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  S.S. CHICAGO
As she could not stand the idea of sailing again on a British liner, Mme Laroche decided that she would return in France on a French ship. She chose the French Line S.S. Chicago. She and her two daughters landed in Le Havre on 1 May 1912....
   
  (1913) JACK PHILLIPS IN A FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN
This drawing by G. Dutriac was published by Hachette in the first French book about the Titanic, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic' in 1913. The authors of the novel were J. Jacquin and A. Fabre....
  1913  
  TITANIC AD FOR FRENCH CHOCOLATE
This German card was an ad for French chocolate. It was a series of many cards about icebergs, and this one was illustrated with a Titanic drawing....
   
Belfast Telegraph (2006) NOMADIC : FRENCH BACKING FOR BELFAST BID TO RETURN TITANIC TENDER
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16th January 2006  
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  
New York Times (1935) MRS. JOHN J. ASTOR 3D GIVES BIRTH TO SON
The Former Ellen Tuck French Becomes a Mother at the Doctors Hospital --- A son was born at 5:04 P. M. yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3d in Doctors Hospital, 174 East End Avenue. The baby weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. The con...
20th July 1935  
New York Times (1915) DOG AND KENNEL NOTES
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Goldenberg of Paris and Nice, formerly owners of the famous Kennels at Riverdale-on-Hudson, arrived last week from France, bringing with them the champion French bulldog, Nellcote Bas-Blancs, said to be the shortest-faced exampl...
28th November 1915  
New York Times (1936) ASTOR INFANT CHRISTENED
Virginia French and Vincent Astor Are William's Godparents --- The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor was christened yesterday afternoon at a ceremony in the presence of a few relatives and friends in the Astor residence, 7 Eas...
15th January 1936  
  1985 A TITANIC FIND
This French card commemorates the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic by a French-American team on 1 September 1985....
   
New York Times (1934) WEDDING PLANNED BY ELLEN FRENCH
Invitations Are Sent Out for Marriage to John Jacob Astor 3d on June 30 --- BRIDAL TO BE IN NEWPORT --- Rev. S. C. Hughes Will Officiate at Rites in Trinity Church---Reception at Mapleshade --- Special to THE...
16th June 1934  
  (1980) RAISE THE TITANIC (POSTER)
French poster for the movie 'Raise the Titanic' ('La Guerre des Abîmes' in French)...
  1980  
  (1900) ONLY KNOWN PICTURE OF MARIE LEFEBVRE
Marie Lefebvre and her children were the only known French passengers in 3rd class. They all were victims. Their bodies, if recovered, never were identified....
  1900  
Ireland Online (2006) LAST CHANCE FOR NOMADIC
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25th January 2006  
New York Times (1916) C'EST MOI BEST DOG IN SHOW
At the second open match show of the French Bulldog Club of America, held at the Hotel Gregorian last night, the honors were carried off by C'est Moi, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Taylor of Hollis, L. I. C'est Moi was judged the best in the show ...
21st December 1916  
  (1912) WILLIAM T. STEAD, A PICTURE AND AN ARTICLE
The French monthly dictionnary LAROUSSE published an article, illustrated with a Lafayette picture, about William Thomas Stead in its July 1912 issue....
1st July 1912  
  (1912) SENATOR W. A. SMITH
Portrait of Senator W. A. Smith, from an unidentified French paper (Le Matin, 23 May 1912 ?)...
  1912  
New York Times (1916) PATOIS AND FAUVETTE WIN
Get Chief Honors In Puppy Division at French Bulldog Show --- After two days of keen competition, the eighth annual show of the French Bulldog Club of America at the Hotel McAlpin closed yesterday. The attendance was not as good as at pr...
14th May 1916  
Semi Weekly Iowegian (1912) GIVES UP HOPE OF CHILDREN - MYSTIC MAN FINDS THAT THOSE FROM TITANIC WERE NOT HIS - RETURNS A SAD MAN
With the hope gone that the French children rescued from the Titanic and under care in New York might be his, Francois Lefebre, the Mystic man who started east with hopeful anticipations, has returned without the children. He stopped at C...
