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Sphere | (1912) | INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT The grave of John Lukin, the original inventor of the lifeboat. He received the King’s patent for his invention in the year 1784, according to his gravestone. (The Sphere, December 21, 1912.) Lukin predates by ... | 21st December 1912 | ||
| BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | BROADCAST ARCHIVE KEEPS PAST ALIVE To hear the voice of Edith Russell, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, is one of those "hairs on the back of the neck" moments. Here was a woman who had told a BBC Northern Ireland radio programme that she was "the next to last passenger in the last lifeboat, and the only lifeboat that was full. ... | 9th December 2006 | |||
| St. Paul Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | 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 | |||
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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.... | |||||
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L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | (1956) | TITANIC LIFEBOAT HOISTED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA Picture of a Titanic lifeboat being hoisted aboard the Carpathia in the early hours of 15 April 1912.... | 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
| 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Daily Mail | (2009) | REVEALED: HOW HERO FATHER DIED ON TITANIC AFTER LEAVING LIFEBOAT TO FETCH FLASK OF MILK FOR WIFE AND CHILDREN An heroic father perished on the Titanic while his wife and children sang songs to drown out the screams of drowning passengers, it has been revealed.New archives reveal how brave Arthur West helped wife Ada and daughters Constance and Barbara onto a lifeboat before dashing back to their cabin to grab a flask of hot milk for them.... | 26th March 2009 | |||
| 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... | ||||||
| Washington Post | (1912) | 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 | |||
| The Times | (1953) | 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 | |||
| (1912) | LIFEBOAT 7 IS LAUNCHED | 15th April 1912 | ||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1939) | 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 | |||
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| New York Times | (1956) | 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 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | 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 | (1965) | 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | 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 | (1956) | 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
| (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 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... | ||||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (2001) | 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 | |||
| Akron Beacon Journal | (1912) | 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 | |||
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(1912) | A LIFEBOAT APPROACHES THE CARPATHIA | 15th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1997) | 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 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1997) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Record Herald | (1912) | 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.... | ||||||
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WILLIAM MCCARTHY, LIFEBOAT 4 CREWMAN MR WILLIAM McCARTHYGrattan Hill, Cork, who is fortunately amongst the survivors. Elite, San Francisco... | |||||
| Mirror.co.uk | (2007) | £22K TALE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR A Titanic survivor's letter giving her account of the disaster has sold for £22,000 at auction.The writer tells how her party was last off the doomed liner and nearly froze to death in a lifeboat before being rescued.... | 1st October 2007 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| 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.... | ||||||
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Unidentified Newspaper | (1936) | SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES This article was published at the time of Sam Goldenberg's death, in October 1936. The paper is unidentified, it could be The Herald Tribune, a paper published in Paris in English, for the English speaking community in France. ... | 1936 | ||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE Thinks She Got Into Last Boat as She Left Husband on Deck --- COMPELLED TO HANDLE OAR --- Rowed Back After Liner Went Down and Helped to Rescue six struggling Men----Maid Aids --- Mrs. John Jacob Astor and he... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | 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 | (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 | |||
| North American | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | (2009) | MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea. The Cunard liner was not long on her journey when her radio operator contacted another ship with a sta... | 10th October 2009 | |||
