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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 | ||
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Bristol Herald Courier | (2007) | 9/11 OF ITS TIME LESSONS, TRAGEDY OF TITANIC DISASTER STILL RESONATE Every American generation seems to endure a moral catastrophe, an event so traumatic and terrible that it shakes the era's complacency and crushes the faith of an age, of a people, and becomes a moment where a new before and after is established. Before Sept. 11, 2001, before President John F. Kennedy's assassination, before Pearl Harbor, there was the Titanic disaster.... | 30th April 2007 | ||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1958) | TITANIC MEN FOR PREMIERE OF NEW FILM A HANDFUL of survivors from the Titanic disaster in 1912, some of whom have not seen each other since, will be at the Odeon, Leicester Square, tonight, to see the premiere of the new Rank Organisation film, A Night To Remember. The fil... | 3rd July 1958 | |||
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(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 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER At a special meeting of the St. David’s (Exeter) District Committee of the National Deposit Friendly Society a vote of condolence was passed with Mr. and Mrs. Dyer in the loss of their son in the Titanic disaster. The deceased was a member of the St... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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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 | ||
| Daily Express | (1932) | BBC DENY TITANIC RADIO PLAY TO BE BROADCAST BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster has been issued by the... | 25th February 1932 | |||
| New York Times | (1925) | TITANIC DISASTER SURVIVOR DROWNS IN A SHALLOW POND BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April 18--Surviving the Titanic disaster April 14, 1912, by swimming for hours in the icy waters until picked up by a rescue ship, Oscar Palmquist of 42 Lenox Avenue was drowned in six feet of water in a pond in Beardsley Park into... | 19th April 1925 | |||
| Worcester Evening Post | (1912) | MARINE DISASTER CAUSED WEAKNESS IN SECURITIES London, April 16- The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness today in gilt-edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International mercantile mar... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Sun-Times | (1990) | ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan... | 2nd February 1990 | |||
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stv.tv | (2009) | 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth. It was sent from Canada to Moray in Scotland on May 21, 1912 - around a month after... | 15th October 2009 | ||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1922) | MRS. RENE W. HARRIS TO WED Z. C. BARBER Her Husband Was Drowned in Titanic Disaster NEW YORK, Sept 12---Mrs Rene W Harris, widow of Henry B. Harris, theatricak man who drowned in the Titanic disaster, will marry Zack C. Barber, a broker... | 13th September 1922 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6... | 21st April 1931 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN STOPS FESTIVITIES Deeply Affected by the Disaster, He Halts Aix Celebration --- AIX LES BAINS, France, April 19 --- J. Pierpont Morgan, who has arrived here to participate in to-day's inauguration of the sanitarium he has had built in honor of his ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | GILT-EDGED STOCKS AFFECTED BY DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch London, April 16.---The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness to-day in glit edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International Mercantile Mari... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Reporter | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER - WELL-KNOWN MISSIONARY AMONG THE DROWNED. The Rev. John Harper, formerly pastor of Paisley Road Baptist Church, Glasgow, who appears to be among the victims of the Titanic disaster, was known in the Newtown and St. Boswells district. A few years ago Mr. Harper conducted the closing meeting o... | 25th April 1912 | |||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2006) | TWINNING WILL CEMENT TITANIC LINK In a cemetery in the Canadian town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, around 150 victims of the Titanic disaster are buried. Their bodies were recovered from the freezing waters of the north Atlantic days after the sinking.Now, leisure chiefs in Southampton are planning to cement the relationship between the two cities by signing an official "twinning" accord with the Canadians.The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor John Slade, is set to visit Halifax in March next year as part of the 95th anniversary commemorations of the disaster.... | 13th November 2006 | ||
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Graphic | (1912) | A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER ‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times... | 18th May 1912 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | ENGINEER HAS SISTER HERE Jonathan Shepherd, third assistant engineer on the Titanic, who is believed to have gone down with the ship, is a brother of Miss Frances Shepherd, of 10 South Twelfth street. He was formerly on the Olympic, but was transferred to the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE PLANNED FOR TITANIC DEAD ELIZABETH, April 22---Memorial services for Peter Reniff and Thomas Gavey, of 21B Florida street, and Clifford and Ernest Jefferies, who were lost while on their way to this city in the Titanic disaster, will be held by the local lodges of Sons and D... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Whitehaven News | (1912) | MILLOM'S CONNECTION WITH THE TITANIC DISASTER THE widespread effects of the Titanic disaster is evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Beck of Cambridge Street, Millom, (Cumberland) had a relative aboard the ill-fated vessel. Mrs. Meanwell, first cousin of Mrs. Beck, who was proceeding on the Ti... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| The South Bend Tribune | (1912) | MRS FATIMA MOUSSELMANI TITANIC SURVIVOR WEDS Michigan City Woman Brings Word of Drowning of South Bend Men Michigan City, Ind., May 8 -- Mohammed Mustafa Ajamy and Miss Fatima Muselmanie, the latter a Titanic survivor and the woman who brought word of the... | 8th May 1912 | |||