30th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) AUTEUIL SOUNDS THE PANNIER'S DOOM
Smart Display of Summer Fashions at Paris Race Course Shows Radical Style Changes --- NOVEL ROBESPIERRE GOWNS --- Immense Crowd Out to See the French Grand National---Americans Less Numerous Than Usual...
24th June 1912  
New York Times (1934) RECTORS FOR ASTOR RITES
Rev. E. S. Travers to Assist Rev. H. St. G. Burrill at Wedding --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., June 26---The Rev. Edward S. Travers, rector of the Episcopal Church at Rhinebeck, N. Y., will be the ass...
27th June 1934  
  (1982) LOUIS GARRETT'S TESTIMONY
Louis Garrett became a Witness of Jehovah. His testimony was published in French in the journal of this association on 22 January 1982. The English version had been published some time earlier in America. In 1912, Louis Garrett's name was Elias Nicol...
22nd January 1982  
The Times (1914) ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Action in the French courts Nice, February 9th (1914). An action against the White Star Line arising out of the loss of the Titanic began today before the Civil Court here. The Plaintiff, Mme Navratil...
10th February 1914  
  (1912) TITANIC COMPARED WITH THE RUE ROYALE IN PARIS
At the time of the sinking of the Titanic, a French paper (unidentified) published this striking drawing: the liner was compared with the Rue Royale, in Paris. This showed how huge the liner was. Those who know the Rue Royale in Paris will appreciate...
  1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
From an unidentified French paper...
17th April 1912  
Semi Weekly Iowegian (1912) 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  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) JOHN JACOB ASTOR IV
From an unidentified French paper...
17th April 1912  
  (1912) WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD
From an unidentified French paper...
17th April 1912  
Film Complet (1955) JEAN NEGULESCO'S TITANIC IN A FRENCH MAGAZINE
  1955  
  (1912) CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS
From an unidentified French paper...
  1912  
Les Petits naufragés du Titanic (1913) LOWER AWAY!
Illustration by G. Dutriac for a novel by Jacquin and Fabre. First French novel on the Titanic (1913)...
  1913  
Le Petit Journal (1908) M. FALLIERES SENDS MESSAGES TO KING GEORGE AND PRESIDENT TAFT
Armand Fallières was President of the French Republic in 1912; following the Titanic disaster, he sent two telegrams on 17 April 1912. One to King George: - « A Sa Majesté George V, Roi du Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande et...
17th December 1908  
New York Times (1912) CLASSIFIED AD
[Classification:]Personal *** Mr. Gustave Lesueur, from Titanic, is requested to communicate with the French Consulate, 35 South William Street. ...
20th April 1912  
  MRS WEISZ ON THE CARPATHIA
Mrs Weisz could speak French and second class survivor Juliette Laroche met her on the Carpathia. Her daughter, Louise Laroche, remembered Mrs Weisz well. She was a strong character and on the Carpathia, she cried after her husband: "Mon pauvre Léopo...
   
Le Grand Echo du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais (1912) A SURVIVOR FROM SAINS-BOUVIGNY
A young lady from Sains-Bouvigny among passengers – She is safe and sound A few months ago, a young lady from Sains-Bouvigny, Melle Leroy, left her home here and was hired by rich Americans as a maid. After a short time in Paris...
23rd April 1912  
Semi Weekly Iowegian (1912) FRENCHMAN HAD TOO MANY WIVES - MAN WHO LOST WIFE ON TITANIC SEEMS TO HAVE ELOPED WITH ANOTHER FROM FRANCE
Frank Levevre, the Mystic Frenchman who lost his wife and four children on the Titanic, is now in jail here and with him is the woman he is alleged to have run off with when he came from France to this country. It will be remembered that ...
16th July 1912  
  (1959) MISS AMELIE ICARD'S TESTIMONY, FEBRUARY 1959
Amelie Icard gave a long interview to reporters of the French magazine 'Paris Match', published on 14 February 1959 (issue # 514). The article was illustrated with a picture of Melle Icard talking to the reporters. She was then living in Grenoble, Fr...
14th February 1959  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) CAPTAIN SMITH AND LAUNCH OF TITANIC
From an unidentified French paper...
  1912  
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  
Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic (1913) SINKING
This drawing by G. Dutriac illustrated a novel by Jacquin and Fabre, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic', the first French book about the Titanic (1913)...
