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| Swann galleries | AUCTION WILL FEATURE OCEAN LINER AND AVIATION GEMS On Thursday, March 4, Swann Galleries will auction two significant private collections devoted to the golden age of ocean liner travel: The Christopher Bou Collection of Ocean Liner & Aviation Memorabilia and The Chase Collection of Ocean Liner Memorabillia... |
25th February 2010 | |||
| suite101.com | RMS TITANIC: FAMOUS REPLICA OF LINER TO STAR IN 3D TITANIC - SUITE101.COM The replica of the famed, doomed, liner Titanic is going on a voyage. For 5 years part of a museum exhibit, it soon will be back working, on a 3D Titanic. Read more at Suite101: RMS Titanic: Famous Replica of Liner to Star in 3D Titanic... |
22nd July 2011 | |||
| WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain... |
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| gazetteandherald.co.uk | IT'S A TITANIC PRICE AT DEVIZES dA plan of the doomed liner Titanic sold for £220000 at a Devizes auction on Saturday - twice its estimate. The huge drawing, which was used at the public inquiry into the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner, was expected to fetch ...... |
2nd June 2011 | |||
| Daily Mail | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE AMERICAN TOWN BUILDS GIANT REPLICA OF ICONIC DOOMED LINER The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Daily Mail | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE AMERICAN TOWN BUILDS GIANT REPLICA OF ICONIC DOOMED LINER The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination.... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| TITANIC COMPARED WITH THE RUE ROYALE IN PARIS This drawing showed French readers how huge the liner was... |
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| Sarasota Herald-Tribune | THE RMS TITANIC Grab your boarding pass, it's time to embark on an exhilarating voyage aboard history's most notorious ocean liner.By now, the tragic events surrounding the Titanic's maiden voyage and catastrophic sinking, which left 1,523 people dead, are well-known.Countless books, expeditions and motion pictures have meticulosity analyzed, theorized and re-created every aspect of the "unsinkable" passenger liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912.... |
6th October 2008 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | INVESTIGATORS SEND TUG 25 MILES DOWN HARBOR TO TAKE SAILOR OFF LINER; INQUIRY GOES TO WASHINGTON TO PREVENT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES. New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland ... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| Telegraph | TITANIC REPLICA TO COST £1.3 MILLION The first model of the Titanic to be built from the ship's plans has been unveiled with a £1.3 million price tag. The 1:48 model is a replica of the White Star liner that sank 96 years ago with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Made from brass, wood and fibreglass, it took seven years to build and relied on plans, drawings and measurements from the liner. ... |
27th May 2008 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | LA FRANCE, NEWEST LINER, HAS CONSORT La Touraine Guards Her on Maiden Trip Special Cable to the Examiner Paris, April 21---La France, the newest and largest French transatlantic liner, left Havre today on her maiden voyage to... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| BRIDGE OF LA PROVENCE First liner to receive Titanic's distress call... |
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| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | TITANIC SHOWPIECE TO RECREATE LINER'S TALE The temperature drops and the voices of survivors recorded 50 years ago recount harrowing tales of making it through one of the most infamous disasters of the last century. That is the desired effect of one of the galleries in the Titanic Belfast attraction which is set to open in time for the centenary of the Belfast-made liner. Giving a tour of the 93ft building, the same height as the ship, project manager Noel Molloy said that Titanic Belfast would recreate the Titanic story.... |
28th September 2011 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR LOST Stewardess of Ill-Fated Steamer Jumps from Leyland Liner --- BOSTON, Oct. 10---Mrs. Annie Robinson of Liverpool, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, jumped from the Leyland Line steamer Devonian last night while the liner was groping ... |
11th October 1914 | |||
| dailymail.co.uk | TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TICKETS ORDERED FOR TITANIC CENTRE Nearly 35,000 Titanic enthusiasts have already pre-ordered tickets to tour a new £90 million visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner. The interest in Titanic Belfast - 400,000 are expected to pay a visit in its first year - emerged as its operators marked 100 days until Northern Ireland's largest ever tourism project opens its doors. The eye-catching building, which is made up of 3,000 aluminium panels shaped like the vessel's hull, has been built on the spot where the liner was first rolled into the water in 1911. ... |
22nd December 2011 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | ICE KEPT AID FROM TITANIC Ice Kept Aid from Titanic [By The Associated Press] Maasluis, Holland, April 23—Masses of ice prevented the Russian steamer Birma, which left New York for Rotterdam and Libau April 11, from reaching the Titanic in repl... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR $57,000 A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night. Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US ex... |
12th April 2006 | |||
| New York Times | WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ... |
13th January 1906 | |||
| Daily Mail | FIRST MODEL OF THE TITANIC BUILT FROM SHIP'S ORIGINAL PLANS WILL SET YOU BACK A COOL £1.3M The world's first model of the Titanic to be built from the ship's original plans has been revealed - but if you want to lay your hands on it it will cost you a whopping £1.3m. The stunning 1:48 model is a precise replica of the White Star liner which famously hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, costing the lives of more than 1,500 passengers.Made from brass, wood and fibreglass, the model took seven years to build using the original plans, drawings and measurements from the liner.... |
27th May 2008 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | 3500 SACKS OF MAIL ON TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16- Postmaster Edward M. Morgan stated today that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3500 sacks of mail. It is not likely, he said that the mails were saved because during the few hours that the vessel floated after running int... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| thisishampshire.net | SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985... |
2nd November 2011 | |||
| New York Times | J. BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES HERE J. Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Mauretania. With him was Vice President Harold A. Sanderson and E. C. Grenfell, the latter a Director of ... |
27th February 1910 | |||
| televisual.com | WHIZZ KID MAKES TITANIC CENTENARY SPECIAL FOR BBC The Titanic Centenary Commemoration - a live televised event - will be held in Belfast next April, 100 years after the tragic sinking of the legendary liner. It will be produced for BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland by Whizz Kid Entertainment and Belfast-based integrated communications agency ASG. The 90-minute event will air in prime time across the UK from Belfast's Waterfront Hall on the night of April 14. The story of the legendary liner, built and launched in Belfast, will be retold through orchestral performances, a massed choir and documentary and archive material.... |
7th December 2011 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | VANDERBILTS ESCAPE WRECK ON THE FRANCE Liners Near Collision in Heavy Mist; Passengers Thrown About Decks New York, March 22---Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt were among the passengers on th... |
23rd March 1913 | |||
| IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912 Memorial document published in Great Britain in April 1912... |
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| New York Times | TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o... |
12th January 1965 | |||
