Passengers That Cancelled

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BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ...	19th July 2006
	IROQUOIS PASSENGER LIST COVER An unusual Iroquois passenger list cover from August 1934. Less than a month later, Iroquois was pressed into Ward Line service to replace the lost Morro Castle on her outbound September 8th voyage. About 50 passengers c...
The Argus	TITANIC WATCH WITHDRAWN FROM AUCTION A collector who was selling a pocket watch found on the frozen body of the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic had a change of heart and cancelled the auction.The watch, which had belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, was put up for sale on internet auction site eBay on March 13 with a starting bid of only $100 (£50)....	28th March 2008
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma...	18th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	LUCK SAVES MORGAN Financier Booked for Titanic, Taking Fricks' Place, but Changed His Mind Accident Spares Another Special to the Record-Herald New York, April 18--Associates of J. P. Morgan today related...	19th April 1912
Trenton Evening Times	SKETCH OF BLACKWELL Mr. Blackwell was the eldest son of former Senator and Mrs. Jonathan H. Blackwell of 167 West State Street. He was a widower and associated with his father in the wholesale grocery business. Besides his parents, Mr. Blackwell is survived by a sister,...	19th April 1912
	MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND From the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet (March 1913) Number 38. Biggs. Thomas, Father. Biggs Mrs. Mother. Both class G dependants. From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Ar...
	BASIC STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER 324 1st class passengers, 201 survived. 277 2nd class passengers, 118 survived. 708 3rd class passengers, 181 survived 885 crewmembers, 212 survived 13 postmen/musicians, none lived. Grand total: 2,207 on board, 712 s...
	GROUP SHOT A groupf unidentified first class passengers poses before the superstructure on the maiden crossing....	May 1935
New York Herald	SILENCE ENJOINED ON MANY SURVIVORS Officers of the Titanic Taken from the Carpathia Secretly by Third Class Passengers' Gangway Mrs. Antoinette Fliggenheim, who would not give her address, but friends who met her at the pier said she was Philadelphia, made the statemen...	19th April 1912
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
Titanic Research	A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....	9th July 2002
The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	CAMBORNE AND REDRUTH PASSENGERS There were no passengers on Titanic from Camborne, and only one from Redruth. Mr Frank Andrew (30 years), of Pencoys, who is missing. He leaves a wife (Rhoda) and one child (Lucy) at Pencoys. ...	18th April 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,...	17th April 1912
New York Times	ADRIATIC GOT ON A MUD BANK White Star Liner Stuck Fast Five Hours Till a Tug Hauled Her Off --- The big White Star Line steamship Adriatic, incoming with many cabin passengers, spent five hours early yesterday morning on a mud bank on the so...	5th November 1909
The Times	THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning....	20th July 1918
The New York Times	NEWS SUPPRESSED ON CELTIC Loss of Titanic, Reported Monday, Told on Wednesday --- The Celtic, the first vessel of the White Star Line to reach New York from Europe since the sinking of the Titanic, arrived here yesterday. The Celtic ...	21st April 1912
	CAP ARCONA IN PROFILE The Cap Arcona was constructed by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. She measured 675.9' x 85.3, with a gross registered tonnage of 27,560. Her cruising speed was 20 knots. In her initial configuration, she carried 571 first class passengers, ...
	LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909...	1909
Hudson Observer	HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w...	16th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa...	19th April 1912
New York Times	3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00...	10th May 1907
The Times	SOME ARMENIAN VICTIMS Mr G.Hagoian writes from 25, Chesilton Road, Fulham:- In the disaster to the Titanic Armenia has furnished more than her quota of unfortunate passengers. Six Armenians from Keghi, travelling to Marseilles, had proceeded to Cherbourg and t...	13th May 1912
Chicago Tribune	CELTIC PASSENGERS IN PANIC News of Titanic Disaster Spreads Despite Efforts of the Officers of Vessel New York, April 20--[Special]--The Celtic of the White Star line arrived in port today with the news that she had received the &qu...	21st April 1912
Delco News Network	THE BRANDYWINE COOKING SCHOOL RECREATES TITANIC DINNER MENU The Queen of the Ocean luxury liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to the United States on April 14 1912. The unsinkable ship carrying 2229 passengers and crew hit an iceberg at 1140 p.m. and by 217 a.m. April 15 it had broken in half. Only 713 people survived most of them women and children. One of the ships most prominent passengers was Col. John Jacob Astor one of the richest men in America if not the world....	30th April 2010
PRLog.Org (press release)	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION WELCOMES 50000 PASSENGERS IN FIRST THREE WEEKS The new Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge Tenn. has welcomed 50000 passengers in its first 21 days of operation. The worlds largest Titanic Museum Attraction which is also the newest major attraction in the popular resort area surrounding the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is exceeding its business projections in all areas....	25th May 2010
	MOHAWK PASSENGERS BRUCKER, WILLIAMS AND DANN Victims Jeanette Brucker (left) and Alice Williams (right)along with survivor Dorothy Dann (Center)...
