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| FAMILY GRAVESTONE For the love of the sacred heart pray for the soul of Alicia Ashcroft who died 27th March 1891 aged 69 years. also Austin Aloysius, grandson of the above lost in the Titanic 15th April 1912 aged 2... | ||||||
| FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Richard Fynney (of Wetton Staffordshire) the beloved husband of Frances Fynney who died July 16th 1894 aged 66 years "Gone but not forgotten" also Joseph, son of the above who was lost on... | ||||||
| DODD FAMILY GRAVESTONE George Charles Dodd lost in RMS Titanic 15th April 1912 aged 45 years. George Dodd died 16th Jan 1915 aged 77 years. Richard Firman Dodd lost in HMS Laurentic 28th Jan... | ||||||
| FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Sarah Jane, the beloved wife of Robert Henry Davies who died 17th May 1914 aged 62 Years "Peace Perfect Peace". Also Gordon Raleigh, second son of the above who lost his life in Tita... | ||||||
| ASHE FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Harry, beloved husband of May Ashe who lost his life on the Titanic 15th April 1912. also our little girlie, Gladys May, who died 7th August 1917 aged 5 years "Peace Perfe... | ||||||
| FAY FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of our dear father, Andrew Fay, beloved husband of Mary, who died 14th October 1914 aged 58 years "Sweet Heart of Jesus be my Salvation" also Thomas, son of the above who lost his life on the Tita... | ||||||
| MCINERNEY FAMILY GRAVESTONE Of your charity pray for the soul of Ellen McInerney who died 17th October 1909 aged 32 years also of her beloved husband Thomas McInerney who was lost in wreck of SS Titanic 15th ... | ||||||
| HARRISON FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Swainston Harrison Junior, who died at Ibi, Central Africa, 16th March 1892 aged 24 years. also Norman Harrison, second engineer SS Titanic foundered off the coast of Newf... | ||||||
| WILLIAMS FAMILY GRAVESTONE Arthur John, the beloved husband of Ellen Williams who was lost at sea through the foundering of the SS Titanic 14th April 1912 "Memory is the only friend that grief can call its own"... | ||||||
| THE TITANIC The story of the most awful shipwreck of modern times may not be a pleasant subject for either the relator or the hearers but there is an interest in the details of the loss of the Titanic which warrents me in telling the story. And having been on... | ||||||
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ISIDOR STRAUS STUDIO PORTRAIT Photographic portrait of Isidor Straus published in 1912 in 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters', by Logan Marshall.... | |||||
| ROAMING AROUND: MEMOIRS OF A MARCONI OPERATOR Extract The next year went past for me in many experiences of life and places. I was a fully fledged Marconi operator, had visited my Australia of loving memories, Norway, with its North Cape, where I had taken photographs... | ||||||
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BEECHWOOD The Astor's Home in Newport, Rhode Island.... | |||||
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ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH Maj, Butt, a devout Episcopalian, chose the Celtic cross. There is a plaque on each side of the base. : On the back: A devoted son and brother, an efficient officer... | |||||
| WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH 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... | ||||||
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HMS HECATE'S ROLE IN DISCOVERY OF TITANIC WRECK I read with interest on this site regarding HMS Hecate's apparent role in the discovery of Titanic in 1977. Actually this is a mistake. I served on board HMS HECATE between 1980 and 1982... | |||||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920) White Star Line Triple Screw S.S. "Olympic" 46,439 tons Largest oil burning steamer 882½ feet long... | |||||
| THE WHITE STAR LINE THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"... | ||||||
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CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah... | |||||
| ANNIE MCGOWAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Annie McGowan attended ... | ||||||
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MARY CANAVAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Mary Canavan attended Massbrook School in Addergoole Parish. She was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage at Queenstown (now Cobh). ... | |||||
| 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... | ||||||