| Weekly Irish Times | A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ... |
21st September 1912 | |||
| dgstandard.co.uk | RED ROSES FOR TITANIC HERO MUSICIAN - JOCK HUME ALMOST a century has past since the great ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The worst maritime disaster at peacetime in living history claimed the lives of 1,517 people on April 15, 1912, including that of one of the ship’s musicians, a young man called John Law Hume. Born and raised in Dumfries, before joining the ill-fated band of musicians on the White Star Ocean liner, the body of 21-year-old Jock was recovered from the waters of the Northern Atlantic by the MacKay Bennett shortly after the Titanic sank. His unidentified body was buried in May of that year at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.... |
4th November 2011 | |||
| New York Times | JOHN HARDY RETIRING John Hardy Retiring --- John Hardy, chief steward of the American Farmer, will sail tomorrow on his last official trip at sea. He has been retired by the International Mercantile ... |
20th September 1936 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Jersey Journal | MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr... |
4th November 1959 | |||
| The Mercury (Hobart) | TITANIC TRAGEDY--BROADCAST PLAY--CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S PROTEST TITANIC TRAGEDY --- Broadcast Play --- Captain Rostron's Protest --- LONDON, February 23. --- Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron who was commander of the liner Carpathla, ... |
25th February 1932 | |||
| The Times | ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC Wild panic reported in August 1912 emergency... |
14th August 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge... |
28th October 1913 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru... |
27th February 1912 | |||
| Chicago Evening Post | ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Southampton Echo | TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ... |
11th January 1965 | |||
| New York Times | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlant... |
21st February 1903 | |||
| The San Francisco Call | RESIDENTS OF SACRAMENTO ON BOARD VESSEL Stephen Hold and Wife and H. Klaber Passengers on the Titanic --- [Special Dispatch to The Call] --- SACRAMENTO, April 15 -Three Sacramento persons were on board the ill fated liner Titanic, which sank in... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | SALAVAGE SHIP ACTIVE WHERE TITANIC SANK A British salvage vessel, the Help, was reported today using heavy explosives in the north Atlantic roughly over the spot where the Titanic sank in 1912. Nothing could be learned of the nature of the ship's activities, first reported ... |
1st August 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 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P.... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Grimsby Evening News | UNTITLED As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t... |
April 1912 | |||
| Virginia Pilot | MRS. CELINEY DECKER, 69, SURVIVOR OF LINER 'TITANIC' NORFOLK--Mrs. Celiney Alexander Decker, 69, of 1158 Larchmont Crescent, who as a 15-year-old immigrant bride from Lebanon survived the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Thursday at 5:30 P.M. in a hospital. Only one other ... |
11th March 1966 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS New York Aril 20th – That a fire had raged in the [?] bunkers of the liner Titanic from the day she left Southampton u... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | 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 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ... |
15th April 1912 | |||
| TIANIC POSTCARD BOUGHT BY MME LAROCHE The liner on the postcard is the Mauretania.... |
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| Shoreham Herald | SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Maynard, he was an entrée cook on the ill-fated voyage, which ended with the liner sinking on April 15, 1912.... |
15th July 2009 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| NorthJersey.com | TITANIC'S EVOLVING HISTORY Although the Titanic's first and last voyage was nearly a century ago, interest in the luxury ocean liner - then the largest man-made movable object - still abounds.... |
9th March 2010 | |||
| New York Times | PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED [Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner... |
8th September 1901 | |||
| TITANIC ICEBERG PICTURED FROM SS AMERIKA Postcard sold on board SS Amerika... |
8th May 1912 | ||||
| THE LOST TITANIC "Her passenger list was one of the greatest ever carried by an Atlantic liner."(Harpers Weekly 20 April 1912)... |
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| Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette | TITANIC TALK WILL BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER A RETIRED South Tyneside marine engineer is preparing to unravel the mysteries of the tragic Titanic luxury liner.... |
1st May 2010 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Manchester Evening News | A TRULY TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT THE famous liner steams towards its fatal collision with an iceberg in this amazingly realistic computer generated scene from Granada's Titanic: Birth of a Legend.... |
20th February 2007 | |||
| ABC News | TITANIC MUSEUM Iceberg ahead! OK, so everyone knows how that story ends. But now, thanks to a new museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., tourists can get a first-hand feel for what it was like aboard the doomed ocean liner.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| Chicago Examiner | BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT Admiralty Court Renders Decision in Olympic Collision Case Special Cable to the Examiner Sir Samuel Evans, president of the Admiralty Court, announced... |
20th December 1911 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | DEATH NOTICE: HERBERT JOHN PITMAN At Pitcombe, Bruton, Somerset, aged 84. A survivor of the Titanic disaster; was third officer on the liner, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage.... |
18th December 1961 | |||
| New York Times | C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic... |
9th December 1952 | |||
| The Times | LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ... |
12th October 1935 | |||
| BBC News | QE2 BACK ON CLYDE AFTER 40 YEARS The QE2 has marked the 40th anniversary of its launch by returning to the stretch of river where it was built.The liner, which has been on a celebratory tour, will be given a gala reception at Greenock, on the Clyde. ... |
20th September 2007 | |||
| New York Times | 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 | |||
| News & Star | SCHOOLS TO MAKE FILM OF MARYPORTS TITANIC LINER LINK Maryport youngsters will delve into the towns links with the Titanic to mark next years centenary of its tragic maiden voyage.... |
5th February 2011 | |||
| Wigan Today | DREAM DIVE Local Titanic fanatic has released a diary of his dream-come-true dive to the wreck of the cruise liner. ... |
29th January 2007 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC ARTWORK UNVEILED IN BELFAST A giant toy modelling kit of the Titanic was unveiled yesterday on the site where the doomed liner was built almost a century ago. ... |
30th October 2009 | |||
| TENDERS COMING ALONGSIDE THE LINER, QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR Postcard... |
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| CAPTAIN LORD IN SUMMER WHITES ABOARD A LEYLAND LINER |
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| La Science et la Vie | WATERTIGHT DOORS ON BOARD A WHITE STAR LINER From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913... |
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| La Science et la Vie | SUBMARINE SIGNALLING SYSTEM ON A WHITE STAR LINER From 'La Science et la Vie', July 1915... |
1915 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | UNTITLED GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ... |
9th December 1952 | |||
| Barking Chronicle | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner.... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| The Australian | TITANIC EXHIBITION A REALISTIC VOYAGE INTO LOST WORLD ALMOST a century after the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, it seems our fascination with the doomed passenger liner has not dimmed.... |
