Lifeboat Loading Times

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New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Mrs. Annie May Stengel, 88, Was in Third Lifeboat --- Special to The New York Times --- MONTCLAIR, N. J., Jan. 24 ---Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Annie May Stengel, a survivor of the sinking of the Tita...
25th January 1956
INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT Sphere INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT
The Lukin Grave in England...
21st December 1912
George Jacub AN EXPERIMENT UNVEILS THE TIMING OF THE AFT PORT BOATS
I didn't know whether to cheer or to cringe. Having completed my research into the timing of the first lifeboats to leave the sinking Titanic, plus the last boats and half...
15th July 2011
MOHAWK-LIFEBOAT   MOHAWK-LIFEBOAT
The bow of a lifeboat that did not get away marked the site of the Mohawk wreck, to which it was still tethered....
1935 Gare Maritime
VESTRIS : LIFEBOAT RESCUE   VESTRIS : LIFEBOAT RESCUE
1928 print showing a Vestris lifeboat approaching the NDL Line's Berlin on Tuesday morning...
November 1928 Gare Maritime
The Times TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD
One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri...
17th February 1956
Titanic Research THE TITANIC'S STOKERS PROVIDE THE KEY TO LAUNCH TIMES OF THE MIDDLE BOATS
George Jacub
The timing of the middle boats : the Mount Everest of challenges for Titanic researchers....
18th July 2011
New York Times MRS. JANE L. HERMAN
She and Two Daughters Titanic Survivors---Husband, Son Lost --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BEDMINSTER, N. J., Jan. 16---Mrs. Janes Laber [sic] Herman, 75 years old, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, died at her ho...
16th January 1937
St. Paul Daily News TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER
- Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...
17th May 1912
New York Times HOW J. B. THAYER DIED
Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ...
19th April 1912
LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK AND LIFEBOAT   LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK AND LIFEBOAT
1938 Gare Maritime
The Toronto World HOW MAJ. PEUCHEN ESCAPED.
----------------- Second Officer Lightholder (sic), who had charge of the lifeboats: "In the fourth lifeboat I was running short of seamen.  I put two seamen in and one of them jumped out.  ...
20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912
S.S. TITANIC LIFEBOAT PLAQUE   S.S. TITANIC LIFEBOAT PLAQUE
S.S. Titanic plaque from Lifeboat no. 2. The plaque was retrieved by James W. Barker [?] a seaman on the Carpathia at the time it picked up the Titanic survivors....
TITANIC LIFEBOAT HOISTED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse TITANIC LIFEBOAT HOISTED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA
From 'L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse'...
20th September 1956
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
QUICK, MISS PHYLLIS MAY. Saved in Lifeboat number 11. Born 27th July 1909. Died 15th March 1954, and was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, Section 20, lot 1542. Family stayed together in lifeboat, Mrs. Qu...
Washington Times PHILADELPHIAN RESCUED BY PARTY IN LIFEBOAT
NEW YORK, April 19---Richard Williams, of Philadelphia, remained on the Titanic until she sank. He was standing at the extreme stern when the final plunge came. "After we hit the water the Titanic rebounded," he said, "and I was hurled...
19th April 1912
A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER Graphic A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER
‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times...
18th May 1912
LOADING THE REAR BOATS Titanic Research LOADING THE REAR BOATS
George Jacub
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
New York Times ROBERT J. HOPKINS
Member of Titanic Crew Aided in Rescue of Mrs. John J. Astor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. 18---Robert J. Hopkins, who was a member of the crew of the ill-fated liner Titanic when it struck an ...
19th November 1943
  MEMORIAL
There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
Newark Evening News SWAM TO BOAT; SAYS SAILORS BEAT HIM
Special Service of the NEWS BAYONNE, April 20---The story that he was beaten by sailors when he swam to a lifeboat is told by Thomas McCormack, one of the Titanic survivors, who is now at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York. ...
20th April 1912
New York Times GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY
Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...
23rd April 1912
New York Times JOHN HARDY
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEW PROVIDENCE, N. J., Oct. 9---John Hardy of 71 Gales Drive, who was chief steward of second class accommodations on the Titanic, died on Wednesday at the home of his son, Ronald M. Hardy, in Maplewood...
10th October 1953
Newark Star SIX BULLET HOLES TITANIC MEMENTOES
Survivor Tells of Being Shot at by Officers While Entering Lifeboat --- WILKES BARRE, [sic] Pa., April 22---The story of having been shot at by officers on the Titanic when he sought to enter a lifeboat when the great liner was going...