| THE ROSSENDALE BARD FROM ADDERGOOLE Andrew Houston was born in Doonbreedia in the parish of Addergoole, Lahardane, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on 1st May 1849, and would have attended Rathkell National School w... | ||||||
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ADDERGOOLE'S ANNUAL RINGING OF THE TIMONEY BELL The Timoney Bell was erected by the renowned Addergoole Irish scholar, Míchéal Ó Tiomanaidhe (Michael Timoney) in the 1930’s in St Patrick’s Church grounds, Lahardane. In days past... | |||||
| The Times | SWEARING-IN OF MR. JUSTICE BIGHAM QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION (Before MR. JUSTICE MATHEW, MR. JUSTICE WILLS, MR. JUSTICE LAWRANCE, MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT, MR. JUSTICE BRUCE, and MR. JUSTICE KENNEDY.) In the absence of the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justic... | |||||
| The Times | (1870) | CALLS TO THE BAR The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the degree of the Utter Bar:--- By the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple. John Charles Bigham, Esq., of the University of Lodon... | 11th June 1870 | |||
| The Times | (1883) | JOHN CHARLES BIGHAM MADE QUEEN'S COUNSEL From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Oct 30 CROWN OFFICE, OCT. 27 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal to constitute and appoint Richard Henn Collins, Esq., and John C... | 31st October 1883 | |||
| The Times | (1885) | EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet... | 25th July 1885 | |||
| The Times | (1889) | SIR EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES AN M.P. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE BELFAST (NORTH DIVISION) The nomination for North Belfast took place yesterday. Six papers containing the names of Sir John Preston, Sir William Quartus Ewart, and Mr. Thomas M'Cormick (secretary of... | 13th August 1889 | |||
| New York Times | (1895) | MINOR SPORTS NEWS The cricketeers from the White Star liner Majestic played against the Summer eleven of the Staten Island Cricket Club at Livingston yesterday afternoon. Dr. O'Loughlin and H. Todd... | 18th June 1895 | |||
| The Times | (1895) | NEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT BlGHAM, JOHN CHARLES, Q.C. (Liverpool, Exchange) (L.U.), of 19, Palace-gate, Kensington, second s. of the late Mr. John Bigham, a merchant, of Liverpool, b. 1840, and educated at the Liverpool Institute and the Gym... | 23rd July 1895 | |||
| The Times | (1895) | PIRRIE NOMINATED FOR LORD MAYOR OF BELFAST Our Belfast Correspondent telegraphed last night: At a special meeting of the Belfast City Council yesterday, Alderman Pirrie, a director of the firm of Harland and Wolff, was unanimously nominated Lor... | 29th November 1895 | |||
| The Times | (1895) | PIRRIE'S ELECTION AS LORD MAYOR ASSURED The unanimous nomination of Alderman Pirrie to be Lord Mayor of Belfast for next year has increased the hope that, as one of the most energetic members of the firm of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, he may be able to ... | 30th November 1895 | |||
| The Times | (1896) | PIRRIE INSTALLED AS LORD MAYOR BELFAST, JAN 1 At the meeting of the City Council to-day Sir William M'Cammond vacated the chair, and Alderman Pirrie was installed as Lord Mayor. He is, as he stated in his address, a Libe... | 2nd January 1896 | |||
| The Times | (1896) | PIRRIE RE-ELECTED LORD MAYOR BELFAST, DEC 1 At a meeting of the corporation, held to-day, Alderman Pirrie was unanimously re-elected Lord Mayor for the ensuing year.... | 2nd December 1896 | |||
| The Times | (1896) | T. ISMAY CONTRIBUTES TO PIRRIE HOSPITAL FUND BELFAST, DEC 16 Much gratification is expressed in Belfast with regard to a letter received by the Lord Mayor, who is a partner in the large shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, from Mr. Thom... | 17th December 1896 | |||
| The Times | (1897) | PIRRIE SWORN IN AS PRIVY COUNCILLOR At a meeting of the Privy Council of Ireland held yesterday at Dublin Castle, the Lord Lieutenant presiding, Lord Powerscourt, Mr. Justice Andrews of the Exchequer Division, and the Lord Mayor of Belfast (Ald... | 7th August 1897 | |||
| The Times | (1897) | JOHN CHARLES BIGHAM MADE QUEEN'S BENCH JUDGE Mr. Bigham, Q.C., the newly-appointed Judge of the Queen's Bench Division in succession to the late Mr. Justice Cave, will take the oaths and be sworn in before the Lord Chancellor in his private room at the H... | 18th October 1897 | |||