  1913  
  (1912) TITANIC ICEBERG PICTURED FROM SS AMERIKA
This nice postcard was produced on board the SS Amerika, a Hamburg Amerika Linie liner. The caption reads, in bad French, which should prove that the item was produced on board the liner in many languages: TERRE NEUVE. Eisberg r...
8th May 1912  
  FRENCH TITANIC POSTCARD
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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  
Chicago Record-Herald (1912) NIAGARA NEAR TITANIC'S FATE
French Liner Arrives Under Own Power After Striking Iceberg. New York, April 16—Close to where the Titanic sank the new French line steamer Niagara on the night of April 10 crashed into an ice field and sent out a wi...
17th April 1912  
  (1912) TITANIC HYMN, 1912
This is another french hymn in honour of the band of the Titanic. 'Plus près de toi, mon dieu' is the translation of 'Nearer my god to thee'...
  1912  
  (1996) LOUISE LAROCHE IN 1996
Louise Laroche was the last French Titanic lady. She passed away less than two years after this picture was taken....
19th April 1996  
New York Times (1939) MRS. E. B. SHERFESEE, ONCE HOOVER AIDE
Head of the American Fund for French Wounded Won Croix de Guerre---Titanic Survivor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 29---Mrs. Emily Borie Sherfesee, wife of Forsythe Sherfesee, former fiananc...
30th December 1939  
New York Times (1941) VIRGINIA M. FRENCH HAS TWELVE ATTENDANTS AT HER MARRIAGE HERE TO WILLIAM F. DICK
A marriage uniting two families of prominence in society here and in Newport, R. I., took place in the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest yesterday afternoon when Miss Virginia Middleton French, daughter of Mrs. James Lenox Banks Jr. of 15 East Ni...
19th December 1941  
New York Times (1934) ELLEN TUCK FRENCH IS ENGAGED TO WED
Betrothal to John Jacob Astor Announced by Mother, Who Denied Report Week Ago --- WEDDING EARLY IN JULY --- Her Fiance's Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Called Off in January --- Mrs. Livingston Fre...
31st May 1934  
The Daily Banner (1912) FOR THE CHILDREN
Two Baby Waifs Rescued From the Sunken Titanic. When the steamship...
9th May 1912  
New York Times (1934) MOTHER OF ASTOR TO ATTEND BRIDAL
Despite Illness, Mrs. Fiermonte Goes Alone to Newport for Marriage to Miss French --- FORMER HUSBAND A GUEST --- W. K. Dick to Be in Trinity Church Today---Rehearsal for the Ceremony Takes Place --- Special ...
30th June 1934  
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse (1956) EMMA SäGESSER
Miss Emma Sägesser, later Mrs Arnold-Sägesser, lived in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1956, when she was pictured for the weekly 'L'Illustré'. She was Mme Pauline Aubart's maid (Mme Aubart was Benjamin Guggenheim's French mistress)....
6th September 1956  
  (1953) BARBARA STANWYCK IN TITANIC
This picture was pinned in French theaters...
  1953  
Gazette and Bulletin (1928) WOMEN'S VARIED INTEREST
Helen Churchill Candee and Lucille Douglas, teamed as author and illustrator, are back from a year’s tour of the byways of French Indo-China, Burma, Java, Siam, Cambodia and other Asiatic places. They are in New York, where an account of their wan...
15th June 1928  
  OLYMPIC AS AQUITANIA
This French postcard shows the Olympic but the caption reads Aquitania. The same card and mistake were replicated in a colour version....
   
L'Excelsior (1912) MRS STRAUS WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND
The French paper L'Excelsior published a series of drawings illustrating survivors' testimonies. The author of the drawing, Paul Thiriat, read "Mr. Thornton's" testimony and retraced the Straus' last moment on the Titanic....
20th April 1912  
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  
  (1912) INTERIOR DECORATION BY HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE
This interior was designed and coordinated in 1912 and photographed extensively in 1916. ...
  1912  
L'Excelsior (1912) CAPTAIN SMITH COMMITTED SUICIDE
From the French paper L'Excelsior, 20 April 1912, drawing by Paul Thiriat....
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1935) WIFE WOULD AID FIERMONTE
ROME, Feb. 21 (AP)---Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte said today she was ready to make every possible effort to regain her ex-pugilist husband's passport that they might embark on another trip. As soon as he recovers his papers, confiscated ...