13th April 2010 | |||
| The Australian | TITANIC EXHIBITION A REALISTIC VOYAGE INTO LOST WORLD ALMOST a century after the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, it seems our fascination with the doomed passenger liner has not dimmed.... |
13th April 2010 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC RELICS UP FOR AUCTION - BBC NEWS Almost 100 years after the Titanic ocean liner was sunk by an iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York, artefacts retrieved from the ship are about to go on auction.... |
6th January 2012 | |||
| Norwich Evening News | MY REMARKABLE TITANIC TALE When he takes to the stage to play a passenger on the doomed cruise liner Titanic, nine-year-old Jack Daly's thoughts might turn to his own family - he is related to one of the victims of the so-called 'unsinkable' ship. ... |
21st January 2008 | |||
| Wall Street Journal | FANS OF WORLD'S FASTEST OCEAN LINER PUT OUT A DISTRESS CALL Admirers call her the "Big U." Today, she could be in big trouble. The once-proud ship is rusting away in the Delaware River, across from an Ikea. Its owner, cruise line NCL Group, has put her up for sale.... |
29th September 2009 | |||
| The Move Channel | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination...... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | MILLVINA DEAN TO BE BURIED TODAY Mourners are due to gather in Southampton to say a final farewell to Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster, today. Millvina, who died aged 97, was the youngest passenger on board the illfated White Star liner when the ship left on her maiden voyage from Southampton in April, 1912 The funeral service at Southampton Crematorium was set to include the seafarers' hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, which includes the famous chorus: For those in peril on the sea.... |
16th June 2009 | |||
| Gare Maritime | QUEEN MARY SEA TRIALS The Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary is shown standing off Gourock, Scotland on the Clyde for anchor trials, adjustment of the magnetic compasses and fitment of her lifeboats.... |
6th December 2006 | |||
| BBC News | RECOGNITION FOR LANCASTRIA DEAD Victims of Britain's worst maritime disaster are to be officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice after a long campaign.An estimated 4,000 people died when the Clyde-built liner the Lancastria sank during World War II.... |
6th December 2007 | |||
| The Sun | IT'S RETURN OF TITANIC A REPLICA of sunk liner Titanic is to be built in its home port as a tourist attraction.Southampton council hopes to finish the £15million project in time for the 100th anniversary of the disaster in April 2012. ... |
9th October 2008 | |||
| MPNnow.com | A 'TITANIC' EXHIBITION AT RMSC Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, a little over 450 miles from Newfoundland. The Olympic-class passenger liner sank in fewer than three hours, claiming the lives of 1,517 people.... |
1st October 2009 | |||
| New York Times | TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD NICE, France, Oct. 12 (AP)---Samuel Goldenberg of New York, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic, died here yesterday. He had lived in France for fourteen years. His age was 76. ... |
13th October 1936 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC MEMORIES A STARCHED white apron bears silent witness to the terrible night when the luxury White Star liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.... |
14th April 2008 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC £97M PLAN ON COURSE FOR 2012 FINISH The £97m Titanic Signature Project is "on course" to be ready for the centenary of the doomed liner after the Executive finalised its financial commitment, according to the government department leading the project.... |
3rd November 2009 | |||
| Daily Echo | TITANIC AUCTION SPARKS INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AMONG COLLECTORS An international bidding war is expected to break out when rare memorabilia from the ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic goes under the auctioneers hammer in the city.... |
6th November 2010 | |||
| S.S. CHICAGO As she could not stand the idea of sailing again on a British liner, Mme Laroche decided that she would return in France on a French ship. She chose the French Line S.S. Chicago. She and her two daughters landed in Le Havre on 1 May 1912.... |
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| Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal | THE TITANIC TALES THE TITANIC Tales, about the ill-fated British luxury liner, is written by Rory Thersby and is about nine individual characters out of the many thousands that boarded the ship that fateful night in Southampton in 1912. ... |
20th February 2007 | |||
| Mirror.co.uk | £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 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | OTHER PASSENGERS Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC'S SUPER HERO The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 continues to fascinate people and one man is remembered as the shining hero of the rescue operation Captain Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia.... |
28th January 2008 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | OFFICES WHERE TITANIC PLANS WERE DRAWN COULD BE A HOTEL Developers behind the controversial Titanic Quarter project are considering turning the historic drawing rooms - where the liner was designed - into a hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today.... |
5th March 2009 | |||
| Mirror.co.uk | TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISES GO DOWN WELL April 2012 will see the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and it's beginning to look like the spot where the doomed liner went down is going to be a little crowded with the announcement that a second cruise ship will make a memorial voyage to the site.... |
23rd September 2010 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was... |
1967 | |||
| Worcester News | TITANIC REHEARSALS RE-AWAKEN CITY'S LINKS WITH TRAGEDY A WORCESTER drama group rehearsing for the hit musical Titanic has found that two of its members have family connections with the ill-fated liner which struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912.... |
11th March 2008 | |||
| Bizjournals.com | FAMED OCEAN EXPLORER SPEAKS TO STUDENTS Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the sunken Titanic luxury liner cruise ship in 1985, spoke to a group of Houston Independent School District students Thursday about his exploration adventures.... |
23rd February 2010 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC SURVIVOR AUCTIONS RELICS The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Now 96, Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.... |
16th October 2008 | |||
| BBC News | 'NO ISSUE' WITH TITANIC PROJECT The chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners has dismissed concerns that the Titanic Signature Project will not be finished by 2012 The opening of the visitor attraction is planned to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the liner's sinking.... |
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| New Zealand Herald | NEW TITANIC SERIES SET FOR UK TV Television bosses in the UK are to screen a four-part dramatisation of the Titanic disaster 100 years to the day since the doomed voyage. Network chiefs at ITV announced earlier this year they are planning to mark the centenary of the luxury liner's voyage...... |
5th October 2011 | |||
| La Chronique de Bayonne | S.S. NIAGARA HITS AN ICEBERG The French liner almost met Titanic's fate... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... |
29th April 1912 | |||
| Irish Times | CALL FOR 'TITANIC' EXHIBIT TO COME TO COBH THE LINK between the maritime town of Cobh, Co Cork, and the Titanic is consistently being overlooked, according to the president of the town’s chamber of commerce, who has criticised a decision to host a major exhibition regarding the doomed liner in Dublin.... |
15th December 2009 | |||
| POSTCARD: LAUNCH OF THE GIANT WHITE STAR LINER 'OLYMPIC' AT HARLAND & WOLFF'S SHIPYARD, BELFAST |