Chicago American	UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...	16th April 1912
Salt Lake Tribune	FEAR PROVO WOMAN DISASTER VICTIM Page 3 Special to The Tribune PROVO, April 1900 Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no word had been received in this city of the fate of Mrs. Irene C. Corbett who is supposed to have been a passenger on the Titanic when it...	20th April 1912
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
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be...	18th April 1912
Hampshire Observer	WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec...	1912
	TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
Newark Evening News	W. HULL BOTSFORD, OF ORANGE, MAY BE LOST W. Hull Botsford. of Orange, is believed to be among the second cabin passengers on the Titanic who were lost. Mr. Botsford has been touring in Europe since early in February, and although he was not expected home before the end of the month, the nam...	17th April 1912
Western People	AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o...	20th April 1912
Branson Courier	TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction....	9th March 2009
Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	VANDERBILTS ESCAPE WRECK ON THE FRANCE Liners Near Collision in Heavy Mist; Passengers Thrown About Decks New York, March 22---Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt were among the passengers on th...	23rd March 1913
Western Morning News	THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Among the passengers of the Titanic was Mr. Charles Whilems, 31, a foreman in the employ of Messrs. Robinson King’s glass works, London. Mr. Whilems was taking the trip in order to visit some relatives in New York, and intended returning to London b...	19th April 1912
Chicago American	TITANIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS LEFT TO DIE, SAYS GIRL Fears are entertained by Dr. Thomas J. O’Malley, who is attending Miss Annie Kelly, the seventeen-year-old girl survivor of the Titanic, that she will never gain her normal condition as a result of her harrowing experiences when the sh...	25th April 1912
Bucks Free Press	REV E. C. AND MRS L. CARTER The Bishop of Stepney, who preached at St Jude’s on Sunday, paid a high tribute to the personality and the work of Mr & Mrs Carter. ...	26th April 1912
Newark Star	FEAR ELIZABETH FOLK WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC ELIZABETH, April 17---Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, is fearful that his two brothers, Ernest and Robert, were among those lost on the steamship Titanic. Mr. Peacock's wife and two children were also passengers on the boat, but it is p...	18th April 1912
	MOHAWK COLLISION AND GROUNDING PHOTO The morning after the multi-collision debacle in New York harbor, passengers are evacuated in calm and orderly fashion from the vessel, which lay perhaps 100 yards from the beach. In 1935 the view would be considerably different, as passengers and...	1935
UTV	HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912....	16th May 2006
Newark Evening News	LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ...	19th April 1912
The Toronto World	THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...	20th April 1912
New York Times	KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La...	12th July 1913
	TITANIC ARRIVES AT CHERBOURG. 274 additional passengers embark, 22 disembark....	10th April 1912
Exeter Flying Post	DEVONIANS ON BOARD Passengers: Plymouth: Mrs. Quick and two children (saved). ...	20th April 1912
Excelsior	PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS From 'Excelsior', 17 April 1912...	17th April 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	LIST OF WASHINGTONIANS ON FATED STEAMER GROWS As the list of passengers sailing from Southampton on the Titanic last Wednesday is made more complete, the list of Washingtonians known to have been on board grows larger. The list now contains the names of five Washingtonians who make this city the...	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...
	TITANIC ARRIVES AT QUEENSTOWN 113 additional passengers embark. Seven disembark and one crew member deserts....	11th April 1912
Chicago Daily News	KARL MIDSTJO AND OTHERS ARE TO BE ASKED ABOUT RUMORS OF DISCRIMINATION Third cabin passengers on the lost Titanic who arrive in Chicago during the next few days will be met by representatives of the Immigrants’ Protective league and closely interrogated in regard to treatment received at the hands of officers a...	22nd April 1912
Chicago Daily News	LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...	27th February 1912
Chicago Tribune	OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t...	24th December 1912
	SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE Dear Madam,In reply to yours of the 26th- inst. we beg to say that we greatly regret being unable to give you any information in reference to Mr Silva and can only state that up to the present time there has been no indication that any of t...	29th May 1915
Chicago Examiner	HOPE FOR THE SAFETY OF MISSING PASSENGERS BULLETIN New York, April 17 (Wednesday), 1:30 A.M.---A vague hope for the safety of some of the missing passengers was given last night by the captain of the tramp steamer Ultonia, whic...	17th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [The preceeding paragrpahs of this article can be found through the summary pages for the Renouf/Jefferys family, the Carter family and the Peacock family, in that order.] From early this morning when the first dispatches began to come...	16th April 1912
Connaught Telegraph	WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ...	20th April 1912
Washington Post	THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le...	9th January 1974
Bournemouth Echo	A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e...	1912
Free Press	WEST BROMWICH MEN MISSING Among the passengers were the following West Bromwich people, who were on their way to America: Alfred Davies (24), of Harwood Street, West Bromwich: John Davies (22), of the same address; Joseph Davies (17) of the same address; James Lester (39) ...	19th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune	HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma...	25th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	FISHING BOATS NEAR Hope that some of the passengers of the Titanic not taken on board the Carpethia may have been saved was revived late tonight when the captain of the freighter Ultonia of the Phoenix Line, which docked about midnight, reported that he passed al...	18th April 1912
