Olympic Launch

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	LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
	LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
Belfast Titanic Society	CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC'S LAUNCH BELFAST TITANIC SOCIETY COMMEMORATES CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC’S LAUNCH The Belfast Titanic Society will mark 100 years since the launch of Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic with a short ceremony on ...	14th October 2010
Sphere	1911 EVENTS OF THE SEASON Olympic maiden voyage; Titanic launch...	28th February 1911
	POSTCARD: LAUNCH OF THE GIANT WHITE STAR LINER 'OLYMPIC' AT HARLAND & WOLFF'S SHIPYARD, BELFAST
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
Unidentified Newspaper	CAPTAIN SMITH AND LAUNCH OF TITANIC From an unidentified French paper...	1912
	TITANIC LAUNCH TICKET An extremely rare example of a ticket to the launch of the Titanic Launch of t...	31st May 1911
	OLYMPIC LEAVING FOR JARROW SCRAPYARD, OCT. 1935 The Olympic pictured on October 12th, 1935, in Southampton, hours before beginning her last trip to the Jarrow scrapyards. This striking view shows how impressive the Olympic was....	12th October 1935
Attractions Management	TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN AT ULSTER MUSEUM TITANICa The Exhibition is to launch at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum County Down at the end of May to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic. ...	9th March 2011
	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....
Chicago Examiner	OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be ma...	25th September 1912
	OLYMPIC CLOCK A study fot the Olympic's clock in the Grand Staircase, pictured at Southampton's Maritime Museum....
	OLYMPIC AFTER HAWKE ACCIDENT The hull of the Olympic after the Hawke rammed it (Sept. 20, 1911)...	20th September 1911
travelio.net	BELFAST MARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAUNCH OF THE TITANIC Belfast is set to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the city's most famous creations - RMS Titanic. On May 31st 1911, Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough by Harland & Wolff ...	25th May 2011
bighospitality.co.uk	BELFAST DISTILLERY RELEASES WHISKEY TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC LAUNCH The Belfast Distillery Company has released a new whiskey brand to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic from one of the city's dockyards....	7th June 2011
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
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
	OLYMPIC The olympic in profile; At the pier in New York; Pier 59; New York skyline...
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD Posted August 1912...	1912
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
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ...	3rd July 2011
White Star Memories	OLYMPIC ARTEFACTS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1934! RMS Olympic's registration document has been reunited with its original leather wallet! after some 70 odd years apart! The two a were last together when the WSL was sold off and Olympic was scrapped in 1934/5. ...	4th March 2010
	BOXING PRACTICE IN OLYMPIC'S GYMNASIUM A photograph taken aboard the Olympic by Titanic Saloon Steward Edward Wheelton...
	OLYMPIC COCKTAIL BAR The Olympic cocktail bar, now located in the lounge bar of the Lambton Hounds Inn, Pity Me, County Durham....
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD ca. 1920...
New York Times	BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ...	24th January 1912
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920) White Star Line Triple Screw S.S. "Olympic" 46,439 tons Largest oil burning steamer 882½ feet long...
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
	TITANIC IS LAUNCHED	31st May 1911
	WHITE STAR MEMORIES WSM houses the largest and finest collection of White Star Line artefacts & memorabilia in Europe and specialise in the 'Olympic' class liners; "Olympic", "Titanic" & "Britannic". ...
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
	DOWNSHIRE HOUSE This is the house where in the summer of 1907, the Olympic & Titanic were conceived by Lord William Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay....
	RMS OLYMPIC 1935 (1)
	RMS OLYMPIC 1935 (2)
	MARK CHIRNSIDE'S RECEPTION ROOM Titanic and 'Olympic' class research site, with a focus on Mark Chirnside's books and articles....
	HARLAND AND WOLFF PHOTOGRAPHER CELEBRATED IN NEW TITANIC EXHIBITION Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition....
	DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE	20th September 1911
	DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE	20th September 1911
	TITANIC CHANDELIER A light fitting from the Olympic, identical to ones fitted in the Grand Staircase of the Titanic ...
Belfast Telegraph	TITANICS EPIC STORY CAPTURED ON CANVAS The tragic tale of the ill-fated Titanic is once again being retold with the launch of a new art exhibition in Belfast...	1st February 2011
	OLYMPIC VS KRONPRINZESSIN CECILIE The two giant liners were rivals...
