Fire

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	TINTED VIEW OF THE FIRE 1942 Why did eleven minutes elapse between outbreak of the fire and the first general alarm...	1942
Daily Telegraph	FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...	3rd July 1913
	TINTED VIEW OF THE FIRE 1942 Why didn't experts foresee the danger or capsizing before it was too late....	1942
	NORMANDIE BURNS Clouds of Smoke soar over the midtown skyline, almost hiding the Empire State Building in the background, as fire races through the upper decks of the former French luxury liner Normandie, recently seized by U.S. at its W.49th St. dock. There were...	March 1942
The Syracuse Herald	FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS New York Aril 20th – That a fire had raged in the [?] bunkers of the liner Titanic from the day she left Southampton u...	20th April 1912
	MORRO CASTLE - STERN VIEW AFTER THE FIRE
	MORRO CASTLE - BOWS AFTER THE FIRE
Toronto Star	EXCURSION TO TITANIC WRECK PROCEEDS DESPITE FIRE ON RESEARCH VESSEL A small fire broke out aboard a research vessel days before it is scheduled to leave Newfoundland for an expedition to the site of the Titanic shipwreck....	19th August 2010
	MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
	MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
Irish Independent	WITNESSES SOUGHT AFTER TITANIC PUB BLAZE GARDAI have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a fire caused up to ƒ¢¢€Å¡‚¬1.5m damage to a bar set up by a Lotto winner. The fire broke out at 9.30pm on April 26 and caused extensive damage to the Titanic Bar and Restaurant in Cobh, Co Cork....	5th May 2009
The Stevens Point Journal	FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ...	27th April 1912
New York Times	DRESSMAKERS' QUICK FLIGHT Patrons, Too, Leave Without Ceremony When Fire Threatens --- A small but spectacular fire at 19 and 21 West Thirty-sixth Street shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused considerable excitement on Fifth Avenue among...	17th February 1912
Chicago Tribune	THIRD OF FAMILY TO MEET TRAGIC END Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death. Howrd Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving ...	31st October 1914
New York Times	MRS. MADELEINE DICK LOSES HOME BY FIRE $50,000 Winter House Destroyed---$100,800 Jewelry Stolen --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 4---Mrs. Madeleine F. Dick’s Winter residence at Dixie Plantation, twenty miles from here on the Stono ...	5th December 1939
Worcestershire Chronicle	FIRE UP HARD ''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions...	27th April 1912
	MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE Morro Castle aground and burnt out at Asbury Park, New Jersey...
New York Times	CLEARS HOTEL MEN IN PALM BEACH FIRE Florida Commissioner After Inquiry Says That They Provided All Necessary Safeguards --- GUESTS’ LOSS $2,000,000 --- Thousands of Dollars in Scattered Belongings Reclaimed---First of Victims Arrive HERE --- Special to ...	21st March 1925
The Sydney Morning Herald	THE REPORTED GUN FIRE AT FORT DENISON The report sent to the police the other day that someone had fired a gun at Fort Denison has not yet been cleared up. The charge of the island is in the hands of the Navigation Department. Last Saturday morning the Superintenden...	12th October 1900
Brooklyn Daily Times	WYCOFF VAN DERHOEF HAD BIG CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Wycoff Van Derhoef, of 109 Joralemon street, was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the Eastern District and Secretary of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Van Derhoef was on his way from a visit to his sister in Euro...	16th April 1912
Gare Maritime	THE GENERAL SLOCUM : THE HORROR OF FIRE AT SEA Jim Kalafus Panic ensued. Sheets of flame followed the roiling clouds of smoke, and the fearful rush began to the sides of the boat....	21st June 2007
Independent	TITANIC DOOMED BY FIRE RAGING BELOW DECKS,SAYS NEW THEORY A new slant on and old theory...	13th April 2008
	NORMANDIE POSTFIRE This view, although of poor quality, shows the Normandie within the first week of the fire. Taken from a boat passing upriver along the Hudson, this was about as close as the public could get to the wreck after the landside view was fence...	1942
	VESTRIS : AN EARLIER DISASTER A 1919 view of the Vestris, run aground deliberately off North Carolina after a fire onboard. Among her passengers on that voyage was Titanic survivor Norman Campbell Chambers....	1919
	PICTORIAL REVIEW COVER 1942 Why did this happen?The great Normandie burning at her pier....	March 1942
gamepro.com	OMFG REVIEW: DIVE TO THE TITANIC - GAMEPRO.COM McKinley says he would rather have his "organs ripped out with a rusty fork" and "burn to death in a fire" than be forced to play Dive to the Titanic again. After two weeks, his overdue review finally floats to the surface....	26th August 2011
New York Times	FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE Stubborn Fire in the Cellar of 679 Broadway---One Man in the Hospital --- For two hours last evening firemen fought a fire in the sub-cellar of the five-story building 679 Broadway, adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel. Dense, stifling ...	7th November 1893
Gare Maritime	MORRO CASTLE NEWSREEL Cine film of the Morro Castle fire and aftermath...	13th June 2011
New York Times	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
Newark Star	SERVICE FOR TITANIC VICTIM RAHWAY, April 23---Tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock a solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church for Arthur Keefe, who lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic. The service will be attended by Rahway Aerie No. 1...	24th April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times	STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st...	19th April 1912
	CAPTAIN SMITH WAS TUSSAUDS EXHIBIT 1919 Madame Tussaud & Sons Catalogue entry 27. Commander Edward J. Smith, R.N.R., born 1853. Commander Smith was Captain of the White Star liner ''Titanic'' which went down in the Atlantic on 14 April, 1912, during her maiden voyage t...
