International Mercantile Marine

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Toronto Daily Star GILT-EDGED STOCKS AFFECTED BY DISASTER
Canadian Press Despatch London, April 16.---The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness to-day in glit edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters.  The International Mercantile Mari...
17th April 1912
The Times MR. ISMAY'S GIFT TO THE MERCANTILE MARINE
MESSAGE FROM THE KING --- The Mercantile Marine Service Association, Liverpool, having informed the King that Mr. Bruce Ismay had contributed £25,000 for the purpose of founding a ...
3rd January 1919
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN   JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
Portrait of the great financier, industrialist and shipowner....
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) ISMAY, JAMES [SIC] BRUCE
Ismay, James [sic] Bruce (b. Liverpool, 1862). President and Managing Director of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Educated Harrow, and on leaving school entered the office of Messrs. Ismay, Imrie and Co. (White Star Line). After se...
1908
New York Times ISMAY UPHOLDS STRIKE POLICY
President of Mercantile Marine Says His Company Will Not Advance Pay --- SAILORS DELAY A LINER --- Refuse to Sail on La Touraine Until Paid Full Wages for Loading and Unloading Cargo --- If the stri...
17th May 1907
Worcester Evening Post MARINE DISASTER CAUSED WEAKNESS IN SECURITIES
  London, April 16- The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness today in gilt-edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International mercantile mar...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal ISMAY TIRED TO ESCAPE ON CEDRIC, WIRELESS SHOWS
Explanation of why Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, chairman of the senate committee named to investigate the Titanic disaster, hurried to New York Thursday night to begin the inquiry was made today when it  became known that a wir...
20th April 1912
The New York Times OLYMPIC CUTS HER OWN TIME
Five Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes from Daunt's Rock to the Lightship --- The new White Star liner Olympic, which arrived in Quarantine last night and anchored, has made even better time on her second voyage th...
19th July 1911
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND ENVIRONS   BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND ENVIRONS
Postcard...
New York Times ISMAY IS TO QUIT
Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...
1st January 1913
The Times ESTATE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mr. JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY, of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, W., a former president of the International Mercantile Marine Company and chairman of the White Star Line, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, who died on October 17, ...
4th December 1937
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN Je Sais Tout JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
From 'Je Sais Tout', 15 April 1913...
15th April 1913
The Times OBITUARY: MARGARET ISMAY
MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in Cad...
10th April 1907
New York Times [OBITUARY OF MARGARET ISMAY]
DEATH LIST OF A DAY --- *** Mrs. T. H. Ismay --- LONDON, Apr...
10th April 1907
New York Times J. BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES HERE
J. Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Mauretania.  With him was Vice President Harold A. Sanderson and E. C. Grenfell, the latter a Director of ...
27th February 1910
The Syracuse Herald ISMAY AND OFFICERS OF TITANIC GO TO EUROPE
New York May 3 – In a state of near collapse, J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, sailed for England yesterday on the White Star Liner Adriatic. He made only this brief statement to the newspaper men....
3rd May 1912
The Times MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE
IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil...
1st January 1913
The Times £25,000 FOR BRITISH MERCHANTMEN
The Times, 2 January 1919 MR. ISMAY'S MUNIFICENT GIFT --- Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, son of the founder of the White Star Line, has given £25,000 in War Loan stock to the Mercanti...
2nd January 1919
New York Times JOHN HARDY RETIRING
John Hardy Retiring --- John Hardy, chief steward of the American Farmer, will sail tomorrow on his last official trip at sea.  He has been retired by the International Mercantile ...
20th September 1936
Worcester Evening Gazette SAYS ISMAY CHOSE OWN BOAT CREW
New York- April 19- According to Mrs. W.J. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, after she had arrived at the Ritz-Carlton with T.D.M. Cardeza, J.Bruce Ismay was not only safely seated in a lifeboat before it was filled, but he also selected the crew that rowed ...
20th April 1912
New York Times 3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC
Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00...
10th May 1907
New York Times MRS. JOHN J. ASTOR 3D GIVES BIRTH TO SON
The Former Ellen Tuck French Becomes a Mother at the Doctors Hospital --- A son was born at 5:04 P. M. yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3d in Doctors Hospital, 174 East End Avenue. The baby weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. The con...
20th July 1935
New York Times BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY
Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ...