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
New York Times	CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise...	6th October 1946
	CHEQUEBOOK JOURNALISM A Marconigram sent to the Wireless Operator of the Olympic by a New York newspaper....	17th April 1912
	OLYMPIC IN CHERBOURG The RMS Olympic in Cherbourg - 1911...	1911
New-York Tribune	GET GIANTS OF THE SEA Captains Smith and Haddock for Olympic and Titanic --- Captain Herbert J. Haddock of the White Star liner Oceanic, which left port on Wednesday for Southampton, was congratulated by wireless yesterday on his appo...	2nd December 1910
The New York Times	OLYMPIC CUTS HER OWN TIME Five Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes from Daunt's Rock to the Lightship --- The new White Star liner Olympic, which arrived in Quarantine last night and anchored, has made even better time on her second voyage th...	19th July 1911
mirror.co.uk	TITANIC'S LAUNCH REMEMBERED It has always struck me as odd that Titanic has been responsible for attracting thousands of passengers to the glamour of cruising...	31st May 2011
Washington Times	CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...	16th April 1912
	RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3) Taking the elevators; the grand staircase; dancing in the saloon; smoking room; at Cherbourg; Nomadic comes alongside; passengers disembark...
kcstar.com	LOCAL AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK OFFERS NEW LOOK AT TITANIC DISASTER A new book re-tells the story from the perspective of the R.M.S. Olympic, Titanic's nearly identical sister ship. Racing Through the Night is written by first-time author Wade Sisson, a long-time Kansas City resident. The book is scheduled for release in June 2011 from Amberley Publishing in the United Kingdom....	11th May 2011
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
Nottingham Daily Express	DERBYSHIRE VICTIM Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,...	22nd April 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
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
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
	OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...	1912
	THE ENGLISHMAN Poem composed on Olympic, April 18, 1912...	18th 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
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
Daily Telegraph	ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED! (Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action broug...	1908
standard.net.au	CELEBRATING AN ILL-FATED SHIP TO REMEMBER PORT Fairy will commemorate 100 years since the launch of the Titanic with a nautical-themed weekend next month. Visitor Information Centre's tourism officer Andrea Lowenthal said the town had some unusual links to the vessel, which led to the decision ......	13th April 2011
New York Times	TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...	25th January 1912
anglotopia.net	100 YEARS LATER: PLACES TO COMMEMORATE THE RMS TITANIC May 31 marks 100 years since the ship was first launched, but the story of the Titanic is still remembered throughout the U.K. ...	28th April 2011
Newark Evening News	ENGINEER HAS SISTER HERE Jonathan Shepherd, third assistant engineer on the Titanic, who is believed to have gone down with the ship, is a brother of Miss Frances Shepherd, of 10 South Twelfth street. He was formerly on the Olympic, but was transferred to the...	16th April 1912
bbc.co.uk	HOW CAN THE TITANIC BE CELEBRATED? More than 1500 people died when the Titanic sank. So why is the centenary of its launch being proudly celebrated in Northern Ireland, asks Tom de Castella. No other ship comes close to rivalling the gigantic shadow cast by the Titanic. ......	31st May 2011
New York Times	MORGAN IN PARIS London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi...	6th January 1912
eTravelBlackboard Mice News	BELFAST TO MARK TITANIC 100 Belfast City Council is to hold two months of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic....	22nd February 2011
bbc.co.uk	COUNCIL MARKS TITANIC CENTENARY Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition. The 'Titanic 100' exhibition will be held at Belfast City Hall until May. It will focus on the construction ......	31st March 2011
The Times	AUCTION OF OLYMPIC FITTINGS SALE CONCLUDED The sale at Jarrow of the fittings of the Olympic concluded today, which was the tenth day, and the last lot offered was No.4,456.. The total realized was not announced, and several lots were not sold. On some days during ...	19th November 1935
	OLYMPIC
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC EXHIBITION COMES TO CHATHAM HISTORIC DOCKYARD sThe Titanic Honour & Glory exhibition opens in Chatham for the 100th anniversary of the ship's launch. It includes Titanic and White Star Line artefacts. ...	30th June 2011
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
Gettysburg Complier	REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners are Referred to as Floating Palaces While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most respects like the Olympic there is a pronounced diff...	19th June 1912
New York Times	CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo...	6th June 1911
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (AT NEW YORK)
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (AT PLYMOUTH)
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CHERBOURG)
artlyst.com	TITANIC THE ART COLLECTION LOST AT SEA Today is the 100 anniversary of the launch of the S.S. Titanic in Belfast. Little recorded artwork was claimed through insurers in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and as we approach the centenary of the tragedy, it is curious to learn that the interiors, with all of it's opulence, had little original art commissioned of note. Most authors have overlooked the fact that there was still important art lost on the voyage....	31st May 2011
	OLYMPIC/TITANIC POSTCARD (PRE-SINKING)
bbc.co.uk	BELFAST CEREMONY MARKS TITANIC'S LAUNCH 100 YEARS ON A ceremony has taken place in Belfast to mark the moment the Titanic was launched 100 years ago. A large crowd of school children cheered as they attempted to re-enact the mood on the docks as those involved in building the ship watched her roll down ......	31st May 2011
Stratford Express	THE TITANIC DISASTER Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For...	20th April 1912
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...	10th July 1910
Liverpool Echo	TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers....	11th October 2007
