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Craig Daily Press	A STORY OF THE PIG AND THE TITANIC A lot has been written about the Titanic. In fact, it might seem that there's nothing else to write about it. But then, surprise, it seems that there was a pig on board the ship - a true story....	24th October 2007
BBC News	NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST The SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships and a vital link to the Titanic story, is returning to Belfast.The Northern Ireland Office bought the ship at an auction in France for 250,000 euros.Social Development Minister David Hanson said his department purchased the Nomadic at auction in Paris. ...	26th January 2006
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 â€“ 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
Business Wire	CARPATHIA PLAN FOR RMS TITANIC INC. Legal Access Technologies, whose name is currently being changed to UnderSea Recovery Corporation (UnderSea), announced today that it has entered into joint venture agreement with RMS Titanic, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions Inc, to conduct research and recovery expeditions to the RMS Carpathia. The joint salvage efforts are scheduled to start later in 2006....	20th January 2006
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
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : BRING HER BACK HOME Eamonn Holmes is backing the campaign to bring the Titanic-era Nomadic ferry back to the city where the Harland and Wolff vessel was built.The Ulster-born Sky News presenter says that if Belfast is going to have a sector named Titanic Quarter it needs to house attractions linked to the Titanic.The only remaining White Star Line ship, which is moored at Le Havre in northern France, may go for scrap if a buyer is not found when it goes under the hammer in less than two weeks....	13th January 2006
Irish Examiner	TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED The British government paid ?170,000 (?250,000) today to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic.The bid was accepted at an auction in Paris after fears that the SS Nomadic would end up in a breaker's yard instead of being brought back to Belfast.The ferry was the last White Star vessel to be built at the city's famous Harland and Wolff shipyard where the Titanic was launched in 1912.A special charitable trust will now be set up to oversee fundraising and the full restoration of the Nomadic....	26th January 2006
Birmingham Post	HERITAGE CENTRE BID COULD HIGHLIGHT LINKS WITH TITANIC A maritime enthusiast is aiming to set up a Titanic heritage centre in the Midlands, as the focal point of events marking the tragedy's 100th anniversary in 2012.Howard Nelson, from Coventry, has already established the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust and believes the Midlands would be an ideal home for a museum dedicated to the Titanic as it has many links with the world's most famous ship....	7th January 2006
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : MAYOR CALLS FOR TITANIC FERRY REPORT The debate over the merits of a mission to save the Nomadic continued today.The Lord Mayor of Belfast urged a full condition report to be carried out on the Nomadic to determine whether the former White Star Line vessel is worth saving.But campaigners battling to bring the Titanic-era ferry back to Belfast said she has already received the seal of approval from Harland & Wolff, the company that built her....	12th January 2006
Scotsman	WATCH OF TITANIC VICTIM ON SALE FOR ?25,000 A POCKET watch discovered on the frozen body of a Scot who was the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic is being auctioned for ?25,000.The silver watch was found on Thomas Mullin, whose corpse was plucked from the sea the day before it became too treacherous for rescue vessels to continue searching. The 20-year-old, who was born in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, had signed on for the ill-fated voyage on 6 April, 1912, as a third-class steward.More than 1,500 died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland on the night of 14 April, 1912. ...	5th January 2006
icCoventry	PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF TITANIC TITANIC enthusiast Howard Nelson has achieved a lifetime's ambition by setting up the first trust dedicated to the doomed liner in his land-locked home city of Coventry.The 60-year-old, of Allesley, Coventry, has opened the Titanic Heritage Trust, at Coventry University's Technology Park in Puma Way.The trust is aiming for charitable status by the end of the year and wants to protect the Titanic wreck site and artefacts and preserve its history. ...	9th January 2006
BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER The government has been urged to fund the return to Belfast of a ship described as an "important building block" in a Titanic tourist project.North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds says cash is needed to bring back SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships.The ship, built at Harland and Wolff the year before the Titanic, was used as a tender to take first-class passengers to and from the great liner. ...	11th January 2006