| The Times | (1897) | PIRRIE HONOURED FOR SERVICE AS LORD MAYOR BELFAST, DEC. 14.To-night a banquet was given to the Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Mrs. Pirrie by the citizens on the occasion of the approaching termination of the second year of Mr. Pirri... | 15th December 1897 | |||
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(1898) | OLE MARTIN OLSON FAMILY PORTRAIT Family portrait of Ole Martin Olson (c. 1898). Front row; Anna, holding Severen, Martha, Serena, Ole B. Back row: Julia, Joseph, Ole M.... | 1898 | |||
| The Times | (1898) | PIRRIE BECOMES FIRST HONORARY BURGESS OF BELFAST BELFAST, JULY 24 Mr. W. J. Pirrie, High Sheriff of county Antrim, and ex-Lord Mayor of the city, entertained at Ormiston on Thursday the Judges of Assize, Lord Chief Baron Palles and Lord Justice... | 25th July 1898 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ... | 22nd July 1899 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w... | 28th November 1899 | |||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
| The Times | (1908) | NEW KNIGHT OF ST. PATRICK The King has been pleased to confer the honour of Knight of the Order of St. Patrick upon Lord Pirrie in the room of the Earl of Rosse, deceased.... | 9th October 1908 | |||
| The Times | (1909) | 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 | |||
| The Times | (1909) | PIRRIE INVESTED AS KNIGHT OF ST. PATRICK Lord Pirrie was privately invested as a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at Dublin Castle yesterday.... | 5th February 1909 | |||
| The Times | (1910) | SIR JOHN BIGHAM Sir John Bigham will take his farewell leave of the Bar on Monday in the first Court of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. All the Comnmon Law Judges who are in town will attend, and the ... | 12th March 1910 | |||
| The Times | (1910) | HOUSE OF COMMONS---THE RETIREMENT OF SIR J. BIGHAM Mr. WATT (Glasgow College, Min.) asked the Prime Minister whether the retiring President of the Divorce, Probate, and Admiralty Court was, by his length of service, entitled to a pension? Mr. ... | 18th March 1910 | |||
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Je Sais Tout | (1910) | GUGLIELMO MARCONI About eighteen months after this picture was taken, Marconi would be a key witness at the Senate enquiry into the loss of the Titanic.... | 15th December 1910 | ||
| New York Times | (1911) | THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t... | 18th June 1911 | |||
| (1912) | THE TITANIC : OUR STORY SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an... | 1912 | ||||
| The Times | (1912) | LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf... | 10th February 1912 | |||
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(1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE OF THE TITANIC Captain Smith photographed by a newspaper photographer on the bridge of the Titanic. Southampton, April 1912. A Engine Telegraph is visible in the background.... | April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | CREWMAN E. BROWN AND TWO OTHER TITANIC SURVIVORS Survivors from the Titanic disaster arrive in Southampton. The centre figure in the photograph is Mr E. Brown who was unable to swim but kept afloat for an hour by clinging to a lifebelt.... | April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | THOMAS WHITELEY, JOHN THOMPSON AND OTHER SURVIVORS IN NEW YORK John William Thompson, Thomas Whiteley, William McIntyre, Emilio Pallas y Castillo are shown in New York after the sinking. Whiteley was being treated at St. Vincent's Hospital... | April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TITANIC TESTS HER SPEED Then She Sails for Southampton to Prepare for Maiden Voyage by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times LONDON, April 2.—The White Star liner Titanic, which has just been completed by Ha... | 3rd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP "The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS ------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Sketch | (1912) | THE SADDEST OF MANY SAD STORIES One of the saddest of the many sad stories which has to be told concerns the fate of Mr. Daniel W. Marvin, a young American who was returning with his wife from the honeymoon trip spent in Europe. Mr Marvin is missing, but M... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Southport Visitor | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA By the Associated Press GIVES RESCUED AS 705 Boston Man On Franconia Reports Communicating With Carpathia NEW YORK, April 17.-... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SURE BROTHER PERISHED EAST RUTHERFORD, April 18---That his brother, William L. Gwinn, has lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic, is the belief of Cass J. Gwinn, of this place. The missing man, who sailed in the ship as an empl... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MR. CHRISTOPHER HEAD Mr Christopher Head was the fifth son of the late Mr Henry Head, a well-known London underwriter. He was in his 43rd year, and was educated at Lancing end at Trinity College Cambridge. Called to the Bar ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Barking Chronicle | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Barking Chronicle | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner.... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | GAZETTE STAFF MAN ON CARPATHIA'S PIER Gives Description of Scenes on Pier Silence Most Oppressive Even Crowd and City Hushed By Homer J. Wheaton Gazette Staff Reporter New York, April 19- News of the Titanics wreck was flashed to the wor... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Greenwich News | (1912) | GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Stratford Express | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Borough of West Ham, East Ham, and Stratford Express | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER The only son of the Rev. R. Partner, who for many years was minister at Balaam-street Congregational Church, was also a passenger on the vessel. It is still uncertain whether or not he is saved, and Mr. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | MRS. BREWE COLLAPSES Widow 0f Physician Lost on Titanic in Serious Condition at Her Home Here --- Crushed under the news of the death of her husband, Dr. Arthur Jackson Brewe, on board the Titanic, Mrs. Brewe is in se... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | LATTIMER MOURNED Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Post | (1912) | TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York World | (1912) | LOOKOUT CLAIMS MURDOCH SHOT HIMSELF "As we stood there on Collapsible B, each man holding on to his neighbours shoulder fearful every moment that some lurch would send us off again into that icy water, two of the men I knew had been on watch in the crow's nest... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Evening World | (1912) | HEROIC PRIESTS GAVE UP LIVES TO QUIET CROWDS Went Down on Titanic With Men and Women Grouped About Them. ------------- ALL CREEDS IN PRAYER ------------- Three Girl Survivors Tell How They Chose Death to S... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FAMILY OF J. S. MARCH MAY RECEIVE $10,000 WASHINGTON, April 22---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic were introduced in the House today by Representative Reilly, of Conne... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | STEAD PROPHESIED A VIOLENT DEATH Once Said He Would Never Die in His Bed, but in a Crowd, Struggling --- 2,000 AT MEMORIAL FOR HIM --- Dr. Hillis and J. A. MacDonald Praise Him as an Editor and a Fighter Against War and Social Evils --- More... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Oxford Times | (1912) | STEWARD'S STATEMENT Propped up on pillows in bed at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thomas Whiteley, steward of the First Class Saloon of the Titanic, described the scene in the dining-room on the night of the disaster. ''We had made great time,... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SERVICES FOR TITANIC VICTIMS ELIZABETH, April 29---Services for Peter Renouf, Lawrence Garvey and Clfford and Ernest Jeffries, who lost their lives on the Titanic, were held last night in Grace Episcopal Church. Mrs. Renouf, who was rescued from the sinking sh... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| Cork Examiner | (1912) | ECHO OF DISASTER : BOAT PICKED UP BODIES ON BOARD New York, Wednesday The White Star Line has received a marconigram from the Oceanic, dated May 13th, latitude 39.56, longitude 47.01, reporting that she had picked up a collapsible boat of the Titan... | 16th May 1912 | |||
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(1912) | PERMIT FOR INTERMENT OF WILLIAM CROTHERS DULLES This form was used by Laurel Hill Cemetery to document interments.... | 28th May 1912 | |||
| Christian Science Sentinel | (1912) | TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi... | October 1912 | |||