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
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
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	CAPITAL RESIDENTS IN NEW YORK FOR CARPATHIA'S COMING Anxious for News From Friends Aboard the Titanic --- With barely one thread of hope that three of the Washingtonians who sailed from Southampton on the ill-fated Titanic a week ago yesterday are still alive, a party of Washingtonians to...	18th April 1912
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Unidentified Newspaper	ALL SAFE AFTER COLLISION From an unidentified French paper...	15th April 1912
Evanston Daily News	NO EVANSTONIANS ABOARD There were no Evanstonians aboard the ship. Arthur Ryerson and family, formerly of Lake Forest and well known in local social circles were among the passengers. All are reported saved except Mr. Ryerson. Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and daughter Jean...	16th April 1912
New York Times	PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED [Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner...	8th September 1901
Worcester Evening Post	ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o...	19th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the...	16th April 1912
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
Concord Enterprise	MRS. J. MURRAY BROWN "Among the passengers o the Titanic was Mrs. J. Murray Brown, widow of the late J. Murray Brown, and mother of Mrs. George S. Keyes of Concord. Mrs. Brown went to England in the early part of March, accompanied by her sisters, Mrs. E. D. A...	17th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	UNKNOWN TITLE Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...	1997
The New York Times	MOST OF THE CREW SAIL Sent Home on the Lapland---How Many Were Saved --- All of the crew of the Titanic, except the saved officers and about twenty of the crew who are to be witnesses, sailed for their homes yesterday morning on the R...	21st April 1912
NDTV.com	MEMORIES OF THE TITANIC ON DISPLAY Grainy images of the Titanic the now-iconic ship that had a mahogany-panelled smoking room a swimming pool and a squash court. But not enough lifeboats for its 2200 passengers and the crew....	6th November 2010
NDTV.com	MEMORIES OF THE TITANIC ON DISPLAY Grainy images of the Titanic the now-iconic ship that had a mahogany-panelled smoking room a swimming pool and a squash court. But not enough lifeboats for its 2200 passengers and the crew....	6th November 2010
Unidentified Newspaper	THE SAGE FAMILY LOST In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an...	April 1912
Worcester Telegram	BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA Article...	18th April 1912
The Witney Gazette	CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the...	20th April 1912
	TITANIC MEMORIAL IN GREECE Memorial for the Greek victims of the Titanic tragedy...	6th October 2005
Daily Echo	TITANIC PLATES TO BE MADE AGAIN DINNER plates and teaware used by Titanics most exclusive passengers are to be reproduced by the company that originally made them....	14th September 2010
Boston Globe	OTHERS OF REPUTED WEALTH Among the others of reputed wealth who were on board are Christopher Head a London barrister and one of the senior member of Lloyds, underwriters, was among the passengers....	16th April 1912
Titanic Stories	TITANIC PASSENGERS: THE MILLIONAIRES An elite class of millionaires find a new toy to amuse with the Titanic – a symbol of technological triumph....
Le Matin	MISSING: ASTOR AND STEAD From Le Matin, 17 April 1912...	17th April 1912
The Cypress Times	LIFE AFTER THE TITANIC Weve all heard the eerie story of how the many passengers of the Titanic lost their lives on that icy night in April of 1912. One of historys most devastating and romanticized stories will never be forgotten but what about some of those who survived the sinking? What happened to them?...	19th April 2011
Western Morning News	FROM WESTCOUNTRY - FURTHER PERSONAL DETAILS It was reported yesterday at Okehampton that amongst the missing passengers in the third class list of the Titanic was John Lovell, son of John Lovell (farmer) of Northlew....	18th April 1912
Rahway Daily Record	WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...	18th 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
Atlantic City Daily Press	AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...	23rd April 1912
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
	BETTINA SILVA Bettina Silva was born in 1913.Â ...
	BOBBY SILVA Bobby Silva was born in 1911....
Exeter Flying Post	THE TITANIC DISASTER It is feared that Rev. E. C. Carter and Mrs. Carter, of St. Jude’s, Whitechapel, are among the lost passengers. The rev. gentleman was a brother of the Rector of St. Mary Arches, Exeter, and was taking a holiday. Mrs. Carter was a niece of Mrs. E. ...	27th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA Article...	20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED On Sabbath last the preacher in the Baptist Church - The Rev. D. Merrick Walker paid a high tribute to the Rev. John Harper, whose name appears among the list of missing passengers of the Titanic. A man of deep spiritual insight, and whose sole aim w...	23rd April 1912
Sunday Independent	SUFFERERS BOTH Hibernia and Columbia United in Grief...	21st April 1912
telegraph.co.uk	HALIFAX: THE TITANIC'S UNDERTAKER Next April the Nova Scotia town will mark the centenary of its role in retrieving and burying the ship’s passengers, says Nigel Richardson. ...	11th January 2012
Chicago Inter Ocean	50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster...	21st April 1912
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
New York Times	PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger...	5th March 1910
bymnews.com	NEW PACKAGES FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE GO ON SALE With just over eight months to go until the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, more than 1309 passengers from all over the world are preparing to set sail on a replication of the fateful voyage. The original cruise leaving from Southampton is ......	2nd August 2011
telegraph.co.uk	THE TITANIC SANK INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANKIND In Belfast yesterday, they put out at City Hall a plan of the RMS Titanic, drawn for the Board of Trade inquiry into its sinking, at 2.20am on April 15, 1912, in mid-Atlantic with the deaths of 1517 passengers and crew. Those statistics chill us still. ......	23rd April 2011
	ETHEL SILVA Ethel Silva nee Dekle married Thomas Silva.Â They had two children Bettina and Bobby....