22nd February 1935  
Voice (2009) FORGOTTEN TITANIC HERO WHO SAVED HIS FAMILY
THE LAST known survivor of the Titanic, Millvina Dean, received a great deal of media attention when she died recently, but how many know about the only black family that sailed on the ill-fated liner? Haitian Joseph Phillippe Lemercier La...
15th June 2009  
  (1910) LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910
One of two pictures published by the French paper L'Illustration, showing the hull of the Olympic, painted white, being launched in Belfast....
29th October 1910  
  LINER FRANCE
The Laroches were to sail the France in 1912 but they changed their minds because their daughters could not have their meals at the restaurant. Jean-Noël Malachard, another 2nd class French passenger, was also linked to the France. He was empl...
   
New York Times (1916) NEWS FOR DOG FANCIERS
The French Bulldog Club of America will hold a two days show at the Hotel McAlpin, May 12 and 13, at which the international judge, S. L. Goldenberg, President of the Savoie and Nice Kennel Clubs, will officiate.  The list of trophies comprises ma...
2nd April 1916  
  (1919) WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD, A PORTRAIT
The French magazine 'Sciences et Voyages' published a long article highly criticizing mediums and seers in 1919. They noted that Stead, who had founded the Bureau Julia, was completely unable to foresee his own death on the Titanic....
  1919  
Le Journal (1912) SAMUEL GOLDENBERG
This picture of 1st class passenger Sam Goldenberg was published in the French paper 'Le Journal' on 20 April 1912. Goldenberg and his wife were well known in France....
20th April 1912  
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  
Chicago Evening Post (1912) CHICAGO HEARS ECHO OF NEW TITANIC WOE
French Miner From Iowa Arrives Here and Learns Wife and Children Were Lost With the Liner Sons Ignorant of Wreck Passengers at Union Station Take Up Collec...
25th April 1912  
  (1908) ST-LAZARE TRAIN STATION, PARIS
The passengers who boarded in Cherbourg travelled on the Atlantic Train from St-Lazare station in Paris. Only Alfred Fernand Omont, French 1st class passenger, arrived in Cherbourg in a different way: his chauffeur drove him there from Le Havre....
  1908  
New York Times (1907) [WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON]
SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd...
6th June 1907  
Je Sais Tout (1913) JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
Caricature of John Pierpont Morgan, owner of the International Mercantile Marine Company (and of the White Star Line) published by the French satiric magazine 'Rire' and reproduced at the time of his death by another magazine, 'Je Sais Tout'....
15th April 1913  
Le Petit Journal (1912) TITANIC COMPARED WITH NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS
In order to give an idea of the size of the Titanic, French papers compared her with famous monuments. Here, Notre-Dame cathedral...
17th April 1912  
  (2005) NOMADIC
One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ...
22nd August 2005  
  (1965) BERTHE LEROY IN 1965
Berthe Leroy gave an interview to the French paper 'La Voix du Nord', published on 9 May 1965....
9th May 1965  
Le Figaro (1912) MR. WIDENER
Mr. Widener's father was Mr. Peter A. Widener, the Philadelphia millionnaire, who recently bought a famous painting, Le Moulin (the Mill), from marquess of Lansdowne. ---------- Original French article ---------- M. Wide...
18th April 1912  
  (2000) MEMORIAL TO ROGER BRICOUX, TITANIC CELLO PLAYER
On November 2nd 2000, the Association Francaise du Titanic unveiled a memorial plaque in memory of Roger Bricoux in Cosne-sur-Loire, the city where he was born on June 1st 1891. In 1913, Roger had been considered a desertor by the French army, and it...
2nd November 2000  
  (1912) WHITE STAR LINE OFFICES IN PARIS
This picture of the Parisian offices of the White Star Line was published by a French paper. It shows poeple rushing to get news of passengers aboard. A policemen is guarding the entrance of the office....
17th January 1912  
BBC News (2006) NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST
The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ...
16th July 2006  
  (1912) TITANIC'S CURSED MUMMY
This is the only known picture ever published by the French press of the supposedly cursed mummy that some still think caused the sinking of the Titanic. The name of the evil priestess of god Amen-Ra was Tcheser-Ka-Ra and as early as January 1912, th...