23rd April 1912
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
New York Times CAPT. ROSTRON RECEIVES ROYAL HONOR
Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 25---Captain Arthur H. Rostron, commander of the Cunard liner Mauretania, who, as captain of the Carpathia, rescued the ...
26th February 1924
Chicago Evening Post DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD
DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...
23rd April 1912
Washington Post BABY THOUGHT LOST IS SAFE
Mrs Aks and Child, Titanic Survivors, Reach Norfolk Norfolk, Va – April 24 – Mrs. Leah Aks and her infant, survivors from the Titanic disaster, has [sic] arrived here, but the woman was too ill to talk and had to go to bed. Mrs. Aks ca...
25th April 1912
Chicago Daily News SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...
27th April 1912
New York Times MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE
birds...
22nd April 1912
FUNERAL OF A TITANIC VICTIM IN CORNWALL Daily Mirror FUNERAL OF A TITANIC VICTIM IN CORNWALL
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31st May 1912
The Times PARTNER DEPARTED
Stockbroker Lost in the Titanic Disaster It is observed with great regret in the Stock Exchange that the name of Mr Austin Partner is not among the list of those saved from the Titanic. Mr Partner was making one of his annual...
26th April 1912
The Times LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY
Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ...
23rd September 1953
  LIFEBOAT 7 IS LAUNCHED
15th April 1912
Washington Times DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC
Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...
22nd April 1912
Chicago American 2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES
Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu...
25th April 1912
The New York Times MORGAN IN LONDON
Wants to See Titanic Launched---Health Never Better, He Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, May 19---By accident THE NEW YORK TIMES correspondent met J. Pierpont Morga...
20th May 1911
New York Times MRS. HELEN C. CANDEE SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Page 25, column 2 YORK HARBOR, ME., Aug 23 Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, author and lecturer, of this place and Washington, D.C., died here today after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Candee, an authority on tapes...
24th August 1949
  TITANIC LIFEBOAT MOVIE
Toronto Daily Star RESCUED BY THE SAME LIFEBOAT TITANIC SURVIVORS UNITED AGAIN
"A tragedy so great that it forever gives its survivors a common bond was the sinking of the Titanic. Sgt. John Collins was so impressed by his experiences of that famous occasion that he is trying to form a Titanic Association. He found three other ...
16th April 1939
New York Times MRS. DEAN MATHEY, TITANIC SURVIVOR, 72
Special to The New York Times --- PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 7---Mrs. Helen Newsom Mathey, a survivor of the liner Titanic, sunk in 1912 by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, died today in Princeton H...
8th September 1965
The New York Times MOST OF THE CREW SAIL
Sent Home on the Lapland---How Many Were Saved --- All of the crew of the Titanic, except the saved officers and about twenty of the crew who are to be witnesses, sailed for their homes yesterday morning on the R...
21st April 1912
HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. ET Comment HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
Senan Molony
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006
The Toronto World THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE
Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...
20th April 1912
Evening Bulletin GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP
Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in the Mediterranean. She was the widow of Dr. Raymond S. Leopold, former executive vice ...
12th August 1965
New York Times COL. ASTOR READY TO SERVE
Would Willingly Go Out to the Philippines---Does Not Approve of W. W. Astor's Course --- Special to The New York Times --- RHINEBECK, N. Y., Aug. 10---Col. John J. Astor was home at Ferncliff yesterday, and the corresponde...
11th August 1899
New York Times MRS. DULLES FONTANA
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25---Mrs. Dulles Fontana, formerly Miss Margaret Dulles, who once sued her husband to prevent him from collecting $75 a week support from her, died today in the Barclay Hotel after a long ...
26th January 1934
New York Times THE TITANIC
Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...
28th July 1912
New York Times SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY
Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...
22nd April 1912
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
Newark Evening News MRS. C.E.H. STENGEL
Widow of Patent Leather Manufacturer Dies; Was Survivor of Titanic Disaster --- Special to Newark News --- NORWALK, Conn.---Mrs. Annie May Stengel of Montclair, widow of Charles E. H. Stengel, Newark patent leather manufac...
24th January 1956
New York Times LADY PIRRIE MAY HEAD HARLAND & WOLFF, THE GREAT BRITISH SHIPBUILDING FIRM
Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 16---It is the general belief in shipping circles that Lady Pirrie will assume the post of President of the great shipbu...
17th July 1924
GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC Titanic Research GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC
Earl Chapman
Were shots fired as the Titanic went down? If so whom and toward whom?...
30th July 2001
THE CAVE LIST   THE CAVE LIST
When the...
