Firemen
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| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
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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) | 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 | |||
| Washington Post | (1912) | TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Mirror | (1912) | IN THE TOWN OF SORROW (From our Special Correspondent) Southampton April 29th. Joy and sorrow, elation and depression are mingled in the homes here of the seamen, firemen and stewards of the Titanic. Feelings of compassion for the heroes who died and ... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | MR. SUTTON'S BODY SURELY ON THE MORGUE SHIP White Star Line Confirms Report That Mackay-Bennett Has Corpse of Haddonfield Resident --- WRECKAGE SEEN BY ANOTHER STEAMER --- By United Press Wire NEW YORK, April 29---The White Star Line announced to-day that it ... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| Worcestershire Chronicle | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | SEAMEN'S STRIKE ABROAD LIVERPOOL, May 22---The projected move of the White Star Line to Southampton is responsible for a dispute between seamen and firemen and the company which threatens to spread. A hundred men belonging to the Oceanic refused to sai... | 23rd May 1907 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | WILLIAM LINDSAY William Lindsay was one of the few saved from the Titanic on which he was a dynamo attendant. William Lindsay says he feels too upset to write much and his brother here hopes to hear more from him within a couple of weeks. The survivor of the great c... | 22nd 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 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1919) | 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 | |||
| The Stevens Point Journal | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne... | 4th May 1912 | |||
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CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR? AT THE START of Chapter 5 in Walter Lord's A Night To Remember, the author writes: ... | |||||
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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 | ||
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(2005) | OCEANIC 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