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| Irish Central | IRISH PLAN FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC Ireland will be at the epicenter of the Titanic commemorations set for 2012, the 100th anniversary of the loss of the massive ocean liner.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| Mirror.co.uk | FOUND AT LAST THE VIOLIN PLAYED BY THE TITANIC BANDMASTER AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN The missing violin played by the Titanics bandleader as the liner slowly sank could have been found 99 years on.... |
29th March 2011 | |||
| I-Newswire.com (press release) | TITANIC 100 YEARS PRESERVE THE MEMORY BY OWNING A PIECE OF THE TITANIC The Titanic 100 years anniversary of the famously 'unsinkable' ocean liner that struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on 14 April 1912. can be remembered thru the eyes of the survivors.... |
30th October 2010 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | STORM OVER TITANIC DISTRESS SIGNAL The onboard designer of the doomed Titanic liner has been defended by his great nephew after a book claimed the distress signal was delayed.... |
16th April 2010 | |||
| GRAF ZEPPELIN. INTERIORS. CONTROL CAR. The airborn equivalent of an ocean liner's bridge.... |
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| WALLACE HARTLEY'S DRESSING WATCH The four-funneled liner on the fob is the Mauretania.... |
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| The Republican | TITANIC SOCIETY STUDIES MOVIES CHICOPEE - From "The Night to Remember," filmed in 1958, to "Titanic," filmed in 1997, the saga of the legendary "unsinkable" ocean liner has been studied over and over again at the movies. ... |
9th October 2007 | |||
| New York Times | CAPT. JOHN W. BINKS OF WHITE STAR DIES Retired Skipper of Olympic Served in the British Navy During the World War --- SPENT 45 YEARS AT SEA --- Commander of Leviathan and Majestic on Last Voyages They Ever Made --- News was received yesterd... |
6th February 1939 | |||
| Newark Evening News | MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| The Gazette (Montreal) | TITANIC SETS SAIL The sinking of the allegedly unsinkable Titanic has fascinated few more than it has Paul-Henry Nargeolet. He was among the very first to see the sunken ocean liner in its final resting place, 12,600 feet at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 645 kilometres southeast of Newfoundland. That was over 20 years ago.... |
17th November 2008 | |||
| GENUINE TITANIC STATIONARY This card (front) is a genuine Titanic item. There were stocks of it in Cherbourg, in order to supply the liner with it at each of her stops. After the sinking, the stocks were destroyed and a few pieces survived to this day.... |
1911 | ||||
| thisishampshire.net | MILLVINA DEAN TO MISS TITANIC COMMEMORATIONS Ill-health has forced Millvina Dean, the last living survivor of the infamous sinking of the liner Titanic to cancel a public appearance she was due to make on Friday.... |
10th April 2008 | |||
| Irish Independent | TITANIC'S LAST PORT OF CALL HONOURS VICTIMS THE 97TH anniversary of the sinking of the legendary liner Titanic will be commemorated at a special ceremony in the Irish town that was the doomed ship's last port of call.... |
11th April 2009 | |||
| Western Morning News | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had br... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had bro... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t... |
29th January 1935 | |||
| The New York Times | NEWS SUPPRESSED ON CELTIC Loss of Titanic, Reported Monday, Told on Wednesday --- The Celtic, the first vessel of the White Star Line to reach New York from Europe since the sinking of the Titanic, arrived here yesterday. The Celtic ... |
21st April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | TOTS SAVED FROM THE SEA These two handsome little boys, who are at the home of Miss Margaret Hays, are one of the mysteries of the Titanic disaster. These small boys were rescued as the big liner was foundering. They speak French fluently, and they know what their firs... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| CAP ARCONA AT SEA The Cap Arcona's profile, like that of the later l'Atlantique, differed from those typical of the North Atlantic express liner. Her foreshortened bow and extended superstructure gave her a rather squared off appearance externally... |
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| Times Ledger | THE TITANIC: A STORY WORTH TELLING, AND SELLING 3 years after her death, Cribb's gripping, nine-page handwritten account of the sinking of the Titanic and its immediate aftermath was to be auctioned at Christie's in New York, one 18 lots of Titanic memorabilia offered along with more than 200 other lots of ocean liner collectibles.... |
28th June 2007 | |||
| Daily Echo | ENGINEERS MEMORIAL TO BE UNVEILED TODAY AFTER RESTORATION BY TELEVISION COMPANY A NEWLY-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic sank 98 years ago is being unveiled tomorrow in East Park at 2pm. ... |
7th September 2010 | |||
| com | HOW THE TITANIC DISASTER PUSHED UNCLE SAM TO "RULE THE AIR" - ARS TECHNICA The Times reported that it had learned from the Marconi company's Newfoundland station that the world's biggest ocean liner, the Titanic, had hit an iceberg en route from Southhampton, England. But not to worry, the newspaper assured its readers. ...... |
7th July 2011 | |||
| Henry Aldridge and Son | RMS TITANIC AUCTION ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 2010 Titanic and White Star Line specialists Henry Aldrige and Son have announced their next auction of Titanic, White Star Line and Ocean Liner Memorabilia. Selected lots will be available to view at the Titanic Made in Belfast Exhibition in Belfast April 3rd to April 11th.... |
16th March 2010 | |||
| MOHAWK BROCHURE Ca. 1915 Clyde Line brochure, featuring their popular liner Mohawk in this fold out.... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES She died this morning after being cared for at a nursing home in Woodlands, in the New Forest. ... |
31st May 2009 | |||
| Scotsman.com | TITANIC EFFORT KEEPS HEAD ABOVE WATER NEARLY 100 years have passed since the worlds most famous cruise liner, the Titanic, sank on her maiden voyage. Since then we\'ve had documentaries, books, exhibitions and several television and movie versions chronicling the events of 15 April 1912. Celine Dion even had her biggest hit singing on the bow of the ship - albeit a replica.... |
22nd March 2007 | |||
| Irish Independent | TITANIC NO LONGER SHAMEFUL SUBJECT IN CITY OF ITS BIRTH A survivor's account of the night Titanic went down with 1520 souls was sold earlier this month for stg£20000 while at the same UK auction a poster showing the doomed White Star liner and its sister vessel RMS Olympic was knocked down at £69000 to a buyer from Eastern Europe.... |
2nd November 2010 | |||
| Crosby Herald | SHIPPING LINES REMEMBER THE TITANIC RESCUER READERS and regular Cunard cruisers Anne and John Edwards of Newton-le-Willows are making it their business to revive the reputation of Captain Arthur Rostron master of RMS Carpathia the Cunard liner which saved every one of the 706 survivors of the Titanic tragedy.... |
30th December 2010 | |||
| The San Francisco Call | SEATTLE MAN ON LINER SEATTLE, April 15 - Hugh R. Rood, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Creosoting company, whose name appears in the list of the Titanic's passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man who had been spending the winter on the continent w... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED A poignant ceremony to mark the 95th anniversary of the launch of Titanic into the waters of Belfast Lough is to be held later this week.It was on May 31, 1911, that the ill-fated liner was pushed from its birthplace in the Harland and Wolff shipyard into the lough to float for the first time.... |
29th May 2006 | |||
| Andover Townsman | ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15.... |
9th November 2007 | |||
| thisishampshire.net | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death.... |
7th November 2007 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC EXHIBITION ATTEMPTS TO RECREATE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ON DOOMED SHIP Ever wondered what it felt like to walk the decks of the Titanic? Almost 100 years after the liner sank beneath icy waters on an April night in 1912, the spirit of the great ship is coming back to Ireland through a new exhibition.... |
17th December 2009 | |||