	NOVELIST POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH TITANIC BOOK W. Mae Kent June 2009 - Vineland, N.J. - In an ambitious first novel, author W. Mae Kent accomplishes a literary feat that has never been attempted before: she tells the story of the only black passenger traveling on the ill-fated Titanic. While Kent’s ...	9th September 2009
San Francisco Bulletin	SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ...	19th April 1912
The Independent	TITANIC RESCUE SHIP YIELDS UP ITS TREASURE Almost a century after it steamed to the rescue of the stricken Titanic, saving the lives of more than 700 stranded passengers, and 89 years after it was sunk, the wreckage of the RMS Carpathia has finally been explored, yielding precious artefacts. ...	16th September 2007
Chicago Daily Journal	THE HERO'S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	MR. AND MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Among the passengers on the Titanic were Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cavendish of London, and their two children. Mrs. Cavendish is a daughter of Henry Siegel, President of the Simpson-Crawford Company. She was making the trip here to visit her father at his ...	16th April 1912
Daily Mirror	CHARLES VALENTINE CLARKE AND HIS WIFE, ADA MARIA CLARKE Photograph of the Clarkes...	19th April 1912
	VESTRIS : AN EARLIER DISASTER A 1919 view of the Vestris, run aground deliberately off North Carolina after a fire onboard. Among her passengers on that voyage was Titanic survivor Norman Campbell Chambers....	1919
Hudson Dispatch	TITANIC SURVIVORS TELL DRAMATIC STORY OF SEA'S GREATEST DISASTER IN HISTORY --------------- Union Hill Woman Relates Her Experience, and How She Saved Child--Pathetic Meeting of Little One By Grandparents When the Carpathia Docked--Many Describe Mournful Scenes of Rescue and Picture Graphically the Going Down of the ...	19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th 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
The Plain Dealer	AKRON MAN'S FIRM BUYS TITANIC RESCUE SHIP Akron businessman Joe Marsh's company has bought the ownership rights to the wreckage of the Carpathia, the steamship famous for rescuing hundreds of passengers after the Titanic sank in 1912, for $3 million. ...	13th March 2007
Hudson Observer	JERSEY CITY MAN HEARS FATHER AND SISTER ARE SAFE Among the passengers aboard the ill-fated steamer Titanic were MissGertrude Myles, of 266 Grove street, Jersey City, and her father,Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., who was her companion on a trip toLondon. Frederick Myles...	17th April 1912
CBC.ca	OSCAR WINNER PENS TITANIC MINISERIES Julian Fellowes the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Gosford Park has scripted a TV miniseries about the last hours of the passengers of the Titanic....	26th March 2011
New York Times	LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...	9th May 1913
	UNLISTED PASSENGERS AND CREW Numerous stories are told of people who were booked on the Titanic but, for one reason or other, failed to travel on her. Some are true, the vast majority are probably untrue. Quite a few of these claims probably relate to passengers who had...
FOXNews.com	AMERICAN RESEARCHERS DISPUTE CLAIMS OF 'POLITE' TITANIC VICTIMS American researchers are firing back at a Swiss university researcher's report that 'politeness' led to the deaths of 225 British passengers aboard the Titanic....	23rd January 2009
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC NECKLACE STOLEN FROM SHOW It is believed the necklace belonged to first-class US passenger Eleanor Widener, who survived the 1912 sinking. More than 1500 passengers and crew died when the Titanic foundered in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage....	19th September 2011
Chatham, Rochester, and Gillingham News	LIFE INSURANCE ''The life insurance's on lost passengers must also represent a very high figure. Mr. Christopher Head, recently Mayor of Chelsea and himself an underwriter at Lloyds, is reported lost; he was insured against accident during his trip to America fo...	20th April 1912
The Independent	THE PERILS OF PASSENGERS ANOTHER very terrible wreck of an iron steamship has been reported and a loss of human lives has been the consequence, which must cause a shudder to the intending passengers to Europe this season. The unfortunate ship was the "Vicksburg"...	24th June 1875
Surrey Advertiser and County Times	MR. AND MRS. HARVEY COLLYER Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Collyer and their little daughter. Mother and daughter saved; Mr. Collyer missing. Mr. Collyer's parents live in Leatherhead, Surrey. Leatherhead passengers One taken and two left. Among the passengers were Mr. ...	20th April 1912
South Bucks Standard	LUCILLE CARTER : LOCAL CHAT Amongst the passengers on the ill-fated “Titanic” were Miss Lucille Carter (a pupil at Wycombe Abbey) and her parents, and brother. Happily their names appear in the list of the saved. ...	18th April 1912
The Sun	POSSESSIONS OF TITANIC LIFESAVER THIS is the first picture of Titanic hero Edmund Stone - and the possessions recovered from his body.Steward Edmund, 33, used the master key to enter first-class cabins and alert sleeping passengers as the ship began to sink....	9th October 2008
Worcester News	JUMP ON BOARD FOR FUN TITANIC PARTY THE 10-course meal enjoyed by passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic will be recreated for an end-of-summer party at a Worcestershire pub. Staff from the Swan in Birlingham, near Pershore, have turned a copy of the original menu from the evening the ship went down into a buffet-style spread....	4th September 2008
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
Voyage	CANCELED PASSAGES ABOARD TITANIC John P. Eaton Who Redeemeth Thy Life From Destruction...	6th April 2008
Brighton Argus	FORMER MAYOR OF CHELSEA ''The passengers included Mr. Christopher Head, a former Mayor of Chelsea, director of Henry Head and Co. (Limited), insurance brokers and underwriters, and son of the late Mr. Head, J.P., who resided at Buckingham, Shoreham....	17th April 1912
BBC News	RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP The ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January. It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard. Social Development Minister David Hanson said: "Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way." ...	5th July 2006
	COLETTE ON THE PROMENADE DECK Colette, in her trademark sandals, is photographed on the promenade deck....	May 1935