Fox News	TITANIC EXPLORER'S ASHES HEADING FOR SPACE The ashes of a Titanic shipwreck explorer are poised to launch into space on Saturday in a suborbital memorial service to blast off from New Mexico. A small portion of the cremated remains of Ralph White, a cinematographer who documented the 1985 expedition that discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic, will fly to suborbital space and back alongside the ashes of 15 other people when their SpaceLoft XL rocket launches from New Mexico's Spaceport America at about 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on May 2....	29th April 2009
travelweekly.co.uk	ANOTHER TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE ANNOUNCED Miles Morgan Travel has chartered Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Azamara Journey to launch a second Titanic memorial cruise. The 694-passenger ship will sail out of New York on April 10, 2012, on an eight-night cruise to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic....	5th April 2011
Chicago Record-Herald	LLOYDS NEAR TO PANIC Exciting scenes were witnessed at Lloyds underwriting rooms yesterday. Insurance losses in the last six months have been unparalleled in the history of Lloyds in liners of the biggest class. Since the Olympic collision, both the Del...	16th April 1912
newsletter.co.uk	TITANIC RELICS SURFACE FOR FIRST TIME IN ULSTER A NUMBER of items recovered from the Titanic will surface for the first time when an exhibition opens in Co Down this month. The new display at Cultra's Folk and Transport Museum, which marks the 100th anniversary of Titanic's launch, will feature 35 ......	12th May 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
PRLog.Org	EAST TENNESSEE ABUZZ OVER APRIL LAUNCH OF TITANIC MUSEUM The 30,000-square-foot Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. is featured in The Mountain Press as it prepares to set sail in 2010. The world's largest Titanic Museum will feature hundreds of artifacts, interactive galleries, exclusive onboard photographs and will tell the stories of the legendary ship and its passengers....	8th December 2009
Chicago American	OLYMPIC BARRED SENDING TITANIC NEWS BY WIRELESS By wireless to Glace Bay, N. S. --- Edward L. Doheny of Los Angeles, a passenger on the Olympic, says that a bulletin stating that all the Titanic passengers were safe, was po...	24th April 1912
Titanic Stories	TITANICA EXHIBITION - THE ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT, NORTHERN IRELAND The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is launching TITANICa: The Exhibition and TITANICa: The People’s Story to mark the centenary of Titanic’s launch on the 31st May, running until 31 August 2011....
	SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON	1908
New York Times	MORGAN HOME FROM EUROPE Financier Refuses to Discuss Business or Politics J. Pierpont Morgan returned yesterday on the White Star liner Olympic from his seven months' stay abroad. He was met at Quarantine by his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., who ha...	25th July 1912
Gamers Hell	HIDDEN MYSTERIES TITANIC SECRETS OF THE FATEFUL VOYAGE ANNOUNCED Avanquest Software Publishing today announced that Hidden Mysteries Titanic Secrets of the Fateful Voyage a new puzzle game developed for DS and Wii will launch on July 30th....	25th July 2010
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
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
bbc.co.uk	ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT MUSEUM SECURES TITANIC ARTEFACTS It includes serving dishes and soap from the Titanic, as well as passenger lists, tickets, playing cards and a steward's menu ideas. The collection will form the basis of an exhibition at the museum to mark the centenary of the Titanic's launch....	12th April 2011
Belfast Telegraph	FULL STEAM AHEAD AS TITANIC FESTIVAL GETS SET TO DRAW IN HUGE CROWDS Titanic fever will grip Belfast this week with the launch of the annual Titanic Made in Belfast Festival. Hundreds of Titanic and White Star Line artefacts and memorabilia including a postcards written by a passengers on board the doomed vessel, a man’s watch valued at £90,000, and the keys to a family treasure chest that went down with the stricken ship are due to go on display in Belfast today....	2nd April 2010
Romsey Advertiser	TITANIC ART READY FOR MUSEUM LAUNCH SCHOOLCHILDREN combined art and history to create a display piece for Southamptonâ€™s new Sea City museum. The city council invited Wellow Primary School to put together a picture of the Titanic for one of the education rooms at the attraction ahead of its opening next year. Kerry Somers, history leader at the school, said the 10- and 11-year-olds jumped at the chance to create the exhibit. ...	1st December 2011
Chicago Tribune	SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the...	16th April 1912
ibtimes.com	UNSEEN PICTURES OF TITANIC ON 100TH YEAR OF LAUNCH NOAA wants to ensure that the memorial, historical, archaeological and scientific values of Titanic is preserved for future generations while sharing the story and images of the wreck with the public, it said. While NOAA strives to protect as well as make Titanic wreck site accessible to the public through 2010 documentation and pictures, start the slideshow to view some of the never-before-seen pictures of Titanic before it sank, the shipwreck and more:...	2nd June 2011
Southport Visitor	MR. JAMES WALPOLE As stated in Tuesdays Visitor among the crew of the ill fated liner was Mr. James Walpole, brother of Mr. Horace Walpole, of 17 Line-street, Southport and brother-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Browne. A native of Southport...	18th April 1912
Jersey Journal	FEAR JERSEY CITY GIRL'S FIANCÉ WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC A few hours after the Titanic with hundreds of her passengers and crew went down to their ocean grave a letter was received in this city by Miss Sarah Weir of 173 Clendenny Avenue, from her sweetheart, Peter Sloan, chief electrician of the ill-fated ...	23rd April 1912
Titanic Review	THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC Michael Tennaro In this new book, Chirnside has done the triplets proud, with a thoroughly researched history of each of these vessels. ...	6th December 2004
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD
La Science et la Vie	OLYMPIC ENGINES From 'La Science et la Vie', June 1913...	1913
	THE LAURENTIC/MEGANTIC EXPERIMENT The Olympic-class liners were fitted with two triple expansion engines, which powered the port and starboard propellers, and a low-pressure turbine, which powered the center propeller. This propulsion system was first tested on the White Star sister...
