Lusitania Postcard
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| LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA My grandfather William Mitchell was a Linen Keeper on the Lusitania. He survived the sinking, only to died within a year, of pneumonia. My mother was born a few months later.He lived in Liverpool. This postcard was sent to his sister Alice, from, ... | ||||||
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| (1912) | TITANIC POSTCARD SENT BY WILLIAM MELLORS - SOUTHAMPTON ... | 10th April 1912 | ||||
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle | (1915) | LUSITANIA ICEBERG Editorial cartoon in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle following the sinking of the Lusitania by the U-20 on May 7, 1915. The comparison to the Titanic is obvious, but ghostly death in the shape of the berg now wears an Uhlan helmet.... | 11th May 1915 | ||
| Worksop Today | (2008) | RARE TITANIC POSTCARD UP FOR AUCTION A rare postcard celebrating the maiden voyage of the Titanic is to go on sale in Derbyshire. The postcard, which was printed four days before the Titanic sank in April 1912, depicts the ship setting sail.... | 2nd December 2008 | |||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD | |||||
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TIANIC POSTCARD BOUGHT BY MME LAROCHE The liner on the postcard is the Mauretania.... | |||||
| (1992) | SALE OF ROGERS' POSTCARD In Sotheby's July 21/22 1992 Sale Lot 278: RMS Titanic postcard sent from the Titanic, written to James Day of Swansea by his friend ''W.J.R.'' in pencil . .. Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking going grand its a treat . . . '' coloured pos... | 21st July 1992 | ||||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1934, POST-MERGER) | |||||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1934, PRE-MERGER) | |||||
| SAILED ON LUSITANIA William Greenfield sailed to England on the Lusitania in March. Henry Blank was also on this voyage and this is where they most likely met, unless they were acquainted earlier.... | ||||||
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LETTER POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE LUSITANIA One of Berthe's 19 transatlantic voyages was on the Lusitania sometime between 1912 and 1915. She wrote to her brother Samuel: "Another couple of days on board this ship. It is not too bad a trip but I cannot help feeling a little ang... | |||||
| New York Times | (1912) | CHANGE FATAL TO GUGGENHEIM Had Booked Passage on the Lusitania, Whose Sailing Was Canceled --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 18---A business friend of Benjamin Guggenheim says that had the Lusitania sailed as arranged on Apri... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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DANS LES ICEBERGS! This postcard gives an idea of what a liner surrounded by huge icebergs was.... | |||||
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(1912) | TITANIC ICEBERG PICTURED FROM SS AMERIKA This nice postcard was produced on board the SS Amerika, a Hamburg Amerika Linie liner. The caption reads, in bad French, which should prove that the item was produced on board the liner in many languages: TERRE NEUVE. Eisberg r... | 8th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | BIGGER THAN THE LUSITANIA White Star Line Decides to Build Vessel---Speed to be 22 Knots --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 11---A Belfast correspondent telegraphs that Harland & Wolff have officially admitted that the... | 12th September 1907 | |||
| The Times | TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA DISASTERS REVEAL DIFFERENCE IN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS Almost 100 years after the Titanic and the Lusitania sank in the North Atlantic, the contrasting fates of their passengers have helped to explain how altruism can take over from the selfish instinct to save oneself. A scientific comparison of the two maritime disasters, which together claimed more than 2,700 lives just three years apart, has suggested that self-preservation can be trumped by social pressure to stand back while others are rescued, but only when people have sufficient time to think. ... | |||||
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(1912) | POSTCARD FROM ONBOARD THE TITANIC Two framed full color postcards of the Olympic/Titanic, one of which was sent from the Titanic. The postcards have identical images of the Olympic/Titanic on the front which are very rare, but only one was written onboard the Titanic. The postcard on... | 10th April 1912 | |||
| Le Petit Journal | (1912) | AN ANGUISHED SISTER Melle Leroy, a maid from Bouvigny-Boyefles (Pas-de-Calais), recently received from her sister who is a chambermaid to the Douglases, a postcard telling her that she was sailing with her employers for New-York. Two days after she received the p... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Shepton Mallet Journal | (2000) | REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher.... | 2nd March 2000 | |||