| stv.tv | NIECE OF SCOTS TITANIC VIOLINIST RELEASES COOK BOOK IN HIS MEMORY The shock story of the sinking of the luxury cruise liner The Titanic is something that still sends a chill down the spine today but for the author of a new book based on the tragedy the story is one that truly strikes a personal note.... |
1st May 2010 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC NOVELTY BOOK The Titanic is set to sail again in a superb pop-up masterpiece that will thrill enthusiasts and other readers alike.It was April 14, 1912, when the largest and finest ocean liner of the era struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank to the icy depths.And you can discover all the glory and tragedy of this historic vessel in this interactive recreation of her ill-fated journey.... |
16th October 2007 | |||
| News Wales | TITANIC SHOW SAILS IN An exhibition devoted to the ill-fated Titanic ocean liner is arriving in Swansea later this year.he Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition depicts the story and tragedy of the giant vessel and will be on display at Swansea Museum from October 20.... |
24th August 2007 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | EXHIBITION MODEL IS A PERFECT MATCH FOR DOOMED TITANIC A GIANT model of the Titanic made entirely from matches will be launched at a special convention to commemorate the ship next week.The British Titanic Society convention is being held at Liverpool's Liner hotel.... |
7th April 2008 | |||
| New York Times | THE BIGGEST LINER IS NOW IN PORT Adriatic Arrives After a Very Successful Maiden Voyage --- NO JARS ON THE TRIP --- Passengers Give Praise for Smoothness of Voyage on New White Star Liner --- The Adriatic, the biggest of transatlantic ... |
17th May 1907 | |||
| 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 | |||
| TheDay.com | FOXWOODS COMMEMORATES TITANIC SINKING Foxwoods Resort Casino, which is hosting "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" through June 13, will commemorate the 98th anniversary of the famous liner's sinking at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Great Cedar Exhibition Hall.... |
15th April 2010 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| BBC News : Northern Ireland | NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ... |
30th October 2006 | |||
| mirror.co.uk | GOING OVERBOARD AS TITANIC FEVER BEGINS TO GO ON ... AND ON AND ON - MIRROR.CO.UK (BLOG) There is little doubt that we are all going to be engulfed with Titanic fever over the next few months, as the centenary of the liner's sinking approaches. Memorial cruises, films and exhibitions are all being prepared for the great event which will capture our attention before the arrival of distractions such as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics.... |
2nd January 2012 | |||
| independent.co.uk | TITANIC: STILL MAKING WAVES AFTER 100 YEARS Next April marks a centenary of Titanic obsessing, and about the only principal in the sorry saga which seems not to have a book to itself is the iceberg. Somehow, the story has remained untold of how it became detached from the Greenland ice shelf, drifted on ocean currents into the path of the White Star liner, punctured it, and then carried on southward, gradually shrinking, before melting away completely.... |
4th December 2011 | |||
| Gare Maritime | STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials.... |
21st July 2006 | |||
| Swindon Advertiser | MITCHELL BUYS A PIECE OF TITANIC HISTORY A FRAGMENT of maritime history has ended up in a Purton teenager's bedroom. Mitchell Tovey, 13, has seen the Hollywood adaptation of the story of doomed passenger liner RMS Titanic more than 100 times. And because of that he has become fascinated by its tragic story.... |
23rd October 2008 | |||
| Daily Mail | TITANIC RAISED IN TIME FOR CENTENARY HOW ENTHUSIAST HAS BUILT 100FT REPLICA IN HIS BACK GARDEN The Titanic is resurfacing in time for her centenary. But the ship is not all she seems. A 100ft version of the ill-fated liner has made an appearance at the mouth of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness.... |
19th April 2011 | |||
| onlineprnews.com | INCREDIBLE TITANIC ARCHIVE WILL CROSS THE BLOCK OCT. 21 BY PHILIP WEISS A historically significant, museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the RMS Titanic will be offered on the first day of a three-day multi-estate sale planned for Oct. 21-23 by Philip Weiss Auctions.... |
21st September 2011 | |||
| Yeovil Express | TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil.... |
25th July 2007 | |||
| The Times | OLYMPIC BERTHED AT JARROW FAREWELL SALUTE FROM SIRENS The Olympic, which is to be broken up by Messrs.T.W.Ward and Co at Jarrow to provide employment, was safely berthed alongside Palmers shipyard today. The coming of the liner to the Tyne attracted many thousa... |
14th October 1935 | |||
| Sunderland Echo | WEATHERMAN SEARCHES FOR CLUES TO TITANIC SINKING Titanic investigators have enlisted a Wearside expert to help reveal the weather conditions during the doomed liner's final voyage. Sunderland University climatologist Dennis Wheeler has made a name examining ships' logs dating back to the seventeenth century to understand weather patterns.... |
30th July 2007 | |||
| Regina Leader-Post | FIVE-STAR ST. JOHN'S INN BOASTS LINKS TO TITANIC If you're a fan of the blockbuster movie Titanic, the elegant staircase at the Ryan Mansion Inn might deliver a sense of deja vu.The ship, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912, was luxuriously furnished to capture the growing transatlantic traffic of the era. Its grand staircase to the first-class quarters was a hallmark of the liner's opulence.... |
28th July 2008 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ... |
18th April 1912 | |||
| Republican-American | AN EVENT OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS: TORRINGTON CHEF WILL SERVE UP HISTORY, THE LAST MEAL SERVED ON LUXURY LINER BEFORE ITS FATEFUL END Her penchant for the past is now spilling over into her Torrington business, Cuisine with Jill. As host of many cooking classes and dining events, the chef decided to delve into history for an upcoming special occasion.... |
7th April 2008 | |||
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| Whittier Daily News | TAKE A TRIP ON THE TITANIC Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she went to sea (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank.... |
28th February 2010 | |||
| yourlocalguardian.co.uk | POSTCARD FROM THORNTON HEATH MAN ON TITANIC UP FOR SALE A postcard sent from a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic liner is set to fetch up to £4,000 at auction. Andrew Johnston, who lived with his family in Thornton Heath, sent the postcard to his dad from the ship as it left Queenstown, now Cobh in Cork, Ireland. ... |
11th January 2012 | |||
| HISTORY.COM : TITANIC The Titanic was a British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, during its maiden voyage, killing about 1,500 passengers and ship personnel. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it has inspired numerous stories, several films, and a musical and has been the subject of much scholarship and scientific speculation.... |
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| Belfast Telegraph | NOMADIC REFLOATS TITANIC'S TALE The tragic tale of the Titanic is to be performed over three nights — onboard her tender. GCSE Drama students from Dominican College in Fortwilliam will stage the play ‘Titanic’ on the SS Nomadic, the Belfast-built vessel that carried first class passengers on to the legendary liner before she set off on her doomed maiden voyage.... |
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| Southern Daily Echo | TITANIC PASSENGER'S LETTERS FETCH £19,000 LETTERS which tell the story of a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic fetched £19,129 when they went under the hammer today.Businessman Charles Jones, who worked for Colgate toothpaste company in New York, was returning to the United States after a trip to Britain to buy sheep when he died on the Southampton liner's maiden voyage in 1912.... |
11th April 2008 | |||
| MinnPost.com | NEW TITANIC EXHIBIT COMING TO SCIENCE MUSEUM Nearly 10 years ago, Minnesotans streamed into St. Paul's Union Depot to see some long-lost pieces of history - artifacts from the Titanic. More than 400,000 people lined up to see clothing and personal items that went down with the ship, along with a 20-ton chunk of the ocean liner's hull. Not to mention the ship's whistle.Well, it's coming back.... |