14th January 1912  
  BRIDGE OF LA PROVENCE
The French liner La Provence is the first ship in the world that received Titanic's distress call in the night of April 14-15, 1912...
   
  (1912) 1ST CLASS MENU SAVED BY MISS ELISE LURETTE
Miss Elise Lurette, a French passenger who was Mrs Spencer's travelling companion (more than 'maid'), used to lose her way on the Titanic. She did not speak English and she had crossed her cabin on a plan she showed to other passengers when she did n...
12th April 1912  
  (2005) TRAFFIC
On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second...
22nd September 2005  
  (1913) JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN AND HIS SON IN LONDON
At the time of Pierpont Morgan's death, the French magazine 'Je Sais Tout' published a long article on the famous banker. Among the pictures published, one showed him strolling in the streets of Paris with his daughter, or walking out of the thermal ...
15th April 1913  
Le Journal (1912) HOW MRS. MEYER ESCAPED
Mrs Meyer told reporters that her husband and herself hurried to the lifeboats as soon as the first jolt was felt. She wanted to stay with him but he strongly pushed her inside a boat and told her about their nine year old son, for whom she had to su...
20th April 1912  
Libération (1958) EDITH RUSSELL ROSENBAUM
This picture of Miss Russell was published in the French paper 'Libération' on 18 April 1958. Unfortunately, the headlines at the back of the picture are so thick and the paper so thin that we can see them through the picture. Miss Russell is holding...
18th April 1958  
New York Times (1930) MRS. M. S. WALDMAN WINS PARIS DIVORCE
Two Other American Women Also Receive Decrees From the French Courts --- TRAGIC ACCIDENT RECALLED --- Waldman Children Fell to Death From Penthouse Apartment Here in October, 1928 --- PARIS, Feb. 25 (AP)---Th...
26th February 1930  
Excelsior (1912) PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS
The French paper Excelsior dedicated its 17 April issue to the sinking of the Titanic. They published the pictures of many famous passengers (Mme Aubart, JJ Astor and Madeleine Astor), but also: (1) J.B. Ismay, (2) Countess of Rothes, (3) Lord Ashbur...
17th April 1912  
BBC News (2006) NOMADIC GOES ON SHOW AT ODYSSEY
A clean-up operation has begun on the SS Nomadic before it is unveiled to the public on Monday. The ship, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, will dock at the Odyssey in Belfast at about 1830 BST. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A reception, including a brass band, has been prepared for the ship which saw action as a troop carrier in both world wars. It arrived in Belfast at the weekend after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre. ...
17th July 2006  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST ON A BARGE
SS Nomadic will return to Belfast on a barge brought from the other side of the world specially for the task.It will take five days to ferry the former Titanic tender from the French port of Le Havre to Belfast, where she was built 95 years ago.The Department of Social Development (DSD) has confirmed that the final remaining White Star Line vessel will return in July this year.She was saved from the scrapyard when she was bought at auction in Paris by DSD for the reserve price of €250,000.The Belfast Telegraph has spearheaded the media campaign to rescue Nomadic. ...
16th May 2006  
Le Journal de Genève (1912) THE KINK FAMILY
The Kaiser & C° Agency received a telegram from the White Star Line stating that Mr. and Mrs. Kink, and their child, from Zurich, who were passengers on board the "Titanic", are listed among the survivors, but Kink's two sisters are drowned. ...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1935) ITALY ALLOWS FIERMONTE TO GO ON WEDDING TRIP
By The Associated Press --- ROME, March 7---Enzo Fiermonte and his second wife, the former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, left tonight on their long-sought second wedding trip on the French Riviera after having successfuily wound thei...
8th March 1935  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) 95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME
SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ...
12th July 2006  
New York Times (1933) FIERMONTE, BOXER, HERE
Italian Heavyweight Silent on Engagement Rumor --- Enzo Fiermonte, Italian middleweight boxer, arrived yesterday on the French liner Paris. Fiermonte declared on sailing for Europe three weeks ago that he was engaged to marry Mrs. Madel...
