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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
	THE MAIL SORTING ROOM ABOARD RMS TITANIC	April 1912
Glasgow Daily Record	TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday....	7th December 2006
Washington Times	WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ...	16th April 1912
Evening Star	MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t...	22nd April 1912
Inside Smithsonian Research	OSCAR SCOTT WOODY'S KEYS Stamped "Sea Post 101/US Mail 19," the antique, flat metal key has a patina of orange rust from its immersion in salt water nearly 100 years ago-while still in its owner's pocket. The key opened locks on the 200 bags of registered mail being carried across the Atlantic to New York City aboard the White Star Line steamship R.M.S. Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage in April 1912....	20th November 2007
Chicago Evening Post	LAPLAND WILL REPLACE TITANIC AS MAIL SHIP The Post office Department has made arrangements for the substitution of the steamer Lapland for the Titanic, in carrying mails to Europe from New York City....	17th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...	26th April 1912
Newark Evening News	JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa...	20th April 1912
La Presse	TWO SURVIVORS Two Survivors This afternoon, the Daily Mail welcomed in their Parisian offices, rue des Capucines, the American doctor Joseph Leidy. Mr. Leidy was visiting the Daily Mail reporters in order to show them a wireless he had just received ...	17th April 1912
Newark Evening News	JUST TOLD SEA TOOK HUSBAND ---------- News that Gwinn Perished on Titanic Long Kept from Asbury Park Woman ---------- WAS MAIL CLERK ON LINER Special Service of the NEWS ASBURY PARK, April 26---It was not until today that the ...	26th April 1912
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
Rutherford Republican	MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC MAIL CLERK'S WIFE ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR NEWS ABOUT HIM Mrs. Lelia Woody, wife of O. S. Woody, United States mail clerk aboard the Titanic, is in Clifton, Va., today, anxiously awaiting news of the disaster, and hoping against hope he did not go down with the wrecked steamer. Woody is well ...	17th April 1912
	WRECK OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA A 1919 postcard view, taken from either shore or Vanderbilt Reef (in an uncropped version of this photo, a rocky strip of land is visible in the lower left corner) which shows the Sophia wreck site soon after the disaster. The mast was not visible...	1919
Brooklyn Daily Times	W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ...	17th April 1912
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ...	22nd April 1912
Newark Evening News	GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar...	29th April 1912
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC TRAIL: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN BELFAST - DAILY MAIL We were on the Titanic Walking Tour and had arrived at the spot where the most celebrated ship in the world was designed. 'This,' as Chris put it, 'is where the Titanic dream began.' ...	25th July 2011
The East Oregonian	IN THE WAKE OF THE RMS TITANIC Among the list of movers and shakers who perished during the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic's maiden voyage was filmmaker William Harbek, who filmed the 1911 Round-Up and reportedly had the original copy with him on the ship. ...	22nd April 2008
Asbury Park Evening Press	MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...	22nd April 1912
New York Times	GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ...	21st April 1912
	JOHN STARR MARCH HEADSTONE, EVERGREEN CEMETERY memorial marker...
	TITANIC INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Titanic International is a non-profit historical organization based in New Jersey that was founded in 1989 to preserve and perpetuate the memory and history of the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, and those who sailed aboard her maiden and last voyage....
Southern Daily Echo	WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TITANIC PLAQUE? THE FUTURE of an important monument on Southampton's heritage trail has been thrown into doubt, the Daily Echo can reveal.Plans by Royal Mail to shut the city's main post office means the Titanic Postal Workers Memorial has an uncertain fate....	9th October 2007
GuardOnline.com	TITANIC: THE LEGEND CONTINUES IN BRANSON MUSEUM BRANSON, Mo. - On April 10, 1912, the Royal Mail Ship Titanic set sail from Southampton, United Kingdom, on its maiden voyage to New York. At that time, it was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built....	22nd December 2006
galesburg.com	TOM WILSON: GALESBURG MAN, DAUGHTER SURVIVE TITANIC TRAGEDY - GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL Among the 706 survivors were Frank Karun and his 4-year-old daughter Manca, who resided in the historic Lindell House Hotel on Depot Street where Frank was manager....	7th May 2011
	TITANIC BLUEPRINT "R.M.S. Titanic" Harland & Wolff design dept schematic scale blueprint of "Titanic's" plumbing & water systems. Approx 9ft x 20ins. This drawing was the personal property of W.D. Wilson esq., leading draughtsman at Harlan...