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(1912) | ALFRED NOURNEY TITANIC POSTCARD Liebe Mutter Ich bin so glücklich auf meiner ersten Klasse! Ich kenne schon sehr nette Leute! Einen Brillantenkönig! Mister Astor einer der reichsten A... | 11th April 1912 | |||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (AT NEW YORK) | |||||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (AT PLYMOUTH) | |||||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CHERBOURG) | |||||
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OLYMPIC/TITANIC POSTCARD (PRE-SINKING) | |||||
| stv.tv | (2009) | 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth. It was sent from Canada to Moray in Scotland on May 21, 1912 - around a month after... | 15th October 2009 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LOVE FOR SEA PREVAILS --- Chief Barber on the Titanic Obtains Post on the Lusitania --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5---Unable to resist traveling over the sea, August F. Weikman of Palmyra, N. J., who was the ch... | 6th August 1912 | |||
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(1912) | POSTCARD SENT BY MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TITANIC This postcard was sent to Miss M. Liesse by a one F. Liesse. The handwriting looks like a man's, but it could have been sent by a maid who travelled with her employers in London, Paris, Baden...) The text at the back of the card reads: ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| ERNEST WALDRON KING : GENERAL INFORMATION King, Ernest Waldron. Lived at Currin Rectory, Clones, Ireland. Occupation - Clerk, Pursers Assistant. 28 years old. (Born in Dublin, Ireland). Body number 321. Interred at Fairview Cemetery, Halifa... | ||||||
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(1923) | POSTCARD (BACK) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE AQUITANIA | 29th October 1923 | |||
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(1923) | POSTCARD (FRONT) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE AQUITANIA | 29th October 1923 | |||
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(1964) | POSTCARD (BACK) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE FRANCE | 11th August 1964 | |||
| (2007) | DOUBLE JEOPARDY – LUSITANIA’S UNIQUE VICTIM | 18th December 2007 | ||||
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BRITANNIC POSTCARD (IN WHITE STAR COLORS) | |||||
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BRITANNIC POSTCARD (ON STOCKS) | |||||
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(1912) | TITANIC HYMN, 1912 This is one of the many in memoriam cards published in Great Britain... | 1912 | |||
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CHELSEA PIERS The ship shown on this card is Luistania.... | |||||
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(1912) | TITANIC POSTCARD FROM ONE SURVIVOR TO ANOTHER From Eugene Daly (uileann piper) to Bertha Mulvihill, his fellow Irish steerage passenger. Addressed to Miss [Bertha] Mulvihill City Hospital, Providence, R. I. [Rhode Island[ Postmarked Brooklyn, New York, August... | 20th August 1912 | |||
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(1912) | OLYMPIC POSTCARD Posted August 1912... | 1912 | |||
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FRENCH TITANIC POSTCARD 1912?... | |||||
| Encyclopedia Titanica | (2008) | BULLETS RECOVERED FROM LUSITANIA'S "EMPTY" HOLD by Senan Molony - RIFLE ammunition bound for the Western Front during World War One has been raised from the wreck of the doomed Cunard liner RMS Lusitania....... | 27th September 2008 | |||
| Falmouth Penryn Packet | (2009) | FALMOUTH REVEALS MORE TITANIC MEMORABILIA The National Maritime Museum Cornwall has been lent two more fascinating artefacts with a Cornish connection. Local historian and author Ernie Warmington has come forward with a Christmas card and memorial postcard.... | 2nd June 2009 | |||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD ca. 1920... | |||||
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RMS BRITANNIC Original postcard... | |||||
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POSTCARD: LAUNCH OF THE GIANT WHITE STAR LINER "OLYMPIC" AT HARLAND & WOLFF'S SHIPYARD, BELFAST | |||||
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OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920) White Star Line Triple Screw S.S. "Olympic" 46,439 tons Largest oil burning steamer 882½ feet long... | |||||
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(1912) | TITANIC IN CHERBOURG This rare postcard shows the Titanic ablaze with lights heading out of Cherbourg harbour on 10 April 1912, at about 8 PM. Another image of the same series is known all over the world, but this one is totally different.... | 10th April 1912 | |||
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OLYMPIC AS AQUITANIA This French postcard shows the Olympic but the caption reads Aquitania. The same card and mistake were replicated in a colour version.... | |||||
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(1912) | POSTCARD (FRONT) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM QUEENSTOWN Sent by Berthe Leroy to her mother whilst the Titanic was stopped at Queenstown.... | 11th April 1912 | |||
