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| journalpioneer.com | TITANIC DINNER THEATRE CRUISING INTO SUMMERSIDE The touring production of “Titanic: The Fated Voyage” will be docking in Summerside in September on its Maritime tour. The Classic Dinner Theatre Productions’ Summerside show will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1 at Shipyard Market. “Titanic – The Fated Voyage” is a three act dramatic production performed by an eight-person cast. The production features musical performances consisting of folk, ragtime jazz and other popular music from Titanic’s era. The show is set in the first class lounge of Titanic on April 14, 1912.... |
11th August 2011 | |||
| Teignmouth Post | SHALDON AND THE DISASTER Mr. Henry Forbes Julian, one of the first-class passengers, of Redholme, Torquay, is also among the missing. He formerly resided at Ness House. Mr. Forbes made a fortune in South Africa with a patent for separating gold from quartz, and during his ... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| Guardian | REPORTED PORT ISAAC VICTIM It is greatly feared that Mr. Frank Couch, registered in the Titanic as 28, A.B., of Port Isaac, is among the victims of that terrible disaster. On Saturday last there was a ray of hope, the name of Church appearing among the survivors, but a wire ar... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | COMMANDER OF THE ILL FATED TITANIC Capt. Smith was known for years as "The grand old man of the sea" and was probably one of the oldest and one of the most reliable mariners or ocean liners on the Atlantic.... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANICS EPIC STORY CAPTURED ON CANVAS The tragic tale of the ill-fated Titanic is once again being retold with the launch of a new art exhibition in Belfast... |
1st February 2011 | |||
| Telegraph.co.uk | MATCHSTICK TITANIC The ill-fated Titanic has helped a modelmaker sail into the record books... |
10th January 2007 | |||
| R-100 IN CANADA. A view of England's R-100, companion vessel to the ill-fated R-101, in Canada.... |
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| Bowerchalke Parish Papers | UNTITLED Page 44. Extract:- More tragic was the death of Tom Kerley a chef on the ill-fated Titanic. His parents who worked on the Elliott's farm were very proud of their smart and popular son and especially of his progress to the largest and m... |
24th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIAL HEADSTONE 'Called to Higher Service from the decks of the Ill-fated SS Titanic'. [In Glasgow, Craigiehall Street, G51 1EU there is Harper memorial Baptist Church in his memory.] ... |
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| Belfast Newsletter | BELFAST FIREMAN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE The story of a fireman's fortunate escape from sailing in the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic was told yesterday in the Belfast Custody Court, when, before Sir Andrew Newton-Brady, RM, [Resident Magistrate] Patrick Morgan... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC LETTER SELLS FOR A RECORD £55,000 A letter from a first-class passenger on board the ill-fated Titanic has been sold at auction for £55,000.... |
20th April 2010 | |||
| The Move Channel | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination...... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Building Design | ARCHITECTS SOUGHT FOR TITANIC SHOW Fancy appearing on TV? Channel 4 is looking for architects to form part of an on-camera construction team, as they attempt to recreate the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship.... |
28th November 2009 | |||
| Daily Echo | TITANIC AUCTION SPARKS INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AMONG COLLECTORS An international bidding war is expected to break out when rare memorabilia from the ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic goes under the auctioneers hammer in the city.... |
6th November 2010 | |||
| standard.net.au | CELEBRATING AN ILL-FATED SHIP TO REMEMBER PORT Fairy will commemorate 100 years since the launch of the Titanic with a nautical-themed weekend next month. Visitor Information Centre's tourism officer Andrea Lowenthal said the town had some unusual links to the vessel, which led to the decision ...... |
13th April 2011 | |||
| Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal | THE TITANIC TALES THE TITANIC Tales, about the ill-fated British luxury liner, is written by Rory Thersby and is about nine individual characters out of the many thousands that boarded the ship that fateful night in Southampton in 1912. ... |
20th February 2007 | |||
| The Sydney Morning Herald | HAUNTING HALIFAX IF IT'S the Titanic you're thinking of, forget Leonardo DiCaprio.The name you need to know is Arthur Gordon McCrae. A second-class passenger on the ill-fated ship, McCrae was the only Australian passenger killed in the disaster that shook the world.... |
1st August 2007 | |||
| Cumberland News | MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH The first officer of the ill-fated ship was Mr. William Murdoch, son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, Oakland, Dalbeattie, who was transferred from the Olympic, on which he was one of the chief officers.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester News | TITANIC REHEARSALS RE-AWAKEN CITY'S LINKS WITH TRAGEDY A WORCESTER drama group rehearsing for the hit musical Titanic has found that two of its members have family connections with the ill-fated liner which struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912.... |
11th March 2008 | |||
| The Daily News Online | TITANIC SURFACES AT SCIENCE CENTER A collection of items from the ill-fated Titanic is featured in a recently opened exhibit at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave.... |
4th November 2009 | |||
| Lancashire Telegraph | HONOUR FOR COLNE'S TITANIC BAND MASTER THE band master of the ill-fated Titanic and one of Colnes most famous sons has earned an entry into a distinguished literary canon.... |
28th May 2010 | |||
| Guardian | MOUNT CHARLES VICTIMS It is now almost certain that Mr. W. H. Nancarrow and Mr. Alex. Robins have gone down with the ill-fated liner. Hopes were held that at least Mrs. Robins might have secured a place in the rescue boats, but now the Carpathia has reached the shore it i... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| The Press Association | FILM COSTUMES IN TITANIC EXHIBITION Costumes worn by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar-laden 1997 movie Titanic will feature in an exhibition about the ill-fated ship which opens next month.... |
11th January 2011 | |||
| The Press Association | TITANIC EXHIBITION SHOWS ARTEFACTS More than 300 personal artefacts from the ill-fated Titanic are to go on public display as part of a major new exhibition.... |
16th December 2009 | |||
| southportvisiter.co.uk | TITANIC CIGAR BOX GOES FOR £25000 A CIGAR box that once belonged to the ill-fated captain of the Titanic raised £25000 at auction. The antique walnut humidor was found earlier this month in Southport, with the owner unaware of its historical significance. ... |
19th May 2011 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | LOCAL PEOPLE MISSING A number of former residents in this locality were among those on the ill-fated ship. Several were members of her staff. Mr. J. A. Prideaux, of Bournemouth, was one of the stewards, and acted as purser's clerk; he was until quite recently empl... |
1912 | |||
| South Bucks Standard | LUCILLE CARTER : LOCAL CHAT Amongst the passengers on the ill-fated “Titanic” were Miss Lucille Carter (a pupil at Wycombe Abbey) and her parents, and brother. Happily their names appear in the list of the saved. ... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester News | JUMP ON BOARD FOR FUN TITANIC PARTY THE 10-course meal enjoyed by passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic will be recreated for an end-of-summer party at a Worcestershire pub. Staff from the Swan in Birlingham, near Pershore, have turned a copy of the original menu from the evening the ship went down into a buffet-style spread.... |
4th September 2008 | |||
| Daily Echo | ENGINEERS MEMORIAL TO BE UNVEILED TODAY AFTER RESTORATION BY TELEVISION COMPANY A NEWLY-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic sank 98 years ago is being unveiled tomorrow in East Park at 2pm. ... |
7th September 2010 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED A poignant ceremony to mark the 95th anniversary of the launch of Titanic into the waters of Belfast Lough is to be held later this week.It was on May 31, 1911, that the ill-fated liner was pushed from its birthplace in the Harland and Wolff shipyard into the lough to float for the first time.... |
29th May 2006 | |||
| Andover Townsman | ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15.... |
9th November 2007 | |||
| thisishampshire.net | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death.... |
7th November 2007 | |||