Newark Evening News WRITES OF NEGLIGENCE “MORE THAN CRIMINAL”
Two survivors from the wreck of the Titanic, Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, who are expected to arrive at Arlington Thursday and spend a week with Mrs. Rita Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue, are temporarily at 204 West 128...
20th April 1912
New York Times JOHN J. ASTOR 5TH, 79; SON OF BUILDER OF HOTEL
John Jacob Astor 5th, a descendant of one of America's most fabled merchant princes, died yesterday at his home in Miami Beach. He was 79 years old. His death was reported by two of his cousins, R. Thornton Wilson, and Stephen Spencer,...
27th June 1992
New York Times 30-KNOT LINER PROBABLE
Statement of the Managing Director of Harland & Wolff --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Aug. 22---According to New York reports published here, Lord Pirrie, head of the firm of...
23rd August 1907
New York Times HAROLD BRIDE RESTING
blurb...
21st April 1912
  LIFEBOAT 3 IS LAUNCHED
At 1:00 A.M. boat 3 was launched with less than half capacity full....
15th April 1912
  FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Randy Bryan Bigham
Fifty-five year old Ella White, the wealthy widow of a Manhattan businessman, was short and stout with an outspoken, often brash personality. Her companion, Marie Grice Young, 36, tall, slim and soft-spoken, was a music teacher from Washington. The p...
New York Times MR. GOLDENBERG EXPLAINS IT
Says His "Titanic Baggage" Was Purchased on Board Carpathia --- Samuel L Goldenberg of the lace importing house of Goldenberg Bros. & Co.,108 Fifth Avenue, who is among the survivors of the Titanic disaster, explained to THE TIMES ye...
25th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...
2nd February 2001
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
Burlington Daily Gazette GUNNAR TENGLIN
"It was not a hard shock," said Tenglin, "but my friend and myself, finding the engines stopped, thought, we would go up and investigate. I put on all my clothes but my shoes and we went to the forward deck. The deck was covered ...
25th April 1912
New York Times PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT
Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...
20th April 1912
New York Times RULERS COMPLIMENT MORGAN ON BIRTHDAY
Financier 75 Years Old Yesterday-Is at Aix and in Excellent Health --- DISASTER ALTERS HIS PLANS --- He Continually Seeks News Regarding the Titanic Catastrophe-Postpones Ceremony at Aix --- Spec...
18th April 1912
HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR   HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR
Titanic Stories
The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....
14th November 2011
A LIFEBOAT APPROACHES THE CARPATHIA   A LIFEBOAT APPROACHES THE CARPATHIA
15th April 1912
Akron Beacon Journal MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL
Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ...
20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...
22nd January 1997
New York Times SOCIAL NOTES
Mrs. Wilber Bloodgood will give a large reception on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 26, at her home, 49 East Thirty-fourth Street, for Mrs. Elinor Glyn, the English writer, and Lady Duff Gordon. ********** New York Times, 26 December 190...
21st December 1907
Unidentified Newspaper UNKNOWN TITLE
Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...
1997
Chicago Sun-Times ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER
Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan...
2nd February 1990
Chicago Record Herald CHICAGOANS SAVED BY ASTOR
Mrs. Hippach and Daughter, at Home, Tell of Rescue From Titanic How Colonel John Jacob Astor saved the lives of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean Hippach, when the Titanic was sinking was told w...
22nd April 1912
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
McCARTHY, KATIE (CATHERINE) (LATER MRS. JOHN CROKE). Saved in Lifeboat number 15. En route from Ballygartin, Bansha, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Daughter of Patrick McCarthy, farmer....
New York Times AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911
JOHN EDWARD HART: DUBIOUS HERO Titanic Research JOHN EDWARD HART: DUBIOUS HERO
David Gleicher
Was Hart really a hero?...
26th January 2001
WILLIAM MCCARTHY, LIFEBOAT 4 CREWMAN   WILLIAM MCCARTHY, LIFEBOAT 4 CREWMAN
MR WILLIAM McCARTHYGrattan Hill, Cork, who is fortunately amongst the survivors. Elite, San Francisco...
Connaught Telegraph LOSS OF THE TITANIC.
Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c...
25th May 1912
New York Times BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT
Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester...
21st April 1912
New York Times TIMES "AD" FOR MISSING BOY
E. H. Bull of 33 Linden Street, Bayonne, N. J., recognizing the value of the Lost and Found columns of THE NEW YORK TIMES, has inserted an advertisement in it asking for information concerning Arne Salstrom, [sic] a nineteen-year-old Norwegian boy, w...
20th April 1912
The Times TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC
Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...