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(1964) | POSTCARD (FRONT) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE FRANCE The card was sent to Michel Leroy as Berthe returned to France for the last time.... | 11th August 1964 | |||
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BRITANNIC POSTCARD (AS HOSPITAL SHIP) | |||||
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RYDE PIER A postcard view of Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, looking north towards the pierhead and Spithead, circa 1912. The Titanic would have passed this structure shortly after leaving Southampton on the first leg of her journey to Cherbourg. &nb... | |||||
| Southport Visiter | (2007) | LOCAL MAN WAS TITANIC CAPTAIN The human cost of three sea disasters involving ships captained by men from Crosby, Blundellsands and Waterloo is on show in Liverpool.Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, looks at the trio of catastrophes that shook the world between 1912 and 1915.... | 14th September 2007 | |||
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(1912) | POSTCARD (BACK) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM QUEENSTOWN "Chère mère, rassurez-vous, je suis la plus heureuse sur ce joli bateau et je voudrais vous le faire visiter. Berthe." [Translation] "Dear mother, rest assured, I am most happy on this lovely ship and wish I could let yo... | 11th April 1912 | |||
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(1909) | WHITE STAR TENDERS AT QUEENSTOWN A contemporary postcard showing the Clyde Shipping Co.'s tenders "Ireland" (outboard)and "America" (inboard) at the rear of the Jas Scott & Co shipping agency offices in Queenstown. ... | 1909 | |||
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(1915) | PARSONS STEAM TURBINE INVENTOR Sir C. A. Parsons is one of the main inventors of the 'Parsons Steam Turbine' which could be found on the Lusitania, the Mauretania, the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic, for instance... | 1915 | |||
| Duluth (MN) News Tribune | (2008) | DIVES TO THE FITZGERALD SHOULD BE BANNED ALTOGETHER The Titanic, Empress Of Ireland, Lusitania and Andrea Doria are ships that all share an unfortunate bond: Their wrecks have been picked over mercilessly for artifacts.That's especially true of the wreck site of the Titanic, which has become a tasteless carnival for tourist dives. (Note: Registration at site may be needed to read entire article.)... | 11th November 2008 | |||
| Globe and Mail | (2009) | LETTER WRITTEN BY CANADIAN ABOARD TITANIC EXPECTED TO FETCH $10,000 For those who follow the lore of Eaton's department store, one tragedy stands out among others: the loss, in 1915, of the founder's granddaughter Iris Burnside in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. But three years before that, another member of the extended Eaton family, employee George Graham, had perished in an even more famous disaster, as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic during his return from a buying trip in Europe.... | 12th January 2009 | |||
| Macclesfield Express | (2006) | TOWN?S TITANIC LINK EXPECTED TO FETCH ?6K A POIGNANT postcard sent from the doomed ship Titanic to a Macclesfield hotel is going up for auction next weekend – and is expected to fetch up to ?6,000.Second-class passenger, William Angle, sent a message from the liner to Miss Nelly Angle at the former Macclesfield Arms Hotel.He posted the card when the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Ireland, on its maiden voyage – just days before the vessel crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean.... | 19th April 2006 | |||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | NO NEWS OF MR F. ANDREW, OF REDRUTH Among the passengers of whose fate nothing is yet definitely known is Mr. Frank Andrew (30), of Pencoys, near Redruth. Mrs. Andrew, who lives at Pencoys, with one little child about two years of age, received a postcard from a friend in Plymouth, on ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | A POSTCARD FROM TITANIC On 11 April 1912, John Adams (real name Richard May) posted a card to his sister in Holsworthy, Devon. It read - "Dear Ethel, Just a few lines to tell you that I have found Jack and we are going on all right. We are having it fairly c... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1929) | LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES... | 4th September 1929 | |||
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DESIGN FOR AMERICAN TITANIC MEMORIAL Part of an original design submitted in 1912 for a Titanic memorial in Washington, to be set up by women in honour of the men who gave their lives. This is a work by Mr Dana Gibson, which was ultimately rejected. Gibson places a hammer in t... | |||||
| New York Times | (1910) | LADY DUFF-GORDON SAILS Coming to Open an American Branch of Her London Costume Shop --- SpeciaI Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 26---Lady Duff-Gordon sailed on the Lusitania to-day to put the finishing touch... | 27th February 1910 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1952) | UNTITLED GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ... | 9th December 1952 | |||