| deseretnews.com | 'TITANIC' MUSICAL AT LAYTON HIGH The ill-fated "ship of dreams," Titanic, will set sail on the Layton High School stage starting Thursday. The story of the rise and fall of "the largest floating object in the world" has been told many times in books, TV specials and in three different movies.... |
5th March 2007 | |||
| Essential Travel | PRAGUE HOSTS TITANIC EXHIBITION Visitors to Prague will be able to learn the full extent of the tragic story of the Titanic at an exhibition being held until the end of the year. More than 300 exhibits from the ill-fated ship are on display at the Lucerna Great Hall in the Czech capital, where they will stay until December 31st.... |
27th October 2008 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC NOVELTY BOOK The Titanic is set to sail again in a superb pop-up masterpiece that will thrill enthusiasts and other readers alike.It was April 14, 1912, when the largest and finest ocean liner of the era struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank to the icy depths.And you can discover all the glory and tragedy of this historic vessel in this interactive recreation of her ill-fated journey.... |
16th October 2007 | |||
| Daily Mail | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE AMERICAN TOWN BUILDS GIANT REPLICA OF ICONIC DOOMED LINER The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Daily Mail | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE AMERICAN TOWN BUILDS GIANT REPLICA OF ICONIC DOOMED LINER The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| News Wales | TITANIC SHOW SAILS IN An exhibition devoted to the ill-fated Titanic ocean liner is arriving in Swansea later this year.he Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition depicts the story and tragedy of the giant vessel and will be on display at Swansea Museum from October 20.... |
24th August 2007 | |||
| The Joplin Globe | A 'TITANIC' DREAM: BRANSON EXHIBIT CELEBRATES FILM W/ TITANIC VIDEO, PHOTO SLIDE SHOW & INTERVIEW AUDIO Open since 2006, Titanic Branson has welcomed almost 1 million visitors across the museum's gangway to relive the short life of the ship and its ill-fated maiden voyage.... |
9th May 2008 | |||
| Western Morning News | WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS Mr. Frank Andrew, a young married man, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, about 3 miles from Redruth en route to America to seek his fortune - his first trip across the seas - by the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Andrew has a wife and one child, age ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| The Associated Press | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ASHES SCATTERED IN ENGLAND The ashes of the last Titanic survivor have been scattered at the English port where the ship began its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912.... |
24th October 2009 | |||
| BBC News : Northern Ireland | NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ... |
30th October 2006 | |||
| Nova News Now | TITANIC SAILS INTO LIVERPOOL Over 1,500 lives were lost on April 14, 1912 when the ill-fated RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Ninety-six years later, the cast and creative team of the Winds of Change will bring the legendary story of the RMS Titanic and its passengers back to life, beginning on April 18, 2008.... |
15th April 2008 | |||
| AOL Travel News | NEW TITANIC ANNIVERSARY CRUISE ANNOUNCED A British travel agency has been marketing a controversial 100th anniversary memorial cruise on the route of the ill-fated Titanic and now an American company is also selling a Titanic centennial cruise.... |
23rd September 2010 | |||
| Daily Mail | TITANIC RAISED IN TIME FOR CENTENARY HOW ENTHUSIAST HAS BUILT 100FT REPLICA IN HIS BACK GARDEN The Titanic is resurfacing in time for her centenary. But the ship is not all she seems. A 100ft version of the ill-fated liner has made an appearance at the mouth of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness.... |
19th April 2011 | |||
| Times & Star | TITANIC EXHIBITION IN ITS HOME TOWN ITEMS from the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet film Titanic will feature in a display in Maryport this month.The memorabilia, including a life belt and 'gold' first-class dining crockery, will be part of an exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the laying of the keel of the ill-fated ship.... |
6th March 2009 | |||
| Belmont Tribune | BELMONT MAN TITANIC VICTIM It is reported on good authority that Mr. Henry Hart, formerly employed by Mr. E. F. Atkins of this town, was one of the unfortunates who went down in the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Hart was married while residing in Belmont and went to Ireland with his ... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| Armenian Weekly | SURVIVING THE TITANIC THE SAGA OF DAVIT VARTANIAN Davit David Vartanian was one of five young Armenian men making their way to the Free World for freedom opportunity and to earn money to send to loved ones back home in Tzermag Keghi in Historic Armenia. Their misfortune was that as third-class passengers they were booked in steerage in the bowels of the ill-fated unsinkable Titanic.... |
19th April 2011 | |||
| Toronto Star | GLORIA STUART THE ELDER ROSE IN TITANIC DIES AT 100 Gloria Stuart a 1930s Hollywood leading lady whose first significant role in nearly 60 yearsas the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film about the ill-fated ocean linerearned her an Academy Award nomination has died. She was 100.... |
28th September 2010 | |||
| BBC News | STATUE OF CAPTAIN SMITH OF THE TITANIC IS RESTORED A famous bronze statue of Captain Smith master of the ill-fated Titanic ship has a new look.... |
31st July 2010 | |||
| Westmorland Gazette | TITANIC ARTEFACTS SET TO RAISE THOUSANDS A RARE first-hand account of the Titanic tragedy written by the great-uncle of a South Lakeland resident is expected to fetch more than £15,000 when it is sold at auction.Having always been interested in the voyage of the ill-fated vessel, Joyce Ireland from Burneside read with interest an article previewing the sale of Titanic memorabilia at Sotheby's in London.... |
2nd December 2008 | |||
| Whittier Daily News | TAKE A TRIP ON THE TITANIC Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she went to sea (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank.... |
28th February 2010 | |||
| WXOW.com | TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS IN MILWAUKEE FRIDAY Items from the ill-fated Titanic sail into the Milwaukee Public Museum this Friday."Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition\" tells the story of the hundreds of people aboard through authentic artifacts and room recreations.... |
6th October 2008 | |||
| yourlocalguardian.co.uk | POSTCARD FROM THORNTON HEATH MAN ON TITANIC UP FOR SALE A postcard sent from a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic liner is set to fetch up to £4,000 at auction. Andrew Johnston, who lived with his family in Thornton Heath, sent the postcard to his dad from the ship as it left Queenstown, now Cobh in Cork, Ireland. ... |
11th January 2012 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC PASSENGER'S LETTERS FETCH £19,000 LETTERS which tell the story of a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic fetched £19,129 when they went under the hammer today.Businessman Charles Jones, who worked for Colgate toothpaste company in New York, was returning to the United States after a trip to Britain to buy sheep when he died on the Southampton liner's maiden voyage in 1912.... |
11th April 2008 | |||
| St. Catharines Standard | TITANIC PIECES SOLD TO BIDDER IN FLORIDA Pieces of an ill-fated ship sold by a St. Catharines auctioneer will float down to Florida. Sold during the Saturday auction were a tiny wooden box and silver pin tray which were once the property of two women who escaped the sinking Titanic in 1912.... |
23rd November 2010 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC LIFE VEST TO MAKE $80,000 A life-jacket from the ill-fated Titanic could make $80,000 (£40,570) when it goes up for auction next month. The life-preserver was found during the initial recovery operation after the liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. The item is one of several linked to the Titanic which are being sold off by Christie's in Manhattan, New York.... |
30th May 2008 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | CENTENARY PROVES ENDURING APPEAL OF THE TITANIC STORY - BBC NEWS Tickets are already selling well as there appears to be no dip in the public's enthusiasm for the story of the ill-fated luxury liner. Louise Patten, granddaughter of the ship's second officer Charles Lightoller, told the BBC why she believes the story still exerts such a powerful pull 100 years on.... |
22nd December 2011 | |||
| News Wales | TITANIC RELICS IN SWANSEA SHOW Swansea tomorrow (Saturday) unveils the first exhibition of its kind in Wales on the ill-fated Titanic and her movie legacy. Swansea Museum will host the Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition depicting the story and tragedy of the giant vessel which sank on April 15 1912.... |