27th April 1935
  NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS
The Los Angeles Times of April 17th 1912 stated that he was a brother of E. D. Rood of El Centro, California. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) of April 13th 1992 stated that he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Coast Creosotin...
Aberdeen Daily Journal MR. F. D. MILLET
In modern times at any rate the life of a successful artist is unusually placid and uneventful; few have crowded into it such variety as Mr. F. D. Millet, whose loss in the disaster which has befallen the Titanic will be deeply felt by many, both ...
20th April 1912
New York Times SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC
Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...
18th May 1964
  GENERAL INFORMATION
KANTOR, MRS. MARTIN. Saved in Lifeboat number 10. c/o City Office. Wife of Sinai Kantor. A University graduate in dentistry. Lived with cousins in New York City....
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
  COPY OF LETTER SENT BY MR. KNOWLES'S DAUGHTER
Dear Cousin, What a pleasant surprise to receive your letter on November 22nd. I am Thomas Knowles's daughter. My father would have been 104 years old last May, therefore he would, I presume, be the ninth generation. I myse...
28th November 1973
New York Times MRS. ASTOR IS ILL, BUT NOT CRITICALLY
Alarming Reports as to Her Condition Formally Denied by Secretary --- VINCENT ASTOR STILL HOPES --- Mrs. Henry B. Harris Slowly Regaining Her Strength --- Robert W. Daniel Receives Friends at...
20th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean 50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS
New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster...
21st April 1912
Newark Evening News SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ...
20th 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
THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC Titanic Review THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC
Michael Tennaro
In this new book, Chirnside has done the triplets proud, with a thoroughly researched history of each of these vessels. ...
6th December 2004
North American WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ...
20th April 1912
The Times BEESLEY THE SCIENCE TEACHER ON SOLAR PANELS
"Cookery by Sunlight" To the Editor of the Times Sir - Your leading article on this subject in to-day's issue reminds me that in 1913 I was the guest of friends in Pasadena, California, whose house was fitted with an apparatus f...
26th January 1922
New York Times PHILADELPHIA SURVIVORS ILL
Two in Hospital, Hysterical---Mrs. Widener Has Severe Cold --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Philadelphia survivors of the Titanic are under the care of physicians, several of them in a serious...
23rd April 1912
New York Times LORD PIRRIE TO RETIRE
His Harland & Wolff Interests Sold to Brown & Co., Report Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, March 13---It is reported from Belfast on good authority that Lord Pirrie has intimated his intention not o...
14th March 1912
Guernsey Evening Press MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN
A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...
2nd May 1912
  PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Eliina Honkanen, 27, was born in Finland. She lived in Saatrjkvi, Finland and had a family in Helsingforfs. She boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost Ł7 18s 18d. Her destination was 16 West Street, Q...
1912
East Kent Gazette A CANADIAN REFERENCE
A reference to Miss Buss is made in the Toronto Daily Star of April 20th, as the following extract will show:- ''Special to the 'Star' by a staff reporter - New York, April 20th - What happened at the regular Sunday service on board th...
4th May 1965
New York Times ELMER ZELBY [SIC] TAYLOR
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., May 22---Elmer Zelby [sic; should be "Zebley"] Taylor, a pioneer in the paper container industry and a consulting engineer for the Continental Can Company, Inc., of New York, died he...
23rd May 1949
ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR   ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR
William McCarthy handicraft...
New York Times MAURETANIA'S CAPTAIN IS HONORED BY KING
Roston [sic]Is Made a K. B. E. in Delayed Birthday List---48 Other Knights Created --- Copyright, 1926, by The New York Times Company --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The King's Bi...
3rd July 1926
Southern Daily Echo DEATH NOTICE
Wyeth, James. Fireman, Aged 25, Beloved Husband of Isabella Annie Wyeth, of 14 Millbank Street, Northam. [Also appeared in the Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912 and Southampton Times 11th May 1912]...
1st May 1912
The New York Times THINKS TIMES LIST SAVED FATHER'S LIFE
Survivor Says Aged Man Got Hope from Interpretation of Faulty Wireless Message --- 'WILLIAMS' MEANT 'WILHEMS' --- ...
21st April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
LEITCH, MISS JESSIE WILLS. Saved in Lifeboat number 11. 3, Claud Villa, Denmark Hill, London, SE. UK. Niece of Reverend J. Harper. Returned to England per SS Celtic 25th April 1912. Aged 30 years. Later became Mrs. Anderson. Died 6th February...
MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY   MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY
Awaiting His Opportunity To Testify...
23rd April 1912
PLUCKED FROM THE SEA? Titanic Research PLUCKED FROM THE SEA?