15th November 1933  
Le Journal de Genève (1912) MRS. A. S. JERWAN SAVED
From Kaiser C°: relatives of Mrs. A. S. Jerwan, from Mont-Couvet (Neuchatel), state that this lady, who was a second class passenger on board the "Titanic", wired from New-York that she was among the survivors. So far, Mrs. Jerwan was listed among th...
23rd April 1912  
  (1911) DOROTHY GIBSON IN "HANDS ACROSS THE SEA"
A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enacting events of the American Revolut...
  1911  
Western Daily Mercury (1912) AN EXETER PASSENGER
It is also stated that Mr. Ralph Giles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Giles of Eaton-place, Exeter, was among the passengers. Mrs. Giles has wired to the Head Office of the White Star Line in London, but has received no reply. Mrs Giles’s sister-in-law...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1948) ASTOR VILLA AUCTIONED AT NEWPORT; CHAIN DRUG STORE OWNER IS BUYER
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., July l7---A chain drugstore owner purchased today the fourteen-room French villa of John Jacob Astor here for less than half of its original purchase price. The showplace went under the ...
18th July 1948  
BBC News Online (2006) TITANIC FERRY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF
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25th January 2006  
New York Times (1934) YOUNG ASTOR TELLS OF WEDDING PLANS
Newspaper Group Is Informed That the Couple Will Return to Newport in August --- CHETWODE GIFTS SHOWN --- Famous Ring Given to Bride Will Be Reset for Her in a New Brooch --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES ...
29th June 1934  
The Times (1906) THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h...
28th February 1906  
UTV (2006) HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME
A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912....
16th May 2006  
Le Journal (1912) MRS MARVIN
When the Carpathia docked, Mrs. Marvin, who was on her honeymoon trip, fainted when she learnt that there was no hope for her husband to be alive. When she was placed into a lifeboat, her husband simply told her: "Everything is going to be fine, youn...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1950) $340 FOR 4 PERIOD CHAIRS
Parke-Bernet Begins Selling Items of Spedden Estate --- In the first sale of the new sea­son at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, 984 Madison Avenue, a set of four carved and bilded [soc] chairs in the style of Louis XVI was sold y...
23rd September 1950  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT: NOMADIC SAILS INTO BELFAST
Fans of the SS Nomadic will be dressing up in period costume to welcome her as she makes a triumphant return to Belfast's docks this evening.The ship has already made an appearance in Belfast Lough as she arrived on Saturday morning but her official homecoming will take place this evening.As the Titanic's 'little sister' proceeds up the Lagan to dock next to the Odyssey Arena, she will receive a chorus from a brass band as supporters dressed in Edwardian fashion cheer her.A party of members of the French Titanic Society (AFT) who worked closely with Belfast Industrial Heritage in the hard-fought campaign to save Nomadic from the scrapyard will be present this evening to welcome her home.The 95-year-old vessel was bought by the Department of Social Development in January at auction in Paris....
17th July 2006  
La Presse (1912) TWO SURVIVORS
Two Survivors This afternoon, the Daily Mail welcomed in their Parisian offices, rue des Capucines, the American doctor Joseph Leidy. Mr. Leidy was visiting the Daily Mail reporters in order to show them a wireless he had just received ...
17th April 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  
New York Times (1912) HEARD DEATH CHORUS FOR OVER AN HOUR
PARIS, April 19---Three French survivors---Fernand Omont, Pierre Marechal, son of the French Admiral, and Paul Chevre, the sculptor---jointly cabled to The Matin a graphic narrative of the Titanic disaster, in which they repeatedly insist that mor...
20th April 1912  
Santa Barbara News-Press (1956) MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP
Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa...
27th May 1956  
New York Times (1949) MRS. HELEN C. CANDEE SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Page 25, column 2 YORK HARBOR, ME., Aug 23 Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, author and lecturer, of this place and Washington, D.C., died here today after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Candee, an authority on tapes...
24th August 1949  
Jerseyman (1921) MRS. PATTERSON IS CALLED BY DEATH
(Morristown, New Jersey) Page 1 Wife of Editor of Jerseyman Dies in Memorial Hospital Mrs. Susan Ryerson Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago, and wife of George W. Patterson, Jr., editor of THE J...