19th October 2007 | |||
| New York Times | POSTPONE SILVER WEDDING CELEBRATION Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Greenfield of 1,239 Madison Avenue have postponed the celebration of their silver wedding anniversary, which was to have taken place at Sherry's on Sunday, May 5, on account of mourning due to the Titanic disaster and the many fun... |
28th April 1912 | |||
| The Cornishman | TITANIC LINKS SOUGHT FOR EXHIBITION THE most famous ill-fated ship in history, the Titanic, is to be the subject of a major new exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Falmouth next year and the search is on to find local people with a personal connection.Although the exhibition won't be unveiled until next March, the museum is appealing now for people with their own stories to tell to come forward.... |
26th November 2008 | |||
| independent.ie | COMMEMORATIVE TITANIC CRUISE TO DOCK AT COBH, 100 YEARS ON Preparations are continuing in Cobh, Co Cork, to welcome a 100th anniversary commemorative cruise retracing the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912. The cruise, which has been completely sold out, will depart from Southampton on April 8 next year with 1,300 passengers from 22 different countries, including 35 from Ireland.... |
7th August 2011 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| chroniclelive.co.uk | STROKE OF LUCK SAVED GEORDIE LAD FROM TITANIC - CHRONICLELIVE Stroke of luck saved Geordie lad from TitanicChronicleLiveIt turned out that if the original booking had went ahead, the Stein family would have left these shores aboard probably the most famous ship in the world, the ill-fated Titanic. But although Calvert later said that he was at the time disappointed not ...... |
23rd November 2011 | |||
| BBC News | SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC ENGINEERS MEMORIAL IS RESTORED A newly-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS Titanic sank 98 years ago will be unveiled in Southampton.... |
2nd September 2010 | |||
| thetelegram.com | A TITANIC BOOST The man who brought “Titanic†to the big screen will promote events at Cape Race marking the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film on the ill-fated luxury liner, has signed on as an ambassador for next year’s Receiving Titanic commemorations. That’s according to Larry Daley, a St. John’s-based Titanic enthusiast and entrepreneur.... |
2nd December 2011 | |||
| State-Journal.com | "TITANIC' EXPERT TO REVEAL ARTIFACTS FROM SUNKEN SHIP When Frankfort's Titanic authority Roland Herzel travels across the ocean and a storm hits, his mind immediately goes to the night that ill-fated ship sank."There was no moon. There were no waves to allow them to see the iceberg," that night in 1912, Herzel says. The captain, overconfident in his impeccable sailing record, failed to ask for help right away.... |
7th October 2008 | |||
| New York Times | ROEBLING IS EXCUSED FROM JURY Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 16---When the panel for the April term of the United States Grand Jury reported to-day, Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, and father of Washingto... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | TO FIND BODIES The Parisian steamed through much he??? field of ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian reports ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Joplin Independent | TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION HOSTS IRISH FESTIVAL The Titanic Museum Attraction is hosting an Irish Festival on March 1-16, 2007 to honor the Irish passengers aboard the ill-fated luxury liner. ... |
5th March 2007 | |||
| shorenewstoday.com | WORLD TRAVELERS RECALL TRIP TO TITANIC BURIAL SITE Hearing about a display of artifacts from the Titanic at Shore Mall in Egg Harbor Township brought back memories for Rose and Bill Povse of Absecon. Not memories back to 1912 – the couple, in their early 80s, laughed at the thought of that – but of a visit to Nova Scotia they took in 2004, where many of the bodies recovered from the ill-fated voyage were taken.... |
1st December 2011 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | TITANIC LUNCH FOR COMMEMORATION PLAN LIVERPOOL Lord Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday hosted a lunch identical to the last meal eaten by passengers onboard the Titanic.It was part of the first gathering of the 'Titanic Cities' event, aimed at bringing together representatives from places with a connection with the ill-fated vessel. The ship was registered in Liverpool and had the city's name on her stern, although she was built in Southampton.... |
15th July 2008 | |||
| Metro Canada - Toronto | TITANIC SERVICE AT HALIFAX CEMETERY TO MARK 98 YEARS SINCE TRAGEDY The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a memorial ceremony in Halifax next Thursday, marking 98 years since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. The service will take place at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where 121 victims who were aboard the ill-fated luxury liner are buried.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| UTV | BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ... |
29th November 2006 | |||
| irishtimes.com | COBH CEREMONY HONOURS VICTIMS OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES A COMMEMORATION of the victims of the Titanic's sinking was held in Cobh yesterday, one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York. On Thursday, April 11th, 1912, 123 steerage ...... |
11th April 2011 | |||
| Electronic Theatre | TITANIC MYSTERY COMING TO NINTENDO WII NEXT MONTH Easy Interactive has announced Titanic Mystery for Nintendo Wii an incredibly popular Purple Hills title that combines hidden object and logic puzzles previously only available on Nintendo DS and PC. Titanic Mystery takes players aboard the luxurious craft exactly 100 years after the original ill-fated ocean liner left port.... |
2nd November 2010 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | OBITUARY TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir... |
30th December 1968 | |||
| Standard Freeholder | TITANIC COLLECTION EXHIBIT OPENS TUESDAY An exhibit of Titanic proportions will open Tuesday. Renĩ Bergeron became enamored with the ship in the mid-1990s when he watched a black and white movie, A Night to Remember, which told of its sad tale. It didn't take long for his fascination to turn into a passion and soon he began collecting documents, objects and memorabilia surrounding the ship's history and its ill-fated voyage.... |
16th April 2009 | |||
| BBC Northern Ireland | 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 | |||
| The Guardian | TITANIC LETTER EXPECTED TO FETCH £25,000 AT AUCTION A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner.... |
30th March 2010 | |||
| Stockport Express | COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF TITANIC VICTIM A BLUE plaque was unveiled at the weekend to commemorate Stockport's only victim on the ill-fated SS Titanic, William Watson.The plaque was unveiled by Stockport Heritage Trust, on the the outside of the Ratpit Club on Lower Bents Lane, Bredbury. This was the site of Mr Watson's home, who lived at number 3 before it was demolished.... |
6th September 2007 | |||
| ludlowadvertiser.co.uk | MAJOR EXHIBITION ABOUT THE TITANIC TO BE STAGED AT LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS LUDLOW Assembly Rooms' entertainment for the autumn season will include a major exhibition about ill-fated liner the Titanic. 'It's a fantastic exhibition which has been attracting huge interest and visitor numbers wherever it's toured'... |
7th July 2011 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | FAILS TO FIND BROTHER AMONG TITANIC'S DEAD (Special to the Journal) Rahway, May 11---Mrs. Margaret O’Brien, of 90 Monroe street, returned last evening from a several days’ stay in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she went to see if any trace could be found of her brother, Arthur Kee... |
11th May 1912 | |||
| Moving Picture World | MISS DOROTHY GIBSON Popular Éclair leading photoplayer reported to be among those saved of the passengers of the ill-fated steamship Titanic. Miss Gibson and her mother were returning from a trip to Egypt, where she went for rest and recuperation. It has also been repor... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| Record Eagle | STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING newspaper photo... |
15th May 1953 | |||
| BBC News | MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ... |
18th July 2006 | |||
| Norwich Evening News | TITANIC FANS RAISE CASH TO RESTORE LAST LINK TO FAMOUS SHIP More than 100 Titanic enthusiasts helped raise hundreds of pounds towards restoring the last link to the famous ship's owners.An 8ft model of the ill-fated passenger liner, which famously sunk after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage to New York, in 1912, was one of attractions on display at a fundraising event in Thorpe St Andrew on Friday.... |