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NY Daily News (4/20/08 | (2008) | TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction.... | 20th April 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | SENATORS GREET ROSTRON Hero of Titanic Disaster Warmly Welcomed in Congress --- WASHINGTON, Dec. 9---Capt. Arthur S. [sic] Rostron, who drove the steamship Carpathia at full speed through a sea of icebergs to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaste... | 10th December 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TITANIC MAIL CLERK’S WIFE ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR NEWS ABOUT HIM Mrs. Lelia Woody, wife of O. S. Woody, United States mail clerk aboard the Titanic, is in Clifton, Va., today, anxiously awaiting news of the disaster, and hoping against hope he did not go down with the wrecked steamer. Woody is well ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1923) | MRS. ELOISE HUGHES SMITH REWEDS HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Apr. 10---Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, to whom a divorce was granted a month ago from Robert P. Daniel of Philadelphia, another survivor of the same disaster, was married Saturday at Ironton, Ohio,... | 11th April 1923 | |||
| 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 | |||
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(1912) | WILLIAM MCCARTHY AFTER THE TITANIC DISASTER | 1912 | |||
| New York Evening Journal | (1912) | INSISTS HUSBAND ESCAPED DISASTER A pathetic case growing out of the Titanic disaster is that of Mrs. J. Bradley Cumings of No. 50 East Sixty-fourth Street, whose husband, formerly a broker at No. 36 Wall Street, perished with the ship. Mrs. Cumings, confined in her b... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | NEVER NEAR TITANIC By the Associated Press NEVER NEAR TITANIC Parisian Has No News Of Disaster Until Long After It Occurs. HALIFAX, April 17.-Capt. Hains of the Parisian, when communicated with, reported that at 10:30 o'cloc... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | FIRST CLAIMS DUE TO TITANIC DISASTER TO BE SETTLED PAY $20,000 LEWY INSURANCE First Claims due to Titanic Disaster to Be Settled In United States, So Far as Known ... | 11th May 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1933) | SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER PASSES AWAY Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, wife of Arthur Stead, of 128 Reid street, died last night at her home after a lingering illness. Mrs. Stead was a survivor of the "Titanic" disaster twenty-one years ago. Born in England, she came to this country twenty-five ... | 8th July 1933 | |||
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RTE | (2009) | FUNERAL FOR TITANIC'S LAST SURVIVOR The funeral has taken place in England of the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Millvina Dean. The private service, attended by family and friends, took place at Southampton Crematorium, the funeral directors confirmed. ... | 16th June 2009 | ||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FROM POPE AND KING By the Associated Press FROM POPE AND KING Messages of Sympathy Over Titanic Disaster Are Issued ROME, April 17.- Both Pope Pius and King Victor Emmanuel have expressed their deep sympathy for the victims ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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(1910) | SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER The French paper Le Journal, on 20 April 1912, read: "Mr. S.-L. Goldenberg crosses the Atlantic three times a year; he was a passenger on the liner that caused the Pluviôse disaster. As an important lace importer, he is well known on t... | 26th May 1910 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | INVENTIONS SURGE AFTER TITANIC DISASTER page4 INVENTIONS OF 1912 The Influence of the Titanic Disaster The 20th report of the Comptroller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks was issued as a parliamentary paper last night. The loss of the Titanic was fo... | 19th April 1913 | |||
| Free Press | (1912) | THE TITANIC FUND During the last week it has transpired that one of the bandsmen on board the Titanic was a man named J. W. Woodward, who was born and educated at Hill Top, West Bromwich. Woodward's father was at one time manager of the Hill Top Foundry, and W... | 26th April 1912 | |||
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Cornubian | (1912) | THE LATE MR FRANK ANDREW On Sunday evening at St. Andrew's Church, the vicar (the Rev. R. Prior) preached an impressive and appropriate sermon to a large congregation. Taking as his text Psalm cvii., verses 23 and 24 he made special reference to the Titanic disaster. The ... | 25th April 1912 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WIRELESS FROM THE STENGELS First Direct Personal Message Received from Jersey Folk in the Disaster ---------- BOTH ON THE CARPATHIA ---------- Direct intelligence from Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of this city, now on the rescue ship Carpathia, was received h... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | MRS. NATSCH PROSTRATED BY NEWS OF DISASTER Charles Natsch, of 503 East Seventh street, Secretary of the firm of Lamonte, Corliss & Company, importers of Manhattan, is prominent in club and social circles in Flatbush. Mr. Natsch left New York about six weeks ago on a business trip for his fi... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | STORM STOPS NEWS: SABLE ISLAND COMMUNICATES BRIEFLY WITH THE CARPATHIA. By the Associated Press HALIFAX. N. S., April 17.- The wireless station at Sable Island was in communication for a time this morning with the Cunarder Carpathia, bound for New York with the survivors of the Titanic on board.... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | ROYALTY'S DEEP SYMPATHY ------- London, April 16. (Can Press.) ---King George has sent the following message to the White Star Co.: "The Queen and I are horrified at the appaling disaster which has happened to the ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C... | 30th April 1931 | |||
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(1912) | LILLIAN ASPLUND - AGED 5 YEARS Pictured in 1912, after the Titanic disaster which claimed the life of both her father & 3 brothers - Filip (13), Clarence (9)and her twin Carl (5).... | 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | SHOCK WAS FATAL BOISSEVAIN, Man., April 16---J. P. Alexander, ex M. L. A. dropped dead today when told of the Titanic disaster. He was troubled with heart disease.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Calgary Herald | (1912) | ANOTHER ADDED TO LIST OF LOST IS ALBERT MALLET, A TRAVELLER MONTREAL, April 20.- The disaster to the Titanic was brought poignantly home to Montrealers today by the arrival in the city of some of the Montreal survivors. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a special train pulled into the Grand Trunk st... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1974) | HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ... | 6th November 1974 | |||