Newark Evening News	SURE BROTHER PERISHED EAST RUTHERFORD, April 18---That his brother, William L. Gwinn, has lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic, is the belief of Cass J. Gwinn, of this place. The missing man, who sailed in the ship as an empl...	18th April 1912
Northwich Guardian	FRANK'S TITANIC EFFORT GOES ON SHOW A RETIRED draughtsman has spent two and half years constructing a detailed model of the Titanic, which is now on display at Nantwich Museum.Frank Wilson, aged 80, from Nantwich constructed the model ship from parts that came in a publication in the Daily Mail's weekly magazine supplement....	11th February 2008
Newark Star	AWAIT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Up to late last night the body of John S. March, of 59 Emmett street, one of the five United States mail clerks who lost their lives in the recent Titanic disaster, had not reached the city and no word has received by the firm of Smith & Smith, 944 B...	6th May 1912
RIA Novosti	TRAVEL COMPANIES CRITICIZED OVER TITANIC WRECKAGE CRUISES Travel companies that offer 15-day dive cruises to the Titanic's remains have come under under criticism from relatives of those killed in the tragedy. The participants of the cruisecritic.co.uk forum hit out at the first passengers of the scandalous cruise who discussed how they would dress up as “characters” who were on board the Titanic when it sank, the Daily Mail said....	16th November 2011
Western Mail	SWANSEA VALLEY VICTIMS It now transpires that the Titanic has claimed another victim from the Swansea Valley. In addition to Mr. W. J. Rogers, whose name appeared in the list of passengers in the Western mail in the early part of the week, it seems that he was accompanied ...	20th April 1912
	SEVENTY-FIVE REGISTERED LETTERS WERE SENT (FROM NORWAY) WITH THE TITANIC IN 1912 Arne Mjaland Top row 5th from left: Jorgen Birkesfol who sent a registered letter with Titanic...	26th August 1998
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review	CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail....	15th May 2008
The Virginian-Pilot	MARINERS' MUSEUM ARCHIVIST PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGES RELATED TO ARTIFACTS THEFT A former archivist with The Mariners' Museum in Newport News pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felonies related to the theft and sale of museum property on eBay.Lester F. Weber, 46, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to mail fraud, theft and filing a false tax return. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 7....	11th June 2008
Newark Evening News	FAMILY OF J. S. MARCH MAY RECEIVE $10,000 WASHINGTON, April 22---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic were introduced in the House today by Representative Reilly, of Conne...	22nd April 1912
	TITANIC LAUNCH TICKET An extremely rare example of a ticket to the launch of the Titanic Launch of t...	31st May 1911
Montreal Gazette	HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg....	3rd August 2006
Elizabeth Daily Journal	COMPLAIN OF CONDITION OF BODY OF JOHN MARCH The body of John S. March, one of the five mail clerks of the steamship Titanic and father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles street, reached Newark yesterday from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was taken charge of immediately by the undertaking firm o...	8th May 1912
New York Times	ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt...	10th January 1907
	BOHEMIA 1908 (BACK) Marienbad, August 1908. Letters cross in the mail. Just as Henry's mildly reproachful card arrives in the US, Herman's apparently delayed letter arrives in Marienbad. Henry sends a second card. "August 15, 1908. Mariendbad, Bohemia. Wr received your letter and was very glad to receive same. Hope you went to Atlantic City. Love to you and brother and Elsa. Love, Uncle Henry." Elsa was the young daughter of Henry's brother, Louis Sonneborn. Louis, his wife, daughter and son were living at the Battery Ave, address when the 1910 census was taken. Residing with Wilelmina Sonneborn were Herman Praetorius and his parents, Louis Sonneborn and his family, Henry Sonneborn, Lee Schwabacher and Hay Becker, Wilhemina's unmarried brother....
