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-...
24th April 1912  
  (2004) GLENDUN
GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway...
26th October 2004  
ET Research (2007) CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD
AFTER the Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th April, 1912 the sea around the site was littered with the flotsam and jetsam of the liner. Among the broken decking, furniture and fittings were hundreds of bodies floating around. Eac...
31st March 2007  
Exeter Flying Post (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER
Quartermaster G. Rowe, a native of Topsham, is among the crew saved. Submitter's footnote: I have read elsewhere that it was in fact George Rowe's married sister who resided at Topsham, Devon. It seems he was a regular visitor ...
27th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1974) MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT
He Recalls Sinking 62 Years Ago --- The Easter season is never a completely happy time for Tom McCormack of Elizabeth, N.J. It always brings memories of his escape from the sinking Titanic, which went down in the freezing Atlantic 62 ye...
15th April 1974  
New York Times (1912) EDGAR J. MEYER ANOTHER HERO
Helped Mrs. Harris Into a Boat and Died with Her Husband --- Edgar J. Meyer is a name to be added to the list of those who perished nobly on the Titanic. His wife was saved. It has been impossible to interview her, but through ...
23rd April 1912  
  REPORT FROM DR. DODGE
Dr. Dodge says he believes this young mans story implicitly: He, Mellors, "was standing by this boat when one of the crew was endeavouring to cut the fastenings that bound it to the vessel just as the onrush of waters came up which tore it loose....
   
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Mr Richard Nosworthy, son of Mr J Nosworthy, Fisher Road, Newton Abbot, was going to Canada to join friends there. He was to have sailed in the Olympic, but through disorganised train services he missed that boat and joined Titanic....
17th April 1912  
  CARD CASE
Silver plated card case from the Titanic. The case was reputedly pilfered from the ship by a steward — a member of the delivery crew from Belfast — because of his disappointment at being transferred to the Olympic prior to the maid...
   
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  
Las Vegas Weekly (2009) TITANIC EXHIBIT AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CHILLING REMINDER OF HISTORICAL TRAGEDY
There's a definite chill in the air when you step out on the deck re-creation of the new Titanic exhibit. One moment you are marveling at the stunning staterooms and grand lobby of the great ship, and the next you're so close to the icebergs, you can actually touch them....
2nd January 2009  
New York Times (1935) FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP
Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t...
29th January 1935  
New York Times (2010) TITANIC AUTHOR "DUPED" OVER HIROSHIMA TALE
Titanic author Charles Pellegrino admits he was probably duped over the claims of one, Joseph Fuoco, who claimed he substituted as crew on one of the two observation planes that escorted the Enola Gay......
26th February 2010  
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
   
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  
Unidentified Newspaper (1936) SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES
This article was published at the time of Sam Goldenberg's death, in October 1936. The paper is unidentified, it could be The Herald Tribune, a paper published in Paris in English, for the English speaking community in France. ...
  1936  
Portland Oregonian (1912) PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK
Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho...
27th April 1912  
Andover Townsman (2007) ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS
Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15....
9th November 2007  
  (2006) THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE
It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ...
21st July 2006  
East Kent Gazette (1965) A CANADIAN REFERENCE
A reference to Miss Buss is made in the Toronto Daily Star of April 20th, as the following extract will show:- ''Special to the 'Star' by a staff reporter - New York, April 20th - What happened at the regular Sunday service on board th...
4th May 1965  
New York Times (1910) BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910  
Washington Herald (1912) ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA
White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...
19th April 1912  
Vallejo Times-Herald (2007) 'TITANIC' CREW READY TO DOCK AND ROLL
Capt. Edward John Smith was 62 with white beard. Joe Harney is 28 and clean-shaven. No matter. When the recent University of California, Davis graduate dons faux facial fur, jacket replete with medals and sword, he'll be the doomed skipper of the "Titanic."...
5th October 2007  
The Toronto Daily Star (1912) LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A.
------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft...
19th April 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY
The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank....
22nd April 2009  
  ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR
This anchor was fashioned following the disaster by Irish AB William McCarthy, of Cork, who was saved in lifeboat 4. McCarthy was praised for his heroism by Mrs Walter Miller Clark, who said he had conducted himself "most commendably." ...
   
Atlanta Journal Constitution (2008) GEORGIA AQUARIUM: IS TITANIC HAUNTED?
No one noticed activity by passengers and crew when the Titanic artifact exhibit was in Miami, but there have been some strange happenings at the exhibit in the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Experts were brought in to check it out....
27th October 2008  
The Times (1956) TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD
One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri...
17th February 1956  
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  
Portland Oregonian (1912) MRS. FRANK WARREN DESCRIBES THE TRAGEDY TO THE OREGONIAN
Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class couple from Oregon on the Titanic. Mrs. Warren, who was 60 years of age at the time of the sinking, reported in great detail the horrific events of the tragedy. Her account was published in Orego...
27th April 1912  
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  
Washington Times (1912) MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK
Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...
19th April 1912  
  CAPTAIN LORD WITH OFFICERS OF A LATER COMMAND.
Captain Stanley Lord (centre) of the Californian pictured with officers of a later command....
   