| 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 | (1931) | RECITES CLOSE CALL OF TITANIC RESCUE Sir Arthur Rostron Tells How Radio Man Got S 0 S as He Prepared to Quit Post --- RECALLS 46 YEARS AT SEA --- Carpathia's Former Master, in New Autobiography, Describes "Most Memorable Night" of Career --- If ... | 27th October 1931 | |||
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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 | ||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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BBC News | (2009) | VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from £2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 ki... | 8th October 2009 | ||
| Daily Telegraph | (1961) | DEATH NOTICE: HERBERT JOHN PITMAN At Pitcombe, Bruton, Somerset, aged 84. A survivor of the Titanic disaster; was third officer on the liner, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage.... | 18th December 1961 | |||
| 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 | |||
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WEAU-TV 13 | (2009) | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC Imagine seeing the Titanic, in person, deep under the waves in the north Atlantic. An author from Los Angeles with local roots is teaching kids about the disaster, with unique insight.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1912) | BODY OF WEST HOBOKEN MAN, VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER, FOUND AT SEA Recovered by the Mackay-Bennett Ship and Will Be Sent Home. --------------- IDENTIFIED BY MARKS --------------- Fifteen More Bodies Were Found by Same Vessel Today --------------- Greenwood Robertson, of 222... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | MR. SUTTON’S BODY TO BE SENT HOME Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER’S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutton, one of the... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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Daily Mail | (2007) | THE KEY THAT MAY HAVE SAVED TITANIC FROM SINKING This key may have been able to save the Titanic from disaster. It would have opened a locker where the crows nest's binoculars were kept. The key belonged to second officer David Blair who was taken off the luxury liner at the last moment. ... | 27th August 2007 | ||
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UTV | (2007) | TITANIC TRAGEDY IS REMEMBERED A service has been held in Belfast to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. The world`s most famous maritime disaster happened when the vessel hit an iceberg in April 1912.... | 30th April 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt. Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | THE TRURO CHURCHES The Rev. W. F. Fenwick (vicar) referred to the disaster at St. John’s on Sunday morning and at the evening service the Rev. G. Rhys said that from that small parish two persons (Messrs. West and Fillbrook) had gone down with the doomed vessel: he tru... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | TITANIC’S COURSE AND SPEED CAUSED DISASTER, SAYS DAHL A picture of a sea dotted with so many icebergs that the Carpathia was forced to steer an zigzag course to leave the field of menacing floes was added to the indictment against officials of the White Star Line to-day by Charles Dahl, a Titan... | 24th April 1912 | |||
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THE HIPPACH FAMILY Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | |||||
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Mirror.co.uk | (2007) | £22K TALE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR A Titanic survivor's letter giving her account of the disaster has sold for £22,000 at auction.The writer tells how her party was last off the doomed liner and nearly froze to death in a lifeboat before being rescued.... | 1st October 2007 | ||
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Danbury News Times | (2008) | AN EVENING ABOARD THE TITANIC Perhaps no disaster had been revisited as much as has the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.We are endlessly fascinated with the luxurious and doomed ocean liner that, for almost a century, has rested silently on the bottom the Atlantic.... | 27th March 2008 | ||
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CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | |||||
| 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 | |||
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TITANIC INQUIRY PROJECT The site contains the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports.... | |||||
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(1912) | MR. AND MRS. W. T. STEAD This picture was published in the 1912 book 'Sinking of the Titanic, the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - Official edition - By Thomas H. Russell', page 161... | 1912 | |||
| FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY, THE BELOVED WIFE OF THOMAS WILSON WHO DIED 3rd JULY 1913 IN HER 66th YEAR. ALSO BERTIE, BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE WHO WAS LOST IN THE TITANIC DISASTER APRIL 1912... | ||||||
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The Sun | (2008) | IT'S RETURN OF TITANIC A REPLICA of sunk liner Titanic is to be built in its home port as a tourist attraction.Southampton council hopes to finish the £15million project in time for the 100th anniversary of the disaster in April 2012. ... | 9th October 2008 | ||
| St. Ives Times & Express | (1988) | UNKNOWN TITLE Died January 9th 1988. RICHARDS, William (Willie) Rowe Richards of Carbis Bay whose death at the age of 78 is reported on page 7 was one of the few survivors remaining of the Titanic disaster in which in April 1912 claimed 1,500 lives.... | 22nd January 1988 | |||
| Southampton Echo | (1965) | TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ... | 11th January 1965 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER It is feared that Rev. E. C. Carter and Mrs. Carter, of St. Jude’s, Whitechapel, are among the lost passengers. The rev. gentleman was a brother of the Rector of St. Mary Arches, Exeter, and was taking a holiday. Mrs. Carter was a niece of Mrs. E. ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON This portrait of Carpathia's commander was published in the 1912 book 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'... | 1912 | |||
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Sunday Independent | (1912) | SUFFERERS BOTH By the terrible disaster to the "Titanic", both America and Ireland have been plunged into the most profound grief. The Irish names were many in the list of passengers; in the list of survivors they are painfully few. ... | 21st April 1912 | ||