| Chicago Sun-Times | (2008) | ST. PAT'S QUEEN HONORS GREAT-GRANNY'S COURAGE Nearly a century ago, 15-year-old Anne McGowan sat freezing in a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic. Her aunt, Katherine McGowan, was dead more than 2 miles below with the wreckage of the Titanic as young Anne waited for a rescue ship to arrive.... | 12th March 2008 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | 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 | |||
| (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 £7 18s 18d. Her destination was 16 West Street, Q... | 1912 | ||||
| East Kent Gazette | (1965) | 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 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | 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 | |||
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ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR This anchor was fashioned following the disaster by Irish AB William McCarthy, of Cork, who was saved in lifeboat 4. McCarthy was praised for his heroism by Mrs Walter Miller Clark, who said he had conducted himself "most commendably." ... | |||||
| The Times | (1956) | 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 | |||
| Branson Courier | (2008) | TITANIC AUTHOR VISITS BRANSON History happens a moment at a time and is perhaps remembered most accurately that way. In terms of what happened to the Titanic at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the memory of a mother, shared eight years later with the nine week old baby she carried into the lifeboat that fateful night just before the mighty behemoth slipped to her watery grave, might not add much to determining the cause of the tragic event.... | 14th July 2008 | |||
| Shoreham Herald | (2009) | SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Mayn... | 15th July 2009 | |||
| Seacoastonline | (2007) | THE TITANIC MUSEUM: A MORNING REMEMBERED Briny icy air bit the pale cheeks of the 9-year-old boy as he looked up into the clear black sky studded with brilliant stars. It was after 2 a.m. in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Shivering in the crowded lifeboat bobbing on the brutal waves of the Atlantic, he huddled against his fear filled mother who shielded him from the sight of the sinking ship.... | 30th April 2007 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| 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... | ||||||
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(1912) | MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN AT THE US INQUIRY This picture, isolated and improved from a 1912 original by the contributor, shows Arthur Peuchen, the Toronto yachtsman saved in lifeboat 6 by climing down the falls, listening to the testimony of Herbert Pitman at the US Inquiry in Washington, A... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | 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 | (1943) | 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 | |||
| Orange County Times-Press | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Times Union | (2006) | MEMORIES OF TITANIC HAUNTED SURVIVOR Even 94 years later, the accounts of survivors from the RMS Titanic make for gripping reading. Through luck and a young lady's attention, Gilbert M. Tucker Jr. of Albany landed on the first lifeboat to leave the ship April 15, 1912. Tucker, whose father published the weekly magazine-style "Country Gentleman" in Albany, was one of about 705 survivors -- out of more than 2,200 passengers.... | 6th November 2006 | |||
| The Times | (2006) | TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ... | 2nd November 2006 | |||
| MLive.com | (2009) | THEY SURVIVED TITANIC: AS NEWLYWEDS, STURGIS COUPLE GOT SPOT ON LIFEBOAT They were young and wealthy and in love, a handsome, prosperous newlywed couple from Southwest Michigan who were returning from a lavish, four-month European honeymoon.It was April 1912. They booked their trip home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built, a ship on its maiden voyage.Dickinson and Helen Bishop were assigned cabin B-49 on the Titanic.... | 16th April 2009 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
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Nord-Matin | (1966) | BERTHE LEROY IN 1966 Berthe Leroy is showing the reporters of Nord-Matin the lifeboat in which she escaped from the sinking Titanic. This picture was taken in 1966 (February?) by Mr Jean Hemery, Nord-Matin photographer... | 1966 | ||
| Yorkshire Post | (2009) | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000 20 April 2009 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about ?300,000 at auction.Millvina De... | 25th April 2009 | |||
| Evening World | (1912) | 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 | (1937) | 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 | |||
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The Evening Telegram | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
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Sphere | (1913) | TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton, including the offspring of many crew drowned on the Titanic, on holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight. A little over a year before, their fathers looked out from the sinking Titanic at what... | 30th August 1913 | ||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | 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 | |||
| (1912) | 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 | (1975) | 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 | |||