Liverpool Daily Post (2009) TITANIC HAD MANY LIVERPOOL LINKS, REPORTS PETER ELSON
by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009ALTHOUGH she never visited Liverpool, Titanic had strong links with her home port.Planning for her maiden voyage, including the selection of her officers, was made by Charles Bartlett, Whit...
29th April 2009  
New York Times (1912) SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS
Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz...
22nd April 1912  
Yeovil Express (2007) TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY
THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil....
25th July 2007  
The Times (1912) OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912  
BBC News (2006) BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING
By Julian O'Neill BBC Newsline reporterAmid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. [Ph...
11th July 2006  
The Sun (2006) TITANIC MEMOIRS UNEARTHED
SHE was the Titanic survivor whose story inspired Kate Winslet's role in the blockbuster movie.Now a haunting account of her inspiring real-life ordeal has emerged for the first time.In it, Helen Churchill Candee describes in harrowing detail the final moments of the ill-fated ship as it sank in the icy Atlantic - claiming 1,523 lives while many still clung in hopeless terror to its deck....
18th April 2006  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) CARPATHIA LANDS IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE BISHOPS WIRE THEY’RE SAFE
Mrs. Bishop Is First Lady to Leave the Wrecked Ocean Liner SEND A WIRELESS First Direct Tidings Came Last Night, and Again This Morning They Send a Message Home --------------- Mr. and Mr...
19th April 1912  
Henley Standard (2008) HAODS TO STAGE A TITANIC MUSICAL
HISTORY'S most famous shipwreck comes to the stage of the Kenton Theatre next month, when HAODS stages Titanic - The Musical. It tells the story of the hopes, loves and dreams of the real-life passengers and crew as the gigantic liner embarked on her maiden voyage in April 1912....
4th November 2008  
Southern Daily Echo (2009) SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY
A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated....
18th March 2009  
Bournemouth Echo (1912) A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER
Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e...
  1912  
Examiner.com (2009) TITANIC SAILS AGAIN IN ORLANDO
After being left homeless when the Mercado shopping center was emptied and demolished, Titanic: The Experience has a new, permanent home in a prime location on I-Drive. Whether you're fascinated by the history of the doomed oceanliner or just a fan of the movie, you'll be impressed by the extensive collection of memorabilia, including relics from Titanic herself, and the recreations of the Grand Staircase, a typical first class stateroom, the promenade deck, and other areas of the ship....
2nd January 2009  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,...
17th April 1912  
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  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ...
17th April 1912  
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  
ET Research (2003) THE BROWNS PREPARE TO ABANDON SHIP
Her father stood in the doorway of their cabin and said, ''There's talk that the ship has hit an iceberg.'' It was those fateful words that were to change their lives forever. Edith, along with her mother Elizabeth, were sharing a Secon...
3rd August 2003  
  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) MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY
The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
23rd July 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK
Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina...
22nd April 1912  
Romsey Advertiser (2009) TITANIC MEMORABILIA FROM THE GRAPES UP FOR AUCTION
A FORMER Southampton pub's collection of Titanic memorabilia is to go under the hammer at a Dorset auction house today.The Grapes in Oxford Street was steeped in Titanic folklore and, according to city legend, was where six lucky crew were drinking when they forgot the time and missed the liner's doomed maiden sailing. ...
2nd March 2009  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Shaldon has a particular interest in the loss. George Fox Hosking is senior third engineer on the Titanic. He is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs Hosking of The Green, Shaldon, and resides in London. He has a wife and three children. The parents...
17th April 1912  
CCTV (2007) BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG
elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ...
28th June 2007  
  HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED)
IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ...
   
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) BUTT A COURTIER TO DEATH, SAYS WOMAN
Washington, April 19 – A graphic story of the heroism of Maj. Archibald W. Butt on the Titanic was told today in an interview given by Miss Marie Young, a former resident of Washington. Miss Young is believed to have been the last woman to leave the ...
20th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE
The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic...
19th April 1912  
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2009) COUNTESS ENACTOR IS TOUR GUIDE FOR DOOMED VOYAGE OF TITANIC
The lovely Countess of Rothes stands on the deck of the ship docked in Milwaukee and cheerfully waves passengers aboard with her white-gloved hands. "Hurry," she says, "It's departure time, and you won't want to miss this wonderful voyage."The name of the ship she beckons travelers aboard? The RMS Titanic....
12th January 2009  
  (1912) MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY
The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were report...
23rd July 1912  
Western Daily Mercury (1912) ARTICLE
Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...
29th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth...
17th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS
NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was...
20th April 1912  
Yorkshire Post (2009) TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000
20 April 2009 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about ?300,000 at auction.Millvina De...
25th April 2009  
New York Times (1889) THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED
A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...
20th January 1889  
The Times (2006) TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC
The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ...
2nd November 2006  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) I CAN ROW, BUT LET A WOMAN GET INTO BOAT
Mrs. Cavendish, a Survivor, Refers Highly to the Work of Major Peuchen --------------- ...
19th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) ICE CAKE HELPED HIM TO ESCAPE
New York, April 19.- A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding Emilo Portaluppi of Aricgabo, Italy, in escaping death when the Titanic went down. Portaluppi, a second class passenger, was awakened by the explosion of one of the boilers of the ship. ...
20th April 1912  
Chicago Daily News (1912) SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...
27th April 1912  
Daily News (2008) LOCALS WITH TITANIC TIES CALL MOODY GARDENS
Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship's maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner....
2nd April 2008  
Connaught Telegraph (1912) LOSS OF THE TITANIC.
Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c...
25th May 1912  
Bridgwater Mercury (1912) T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN
T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...
  April 1912  
Southern Evening Echo (1958) ARTICLE
SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard...
14th April 1958  
Christian Science Sentinel (1912) TESTIMONIES OF HEALING
It would be impossible within a limited space to do more than enumerate the profound changes of thought which Christian Science has wrought in me during the seven years I have known of it. When I first saw the text-book, "Science and Health with Key ...
20th December 1912  
Standard Union (1912) FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC
Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita...
4th May 1912  
New York Times (1975) MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC
TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...
26th November 1975  
Chicago American (1912) CHICAGO GIRL IN LAST LIFEBOAT
There was only one seat in the last lifeboat of the Titanic and had Mrs. John Burke taken it the chances are that Miss Annie Kelly, a seventeen-year-old Chicago girl, might be at the bottom of the sea, she told friends to-day who had gathered at h...
23rd April 1912  
Hudson Observer (1912) LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES
Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf...
23rd April 1912  
Paterson Morning Call (1912) MET DEATH LIKE A HERO
---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...
3rd May 1912  
Sphere (1913) TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913
Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton, including the offspring of many crew drowned on the Titanic, on holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight. A little over a year before, their fathers looked out from the sinking Titanic at what...
30th August 1913  
Jersey Journal (1959) MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr...
4th November 1959  
MKKZ (1987) UNTITLED
'In the Titanic were two Catholic priests: Professor Byles, an Irish man [sic], who wanted to act in the marriage of his brother and his bride and a German monk (Padre). They helped women and children, climbing into the boats. The people on the last ...
12th April 1987  
Aberdeen Daily Journal (1912) ABERDEEN ENGINEER ABOARD
As indicated on Monday, there were no Aberdeen passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel, but we learn that a Torry engineer was a member of the crew. About ten days ago Mr. James Fraser, 85 Menzies Road, received a letter from his son, Mr. James Fra...
17th April 1912  
The Charleroi Mail (1912) MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER.
SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...
23rd April 1912  
Liverpool Echo (2009) SECRETS OF THE TITANIC... ONLINE
THE Titanic disaster is THE major shipping disaster of all time. More lives have been lost in other ship-wrecks/sinkings but the Titanic remains the iconic disaster.There were of course plenty of links to Liverpool at the time of Titanic's fateful maiden voyage in April 1912 and the documentary evidence that can be accessed relating to her crew and families is a huge bonus for genealogists interested in Titanic links....
6th January 2009  
  CARPATHIA MEDAL
Captain Rostron, the officers and crew of the Carpathia each received a medal in recognition of their efforts on the night ...
   