| The Washington Post | (1912) | BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the... | 22nd May 1912 | |||
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BBC News | (2007) | RECOGNITION FOR LANCASTRIA DEAD Victims of Britain's worst maritime disaster are to be officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice after a long campaign.An estimated 4,000 people died when the Clyde-built liner the Lancastria sank during World War II.... | 6th December 2007 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | TITANIC DISASTER REMEMBERED About 100 people assembled to commemorate one of the darkest days of Southampton's maritime history.They gathered at Holyrood Church for a service remembering the victims of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic 96 years ago tomorrow.... | 14th April 2008 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster.Currently the big wheel structure sits around and on top of the mem... | 5th June 2009 | ||
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GRAVE In loving memory of Ada Maria Clarke passed away February 8th 1953 aged 69 Survivor of Titanic disaster 1912. Also Charles V. Clarke her beloved husband who lost his life on SS Titanic. Reunited. ... | |||||
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Daily Mirror | (2007) | THE LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR As a 10-week-old baby she was the youngest person to escape the Titanic, lowered overboard in a sack.Now, aged 95, Millvina Dean has become the last survivor of the disaster that killed 1,500 people, including her father.... | 7th November 2007 | ||
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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 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | WANTS INFORMATION OF BRANDEIS Mrs. Arthur D. Brandeis of 763 Fifth Avenue would be grateful for any information from survivors relative to her brother-in-law Emil Brandeis, who was lost in the Titanic disaster. Her telephone call is 3,142 Plaza. ... | 22nd March 1912 | |||
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TITANIC DECK CHAIR A deck chair thought to have been recovered from the scene of the disaster in April 1912.... | |||||
| New York Times | (1912) | [PAID DEATH NOTICE OF BROOK WEBB] WEBB---Brook H., chief smoke room steward of steamship Titanic, who perished in the disaster, age 49. Served the White Star Line continuously for thirty-seven years.... | 28th April 1912 | |||
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The Sydney Morning Herald | (2007) | HAUNTING HALIFAX IF IT'S the Titanic you're thinking of, forget Leonardo DiCaprio.The name you need to know is Arthur Gordon McCrae. A second-class passenger on the ill-fated ship, McCrae was the only Australian passenger killed in the disaster that shook the world.... | 1st August 2007 | ||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | BROADCAST ARCHIVE KEEPS PAST ALIVE To hear the voice of Edith Russell, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, is one of those "hairs on the back of the neck" moments. Here was a woman who had told a BBC Northern Ireland radio programme that she was "the next to last passenger in the last lifeboat, and the only lifeboat that was full. ... | 9th December 2006 | ||
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Cape May County Herald | (2008) | CG INTL. ICE PATROL REMEMBERS TITANIC The haunting melody of "Amazing Grace" cuts through the solemn silence of Fairview Lawn Cemetery here as 18 U.S. Coast Guardsmen pay their respects to the victims of possibly the most tragic maritime disaster in history, the sinking of the RMS Titanic.... | 5th May 2008 | ||
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune | (2008) | AN OCEAN-FLOOR VIEW OF TITANIC'S STAIRCASE Robert Williams first heard of the Titanic when his English grandmother gave him a copy of "The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters" for his 8th birthday.The book, printed in 1912, was the first narrative of the disaster, and it made an instant impact.... | 6th October 2008 | ||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | MR. J. DUQUEMIN The relations of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, reported to be one of the survivors of the Titanic Disaster, have not yet heard from him direct, but yesterday a letter was received from the White Star line's Southampton Office, confirming the telegram sent on ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
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Glasgow Daily Record | (2006) | TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday.... | 7th December 2006 | ||
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SENATE INQUIRY SUMMONS Summons ordering Able Seaman Thomas Jones to attend the Senate Sub-Committee inquiry into the Titanic disaster... | |||||
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(1912) | CREWMAN E. BROWN AND TWO OTHER TITANIC SURVIVORS Survivors from the Titanic disaster arrive in Southampton. The centre figure in the photograph is Mr E. Brown who was unable to swim but kept afloat for an hour by clinging to a lifebelt.... | April 1912 | |||
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Belfast Newsletter | (2008) | TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking.... | 24th April 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the early hours of 15 April 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton.The disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people in the north Atlantic, largely du... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| (1912) | MARCONIGRAM From: Winfield Thompson. ''Operator Carpathia. Can you get survivor write Boston Globe full narrative disaster and also wireless report to Franconia, so get most promising man preferably Frank D. Millett or Major Butt. All charges paid here. Winfield... | 17th April 1912 | ||||
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JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY The most famous studio portrait of Mr. Ismay, published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | |||||
| Borough of West Ham, East Ham, and Stratford Express | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER The only son of the Rev. R. Partner, who for many years was minister at Balaam-street Congregational Church, was also a passenger on the vessel. It is still uncertain whether or not he is saved, and Mr. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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ET | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL Millvenia Dean, the last living survivor of the Titanic disaster, has been admitted to hospital today and is not very well at all. ... | 22nd May 2009 | ||