24th January 1912
New York Times CLUBMEN AND THEIR CLUBS
[Note: This is extracted from a longer article about several prominent members of New York social clubs.] J. Bruce Ismay, who succeeds Charles [sic; should be "Clement"] A. Griscom as President of the International Mercantile Marine Co...
28th February 1904
New York Times GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE
J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ...
24th February 1904
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON AND HUSBAND AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC
New York, April 17--When the first passenger list of the Titanic was published in Monday's papers there was much curiosity over the identity of "Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," who were named as among those on board. The reporters on duty at the offices of the...
17th April 1912
Washington Post OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE
London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d...
18th October 1937
New York Times TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC
President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...
25th January 1912
The Times MR. BRUCE ISMAY
AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a...
18th October 1937
National Roll of the Great War WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD
FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
New York Times HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES
Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...
27th February 1932
Chicago Daily News MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT
Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.]   New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...
23rd April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...
20th April 1912
New York Times JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...
16th April 1912
SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Unidentified Newspaper SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES
This article was published at the time of Sam Goldenberg's death, in October 1936. The paper is unidentified, it could be The Herald Tribune, a paper published in Paris in English, for the English speaking community in France. ...
1936
Chicago Inter Ocean MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS
The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma...
19th April 1912
  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
Chicago Daily News TITANIC : NAMES NOT ON SAILING LIST
List of survivors whose names do not appear on the original sailing list, probably includes a large number of those who took the ship at Cherbourg...
16th April 1912
ARMENIAN Voyage ARMENIAN
John P. Eaton
Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion. (courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Famous Liner...
27th March 2005
New York Times ADRIATIC TO SAIL TO-DAY
Biggest Liner's Cabins Full on Her First Voyage Eastward --- With her saloon apartments filled, the White Star liner Adriatic, biggest and newest of transatlantic liners at present in commission, will sail for Southampton ...
22nd May 1907
Elmer Times MARINE DISASTER
[The following paragraph is the only passenger-specific one in a longer article.] Among the Titanic’s passengers reportedly was Frederick Sutton, whose home was at Haddonfield, but who had large business interests in Wildwood. He was ...
19th April 1912
New York Times J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937
Western Morning News FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY
Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo...
20th April 1912
  MEMORIALS
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
New York Times LORD PIRRIE DIES ON SHIP BOUND HERE
Head of Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Stricken With Pneumonia --- ON TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA --- A Leader in the Formation of the International Mercantile Marine --- Viscount Pirrie, head of the famous firm of...
9th June 1924
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO GEORGE FOX HOSKING
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES FRASER
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
Is remembered on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered o...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS: HUGH FITZPATRICK
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial a...
  MEMORIALS TO GEORGE ALEXANDER CHISNALL
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on the Institut...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. a...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent - Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the L...
  MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM KELLY
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO FANK PARSONS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  MEMORIALS TO ALFRED MIDDLETON
Assistant Electrician. Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memori...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN HENRY HESKETH
Named on the magnificent Engineer's Memorial in East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembere...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO EDWARD DODD
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO RENNY DODDS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ...
  MEMORIALS TO ALBERT GEORGE ERVINE
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial....
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO ARTHUR WARD
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on...
New York Times STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK
We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...
6th May 1907
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO HENRY DYER
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ...
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
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
  MEMORIALS: ARTHUR ROUS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
The Evening Post BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS
Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...
2nd May 1912
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS: WILLIAM DUFFY
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial....
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES SMITH
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers memorial, East Park. also named on a grave in the Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool. The inscription reads: Also Peter Only Son of the Above Who Lost His Life With Other Brave Of...
  BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912
THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...
1912
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO NORMAN HARRISON
Named on the magnificent Engineer's Memorial in East Park, Southampton. also named on a grave in Knotty Ash Parish Church Cemetery, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. also mentioned on a grave in Kirkdale Cemetery, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool....
New-York Tribune ASTORS SAIL FOR EGYPT
The Astors are bound for Egypt on account of Mrs. Astor's health......
25th January 1912
New York Times OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME
White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...
14th June 1924
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO BERTIE WILSON
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on...
The Times ANNOUNCEMENT: DEATH OF LORD MERSEY
We announce with much regret that VISCOUNT MERSEY died suddenly yesterday at his country house at Littlehampton, at the age of 89. Though latterly he had become physically feeble, his mental activity showed no sign of impairment. He had a long care...