Times of India	TITANIC GAVE A VALUABLE LESSON TO SHIP-MAKERS The sinking of luxury passenger liner Titanic on April 14, 1912 gave an important lesson to ship builders world over - that a ship, merely by being double-bottomed, does not become unsinkable.Since then, all large cargo vessels carrying oil the world over have become double-hulled rather than just being double-bottomed as was the case with Titanic, a senior official of Gujarat Adani Port Ltd said. ...	6th January 2006
Belfast Telegraph	TV STAR DELIGHTED BY RETURN OF SS NOMADIC SKY News presenter Eamonn Holmes has expressed his delight that Nomadic is to return to the docks where she was built.The Ulster-born presenter, who gave his backing to the campaigners as they battled to bring the 'mini-Titanic' back from France to Belfast, said he was looking forward to seeing her in the docks where she was built in 1911."I look forward to being there the day they crack the bottle of champagne against her," he told The Belfast Telegraph."I think it's another piece in the jigsaw of making Belfast a top tourist attraction. ...	31st January 2006
Channel 4 - Tuesday - 9:00pm - 10:30pm	TONY ROBINSON TITANIC TRIP PREMIERES TUESDAY Radio Times: Tony and Titanic director James Cameron plunge the depths for what you could describe as a very damp Time Team. It takes a long time for them to disappear beneath the waves in their tiny submersible, but be patient. Once they're on the ocean bed viewing mesmerising footage of the rusticle-covered wreck of the Titanic, you'll be glad you stuck with this. Inevitably, the murky water makes it hard to tell the poop deck from the boiler room, but clips from Cameron's movie help. ...	31st December 2005
icCoventry	HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC RICHARD ALLEN has relived the tale behind his grandfather's desperate escape from the sinking Titanic.Boiler-room worker Ernest Allen was one of 705 people to survive the stricken liner's sinking on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 perished.His grandson Richard, of Greendale Road, Whoberley, Coventry, said his grandfather plunged off the ship's deck to make a daring escape.Richard, aged 48, said: "He waded through the water in the engine rooms and got up to the deck but the lifeboats were full....	20th January 2006
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : FRENCH BACKING FOR BELFAST BID TO RETURN TITANIC TENDER A member of the French Titanic Society has pledged ?2,000 to the campaign to return the last remaining White Star Line vessel to Belfast - even though she is currently moored in a French port.Thierry Defournaud, head of communication with the society, promised the group would support the campaign to return the Nomadic ferry to the city where she was built, even if other restoration projects are set up."Of course we are supporting the Belfast project," he said."Myself, I made a pledge for ?2,000 for the Belfast bid."...	16th January 2006
ic Birmingham	LABOUR TO THE RESCUE he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic - following a campaign by a Coventry man.Titanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic, the last remaining vessel with direct links to the ill-fated ship.Yesterday the Government's bid of ?170,000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where it was originally built in 1912, to be renovated, the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson. ...	27th January 2006
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC : A NICE LITTLE EARNER The Americans seem to think that anything connected with the Titanic is potentially a nice little earner. The latest idea is to raise artefacts from the Carpathia, the ship which rescued 705 from the Titanic.In 1912, the year the Titanic went down, the United States Senate passed a joint resolution extending the thanks of Congress and appropriating $$1000 for a gold medal to Captain Rostron of the Carpathia and a vote of thanks to the Carpathia crew. The Senate Commerce Committee in May 1912 deemed the course followed by Captain Rostron as deserving of the highest praise and worthy of special recognition. ...	26th January 2006
BBC News Online	TITANIC FERRY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF Titanic ferry to be auctioned offThe SS Nomadic is being auctioned in Paris for 250,000 euros (?170,000), the French Titanic Society said.At least three buyers - from Belfast, Monaco and France - are expected to bid for the derelict vessel.The 67-metre (221-foot) ship is docked in the port of Le Havre after finishing its life as a floating restaurant.The ship is up for auction as the Port of Paris authorities try to recover unpaid mooring fees.A company from Northern Ireland is hoping to take the Nomadic back to Belfast - where she was built - for a full restoration, as part of a permanent Titanic memorial. ...	25th January 2006
The Guardian	TITANIC SALVAGE FIRM LOSES BID TO OWN ARTEFACTS he company that has exclusive salvage rights to the wreckage of the Titanic does not own the site or the artefacts recovered from it, a US federal appeals court has ruled. The ruling by the 4th US circuit court of appeals affirmed a decision by the district court in Norfolk, Virginia.RMS Titanic Inc had sought full ownership of the nearly 6,000 artefacts it has recovered from the shipwreck, claiming that they are worth some $71m (?40m).Article continues In 1994, the district court granted it sole salvage rights, allowing it to recover artefacts from the liner to be used in the public interest. The court barred the company from selling the items, including passengers' clothing and part of the ship's hull....	2nd February 2006