Gare Maritime	THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE Jim Kalafus It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ...	21st July 2006
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	UNKNOWN TITLE Other Cornish passengers were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman, who were going to Chicago. Mr. Chapman, a son of Mr. Chapman, Carpuan Farm, St. Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at h...	18th April 1912
The San Francisco Call	SEATTLE MAN ON LINER SEATTLE, April 15 - Hugh R. Rood, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Creosoting company, whose name appears in the list of the Titanic's passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man who had been spending the winter on the continent w...	16th April 1912
Andover Townsman	ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15....	9th November 2007
AOL Travel News	IS TITANIC CRUISE MEMORIAL OR VOYEURISM? Are cruise passengers signed up to take a 100th anniversary "Titanic Memorial Cruise" in 2012 exhibiting bad taste? ...	4th September 2010
Atlanta Journal Constitution	GEORGIA AQUARIUM: IS TITANIC HAUNTED? No one noticed activity by passengers and crew when the Titanic artifact exhibit was in Miami, but there have been some strange happenings at the exhibit in the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Experts were brought in to check it out....	27th October 2008
BBC News	TITANIC RELATIVES TO ATTEND CENTENARY CRUISE IN 2012 Relatives of passengers who died when the Titanic sank in 1912 are among those attending a cruise in 2012 to mark 100 years since the disaster....	17th August 2010
Western Morning News	WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS Mr. Frank Andrew, a young married man, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, about 3 miles from Redruth en route to America to seek his fortune - his first trip across the seas - by the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Andrew has a wife and one child, age ...	17th April 1912
News Letter	SPECIAL TOURS AS NOMADIC RENOVATION PROCEEDS THE SS Nomadic is once again being opened up to the public due to exceptional interest from tourists on the Titanic trail in Belfast. The tender vessel, which was used to ferry first and second class passengers to the Titanic, was open to the public for six months after returning to Northern Ireland at Easter last year....	14th October 2008
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
Trenton Evening Times	TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t...	16th April 1912
BBC News : Northern Ireland	NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ...	30th October 2006
Nova News Now	TITANIC SAILS INTO LIVERPOOL Over 1,500 lives were lost on April 14, 1912 when the ill-fated RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Ninety-six years later, the cast and creative team of the Winds of Change will bring the legendary story of the RMS Titanic and its passengers back to life, beginning on April 18, 2008....	15th April 2008
Belfast Telegraph	BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank....	22nd April 2009
NBC Connecticut	STORY OF TITANIC RECREATED AT FOXWOODS Nearly a century after the sinking of the Titanic, Foxwoods will pay tribute to the tragedy through a unique exhibit. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opens at the Casino on Saturday, February 13th and has more than 100 artifacts from the Shipâ€™s debris giving history buffs an inside look at the iconic ship and its passengers....	19th January 2010
Gare Maritime	A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...	2nd August 2006
Washington Herald	ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...	19th April 1912
Armenian Weekly	SURVIVING THE TITANIC THE SAGA OF DAVIT VARTANIAN Davit David Vartanian was one of five young Armenian men making their way to the Free World for freedom opportunity and to earn money to send to loved ones back home in Tzermag Keghi in Historic Armenia. Their misfortune was that as third-class passengers they were booked in steerage in the bowels of the ill-fated unsinkable Titanic....	19th April 2011
	ADDERGOOLE PARISH 2008 This view of Addergoole Parish Co Mayo Irish Republic, where fourteen steerage passengers left for RMS Titanic, was taken in May 2008 fro...
theday.com	WREATH-LAYING TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC TRAGEDY The International Ice Patrol will deploy the wreaths over the final resting place of the Titanic, which that sank on April 15, 1912, taking with it the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew....	7th April 2011
Yeovil Express	TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil....	25th July 2007
Artslink.co.za	LAST DINNER ON THE TITANIC VALENTINES BANQUET Le Canard hosts the ninth annual "Last Dinner on the Titanic" on Sunday 13 and Monday 14 February 2011. On the evening of April 14 1912 the well-heeled passengers settled into the First Class Dining Salon to enjoy a sumptuous multi-course dinner accompanied by an array of the finest wines and liqueurs....	28th January 2011
	THOMAS SILVA Portrait of Thomas Silva...
	RESTAURANT à LA CARTE COUPON (BACK) This is the back of the coupon that was to be found inside the brochure the White Star Line handed to 1st and 2nd class passengers, presenting the Restaurant à la Carte. This one was saved by Mme Laroche....	1911
	INSPECTION TOUR: PRESS GATHER ON THE FANTAIL A female VIP (Mme. leBrun, perhaps?) is given a bridge to fantail inspection tour before members of the press....	May 1935
Worcester Evening Gazette	LANDING MOST PATHETIC SIGHT New York, April 19. Worcester Evening Gazette. Worcester, Mass. Have just left Cunard docks after witnessing arrival of Titanic's rescued passengers on the Carpathia. It was the most pathetic and tr...	20th April 1912
	DETAIL OF TITANIC MEMORIAL IN GREECE The Titanic engraved on the white marble of the Greek memorial....	6th October 2005
Hudson Dispatch	TWO WEST HOBOKEN MEN WERE AMONG VICTIMS ON TITANIC So far as can be learned two of the victims of the Titanic disaster lived in West Hoboken. They are John Ashby, father of Arthur Ashby, of 629 Traphagen street, and Albert Walker, father in law of Charles Robertson, proprietor of the Colonial Theatre...	17th April 1912
	HISTORY.COM : TITANIC The Titanic was a British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, during its maiden voyage, killing about 1,500 passengers and ship personnel. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it has inspired numerous stories, several films, and a musical and has been the subject of much scholarship and scientific speculation....