20th November 2008 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC LIFE VEST TO MAKE $80,000 A life-jacket from the ill-fated Titanic could make $80,000 (£40,570) when it goes up for auction next month. The life-preserver was found during the initial recovery operation after the liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. The item is one of several linked to the Titanic which are being sold off by Christie's in Manhattan, New York.... |
30th May 2008 | |||
| MOHAWK PAINTING Artistic license was heavily utilised in this ca 1930 painting of a Mohawk-class CLyde Mallory liner.... |
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| bbc.co.uk | CENTENARY PROVES ENDURING APPEAL OF THE TITANIC STORY - BBC NEWS Tickets are already selling well as there appears to be no dip in the public's enthusiasm for the story of the ill-fated luxury liner. Louise Patten, granddaughter of the ship's second officer Charles Lightoller, told the BBC why she believes the story still exerts such a powerful pull 100 years on.... |
22nd December 2011 | |||
| Mail on Sunday | FAMILY OF 'COWARD' WHO STEERED THE TITANIC INTO AN ICEBERG REVEAL HIS 'LIFE-LONG GUILT AND SHAME' The sinking of the Titanic left a legacy of grief and heartbreak for hundreds of the survivors. But the suffering was not confined to those who lost loved ones in the icy seas of the North Atlantic. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was at the wheel of the liner on April 15, 1912, when she struck the iceberg that destroyed her. ... |
18th August 2008 | |||
| U.S. News & World Report | THE SECRET OF HOW THE TITANIC SANK For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank.... |
30th September 2008 | |||
| L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | DAVID SARNOFF AT WORK This picture of wireless operator David Sarnoff was published in 1956 by 'L'Illustré", a weekly magazine from Switzerland. Sarnoff was among the first to receive Titanic's distress call and for 72 hours stood at his post at the top of Wanamaker in Ne... |
27th September 1956 | |||
| New York Times | POSTPONE SILVER WEDDING CELEBRATION Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Greenfield of 1,239 Madison Avenue have postponed the celebration of their silver wedding anniversary, which was to have taken place at Sherry's on Sunday, May 5, on account of mourning due to the Titanic disaster and the many fun... |
28th April 1912 | |||
| DANS LES ICEBERGS! Postcard showing a four-funeller surrounded by icebergs... |
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| BBC Scotland | STUDENT TITANIC MODEL MAKES WAVES An Aberdeen student who spent three years building a replica of the Titanic is having his work honoured by the liner's own home city. Stuart Robb's 6ft long model is to be put on display in Belfast City Hall In April for an exhibition marking the 95th anniversary of the sinking. ... |
6th February 2007 | |||
| Henley Standard | HAODS TO STAGE A TITANIC MUSICAL HISTORY'S most famous shipwreck comes to the stage of the Kenton Theatre next month, when HAODS stages Titanic - The Musical. It tells the story of the hopes, loves and dreams of the real-life passengers and crew as the gigantic liner embarked on her maiden voyage in April 1912.... |
4th November 2008 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | COURT MAY STAGE TITANIC EXHIBITION SOUTHAMPTON'S former magistrates' court could be used to stage a Titanic exhibition to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the liner's sinking next year, the Daily Echo can reveal.The idea emerged during a full council debate on the future of leisure and heritage services, held at the Civic Centre last night.... |
17th November 2006 | |||
| New York Times | EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig... |
6th May 1975 | |||
| Western Morning News | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| thetelegram.com | A TITANIC BOOST The man who brought “Titanic†to the big screen will promote events at Cape Race marking the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film on the ill-fated luxury liner, has signed on as an ambassador for next year’s Receiving Titanic commemorations. That’s according to Larry Daley, a St. John’s-based Titanic enthusiast and entrepreneur.... |
2nd December 2011 | |||
| Romsey Advertiser | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FROM THE GRAPES UP FOR AUCTION A FORMER Southampton pub's collection of Titanic memorabilia is to go under the hammer at a Dorset auction house today.The Grapes in Oxford Street was steeped in Titanic folklore and, according to city legend, was where six lucky crew were drinking when they forgot the time and missed the liner's doomed maiden sailing. ... |
2nd March 2009 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | BALLARD RETURNS TO TITANIC The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic is to return to its final resting place to capture new images of the ship for the £100m visitor attraction in Belfast. Dr Robert Ballard will journey two-and-a-half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean next month to film the mangled stern section, which broke off from the rest of the liner as she sank on her maiden voyage in 1912.... |
4th August 2011 | |||
| San Diego Union Tribune | TRAVEL TITANIC A DISASTER TO REMEMBER Its never too late to board the Titanic. The irrepressible story of the worlds most famous ship is coming to the forefront once again in places ranging from Cobh Queenstown Ireland where Titanic made its last port call to cities in the United States. All this leads up to April 15 2012 the 100th anniversary of the sinking of what was then the worlds most elegant and largest ocean liner.... |
25th March 2011 | |||
| thestar.co.uk | MUSEUM HOSTS NEW TITANIC SHOW A GLIMPSE into life on board doomed cruise liner the Titanic is being offered by Barnsley’s Cannon Hall Museum next Friday to mark the 99th anniversary of the disaster. The museum is hosting an exhibition of costumes, historical documents and testimonies from survivors who travelled on the ship’s only voyage in April 1912...... |
6th April 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| MOHAWK (1908) DINING ROOM The Mohawk of 1908 was a considerably more elaborate liner than her 1920's replacement.... |
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| Lancashire Telegraph | TITANIC BANDMASTER'S VIOLIN MAY BE SOLD Peter Magill Tests are being carried out on a violin thought to have belonged to Wallace Hartley, who famously played on as the White Star Liner sank in April 1912. And if the instrument turns out to be genuine experts believe it could break the £100,000 record for an artefact from the wreck. ... |
2nd April 2011 | |||
| Joplin Independent | TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION HOSTS IRISH FESTIVAL The Titanic Museum Attraction is hosting an Irish Festival on March 1-16, 2007 to honor the Irish passengers aboard the ill-fated luxury liner. ... |
5th March 2007 | |||
| Newark Evening News | JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82 New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest... |
8th October 1953 | |||
| CCTV | BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ... |
28th June 2007 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year... |
10th August 1913 | |||
| Milton Keynes Today | NOMADIC : SAVE THE LAST LINK WITH THE TITANIC John White, from Heelands, who has dedicated his life to preserving the story of the 'unsinkable' ship and toured the world telling her story to tens of thousands, is now leading a bid to rescue the SS Nomadic – last of the White Star Line. The boat was the Titanic's tender and built to carry first and second-class passengers out to the liner from Cherbourg.... |
10th January 2006 | |||
| Times Online | TITANIC SEARCH WAS COVER FOR SECRET COLD WAR SUBS MISSION The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of finding out what happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion.... |
24th May 2008 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ... |
6th November 1974 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built.... |
8th September 2009 | |||