Lloyds Weekly News (1912) LORD CHARLES BERESFORD TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK SQUAD
A fine tribute to the engineers and boiler room staff of the ‘Titanic’, the ’Black Squad’, who stood their posts in the bowels of the ship, to the last, was paid by Lord Charles Beresford in a letter to the Times. He Wrote: - “In the lat...
  1912  
Coventry Standard (1912) IRISH PRIESTS LOST
Amongst various stories of church services after the disaster, Roman Catholic priest of St Mary’s Church in Coventry; on Sunday morning Reverend R. F. Rea said in church that amongst those lost were two Irish priests and a number of Catholics belongi...
26th April 1912  
Southern Evening Echo (1952) UNTITLED
A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living...
14th May 1952  
Canada News Wire (2007) COUNTDOWN IS ON: ONLY 30 DAYS LEFT FOR TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION
Visitors have only thirty days left to experience the internationally acclaimed Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre. The exhibition has engaged and intrigued adults and children around the world. The tragic tale of the famous ship Titanic is brought to life through photographs, sounds and stories of the passengers and crew members....
7th December 2007  
  (1912) LETTER FROM WILLIAM BYLES TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
Bernards' Inn Bernardsville, N.J. April 21, 1912 My dear Mamma, Here we are at Bernardsville...went to St. Vincent's Hospital, when we met first some young boys and afterwards some girls who had been on the...
21st April 1912  
Galesburg Evening Mail (1912) TELLS OF RESCUE FROM TITANIC
Frank Kurun of Galesburg Tells How He Saved Himself and Daughter WAS IN A BOAT FIRST PICKED UP Jumped from Lower Deck Into Life Boat As It Was Being Lowered His Brother Drowned Frank Kurun,...
23rd April 1912  
The Daily Banner (1912) STORY TOLD OF SINKING OF THE TITANIC
By A Nephew Of A Mt. Vernon Man Who Was Rescued In One Of The Life Boats Charles Burgess Arrives At Home In England ...
16th May 1912  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) ALARMED COUNTY MAN FINDS SISTER WAS RESCUED
D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, Reassured as Carpathia Docked ---------- MRS. THOMAS POTTER TELLS ABOUT ASTORS ---------- Weikman, Titanic Barber, Saved, Known to George Lipipncott [sic] ---------- ...
20th April 1912  
Christian Science Monitor (1912) WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP
Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...
19th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) LIGHTS AID BOATS KEEPING TOGETHER
New York, April 19.- G.E.H.Stengel of Newark escaped in the only life boat which carried lights. He believes that a number of persons owe their lives to the forethought of a member of the crew who was quickwitted enough to snatch up three green glass...
20th April 1912  
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  
Washington Herald (1912) LIFEBOATS WOULD HAVE SAVED MORE
Titanic's Steward, in Giving Story, Says Great Loss of Life Was Due to Their Absence --- SHIP'S ENGINEER, CAUGHT IN DOOR, BEGS TO BE SHOT TO END AGONY --- New York, April 18---The following statement made to-day by Alfred ...
19th April 1912  
The Times (1912) FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT
PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ...
20th April 1912  
Perthshire Advertiser (2008) PERTH'S TITANIC: THE MUSICAL STARTS WITH NEW CREW
PERTH Amateur Operatic Society's most exciting and challenging production to date, ¢€ËœTitanic: the Musical', sets sail in Perth Theatre tonight, with a new and exciting production team at the helm.Wielding the baton as musical director will be local music teacher Allan Kelman, while Ewan Campbell, who is already known to the society as co-owner of Utopia Costumes, takes over as director....
7th April 2008  
  TITANIC SURVIVOR -ALEXANDER JAMES LITTLEJOHN
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Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) ASTOR PUT BOY BY WIFE'S SIDE
A fine act of heroism by Col. John Jacob Astor was told by George A. Harder, a Brooklyn man, who survived the Titanic disaster. "When Col. Astor had assisted his tearful young wife and her maid into a life boat, he tried to put in a yo...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN HOME FROM EUROPE
Financier Refuses to Discuss Business or Politics J. Pierpont Morgan returned yesterday on the White Star liner Olympic from his seven months' stay abroad. He was met at Quarantine by his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., who ha...
25th July 1912  
Ottawa Citizen (1912) SYRIAN WOMAN'S THRILLING NARRATIVE
Ship's Officers Fired into Steerage: Panic Amid Rush for Lifeboats Mariana Assaff says Ten People on Doomed Ship were Bound for Ottawa but Two survive. ...How Mrs. Assaf views the Horror and Catastrophe of Her Rescue. "Mariana Assaf a...
24th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) CONGRESS THANKS ROSTRON
Bill Providing for Gold Medal to Captain Goes to Taft --- WASHINGTON, July 1---The thanks of Congress are conveyed to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron and the officers and crew of the liner Carpathia, for their rescue of 704 survivors of the Tit...
2nd July 1912  
New York Times (1931) BOOK NOTES
Macmillan has obtained what are believed to be the only pictures of the rescue of the Titanic’s survivors and these will be used to illustrate Sir Arthur Rostron's forthcoming autobiography, "'Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, in command of the Ca...
22nd July 1931  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M...
18th April 1912  
The Express Times (2008) 'TITANIC THE MUSICAL' A TITANIC SHOW
William Sanders was busy Monday "refining and tweaking" cues with his technical crew in preparation for tonight's opening of "Titanic the Musical" at Civic Theatre of Allentown. Sanders says the Tony Award-winning musical focuses on the actual passengers aboard the trans-Atlantic liner, RMS Titanic, on that fateful night of April 15, 1912, as the "ship of dreams" was making her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York....
6th June 2008  
Calgary Herald (1912) THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED
Special Dispatch to the Herald...
21st April 1912  
  (1913) TITANIC RELIEF FUND : RE CHARLES LIGHTOLLER
(From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area) Date December 22nd 1913. An offer of £2 0s 0d was made by Mrs Sylvia Lightoller for a ring and a pair of ear-rings which had been anonymously presented to the Re...
22nd December 1913  
The Times (1912) STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH’S HEROISM
After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...
29th April 1912  
Awake (1981) I SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC
IT BEGAN while I was visiting my elderly parents and uncle in , Florida. This was shortly before my uncle died a few months ago. As usual, we went to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesse...
  1981  
Ormskirk Advertiser (1998) WALTER JAMES BROWN
WALTER JAMES BROWN was 39 [sic] years old when he joined the crew of the Titanic as a First Class Saloon Steward. Before joining The White Star Lines, Brown worked for his older brother, William, in his grocery store on Moor Street in Ormskirk. Walte...
5th February 1998  
guardian.co.uk (2009) TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012
It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012....
31st March 2009  
  (1991) LETTER FROM FRASER'S DAUGHTER
''I was only two years old at the time and my brother six weeks old, my mother died at the age of forty-nine. When war was declared my brother James choose to serve in the Navy. After a short training at HMS Collingwood, I think I am correct in sa...
  1991  
New York Times (1912) MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER
Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...
3rd March 1912  
ET Research (2001) MY TITANIC DIVE
Arrival in St. Johns, Canada: We're hoping hurricane Henry ...
30th November 2001  
New York Times (1912) THREE BRAVE OFFICERS
Dr. O'Loughlin and Pursers McElroy and Barker on Honor Roll --- In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers. Three men who lost their lives were well known to...
23rd April 1912  
The Syracuse Herald (1912) WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED
Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat...
3rd May 1912  
The Times (1934) THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE
FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir...
10th September 1934  
Cork Examiner (1912) BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE
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11th May 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Among those on board the Titanic was a son of Mrs Parsons of Bronshill Road, Torquay. Mr Edward Parsons had been in the service of the White Star Line practically all his life and has a wife and five children at Southampton. He was visiting his mot...
17th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be...
18th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) LEAP OF 75 FEET
A fireman named Walter Hurst, of Southampton, said he was off watch at the time, and made his way to the boat deck. He was, of course, told to stand back and about five minutes before the liner sank he jumped the 75 feet to the sea, having a lifebel...
29th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED
New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...
20th April 1912  
Belfat Telegraph (2006) TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR ?57,000
A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night.Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US expect the chair, taken from the first-class Promenade deck of the Belfast-built liner, to go for between $$75-100,000 (?43-57,000) when it is auctioned off next month.The original beech framed chair, one of only six left in the world, is to be sold off at the auctioneer's annual Marine Paintings, Ship Models, Scrimshaw and Ocean Liner Memorabilia Sale at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 7....
12th April 2006  
  (1972) ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972  
  (1912) CUP & SAUCER FROM TITANIC
This Spode Coplands gold and cobalt blue cup and saucer were made specially for Titanic. This cup and saucer, along with a few more pieces in this pattern, were taken off the ship before it left Queenstown as souvenirs by crew or passengers. This rem...
  1912  
Binghamton Press (1912) MRS. CASSEBEER ACCOUNT
Mrs. Henry Arthur Casebeer, Jr., of New York City, who is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, was in Binghamton this morning visiting her mother, Mrs. L.V. Fosdick at the House of the Good Shepherd and to a representative of the Bingham...
29th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) TITANIC SURVIVORS HONOR CAPT. ROSTRON
They Present Silver Loving Cup to Him and Medals to His Officers and Men --- GIVES CREDIT TO HIS CREW --- Modest Skipper Praises and Thanks His Men for Them Loyalty and Committee for Its Gifts --- When the Cu...
30th May 1912  
Hampshire Observer (1912) WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST
April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec...
  1912  
Channel 4 - Tuesday - 9:00pm - 10:30pm (2005) TONY ROBINSON TITANIC TRIP PREMIERES TUESDAY
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31st December 2005  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN IN PARIS
London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi...
6th January 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Our Gunnislake correspondent writes that William Ware, who was 22 years of age, returned from South Africa six weeks ago. His mother resides at King Street, Gunnislake; his father in South Africa. Frederick Pengelly is 21 years of age, his mother r...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1907) ADRIATIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE
Great New White Star Liner Leaves Liverpool for New York --- LIVERPOOL, May 8---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic left here to-day for New York. The Adriatic was launched at Belfast last September. She has an...
9th May 1907  
Syracuse Herald-Journal (1987) MARY WILBURN, OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES
pp. B1 and B4 Mary Davis Wilburn, 104, oldest known survivor of the Titanic disaster, died peacefully Wednesday at Community-General Hospital, leaving behind unpleasant memories of death and terror in the North Atlantic. She was one o...
30th July 1987  
Corriere Mercantile (1912) THE NAMES OF THE ITALIANS
Num. 67, p.1 [Translation] As we said yesterday among the Titanic's crew were many italians names, between them Mr. Gatti, service's manager, Mr. Donini, his coadiuvator, L. Mombello - L. Zarraghi, 26 years old - C. Scav...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1918) CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED
215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N...
20th July 1918  
  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...
   