| Worcester News | (2006) | ELLEN ASHES JOIN TITANIC VICTIM DAD The ashes of Mrs Walker, who married twice and had a son, were scattered off Cataclew Point, on the north Cornish coast, by the RNLI lifeboat Spirit of Padstow. Mrs Walker, known as Betty, died at Red Hill Nursing Home, Worces-ter, last year. Among those at the ceremony was north Cornwall auxiliary coastguard Ian Fuller, who became a friend to Mrs Walker when she lived next door to his father. He said: She kept all the cuttings about the Titanic that she could collect, and I believe she had a cabin key from the ship.... | 3rd November 2006 | |||
| BBC News | (2009) | POLICE CALLED IN OVER NOMADIC ROW The police were called to look into the removal of artefacts from the historic White Star vessel SS Nomadic, it has emerged. The artefacts - two ornate doors - were taken by the Nomadic Preservation Society which said it bought them in Par... | 23rd September 2009 | |||
| TITANIC SURVIVOR -ALEXANDER JAMES LITTLEJOHN ... | ||||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | SOCIETY: MRS. CANDEE Mrs. Churchill Candee, who was among those rescued from the Titanic, is still in New York, where she is visiting Mrs. Matthews, at 43 Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Candee, who had an apartment in Paris for the winter, returned home in response to a cablegram i... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| Dallas Times-Herald | (1935) | LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD London, April 22 (AP) - Lady Duff Gordon, 71, known for many years as one of the world's foremost modistes, died yesterday in a nursing home in Putney. She was the widow of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, with whom she escaped in a lifeb... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | 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 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Galesburg Evening Mail | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | 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 | |||
| MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ... | ||||||
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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... | |||||
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Graphic | (1912) | 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 | ||
| Lakeshore Weekly News (Minnetonka, MN) | (2009) | DEEPHAVEN'S TITANIC TIES April 15, 1912.Arthur Rostron, master of the liner Carpathia, stood on his bridge watching a green flare flickering in the darkness ahead.At first he had hoped it meant the vessel he had driven 58 miles in response to her distress call was still afloat. Now he knew such hopes were in vain.He carefully maneuvred his vessel around an iceberg to take alongside the lifeboat the flare had come from.Then the night was suddenly marked by a woman's voice. A desperate, anguished voice cried "The Titanic has gone down with everyone on board!"That woman was Mahala Douglas of Deephaven.... | 14th April 2009 | |||
| (1912) | 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 | (1952) | 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 | |||
| 1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC 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. ... | ||||||
| Lakeshore Weekly News (Minnetonka, MN) | (2009) | DEEPHAVENS TITANIC TIES April 15, 1912. Arthur Rostron, master of the liner Carpathia, stood on his bridge watching a green flare flickering in the darkness ahead. At first he had hoped it meant the vessel he had driven 58 miles in response to her distress call was still afloat. Now he knew such hopes were in vain. He carefully maneuvred his vessel around an iceberg to take alongside the lifeboat the flare had come from. Then the night was suddenly marked by a woman\\\'s voice. A desperate, anguished voice cried \\\"The Titanic has gone down with everyone on board!\\\" That woman was Mahala Douglas of Deephaven.... | 17th April 2009 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND AND WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC. Chooses To Die With Husband Woman Defies Command Of Titanic Officer to get into lifeboat DAUGHTER PERISHES TOO. Milwaukee ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cornishman | (1912) | 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 | (1913) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Evening Echo | (1978) | GUS COHEN Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called him the Cat, because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on the Titanic. Af... | 7th August 1978 | |||
| Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | (1983) | 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 | (1943) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1973) | TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER" 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 | |||
| Evanston Daily News | (1912) | 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 | (1914) | 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 | |||
| (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 | ||||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Daily Herald | (1984) | AFTER 72 YRS., TITANIC SURVIVOR TALKS TO PRESS ABOUT FATAL NIGHT For 72 years she has kept her memories of that miserable night to herself, always refusing to tell reporters what she saw, what she felt. "When I came to Chicago they would pester me and pester me," she said of the aggressive reporters who... | 15th April 1984 | |||