4th October 1929
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
  MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
New York Times NEW WHITE STAR SERVICE TO TAP CHERBOURG TRADE
Adriatic, Biggest Ship Yet Built, to Start It in May --- SHE WILL CARRY 3,000 SOULS --- And Have a Turkish Bath, Plunge, and Orchestra Aboard---Line to Liverpool to Stay. --- With the putting in commis...
7th January 1907
Voyage LUCIGEN
John P. Eaton
Lucigen – Lucigen Steamship Co., (H.E. Moss & Co.) Departed Bremen, Germany 8 March for New York. On 24 March at 46 degrees N, 46 degrees West, encountered heavy pack ice with numerous bergs...
2nd January 2005
  PROBATE REPORT
Smith Edward John. of 17 Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool. Master Mariner. Probate issued: London 15th November 1912 to Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow. Effects £3,186.4.6d....
15th November 1912
  BALLARD RETURNS WITH NOAA
Breathtaking... Nearly 20 years after first finding the sunken remains of the R.M.S. Titanic, marine explorer Robert Ballard returned in June 2004 helped by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)......
New York Times ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS
Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in...
15th May 1912
New York Times THE BIGGEST LINER IS NOW IN PORT
Adriatic Arrives After a Very Successful Maiden Voyage --- NO JARS ON THE TRIP --- Passengers Give Praise for Smoothness of Voyage on New White Star Liner --- The Adriatic, the biggest of transatlantic ...
17th May 1907
New York Times LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES
Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ...
19th April 1912
Daily Enterprise LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...
20th April 1912
New York Times NEWS FOR DOG FANCIERS
The French Bulldog Club of America will hold a two days show at the Hotel McAlpin, May 12 and 13, at which the international judge, S. L. Goldenberg, President of the Savoie and Nice Kennel Clubs, will officiate.  The list of trophies comprises ma...
2nd April 1916
  PROBATE REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL: EDWARD DODD
Edward Charles Dodd of Bannisters Hotel, Queens Parade, Southampton. Marine engineer. Administration Winchester 21st October, 1912 to Henry Charles Dodd retired plumber. Effects £184.16.1d....
21st October 1912
Unidentified Newspaper MR. CHARLES BAINBRIGGE
Mr. Charles Bainbrigge was a son of Mrs. Bainbrigge of Rohais Manor. He was returning to Savage's International Stock Farm, Minnesota, U.S.A., where he had spent some years. The London "Globe" contained the following paragraph on Saturday:- Mr. Charl...
22nd April 1912
New York Times MR. MORGAN AT VENICE
Will Attend Opening of Exhibition and Inauguration of Campanile --- VENICE, April 22---J. Pierpont Morgan arrived here to-day. He will take part in the inauguration of the International Art Exhibition to-morrow an...
23rd April 1912
Staffordshire Advertiser STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER
Mr. Leonard Hodgkinson, the fourth senior engineer, was a Stoke man, and has many relatives and friends in the district. As a boy he received his education at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Hartley and Arnoux, wh...
20th April 1912
New York Times KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR
Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La...
12th July 1913
Newark Evening News WILDWOOD MAN THOUGHT LOST
WILDWOOD, April 18---Friends of Frederick Sutton, of this place, president of the West Jersey Electric Company, say that he is among those who perished in the Titanic disaster. His name [does not appear?] in the list of the saved. N...
18th April 1912
STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING Record Eagle STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING
newspaper photo...
15th May 1953
Cork Examiner REMARKABLE STATEMENT
Liverpool, Wednesday. Messrs. Quilliam, Liverpool, solicitors, acting on behalf of relatives of Thos. Hart, marine fireman, of Liverpool, supposed to have been lost in the Titanic disaster, have recieved a statement from his mother. Sh...
9th May 1912
Atlantic Daily Bulletin SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER
Brian J. Ticehurst
OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...
22nd November 2005
New York Times MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE
Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...
20th September 1952
New York Times BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
Elected President of International Steam Pump Co. in 1909 --- Benjamin Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1865, the fifth of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, founder of the famous house of M. Guggenheim & Sons, who came to...
16th April 1912
New York Times WILLIAM T. STEAD
English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in...
16th April 1912
THE PORTRUSH LETTER Titanic Research THE PORTRUSH LETTER
Senan Molony
THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp...