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ...
17th April 1912  
Corriere della Sera (1912) STILL MISSING A COMPLETE LIST OF THE ITALIAN'S SHIPWREKED
Page B07 [Translation] The enrolment of the waiters for the "Titanic" London, 17 April, night Till midnight no one new list of the survivors has reached, so except for Portaluppi and Pera...
18th April 1912  
Guernsey Evening Press (1912) JACK POINGDESTRE
Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks...
  April 1912  
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  
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 Washington Post (1912) RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC
From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ...
20th April 1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital...
15th May 1912  
Bernardsville News (1912) SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT DISASTER
Mrs. Harman and Daughters Interviewed---Before and after the awful Casualty---Husband and Father gone and all their Property Lost---A Trouble too Deep for Words --- Mrs. Jane Harman, widow of Samuel Harman, who met his death at sea last...
26th April 1912  
The Cadet (1914) MOODY MEMORIAL CUP
The Cup presented by Mrs Day and other relatives of J P Mood, who was lost in the "Titanic", to perpetuate his memory on board, reached the Ship during the Easter holidays, and is a great acquisition to our collection of trophies in the way of cup...
13th June 1914  
  (2005) EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC
Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec...
8th December 2005  
  (1987) CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO
NO disaster of modern times has quite excited the same horror and at the same time, fascination, doubt, bravery and cowardice as the sinking of the Titanic. Fred Barrett lived in Hanley with his wife ...
26th February 1987  
Boston Daily Globe (1912) GIRL WENT DOWN TO SAVE ANOTHER
Miss Evans Gave Up Place in Boat That a Mother Could Live --- Mrs Brown of Acton Tells of Her Rescue Due to Other's Sacrifice --- Saved through the heroic generosity of a young and b...
21st April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) ASTOR'S OLD BUTLER A HERO
Special to the Star by a staff reporter New York, April 20. --- In the register of the Titanic's heroes the name of Robbins should appear.  He was Colonel Astor's old butler, and like the Colonel's valet, always travelled wi...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) CREW BEHAVED ADMIRABLY
Miss Elizabeth Allen of St. Louis was one of the first women passengers to leave the Carpathia. She was accompanied by Mrs Edward Roberts and Miss E A Mardell, also of St Louis. The three women appeared to be cool. Miss Allen who is a young woman of ...
19th April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES
Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ...
19th April 1912  
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  
  (1962) JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL - RADIO INTERVIEW
Joseph Boxhall  Radio Interview, October 1962 Transcribed by Capt. Charles B. Weeks and Cathy Akers-Jordan On that Sunday night the, 14th, of April, along with Moody who was the Si...
  October 1962  
The Scotsman (1912) STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th...
17th April 1912  
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  
  (1934) RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT HORSWILL
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10th May 1934  
  MR WILLIAM TAGGART – DELIVERY CREW TRIMMER
Mr William Taggart was born in Belfast in 1889 and began work with the Harland & Wolff yard as an apprentice. He was one of the workers who helped to build Titanic from day one. He had also been a crewmember of the Olympic. When the Titanic was deli...
   