| guardian.co.uk | A TITANIC FEAST No doubt it says something rather sick about me that when a friend mentioned it was possible to buy a book of recipes from the kitchens of the Titanic, I felt, for the very first time, a stirring of interest in the doomed liner. In the past, I've never quite "got" the Titanic. Last summer, I travelled to Hungary to see the set for Julian Fellowes's forthcoming series about the ship (the drama will mark the 100th anniversary of its sinking, which falls next year). But even faced with a vast replica, I found myself wondering why it is this particular disaster that resonates.... |
11th December 2011 | |||
| New York Times | ADRIATIC TO SAIL TO-DAY Biggest Liner's Cabins Full on Her First Voyage Eastward --- With her saloon apartments filled, the White Star liner Adriatic, biggest and newest of transatlantic liners at present in commission, will sail for Southampton ... |
22nd May 1907 | |||
| Metro Canada - Toronto | TITANIC SERVICE AT HALIFAX CEMETERY TO MARK 98 YEARS SINCE TRAGEDY The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a memorial ceremony in Halifax next Thursday, marking 98 years since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. The service will take place at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where 121 victims who were aboard the ill-fated luxury liner are buried.... |
10th April 2010 | |||
| Hagerstown Morning Herald | TITANIC MODEL ON DISPLAY AT DISCOVERY STATION A working replica of the RMS Titanic was on display Tuesday during a fundraiser at Discovery Station at Hagerstown Inc. The model is a precise replica of the White Star liner that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, taking the lives of more than 1,500 passengers.... |
4th December 2008 | |||
| Beneath This Stone | BOOKLET ABOUT CLEWER CHURCHYARD OWEN GEORGE ALLUM was a passenger on the "unsinkable" White Star Liner, Titanic which struck an ice berg and sank on her maiden voyage. Owen Allum was one of the 1,489 whose lives were lost. He had lived at Gerald Villas, Vansittart Road, Wind... |
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| UTV | BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ... |
29th November 2006 | |||
| thesunnews.com | THEATRE OF THE REPUBLIC PRESENTS THE PLAY 'TITANIC: A NEW MUSICAL' Theatre of the Republic presents the play "Titanic: A New Musical" in a voyage of shows that ends April 24. This adaptation of the hit Broadway show involves different components in portraying the US-bound ocean liner that set sail from England 99 ...... |
4th April 2011 | |||
| irishtimes.com | COBH CEREMONY HONOURS VICTIMS OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES A COMMEMORATION of the victims of the Titanic's sinking was held in Cobh yesterday, one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York. On Thursday, April 11th, 1912, 123 steerage ...... |
11th April 2011 | |||
| MLive.com | 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 | |||
| Norwich Bulletin | 'TITANIC' SAILS AGAIN IN COMMUNITY THEATER SHOW The Colchester Community Theatres production of Titanic The Musical opening Friday stands on its own. In fact town residents who volunteered to stage the play said theres hardly any resemblance to the blockbuster 1997 film about the doomed passenger liner that sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York after hitting a north Atlantic iceberg April 14 1912 killing 1517.... |
22nd February 2011 | |||
| AZ Central.com | TITANIC TREASURES TO BE DISPLAYED AT FASHION CENTER Artifacts recovered from the sunken liner the Titanic will be displayed at Chandler Fashion Center April 16 through 19. The free exhibit, "Titanic: Treasures from the Deep" will be displayed in Macy's lower level parking lot on the west side of the mall.... |
11th April 2009 | |||
| Daily Mail | BUILDER COMPLETES TITANIC MATCHSTICK MODEL - 15 YEARS AFTER HE STARTED IT Dedicated Tim Elkins has finally finished building a scale model of the Titanic made out of 147,000 matchsticks - 15 years after he started.Builder Tim, 42, has slaved away for 3,500 hours erecting the 1:115 scale of the famous liner at his home in Worthing, West Sussex. ... |
30th September 2008 | |||
| Daily News | LOCALS WITH TITANIC TIES CALL MOODY GARDENS Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship's maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner.... |
2nd April 2008 | |||
| Electronic Theatre | TITANIC MYSTERY COMING TO NINTENDO WII NEXT MONTH Easy Interactive has announced Titanic Mystery for Nintendo Wii an incredibly popular Purple Hills title that combines hidden object and logic puzzles previously only available on Nintendo DS and PC. Titanic Mystery takes players aboard the luxurious craft exactly 100 years after the original ill-fated ocean liner left port.... |
2nd November 2010 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | OBITUARY TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir... |
30th December 1968 | |||
| The Guardian | TITANIC LETTER EXPECTED TO FETCH £25,000 AT AUCTION A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner.... |
30th March 2010 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | LAKEWOOD WOMEN ARE AMONG SAVED In the list of survivors of the Titanic this morning, there is no mention of A. J. Compton, jr., one of the largest stockholders of the Laurel House company at Lakewood, and of the Waumbeck Hotel company of Jefferson, N. H. Mr. Compton’s mother, Mrs.... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| ludlowadvertiser.co.uk | MAJOR EXHIBITION ABOUT THE TITANIC TO BE STAGED AT LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS LUDLOW Assembly Rooms' entertainment for the autumn season will include a major exhibition about ill-fated liner the Titanic. 'It's a fantastic exhibition which has been attracting huge interest and visitor numbers wherever it's toured'... |
7th July 2011 | |||
| United Press International | TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release.... |
2nd January 2009 | |||
| BBC News | NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ... |
16th July 2006 | |||
| International Falls Daily Journal | TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Exhibit at Science Museum bring visitors closer than ever the real TitanicOn June 12, the Science Museum of Minnesota will open the doors of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, an exhibition that features a spectacular collection of more than 250 authentic artifacts recovered from the haunting wreckage of the world-famous ocean liner.... |
22nd May 2009 | |||
| New York Times | PRESENTATION TO ROSTRON Liverpool Gives Him at Gold Medal and an Illuminated Address --- LIVERPOOL, June 26---To Capt. Rostron of the Cuunard [sic] liner Carpathia a gold medal and an illuminated address of thanks were presented to-day by the City of Liverpoo... |
27th June 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w... |
16th April 1912 | |||
| guardian.co.uk | TITANIC LAUNCH MARKED 100 YEARS ON efore he left Belfast on board the Titanic, deck engineer Thomas Millar, 33, gave both his sons two new pennies, telling them: "Don't spend those until I see you again." He never came back. His younger son kept those pennies and passed them on to his daughter, Susie Millar, who was present at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the launch of the luxury liner into the river Lagan in Belfast, where the ship had been built.... |
31st May 2011 | |||
| BBC News | GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ... |
15th April 2008 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | PIRRIE'S ROLLS ROYCE RETURNS TO NORTHERN IRELAND It turned heads when it was built more than a century ago. Made to order for the chairman of Harland and Wolff, this car, like the luxury liner it is named after, was the last word in absolutely everything. And all eyes will again be on the 101-year-old Titanic Ghost Rolls Royce when it returns to Northern Ireland for the first time in 85 years later this month. ... |
12th January 2012 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | EXPRESS GRATITUDE FOR SYMPATHY SHOWN Mrs. Lillian Renouf and Fred Jefferys, relatives of the Elizabeth victims of the Titanic, wish to thank the Rev. Henry Hale Gifford, Ph.D., rector of Grace Church and the Sons and Daughters of St. George for their kindness and sympathy shown. ... |