Peter Engberg and Tad Fitch
Survivors' Claims Reconsidered...
11th July 1999
Chicago Daily News GIRL TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HERE
Miss Annie Kelley Last Woman to Leave Sinking Ship, She Says Miss Annie Kelley, 17 years old, a sister of Miss Beatrice Kelley, 303 Eugenie street, arrived in Chicago last night and told of her escape from the sinking Tit...
23rd April 1912
Washington Herald MAJ. BUTT TOLD FRIENDS HE HAD FEAR OF MISHAP
Remarks of the President's Aid Before Going Abroad Are Recalled --- President Taft yesterday made earnest efforts to obtain news of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aid. He communicated two or three times with the White Star offices i...
17th April 1912
Daily Home News MR. SILVEY LOST WHEN WIFE WAS SAVED
With the landing of the Carpathia last night came final confirmation of the sad news that William B. Silvey, brother of Mrs. Fred Deshler, formerly of this city, now of Washington, was lost with the Titanic. Mrs. Silvey was taken off in a lifeboat a...
19th April 1912
Hudson Dispatch HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES
Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice...
18th November 1943
  PASSPORT GRANT
Nr Name Age Marital Status Knows how to read ? Birthplace ...
30th March 1912
New York Times CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS
blurb...
21st April 1912
Jersey Journal BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK
McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...
23rd April 1912
  THE DOUGLASES REMEMBERED BY NIECE
Ellen Williamson, niece to the Douglases, wrote a book published by Iowa State University Press: "When We Went First Class, a recollection of good times". She decribes her uncle and aunt's experience on the ship, but also on the Nomadic in Cherbourg....
New York Times NEW INCORPORATIONS
Special to The New York Times --- ALBANY, Jan. 30---Twenty-five new corporations, with an aggregate capital stock of $1,647,000, were chartered today. They include: Lady Duff-Gordon Costume Co., Manhattan, $5,...
31st January 1918
ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC The Times ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC
Wild panic reported in August 1912 emergency...
14th August 1912
Orange County Times-Press TITANIC VICTIMS STARVED
That several Titanic victims probably starved to death in lifeboats seemed probable when the White Star Liner Oceanic docked today. The Oceanic picked up, last Monday, a lifeboat containing three bodies terribly decomposed. Each vi...
17th May 1912
The Times 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
New York Times HENRY BLANK
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWARK, N. J., March 17---Henry Blank, chairman of the board of Henry Blank & Co., manufacturing jewelers here, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J., after a brief illness, at...
18th March 1949
Paterson Morning Call JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP
Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ...
23rd April 1912
New York Times ASTOR ESTATE AT NEWPORT SOLD
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., Oct. 28---A deed transferring Beechwood, an estate of nine acres and dwelling and other buildings, from Vincent Astor to Count and Countess Paul de Kotzebue, was recorded today, giving t...
29th October 1940
New York Times OBITUARY OF MRS. MARVIN'S SECOND HUSBAND: HORACE S. DECAMP
Special to the New York Times --- UTICA, N. Y., July 16---Horace Silliman deCamp, realty executive in the Adirondacks, died yesterday in his home at Thendara at the age of 67. He owned the home on Second Lake that once was the property...
17th July 1954
Greensburg Herald Tribune YOUNG GREENSBURG WOMAN WAS PASSENGER ON ILL-FATED SHIP
"Oh, I feel bad, ver' bad, los' money, los' friend. When I stand up I see ship come again, when I shut my eyes. I see people go down, down, down--Oh ver' bad time." And, with the remembrance of it, Mrs. Sophie Abraham, 20 years old, shuddered and bur...
22nd April 1912
BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS New York Times BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS
Two Marconi Men Worked to the Last...
28th April 1912
BERTHE LEROY IN 1966 Nord-Matin BERTHE LEROY IN 1966
From 'Nord-Matin'...
1966
SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 1   SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 1
First of two photos showing the USS Siboney rescuing the survivors of the H.M.S. Dwinsk. These photos were printed in a commemorative book: Historical Souvenier of the U.S.S. Siboney April 8, 1918-August 1, 1919, which was made available after the...
Gare Maritime
Evening World TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF
Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...
22nd April 1912
New York Times NEW YORK INCORPORATIONS
Special to The New York Times ALBANY, June 28---The following concerns were incorporated today: John D. Baumann Company (commission merchants, selling agents' business in merchandise;) capital $1,500,000. Director...
27th June 1907
Washington Times J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM
Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself...
19th April 1912
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
Chicago American ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE
Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay,  managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...