Belfast Telegraph (2006) TITANIC : A NICE LITTLE EARNER
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26th January 2006  
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST
MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...
22nd April 1912  
Hampshire Chronicle (1912) SURVIVOR FROM “TITANIC”
A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able-seaman abo...
27th April 1912  
  MEMORIALS
Named on Millbrook Church Memorial. Named on St Mary's Church, Eling, nr. Southampton Memorial. The memorial is situated just inside the church on the right. ''To The Memory of'' Frederick Walter Godwin, 34 years old. Will...
   
Chicago American (1912) 2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES
Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu...
25th 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  
  (1912) IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912
This splendid document was published just days after the sinking of the Titanic. Its title is 'Souvenir in affectionate remembrance of the Captain, Mates, Crew and Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world's biggest liner S. S. T...
  1912  
The Times (1912) LIVERPOOL AWARDS TO CARPATHIA CREW
Page 3Engineers of the Carpathia honoured The Lord Mayor of Liverpool has made various presentations to the engineers and electricians of the Carpathia who gave service on the night of the Titanic disaster. Mr A. Johnsto...
16th December 1912  
ET Comment (2006) SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i...
5th December 2006  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) LOSES ALL HIS MONEY
NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w...
20th April 1912  
Brighton Argus (2005) CAR BOOT BARGAIN HUNT FINDS TITANIC TREASURE
 A rare item of memorabilia from the Titanic worth thousands of pounds has turned up at a car boot sale. Amateur historian Trevor Bailey, of Kings Road, Brighton, and his daughter Rachel paid just £10 for the bundle...
2nd April 2005  
New York Times (1956) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Mrs. Annie May Stengel, 88, Was in Third Lifeboat --- Special to The New York Times --- MONTCLAIR, N. J., Jan. 24 ---Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Annie May Stengel, a survivor of the sinking of the Tita...
25th January 1956  
Democrat and Chronicle (1931) ROCHESTER WOMAN TELLS OF TITANIC SINKING IN 1912
Mrs. John Black Barely Reached Last Boat To Leave Ship, And Tiny Craft Was Nearly Drawn Into Great Vortex by Samuel B. Covey "No, I am not averse to another ocean voyage, although I have not been on one since, for I re...
15th April 1931  
ET Research (2005) IDENTIFYING STEWARDS
WHAT ARE the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea? Better than impossible - fair, in some cases. One of the early bodies picked up by the search ves...
13th February 2005  
  (2005) HECTOR
Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles...
13th March 2005  
ET Research (2005) TITANIC’S CARGO GEAR
Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...
11th January 2005  
Unidentified Newspaper (1987) UNTITLED EXTRACT
Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ...
  1987  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Harper, Miss Nina. Saved in Lifeboat number 11 with her cousin Jessie Leith. Returned to England via SS Celtic, 25th April 1912. Aged 6 years. Later (1934) became Mrs. Pont, died 1986. (Gleaned from the Internet 20th S...
   