31st January 2006
New York Times ANDREW SAKS DEAD AT 65
President and One of the Founders of Dry Goods House of Saks & Co. --- Andrew Saks, President and one of the founders of Saks & Co., the dry goods house, died yesterday morning in his apartment at Sherry's. Death followed a long illness...
9th April 1912
Chicago Examiner HE SURVIVED TITANIC : ON THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, TOO
Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when ...
10th May 1915
Daily Express TITAN HAS SUNK - JANUARY 1912
Article...
2nd January 1912
New York Times VENICE EXHIBITION OPENED
Duke of Genoa Represents the King---J. P. Morgan Present --- VENICE, April 23---The International Art Exhibition was solemnly inaugurated to-day by the Duke of Genoa in the name of King Victor Emmanuel.  J. P. Mo...
24th April 1912
New York Times BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910
The Times LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder...
16th July 1907
New York Times STEAM PUMP HAS GOOD YEAR
Two-thirds of the Business Was Done in Last Half of the Period --- President Benjamin Guggenheim of the International Steam Pump Company in his annual report to the stockholders says that abou...
12th May 1910
Philadelphia Inquirer WILDWOOD BUSINESS MAN AMONG MISSING
Special to The Inquirer --- WILDWOOD, N. J., April 17---Never was so much sympathy expressed by the residents of Five Mile Beach as over the tidings that Frederick Sutton, the well-known business man, is listed among the missing probabl...
18th April 1912
New York Times BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS --- Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The rise and progress of the leviathan liners n...
10th July 1910
Belfast Telegraph TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR $57,000
A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night. Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US ex...
12th April 2006
Chicago Examiner MICHIGAN WIFE GETS $100,000 ALIMONY
Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, wife of a Dowagiac millionaire, was granted a divorce here to-day.  The Bishops were on the Titanic on their honeymoon trip when the liner went down.  Mrs. Bishop, who charges...
18th January 1916
New York Times DINE CAPT. ROSTRON ON THE MAURETANIA
156 Guests of Sir Ashley Sparks Pay Tribute to Commander's War Aid --- HE PRAISES HIS VESSEL --- Is Fastest and Finest Merchant Ship Afloat, He Says--Many Captains Present --- One hundred and fifty-six guests...
4th April 1922
CARPATHIA CREW MEDAL ON SALE Bonhams CARPATHIA CREW MEDAL ON SALE
One of the bronze medals presented to the crew of RMS Carpathia, following their heroic rescue of 705 survivors of the stricken Titanic on April 15 1912, is to be sold at Bonhams as part of The Marine Sale on 28 September ...
21st September 2010
The Times INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT
Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ...
29th January 1930
WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH? Titanic Research WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH?
Captain Charles B. Weeks
There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic’s rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and t...
29th September 2002
New York Times EXTENDING PUMP CO. PLANTS
On Inspection Tour President Guggenheim Finds Orders Beyond Capacity --- President Benjamin Guggenheim of the International Steam Pump Company, who has just returned from a tour of inspection of the company's Eastern plants, issued a sta...
21st October 1909
The Globe EATON'S DAILY STORE NEWS
THE STORE WILL CLOSE AT 1 P.M. TO-DAY AS A TOKEN OF OUR SORROW and sympathy with the widow, family and friends of the late Mr. George E. Graham, and as a mark of honor [sic] and respect for his heroic end on...
20th April 1912
New York Times TO DEDICATE NEW CAMPANILE
Italy's Invitation Includes Engraving by American Artist --- VENICE, March 27---J. Pierpont Morgan has written a cordial letter to the committee, announcing that he will be in Venice on April 23 for the inauguration of t...
28th March 1912
Chicago Daily Journal FIRST VESSEL EVER LOST ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE
New York, April 16,---In the melancholy roll of marine tragedies that which overtook the Titanic is the first on record wherein a conspicuous vessel has met disaster on her maiden voyage. The nearest approach to such an unfortunate f...
16th 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
Camden Post-Telegram TITANIC SURVIVOR AT ELKS' TO-MORROW
Gus Weikman, Ship's Barber, Will Tell Camden Lodge of His Experience --- Picked up by one of the lifeboats after being blown overboard by an explosion just before the boat went down, Gus Weikman, head barber on the Titanic, will be the ...