| Washington Post | (1937) | OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d... | 18th October 1937 | |||
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Tampabay.com | (2008) | THIS MOLLY IS STILL UNSINKABLE Long before Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin was born, a gal from Missouri was shattering glass ceilings of her own.Molly Brown, the child of Irish immigrants, married a lucky gold prospector in 1886 and came into money. But it was her unlikely survival of the Titanic disaster in 1912 that made her famous.... | 30th September 2008 | ||
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MR. AND MRS. HARDER Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'. The Harders were a honeymoon couple saved from the Titanic. The woman weeping, with hand to her face, is Mrs Charles M. Hays.... | |||||
| FAMILY GRAVE Also Edward James William son of the above aged 38 years Also Edward Henry Bagley Nephew of the above Who Lost Their Lives in the Titanic Disaster April 15th 1912 Out of the Deep I Call To Thee ... | ||||||
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The Evening Telegram | (1912) | TOTS SAVED FROM THE SEA These two handsome little boys, who are at the home of Miss Margaret Hays, are one of the mysteries of the Titanic disaster. These small boys were rescued as the big liner was foundering. They speak French fluently, and they know what their firs... | 22nd April 1912 | ||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | LOCAL TITANIC VICTIMS HONORED AT SERVICES In memory of Peter H. Renouf, Laurence Garvey, Clifford Jeffreys and Ernest Jeffreys, who went down on the Titanic, a special service was held in Grace Episcopal Church last night. The first two were communicants of the church and the other two were... | 29th April 1912 | |||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2008) | TITANIC SHOE BOX SALE HITS £100,000 A treasure store of Titanic memorabilia, kept in a shoe box by a woman who survived the 1912 disaster, has sold at auction for £100,000.Among Lillian Asplund's shoe box treasures was one of the last four remaining tickets for the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage. ... | 20th April 2008 | ||
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France Soir | (1969) | MISS EVA HART Article from the French paper FRANCE SOIR, 7 February 1969. Miss Hart was in Paris at the time, invited to share her recollections of the Titanic disaster with the French audience in a show called 'Les Dossiers de l'Ecran'.... | 7th February 1969 | ||
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COBH MEMORIAL Memorial to all Irish emigrants at Cobh (formerly Queenstown), the memorial is accompanied by a plaque to those that lost their lives in the Titanic disaster.... | |||||
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POST-STANDARD COLUMNIST | (2007) | TITANIC'S UNKNOWN CHILD RE-IDENTIFIED The Unknown Child was the nickname given to the fourth body recovered by the CS Mackay-Bennett after the RMS Titanic disaster. DNA testing in 2007 re-identified the child as 19-month old Sidney Leslie Goodwin.... | 8th August 2007 | ||
| Time Magazine | (1931) | MILESTONES Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife, Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; in London.... | 4th May 1931 | |||
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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." ... | |||||
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MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT One of two famous studio portraits of Major Butt published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | |||||
| New York Times | (1937) | J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7... | 19th October 1937 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SHOCK OF DISASTER KILLS WOMAN BROCKTON, Mass., April 17---Miss Katherine E. Maguire, 50 years old, heartbroken by the news that her nephew, John E. Maguire, was among those probably lost on the Titanic, was taken violently ill to-night and died within a few moments. She had been... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | TITANIC SURVIVOR FACES DEATH AGAIN GALESBURG, Ill., Apr 14---Frank Karoun, one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, narrowly escaped death again last night, just a year after surviving that shipwreck. The Lindel Hotel, of which Karoun is the proprietor, collapsed, and the walls ... | 15th April 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1965) | TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o... | 12th January 1965 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MISS GRACIE GOES TO NEW YORK TO GET INFORMATION Worn to a point of desperation by the suspense she has undergone since receiving news that her father, Col. Archibald Gracie, was among those saved from the sea tragedy, Miss Edith Gracie, of 1527 Sixteenth street northwest, gave way to her anxiety t... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | (2008) | TITANIC'S LAST SECRETS No ship in history has the notoriety of the Titanic. There are more than 130 books inspired by the doomed liner. Google supplies 3.5 million references. More than a dozen motion pictures are devoted to the disaster, and the last one, James Cameron's 1997 award-winning "Titanic," no doubt has shaped many people's opinions about what happened the night of April 14, 1912.... | 6th October 2008 | ||
| 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 | |||
| MEETING MILLVINA DEAN - LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR A short video clip showing Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster, signing a photograph for me when I visited her on Friday 30th May 2008. ... | ||||||
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Wired.com | (2009) | SEPT. 30, 1861: A NOVELIST WITH A NOSE FOR DISASTER 1861: American novelist and short-story writer Morgan Robertson is born. His 1898 novel, Futility, eerily foretells one of the 20th century’s great man-made disasters: the sinking of the Titanic The similarities between Futility and subsequent actual events are startling...... | 30th September 2009 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MICHAEL DUANE LEARNS FATHER WAS ON TITANIC MORRISTOWN, April 23---The fears of Michael Duane, of Morris Township, that his father was a victim of the Titanic disaster were confirmed this morning, when he received an answer to a cablegram announcing that Mr. Duane had sailed on the vessel.... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