| Christian Science Sentinel | (1912) | TESTIMONIES OF HEALING It would be impossible within a limited space to do more than enumerate the profound changes of thought which Christian Science has wrought in me during the seven years I have known of it. When I first saw the text-book, "Science and Health with Key ... | 20th December 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | LIFE-SAVING AT SEA AWARD OF THE KING'S MEDALS The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award medals for gallantry in saving life at sea to the folowing persons: A silver medal t... | 12th July 1913 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | LAURELS ON STEAD'S OCEAN GRAVE The Franconia stopped on Sunday over the place where the Titanic went down, whilst wreaths of laurel, picked in the garden of the late Mr Stead, were cast to the sea. ... | 1st August 1913 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | LIGHTOLLER PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT, R.N.R. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 ADMIRALTY, AUG. 13 ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE In accordance with the Regulatious for the Royal Naval Reserve Engineer M. H. Fisher has been placed on the ... | 16th August 1913 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | PRESENTATION OF MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY BUCKINGHAM PALACE, DEC. 16---The King this morning decorated the following with medals for acts of gallantry on land and at sea as stated against their names:--- BOARD OF TRADE MEDALS Lieutenant ... | 17th December 1913 | |||
| Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette | (1914) | CLAIM TITANIC NOT SEAWORTHY FIRST TIME SUGGESTION IS MADE SINCE DISASTER Plea Advanced by Injured Employee of Liner Which Went Down After Collision With Iceberg - Assert Negligence Also By Associated P... | 16th January 1914 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1914) | WOMAN LEAPS FROM DEVONIAN Formerly Stewardess on the Titanic Passengers on the Leyland Line steamship Devonian, in yesterday afternoon from Liverpool, reported that Mrs. Anna Robinson, a widow, aged 44, who was... | 11th October 1914 | |||
| The Times | (1916) | 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 | |||
| The Times | (1918) | DAVID BLAIR DECORATED BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 13--- The King held an Investiture of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at 10.30 o'clock this morning. The following were severally introduced into the presence o... | 14th February 1918 | |||
| The Times | (1919) | LIGHTOLLER DECORATED BY KING Court Circular BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 14 The King held an Investiture in the Quadrangle of the Palace at 11 o'clock this morning. The King then conferred decorations as follows:--- BAR TO... | 16th June 1919 | |||
| (1920) | LIGHTOLLER RESIGNS Lightoller officially resigned from the White Star Line on 14 February 1920. ... | 14th February 1920 | ||||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1922) | MRS. RENE W. HARRIS TO WED Z. C. BARBER Her Husband Was Drowned in Titanic Disaster NEW YORK, Sept 12---Mrs Rene W Harris, widow of Henry B. Harris, theatricak man who drowned in the Titanic disaster, will marry Zack C. Barber, a broker... | 13th September 1922 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | DR. RICE, IN WILDS OF BRAZIL, IN TOUCH BY RADIO WITH HIS FRIENDS IN NEW YORK EVERY NIGHT Deep in the wilds of Brazil, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, surgeon and explorer, is encamped on the Rio Brancho in Manaos, studying tropical diseases. New York, although long ago over its uneasiness for the safety of the Rice party which arose late la... | 16th December 1924 | |||
| The Times | (1925) | LORD PIRRIE'S ESTATE The RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., LL.D. D.Sc., of Witley Park, Godalming, and of Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Limited, shipbuilders and eng... | 4th April 1925 | |||
| The Times | (1925) | LORD PIRRIE'S WILL WILLIAM JAMES, first VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., of Belgrave-square, W., and Witley Park, Surrey, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1896-97, who died on board ship in t... | 9th May 1925 | |||
| The Times | (1925) | A ROUND THE WORLD TRIP The first meeting of creditors was held yesterday at Bankruptcy-buildings under a receiving order made against Maurice Allan Robinson, of 47, Victoria-street, Westminster. Mr. D. WILLIAMS, Official Receiver, reported that the ... | 3rd November 1925 | |||
| (1926) | MY MAIDEN VOYAGE When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr... | 1926 | ||||