13th May 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) HARLAND AND WOLFF, LTD.
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast. Shipbuilding in Belfast as a progressive industry is of comparatively recent growth, and yet there is probably no commertial [sic] centre more prominently identified with the trade to-day than th...
1908
The Times JUDICIAL CHANGES
His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of...
4th February 1909
TRUE COURSE Titanic Research TRUE COURSE
Cathy Akers-Jordan and Captain Charles B. Weeks
An explanation of the use of magnetic compasses, how to plot courses and how these procedures on the Titanic compared to their use other ships in 1912...
9th December 2003
Fond du Lac Daily Commonwealth MISS MINAHAN DIES; TITANIC SURVIVOR
Sister of the Late Dr. W. E. Minahan Succumbs in California An incident in the sinking of the liner "Titanic," one of the greatest marine disasters in history, is recalled today in the death of Miss Daisy Minahan, which occ...
3rd May 1919
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
New York Times $4,427,608 ESTIMATE OF STRAUS ESTATE
The Figures, However, Are Tentative, as Final Appraisal Has Not Been Filed --- MORE HEARINGS TO BE HELD --- Partial Schedules in the Estate of Benjamin Guggenheim Show Assets of $748,000 --- Edmond E. Wise, head of th...
11th August 1913
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM. 1938   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM. 1938
TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM: Located on A Deck, air conditioned and connected with the First Class Dining Room by doors, enabling both rooms to be used as one when required. Seating capacity 292. Carpeted in grey in large squares of alternating nap. Wa...
Gare Maritime
Voyage MUSGRAVE
John P. Eaton
On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...
12th December 2004
Voyage COLLINGWOOD
John P. Eaton
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...
28th November 2004
Voyage AJAX
John P. Eaton
Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag:...
27th February 2005
New York Times MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY
Mrs. J. Hippach Unander-Scharin of Wianno, Mass., formerly of Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill., has announced here the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, to John Maclay Mirkil, son of William I. Mirkil of Meadowlane Farm, New...
26th August 1953
Town and Country AN ENGLISHMAN OF MUCH INTEREST
Mr. Tyrell William Cavendish, the only son of the late Charles Tyrell Cavendish, who is the fiance of Miss Julie Siegel, is an Englishman of interest.  Very quietly Mr. and Mrs. Henry Siegel made the announcement of the engagement of Mr. Sieg...
26th December 1906
Kerry Sentinel THE TITANIC'S TRALEE DOCTOR
FRIENDS TO HONOUR HIS MEMORY Queenstown, Monday. It is a pleasure to know that the many memorials which are to be raised in connection with the Titanic disaster, the popular Irish physician, Dr F N O'Loughlin is not to be forgot...
25th May 1912
Washington Herald CLAIMS MRS. GAGE SUFFERS PARANOIA
Dr. William A. White Testifies Concerning Examination of Defendant in Insanity Case --- Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, testified yesterday afternoon before Justice Barnard and a jury, giv...
18th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM FOYER.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SMOKING ROOM FOYER.
SMOKING ROOM FOYER: Piet van der Wilt is responsible for a fine tapestry-like painting on wood, which traces, in a well balanced composition, the development of shipping from early times. Commencing at the upper left, it shows the coracles of the ...
Gare Maritime
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
The Times LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT
His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte...
1st January 1916
  HAMBLYN FAMILY INFORMATION
Ernest William Hamblyn was born in Plymouth, Devon and his birth was registered there in the December Quarter of 1865. He remains elusive in early life but has been traced to Shirley, Southampton in the England & Wales 1901 census. It h...
ROYAL STANDARD Voyage ROYAL STANDARD
John P. Eaton
White Star Line The White Star Line was founded in 1845 by two Liverpool ship brokers, Henry Threlfall Wilson and...
14th November 2004
Worcester Evening Post NO HOPE FOR MORE SURVIVORS
ST. JOHNS , N.F. April 16.- All hope that any of the passengers or members of the crew of the Titanic, other than those on the Carpathia, are alive was abandoned this afternoon. All the steamers which have been cruising in the vi...
16th April 1912
PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG Titanic Research PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG
Senan Molony
...
19th July 2004
Unidentified Newspaper ELEANOR I. SHUMAN, 87, TITANIC SURVIVOR
ELGIN, Ill. -- Eleanor I. Shuman, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, has died at age 87. After suddenly taking ill, Mrs. Shuman died Saturday in Elgin's Sherman Hospital. Mrs. Shuman, who was less than 2 years old when the...