| Detroit Journal | (1912) | MRS. JANE QUICK Mrs. Jane Quick, wife of Frederick Quick 383 Brooklyn Avenue, with her two daughters, one aged eight and the other three years, all survivors of the Titanic, also arrived on the same train with Mrs Hamlin. ''Jane''! cried a mans voice as Mrs.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th... | 1912 | ||||
| Lincoln Daily News | (1912) | MAJOR BUTT DESTROYED PAPERS That Major Archibald Butt, shortly before the last lifeboat went away from the Titanic, retired to his cabin and burned up many papers which he believed were "diplomatic papers" was the statement made this afternoon by Mrs. H.A. Cassebeer, jr, a T... | 29th April 1912 | |||
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Evening Bulletin | (1912) | BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA The second wireless operator on the Titanic being taken down the gang plank when the rescue ship Carpathia docked Thursday night. At the time Titanic struck Cottam {sic} was off duty and asleep in his berth, and was compelled to take charge of a lif... | 20th April 1912 | ||
| Rockford Morning Star | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1953) | 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 Evening News | (1912) | LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Evening Journal | (1912) | INSISTS HUSBAND ESCAPED DISASTER A pathetic case growing out of the Titanic disaster is that of Mrs. J. Bradley Cumings of No. 50 East Sixty-fourth Street, whose husband, formerly a broker at No. 36 Wall Street, perished with the ship. Mrs. Cumings, confined in her b... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION He was saved in Lifeboat Englehardt C. His home address was Fanners Lane, Lymington, Hants. His official occupation was - Fireman's Messman and he was 39 years old . (He was originally born in Hampshire). Last ship before the Titanic was the RMS ... | ||||||
| Le Journal | (1912) | MRS MARVIN When the Carpathia docked, Mrs. Marvin, who was on her honeymoon trip, fainted when she learnt that there was no hope for her husband to be alive. When she was placed into a lifeboat, her husband simply told her: "Everything is going to be fine, youn... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Evening Post | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1966) | PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou... | 3rd April 1966 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT H. B. Stephenson, one of the Survivors, who, it was said, is attached to the Swedish legation at Washington, made the following statement: "At the time of the collision a Mr. Woolner and myself were seated in the cafe. There was only a ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | CHICAGO GIRL IN LAST LIFEBOAT There was only one seat in the last lifeboat of the Titanic and had Mrs. John Burke taken it the chances are that Miss Annie Kelly, a seventeen-year-old Chicago girl, might be at the bottom of the sea, she told friends to-day who had gathered at h... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Sunday Press | (1952) | TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR Sunday Press: Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r... | 21st September 1952 | |||
| LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo... | ||||||
| RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ... | ||||||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. CHAPMAN Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Liskeard, were also among the lost. Mrs. Chapman declining to go without her husband. Mrs. Hocking tells of how Mrs. Chapman was behind her when they were getting into the lifeboat. But when Sarah found that her husband J... | April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | GIRL SAYS FATHER SAVED HER IN WRECK Miss Lillian Cribb Led Through Passageways on Titanic to Lifeboat --- To the rare presence of mind of her father, John H. Cribb, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, Miss Lillian M. Cribb, 17 years old, believes she owes her life. C... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN "Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w... | 22nd 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 | |||
| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit... | ||||||
| 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 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1975) | THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82 Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t... | 4th November 1975 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1974) | MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT He Recalls Sinking 62 Years Ago --- The Easter season is never a completely happy time for Tom McCormack of Elizabeth, N.J. It always brings memories of his escape from the sinking Titanic, which went down in the freezing Atlantic 62 ye... | 15th April 1974 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1990) | ANN STRAUBE Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s... | 31st January 1990 | |||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | (1944) | MRS. JOHN B. THAYER Mrs. John B. Thayer, widow of John B. Thayer, prominent Philadelphian and Pennsylvania Railroad official, died yesterday on the 32nd anniversary of her husband's death in the Titanic disaster. She was 72. When the Titanic sunk on April 14,... | 15th April 1944 | |||