| The Times | (1926) | BELFAST SHIPBUILDER'S ESTATE The RIGHT HON. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY CARLISLE, of Orme-square, W., for some years general mannager and chairman of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders and engineers, of Belfast, and lately a director ... | 10th April 1926 | |||
| New York Times | (1932) | MRS. J. J. BROWN DIES; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Was Rescued by the Carpathia After Hours in Row Boat-- Long a Newport Colonist.Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown of Denver, Col., widow of James J. Brown, mine owner, died... | 27th October 1932 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1937) | DEATH NOTICE OF JAMES R. MCGOUGH McGOUGH---July 24, 1937, JAMES R., husband of the late Mary J. McGough and son of Catherine and the late Thomas McGough. Relatives and friends are invited to funeral, Wed., 8:30 A. M., residence, 252 S. 57th st. Solemn Mass of... | 26th July 1937 | |||
| Washington Post | (1937) | 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 | (1948) | ALBERT STEWART - IN MEMORIAM STEWART—In constant and lasting memory of Albert A. Stewart, lost on the Titanic. April 12 [sic] 1912. A. S. K.... | 12th April 1948 | |||
| The Times | (1966) | DEATH NOTICE OF HELEN ANDREWS HARLAND HARLAND. On August 22nd, 1966, HELEN REILLY HARLAND, of Phoenix Lodge, Dunmurry, co. Antrim, daughter of John Barbour, of Conway, Dunmurry, widow of Thomas Andrews, of Comber, co. Down, ... | 24th August 1966 | |||
| Washington Post | (1974) | THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le... | 9th January 1974 | |||
| Awake | (1981) | I SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC IT BEGAN while I was visiting my elderly parents and uncle in , Florida. This was shortly before my uncle died a few months ago. As usual, we went to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesse... | 1981 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | BIODETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC 2 One of the great icons of the twentieth century was born April 15, 1912 with the sinking of the RMS Titanic. At her launching, this great ship was the largest liner ever built and carried the distinction of being the bigge... | 28th January 2001 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | THE REAL JACK DAWSON There is a grave in Halifax - a humdrum, unadorned marker, modest in comparison with many of its fellows, victims all of the RMS Titanic disaster. ... | 11th March 2001 | |||
| News Tribune | (2001) | KING OF HOPS: THE LEGACY OF HERMAN KLABER CURTIS, Lewis County – Come spring in the Boistfort Valley, hops pop up, green and fragrant, in the hay fields. Boistfort Elementary School sits next to a big hay field where hops sprout, searching the sky for support. The only clue to... | 12th April 2001 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC Presented for consideration by the Marine Forensic Panel (SD-7) chartered by the The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at Gibbs & Cox, Inc., Suite 700, 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia... | 6th June 2001 | |||
| ET Research | (2002) | EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP At the beginning of 1912 Harold Thomas Cottam already had a wealth of experience behind him. The youngest graduate from his class at Wireless Telegraphy school, he had operated at an early age on routes as far flung as Australi... | 17th March 2002 | |||
| ET Research | (2002) | ON ROOTING ABOUT IN A SWEDISH TITANIC FAMILY TREE (Preprint Version) Introduction Dr. Ryan Parr of Genesis Geonomics Inc. at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and I have been involved in the 'LAST OF THE LOST'... | 10th May 2002 | |||
| ET Research | (2002) | THE BREAK-UP OF THE TITANIC: VIEWPOINTS AND EVIDENCE Introduction From very early on in the history of the Titanic, the ship’s final moments have been a subject of lively debate. Did the ship break apart? Did it explode? Did its stern rise out of the sea ... | 9th July 2002 | |||
| ET Research | (2002) | A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Most steamship researchers/scholars/enthusiasts know the many similarities between the Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland and the famous White Star Line leviathan Titanic. Both ships were express line... | 9th July 2002 | |||
| ET Research | (2002) | MOLLY BROWN: MYSTERY UNRAVELLED "At Cherbourg, a woman came aboard named Margaret Brown. We all called her &q... | 21st July 2002 | |||