24th April 1912
THE SECOND OFFICER The Evening Telegram THE SECOND OFFICER
LIGHTHOLDER [sic] The man who directed Major Peuchen to enter the Titanic lifeboat.  Telling of his own escape before the Senate Inquiry, he was asked: "Did you leave the sh...
22nd April 1912
New York Times PROVING FOREMAN ON TITANIC
Brother Files Letters of Survivors in Asking for Administration Papers --- Edwin H. Foreman obtained yesterday from Surrogate Fowler letters of administration on the $10,000 estate of his brother, Benjamin L. Foreman, who was drowned on ...
15th May 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
TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Sphere TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913
Children emulate lifeboat scene...
30th August 1913
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ET Comment SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt
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
The Times OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912
New York Times MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC
TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...
26th November 1975
New York Times MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE
New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ...
14th July 1937
  PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mr Abraham August Johannes Abrahamsson, 20, was born in Finland. He lived in Dalsbruk, Finland. August, as he was called, was single. He borded as a third class passenger at Southampton with his friends - Eino Lindqvist, Helga Hirvone...
1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Special to The New York Times --- ELIZABETH, N. J., July 8---Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, a survivor of the Titanic disaster twenty-one years ago, died this morning at her home here after a long illness. She was born in England. She was a m...
9th July 1933
The Times OBITUARY : THE REV E.C. & MRS CARTER
...
20th April 1912
Chicago Tribune FRONT VIEWS AND PROFILES
June Provines
Ernest Byfield brought back a story from New York told him by both Margalo Gillmore and Myra Hampton that certainly shows that the wags have been cudgeling their brains for stories.  This one is hung on the sinking of the Titanic.  It...
17th November 1934
Chicago Tribune DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912
PEGGY ON A SKIN BOAT Gare Maritime PEGGY ON A SKIN BOAT
David Haisman
David Haisman recalls working on a banana boat in the 1950s...
14th May 2003 Gare Maritime
The Day, New London, Connecticut, USA NOT SATISFIED TO BE AMONG THE LIVING
NOT SATISFIED TO BE AMONG THE LIVING --- Man Rescued from Titanic by Mrs. Astor's Aid Sues Co. for $25,000 Jewels --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug 3---Hadne Mamee, a cabin passenger saved from the Titanic, has brought suit...
3rd August 1912
New York Times ROEBLING IS EXCUSED FROM JURY
Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 16---When the panel for the April term of the United States Grand Jury reported to-day, Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, and father of Washingto...
17th April 1912
New York Times THANKS FOR A TITANIC SURVIVOR
This notice comes to THE TIMES from an address in Gothenberg, Sweden: TITANIC---To Dr. Frauenthal's Hospital and the Women's Relief Committee, New York: This opportunity is taken to convey our respectful and hearty thanks to the above...
11th July 1912
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M...
18th April 1912
Washington Post SOCIETY: MRS. CANDEE
notice...
30th April 1912
Dallas Times-Herald LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD
obituary...
22nd April 1935
Worcester Evening Gazette BRAVE COUNTESS TAKES CHARGE OF LIFEBOAT
New York, April 19- Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a New York physician escaped from the Titanic on the same boat which carried the Countess Rothes. " The countess is an expert oarswoman." said Dr. Leader, " and thouroughly at home on the water. She pract...
19th April 1912
Chicago Sun-Times KUP'S COLUMN
Irv Kupcinet
". . . . Almost as soon as the news of the sinking of the Andrea Doria was flashed to the world, 20th Century-Fox decided to reissue its epic of a sea drama, "Titanic," story of the maritime disaster of 44 years ago. . . . "...
31st July 1956
New York Times FIERMONTE THREATENS DIVORCE
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 9---Enzo Fiermonte, husband of Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, today took a screen test at Fox Movie Studio. Discussing the status of his marriage with the wealthy New Yor...
10th August 1934
The Syracuse Herald WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED
Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat...
3rd May 1912
New York Times OBITUARY: MRS. GEORGE BROOKE
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26---Mrs. George Brooke, wife of a retired steel executive, died of a heart attack tonight in her home, Almonbury House, Itahn. Mrs. Brooke was the former Lucille Polk of Baltimore. ...
27th October 1934
New York Times WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...
20th April 1912
Brighton Argos SHOREHAM MAN MISSING [ISAAC MAYNARD]
Article about Titanic survivor Isaac Maynard from Shoreham, Sussex...
17th April 1912
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
  MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937
TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ...
1937
New York Times LORD PIRRIE NOT RETIRING
Report That He is Quitting Harland & Wolff is Denied --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, March 14---I am authorized to state that there is absolutely no truth in the statements...