| Khaleej Times | (2009) | THE TITANIC AND THE SINKING OF HEARTS Like most people of my generation - and I suspect many people of generations before and after me - the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 was etched definitively on my mind thanks largely to director James Cameron.When Titanic re... | 4th June 2009 | |||
| Montreal Daily Witness | (1912) | YOUNGEST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, GLEEFUL WITH FOSTER PARENTS Boy, Eleven Months Old, Saved When Parents Went Down With Wreck, Becomes Centre Of Much Attention And Smiles Happily. Although Travers J.[sic] Allison, eleven months old, did not realise it yesterday, much interest was centred in his c... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Providence Journal | (1970) | R.I. WOMAN, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES AT 92 Page 26 Mrs. Lulu Thorne Opie, 92, of the Old Post Road at Dunn's Corners in Westerly, a survivor of the sinking of the British passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Tuesday at the Watch Hill Nursing Home. One of the other ... | 4th June 1970 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1976) | MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN Mrs. Bertha Christensen Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. ... | 29th December 1976 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS ON STEAMER TITANIC Each Boat Would Accommodate Fifty People---Equipped with All Modern Improvements. Speaking about the lifeboat equipment of the Titanic, M... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1983) | ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90 ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So... | 20th September 1983 | |||
| Press Association | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN : YOUNGEST PASSENGER, LAST SURVIVOR LONDON - Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic.Dean lived to become the disaster'... | 1st June 2009 | |||
| New York Times | (1949) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| (1973) | 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 | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1982) | FRANK GOLDSMITH, TITANIC SURVIVOR A former Detroit resident who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912 is dead at 79. Frank John William Goldsmith died Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived since 1979 after retiring from business. The funeral will ... | 1982 | |||
| New York Times | (1965) | 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 | |||
| Semi Weekly Iowegian | (1912) | GIVES UP HOPE OF CHILDREN - MYSTIC MAN FINDS THAT THOSE FROM TITANIC WERE NOT HIS - RETURNS A SAD MAN With the hope gone that the French children rescued from the Titanic and under care in New York might be his, Francois Lefebre, the Mystic man who started east with hopeful anticipations, has returned without the children. He stopped at C... | 30th April 1912 | |||
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Sphere | (1912) | LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY The picture on the left [above] shows the infant born at Cincinnati to Mrs Mary Eloise Smith, one of the widows of the Titanic disaster. The boy will be named Lucien P. Smith II, after his father, whom the young widow saw for the last time on the nig... | 28th December 1912 | ||
| The Times | (1912) | THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ARCHIE PUT ME IN A LIFEBOAT Miss Marie Young, of Washington, Tells of Aid's Heroism and Calmness --- By MISS MARIE YOUNG --- Musical tutor to the younger children of former President Roosevelt. She had been studying music in Europe and was returning... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Greensburg Herald Tribune | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Cornishman | (1912) | CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE (courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ... | 16th May 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1996) | OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ... | 10th April 1996 | |||
| New York Times | (1976) | MARGARET MOORE, 83, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Margaret Graham Moore of Greenwich, Conn., a passenger on the Titanic when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, died in Greenwich Hospital yesterday. She was 83 years old. The 882-foot luxury liner, crowded with celebriti... | 27th April 1976 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale... | ||||||
| Syracuse Herald-Journal | (1987) | MARY WILBURN, OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES pp. B1 and B4 Mary Davis Wilburn, 104, oldest known survivor of the Titanic disaster, died peacefully Wednesday at Community-General Hospital, leaving behind unpleasant memories of death and terror in the North Atlantic. She was one o... | 30th July 1987 | |||
| Jersey Observer | (1943) | ROBERT HOPKINS, HERO OF TITANIC, DIES IN HOBOKEN The funeral of Robert J. Hopkins, 77, of 1035 Garden street, Hoboken, one of the heroes of the disastrous sinking of the Titanic in mid-Atlantic in 1912, will be held at 8 a. m. tomorrow from the Bosworth Funeral Home, 311 Willow avenue, Hoboken.... | 18th November 1943 | |||