| ET Research | (2002) | THE MORNING AFTER... WHERE WERE THE BODIES? It was April 23, 1912, at daybreak, out on the North Atlantic. The seascape looked every bit like a well-adorned graveyard, with an overcast sky, rolling fog and, as far as one could see, pieces of wreckage that bobbed in... | 20th September 2002 | |||
| ET Research | (2003) | TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS One of the thorniest questions about the Titanic disaster is, how her clock was changed during the journey. Several events observed by differing observers at different locations add to the confusion about the difference between Titani... | 16th February 2003 | |||
| ET Research | (2003) | MADAME LUCILE: A LIFE IN STYLE The following is an excerpt from the prologue of Lucile - Her Life by Design, Randy Bigham's pending biography of Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon (1863-1935), the renowned Edwardian couturière and Titanic survivor. To the notes of soft music... | 29th April 2003 | |||
| ET Research | (2003) | LOOKOUTS Maine Maritime Academy Titanic NS-415 Spring 2003 Captain Charles B. Weeks Task of paper This paper looks at the role of the lookouts on the Titanic from the eye of an experienced seaman. There are several question... | 30th April 2003 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE THE PERSISTENT notion that the Californian is the Titanic's mystery ship - seen at an average of 5.6 miles off the port bow by Inquiry evidence from Titanic witnesses - can be exploded by this relatively... | 17th February 2004 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | A THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE “CAVE LIST” View the Encyclopedia Titanica transcription of the Cave List This simple incomplete copy of a cabin list for Titanic’s first and only voyage takes its name ... | 1st April 2004 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | IMPACT OF TITANIC UPON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW No other shipwreck in history has left such an indelible imprint upon the public consciousness as that of the RMS Titanic. Ninety-two years after her loss, the story of that great liner continues to... | 31st August 2004 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | RUBáIYáT REFLECTIONS ON TITANIC AWAKE! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight… ... | 14th October 2004 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing with statistics, some d... | 17th December 2004 | |||
| ET Research | (2005) | IDENTIFYING STEWARDS WHAT ARE the chances of identifying Titanic bodies more than 90 years after they were buried at sea? Better than impossible - fair, in some cases. One of the early bodies picked up by the search ves... | 13th February 2005 | |||
| ET Research | (2005) | TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY Internet research tips for beginners From biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading online destination for original, in-depth studi... | 20th September 2005 | |||
| ET Research | (2006) | A PEN TO SINK A THOUSAND SHIPS THE BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY AND THE ART OF FORTUNINO MATANIA Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) was, without doubt, the greatest of the Edwardian illustrators, in the long sha... | 7th March 2006 | |||
| ET Research | (2006) | A MATTER OF COURSE The story of Noëlle Rothes, Titanic’s ‘Plucky Little Countess’ by Randy Bryan Bigham ... | 22nd September 2006 | |||
| ET Comment | (2006) | SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i... | 5th December 2006 | |||
| ET Comment | (2006) | LET THE RECORD SPEAK FOR ITSELF! THERE is an old adage that the argument is not always about ‘what the argument is about.’ This is a case in point. Three commentators of common interest have decided to fight the validity of Hugh Woolner’s evidence to the US Titan... | 7th December 2006 | |||
| ET Research | (2006) | TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR Sydney Buxton as a new MP SYDNEY BUXTON, President of the Board of Trade... | 13th December 2006 | |||
| ET Research | (2006) | BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS! Birma from a contemporary postcard (Courtesy of Senan Molony) JOSEPH Cannon was a newly-qualified, newlywed wi... | 28th December 2006 | |||
| (2007) | NOMADIC RETURNS The SS Nomadic is the last White Star Line vessel still afloat and the last real maritime link with Titanic. Built on No.1 Slip by Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, and fitted out in the Abercorn Basin, Nomadic attended ... | 3rd January 2007 | ||||