Worcester Telegram (1912) STEAD AND ASTOR CLING TO RAFT
New York, April 19- One version of the deaths of John Jacob Astor and William T. Stead was told by Philip Mock, who, with his sister, Mrs.Paul Schabert, were among the survivors. "Many men were hanging on to rafts in the sea," said Mr....
20th 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  
New York Times (1912) CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. J. ASTOR
Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Meets Again Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Cumings --- GOES TO SEE MRS. WIDENER --- With the Crew of the Carpathia He Will Attend Concert for Musicians' Families --- Capt. Arthur Henry Ros...
1st June 1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT
H. B. Stephenson, one of the Survivors, who, it was said, is attached to the Swedish legation at Washington, made the following statement: "At the time of the collision a Mr. Woolner and myself were seated in the cafe. There was only a ...
19th April 1912  
  (1989) EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM GEORGE BEHE
''A few years ago I found an interesting titbit which, I believe, clears up any mystery surrounding how he was saved. His photograph appears in the May 4, 1912 issue of the Illustrated London News along with other crewmen who had returned to England....
20th May 1989  
  (1912) F. BEST - RELIEF FUND POSTER
Titanic disaster poster from Frederick Best and Sons, a fish business, at 33 Millbank Street, Northam, Southampton. it states, in full: "TITANIC" DISASTER. F. BEST BEGS TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF HIS MANY PATRONS AND OTHERS, THAT A...
27th April 1912  
Sphere (1913) SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY
JOLLY DAYS FOR SEAMEN'S ORPHANS A Visit to the Isle of Wight Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton who are enjoying a Summer Holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight Among them are many youngsters whose father...
30th August 1913  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) E.Z. TAYLOR'S ACCOUNT
E. Z. Taylor of Philadelphia, one of the survivors, jumped into the sea just three minutes before the boat sank, He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia. "I was eating when the boat struck the iceberg," he maid. "There was an...
18th April 1912  
  LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS
The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo...
   
ET Research (2001) THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC
Presented for consideration by the Marine Forensic Panel (SD-7) chartered by the The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at Gibbs & Cox, Inc., Suite 700, 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia...
6th June 2001  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
   
  (1912) POSTCARD SENT BY MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TITANIC
This postcard was sent to Miss M. Liesse by a one F. Liesse. The handwriting looks like a man's, but it could have been sent by a maid who travelled with her employers in London, Paris, Baden...) The text at the back of the card reads: ...
21st April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK
McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...
23rd April 1912  
Eastbourne Gazette (1912) HERO MUSICIANS : SUGGESTED MEMORIAL TO MR. J. W. WOODWARD
The Titanic Disaster While the horror of the Titanic disaster is still fresh in the public mind, and the nation is contributing with an almost unexampled generosity to funds for the survivors and the families of the crew, would it not ...
1st May 1912  
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier MRS. HANSON IS HOME
MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________   ...
   
Corriere della Sera (1912) ITALIANS SHIPWRECKED
Page 5 [Translation] London, 17 April, night Italians aboard the Titanic numbered more than 50: two restaurant's directors L. Gatti, 36 years, and F. Scavino, two superintendents, Giuseppe Bochet, from s...
19th April 1912  
Boston Daily Globe (1912) WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE
INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ...
22nd April 1912  
ET Research (2006) THE PORTRUSH LETTER
THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp...
31st January 2006  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) BELIEVES BROTHER LOST
Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM
NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo...
20th April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) RESCUED UNION HILL GIRL'S STORY
A story entirely different from that of those rescued from the Titanic is told by Miss Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill. When seen at her home last night Miss Dowdell was very emphatic in telling about the treatment received on board ...
20th April 1912  
  ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER
Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
   