| ET Research | (1999) | PLUCKED FROM THE SEA? Survivors who claimed to having been in contact with the water. Name Comments ... | 11th July 1999 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1959) | MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi... | 4th October 1959 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worksop Today | (2006) | TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD 22 June 2006 AN AFTERNOON surfing on the internet led a Creswell woman to the discovery that a Titanic survivor, who died in the First World War, is believed to be buried in the village.Rita Williams, 63, of Wood Avenue, spott... | 22nd June 2006 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | GAMBLERS ON TITANIC ESCAPE BY DRESSING AS WOMEN An extraordinary story is reported in New York of the escape from the sinking Titanic of two well-known gamblers who, for some years, have frequented the Atlantic liners, and against whose card-sharking tricks notices have been posted on ... | 11th May 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Niles Daily News | (1912) | SURVIVOR FROM TITANIC ARRIVES IN NILES Philip Zanni Tells a Tragic Story of His Rescue - Assisted in Rowing Lifeboat Away from Sinking Ship --------------- The first survivor of the ill fated ship the "Titanic" that has reached Niles is Philip Zanni [sic],... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| St. Ives Times & Express | (1988) | UNKNOWN TITLE Died January 9th 1988. RICHARDS, William (Willie) Rowe Richards of Carbis Bay whose death at the age of 78 is reported on page 7 was one of the few survivors remaining of the Titanic disaster in which in April 1912 claimed 1,500 lives.... | 22nd January 1988 | |||
| Gettysburg Complier | (1912) | RESCUE OF MRS BECKER Dr L. B. Wolf Secretary of Foreign Missionary Board of The General Synod Lutheran Church, tells that he met Mrs Becker, a Lutheran missionary from India, returning on the ill-fated Titanic, at New York when the Carpathia docked with the Titani... | 15th May 1912 | |||
| Bristol Times and Mirror | (1912) | GRAPHIC STORIES OF HEROISM The New York correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'' cables a special and graphic message regarding the heroism of some of the women in the wreck. According to this source of information: The heroism of Edith Evans, who gave up her own life that ano... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Harper, Miss Nina. Saved in Lifeboat number 11 with her cousin Jessie Leith. Returned to England via SS Celtic, 25th April 1912. Aged 6 years. Later (1934) became Mrs. Pont, died 1986. (Gleaned from the Internet 20th S... | ||||||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | THE HERO’S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR C. H. LIGHTOLLER, TWICKENHAM Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller RNR, DSC* 1874-1952 RICHMOND SLIPWAYS, 1 DUCK'S WALK Commander Lightol... | |||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1992) | 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 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| ET Research | (2005) | RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC 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 | |||
| Ship to Shore | (1984) | WILLIAM SLOPER'S ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER "I walked into the palm court of the Carleton hotel on Pall Mall in the middle of the afternoon. The streets around the hotel and the hotel itself were deserted except for one group of people... | 1984 | |||
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Unidentified Newspaper | (1945) | MRS DOUGLAS DIES AT 81 This unidentified press cutting (most certainly from a Minneapolis paper) was found in Berthe Leroy's Titanic related items. Berthe had been Mrs Douglas's traveling companion for years. MRS DOUGLAS IS DEAD AT 81 Survivor... | 1945 | ||
| New York Times | (1923) | R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P... | 7th December 1923 | |||
| CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight men, all Sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton with third class ticket #1601 at a cost of £56 9s 11d. Six of the men: Lee Bing, ... | ||||||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | SUFFERED IN TITANIC HORROR, IS PAID $25 Girl Says She Signed Waiver of Further Damages While Semiconscious Twenty-five dollars is the estimate put on the damages suffered by one survivor of the Titanic... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| 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... | ||||||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT’S HEROISM "The Action of Men of the Titanic Was Noble," She Writes --- By MRS. CHURCHILL CANDEE, Of Washington. --- New York, April 18---The action of the men on the Titanic was noble. They stood back in every instance that ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | SAYS MUSICIANS KNELT AS THEY PLAYED HYMN Mrs Ada M Clarke, one of the survivors, went to the White Star offices today to arrange for her passage back home to Southampton, England. Her husband, Charles S. Clarke, with whom she was on her way to California to make her... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Sun-Times | (1990) | 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 | |||