	CAPTAIN SMITH ON BRIDGE OF OLYMPIC OR TITANIC
	CAPTAIN AND CREW Captain Smith seen aboard the Olympic...	May 1911
newsletter.co.uk	PENSIONERS TELL OF PRIDE OVER TITANIC DISPLAY A LARGE outdoor ceramic artwork on the Titanic created by a group of pensioners has gone on display in north Belfast. The display put together by 15 people was inspired by personal memories and a trip to ‘TITANICa’ at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s — an exhibition which opened earlier this year to mark the centenary of the launch of the ship. As part of the creative process, the pensioners explored the history of Edwardian Belfast, the shipbuilding industry in Belfast and the on-board lifestyle of passengers who travelled on the Titanic. ...	3rd November 2011
	TITANIC 100 PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION AT BELFAST CITY HALL The Titanic 100 photographic exhibition celebrates the building of the great ship from its inception to launch, focussing on the photography of RJ Welch, the official photographer of Harland and Wolff. Through Welch's camera lens we get a remarkable glimpse of the scale of the Yard and the ship. Step back in time and see how Belfast looked in 1911 from the grand view of City Hall. ...
The Mercury (Hobart)	THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in...	25th April 1912
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
	TITANIC CUTLERY RECREATED Arthur Price & Co. were one of the suppliers of premium quality flatware to the luxury dining sections on board the Titanic and other ships in the White Star Line fleet. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Titanic's launch, Arthur Price have recreated the Panel Reed Sterling Silver cutlery used onboard. Each knife features the ship owner, White Star Line's famous logo on its blade, as originally supplied....	30th August 2011
Cambridge Independent Press	MR. F. E. G. COY Mr. F. E. G. Coy, nephew of Mr. Jonathan Coy, of Prickwillow Road, Ely, was an engineer on the Titanic, and no news has been received of his being among those rescued. He also was on the Olympic at the time of the collision, and was afterwards transf...	26th April 1912
	TITANIC TRAGEDY Titanic Slide show of Titanic. The interior include some photos inside the Olympic...
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC'S "LITTLE SISTER" MAY MISS ANNIVERSARY REFIT DATE The £7m restoration of a tender ship that ferried passengers on board the doomed Titanic may not be finished in time for the centenary of its launch, an official report warns today....	24th June 2009
New York Times	BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...	11th July 1910
Gare Maritime	OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME Gavin Murphy RMS Olympic's cocktail bar in a Durham public house...	22nd January 2003
Hexham Courant	OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF Helen Compson Summer 2004 news report...	21st May 2004
	FILM OF CAPTAIN SMITH These shots were taken in New York on board the Olympic probably on the occasion of her first arrival in 1911. The photographer is unknown. ...	May 1911
	OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN STOP IN CHERBOURG Note handwritten date: 14 June 1911 (1st stop)...	14th June 1911
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1934, POST-MERGER)
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW An Exonian on board was Mr Harry Dyer, second son of Q.M.S. Dyer and Mrs Dyer of Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter. A smart young fellow, 25 years of age, he was fourth engineer, having transferred from the Olympic. He was in Exeter for a short holiday a...	1912
Gare Maritime	A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...	2nd August 2006
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1934, PRE-MERGER)
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
Belfast Today	EVERY DAY IS A POTENTIAL ANNIVERSARY ON THE RIVER LAGAN Una Reilly, Chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society mobilised our memories and organised a simple ceremony on the river. "This anniversary marks a reclaiming by Belfast of her very important part in the worldwide Titanic story," Una explained as she planned the boat trip on the MV Joyce Too. "Contrary to popular belief, Titanic was not launched by a notable lady wearing a big hat and smashing a bottle on her bow," she reminded me. "She was simply pushed into the water by hydraulic rams when a signal was given and a whistle was blown at 12.13 pm on May 31, 1911, and 62 seconds later Titanic was afloat for the first time. ...	5th June 2006
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
Cumberland News	MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH The first officer of the ill-fated ship was Mr. William Murdoch, son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, Oakland, Dalbeattie, who was transferred from the Olympic, on which he was one of the chief officers....	20th April 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Richard Nosworthy, son of Mr J Nosworthy, Fisher Road, Newton Abbot, was going to Canada to join friends there. He was to have sailed in the Olympic, but through disorganised train services he missed that boat and joined Titanic....	17th April 1912
	CARD CASE Silver plated card case from the Titanic. The case was reputedly pilfered from the ship by a steward — a member of the delivery crew from Belfast — because of his disappointment at being transferred to the Olympic prior to the maid...