11th March 2009 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily News | TREMONT CHEF SERVES UP TITANIC-THEMED DINNER A dinner of historic proportion adds a special note to next week's Galveston Uncorked! food and wine celebration. Tremont House executive chef Kelly Wilson researched the menus from the ill-fated maiden sailing of the Titanic to create a Titanic-themed meal that won't leave diners with a sinking feeling.... |
8th May 2008 | |||
| Larne Today | TITANIC DRESS LOOKS SHIP-SHAPE WITH HELP FROM WELDER GRAEME A LARNE welder has spoken of his pride after being called upon to help create a unique dress inspired by one of Belfast’s most stunning buildings. Titanic Belfast, which will be the world’s largest visitor attraction based on the ill-fated ocean liner, commissioned the dress to celebrate the centenary of ship’s maiden voyage and the opening of the building next spring.... |
12th October 2011 | |||
| Clare Journal | THE TITANIC DISASTER A telegram received in Ennis during the week confirmed the worst fears that had been entertained as to the safety of a young man named Martin McMahon, from the Craigbrien district, about five miles from Ennis. It was known... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| St James Parish Magazine | VICAR'S LETTER The awful tragedy of the Titanic is so much in the minds of us all that I cannot help referring to it in my letter, if only to say how widespread and sincere is the sympathy felt for Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mountain. Their nephew was Sixth officer of the i... |
May 1912 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | ALL'S SHIPSHAPE IN JOHN'S BOOK OF TITANIC FACTS - BELFAST TELEGRAPH John White’s new book, The RMS Titanic Miscellany, contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous ship, from facts and figures to biographies and urban myths surrounding the ill-fated voyage. John is not new to the specific art of writing fact books — with over 30 sports books to his name, he could be called something of an expert at the genre — but this book is certainly different to his usual fare.... |
21st July 2011 | |||
| USA Today | GEORGIA AQUARIUM TO HOST EXHIBITION OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS An exhibition of artifacts from the ill-fated ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is opening at the Georgia Aquarium.The exhibition will include interactive displays, videos and recreations of rooms aboard the ship. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.... |
19th August 2008 | |||
| Castle Carey Visitor | CARYITES ON BOARD The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H... |
April 1912 | |||
| thisisstaffordshire.co.uk | TITANIC STORY OFFERS MORE THAN JUST A DISASTER FILM HE story of the Titanic, which sunk almost 100 years ago, has been revisited in a new documentary. The one-hour film, Prepare To Launch, looks at the planning and preparation that went into the ill-fated liner, leading up to its launch in Belfast on May 31, 1911. Featuring words from shipbuilders, crew members and even survivors, the film also looks at the ship's links with Staffordshire, the most well-known being the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, below, who was born in Well Street, Hanley in 1850.... |
26th May 2011 | |||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | ABERDEEN ENGINEER ABOARD As indicated on Monday, there were no Aberdeen passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel, but we learn that a Torry engineer was a member of the crew. About ten days ago Mr. James Fraser, 85 Menzies Road, received a letter from his son, Mr. James Fra... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC [The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| eastbourneherald.co.uk | PLEA TO RESTORE TITANIC PLAQUE A PLAQUE commemorating the life of an Eastbourne-based musician who died aboard the Titanic needs replacing before next year’s 100th anniversary of the ship’s ill-fated maiden voyage. John Wesley Woodward played cello in the ship’s orchestra and was part of the outfit which famously played while the ship sank into the icy waters – waters which claimed the lives of 1,517 people that April 15 night back in 1912.... |
10th August 2011 | |||
| Dumfries and Galloway Standard | NEW TITANIC CLAIMS BLAME DALBEATTIE MAN A SON of Dalbeattie could have prevented the world’s worst maritime disaster. William Murdoch, first officer on the ill-fated Titanic, might have saved the “unsinkable” passenger liner had he taken immediate action when an iceberg was spotted. Instead, according to a new book, Murdoch delayed for 30 seconds, analysing information coming his way. And that delay, the researchers who wrote “Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal” claim, meant the ship was unable to avoid the collision that ended with more than 1,500 people losing their lives.... |
16th December 2011 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | TICKET FOR TITANIC MAIDEN VOYAGE UNCOVERED A pristine ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage has been uncovered by a woman trying to trace her Ulster roots. The unused ticket belonged to the grandmother of Illinois woman Margaret Hallem, who produced it at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC while checking up on her Ulster roots.... |
10th July 2007 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR LOST Stewardess of Ill-Fated Steamer Jumps from Leyland Liner --- BOSTON, Oct. 10---Mrs. Annie Robinson of Liverpool, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, jumped from the Leyland Line steamer Devonian last night while the liner was groping ... |
11th October 1914 | |||
| thisiswiltshire.co.uk | WELCOME ON BOARD DEVIZES is becoming closely associated with the ill-fated ocean liner SS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic 100 years ago next April. Local auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son held their latest sale of Titanic memorabilia on Saturday and now writer John Blake has made a contribution to the literature on the subject. To mark the centenary, Mr Blake, a retired Royal Navy lieutenant-commander who lives in Devizes, was commissioned to write a book commemorating the “unsinkable” ship which was the state of the art in travel 100 years ago. ... |
6th November 2011 | |||
| Toronto Star | NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic.... |
16th April 2009 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat... |
3rd May 1912 | |||
| Boston Globe | DIAGRAMS FROM TITANIC INQUEST TO BE AUCTIONED A British auctioneer is offering two diagrams of the ill-fated liner Titanic for sale on Oct. 29. The diagrams were used during the official inquest following the ship's sinking in 1912, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Wednesday. A 32.5-foot-long (9.9-meter-long) cutaway diagram of the ship's interior, also used at the inquest, fetched 220,000 pounds ($363,000) at an auction at in April by Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes in southwest England.... |
19th October 2011 | |||
| Scotsman | WATCH OF TITANIC VICTIM ON SALE FOR ?25,000 A POCKET watch discovered on the frozen body of a Scot who was the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic is being auctioned for ?25,000.The silver watch was found on Thomas Mullin, whose corpse was plucked from the sea the day before it became too treacherous for rescue vessels to continue searching. The 20-year-old, who was born in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, had signed on for the ill-fated voyage on 6 April, 1912, as a third-class steward.More than 1,500 died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland on the night of 14 April, 1912. ... |
5th January 2006 | |||
| BBC News | 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 | |||
| Birmingham Mail | BIRMINGHAM EXHIBITION MARKS REGION'S LINKS WITH TITANIC Links with the legendary liner Titanic are being celebrated with an exhibition outlining the contribution by West Midlands’ craftsmen to the construction of the ill-fated ship. The two-day Bull Ring display, which is open today and tomorrow, showcases the work done in the region to supply parts to Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff. A new visitor attraction is set to open in Northern Ireland next spring to mark the centenary of the ship’s maiden voyage.... |
