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  DANS LES ICEBERGS!
This postcard gives an idea of what a liner surrounded by huge icebergs was....
   
New York Times (1912) SHIPS SIGHT MORE ICEBERGS
Italian Liner Finds One in Lat. 40:39, Extremely Far South --- Captains of incoming steamships are still bringing reports of ice. Capt. Domeniconi of the Principe di Piemonte, in yesterday from Naples, reported that on April...
27th April 1912  
Washington Herald (1912) PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY
Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and...
21st 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  
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1915) LUSITANIA ICEBERG
Editorial cartoon in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle following the sinking of the Lusitania by the U-20 on May 7, 1915. The comparison to the Titanic is obvious, but ghostly death in the shape of the berg now wears an Uhlan helmet....
11th May 1915  
  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....
   
Las Vegas Weekly (2009) TITANIC EXHIBIT AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CHILLING REMINDER OF HISTORICAL TRAGEDY
There's a definite chill in the air when you step out on the deck re-creation of the new Titanic exhibit. One moment you are marveling at the stunning staterooms and grand lobby of the great ship, and the next you're so close to the icebergs, you can actually touch them....
2nd January 2009  
Chicago Daily News (1912) ICE KEPT AID FROM TITANIC
Ice Kept Aid from Titanic [By The Associated Press] Maasluis, Holland, April 23—Masses of ice prevented the Russian steamer Birma, which left New York for Rotterdam and Libau April 11, from reaching the Titanic in repl...
23rd April 1912  
The Times (1912) ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC
The Corsican's Injuries As announced in the later editions of the Times of yesterday, the Allan liner Corsican struck an iceberg at 4pm on Monday (August 12, 1912). The vessel was at the time about 120 miles east of Belle Isle, and was...
14th August 1912  
Chicago American (1912) TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT
The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...
25th April 1912  
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  
  (2005) ARGENTINE TRANSPORT
Empire Transport Co., Ltd. (Houlder Brothers, Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia. Left Narvik 3 April 1912 with a cargo of iron ore. On arrival at the intermediate stop of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, her captain reporte...
20th March 2005  
  MARCONIGRAMS SENT AND RECEIVED BY CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE TITANIC
Marconigram to Commander Empress of Britain, 12 April, 1912, which read: Many thanks for your kind message from all here. Smith. Marconigram: 14th April 1912, 12.55pm. Commander Baltic. Thanks for your message and good wishes. Had fine...
   
New York Times (1912) JESSE STRAUS TO HURRY HOME
CHERBOURG, April 19---On the steamer Amerika, which arrived to-day from New York, were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Straus, son and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. News of the di...
20th April 1912  
  (2004) MARCONIGRAM FROM SS BALTIC
The MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, Ltd. Office of origin: S.S. Baltic 14 Apr 1912 Office sent to: MGY ...
23rd July 2004  
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  
Worcester Telegram (1912) CINCINNATI GETS MESSAGE
By the Associated Press CINCINNATI GETS MESSAGE Steamer Reports Picking Up Call From Stricken Titanic NEW YORK, April 17.- Capt. Schulke of the steamship Cincinnati, which reached port today from Naples an...
18th April 1912  
  (1912) 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 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  
Worcester Telegram (1912) CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY
Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon....
20th April 1912  
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette (1914) CLAIM TITANIC NOT SEAWORTHY
FIRST TIME SUGGESTION IS MADE SINCE DISASTER Plea Advanced by Injured Employee of Liner Which Went Down After Collision With Iceberg - Assert Negligence Also By Associated P...
16th January 1914  
The Evening Post (1912) MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...
16th April 1912  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY
City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti...
5th May 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA
New York, April 19.- Mrs. C.F. Crane of Fort Sheridan, Ill, a passenger on the Carpathia, today gave this graphic account of the Carpathia's thrilling race with death. She said that news of the disaster had become known to the passengers on board the...
20th April 1912  
  (2005) RIO PIRAHY
European and Brazilian Steam Ship Cp., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. by 49 ...
12th April 2005  
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  
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
   
The Toronto Daily Star (1912) LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A.
------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft...
19th April 1912  
Weekly Advocate (1912) NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE
Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ...
2nd May 1912  
  (1912) AN ECHO OF A PAST TRAGEDY
The Diary of Frederick Hamilton (Cable Engineer: MacKay Bennett) The White Star Line, owners of the SS Titanic chatered two cable-laying steamers Mackay-Bennett and Minia to locate and identify bodies, including. Two...
  April 1912  
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier MRS. HANSON IS HOME
MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________   ...
   
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE
Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma...
25th April 1912  
ET Research (2001) THE ICEBERG — RESURFACED?
Nearly nine decades after the Titanic went down in the Atlantic, probably the first authentic photograph of the iceberg has come to light. It lay unpublished in private ownership until it was rediscovered in April 2000. The photograph shows...
9th July 2001  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) REPORT LOSS OF 5 PERSONS COMING HERE
Two Women Only Ones of Reniff Party on Titanic Believed Saved ---------- FAMILY OF BENJAMIN PEACOCK UNACCOUNTED FOR ---------- There is mourning in several Elizabeth households to-day, as a result of the loss of the Titan...
17th April 1912  
ET Research (2006) ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD
We all know the story how lookout Frederick Fleet had sighted an iceberg at about 11:40 PM on April 14th 1912, went to the lookout bell and struck it 3 times to indicate that something was seen ahead, and then went to the telephone and ...
29th April 2006  
New York Times Book Review (1956) THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956  
The Times (1984) HAROLD COTTAM
Wireless operator in rescue of Titanic survivors page 18 Mr Harold Cottam, who died yesterday in Nottingham at the age of 93, was the wireless operator on he Carpathia on the night of April 12 (sic) 1912, when the Titani...
31st May 1984  
  (1912) JUST AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN - A SONG OF THE SEA
A Song of the Sea Words by Edith Maida Lessing Music by Bernie Adler and Sidney Gibson Published 1912 by the Harold Rossiter Music Company, Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [...
  1912  
ET Research (2004) 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG
WILLIAM McMaster Murdoch lost his life, in common with one and a half thousand others, in April 1912. He had tried to “port around” an iceberg, but “she was too close.” First Officer Murdoch tried to slalom the berg by orde...
6th February 2004  
Chicago Daily News (1912) “EARS” OF TITANIC FAIL
Local Hydrographic Experts Tell of Device on Bows to Catch Vibrations. Iceberg’s Drift Noiseless Operator of Submarine Phone Probably Crushed At His Post When Prow Was Smashed A ship’...
17th April 1912  
ET Research (2002) ICE ON DECK
My first article about the newly discovered Bremen Iceberg that appeared in Encyclopedia Titanica in July 2001 (The Iceberg — resurfaced?) was about the photograph itself. This second article ...
12th February 2002  
Portland Oregonian (1912) PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK
Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho...
27th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
Mrs. J. J. Brown of Denver Tells Story of Her Seven Hours In Lifeboat --- *** --- Mrs. J. J. Brown, wife of a Denver mine owner, told yesterday afternoon to a reporter for THE TIMES at the Ritz-Carlton the story of her se...
20th April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) GIRL SAYS FATHER SAVED HER IN WRECK
Miss Lillian Cribb Led Through Passageways on Titanic to Lifeboat --- To the rare presence of mind of her father, John H. Cribb, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, Miss Lillian M. Cribb, 17 years old, believes she owes her life. C...
20th April 1912  
 

 
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