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  SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS
Looking towards the Ocean /White Star Dock c. 1912...
   
  (1912) TITANIC IN CHERBOURG
This rare postcard shows the Titanic ablaze with lights heading out of Cherbourg harbour on 10 April 1912, at about 8 PM. Another image of the same series is known all over the world, but this one is totally different....
10th April 1912  
  TENDERS COMING ALONGSIDE THE LINER, QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR
Ireland in the foreground; America in the background....
   
  (1911) FILM OF THE OLYMPIC
These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...
  1911  
BBC News 'NO ISSUE' WITH TITANIC PROJECT
The chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners has dismissed concerns that the Titanic Signature Project will not be finished by 2012 The opening of the visitor attraction is planned to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the liner's sinking....
   
Liverpool Echo (2008) ART ON THE HIGH SEAS
SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic....
23rd February 2008  
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) BELFAST, PORT OF
Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
   
The Times (1935) OLYMPIC BERTHED AT JARROW
FAREWELL SALUTE FROM SIRENS The Olympic, which is to be broken up by Messrs.T.W.Ward and Co at Jarrow to provide employment, was safely berthed alongside Palmers shipyard today. The coming of the liner to the Tyne attracted many thousa...
14th October 1935  
Southern Star (2009) CORK TITANIC SOCIETY PLANNING TO ERECT "LOST AT SEA" MEMORIAL
By Leo MCMahonSaturday April 25th, 2009[Photo] The Lord Mayor Cllr. Brian Bermingham making a presentation to Frank O'Sullivan, Commander of Staff, in recognition of his work with the Cork Titanic Society. Also included are T...
29th April 2009  
Shore News Today (2009) IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF TITANIC AT NEXT HISTORICAL SOCIETY TALK
The next historical society meeting will be a Titanic event. Tom Maddox of Estell Manor, the owner of East Coast Diving in Northfield, will share his experience of being one of the last divers to see the Titanic during a Greate Egg Harbour Historical Society presentation 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 at the Egg Harbor Township Community Center....
20th October 2009  
BBC Northern Ireland (2006) NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY
The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ...
19th July 2006  
  (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  
NI Dept. for Social Development (2006) HANSON ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF NOMADIC TRUST
The members of the proposed charitable trust, tasked to oversee the restoration and fundraising for the SS Nomadic, have been announced.Minister for Social Development David Hanson MP said: "My Department, Belfast City Council, Belfast Harbour Commissioners and Belfast Industrial Heritage Society have all proposed representatives to form the trust. "...
13th October 2006  
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. Led by Belfast Harbour and Titanic Quarter, the process has been more than 12...
   
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  
Ilford Recorder (2007) LOONY PLAN TO SALVAGE TITANIC
A MAN whose lifelong ambition has been to raise the Titanic believes his dream is a step closer.Douglas Faulkner-Woolley, of Green Lane, Goodmayes, is trying to raise funds to refloat the sunken Queen Elizabeth liner in Hong Kong Harbour as a trial run for his ultimate goal of salvaging the Titanic.Mr Faulkner-Woolley, 69, who claims salvage rights to both former White Star passenger liners, says a survey of the Queen Elizabeth - commissioned by his company Seawise Salvage International - shows it can be recovered....
1st March 2007  
New York Times (1907) ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE
Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt...
10th January 1907  
  (1912) FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS
The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ...
30th April 1912  
  (2004) MUSGRAVE
On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...
12th December 2004  
The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand (1890) ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND]
The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o...
31st January 1890  
Gettysburg Complier (1912) RESCUE OF MRS BECKER
Dr L. B. Wolf Secretary of Foreign Missionary Board of The General Synod Lutheran Church, tells that he met Mrs Becker, a Lutheran missionary from India, returning on the ill-fated Titanic, at New York when the Carpathia docked with the Titani...
15th May 1912  
The Times (1895) HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J.
OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill...
25th December 1895  
Irish Independent (2009) WITNESSES SOUGHT AFTER TITANIC PUB BLAZE
GARDAI have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a fire caused up to €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, C...
5th May 2009  
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
   
The Times (1935) LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC
 CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ...
12th October 1935  
Irish Times (2009) LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT
BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud...
14th July 2009  
  PASCOE FAMILY INFORMATION
Charles was born on the 18 March 1867 in the village of Breage, a few miles west of Helston in south-west Cornwall. He was baptised at the parish church on 18 August 1867 and was the son of Anthony and Jane Anne Pascoe. (The 1881 UK census shows his...
   
  (2008) ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY
King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...
28th May 2008  
Shoreham Herald (2009) SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO
A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Mayn...
15th July 2009  
ET Research (2005) A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next seven ...
21st October 2005  
Guernsey Press and Star (2009) ISLAND'S TITANIC CONNECTION
TITANIC’S journey and demise in 1912 is legendary. Archive film footage, news cuttings and big-budget movies mean the tragic tale of the ship dubbed ‘unsinkable’ will never be forgotten. However, not many people are aware...
9th October 2009  
Connaught Telegraph (1912) LOSS OF THE TITANIC.
Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c...
25th May 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) £7 MILLION RESTORATION OF TITANIC SHIP GOES AHEAD
The £7 million restoration of a tender ship which ferried first-class passengers on board the Titanic is to begin early next year after the project today secured another £500,000 cash injection. The grant from the Northern Irel...
16th September 2009  
 

 
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