30th September 2011 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | LOCAL MINING MAN IS ON TITANIC'S DEATH LIST Colonel John Weir, a well known mining man of the Pacific Coast, was one of the victims of the Titanic horror. It has been learned by his friends that he took passage on the ill fated steamer on an unexpected trip to California, probably on urgent bu... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | LETTER FROM MR. H. P. HODGES Mr. Hector Young, hon. secretary of the Newtown Ward Conservative Association, received a letter from Mr. H. P. Hodges, the well-known Southampton tradesman, dated April 10th who was a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic, returning thanks for an expre... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Roanoke Times | VESTED IN THE TITANIC After Christie's got $119,000 for a Titanic life jacket at an auction in London last year, Gregg Dietrich was not surprised that his phone kept ringing with offers of other items from the ill-fated ship."When we sell one ... more seem to come out of the woodwork," said Dietrich, who heads the maritime (or "ocean liner") division of the auction house here. "We're been inundated with Titanic offers."The problem was, many of the calls came from people like the man who was certain he had all sorts of valuable Titanic keepsakes: a first-class passenger list, a menu from its Cafe Parisienne, even a passenger ticket that would have been the first ever auctioned.Except it wasn't.... |
7th July 2008 | |||
| Orlando Sentinel | TITANIC TO SAIL TO NEW I-DRIVE LOCALE The Titanic exhibit that sailed into Central Florida almost a decade ago is headed back to International Drive, with plans for a $2 million investment to modernize and expand the attraction.Titanic -- The Experience, which introduces visitors to the world of the ill-fated ocean liner, will end its temporary run in the Orlando Science Center on Oct. 12. It will move to a 20,000-square-foot location at 7324 International Drive, a mile north of the now-demolished Mercado shopping-and-dining complex where the attraction had spent the first eight years of its existence.... |
11th September 2008 | |||
| Hampshire Observer | WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec... |
1912 | |||
| The Shields Gazette | PHYLLIS COULD HAVE DIED ON TITANIC, BUT LIVED TO 102 A WOMAN whose life was almost cut short has died after reaching the grand old age of 102. Five-year-old Phyllis Ray should have been a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic as her family set out to start a new life in America.... |
30th April 2009 | |||
| forestgrovenewstimes.com | FOREST GROVE COUPLE CELEBRATED 40TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ABOARD TITANIC On Friday, May 13, Amato presents “Titanic: A Love Story: The Forest Grove Connection,” a slideshow presentation telling the story of Frank Warren and Anna Atkinson, who were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary aboard the ill-fated vessel when it collided with an iceberg on April 15, 1912. ... |
11th May 2011 | |||
| irishtimes.com | FLARES AND GUN SALUTE IN CORK PAY TRIBUTE TO LOST LIVES OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES ONE HUNDRED and twenty-three flares were released from Spike Island in Co Cork to commemorate the individuals who boarded the ill-fated Titanic from nearby Cobh on April 11th, 1912. When the Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic four days later, it sank with the loss of over 1,500 lives, including 79 of those who boarded in Cobh. Among those who died was a Cobh native, able seaman Lionel Leonard, who travelled as a third-class passenger.... |
2nd January 2012 | |||
| expressandstar.com | CAMPAIGN TO TAKE CAPTAIN'S STATUE 'HOME' A statue of the captain of the ill-fated Titanic could be moved to his home city almost 100 years after being rejected by his townsfolk. Captain Edward John Smith’s statue was put up in Beacon Park, Lichfield, in 1914 because Stoke-on-Trent refused it. They did not wish to be associated with the disastrous liner. A campaign has now been started to get the bronze statue moved to Captain Smith’s home town of Hanley. But Lichfield council bosses want to keep it.... |
30th August 2011 | |||
| Washington Herald | W. B. SILVEY KNOWN HERE Missing Titanic Passenger's Family Prominent in Army --- William B. Silvey, who is one of the missing passengers of the ill-fated Titanic, is well known in Washington. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the First United States Arti... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Port Huron Times Herald | BERT JOHNS, SURVIVOR OF 1912 TITANIC DISASTER, DIES Page 1, columns 6-7 Bert Johns, 66, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, operator of Bert's Tavern, 622 Water Street, for 15 years, Port Huron resident 32 years, died Saturday in his home, 216 Broad Street, after an illness of on... |
3rd February 1952 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ... |
3rd July 2011 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate, and Cheriton Herald | HYTHE MOURNERS Page 11 There are at least two Hythe residents mourning the loss of relatives who were on the ill-fated Titanic. One is Mr. W. R. Wood, the popular Postmaster, whose brother, Mr. J. T. Wood, aged 49 years went down with the great major... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's "little sister" is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what they believe to be her ship's wheel and will be handing it over to the team responsible for restoring her in the next fortnight. SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and once ferried first class passengers onto the Titanic at Cherbourg on the mighty liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. ... |
25th April 2009 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | PEACOCK STILL HOPING TO FIND BROTHERS Benjamin Peacock, who lost his wife and two children in the Titanic disaster, returned to his work in the Public Service power house on South avenue, Cranford, yesterday. He told his friends that his wife and two children had been placed in one of t... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| thisishampshire.net | SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985... |
2nd November 2011 | |||
| Washington Times | CONGRESSMAN HUGHES' DAUGHTER WAS AMONG THOSE ON THE VESSEL UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 16---James Smith, of Uniontown, Pa., and Morgantown, W. Va., today is on his way to New York following word that his brother, Lucien Smith, and the latter’s bride of two months, perished in the wreck of the Titanic. ... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | WEST HOBOKEN MAN A PASSENGER ON THE LOST STEAMER John Ashby, of Traphagen street, West Hoboken, is on the list of second cabin passengers of the ill-fated Titanic and so far his name has not appeared among those of the rescued. He was returning from England to his son-in-law and two daughters in No... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| ic Birmingham | LABOUR TO THE RESCUE he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic - following a campaign by a Coventry man.Titanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic, the last remaining vessel with direct links to the ill-fated ship.Yesterday the Government's bid of ?170,000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where it was originally built in 1912, to be renovated, the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson. ... |
27th January 2006 | |||
| New York Times | ROBERT J. HOPKINS Member of Titanic Crew Aided in Rescue of Mrs. John J. Astor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. 18---Robert J. Hopkins, who was a member of the crew of the ill-fated liner Titanic when it struck an ... |
19th November 1943 | |||
| Sheffield Telegraph | TITANIC MISSION ACHIEVED IT was a Titanic job but Sheffield Forgemasters rose to the occasion The engineering company created an exact replica of the ill-fated ships anchor at its Brightside Lane base for a new TV series called Titanic The Mission.... |
25th October 2010 | |||
| clickliverpool.com | RELATIVE DISCOVERS TITANIC CAPTAIN'S TELESCOPE IN THE ATTIC A telescope that belonged to the captain of the Titanic has been found lying in a dusty old attic. The brass eyepiece, kept in an old whisky bottle box, bears the name "Edward John Smith" who was the master of the ill-fated ocean liner that sank in 1912. It also carries an engraved image of the Titanic's sister ship - RMS Olympic - which Smith commanded for ten months. The three-foot long spyglass was identified by auctioneer John Crane after he was invited to value artefacts belonging to a distant relative of Captain Smith.... |
8th July 2011 | |||
| Hayle Weekly Mail | HAYLE MAN ONE OF THE STEWARDS On enquiring at Hayle we find that no passengers from this town have sailed in the ill-fated vessel, but that Mr. Samuel Rule, of Hayle, occupied the position of chief bathroom steward. Mr. Rule, who formerly lived at Clifton-terrace, is a bro... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| info | PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there.... |
26th August 2011 | |||
| Whitehaven News | MILLOM'S CONNECTION WITH THE TITANIC DISASTER THE widespread effects of the Titanic disaster is evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Beck of Cambridge Street, Millom, (Cumberland) had a relative aboard the ill-fated vessel. Mrs. Meanwell, first cousin of Mrs. Beck, who was proceeding on the Ti... |
2nd May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR MARRIES Miss M. Froelicher Weds R.J.F. Schwarzenbach in Switzerland --- Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach of 471 Park Avenue was married to Miss Marguerite Froelicher of Zurich, Switzerland, one of the survivors of the Titanic, on Monday at Zurich.... |