| ET Research | (2007) | KEEPING TRACK OF A MAIDEN VOYAGE On Thursday the 11th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic departed Queenstown on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic ocean to New York. About 2:20 PM GMT, she took departure from the Daunt’s Rock light vessel, and pro... | 20th February 2007 | |||
| ET Research | (2007) | ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies.... | 14th October 2007 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | 12.45AM – A TIME TO GO! WHAT time did the first lifeboat depart the Titanic?Many will immediately offer: ‘12.45am.’ But this response should be... | 10th March 2008 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC’S CENTRAL PROPELLER ... | 5th May 2008 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | LOADING THE REAR BOATS While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti... | 29th May 2008 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | MCGOUGH THE KILLER TWO killers roamed the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage… Not the stuff of lurid pulp adventure, instead actual fact. The two wrongdoers were a fireman and an able bodied seaman. Stoker William Mintra... | 5th September 2008 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | MCGOUGH THE KEY? THERE’S a Titanic seaman named McGough who is claimed to be a human key to understanding the sequence of lifeboat departures. He’s said to have helped lower lifeboat No. 14 – but to have departed in lifeboat No. ... | 5th September 2008 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | DEFENDING ERNEST GILL One night in 1994, at the tender age of 14, I sat glued to the TV watching the superb A&E documentary about the Titanic disaster. Having read and heard little of the Lordite claims about the SS Californian, however, save ... | 15th November 2008 | |||
| ET Research | (2009) | THE INFORMATIVE "MORNING NEWS" TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ... | 12th February 2009 | |||
| Telegraph.co.uk | (2009) | RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION By Andrew Alderson The key and other artefacts were recovered when Mr Stone's dead body was recovered from the water Photo: Christopher Jones The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could s... | 11th April 2009 | |||
| Wiltshire Times | (2009) | TITANIC BAG HANDED BACK 24th April 2009A mailbag from the Titanic belonging to last living survivor Millvina Dean sold for £2,000 in Devizes on Saturday before the winning bidder handed it straight back to her. London-based advertising agency direct... | 25th April 2009 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | (2009) | TITANIC HAD MANY LIVERPOOL LINKS, REPORTS PETER ELSON by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009ALTHOUGH she never visited Liverpool, Titanic had strong links with her home port.Planning for her maiden voyage, including the selection of her officers, was made by Charles Bartlett, Whit... | 29th April 2009 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster.Currently the big wheel structure sits around and on top of the mem... | 5th June 2009 | |||
| Irish Times | (2009) | LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud... | 14th July 2009 | |||
| Berkshire Eagle | (2009) | TITANIC TAMPERING WITH GOWN GREAT BARRINGTON -- The century-old sequins are gone. The material is ripped. And -- with no signs of a break-in -- it’s a mystery who’s at fault. A genuine whodunnit is under way in town. At the center of... | 17th July 2009 | |||
| PRNewswire | (2009) | SAVE THE TITANIC FOUNDATION ASSEMBLES 100TH YEAR TITANIC ANNIVERSARY GALA AND CONCERT The Save the Titanic Foundation (http://www.savethetitanic.org) today announced details of the 2012 Global telecast concert event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Titanic. The 100th anniversary event will be staged simultaneously at Madiso... | 10th September 2009 | |||
| BBC News | (2009) | MONEY WORRIES FOR NOMADIC PROJECT The project to restore the Nomadic has received a £500,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, bringing the total pledged to £4m. However, less than £8,000 has been raised from corporate donors and a 'Sponsor a... | 16th September 2009 | |||
| ET Research | (2010) | ROCKETS, LIFEBOATS, AND TIME CHANGES A FLASH OF LIGHT IN THE SKY The story of what took place on the tramp steamer Californian the night of April 14, 1912, is one of those tales that cause some people... | 4th March 2010 | |||
| ET Research | (2010) | WHO TALKED TO TITANIC? WHO talked to Titanic? It is a most interesting question, but one infuriatingly unanswered. ... | 11th March 2010 | |||