Voyage	THE TUGS AT TITANIC'S DEPARTURE John P. Eaton Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years...	6th February 2005
Titanic Heritage Trust	TITANIC 95TH ANNIVERSARY STAMPS As 2007 approaches plans are well underway all over the world to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the tragic loss of R.M.S. Titanic and over 1500 lives on 15 April 1912.As part of the 95th Anniversary Commemorations, Titanic Heritage Trust will be issuing a Commemoration Royal Mail Stamp Sheet plus two First Day Covers, one with a Belfast Postmark and one with a Southampton Postmark. For further details: 95th Anniversary Stamps www.titanicheritagetrust.org.uk/95th_stamps.htm As a society, organization or individual you are invited to join any of our events, in particular our inaugural Convention in April. All Titanic Societies are welcome.If you are organizing an Titanic event for 2007 the we would like to hear about it. Whatever part of the world you are located. Please send details and we will include them in our calendar of events for 2007. enquiries@titanicheritagetrust.org.uk...	21st November 2006
Newspaper	JOHN LAW HUME BIOGRAPHY;RMS TITANIC 'THE FIRST VIOLIN' BY YVONNE HUME Donna White I have just come across this article from the Sunday Mail in Scotland. This seems to be a fascinating book as it is written by a close relative, I can't wait to read the whole book. ...	27th March 2011
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser	MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ...	11th May 1912
	SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee...	2004
Newark Star	WILL BRING TITANIC VICTIM'S BODY HERE Arrangements were made to have the body of John S. Marsh, the Newark superintendent of mails on the Titanic, brought to the home of the daughter, Miss Nellie Marsh, 39 Emmett street. His body was recovered by the cable ship at the scen...	30th April 1912
	LETTER FROM THE DIOCESAN VICAR GENERAL TO WILLIAM BYLES Bishop's House My dear Mr. Byles, Last mail brought me the obituary card of your dear Rev. Brother; I have prayed for him, but to tell the truth, I am much more inclined to ask him to pray for me, to get through his inte...	28th August 1912
New York Times	A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com...	26th May 1901
	MISS EARNSHAW'S MYSTERIOUS SECOND CLASS LIST A member of the Association Francaise du Titanic owns a very strange document, which he inherited from Miss Earnshaw. At the time she gave him it, he did not thought that it would be the source of many questions and just accepted it. Miss Earn...	1912
Chicago Evening Post	DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...	23rd April 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...	1908
Washington Herald	CLAIMS MRS. GAGE SUFFERS PARANOIA Dr. William A. White Testifies Concerning Examination of Defendant in Insanity Case --- Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, testified yesterday afternoon before Justice Barnard and a jury, giv...	18th April 1912
Galesburg.com	GALESBURG MAN LED A CHARMED BUT HARROWING LIFE Tom Wilson Tracking History — On Sunday evening, April 14, 1913, a wall caved in at the historic Lindell House Hotel on Depot Street near the Knox College campus. Originally known as the American Hotel it...	16th May 2008
New York Times	WILLIAM T. STEAD English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in...	16th April 1912
Voyage	ROYAL EDWARD John P. Eaton Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1...	10th May 2005
	JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL - RADIO INTERVIEW Joseph Boxhall Radio Interview, October 1962 Transcribed by Capt. Charles B. Weeks and Cathy Akers-Jordan On that Sunday night the, 14th, of April, along with Moody who was the Si...	October 1962
Voyage	THE BOXHALL LETTERS Joe Carvalho & Shelley Dziedzic The following five letters, written to Mr. Joe Carvalho of Massaschusetts by Commander Joseph G. Boxhall span the time period of April 1961 through July of 1962, and reveal the sentiments of the Titanic officer r...	23rd May 2005
New York Times	NEW WHITE STAR SERVICE TO TAP CHERBOURG TRADE Adriatic, Biggest Ship Yet Built, to Start It in May --- SHE WILL CARRY 3,000 SOULS --- And Have a Turkish Bath, Plunge, and Orchestra Aboard---Line to Liverpool to Stay. --- With the putting in commis...	7th January 1907
Rochester City Newspaper	REVIEW: "TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION" Ego, wealth, optimism, and opulence. RMS Titanic was the grandest symbol of all this and more. Branded as "practically unsinkable," the largest ship ever built in its time boasted a top first-class ticket price of more than $103,000 in today's currency. Filled with celebrities, dignitaries, tycoons, and immigrants, the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, from Southampton, UK, and sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage....	7th October 2009
	CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER. RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...	27th April 1912
Evening Bulletin	TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE “Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New...	20th April 1912
Voyage	TRAFFIC John P. Eaton On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second...	22nd September 2005
The Times	THE LOSS OF RMS LEINSTER THE SUNK IRISH PACKET DEATH ROLL 451 STERN PROTEST BY MR BALFOUR Further details of the loss of the Royal Mail steamer Leinster, the torpedoing of which was announced yesterday, emphases the ...	12th October 1918
Newark Evening News	TEN FROM THIS STATE ON TITANIC Four of Them Are Reported to Be Saved. ---------- STENGELS RESCUED ---------- Many Others on Liner with Relatives and Friends in This Section. ---------- ARE SEEKING INFORMATION ---------- ...	16th April 1912
Newark Evening News	FEAR ANOTHER NEWARKER GONE ---------- Augustus Smith, Passenger on Titanic, Whose Name Is Not Among Saved. ---------- HAYS ALSO AMONG MISSING ---------- The name of Augustus Smith, twenty-two years old, of 59 Halsey street, was added ...	17th April 1912
Voyage	NOMADIC John P. Eaton One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ...	22nd August 2005
New York Times	HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...	27th February 1932