Rahway Daily Record	SERVICES FOR ARTHUR KEEFE Solemn Requiem High Mass Is Celebrated At St. Mary's Chrch Today ---------- In memory of Arthur Keefe, who went down when the steamer Titanic foundered, a solemn requiem high mass was celebrated in St. Mary's church this morning...	24th April 1912
	ALGONQUIN 1939 The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....	1939
Oak Leaves	TITANIC DISASTER : OAK PARK TOUCHED BY GREATEST SHIPWRECK TITANIC DISASTER Oak Park Touched by Greatest Shipwreck Carelessness on Lake The Atlantic Wreck of 1873 Oak Park, like hundreds of o...	20th April 1912
New York Times	25 DEAD, 100 HURT IN BIG EXPLOSION AT CEDAR RAPIDS Fire Follows, Causing $1,500,000 Damage to the Douglas Starch Works --- SCORES ARE STILL MISSING --- Company of Soldiers Hold Back Relatives of Workers and Assist Rescuers --- CAUSE REMAINS UNKNOWN --- Windo...	23rd May 1919
Voyage	OCEANIC John P. Eaton White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...	11th July 2005
Barking Chronicle	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
Voyage	TITANIC (1888) John P. Eaton Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ...	22nd November 2004
New York Times	12 DEAD IN CEDAR RAPIDS But Searchers Still Hunt for 20 More Missing --- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23---With twelve bodies recovered from the ruins of the Douglas Starch Company's plant, wrecking crews today and tonight searched the debris for the...	24th May 1919
Semi Weekly Iowegian	FRENCH CHILDREN MAY BE HIS - FRANK LEFEBRE GOES TO NEW YORK FROM MYSTIC TO IDENTIFY TWO UNKNOWN FRENCH CHILDREN Believing that two unknown French children saved from the Titanic are his, Frank Lefebre has started from Mystic for New York to identify them. The two little tots are in the hands of Miss Margaret Hays, a survivor of the Titanic, who took them in...	23rd April 1912
New York Times	R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P...	7th December 1923
The Times	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
New York Times	STRAUS MEMORIAL MEETING Mayor Gaynor, Bishop Gailor, and Andrew Carnegie Will Take Part in It --- A civic memorial meeting for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus will be held in Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, May 12, at 4 o'clock. Justice Samuel Greenbaum, President ...	4th May 1912
La Voix du Nord	MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...	8th July 1972
Washington Times	FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br...	19th April 1912
	ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE The Hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. William Whiting (1825-1878) wrote the lyrics, in 1860, as a poem for a student about to sail for America. T...
	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...
	CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER. RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...	27th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...	20th April 1912
Sunday Press	TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR Sunday Press: Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r...	21st September 1952
ET Comment	HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. Senan Molony 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
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S ROCKETS Senan Molony Why more were fired and why it matters....	15th March 2002
	GOD MOVES ON THE WATER Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie Johnson was born in Marlin, Texas c.1902. A Gospel singer and guitarist, he recorded just 30 pieces at a variety of locations between 1927 and 1930. He was accompanied on some songs by his wife Angeline. During the depression rever...	11th December 1929
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago....
	ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY Arne Mjåland Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his life. In February this ye...	18th November 1972
New York Times	LOST TWO IN IROQUOIS FIRE Daughters of Rescued Titanic Passenger Killed in Chicago Holocaust --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Ill., April 16---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, wife of L. A. Hippach, manufacturer, of 7,352 Sheridan Road, and Miss ...	17th April 1912
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE 'NIEUW AMSTERDAM' The "NIEUW AMSTERDAM", the largest ship ever built in the Netherlands, will be famous for its architecture, decoration and exceptionally high standard of comfort. Modern profile, pleasing proportions and careful design all reflect the traditions o...
	DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE Dorsey Murdock Dixon (14 October 1897 - 17 April 1968) - Guitar, Vocals Howard Dixon (19 June 1903 - 24 March 1961) - Steel Guitar Dorsey Dixon and his younger brother Howard were born in the South Carolina mill town of Darli...	25th January 1938
New York Times	LORD RIBBLESDALE DEAD; LINE EXTINCT Widow Was the First Wife of the Late John Jacob Astor, Formerly Miss Willing --- BARON LOST SONS IN WAR --- Aristocratic Appearance Drew Compliment From King Edward---Lady Oxford Kin by Marriage --- Copyright...	22nd October 1925