The Greenwich News (1912) GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED
MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ...
19th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ...
17th April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) ONLY 1 OF 10 IN PARTY ON TITANIC SAVED
Hackensack, April 22---One of the fortunate survivors of the ill-fated steamship Titanic was Miss Anna Nyster, a Swedish girl who sailed from England to accept a position as mother's helper in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen,...
22nd April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1975) THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82
Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t...
4th November 1975  
ET Research (2002) MOLLY BROWN: MYSTERY UNRAVELLED
"At Cherbourg, a woman came aboard named Margaret Brown. We all called her &q...
21st July 2002  
Providence Journal (2005) SEVERAL INTERVIEW EXCERPTS BY HELEN AND FAMILY DETAILS
The Oslo-born family sent its first members to America in 1866 to establish the foundation on which the family would build for decades to come. Englehart studied at the Royal School of Art in Oslo and apprenticed as a jeweler.  Com...
11th August 2005  
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  
Worcester Telegram (1912) FUNDS FOR SURVIVORS
By the Associated Press New York and London Mayor's Start Movement for Titanic's Survivors New York- April 17 - Mayor William J. Gaynor today received the following cablegram: "London, England, April 17, 1...
18th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma...
18th April 1912  
Chicago American (1912) TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH
TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...
25th April 1912  
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  
New York Times (1912) CAPTAIN'S OFFICIAL REPORTS
Rostron Tells How the Carpathia Did Work of Rescue --- Just before the Carpathia sailed yesterday afternoon on her interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Capt. Rostron, her commander, gave out what he declared to be the first and only...
20th April 1912  
Bureau County Republican (1912) EDWARD DORKING, SHIP WRECK SURVIVOR, APPEARS AT STAR THEATRE
PICKED UP BY THE CARPATHIA Young Englishman Relates Experiences in Greatest Maritime disaster in World's History. Seven hundred persons, who packed the Star theatre to its capacity at three performances Tuesday night, ...
2nd May 1912  
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  
Falmouth Packet (1912) FALMOUTH MAN DROWNED
The name of Mr. H. Creece (sic), deck engineer, does not appear amongst the survivors and he has been given up as lost. The deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and her two children in their great sorrow. Obituary WAS born at ...
26th April 1912  
  (2004) KURA
Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.) (Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees ...
19th December 2004  
San Francisco Bulletin (1912) DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE
Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the...
20th April 1912  
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  
Denver Post (1912) LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER
Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...
19th April 1912  
Nottingham Daily Express (1912) DERBYSHIRE VICTIM
Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,...
22nd April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912  
  (1926) MY MAIDEN VOYAGE
When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr...
  1926  
Cumberland News (1912) LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER
Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv...
20th April 1912  
ET Reviews (2009) E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC
THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...
5th May 2009  
AFP (2009) LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN ENGLAND: BBC
LONDON (AFP) - Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died Sunday at a care home in England where the lived, the BBC reported, citing a unnamed friend. She was 97.Dean was a two-month-old baby and her family were emigr...
31st May 2009  
ET Research (2003) WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST
Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the list is due to internal force. Off center weight i...
30th April 2003  
The Evening Telegram (1912) HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS
ON STEAMER TITANIC Each Boat Would Accommodate Fifty People---Equipped with All Modern Improvements. Speaking about the lifeboat equipment of the Titanic, M...
16th April 1912  
Chicago Daily News (1912) SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW
“Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD
Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...
22nd April 1912  
Washington Post (1974) THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le...
9th January 1974  
Knoxville News Sentinel (2009) SHIPSHAPE RE-CREATED TITANIC RISES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN PIGEON FORGE
PIGEON FORGE - Half of the world's most famous ill-fated ship is being reconstructed in the Tennessee hills. A 30,000-square-foot replica of the Titanic is being built against the mountain backdrop of Pigeon Forge. The forward half of th...
15th September 2009  
  (1912) THE TITANIC : OUR STORY
SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an...
  1912  
  MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT'
Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
   
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  
New York Times (1983) ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90
ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So...
20th September 1983  
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
   
  (1913) AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET
No. 205. (English). The husband, a fireman on the Titanic was drowned. He is survived by his wife living in Canada and earning a living for her two children as a charwoman. Her eldest boy, fourteen years of age, works in an office, earning five dolla...
  1913  
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  
  (2004) COLLINGWOOD
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...
28th November 2004  
  (2005) AJAX
Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag:...
27th February 2005  
ET Research (2008) MCGOUGH THE KEY?
THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No. ...
5th September 2008  
New York Times (1900) OUTING IN NEW HANDS
The Publication Purchased by Caspar Whitney and Ten Other Men --- Caspar Whitney, for many years connected with the Harpers as writer on sporting topics, announces that he and ten other men have bought the publication known as Outing, ...
15th February 1900  
  (2004) TITANIC (1888)
Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ...
22nd November 2004  
Connaught Telegraph (1912) WRECK OF THE TITANIC
The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ...
20th April 1912  
Barking Chronicle (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING
We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation...
19th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) WESTCOUNTRY CONNECTIONS
A representative called at the residence of Mr. J. A. Pascoe, Crownhill, whose brother, Mr. C. H. Pascoe, is believed to be the only Westcountry member of the crew saved in the Titanic disaster, and had the pleasure of an interesting conversation wit...
29th April 1912  
New York Times (1908) J. P. MORGAN SAILS
Has Six Staterooms on the Adriatic---Mrs. Waldorf Astor Also Departs --- Many passengers sailed yesterday in the outgoing liners for Europe. On the Adriatic went J. Pierpont Morgan and his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterl...
27th February 1908  
Sphere (1912) LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY
The picture on the left [above] shows the infant born at Cincinnati to Mrs Mary Eloise Smith, one of the widows of the Titanic disaster. The boy will be named Lucien P. Smith II, after his father, whom the young widow saw for the last time on the nig...
28th December 1912  
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER
NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...
20th April 1912  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (2002) RECOLLECTIONS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR EDMOND RYAN
I JOINED the ship at Queenstown, County Cork and had to go out in a tender, about three miles I think, to get on board the ship. The tender looked like a match stick alongside the great liner. A big door opened in her side, and a ...
9th July 2002  
White Plains Daily Argus (1912) TALKED WITH STEAD'S SPIRIT, WOMAN SAYS
TELLS SPIRITUALISTS LOST EDITOR APPEARED TO HER Pittsburgh, April 24 - "Happy, but preparing to be with us in the spirit," was the way Mrs. Mary L. Feldman of Carrick, a delegate to the fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania...
24th April 1912  
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  
Denver Post (1912) LENA STOIBER ROOD SEEKS HUSBAND BY ADVERTISING
He Was On Titanic - She Hopes He May Have Escaped Death. Hoping against hope that her husband, Hugh Rood may have by some chance escaped death in the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Lena Stoiber Rood is making every effort to locate him, if he ...
6th May 1912  
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  
St. Paul Daily News (1912) TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER
- Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...
17th May 1912  
New York Times (1913) ROSENSHINE LEFT $161,033
Brother and Partner of Titanic Victim Residuary Legatee --- The appraisal of the estate of George Rosenshine, President of Rosenshine Bros., importers of ostrich feathers, who perished in the Titanic disaster, was filed yesterday showin...
11th May 1913  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) LITTLE DISORDER ON TITANIC
E. Z. Taylor, of London, Gives Graphic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue ---------- E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia and London, and stockholder in the American Mono- Service Co., told his story of the disaster and rescue in a cal...
20th April 1912  
Weekly Advocate (1912) NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE
Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ...
2nd May 1912  
The Toronto World (1912) MAJOR PEUCHEN BLAMES CAPTAIN WHO WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP
Loss of Titanic, He Says, Was Due to Criminal Carelessness in Running at Full Speed Thru the Ice With a New Crew--Capt. Smith Was Having His Dinner When Crash Came--Major Peuchen Left in Third Boat, Which Had Only 22 People and Could Have...
20th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) ARCHIE PUT ME IN A LIFEBOAT
Miss Marie Young, of Washington, Tells of Aid's Heroism and Calmness --- By MISS MARIE YOUNG --- Musical tutor to the younger children of former President Roosevelt. She had been studying music in Europe and was returning...
20th April 1912  
Scarborough Mercury (1912) MR. J. P. MOODY
Son of Mr. J. Moody We understand that Mr. J. P. Moody, one of the officers concerning whom no news has been received, is a son of Mr. J. Moody, solicitor, once in practice in Scarborough, and for some years a member of the Scarborough...
19th April 1912  
Christian Science Sentinel (1912) TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD
It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi...
  October 1912  
  REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT]
Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
   