10th March 1998
GUINNESS 'TITANIC' TV ADVERT BANNED Irish Independent GUINNESS 'TITANIC' TV ADVERT BANNED
Drinks commercial does not survive Titanic treatment A Guinness 'Titantic' ad has been banned because it could have caused offence to descendants of people who lost their lives in the tragedy. SINKING a pint has tak...
3rd September 2004
New York Times ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART
Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth...
16th January 1913
New York Times PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY
Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...
11th October 1914
HORNBY Voyage HORNBY
John P. Eaton
May 31, 1911 Assisted following the launch of Titanic April 2, 1912 Assisted Titanic on her sea trials Port of Registry Liverpool Flag of Registry British Funnel B...
5th December 2004
Voyage HERCULES
John P. Eaton
One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock. Port of Registry: South...
20th February 2005
WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST Titanic Research WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST
Eqab S. Al-Otaibi
Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the list is due to internal force. Off center weight i...
30th April 2003
JACKAL Voyage JACKAL
John P. Eaton
While Titanic was outfitting, Jackal served as an auxiliary vessel moored alongside, her generator providing light and power aboard the ship for the outfitting workers. Also used as a yard tug. ...
5th December 2004
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Doris Robertson Polley
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
Voyage WALLASEY
John P. Eaton
Wallasey assisted during Titanic’s sea trials and launch on May 31, 1911 and stood by on her sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April, 1912. Port of Registry: Liverpool Flag of Regi...
30th October 2004
Godalming and District News POST OFFICE MEMORIAL
At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...
4th May 1912
Voyage ALEXANDRA
John P. Eaton
Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. Alexandra assisted during Titanic’s launch on 31 May, 1911 and during her sea trails Port of R...
14th November 2004
TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT   TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT
Terry Madill conducts a schools visit to the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, helping to educate young people about what life was like for those who worked on the building of the Titanic, the world's most famous ocean going liner...
30th August 2011
New York Times SMUGGLERS PLAN TO OUTWIT LOEB
Collector Hears of Attempts to Take Off Dutiable Goods in Small Boats --- STRICT WATCH AT PIERS --- Hold-Up and Search of Steamship Captains Themselves Reveals Thoroughness of New Search --- Now that Collector Lo...
17th August 1909
Washington Times SURVIVOR TELLS OF THE HEROISM OF CLARENCE MOORE
Robert W. Daniels Says Banker Went to His Death Like a Man --- Stories of the heroism and resignation with which Clarence Moore, the well-known local banker and horseman of international repute, went to his death on the deck of the Tita...
22nd April 1912
ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED! Daily Telegraph ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED!
(Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action broug...
1908
Camden Post-Telegram MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON
Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish...
20th April 1912
VULCAN Voyage VULCAN
John P. Eaton
Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)...
13th February 2005
MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gare Maritime MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL
Gavin Murphy
Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar...
8th November 2001 Gare Maritime
Newark Evening News NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC'S MAILS
John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ...
16th April 1912
Voyage SAMARA
John P. Eaton
Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers) Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued t...
23rd January 2005
OLYMPIC AND TITANIC : MAIDEN VOYAGE MYSTERIES Voyage OLYMPIC AND TITANIC : MAIDEN VOYAGE MYSTERIES
Mark Chirnside and Sam Halpern
ROUTES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC The new White Star liner Olympic, the first of three gigantic liners ordered by the White Star Line for the highly competitive transatlantic service, was launched from the Queen’s Island ya...
29th April 2007
New York Times MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS
Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday --- A DIVORCE WAS RUMORED --- Couple Were Wed Here Late in 1933---She Is the Former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick --- Enzo Fierm...
31st January 1935
Camden Daily Courier SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA
Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...
20th April 1912
  WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE'S FAMILY AND THE MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
William's family and the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund...
TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP Belfast Titanic Society TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP
On Friday 15th April at 12 noon, members of the Belfast Titanic Society will gather at Belfast City Hall to remember those from the city who were lost aboard RMS Titanic in 1912. Wreaths will be placed at the Titanic Memorial, on the Donegall Square East side of the City Hall grounds....