9th January 1913 | |||
| NY Daily News (4/20/08 | TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction.... |
20th April 2008 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | MIKE LITHERLAND RECALLS THE FATE OF THE CARPATHIA, WHICH RESCUED SURVIVORS FROM THE TITANIC Mike Litherland recalls the fate of the Carpathia, which rescued survivors from the Titanic Apr 24 2010 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Echo Add a commentRecommend WE ALL know the story of the Titanic and know the Carpathia came to the rescue , well recently the grandson of Francis McLean - a waiter on the Carpathia - brought in his medals, which included his First World War medals and a medal issued to the crew of the Carpathia for their rescue of 705 people from the ill- fated Titanic.... |
24th April 2010 | |||
| Bucks Free Press | SAVED FROM THE TITANIC - MISS M. SLOAN The news of the disaster caused grave anxiety to the relatives.... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | PRES. HAYS WIDOW LEAVES FOR HOME New York, April 19- Upon the arrival of the Carpathia, Mrs. Charles M. Hays, wife of the president of the Grand Trunk railway, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic and her two daughters, Mrs. Thornton Davidson and Miss. Margaret Hays, were met by... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Reading Observer | UNTITLED Inquiries made at the local shipping offices by a Reading Observer' representative elicited the fact that there were no Reading people among the passengers. Several local residents had friends and relatives on board. Mr. Stuart Collett, nephew of Mrs... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Gare Maritime | STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials.... |
21st July 2006 | |||
| BBC News | 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 killing 1,517 people.... |
8th October 2009 | |||
| Hartford Courant | MRS. STEWART DID NOT SAIL ON TITANIC (Special to The Courant) Winsted, April 17 Spencer C. Coe received a message this morning advising him that his cousin, Mrs. Florence A. Stewart, wife of Albert A. Stewart,... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | HAWTHORNE YOUTH ON TITANIC WAS A HERO HAWTHORNE, May 3---Through Frank Turnquist, one of the stewards of the Titanic, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Johnson, of Diamond Bridge avenue, have learned that their son, William C. Johnson Jr., who was a petty officer on the ill-fated steamship, mig... |
3rd May 1912 | |||
| Tipperary Star | DEATH OF TITANIC SURVIVOR Mrs. Catherine Croke, Ballinntemple, Dundrum, whose death has occurred is believed to have been the last survivor in Ireland of the ill-fated Titanic. She was aged 21 at the time of the disaster and it was her first experience of being aboard a ship.... |
20th November 1948 | |||
| Fulham Chronicle | ARTICLE One of the stewards on the ill-fated Titanic was a Fulham man and fortunately he is among the saved. His name is Mr. Frank Morris, of 46 Delorne [sic] Street, Fulham Palace Road, and he came of a family long resident and well known in the borough.... |
26th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | GLOOM AT HOLSWORTHY This disaster has cast a gloom over Holsworthy, there being no less than seven passengers from this district on board the ill-fated vessel. Mr. L. Braund, a native of Bridgerule, who had been on a visit to his native home after several years absence ... |
1912 | |||
| delconewsnetwork.com | STELLAR 'TITANIC' SAILS INTO UPPER DARBY SUMMER STAGE Compelling stories of the ship’s ill-fated passengers and crew mixes excitement and sorrow in the stellar production of “Titanic,” Upper Darby Summer Stage’s Mainstage show. As guests entered the theater, each was given a boarding pass which read, “Permission granted to come aboard White Star Line’s R.M.S. Titanic.” Characters from the show were featured on the back of each pass. The show, which opened on Broadway in 1997, won five Tony Awards including one for Best Musical that year. Next April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, where 1,517 people died.... |
4th August 2011 | |||
| Hudson Observer | WEST HOBOKEN MAN'S RELATIVES HAVE NOT ABANDONED ALL HOPE Nothing has been heard of John Ashby, listed as second cabin passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, and the family, in West Hoboken, with the Rev. Edmund J. Cleveland, would be pleased for any information. No satisfaction can be obtained at the Whit... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR TO WED Miss Margaret Graham Engaged to E. M. Moore---Palm Beach Romance --- The wedding of Miss Margaret Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Graham of Greenwich, Conn., and Eugene Maxwell Moore, whose engagement has just been announced... |
20th March 1914 | |||
| Hudson Observer | GUTTENBERG WOMAN AMONG THOSE SAVED Among the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic was Miss Katie McCarthy, sister of Mrs. John Woolnough, of 107 Twenty-fifth street, Guttenberg. She is at present among the hospital list being cared for in New York City and is not expected home until to-... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | LOVE FOR SEA PREVAILS --- Chief Barber on the Titanic Obtains Post on the Lusitania --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5---Unable to resist traveling over the sea, August F. Weikman of Palmyra, N. J., who was the ch... |
6th August 1912 | |||
| UTV | 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 | |||
| Stratford Express | THE TITANIC DISASTER Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | HADDONFIELD MAN ON BOARD TITANIC Nothing Yet Heard from Frederick W. Sutton Whose Name is on Passenger List --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- Fredrich [sic] W. Sutton, a highly esteemed wealthy resident of Haddonfield is said to have been on board... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Semi Weekly Iowegian | MYSTIC MAN LOSES WIFE AND CHILDREN - MRS. FRANK LEFEBRE COMING ON TITANIC FROM FRANCE REPORTED AMONG THOSE MISSING Frank Lefebre, of Mystic, has almost given away to despair of ever seeing his wife and four children who were on board the ill fated Titanic. They were coming from France to join him after separation of a year while he worked hard in the mines to ... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | TWO U.C. MEN LOST IN WRECK OF TITANIC BERKELEY, April 20. – Among those who went down with the Titanic is believed to be James E. McGuire [sic], a graduate of the University of California in 1893, and a famous ball player in his college days. McGuire was underground manager of the Simmer... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Manchester Evening News | MANCHESTER VICTIMS: CHIEF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER ON THE TITANIC Mr. Alfred S. Allsop, the chief electrical engineer of the Titanic, who, it is feared, has gone down in the ill-fated ship, was a Manchester man. He was about 35 years of age, and was born in Brunswick Street, C.-on-M., but he has not lived in the ci... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| dgstandard.co.uk | RED ROSES FOR TITANIC HERO MUSICIAN - JOCK HUME ALMOST a century has past since the great ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The worst maritime disaster at peacetime in living history claimed the lives of 1,517 people on April 15, 1912, including that of one of the ship’s musicians, a young man called John Law Hume. Born and raised in Dumfries, before joining the ill-fated band of musicians on the White Star Ocean liner, the body of 21-year-old Jock was recovered from the waters of the Northern Atlantic by the MacKay Bennett shortly after the Titanic sank. His unidentified body was buried in May of that year at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.... |
4th November 2011 | |||
| Oxford Times | LOCAL PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC Among those it is feared have lost their lives on the ill-fated vessel, is Mr. Wesley Woodward, of Oxford. Mr. Woodward was the youngest son of Mr. Woodward, of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen ... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Buda Plain Dealer | TITANIC SURVIVOR Edward Dorking, the young man from Oglesby who survived the terrible experiences of the "Titanic" disaster, will speak in Opera Hall in Buda, Saturday evening May 18. He gave his first address in Princeton, where it was heard with intense interest, f... |
17th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | WAR UPSETS WEDDING PLAN P. E. Mock Unable to Leave Germany to Marry Miss Alvis Ehrman --- The plans for the wedding of Miss Alvis Constance and Philipp Edmund Mock have been upset by the European war. The wedding was to have taken place on Aug. 22 at Pocantic... |
21st August 1912 | |||