ET Research (2001) JOHN EDWARD HART: DUBIOUS HERO
1 In Walter Lord’s seminal A Night to Remember (1955), and the host of other books and films on the Titanic that have followed in its wake, only a few figures have emerged as heroes who provided aid ...
26th January 2001  
Chicago American (1959) 3 VICTIMS LAUD TITANIC FILM
Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y...
25th February 1959  
Leatherhead, Advertiser, Epsom District Times and County Post (1912) WRECK OF THE TITANIC LITTLE GIRLS ACCOUNT
Mrs. Tate, of Elm Villas, Leatherhead, has just received from her daughter (Mrs. Collyer) a copy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, containing an account of the wreck of the Titanic, as depicted by her daughter Margery, eight years of age. It will be remem...
18th May 1912  
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  
Liverpool Echo (2009) MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED
IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea. The Cunard liner was not long on her journey when her radio operator contacted another ship with a sta...
10th October 2009  
New York Herald (1912) WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING
Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary...
19th April 1912  
  MEMORIAL
There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
   
ET Research (2004) OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR "SLEEPING ROUGH"
YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ...
10th June 2004  
Newark Evening News (1912) STENGEL TELLS TRAGEDY STORY
Home with Wife, Depicts Wreck Scenes and Perils of Survivors. ---------- DEATH NEAR, VICTIMS JOKED ---------- Days of suspense had been borne by the family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of 1075 Broad str...
19th April 1912  
LA Times (2009) LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97
Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the legendary ocean liner Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, died today. She was 97.She died at a nursing home near Southampton...
31st May 2009  
Jersey Observer (1943) ROBERT HOPKINS, HERO OF TITANIC, DIES IN HOBOKEN
The funeral of Robert J. Hopkins, 77, of 1035 Garden street, Hoboken, one of the heroes of the disastrous sinking of the Titanic in mid-Atlantic in 1912, will be held at 8 a. m. tomorrow from the Bosworth Funeral Home, 311 Willow avenue, Hoboken....
18th November 1943  
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  
Southern Evening Echo (1952) UNTITLED
GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ...
9th December 1952  
New York Times (1912) BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT
Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester...
21st April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
An Exonian on board was Mr Harry Dyer, second son of Q.M.S. Dyer and Mrs Dyer of Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter. A smart young fellow, 25 years of age, he was fourth engineer, having transferred from the Olympic. He was in Exeter for a short holiday a...
  1912  
Washington Times (1912) DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES
NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h...
19th April 1912  
Niles Daily News (1912) SURVIVOR FROM TITANIC ARRIVES IN NILES
Philip Zanni Tells a Tragic Story of His Rescue - Assisted in Rowing Lifeboat Away from Sinking Ship --------------- The first survivor of the ill fated ship the "Titanic" that has reached Niles is Philip Zanni [sic],...
25th April 1912  
North American (1912) BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK
Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the sinking of the Titanic was told yesterday by Charles Weikman, chief barber on the liner, at his home i...
20th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA
New York, April 19.- Mrs. C.F. Crane of Fort Sheridan, Ill, a passenger on the Carpathia, today gave this graphic account of the Carpathia's thrilling race with death. She said that news of the disaster had become known to the passengers on board the...
20th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1967) MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was...
  1967  
  (2005) CALEDONIA
Anchor Line On 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra. Port of Registry: Glasgow Flag of ...
11th June 2005  
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  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) MR. AND MRS. BISHOP GIVE FIRST AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW CONCERNING TITANTIC [SIC] DISASTER
THEY RECITE A GRAPHIC TALE OF THE GREAT SEA DISASTER OF A WEEK AGO. "Ladies and Grooms First" Was Order They Obeyed and Both Left the Ship Together TELL EXPERIENCES WHILE AFLOAT German Baron Would Not A...
20th April 1912  
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  
Evening Banner (1912) RESCUED PASSENGER BRINGS WORD OF LOST SUPERINTENDENT
A. H. BARKWORTH OF ENGLAND Tells of Acquaintance Made With Bennington Man on Steamship's First and Last Trip. The first information relative to Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of the J. C. Colgate estate, who lost his life in the T...
26th April 1912  
  (2005) GERMANIA
Fabre Line Eastbound.  On 10 April reported heavy ice conditions in an area that later included the disaster site. Port of registry:   Marseilles Flag of registry:  French...
4th October 2005  
  (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  
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  
Daily Herald (1984) AFTER 72 YRS., TITANIC SURVIVOR TALKS TO PRESS ABOUT FATAL NIGHT
For 72 years she has kept her memories of that miserable night to herself, always refusing to tell reporters what she saw, what she felt. "When I came to Chicago they would pester me and pester me," she said of the aggressive reporters who...
15th April 1984  
Hudson Observer (1912) UNION HILL WOMAN SAYS BAND DIDN'T PLAY ON TITANIC
---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell Heard Only the Cries and Sobs of the Passengers as the White Star Liner Went Down at Sea ---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell, 30 years old, of 215 Park avenue, Union Hill, one of the Tit...
20th April 1912  
  OREGON'S ONLY FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS: THE WARRENS
Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class passengers on the Titanic from the state of Oregon. They were returning from Europe after a three month celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary. Frank Warren may wel...
   
  (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  
 

 
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