14th January 1921  
New York Times (1939) FIERMONTE CONVICTED IN FRENCH AUTO CRASH
Gets Conditional Sentence of 2 Months, 1,000-Franc Fine --- DIJON, France, July 29 (AP)---Enzo Fiermonte, former husband of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick, socially prominent American, received a conditional sentence of two months in pr...
30th July 1939  
Centerville Daily Citizen (1912) FEDERAL WARRANT FOR MYSTIC COUPLE FRANK LEFEBRE AND MARY DUPONT TO BE GIVEN A HEARING
A federal warrant to hold the Mystic couple, Frank Lefebre and Mary Dupont and children pending a hearing on charges looking toward their deportation to France, their native country, has been received by Sheriff Dowis. The warrant alleges...
17th July 1912  
New York Times (1929) WALDMANS SEEK DIVORCE
Mother of Children Who Fell to Death Here Sues in Paris --- Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Co. --- PARIS, Nov. 27---Mrs. Barbara Guggenheim Waldman, whose two children were killed in a thirteen-story fall from the roof o...
28th November 1929  
New York Times (1943) MRS. THOMAS CARDEZA
Page 21, column 1 Wife of Philadelphia Explorer, Kin of Racine, Red Cross Aide PHILADELPHIA, Nov 11 Mrs. Mary Racine Cardeza, wife of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia sportsman and explorer, ...
12th November 1943  
New York Times (1935) FIERMONTE INDICATES HE WILL GO TO WIFE
Says Relations Are Unchanged and That He Is in Italy to ‘Embrace’ His Son --- ROME, Feb. 8 (AP)---Enzo Fiermonte, young boxer whose return to his homeland created some confusion as to his marital status and plans, issued a brief stateme...
9th February 1935  
New York Times (1987) S. MARSHALL KEMPNER DEAD; LONGTIME INVESTMENT BANKER
S. Marshall Kempner, an investment banker, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 88 years old. Mr. Kempner was a native of New York, where he began his career after graduating Phi Beta Kappa fro...
4th August 1987  
New York Times (1922) MISS GUGGENHEIM, DIVORCEE, TO WED
Youngest Daughter of Late Copper Magnate to Marry Milton S. Waldman in Paris --- GOT RECENT FRENCH DECREE --- Fiance of Heiress, the Former Wife of S. M. Kempner, Was Lately a New York Newspaper Man --- Word ...
12th December 1922  
  (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  
  (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  
  CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE
Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen...
   
New York Times (1912) MONEY LOSS NOTHING---MORGAN
But He Is Upset by Loss of Life, Due to Faith in Boat --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 21---An interesting interview was obtained by a correspondent at Aix w...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1907) NEW WHITE STAR SERVICE TO TAP CHERBOURG TRADE
Adriatic, Biggest Ship Yet Built, to Start It in May --- SHE WILL CARRY 3,000 SOULS --- And Have a Turkish Bath, Plunge, and Orchestra Aboard---Line to Liverpool to Stay. --- With the putting in commis...
7th January 1907  
New York Times (1941) WM. K. DICK MARRIES MRS. VIRGINIA CONNER
Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Co. Weds in Akron --- Word has been received here of the marriage of Mrs. Virginia Keniston Conner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Conner of this city, to William K. Dick of this city and Al...
25th December 1941  
  (2005) VULCAN
One of two tugs that threw lines aboard New York, keeping her from striking Titanic as the latter, while leaving the dock at Southampton, pulled the New York toward her. ...
13th February 2005  
San Francisco Chronicle (1912) DR. DODGE AND FAMILY MAY HAVE MISSED TITANIC
Page 2 [Photo] Assessor Washington Dodge, Mrs. Washington Dodge Relatives of Assessor Received Word That He Would Stop Over in Paris Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the "Chronicle" was notified by...
16th April 1912  
La Voix du Nord (1972) 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  
New York Times (1926) LOVE LIFTS JAIL SENTENCE OF LAWRENCE VAIL WHEN FRENCHMAN HE STRUCK WINS HIS SISTER
PARIS, Dec. 29 (AP)---Love has found a way to make a new, Franco-American match---a blow over the head with a champagne bottle. The Frenchman who was hit, Captain Allain Lemerdy, son of a General, is going to marry Clothilde Vail, sister of the Ameri...