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
Belfast Telegraph	EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over Â£2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the Â£7 million refit of the derelict SS Nomadic may not be completed, on schedule, for the centenary of its launch in Belfast in 2011 due to a cash shortfall. ...
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
Western People	WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC, 46,326 TONS. THE LARGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD. The completion of the "Titanic" at Harland and Wolf's great Belfast Ship-building yard marks a further stage in the progress of British shipping and ship building, and in the development of the White Star Line. The construction of two such notable ve...	13th April 1912
bbc.co.uk	TUG BOAT ON LAST VOYAGE TO HERITAGE MUSEUM In its heyday the tug manoeuvred grand liners, such as the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and Titanic's sister ship Olympic, in and out of Southampton. As a luxury tender it ferried the famous from anchored ships, including Winston Churchill......	5th April 2011
herald.ie	TITANIC SISTER SHIP MARKS 100 YEARS The ship was launched from Hamilton Dock on April 25, 1911. It was luxuriously equipped and was the tender ship for the Olympic class transatlantic liners. In January 2006, the Department for Social Development purchased the SS Nomadic at a Paris auction. The vessel was brought back to it's home city and it is being restored to its former glory in Hamilton Dock, Belfast....	25th April 2011
New York Times	OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...	14th June 1924
	FILM OF THE OLYMPIC These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...	1911
	PARSONS STEAM TURBINE INVENTOR From 'La Science et la Vie', July 1915...	1915
rte.ie	ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT EXHIBIT CELEBRATES TITANIC CENTENARY Serving dishes and soap from the Titanic will form part of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's collection on the liner's owners next month. Serving dishes and soap from the Titanic will form part of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's collection......	11th April 2011
Newark Evening News	NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC'S MAILS John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ...	16th April 1912
	LETTER FROM CAPTAIN SMITH'S WIDOW Woodhead Winn Road Southampton Telephone 1400 Dear Frank, I'm sorry to be so long in answering your letter and picture of your family which I am pleased to have. What a lovely outlook from your home. By the "Olympi...	6th June 1912
New-York Tribune	ASTORS SAIL FOR EGYPT The Astors are bound for Egypt on account of Mrs. Astor's health......	25th January 1912
New York Times	J. P. MORGAN SAILS; IS GOING TO EGYPT No Worry in Washington, Where He Is to Testify Some Time About Steel and Money --- NOT ON PASSENGER LIST --- Lords Deceis [sic; should be "Decies"] and Camoys, with Their American Brides, Also on th...	31st December 1911
The Evening Telegram	HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Titanic Review	SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE Monica Hall OLYMPIC & TITANIC - The Truth Behind The Conspiracy by Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge The Olympic–Tit...	12th July 2004
pendletoday.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO SET SAIL IN PENDLE A NEW museum opening in Colne will bring the stories of the people of Lancashire, on board the Titanic when it sank, to life. The Titanic in Lancashire Museum will be located in the old Colne Grammar School, off Church Street, and will feature photographs and models of the ship. Visitors will also be able to get a closer look at fittings identical to those seen on the Titanic from its sister ship, RMS Olympic....	7th June 2011
San Francisco Examiner	HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu...	16th April 1912
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
	WHITE STAR LINE TENDER GALLIC, CHERBOURG The GALLIC was the White Star Line's first tender in Cherbourg. It was replaced in 1911 by the NOMADIC and the TRAFFIC, which better fitted the new giant liners OLYMPIC and TITANIC...	1910
Scottish Field	THE FIRST OFFICER OF THE TITANIC Graham Kirkpatrick Captain William MacMaster Murdoch joined the Titanic from her sister ship the Olympic, of which he had also been First Officer. His family had been seafarers for generations. His father left his native Isle of Lewis and settled in Dalbeattie, Kirkcud...	April 1985
shieldsgazette.com	WAS BARE HULL TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP? - SHIELDS GAZETTE Shields GazetteWas bare hull Titanic's sister ship?Shields GazetteMuch more likely, it turns out, is the suggestion by readers Dennis Maccoy, Jim Allen and Ray Collins, was that what we were actually looking at was the sad hulk of the great ocean liner Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. She's seen her entering the ......	12th July 2011
Ormskirk Advertiser	WALTER JAMES BROWN WALTER JAMES BROWN was 39 [sic] years old when he joined the crew of the Titanic as a First Class Saloon Steward. Before joining The White Star Lines, Brown worked for his older brother, William, in his grocery store on Moor Street in Ormskirk. Walte...	5th February 1998
	1920S WHITE STAR LINE FILM 1920s White Star Line promotional film. VIews include, the reading and writing room; the bugler calling diners to dinner; dinner in the first class dining room; relaxing in the reception room; a passenger in a first class stateroom receives visitors....
	MARCONIGRAMS SENT AND RECEIVED BY CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE TITANIC Marconigram to Commander Empress of Britain, 12 April, 1912, which read: Many thanks for your kind message from all here. Smith. Marconigram: 14th April 1912, 12.55pm. Commander Baltic. Thanks for your message and good wishes. Had fine...