15th March 1912
Galesburg Evening Mail TELLS OF RESCUE FROM TITANIC
Frank Kurun of Galesburg Tells How He Saved Himself and Daughter WAS IN A BOAT FIRST PICKED UP Jumped from Lower Deck Into Life Boat As It Was Being Lowered His Brother Drowned Frank Kurun,...
23rd April 1912
  CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC
Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
Chicago Inter Ocean JAY YATES, GAMBLER, ONE OF THE HEROES
Goes to His Death With Sinking Titanic After Helping Women and Children to Safety—Sends Good-By to Mother Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean New York, April 20—That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man...
21st April 1912
  PASSPORT GRANT
Nr Name Age Marital Status ...
20th March 1912
New York Times KARL H. BEHR DIES; DILLON, READ AIDE
Page 87, column 3 Vice President of Banking Firm for 24 Years Once Known as Leading Tennis Player. Karl H. Behr, vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers, 28 Nassau Street, who was one of the country's leading tenni...
16th October 1949
  MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS
Marion James
  Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ...
New York Times RACE MEETING AT AUTEUIL
*** By Marconi Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times *** PARIS, Feb. 17---*** Mrs. Brandeis Cohn, Loyal B. Cohn, Walter H. Cohn and Emil Brandeis, who had been in Switzerland for the last six months, have arrived in Paris...
18th February 1912
  TITANIC LIFEBOATS
Roger L. Williams
I have recently seen a new film about the sinking of the Titanic on the TV and have been reading about Titanic lifeboats on. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org It seems there is no real record of what happened to those lifeboats....
1st August 2011
  PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Hildur Elisabeth Hirvonen, 2, was born in Finland on 15th February 1910 as the daughter of Alexander Hirvonen and Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Hildur boarded as a third class passenger at Southa...
1912
Port Huron Times Herald BERT JOHNS, SURVIVOR OF 1912 TITANIC DISASTER, DIES
Page 1, columns 6-7 Bert Johns, 66, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, operator of Bert's Tavern, 622 Water Street, for 15 years, Port Huron resident 32 years, died Saturday in his home, 216 Broad Street, after an illness of on...
3rd February 1952
New York Times GREENWICH EXPECTED THE WEDDING
Special to The New York Times --- GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 7---The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of New York came to Greenwich this evening and is the guest of J. H. FlagIer in North Street, where he has often visited this Sum...
8th September 1911
  1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC
Dennis Foley
By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
Chicago Daily Tribune SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND AND WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC.
newspaper aticle...
20th April 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
New York Times MRS. HENRI MARQUISAN'S FUNERAL
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Oct. 11---Funeral services were held today in the chapel of the Rue Honore d’Eylan Church for Mrs. Henri Marquisan, who was Miss Frances Moore, daughter of the late Clarence Moore, who...
12th October 1921
New York Herald BRAVERY OF TITANIC SURGEON DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS NORMAN O'LOUGHLIN
In accounts printed about the Titanic and the bravery of her officers little has been said of one who probably was the most widely known and best beloved of all classes....
22nd April 1912
New York Times LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN
Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...
9th May 1913
Cornishman NEWLYN MAN RESCUED
AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi...
18th April 1912
New York Times SIR WILLIAM ARROL
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 a...
21st February 1913
  THE MOTIVES OF HEROISM
Jason Lewis
Heroes are iconic in past and present societies....
15th February 2008
New York Times Book Review THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956
New York Times CAVENDISH CHILDREN ESCAPE
Henry Siegel Wanted to See Them, but They Stayed in England --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 22--- T. W. Cavendish, who was drowned in the Titanic, was a son of Charles Cavendish, who is a grandso...
23rd April 1912
  DISCOVERY TSX: TITANIC PREVIEW
The Titanic finally arrives in New York City at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. Relive Titanic's fateful 1912 maiden voyage and take on the identity of a Titanic passenger as you explore magnificent reconstructions of the Ship's interior. Discover how the 'unsinkable' Ship met its fate and connect with the passengers and crew, as you view haunting personal artifacts recovered from the wreck....
New York Times LORD PIRRIE OPERATED UPON
Belfast Shipbuilder Has Recovered from the Immediate Effects --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Feb. 22---Lord Pirrie, head of the Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff...
23rd February 1912
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle TITANIC SURVIVOR ETHEL BEANE DIED IN NURSING HOME
Page 1A-3A She, husband honeymooned aboard the ill-fated ship Ethel Bean, one of the remaining survivors of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic on April 15, 1912, died Saturday in Rochester. She had been living at a Roches...