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The Chronicle Herald | (2008) | CEREMONY HONOURS TITANIC VICTIMS A decades-old ceremony held to remember the Titanic disaster came to Halifax on Tuesday, 96 years to the day after the luxury liner hit an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic.With bagpipers and priests present, 18 members of the United States Coast Guard's International Ice Patrol saluted the 1,500 people who died on April 15, 1912.... | 19th April 2008 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued.... | 20th October 2008 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued.... | 20th October 2008 | ||
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Liverpool Echo | (2007) | TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers.... | 11th October 2007 | ||
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Deutsche Welle | (2008) | TV FILM ON NAZI GERMANY'S "TITANIC" DRAWS MILLIONS OF VIEWERS Millions of Germans tuned in to a television film about the 1945 sinking of a Nazi ship full of refugees in the Baltic, which cost 9,000 lives and surpassed the Titanic as the worst maritime disaster in modern times.... | 4th March 2008 | ||
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TITANIC BOAT DECK Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | |||||
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Mon Film | (1955) | BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC This studio picture of Miss Barbara Stanwick was published on 14 September 1955 in the French weekly 'Mon Film'. The Fox version of the Titanic disaster by Jean Negulesco was just about to open in France and this magazine published a two page coverag... | 14th September 1955 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SERVICES FOR TITANIC VICTIMS ELIZABETH, April 29---Services for Peter Renouf, Lawrence Garvey and Clfford and Ernest Jeffries, who lost their lives on the Titanic, were held last night in Grace Episcopal Church. Mrs. Renouf, who was rescued from the sinking sh... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Mr. Leonard Hodgkinson, the fourth senior engineer, was a Stoke man, and has many relatives and friends in the district. As a boy he received his education at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Hartley and Arnoux, wh... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1933) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Special to The New York Times --- ELIZABETH, N. J., July 8---Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, a survivor of the Titanic disaster twenty-one years ago, died this morning at her home here after a long illness. She was born in England. She was a m... | 9th July 1933 | |||
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U.S. News & World Report | (2008) | THE SECRET OF HOW THE TITANIC SANK For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank.... | 30th September 2008 | ||
| Waterbury Republican | (1912) | MARY NAKID Mary Nakid, the sixteen-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Said Nakid, survivors of the Titanic disaster, who died at St. Mary's hospital Monday night of spinal meningitis, will be buried this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Burial will take place from t... | 31st July 1912 | |||
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(1911) | CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC Famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | May 1911 | |||
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(1911) | CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC Another famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | POSTPONE SILVER WEDDING CELEBRATION Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Greenfield of 1,239 Madison Avenue have postponed the celebration of their silver wedding anniversary, which was to have taken place at Sherry's on Sunday, May 5, on account of mourning due to the Titanic disaster and the many fun... | 28th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | AWAIT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Up to late last night the body of John S. March, of 59 Emmett street, one of the five United States mail clerks who lost their lives in the recent Titanic disaster, had not reached the city and no word has received by the firm of Smith & Smith, 944 B... | 6th May 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WILDWOOD MAN THOUGHT LOST WILDWOOD, April 18---Friends of Frederick Sutton, of this place, president of the West Jersey Electric Company, say that he is among those who perished in the Titanic disaster. His name [does not appear?] in the list of the saved. N... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | UNTITLED In many cases reference was made to the disaster in the sermons, and the Dead March in ''Saul'' or another of the classic funeral marches was played. Memorial services were conducted in Maxwelltown Parish Church, of which Mr. Thomas Mullins, one of t... | 1912 | |||
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Washington Herald | (1912) | MRS. TYRELL W. CAVENDISH MRS. TYRELL W. CAVENDISH One of the unfortunate survivors of the Titanic disaster, who, although her life was saved, is heart-broken because of the loss of her husband, Tyrell W. Cavendish, who also gave up his life that the women and children... | 20th April 1912 | ||
| 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 | (1925) | OBITUARY NOTES [LAURA VAN DER HOEF] Mrs. LAURA ELLEN NEWELL VAN DERHOEF, widow of Wyckoff Van Derhoef, who was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, died yesterday at her home, 15 Clark Street, Brooklyn. Her husband was Secretary of the Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company in Man... | 18th March 1925 | |||
| 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 | |||
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thisishampshire.net | (2008) | TITANIC VISION FOR £30M MUSEUM A MULTI-MILLION-POUND tourist attraction commemorating the Titanic disaster is today exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo.The west wing of the Civic Centre, home to the police station and old magistrates' courts, would be transformed into a £30m museum celebrating Southampton's history if the city council's vision is realised.... | 25th July 2008 | ||
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ET | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES It is announced that Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic disaster has passed away. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5811/149738.html?1243788696#POST259823... | 31st May 2009 | ||
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The Sun Online | (2007) | LETTER PREDICTED TITANIC DANGER A TITANIC passenger's chilling final letter from the ship, in which he PREDICTED its tragic end, has finally emerged - 95 years after the disaster. British farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, described the giant liner as 'too big' and a 'positive danger' in the letter home to wife Constance.... | 30th March 2007 | ||