Liverpool Echo	THE FAMOUS WHITE STAR LINE WHICH LATER INCLUDED THE TITANIC AMONG ITS FLEET WAS FOUNDED IN LIVERPOOL IN 1869 BY SHIPPING MOGUL THOMAS HENRY ISMAY. Known also as the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, White Star eventually led the way in building prestigious luxury liners such as Titanic and her almost identical sisters Olympic and Britannic.When Ismay died in 1899 his elaborate tomb can still be seen in Thurstaston churchyard, Wirral White Star was the most successful transatlantic passenger line....	23rd June 2008
Washington Times	MRS. DESHLER HEARS HER SISTER-IN-LAW IS SAFE; NO WORD FROM BROTHER "God grant that my brother, too, is safe," said Mrs. Frances Silvey Deshler of the Wilmington apartments Wyoming avenue northwest, when told today by a Times' reporter that her sister-in-law, Mrs. William B. Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., was among the pa...	16th April 1912
	WHITE STAR OFFICES AT 9 RUE SCRIBE, PARIS The White Star offices were situated just in front of the Opera in Paris, at 9, rue Scribe. The offices now houses... Olympic Airline's offices....	1912
Brighton Argos	SHOREHAM MAN MISSING [ISAAC MAYNARD] Article about Titanic survivor Isaac Maynard from Shoreham, Sussex...	17th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	DIVERS PROBE SECRETS OF TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.Divers and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) have penetrated the wreck of the former hospital ship, which has lain close to the Greek port of Kea in the Aegean Sea since her sinking in November 1916 as she passed through a minefield. The resulting footage will be screened in a History Channel documentary....	27th September 2006
Cambridge Independent Press	ARTHUR WILLIAM BARRINGER Mr. Arthur William Barringer, son of Mr. William Barringer, of 15 Thoday Street, Cambridge, was a Steward on the Titanic. It is hoped that he may be among those of the crew who were rescued, but his name has not appeared among the survivors. Mr. Barr...	19th April 1912
Titanic Review	RACING THROUGH THE NIGHT : OLYMPIC'S ATTEMPT TO REACH TITANIC Michael Poirier The story of Olympic's abortive 350 mile dash to save Titanic....	17th November 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
Voyage	HORNBY John P. Eaton May 31, 1911 Assisted following the launch of Titanic April 2, 1912 Assisted Titanic on her sea trials Port of Registry Liverpool Flag of Registry British Funnel B...	5th December 2004
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
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
Newton Abbot Western Guardian	UNTITLED Captain and Mrs. Hosking of Shaldon have received a telegram from Mr. Bock, Captain Hosking’s cousin in America, who had travelled about 300 miles to meet Mr. George Fox Hosking, the Senior Third Engineer on the ‘Titanic’ who he was hoping would be a...	25th April 1912
clickliverpool.com	RELATIVE DISCOVERS TITANIC CAPTAIN'S TELESCOPE IN THE ATTIC A telescope that belonged to the captain of the Titanic has been found lying in a dusty old attic. The brass eyepiece, kept in an old whisky bottle box, bears the name "Edward John Smith" who was the master of the ill-fated ocean liner that sank in 1912. It also carries an engraved image of the Titanic's sister ship - RMS Olympic - which Smith commanded for ten months. The three-foot long spyglass was identified by auctioneer John Crane after he was invited to value artefacts belonging to a distant relative of Captain Smith....	8th July 2011
Hayle Weekly Mail	HAYLE MAN ONE OF THE STEWARDS On enquiring at Hayle we find that no passengers from this town have sailed in the ill-fated vessel, but that Mr. Samuel Rule, of Hayle, occupied the position of chief bathroom steward. Mr. Rule, who formerly lived at Clifton-terrace, is a bro...	18th April 1912
info	PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there....	26th August 2011
New York Times	THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t...	18th June 1911
The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
Ulster Star	AUCTION OF TITANIC FURNITURE PIECE Connection to the Titanic will create a buzz when it goes under the hammer......	22nd May 2009
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
Bucks Free Press	SAVED FROM THE TITANIC - MISS M. SLOAN The news of the disaster caused grave anxiety to the relatives....	26th April 1912
The Argus (Melbourne)	NERVIEST MAN IN SERVICE Captain E. J. Smith, who is reported by one passenger from the Titanic to have committed suicide, was commodore of the White Star line. He it was who was selected for the initial trips of the Adriati...	20th April 1912
New York Times	DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i...	16th April 1912
Teignmouth Post	SHALDON AND THE DISASTER Mr. Henry Forbes Julian, one of the first-class passengers, of Redholme, Torquay, is also among the missing. He formerly resided at Ness House. Mr. Forbes made a fortune in South Africa with a patent for separating gold from quartz, and during his ...	26th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	CINCINNATI GETS MESSAGE Articles...	18th April 1912
Voyage	WALLASEY John P. Eaton Wallasey assisted during Titanic’s sea trials and launch on May 31, 1911 and stood by on her sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April, 1912. Port of Registry: Liverpool Flag of Regi...	30th October 2004
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS --- Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The rise and progress of the leviathan liners n...	10th July 1910
Voyage	ALEXANDRA John P. Eaton Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. Alexandra assisted during Titanic’s launch on 31 May, 1911 and during her sea trails Port of R...	14th November 2004
Cornishman	SAFETY OF A HAYLE MAN - MR. SAMUEL RULE Capt. Rule of Hayle, has received a telegram from his niece announcing the safety of his brother, Mr. Samuel Rule, chief steward of the Titanic. The telegram reads as follows:- ‘Anfield, Liverpool,-To Rule, Carnsew, Hayle. Fath...	18th April 1912
	TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT Terry Madill conducts a schools visit to the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, helping to educate young people about what life was like for those who worked on the building of the Titanic, the world's most famous ocean going liner...	30th August 2011
	H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons St Eloi Neuve Chapelle Y...
	WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH Mark Garfien William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se...
New York Times	COL. ASTOR AT FERNCLIFF Will Entertain Miss Force and Her Family Over Labor Day --- Special to The New York Times --- KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 2---The announced plan of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine T. Force to remain at Col. Astor's Sum...	3rd September 1911
Evanston Daily News	LOCAL WOMAN'S KIN SAVED FROM TITANIC Spencer V. Silverthorne, a brother of Mrs. H. H. Harris, 820 Foster street, is among the Titanic passengers that were rescued by the Carpathia. Word to this effect was received today. Mr. Silverthorne who lives in St. Louis, is a buyer fo...	18th April 1912
The Times	THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...	22nd July 1899
ET Comment	THE RECORD SPEAKS! Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ...	13th December 2006
L'Eclaireur de Nice et du Sud-Ouest	MRS. SCHABERT, MR. MOCK, MR. AND MRS. L.P. SMITH, MR. STEWART FROM NICE On board the Titanic were Mrs. Paul Schabert (American) and Mr. Phil E. Mock, who bought their tickets from the White Star Line agency in Nice and Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Smith who booked their passage from Monte-Carlo. Mr....	18th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	BELIEVES BROTHER LOST Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S...	19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN WARNED OF HUGE FILED OF ICEBERGS Operator on La Bretagne Tells How Messages Were Sent in All Directions From Near Cape Race....	18th April 1912
	EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S...
Bucks Free Press	CHARLES E. JUDD [BUCKINGHAMSHIRE TITANIC SURVIVOR] Fireman Judd was formerly on the Olympic but owing to that vessel being laid up, owing to the coal strike, he signed on for the Titanic....	26th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	WALTER PORTER AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC Miss. Carrie Endres Sister of Worcester Man Also on Board Lost Liner When The Telegram informed Mrs. Albert J. Gifford, 9 King street last night that the 318(?) saloon passengers on the wrecked Titanic had been reported saved and would...	16th April 1912
Cork Examiner	TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Sir William Arrol and two disasters...	8th February 1913
Belfast Telegraph	£7 MILLION RESTORATION OF TITANIC SHIP GOES AHEAD The £7 million restoration of a tender ship which ferried first-class passengers on board the Titanic is to begin early next year after the project today secured another £500,000 cash injection....	16th September 2009
Derbyshire Times	CHESTERFIELD VICTIM A young lady who has intimate relatives in Chesterfield was among the officers on the ill-fated Titanic. She is Miss Evelyn Marsden, and is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson, Ash Tree, Chesterfield. A nurse-stewardess in the first saloon, Miss Mars...	1912
Belfast Titanic Society	TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP On Friday 15th April at 12 noon, members of the Belfast Titanic Society will gather at Belfast City Hall to remember those from the city who were lost aboard RMS Titanic in 1912. Wreaths will be placed at the Titanic Memorial, on the Donegall Square East side of the City Hall grounds....	13th April 2011
The Times	A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat...	23rd April 1917
Falmouth Packet	FALMOUTH MAN DROWNED The name of Mr. H. Creece (sic), deck engineer, does not appear amongst the survivors and he has been given up as lost. The deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and her two children in their great sorrow. Obituary WAS born at ...	26th April 1912
	INFORMATION FROM THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY, STAFFORD Hodgkinson, Leonard. Engineer. Stoke man educated at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. With White Star for several years. WAS forty-six years of age and his birthplace Liverpool. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. Hartley, Armour and Fanning...
Titanic Research	THE TITANIC'S STOKERS PROVIDE THE KEY TO LAUNCH TIMES OF THE MIDDLE BOATS George Jacub The timing of the middle boats : the Mount Everest of challenges for Titanic researchers....	18th July 2011
Chicago Daily News	SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW “Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...	19th April 1912
New York Times	WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C...	30th April 1931
	CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ...
	MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT' Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
	OBITUARY WAS born on the 31st March, 1880, at Whitehaven, Cumberland. When quite young his parents moved to Blackburn, where he passed his apprenticeship days with the firm of James Davenport, of the Canal Works. From this firm he went to Messrs Howar...