13th April 2011
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVORS HONOR CAPT. ROSTRON
They Present Silver Loving Cup to Him and Medals to His Officers and Men --- GIVES CREDIT TO HIS CREW --- Modest Skipper Praises and Thanks His Men for Them Loyalty and Committee for Its Gifts --- When the Cu...
30th May 1912
RITZ RESTAURANT  STAFF ON THE TITANIC Titanic Research RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC
Brian J. Ticehurst
ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world. The Ritz Restaurant (as it was called) was situated on B deck and was for the exclusive use of First Class passengers only. Th...
19th September 2005
Voyage BLUE JACKET
(Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days...
GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE Titanic Research GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE
Senan Molony
The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captai...
11th September 2010
LOOKOUTS Titanic Research LOOKOUTS
Captain Laurence V. Wade
The Human Perspective...
30th April 2003
  INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...
17th November 1911
The Washington Post BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR
President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...
22nd May 1912
New York Times TAFT AT PRESS CLUB DINNER
He and Major Butt Entertained in Louisville-Col. Watterson Speaks --- LOUISVILLE, Nov. 8.--A dinner by the Louisville Press Club was the principal feature of President Taft's visit here this evening, and at it the President divid...
11th August 1911
CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC'S LAUNCH Belfast Titanic Society CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC'S LAUNCH
BELFAST TITANIC SOCIETY COMMEMORATES CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC’S LAUNCH The Belfast Titanic Society will mark 100 years since the launch of Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic with a short ceremony on ...
14th October 2010
Voyage HERCULANEUM
John P. Eaton
In addition to maneuvering Titanic after launch, Herculaneum also assisted during Titanic’s sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April 1912. Alexandra Towing Co.,...
2nd November 2004
The Evening Post THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS”
Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio...
19th April 1912
Voyage GLENDUN
John P. Eaton
GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway...
26th October 2004
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Henry Philip Creese was born in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1868. He was the son of Charles and Jane Creese. He had an elder brother, William Creese who was to lose his life on 19 November 1917 when the submarine, SS Jutland, was torpedoed off the Britta...
  WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH
Mark Garfien
William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se...
New York Times THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...
25th November 1899
WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS : A BIOGRAPHY Titanic Research WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS : A BIOGRAPHY
David William Fredericks
A brief biography of Walter Francis Fredericks (14 Apr 1891 – 30 Jun 1960) with a focus on the events of April 1912 Walter Francis Fredericks’ grandfather was Francis Fredericks – a Naturalised British...
25th September 2009
Paterson Morning Call MET DEATH LIKE A HERO
---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...
3rd May 1912
Washington Times WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN
William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho...
16th April 1912
New York Times PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED
[Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner...
8th September 1901
The Times FILM "ATLANTIC" - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF "TITANIC" SCENES
Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice...
30th July 1930
New York Times BIG BET ON SHAMROCK DOUBTED BY BROKERS
F. H. Brooks Does Not Believe Any One Will Give Odds of 5 to 3 --- J. A. Chambers of Pittsburg Says that No Such Wager Was Made in That City --- There is doubt in Wall Street and thereabouts as to the "big money" said to h...
5th September 1901
Gare Maritime DESCRIPTION OF A CORK WAISTCOAT
The first lifejacket?...
1st December 2006 Gare Maritime
Elizabeth Daily Journal 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
New York Times GUGGENHEIM ESTATE VALUED AT $3,551,994
Victim of Titanic Disaster Left Widow $785,199---Daughters Get About $500,000 Each --- MANY CHARITABLE BEQUESTS --- Sisters Receive Incomes from Trust Funds of $75,000 and Sisters-in-Law from $25,000 --- Benj...
18th January 1916
RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 1 Titanic Research RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 1
Gavin Murphy
Explaining the legal position of the Titanic wreck...
15th March 2002
  ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE
The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t...
  TITANIC : TIME ALTERED
Time Of Impact: 2404 hrs April 14, 1912  There is nearly universal agreement that Titanic struck on the iceberg at 11:40 o’clock, April 14, 1912. Even so, nothing is more confusing about Titani...
2nd June 2010
TRAFFIC Voyage TRAFFIC
John P. Eaton
On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second...
22nd September 2005
Voyage KURA
John P. Eaton
Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.) (Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees ...
19th December 2004
Voyage LORD CROMER
John P. Eaton
Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...
9th January 2005
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