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC REFLOATS TITANIC'S TALE The tragic tale of the Titanic is to be performed over three nights â€” onboard her tender. GCSE Drama students from Dominican College in Fortwilliam will stage the play â€˜Titanicâ€™ on the SS Nomadic, the Belfast-built vessel that carried first class passengers on to the legendary liner before she set off on her doomed maiden voyage....
ca	HALIFAX EXPLOSION VESSEL'S REMNANTS LIE IN FALKLANDS Built in 1889 by White Star, the same company that built the Titanic, it was first called the SS Runic, then the Tampican, and transported passengers on the Atlantic. In 1912, it was sold to Norway's South Pacific Whaling Company. The Imo amazingly survived its only terrible accident in Halifax but, with its new name, lasted only a few years....	6th December 2011
	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 ...
The Stevens Point Journal	FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ...	27th April 1912
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
U.S. News & World Report	THE SECRET OF HOW THE TITANIC SANK For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank....	30th September 2008
Indianapolis Star	TITANIC VOYAGE TOUCHED INDIANA PASSENGERS' LIVES Thirteen Titanic passengers had Hoosier connections. Here are six of their stories....	23rd September 2010
Henley Standard	HAODS TO STAGE A TITANIC MUSICAL HISTORY'S most famous shipwreck comes to the stage of the Kenton Theatre next month, when HAODS stages Titanic - The Musical. It tells the story of the hopes, loves and dreams of the real-life passengers and crew as the gigantic liner embarked on her maiden voyage in April 1912....	4th November 2008
Southern Daily Echo	SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated....	18th March 2009
	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
Cornishman	ANOTHER PENZANCE PASSENGER SAVED Among the further list of passengers this morning appears the name of Ellen Wickes (Wilkes). Mr. Ludlow has received the following telegram: Name reported on Carpathia as Ellen Wickes. As we have no passenger of that name I think it must be E...	18th April 1912
Highland News	CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ...	20th April 1912
independent.ie	COMMEMORATIVE TITANIC CRUISE TO DOCK AT COBH, 100 YEARS ON Preparations are continuing in Cobh, Co Cork, to welcome a 100th anniversary commemorative cruise retracing the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912. The cruise, which has been completely sold out, will depart from Southampton on April 8 next year with 1,300 passengers from 22 different countries, including 35 from Ireland....	7th August 2011
KPVI-TV	MUSEUM OF IDAHO NEEDS VOLUNTEERS FOR TITANIC EXHIBIT In just two weeks, the Museum of Idaho unveils its latest and very exciting exhibit. In 1912 the world's largest ship, the Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg. Now, 96 years later, you can get up close and personal with the story from the iconic ship to the fate of its passengers....	20th February 2009
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ...	17th April 1912
New York Times	WEALTHY YOUNGSTOWN FOLK ABOARD YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 15---Mr. and Mrs. George D. Wick and their daughter, Miss Natalie, Miss Caroline Bonnell and Miss Lily Bonnell of Birkdale, England, her cousin, were among the Titanic’s passengers. The Wicks and Bonnells are among the wealthy...	16th April 1912
kentnews.co.uk	UNSEEN ARTEFACTS FROM THE TITANIC ON SHOW AT DOCKYARD Rare and unseen artefacts salvaged from the Titanic are being displayed in a moving exhibition at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard. Titanic Honour and Glory, voted as one of the top five exhibitions in the country, features emotive objects belonging to passengers and crew who were onboard the doomed vessel....	6th August 2011
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
The Argus Observer	RE-CREATING THE TITANIC La Grande - Ninety-five years ago today the R.M.S. Titanic and more than 1,000 of its passengers plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, entombing their place in history.Saturday and tonight, thanks to a determined collector and an unwavering chef, anyone can experience the final First Class dinner - served only hours before the ship struck an iceberg around 11 p.m. April 12, 1914, during its maiden voyage - at Foley Station in La Grande. ...	30th April 2007
	FREDERICK SHEATH Brian J. Ticehurst FREDERICK SHEATH was born in 1892 at number 12 Bell Street, Southampton, the house was a two-up, two-down terraced house with an outside toilet and no garden. Bell Street was situated in the lower, poorer part of town and not f...