30th December 1926  
La Tribune de Genève (1912) THE ARNOLD AND HAAS FAMILIES
The Arnold family, in Altorf*, are in a deep state of anxiety, for two of their members, Mr. Joseph Arnold, 25 years old, and his wife, née Franck, 20 years old, boarded the "Titanic". They were heading to Wisconsin, where the Arnold brothers settled...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1900) DOG SHOW OPENS TO-DAY
With more than 2,000 canine candidates for blue ribbons to be judged, the annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club will begin in Madison Square Garden this morning at 9 o'clock and continue until Friday. The show this year will be the largest...
20th February 1900  
  (2009) NOVELIST POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH TITANIC BOOK
June 2009 - Vineland, N.J. - In an ambitious first novel, author W. Mae Kent accomplishes a literary feat that has never been attempted before: she tells the story of the only black passenger traveling on the ill-fated Titanic. While Kent’s ...
9th September 2009  
La Chronique de Bayonne (1912) S.S. NIAGARA HITS AN ICEBERG
« New York. Le transatlantique « Niagara » est arrivé. Il rapporte que dans la nuit de mercredi, presque à l’endroit où le « Titanic » a coulé, le « Niagara » est venu donner dans un banc de glace. Le choc fut si violent qu’aussitôt le commandant fit...
17th April 1912  
  GEORGE PELHAM FAMILY RESEARCH
George Pelham (Titanic survivor) 28yrs old born Bethnal Green Occupation Potman Wife ...
   
New York Times (1933) JOHN JACOB ASTOR TO WED DEBUTANTE
His Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Announced by Her Parents --- CAME OF AGE IN AUGUST --- Fiancee, Noted in Newport as a Tennis Player, Is From an Old American Family --- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lew...
16th December 1933  
New York Times (1912) MORGAN BUSY IN ROME
Wishes the Papers Would Stop Saying He Is Ill --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---This year J. Pierpont Morgan has not had his usual luck in regard to the wea...
7th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) NEW VERSION OF BUTT'S TRIP
Was Passenger on Titanic at the Whim of Close Friend --- Richard B. Watrous, Secretary of the American Civic Association, with offices in Washington, watched the bulletin boards in Times Square with great anxiety yesterday to see if any...
17th April 1912  
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  
  (1912) LETTER TO HIS OLD FRIEND ALFRED PARSONS
''On board R.M.S. Titanic April 11, 1912. Dear Alfred I got yours this morning and was glad to hear from you. I thought I told you my ship was the Titanic. She has everything but taxicabs and theatres., Table D' Hote, Restau...
11th April 1912  
  (1912) MME. AUBART: LUXURY LOST
After her rescue from Titanic, French singer Leontine Pauline ("Ninette") Aubart, better remembered as the mistress of American millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, wrote the following letter to the White Star Line, itemizing her lost possessions: ...
1st May 1912  
ET Research (2005) A TALE OF HOFFMAN
A boy wakes, and he is on a train. The world is wriggling past the window. Papa looks, but does not say anything. Nor does he try to smile. ...
18th January 2005  
New York Times (1914) TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE
W. A. Spencer Left Property Worth $2,218,650 --- William Augustus Spencer, who was drowned when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, left a net estate of $2,218,650, according to an appraisal filed yesterday. The beneficiaries are Mrs. M...
10th July 1914  
New York Times (1944) J. J. ASTOR MARRIES GERTRUDE GRETSCH
Son of the Late Colonel John Jacob Astor Weds Alumna of Finch at Her Home --- The marriage of Miss Gertrude Gretsch, daughter of Mrs. Walter Gretsch of 3 East Seventy-seventh Street and the late Mr. Gretsch, to John Jacob Astor of 998 F...
19th August 1944  
Le Mémorial des Pyrénées (1912) MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT New-York, April 17. President Taft sent messages everywhere he could, so anxious was he about the fate of his aide-de-camp major Archibald Butt. Butt was on his return journey from Rome where Taft ha...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1973) TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER"
GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo...
9th October 1973  
Le Journal de Genève (1912) ON PASSENGERS FROM SWITZERLAND
The travel agency in Bale received a wireless message from the White Star Line, confirming that 675 passengers and crew of the "Titanic" were saved. On board the "Titanic" were a few people from Switzerland, such as the Zurich family Froelicher-Staeh...
17th April 1912  
 

 
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