Totnes Times & Devon News	THE LOCAL PASSENGERS The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su...	20th April 1912
Titanic Review	THE 'OLYMPIC' CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC (REVISED EDITION) Art Braunschweiger Review of Mark Chirnside's ‘Olympic’ Class Ships: Olympic – Titanic – Britannic...	3rd January 2012
Voyage	MUSGRAVE John P. Eaton On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...	12th December 2004
Voyage	COLLINGWOOD John P. Eaton (Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...	28th November 2004
Barking Chronicle	THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation...	19th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster....	5th June 2009
Cambridge Chronicle	CAMBRIDGE MAN ABOARD It is feared that a Cambridge man was among those who lost their lives, and great anxiety is felt by his parents, who live in Cambridge, and relatives and close friends, as to his safety. We refer to Mr. A. W. Barringer, a native of Cambridge, who we...	19th April 1912
Voyage	HERCULANEUM John P. Eaton In addition to maneuvering Titanic after launch, Herculaneum also assisted during Titanic’s sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April 1912. Alexandra Towing Co.,...	2nd November 2004
BBC News	MONEY WORRIES FOR NOMADIC PROJECT The project to restore the Nomadic has received a £500,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, bringing the total pledged to £4m. However, less than £8,000 has been raised from corporate donors and a 'Sponsor a rivet' delivered just £330. ...	16th September 2009
The Sun (New York)	SMITH THOUGHT HIS SHIP UNSINKABLE Titanic's Skipper Was Never in an Accident on High Seas Before This One --- LOVED OCEAN LIKE A BOY --- Grew Up With White Star Line and Had Its Confidence---Junior Officers on Board --- ...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S...	17th April 1912
Western Morning News	FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo...	20th April 1912
Titanic Research	LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST Senan Molony APRIL tenth, 1912 – A day tinged with sadness for the RMS Olympic. She put in to New York for the last time as the Ship of Superlatives, or so she thought. The next White Star Line leviathan to dock here wou...	12th February 2010
Oxford Illustrated	JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD MR WOODWARD was the youngest son of Mrs Woodward of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen College Choir, living in Oakthorpe Road, Oxford. Mr. Wesley Woodward left Oxford about a fortnight ago to joi...	24th April 1912
Titanic Stories	THOMAS ANDREWS - TITANIC DESIGNER Titanic Stories The undoubted hero of the story of the titanic is Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect, managing director of the design department at Harland and Wolff and the leader of the Guarantee Group. ...	1st August 2011
Titanic Research	A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER Senan Molony PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the ne...	21st October 2005
Whitehaven News	LOCAL CONNECTION WITH TITANIC DISASTER The Blackburn Times of the 20th inst. contains the following account of an interview with Mr. James Shepherd, son of the late Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, formerly of Whitehaven, and now residing at Blackburn, whose son, Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, was one of t...	2nd May 1912
	CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HERBERT JUPE'S FATHER AND THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, NOVA SCOTIA July 19th 1912 74 Bullar Road Bitterne Park Southampton Dear Sir, I have been informed by Mr. F. Blake, Superintendent Engineer of the White Star Lines, Trafalgar Chambers, Southampton, that the body...	19th July 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	WILLIAM LINDSAY William Lindsay was one of the few saved from the Titanic on which he was a dynamo attendant. William Lindsay says he feels too upset to write much and his brother here hopes to hear more from him within a couple of weeks. The survivor of the great c...	22nd April 1912
Staffordshire Advertiser	STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr....	20th April 1912
Redditch Advertiser	FORGE MILL'S TITANIC EXHIBITION REDDITCH residents are being taken on a dramatic trip back in time at the Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition at Forge Mill Needle Museum....
Washington Times	MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ...	16th April 1912
The New York Times	MORGAN IN LONDON Wants to See Titanic Launched---Health Never Better, He Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, May 19---By accident THE NEW YORK TIMES correspondent met J. Pierpont Morga...	20th May 1911
Press Association	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT FETCHES £20,000 A woman's account of escaping the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold for £20,000 at auction. Laura Francatelli from London said she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down and "then came screams and cries&...	20th October 2010
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
	TRANSCRIPT OF LETTER BY WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE Gateside Margery Park Rd Forest Gate E 15/03/12 My Dear Sister Just a line to let you know that I am still in the land of the living. You will see by the above address that I am at home. ...	1912
	RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...	23rd March 2011
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s...	1912
Journal	JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER-CREW Geoff Knight Family historians uncover story of ‘lost’ Titanic survivor ...	28th February 2010
New York Times	TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...	25th April 1912
Titanic Research	AN 'OLYMPIC' CLASS PROPULSION SYSTEM Mark Chirnside How the White Star Line's greatest ships were propelled....	25th June 2001
Voyage	VULCAN John P. Eaton Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)...	13th February 2005
	BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912 THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...	1912
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER" Edward C. Burks GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo...	9th October 1973
Voyage	THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER Mark Chirnside ...	5th May 2008
New York Times	AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...	9th January 1911

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