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The Sun | (2007) | LETTER PREDICTED TITANIC DANGER A TITANIC passenger's chilling final letter from the ship, in which he PREDICTED its tragic end, has finally emerged - 95 years after the disaster. British farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, described the giant liner as 'too big' and a 'positive danger' in the letter home to wife Constance.... | 1st April 2007 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
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GEORGE HENRY HUNT WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC George H. Hunt, of 1309 Sotuh Ruby Street (Philadelphia), it was discovered yesterday, was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. He had been visting his parents in England for several months and h... | |||||
| Progress | (1912) | PORT SUNLIGHT Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit... | July 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ... | 21st July 1912 | |||
| Evening Star | (1912) | MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | TWO OF THE ASPLUND CHILDREN ARE LOST Charles and Selma and Three of their Little Ones, Lillian, Clarence and Felix, are Safe. Charles and Selma Asplund and their children, Lillian, Clarence and Felix Asplund, survive the Titanic disaster. Philip and Carl, the other childr... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | FIRST CLAIM PAID Buffalo, N. Y., April 19---What is declared to be the first claim paid for the loss of a life in the Titanic disaster was recorded to-day, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in this city, paid $1,000 to a brother of Henry Sutehill, [sic] o... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cork Examiner | (1912) | REMARKABLE STATEMENT Liverpool, Wednesday. Messrs. Quilliam, Liverpool, solicitors, acting on behalf of relatives of Thos. Hart, marine fireman, of Liverpool, supposed to have been lost in the Titanic disaster, have recieved a statement from his mother. Sh... | 9th May 1912 | |||
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Discovery Channel News | (2007) | TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ... | 13th April 2007 | ||
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Gazette & Herald | (2008) | SONG PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHILD TITANIC VICTIM A poignant song about the youngest victim of the Titanic disaster will feature in a concert at Seend Cleeve this month. The electric folk band Sackful of Sovereigns, with Potterne bass player Steve Sawyer, will debut the song Unknown Child at the concert on October 18.... | 14th October 2008 | ||
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Globe and Mail | (2009) | LETTER WRITTEN BY CANADIAN ABOARD TITANIC EXPECTED TO FETCH $10,000 For those who follow the lore of Eaton's department store, one tragedy stands out among others: the loss, in 1915, of the founder's granddaughter Iris Burnside in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. But three years before that, another member of the extended Eaton family, employee George Graham, had perished in an even more famous disaster, as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic during his return from a buying trip in Europe.... | 12th January 2009 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1949) | HENRY BLANK, 76, GLEN RIDGE, DIES Head of Newark Jewelry Concern Was Titanic Disaster Survivor --- Henry Blank, board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, after a short illness. He ... | 17th March 1949 | |||
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PR Web | (2008) | TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ASIAN ADVENTURE AT ANGKOR WAT RESURFACES April 15th marks the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, but surviving that disaster was a mere footnote in the unusual life of writer Helen Churchill Candee. Her book, "Angkor the Magnificent," recounts her Cambodian adventure of the 1920's, supplemented by more than 100 antique photos and an original biography by historian Randy Bryan Bigham.... | 10th April 2008 | ||
| International News Service | (1913) | ENGAGED TO WED MARRIED MAN: DOROTHY GIBSON New York –– Miss Dorothy Gibson, the young woman whom Jules Brulatour, multimillionaire film importer, declares he will wed as soon as his present wife divorces him, was the original "Harrison Fisher Girl." Miss Gibson is a survivor of the Titanic... | 25th May 1913 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SAVES DOGS WHILE PASSENGERS PERISH New York, April 19- A narrative of the disaster to the Titanic as prepared by one of the stewards of the rescuing ship Carpathia contains the following: "One of the earlier boats to arrive was seen to contain a woman tenderly clasping ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| News | (1965) | DEATH OF MRS. M. DUTTON Mrs. Marjorie Dutton (61), a survivor of the Titanic disaster, has died at the Langdale Nursing Home, Gosport, after a long illness. With her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Collyer, Mrs. Dutton, then aged eight, was bound for America in ... | 1st March 1965 | |||
| New York Times | (1937) | MRS. JANE L. HERMAN She and Two Daughters Titanic Survivors---Husband, Son Lost --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BEDMINSTER, N. J., Jan. 16---Mrs. Janes Laber [sic] Herman, 75 years old, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, died at her ho... | 16th January 1937 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | (1962) | ESTATE OF HERBERT JOHN PITMAN Mr Herbert John Pitman, of Pitcombe, Somerset, retired purser, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, left estate in Great Britain valued at pounds 21,158 gross, pounds 21,116 net. He left the residue of his estate to his niece [name withheld] for life,... | 9th April 1962 | |||
| New York Times | (1949) | MRS. CHESTER O. SWAIN Mrs. Florence Thayer Swain, widow of Chester O. Swain, a former vice-president and director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, died yesterday in her home at 755 Park Avenue. Her age was 75. Mrs. Swain's first husband, John Bradley C... | 3rd September 1949 | |||
| Cambridge Chronicle | (1912) | A CAMBRIDGE VICTIM Mr. A. W. Barringer [photo] The greatest sympathy is felt with the relatives of Mr. A. W Barringer, whom as reported in last week's issue, was amongst those who lost their lives in the terrible Titanic disaster. The dece... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1927) | MRS. EDWARD B. MAYER Mrs. Edward B. Mayer died suddenly last night at her home, 21 East Eighty-second Street. She was the former Miss Benita Rosalind Guggenheim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim. Her father was drowned in the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Mayer was ... | 22nd July 1927 | |||