17th September 1983
New York Times CREW BEHAVED ADMIRABLY
Miss Elizabeth Allen of St. Louis was one of the first women passengers to leave the Carpathia. She was accompanied by Mrs Edward Roberts and Miss E A Mardell, also of St Louis. The three women appeared to be cool. Miss Allen who is a young woman of ...
19th April 1912
ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL   ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL
One of a series of pages illustrating a detailed article by Elinor Glin, one of the "It" Girls, relating to the Titanic ordeal and the experiences and attitudes of those it involved. Elinor's sister, Lady Duff Gordon, was prominently saved with...
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER"
Edward C. Burks
GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo...
9th October 1973
  GENERAL INFORMATION
ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c...
  PETER DENNIS DALY BY HIS GRANDSON
"What follows is the story of PDD and his Titanic involvement as told to me by my father (Richard) and supplemented by my uncle Nicanor (who in the 20's settled in Buenos Aries, Argentina) joining other established Dalys there: Paul, (bachelor), Vict...
TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR Titanic Research TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR
Captain Charles B. Weeks
Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...
11th January 2005
Evanston Daily News MARY HEWLETT - SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE
Mrs. Mary Hewlitt, of Lucknow, India, Was Rescued From the Disabled Craft, Gives Description of Disaster Was Traveling Alone Woman Stops Here At Home of J. L. Hebblet...
25th April 1912
New York Times RICES BELIEVED SAFE
Washington Not Worried About Explorers---Heard From Them Aug. 6 --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, Aug. 16---There is no uneasiness here about the safety of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice of New York and his w...
17th August 1924
New York Times TITANIC SAILOR IN COURT
Man Who Saved 45 Persons Says He Can't Support His Wife --- CHICAGO, Jan. 16---Albert Horswill, who said he was in charge of the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic, and saved forty-five women and children, told Judge Uhlir in court to-d...
17th January 1914
New York Times MRS. FREDERIC SPEDDEN
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES ---  TUXEDO PARK, N. Y., Feb. 10---Mrs. Margaretta C. Spedden died in her home here today after a brief illness. She was 78 years old. Mrs. Spedden was the widow of Frederic O. Spedden, who died two y...
11th February 1950
New York Times CHANGE FATAL TO GUGGENHEIM
Had Booked Passage on the Lusitania, Whose Sailing Was Canceled --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 18---A business friend of Benjamin Guggenheim says that had the Lusitania sailed as arranged on Apri...
19th April 1912
New York Times GUGGENHEIM TAX $30,000
The State Will Refund the Excess if the Estimate is Too High --- Special to The New York Times --- ALBANY, Oct. 15---The estate of Benjamin Guggenheim, one of the Titanic victims, to-day paid Controller Sohmer $30,000 as ...
16th October 1913
Hudson Observer ONE SURVIVOR REACHES HOME OF BROTHER
Thomas Percy Oxenham, 22 years old, brother of Charles Oxenham, of 966Tonnele avenue, New Durham, is now resting after his frightfulexperience in the Titanic wreck. He came from Pondersend, Eng., to livewith his North Hudson re...
20th April 1912
  PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mrs Alexander Hirvonen (nee Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist), 22, was born in Finland on 2nd January 1890 as daughter Carl and Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Helga was married to Alexander Hirvonen and had a daugh...
1912
SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 2   SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 2
"On the afternoon of June 20th we entered the American War Zone and on the afternoon of the 21st a red light followed by a column of smoke which was believed to be the torching of an oil burning vessel was seen. Drawing nearer it was found to be t...
Gare Maritime
New York Times SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 23---Mrs. Olive Potter Crolius, who with her mother, the late Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Monday at her home in the Germantown section. ...
24th April 1958
POSTWAR 11. STUYVESANT LOUNGE.   POSTWAR 11. STUYVESANT LOUNGE.
STUYVESANT CAFÉ: “Meet me at the Stuyvesant Cafe” You’ll hear this invitation repeated many times if you travel “Cabin” on the Nieuw Amsterdam. With its dance floor, well equipped bar and cheerful, modern furnishings, the Stuyvesant Café ...
Gare Maritime
Daily Herald AFTER 72 YRS., TITANIC SURVIVOR TALKS TO PRESS ABOUT FATAL NIGHT
Kris Kopp
Newspaper Article...
15th April 1984
New York Times GUGGENHEIM, DYING, SENT WIFE MESSAGE
Tried to Do His Duty, He Asked Steward to Tell Her --- “GO DOWN LIKE GENTLEMEN” --- He and His Secretary, Facing Death, Wore Full Evening Dress---Brother Bitter Against Company --- James Etches, assistant ste...
20th April 1912
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