| North American | WOMAN MISSIONARY MAY BE AMONG LOST POTTSTOWN, Pa., April 18---The name of Miss Annie Funk, a returned missionary from India and a daughter of James Funk, a well-to-do grist mill owner at Palm, this county, is not among the list of second-class passengers on the ill-fated Titanic who w... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | KEEPING IN TOUCH FIFTY-TWO years ago, Titanic survivor Mr Ernest Allen, of 40 Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton was a stoker in the ill-fated Titanic. Today at 72 years of age, he is still stoking and at the Ordnance Survey Office, London Road, Southampton, cont... |
4th September 1964 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR ENGAGED Miss Frolicher of Zurich to Wed R.J.F. Schwarzenbach of New York --- The engagement is announced in New York and Zurich of Miss Marguerite Frolicher of the latter city, to Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach of New York. Mr. Schwarzenbach, who ... |
3rd October 1912 | |||
| Cornubian | THE LATE MR FRANK ANDREW MR. FRANK ANDREW, of Pencoys, formerly of Lanner, who is missing. There is now no hope that he was saved.... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | ONLY 1 OF 10 IN PARTY ON TITANIC SAVED One of the fortunate survivors of the ill-fated steamship Titanic... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Evening Post | ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Hackney And Kingsland Gazette | CLAPTON WIDOW'S APPLICATION Mrs Sarah Wood, the widow of the second-class steward of the ill-fated “Titanic,” – the late James Thomas Wood, of 7, Narford-road, Upper Clapton – applied at Shoreditch County Court yesterday with regard to the disposal of a sum of £286 19s. 6d. pai... |
7th July 1912 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | HUGO ROSS WAS ABOARD Newspaper article... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Derbyshire Times | CHESTERFIELD VICTIM A young lady who has intimate relatives in Chesterfield was among the officers on the ill-fated Titanic. She is Miss Evelyn Marsden, and is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson, Ash Tree, Chesterfield. A nurse-stewardess in the first saloon, Miss Mars... |
1912 | |||
| Nottingham Daily Express | DERBYSHIRE VICTIM Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| The San Francisco Call | RESIDENTS OF SACRAMENTO ON BOARD VESSEL Stephen Hold and Wife and H. Klaber Passengers on the Titanic --- [Special Dispatch to The Call] --- SACRAMENTO, April 15 -Three Sacramento persons were on board the ill fated liner Titanic, which sank in... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [The preceeding paragrpahs of this article can be found through the summary pages for the Renouf/Jefferys family, the Carter family and the Peacock family, in that order.] From early this morning when the first dispatches began to come... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Cumberland News | LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Grimsby Evening News | UNTITLED As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t... |
April 1912 | |||
| Shoreham Herald | 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 Maynard, he was an entrée cook on the ill-fated voyage, which ended with the liner sinking on April 15, 1912.... |
15th July 2009 | |||
| New York Times | WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C... |
30th April 1931 | |||
| Southport Visitor | MR. JAMES WALPOLE As stated in Tuesdays Visitor among the crew of the ill fated liner was Mr. James Walpole, brother of Mr. Horace Walpole, of 17 Line-street, Southport and brother-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Browne. A native of Southport... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Billboard Magazine | HENRY B. HARRIS Loses Life When Ill-Fated Titanic Sinks – Other Victims Of Disaster Connected With Amusement Field Include Albert A. Stewart, Emil Brandeis and Franz Addelmann – Dorothy Gibson Saved New York, April 20 (Special to Billb... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | THE LOCAL PASSENGERS The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | BROOKLYNITES ARE LOST AS TITANIC SINKS Several Are Believed to Have Sunk With Ship --- According to the latest reports from the White Star officials there were Brooklyn and Long Island people among those who were lost when the ill fated Titanic sank. The dead ... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Torquay Times | DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED RESIDENT. Torquay has lost an old and respected inhabitant in the death of Mrs. Rebecca Parsons, of Bronshill Road. Originally of Torrington, she had for many years resided at Torquay and took a very active interest in the work of the United Methodist Church ... |
1st December 1922 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | FRIEND TELLS HOW TITANIC COMMANDER MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED INSISTS CAPT. SMITH LIVES Friend Tells How Titanic Commander Might Have Escaped Baltimore, md., July 21---Still emphatic in his assertions that he saw Captain E. J. Smith, who is supposed ... |
22nd July 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | TWO WITLEY VICTIMS Widows sad experience Among those who were serving on board the ill-fated vessel was Mrs. Lucy Violet Snape, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Leonard, of Well Lane, Sandhills, Witley, who was employed as a second class stewardess. At the ti... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | ROCHESTER GIRL IS SAVED But Traveling Guardian of Little Miss Bentham Is Missing --- Special to The New York Times --- ROCHESTER, April 18---Lilian Bentham of 11 Kay Terrace is saved on the Carpathia, but her mother is suffering from nervous stra... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | SAFETY OF FORMER RESIDENTS OF WORCESTER CAUSES WORRY AMONG FRIENDS IN THIS CITY Believing that Charles Asplund and family, formerly of Worcester, were on board the ill-fated Titanic when it foundered., Charles E. Carlson of 193 Vernon street, left Worcester today for New York to make inquiries concerning the fate of the family, ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Berkshire County Eagle | THE WILLIAM PERINES CELEBRATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY newspaper photo... |
29th January 1947 | |||
| North American | TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w... |
3rd May 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | DR. DODGE DYING, IS REPORT Page 1, column 4 Dr. Washington Dodge, banker, former county Assessor and former Supervisor, who shot himself in the head Saturday night, is dying at the St. Francis Hospital, according to reports from his bedside today. Si... |
28th June 1919 | |||
| Washington Times | MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic... |
9th December 1952 | |||
| Washington Times | CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Lake County Times | LAKE CO. MAN TELLS TERRIBLE STORY Survivor of Titanic Now in Indiana Harbor Owes Life to Mrs. Astor.... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | WEST BROMWICH MEN ON TITANIC Three West Bromwich men, Alfred Davies, aged 21, John Davies, aged 22, and Joseph Davies, aged 17 years, all of Hardware Street, and a relative named James Lester, aged 39, of Wolverhampton are believed to be among the ill-fated passengers. They l... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | SURVIVOR VISITS MONTCLAIR One of the survivors of the Titanic, Miss Edwina Trout, of Bath, England, is the guest of Miss Jennie Holwell, of 209 Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair. “I can never forget the experience,” said Miss Trout today. “As we pulled away fro... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Worksop Today | TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD AN AFTERNOON surfing on the internet led a Creswell woman to the discovery that a Titanic survivor, who died in the First World War, is believed to be buried in the village. Rita Williams, 63, of Wood Avenue, spotted the biography of Reginald Hardwick while surfing for stories about her village."I think this discovery is fantastic. It's really exciting, I have only had my computer a year. When I came across a Titanic survivor in Creswell, I passed it to my friends straight away," said Rita.Reginald is believed to have been working as a kitchen porter on board the ill-fated voyage of 1912 when the famous ship hit an iceberg.But he managed to escape on lifeboat 11. He was then taken on board the rescue ship Carpathia with other survivors which docked in New York.... |
22nd June 2006 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | CHICAGOAN'S KIN TITANIC STEWARD A brother of William J. Stroud, 217 East 31st street, was a steward on the ill fated Titanic. Today Mrs. Stroud, sobbing tearfully, begged for news of her brother-in-law, Harry Stroud, of Southampton, England. “If Harry is dead,... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | MORGAN DINNER RECALLED Friendship of Family for Capt. Smith Causes Withdrawal of Invitations _______ N... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | UNTITLED GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ... |