| BASIC STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER 324 1st class passengers, 201 survived. 277 2nd class passengers, 118 survived. 708 3rd class passengers, 181 survived 885 crewmembers, 212 survived 13 postmen/musicians, none lived. Grand total: 2,207 on board, 712 s... | ||||||
| Western People | (1912) | AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Clare Journal | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER A telegram received in Ennis during the week confirmed the worst fears that had been entertained as to the safety of a young man named Martin McMahon, from the Craigbrien district, about five miles from Ennis. It was known... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | UNDERWOOD BUYS MAJOR BUTT’S HOUSE WASHINGTON, Nov. 22---Representative Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Democratic leader of the House, completed to-day his purchase of the residence of Major Archibald D. [sic] Butt, former Military Aid under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft at the White Hou... | 23rd November 1912 | |||
| FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN MEMORIAM. MADELINE JOSEPHINE BELOVED CHILD OF E & L FREEMAN DIED MAY 19th 1896 AGED 12 MONTHS "JUST CAME TO WIN THY PARENT'S LOVE AND THEN TO HEAVEN WITHDREW". ALSO ERNEST EDWARD FREEMAN LOST IN TITANIC DISASTER APRIL 15th 1912 AGED 50 YEAR... | ||||||
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Minneapolis Star-Tribune | (2009) | MINNEAPOLIS FOURTH-GRADERS GET LESSONS FROM THE DEEP On the eve of the 97th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, some artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck found their way to a Minneapolis classroom on Monday.Fourth-graders at Hale Community School in south Minneapolis have been studying the famous disaster, and with the help of an expert who'll be bringing a Titanic exhibit to the Twin Cities this spring, they learned some new lessons about the more than 1,500 people who died and the more than 700 who survived.... | 14th April 2009 | ||
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Minneapolis Star Tribune | (2009) | MINNEAPOLIS FOURTH GRADERS GET LESSONS FROM THE DEEP On the eve of the 97th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, some artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck found their way to a Minneapolis classroom on Monday. Fourth-graders at Hale Community School in south Minneapolis have been studying the famous disaster, and with the help of an expert who'll be bringing a Titanic exhibit to the Twin Cities this spring, they learned some new lessons about the more than 1,500 people who died and the more than 700 who survived.... | 17th April 2009 | ||
| Castle Carey Visitor | (1912) | CARYITES ON BOARD The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H... | April 1912 | |||
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SHRINE TO THOMAS KILGANNON A family shrine to Irish victim Thomas Kilgannon, including locks of his hair and a number of differing memorial cards which record his death by drowning in the RMS Titanic disaster. Retained by his nephew. Kilgannon left a lock of his hair behind hi... | |||||
| Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers | (1912) | PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ... | July 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | ELIZABETH GIVES AID TO TITANIC WRECK VICTIMS ELIZABETH, April 24---Mayor Stein has so far collected $72 for the relief of the sufferers of the Titanic disaster. He is receiving contributions as a member of the committee of nine Mayors appointed by Governor Wilson. Hawthorne Lodge... | 25th April 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 | |||
| Arlington Advocate | (1912) | MRS. J. MURRAY BROWN Mrs. J. Murray Brown, formerly of Belmont, who, with her two sisters escaped from the wrecked Titanic, is well known to some of our readers. Her sons used to be quite prominent in Arlington society. Mrs. Brown has furnished some of the most clear and... | 27th 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 | |||
| (1992) | SALE OF ROGERS' POSTCARD In Sotheby's July 21/22 1992 Sale Lot 278: RMS Titanic postcard sent from the Titanic, written to James Day of Swansea by his friend ''W.J.R.'' in pencil . .. Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking going grand its a treat . . . '' coloured pos... | 21st July 1992 | ||||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | REPORT FUTRELLE SAFE London Hears Boston Author Is on Board Carpathia. London, April 17.-The list of survivors of the Titanic disaster as given out by the White Star line offices, contains the names of both Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Boston. Previous l... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chorley Guardian | (1958) | WIDOW OF TITANIC OFFICER VISITS CHORLEY Seeks Family Crest Motto - ''Let your light shine'' By a coincidence, a visitor to Chorley this week was Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the late Cdr. C. H. Lightoller, who is played by Kenneth ... | 18th July 1958 | |||
| Daily Mining Gazette | (1933) | MRS. AGNES EDWARDS SUMMONED BY DEATH Mrs. Agnes Edwards, 69 years old, well known Hancock matron, died at St. Joseph's hospital last evening at 5 o'clock. She had been a resident of the Copper Country for 21 years, residing on Railroad Avenue. Mrs. Edwards was a survivor of th... | 5th August 1933 | |||
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Daily Mirror | (2006) | FAULTY RIVETS SANK TITANIC FAULTY rivets were to blame for the Titanic disaster, a 9/11 scientist says. Metal pins that should have held the hull together snapped after the liner hit an iceberg. They allowed it to open up like a zip when it sank off Newfoundland in 1912, leaving 1,523 dead. US forensic expert Tim Foecke, who probed the World Trade Centre terror attack, said the rivets were made from sub-standard wrought iron which snapped under pressure.... | 1st November 2006 | ||
| Elmer Times | (1912) | MARINE DISASTER [The following paragraph is the only passenger-specific one in a longer article.] Among the Titanic’s passengers reportedly was Frederick Sutton, whose home was at Haddonfield, but who had large business interests in Wildwood. He was ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Women's Wear Daily | (1912) | EDITH L. ROSENBAUM New York - Edith L. Rosenbaum - It was previously reported that Miss Rosenbaum, representative buyer for a number of New York firms and Paris correspondent of "Women's Wear," was among the survivors of the "Titanic" disaster. This morning the followi... | 18th April 1912 | |||