| The Times | (1916) | LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte... | 1st January 1916 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL There is more for ocean liner enthusiasts in the English city of Bristol than simply visiting the S. S. Great Britain. The world's first great ocean liner, the Great Britain was built by the influential engineer Isambard K... | 8th November 2001 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare... | April 1912 | |||
| THE MOODY CUP Officer Moody served on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Conway in the River Mersey for two years from 1902 to 1903. After the disaster his parents presented a cup which became known as the Moody Cup and was dedicated to his memory.... | ||||||
| Examiner.com | TITANIC MEMORIAL IN DC Admit it, you've done it too. You and a significant other have probably stood at some point at or near the bow of a boat and imitated the doubleheaded flying figurehead pose from the 1997 film "Titanic" (If you haven't, you surely know s... | |||||
| ET Research | (2003) | OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME Move over Alnwick and Haltwhistle — another location in Northeast England holds artifacts from RMS Olympic, sister-ship of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. While many ocean-liner enthusiasts know about the Olympic fittings at the White ... | 22nd January 2003 | |||
| The Greenwich News | (1914) | MOORE-GRAHAM SUMMER RESIDENTS IN LARGE NUMBERS ATTEND SOCIETY AFFAIR The wedding of Miss Margaret, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Graham of New York and Belle Haven, and Eugene Maxwell Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Moore... | 14th June 1914 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | J. P. MORGAN DUG INTO EGYPT'S PAST Financier Superintended the Search for Early Christian Cemetery at Khargeh. --- BUILT A HOUSE IN DESERT --- Had Force of Man at Work Under Egyptian Engineers, and Enjoyed Himself in Flannels ---... | 16th March 1912 | |||
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TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ... | |||||
| New York Times | (1930) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ... | 1st November 1930 | |||
| LOBB FAMILY INFORMATION The correct origins of William Arthur Lobb, third class passenger on Titanic have now been established. The 1891 Cornwall Census shows that William Arthur Lobb was born in the parish of Luxulyan (5 miles NE of St. Austell) in 1881 and that he was th... | ||||||
| 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 | |||
| (2006) | CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ... | 28th December 2006 | ||||
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(1911) | OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN STOP IN CHERBOURG LE RÉVEIL - Mercredi 14 juin 1911 PAQUEBOT GEANT C’est pour le moment l’ « Olympic », qui appartient à la « White Star Line ». Nous en avons parlé lors de son lancement. La Compagnie vient de l’inaugurer avec solennité par un ba... | 14th June 1911 | |||
| (2007) | PASSPORT TO PERDITION AN EXPIRED passport could have prevented the untimely expiry of a life on the Lusitania. But instead its holder, Thomas J. Silva, moved heaven and earth to get replacement documents in order to sail on the fatal voyage th... | 18th March 2007 | ||||
| TDN | (2009) | TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN When John Stuart saw a newspaper article Monday about the death of the last Titanic survivor, his first thought was, 'My gosh, I talked to her. I have her signature.'The retired Castle Rock history teacher chatted with Millvina Dean at... | 5th June 2009 | |||
| New York Times | (1928) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr... | 29th July 1928 | |||
| Berkshire Eagle | (2009) | TITANIC TAMPERING WITH GOWN GREAT BARRINGTON -- The century-old sequins are gone. The material is ripped. And -- with no signs of a break-in -- it’s a mystery who’s at fault. A genuine whodunnit is under way in town. At the center of... | 17th July 2009 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | (1992) | THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES SOME of you who were on the Titanic's re-enactment voyage on the Waterfront Ferry Hotspur VI, out of Southampton docks back at the Convention in April, may remember that the Captain of the Ferry we were aboard passed me a note sa... | 1992 | |||
| Southern Star | (2009) | CORK TITANIC SOCIETY PLANNING TO ERECT "LOST AT SEA" MEMORIAL By Leo MCMahonSaturday April 25th, 2009[Photo] The Lord Mayor Cllr. Brian Bermingham making a presentation to Frank O'Sullivan, Commander of Staff, in recognition of his work with the Cork Titanic Society. Also included are T... | 29th April 2009 | |||
| ET Research | (2004) | ON THE TRAIL OF ‘LUCKY’ TOWER Is this the face of Titanic legend’s most elusive man? ’Lucky Tower’ is the moniker given... | 16th November 2004 | |||