Regina Leader-Post	FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE TITANIC Almost a century after the Titanic - at the time, the world's largest ship - sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives, the dramatic story continues to fascinate people around the world. Beginning Saturday, visitors to the Saskatchewan Science Centre will have an opportunity to journey back in time and take a poignant look at this iconic ship and its passengers....	30th September 2011
	RESTAURANT à LA CARTE COUPON (FRONT) This is the front of the coupon that was to be found inside the brochure the White Star Line handed to 1st and 2nd class passengers, presenting the Restaurant à la Carte. The original illustration was pink, as well as the text at the back of the coup...	1911
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Shaldon has a particular interest in the loss. George Fox Hosking is senior third engineer on the Titanic. He is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs Hosking of The Green, Shaldon, and resides in London. He has a wife and three children. The parents...	17th April 1912
New York Times	ROEBLING IS EXCUSED FROM JURY Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 16---When the panel for the April term of the United States Grand Jury reported to-day, Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, and father of Washingto...	17th April 1912
	ST-LAZARE TRAIN STATION, PARIS The passengers who boarded in Cherbourg travelled on the Atlantic Train from St-Lazare station in Paris. Only Alfred Fernand Omont, French 1st class passenger, arrived in Cherbourg in a different way: his chauffeur drove him there from Le Havre....	1908
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
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
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
Worcester Telegram	TO FIND BODIES The Parisian steamed through much he??? field of ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian reports ...	17th April 1912
Examiner.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America.....
travel-news.co.uk	VOICES FROM TITANIC ARRIVE AT A SINGAPORE MUSEUM A Century after RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, just two hours and 40 minutes after striking an iceberg, and with a loss of more than two thirds of the passengers and crew. The story has lost none of its power to shock. The arrival of the long-running artifacts exhibition in Singapore brings the raw emotion of Titanic’s infamous maiden voyage, aided by an audio narrative from imagineear....	6th November 2011
Joplin Independent	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION HOSTS IRISH FESTIVAL The Titanic Museum Attraction is hosting an Irish Festival on March 1-16, 2007 to honor the Irish passengers aboard the ill-fated luxury liner. ...	5th March 2007
	AMERICANA AND NORMANDIE MAIDEN ARRIVAL NYC. The Playland Line's Americana lists to port as her passengers gather at her rails to view the Normandie's arrival off Battery Park...	3rd June 1935
Chicago Daily News	MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.] New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...	23rd April 1912
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
	ONLY KNOWN PICTURE OF MARIE LEFEBVRE Marie Lefebvre was a 3rd class French passenger...	1900
Western Daily Mercury	A SIDMOUTH FAMILY. FATHER DROWNED: WIFE & CHILDREN SAVED Mr. and Mrs. Dean, of Branscombe near Sidmouth, with their two children, were passengers in the Titanic. Mrs. Dean and children were among the saved, but Mr. Dean perished....	23rd April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was...	20th April 1912
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
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	ABOARD THE TITANIC Twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than freezing. Colder than an iceberg.That was the temperature of the ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British steamer Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Of the more than 2,200 passengers aboard, 1,500 died in water made colder than ice by the ocean's salt level....	10th October 2008
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth...	17th April 1912
Liverpool Daily Post	TITANIC LUNCH FOR COMMEMORATION PLAN LIVERPOOL Lord Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday hosted a lunch identical to the last meal eaten by passengers onboard the Titanic.It was part of the first gathering of the 'Titanic Cities' event, aimed at bringing together representatives from places with a connection with the ill-fated vessel. The ship was registered in Liverpool and had the city's name on her stern, although she was built in Southampton....	15th July 2008
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	'TITANIC' EXHIBIT SAILING ON FROM MUSEUM NEXT MONDAY Soon it will sink beneath the waves - again."Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" closes next Monday at the Milwaukee Public Museum, so visitors who want to catch the exhibit have to plan ahead to get the most out of these last days....	19th May 2009
The Times	THE CUNARD STEAMER CARPATHIA From Wednesday morning until that of Saturday of last week a party of visitors, which included Sir William White (late Director of Naval Construction), Messrs Moorhouse and Maxwell (General Manager and a director of the Cunard Company), were carri...	27th April 1903
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	COUNTESS ENACTOR IS TOUR GUIDE FOR DOOMED VOYAGE OF TITANIC The lovely Countess of Rothes stands on the deck of the ship docked in Milwaukee and cheerfully waves passengers aboard with her white-gloved hands. "Hurry," she says, "It's departure time, and you won't want to miss this wonderful voyage."The name of the ship she beckons travelers aboard? The RMS Titanic....	12th January 2009
Hagerstown Morning Herald	TITANIC MODEL ON DISPLAY AT DISCOVERY STATION A working replica of the RMS Titanic was on display Tuesday during a fundraiser at Discovery Station at Hagerstown Inc. The model is a precise replica of the White Star liner that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, taking the lives of more than 1,500 passengers....	4th December 2008
UTV	BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ...	29th November 2006
The Times	ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus...	20th April 1912
Book of Odds	OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York 12 days later, is a memorial to a ship that never completed this particular journey: the RMS Titanic. ...	14th April 2010
Book of Odds	OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before. The entire cruise, which departs Southampton on the 8th of April and is scheduled to arrive in New York 12 days later, is a memorial to a ship that never completed this particular journey: the RMS Titanic....	14th April 2010
Breeder’s Gazette	RACEHORSES TRANSPORTED BY WHITE STAR STEAMER Thoroughbred racehorses were frequently passengers aboard the White Star livestock carriers. This illustration, “from a photograph taken on board a White Star steamship,” appeared in the Breeder’s Gazette in March 1893....	March 1893