9th December 1952 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | A TITANIC HERO Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down. He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com... |
2nd June 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Gettysburg Complier | 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 | |||
| stv.tv | 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth.... |
15th October 2009 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | THE BRAVE BANDSMEN - A BELGIAN MEMORIAL A movement has been started at Liege to commemorate, by a suitable and picturesque monument, the heroic behaviour of the band on board the Titanic. Of the eight members of the band, one, George Krins, was a young and most promising musician, born at ... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Salt Lake Tribune | UTAH WOMAN ON TITANIC NOT NAMED AS SURVIVOR Page 1 Photograph of Mrs. Irene Colvin Corbett of Provo, who wrote she would take passage on Titanic. She is holding one of her three children, who are with their grandparents in Provo. (Photo of Mrs. Corbett and child... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser | MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ... |
11th May 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | JERSEY CITY MAN HEARS FATHER AND SISTER ARE SAFE Among the passengers aboard the ill-fated steamer Titanic were MissGertrude Myles, of 266 Grove street, Jersey City, and her father,Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., who was her companion on a trip toLondon. Frederick Myles... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Cokato Enterprise | MRS. WM. LAHTINEN DIES WITH HUSBAND Refuses Chance to Be Saved and Both Go Down With Ill-Fated Titanic Refusing to be parted from her husband, and preferring death to separation, is the thrilling story relat... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr.... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | MRS DOUGLAS DIES AT 81 From an unidentified American newspaper, ca. 22 April 1945... |
1945 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | BLACKWELL HAD HEAVY INSURANCE ACCIDENT POLICY FOR $33,000 Carried by Trenton Victim of the Titanic Besides the large personal estate, in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell, who lost his life on the Titanic, he also carried accident ... |
4th May 1912 | |||
| Ulster Star | AUCTION OF TITANIC FURNITURE PIECE Connection to the Titanic will create a buzz when it goes under the hammer...... |
22nd May 2009 | |||
| Knoxville News Sentinel | SHIPSHAPE RE-CREATED TITANIC RISES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN PIGEON FORGE Half of the world's most famous ill-fated ship is being reconstructed in the Tennessee hills. A 30,000-square-foot replica of the Titanic is being built against the mountain backdrop of Pigeon Forge. The forward half of the ship will be re-created; it is half the size of the ocean liner sunk by an iceberg on its 1912 maiden voyage.... |
15th September 2009 | |||
| Chorley Guardian | 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 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | RUSE SCENTED TO AVOID CLAIM Titanic Survivor Says She Signed Paper Thinking It Railroad Tickets Alleged unfair tactics used by the owners of the steamship Titanic to avoid damage claims from survivors were explained yesterday by Miss Annie Kelly, one of... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Croydon Times | THORNTON HEATH FAMILY AMONG THE MISSING The loss of the Titanc has affected Croydon in at least one case, and that case a particularly pathectic one, it is believed that a whole Thornton Heath family has been lost, together with some relations who saild with them. Mr. and Mr... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | MRS. CROSBY OF MILWAUKEE, ON WAY HOME, TELLS OF EXCITEMENT IN LOWERING BOATS Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon. Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| Birkenhead News | AN ARGYLE THEATRE'S BANDSMAN AMONG THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA One of those on board the Titanic and who it is feared is amongst those who have perished, is Mr. J. F. P. Clarke, formerly a member of the orchestra of the Argyle Theatre of Varieties. Mr. Clarke in his short time he played... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Shore Press | COMPTON CARRIED HEAVY INSURANCE Accident Policy For $29,000 Held by Lakewood Victim of the Titanic ---------- Besides the large personal estate in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell of Trenton, he als... |
5th May 1912 | |||
| Press Release | TITANIC WALKS : IPHONE APP : TITANIC TRAIL IN SOUTHAMPTON, UK Almost a century on, Southampton, England—the home port of RMS Titanic—carefully preserves the memory of the ship and those who tragically lost their lives on her ill-fated maiden voyage. Locals and visitors to Southampton who, in t... |
20th October 2010 | |||
| Adams County News | LOCAL INTEREST IN TITANIC LOSS Wife of Lutheran Missionary Returning Home with Three Children All Saved in Midnight Transfer to Life Boats Many Gettysburg people are keenly interested in the welfare of four passengers who were o... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | TWO WEST HOBOKEN MEN WERE AMONG VICTIMS ON TITANIC So far as can be learned two of the victims of the Titanic disaster lived in West Hoboken. They are John Ashby, father of Arthur Ashby, of 629 Traphagen street, and Albert Walker, father in law of Charles Robertson, proprietor of the Colonial Theatre... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Antioch News | DEATH OF ELSBURY POSITIVE Dispatch From the White Star Line Says That Elsbury is Not a Survivor ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED Gurnee Man on Titanic Not Among Survivors--Family Now Compelled to Give up Hope. The last hope of the James El... |
2nd May 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice... |
18th November 1943 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Bournemouth Echo | A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e... |
1912 | |||
| The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand) | ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named... |
25th October 1924 | |||
| San Francisco Call & Post | DR. DODGE DIES AS RESULT OF WOUNDS Page 2, column 2 [Photo] Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker, supervisor, library trustee and assessor of San Francisco, died at 9:25 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis Hospital from a bullet wound self-inflicted a ... |
30th June 1919 | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | 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 | |||
| Weekly Irish Times | A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ... |
21st September 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | AWAIT COMING OF CARPATHIA WITH RESCUED Relatives of Titanic Passengers Here Grief-Stricken Because of Suspense. ---------- SISTER OF ENGINEER SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK ---------- Almost crazed by grief and anxiety over the fate of relatives who are known to have be... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC Mrs. Thomas Cuffe Prostrated Over Fate of Miss Julia Barry Mrs. Thomas Cuffe, of 148 Livingston street, is prostrated with grief at her home to-day as a result of the loss of her sister, who perished when the waters of the Atlantic cl... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | TITANIC WAS UNSAFE SAYS TITANIC WAS UNSAFE Steward, Suing for Injury in Wreck Says Precautions Were Disregarded [Associated Press Cablegram] London, Jan. 16—The plea that the Titanic was unseaworthy when she l... |
16th January 1914 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | SUICIDAL BULLET IS FATAL TO DR. DODGE Page 1, Column 4 PHYSICIAN EXPIRES FROM SHOT Dr. Washington Dodge died early today in St. Francis Hospital as the result of a bullet wound which he inflicted June 21 while in a fit of despondency brought on by illness.... |
30th June 1919 | |||
| Washington Times | J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Post | ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | TWO BROTHERS NOT ON TITANIC Benjamin Peacock Learns They Are Still in England ---------- HIS MOTHER SEEKS NEWS OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN A letter postmarked “Merton, county Surrey, England,” has brought some happiness to Benjamin Peacock, of 609 Sout... |
6th May 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them fr... |
20th July 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | BODY OF WEST HOBOKEN MAN, VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER, FOUND AT SEA Recovered by the Mackay-Bennett Ship and Will Be Sent Home. --------------- IDENTIFIED BY MARKS --------------- Fifteen More Bodies Were Found by Same Vessel Today --------------- Greenwood Robertson, of 222... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi... |
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