1st May 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | TOUCHING MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN'S WIFE Shortly before three on Thursday afternoon the following message from Mrs. E. J. Smith, the wife of the Captain of the lost liner, was posted on the notice-board at the White Star office, Canute Road, Southampton. TO MY POOR FELLOW SUF... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Norwich Evening News | TITANIC FANS RAISE CASH TO RESTORE LAST LINK TO FAMOUS SHIP More than 100 Titanic enthusiasts helped raise hundreds of pounds towards restoring the last link to the famous ship's owners.An 8ft model of the ill-fated passenger liner, which famously sunk after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage to New York, in 1912, was one of attractions on display at a fundraising event in Thorpe St Andrew on Friday.... |
11th March 2009 | |||
| YourNabe.com | TITANIC RELICS TAKE ANCHOR AT ASTORIA HISTORY GROUP Were you ever curious about that home on 11th Street in Long Island City festooned with memorabilia from the doomed ocean liner Titanic? The opportunity to see it there has passed, but the collection of memorabilia, once curated by lifelong Long Island City resident Joe Colletti, is now in the hands of the Greater Astoria Historical Society.... |
13th February 2010 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Cape Cod Today | 1912: CAPE LISTENS AS TITANIC SINKS Shortly after midnight on this day in 1912, on the 13,600-ton Cunard liner Carpathia approximately 1,100 miles east of Cape Cod, wireless operator H.T. Cottam was preparing for bed after a long night of sending and receiving messages.Three hours earlier, the Carpathia's captain, Arthur H. Rostrom, alarmed by warnings from other ships of ice in the vicinity, asked Cottam what other vessels were within range of the wireless.... |
16th April 2009 | |||
| PRINCESS SOPHIA'S MAST MARKS HER GRAVE For a few weeks after the disaster, the Princess Sophia's mast marked her grave near Vanderbilt Reef. Some accounts claim that a winter storm toppled the last visible trace of the liner,... |
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| SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER Had already experienced disaster in 1910... |
26th May 1910 | ||||
| Larne Today | TITANIC DRESS LOOKS SHIP-SHAPE WITH HELP FROM WELDER GRAEME A LARNE welder has spoken of his pride after being called upon to help create a unique dress inspired by one of Belfast’s most stunning buildings. Titanic Belfast, which will be the world’s largest visitor attraction based on the ill-fated ocean liner, commissioned the dress to celebrate the centenary of ship’s maiden voyage and the opening of the building next spring.... |
12th October 2011 | |||
| dailyecho.co.uk | GRANDDAUGHTER OF CARPATHIA MASTER SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON VISITS SOUTHAMPTON THE granddaughter of the Southampton sea captain who saved the lives of more than 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster, visited the city’s port today.Rosemary Pettet’s grandfather was Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunard liner, Carpathia, who answered the SOS from Titanic as she was sinking in the Atlantic. ... |
10th January 2012 | |||
| USA Today | GEORGIA AQUARIUM TO HOST EXHIBITION OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS An exhibition of artifacts from the ill-fated ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is opening at the Georgia Aquarium.The exhibition will include interactive displays, videos and recreations of rooms aboard the ship. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.... |
19th August 2008 | |||
| bbc.co.uk | TITANIC WEDDING A wedding themed on the Titanic might not be thought to be the best of omens for the future, but Northern Ireland tourism chiefs are hoping plenty of young couples will think otherwise. The Titanic Suite of Belfast's new £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner has started taking bookings ahead of its opening next year. The visitor attraction, which is due to open in eight months, is in the same spot where the famous ship was built by Harland and Wolff 100 years ago.... |
12th August 2011 | |||
| CAP ARCONA SMOKING ROOM The Cap Arcona's smoking room was perhaps her most North Atlantic liner-like interior. The 62' x 52 x 13.9' space was paneled in dark walnut, and featured a marble fireplalce set into a marble wall. This was as close to Moderne as any ... |
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| iccoventry | ?100M TOURIST CENTRE WILL BE TRULY TITANIC THE man behind the Titanic Heritage Trust, based in Coventry, has announced ambitious plans for a ?100 million tourist centre dedicated to the doomed liner.Howard Nelson, founder of the trust, based at Coventry University Technology Park, in Puma Way, Parkside, said he was "very determined" to make the plans a reality. ... |
13th September 2006 | |||
| ORIENTE 1941 FAREWELL SEASON MENU COVER A farewell menu from the Oriente's final season as a passenger liner.... |
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| bbc.co.uk | GIANT GIRL PUPPET TO BE USED FOR LIVERPOOL TITANIC EVENT A giant puppet of a girl will lead three days of street theatre in Liverpool to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic. Sea Odyssey, from 20 to 22 April 2012, will mark the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the liner, which was registered in Liverpool. The girl puppet was used in the 2006 Sultan's Elephant in London, which was seen by 1.5 million people.... |
22nd September 2011 | |||
| New York Times | BOY WIRELESS SAVED THEM Rescues Resulted from Coltain's [sic] Untiring Devotion to Duty --- Harold Thomas Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia, through whose efforts more than to any one [sic] else the saving of a part of the Titanic's passengers wa... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| thisisstaffordshire.co.uk | TITANIC STORY OFFERS MORE THAN JUST A DISASTER FILM HE story of the Titanic, which sunk almost 100 years ago, has been revisited in a new documentary. The one-hour film, Prepare To Launch, looks at the planning and preparation that went into the ill-fated liner, leading up to its launch in Belfast on May 31, 1911. Featuring words from shipbuilders, crew members and even survivors, the film also looks at the ship's links with Staffordshire, the most well-known being the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, below, who was born in Well Street, Hanley in 1850.... |
26th May 2011 | |||
| Irish Independent | COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912.... |
15th August 2007 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | UNTITLED A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living... |
14th May 1952 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC SURVIVOR BACKS NOMADIC APPEAL The youngest survivor of the Titanic disaster is backing the Belfast Telegraph's campaign to bring the Nomadic home to the city where she was built.The clock is ticking for the luxury ferry, which was built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff to carry passengers onto the Titanic and her sister liner Olympic.She faces the scrapyard if no buyers are found by the time she goes under the hammer on January 26.... |
19th January 2006 | |||
| 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 | |||
| ie | NEW TITANIC BOOK TELLS HER STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Titanic In Photographs tells her full story, from the shipyards of Harland & Wolff and its early vessels, with the backdrop of the great race to build the biggest and best passenger liner, to the frenzy of excitement surrounding her launch. Looking at her officers and crew, as well as her stops at Cherbourg and Queenstown the photographs follow the story to its inevitable conclusion, considering the lifeboats, the presence of the Carpathia and the aftermath of the shattering disaster.... |
14th September 2011 | |||
| Delco News Network | THE BRANDYWINE COOKING SCHOOL RECREATES TITANIC DINNER MENU The Queen of the Ocean luxury liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to the United States on April 14 1912. The unsinkable ship carrying 2229 passengers and crew hit an iceberg at 1140 p.m. and by 217 a.m. April 15 it had broken in half. Only 713 people survived most of them women and children. One of the ships most prominent passengers was Col. John Jacob Astor one of the richest men in America if not the world.... |
30th April 2010 | |||
| NORMANDIE BURNS Clouds of Smoke soar over the midtown skyline, almost hiding the Empire State Building in the background, as fire races through the upper decks of the former French luxury liner Normandie, recently seized by U.S. at its W.49th St. dock. There were... |
March 1942 | ||||
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