Chicago American	TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...	25th April 1912
BBC NEWS	NOMADIC AT 'CRUCIAL' REPAIR STAGE Work to restore a ship that ferried passengers to the Titanic has entered a "crucial" stage, according to the organisation overseeing the project. A team of engineers will look at how the SS Nomadic can be restored and become a tourist attraction in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. Denis Rooney, of the Nomadic Charitable Trust, said the work could take six months. ...	12th January 2009
Liverpool Echo	AMONG THE MISSING One of the Titanic’s first-class passengers not yet accounted for is Mr. W. H. Parr, a young electrical engineer, whose wife, with her infant child, is now in Northwich on a visit to her father, Mr. Joseph Poole, a guardian over-seer and a well-known...	17th April 1912
The Ann Arbor News	GAELIC STORM OF 'TITANIC' FAME AT THE ARK Gaelic Storm, at The Ark tonight, can thank a movie about a famous shipwreck for providing a stepping stone to fame. Remember the lively Irish band that played for the steerage passengers in the 1997 movie "Titanic?'' That was Gaelic Storm....	3rd August 2007
BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC TO LEAVE CITY CENTRE BERTH The SS Nomadic, the ship which ferried passengers to the Titanic, is to leave its berth close to Belfast city centre.The tender will be removed on Wednesday from Queen's Quay to Barnett's Dock for maintenance ahead of her planned move to dry dock before the end of the year. ...	31st October 2007
Daily News	LOCALS WITH TITANIC TIES CALL MOODY GARDENS Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship's maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner....	2nd April 2008
Central Florida Future	NEW TOUR ON INTERNATIONAL DRIVE IS OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS Nearly everyone's seen the movie Titanic, but not enough have seen Titanic: The Experience. The exhibit takes visitors out of the movie theater and into the ship's hallways.Ninety-seven years to the week after that fateful night, the exhibit guides people on a tour of the Titanic while giving them a taste of what life was like for the ship's passengers - pre-iceberg of course....	22nd April 2009
Yorkshire Post	TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH &POUND;300,000 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about £300,000 at auction. Millvina Dean, 97, of Southampton, who was lowered from the deck of the sinking ship as a baby in 1912, put her treasured items up for sale to help pay her nursing home fees....	25th April 2009
The Guardian	TITANIC LETTER EXPECTED TO FETCH £25,000 AT AUCTION A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner....	30th March 2010
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
	IRISH TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Irish Titanic Historical Society (ITHS) was founded in 1988 in Dublin and from small beginnings it now has an international membership of about 200. The main interests are The Titanic and the Irish Passengers who boarded at Queenstown. The Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Kinsale and general maritime history. ...
Daily Home News	JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan...	17th April 1912
The Times	THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir...	10th September 1934
Rahway Daily Record	ARTHUR KEEFE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD THE TITANIC New York Papers This Morning Give His Name In List of Passengers Embarking at Southampton ---------- FEAR HE IS AMONG MISSING ---------- His Sister in East Rahway Feels That He Met His Fate When The Ill Starred Vessel Sank...	17th April 1912
United Press International	TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release....	2nd January 2009
BBC News	NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ...	16th July 2006
Brooklyn Daily Times	STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st...	19th April 1912
Moving Picture World	MISS DOROTHY GIBSON Popular Éclair leading photoplayer reported to be among those saved of the passengers of the ill-fated steamship Titanic. Miss Gibson and her mother were returning from a trip to Egypt, where she went for rest and recuperation. It has also been repor...	27th April 1912
New York Times	SOCIETY NOTES FROM ABROAD *** Miss Gladys Cherry, who was one of the passengers rescued from the Titanic, is a cousin of the Earl of Rothes, being a daughter of the late J. F. Cherry and Lady Emily Cherry. Miss Cherry was on her way to New York with Lady Rothes. She an...	12th May 1912
	THE VILLAGE OF AYIOS SOSTIS, GREECE The village of Ayios Sostis is located on the mountains of the province of Messinia. The four Greek passengers of the Titanic were from this place. The memorial dedicated to them (completed on June 3rd, 2001) can be found near the small church ...	6th October 2005
Worcester Evening Gazette	SAVES DOGS WHILE PASSENGERS PERISH Article...	20th April 1912
New York Times	THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...	20th January 1889
Worcester Telegram	MRS. CHARLES ASPLUND AND THREE CHILDREN ARE SAVED Her Husband and Two of Their Sons Are Believed to Be Among Those Lost on the Titanic, Though Names Sent Show Slight Varience Charles Asplund, formerly of Worcester, his son Carl, 6 years old, and a baby boy 2 years old, are pro...	18th April 1912
	WHITE STAR LINE OFFICES IN PARIS 9, rue Scribe...	17th January 1912
New York Times	HOW THE HARRISES PARTED "Of Course, Ladies First," Said Mr. Harris, and Stayed on Board --- George Brayton, an asphalt manufacturer of Los Angeles, who was on the Titanic, last night gave an account of the parting of Henry B. Harris and his wife. He said:...	19th April 1912
The Times	FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ...	20th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	WOMAN IN COLLAPSE A handsomely garbed woman seated in a taxicab asked the reporters if the name of Wier appeared on the list of those saved. She refused to reveal her identity and when told that the name did not appear on the list she collapsed and a physi...	17th April 1912
BBC News	MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ...	18th July 2006
	MISS EARNSHAW'S MYSTERIOUS SECOND CLASS LIST Front page of 2nd class list...	1912
The Times	TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA DISASTERS REVEAL DIFFERENCE IN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS Almost 100 years after the Titanic and the Lusitania sank in the North Atlantic, the contrasting fates of their passengers have helped to explain how altruism can take over from the selfish instinct to save oneself. A scientific comparison of the two maritime disasters, which together claimed more than 2,700 lives just three years apart, has suggested that self-preservation can be trumped by social pressure to stand back while others are rescued, but only when people have sufficient time to think. ...

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