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The Toronto World	ROYALTY'S DEEP SYMPATHY ------- London, April 16. (Can Press.) ---King George has sent the following message to the White Star Co.: "The Queen and I are horrified at the appaling disaster which has happened to the ...	17th April 1912
New York Times	MORGAN TO ENTERTAIN QUEEN He Sails To-day to Show His Art Objects to Alexandra --- J. P. Morgan sails on the Adriatic today for his usual holiday in Europe. He will go directly to London. In response to a desire on the part of Queen Alexandra t...	26th February 1908
Torquay Directory	LETTER FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING The Late Mr. Forbes Julian.-Mrs. Forbes Julian, of Redholme, has been honoured by receiving, through Viscount Knollys, a letter expressing the sympathy of his Majesty the King with her in the loss of her husband in the Titanic disaster. The letter r...	15th May 1912
New York Times	J. P. MORGAN SAILS Has Six Staterooms on the Adriatic---Mrs. Waldorf Astor Also Departs --- Many passengers sailed yesterday in the outgoing liners for Europe. On the Adriatic went J. Pierpont Morgan and his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterl...	27th February 1908
The Times	CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH MEMORIAL A committee has been formed for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a suitable memorial to the late Commander Edward John Smith RNR, the Captain of the Titanic. It is proposed that it should take the two-fold form of ...	27th September 1913
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY MAIDEN VOYAGE NEWSREEL Newsreel cameras cover the first arrival of the Queen Mary in New York City....	5th December 2006
	NORMANDIE NEW YORK CITY 1940 A 1940 view showing the midtown piers, and the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and Normandie....	1940
	QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold...	1956
Syren & Shipping	25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING Castings for the Queen Elizabeth...	15th April 1937
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
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
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY SEA TRIALS The Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary is shown standing off Gourock, Scotland on the Clyde for anchor trials, adjustment of the magnetic compasses and fitment of her lifeboats....	6th December 2006
The Times	JOHN CHARLES BIGHAM MADE QUEEN'S BENCH JUDGE Mr. Bigham, Q.C., the newly-appointed Judge of the Queen's Bench Division in succession to the late Mr. Justice Cave, will take the oaths and be sworn in before the Lord Chancellor in his private room at the H...	18th October 1897
The Times	JOHN CHARLES BIGHAM MADE QUEEN'S COUNSEL From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Oct 30 CROWN OFFICE, OCT. 27 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal to constitute and appoint Richard Henn Collins, Esq., and John C...	31st October 1883
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	UNTITLED Mr. and Mrs. Alexandra (sic) Robins, who have been staying with friends at Mount Charles, returned from America a few months ago with the intention of settling down in their native town, but subsequently decided to return to America. They have no fam...	18th April 1912
Torquay Directory	LETTER FROM HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN The Late Mr. Forbes Julian.-Mrs. Forbes Julian has been honoured by receiving a gracious letter of sympathy from her Majesty the Queen from Buckingham Palace. It reads: “Her Majesty feels very much for you in the irreparable loss which you have sus...	8th May 1912
Ilford Recorder	LOONY PLAN TO SALVAGE TITANIC A MAN whose lifelong ambition has been to raise the Titanic believes his dream is a step closer.Douglas Faulkner-Woolley, of Green Lane, Goodmayes, is trying to raise funds to refloat the sunken Queen Elizabeth liner in Hong Kong Harbour as a trial run for his ultimate goal of salvaging the Titanic.Mr Faulkner-Woolley, 69, who claims salvage rights to both former White Star passenger liners, says a survey of the Queen Elizabeth - commissioned by his company Seawise Salvage International - shows it can be recovered....	1st March 2007
	PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Erna Alexandra Andersson, 17, the daughter of Mr Anders Israelsson, was born in Finland. She lived in Kulla gard, Lovisa, Finland. Erna boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destinatio...	1912
	GOLD QUEEN	1930
The Times	ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto...	12th July 1913
Toronto Daily Star	MISS HILDA SLAYTER Halifax girl is sister to the Captain of Queen Victoria's yacht...	18th April 1912
Transactions of the Devonshire Association	HENRY FORBES JULIAN 'Mr Julian, one of the noble band of heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Titanic disaster on 14 April 1912, so that the women and children might be saved, was the son of Mr Henry Julian, of Cork and Bolton, and belonged to a mixed...	1912
4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
	CYCLE RIDE FOR TITANIC HERO. Family tradition has it that Thomas Wiliam Jones rode his bicycle through the Liverpool Mersey (Queensway) Tunnel before it was officially opened by King George V and Queen Mary!...	18th July 1934
	HELEN MELVILLE SMITH The daughter of master mariner Edward John Smith and Sarah Eleanor Pennington, was born on Saturday 2nd April 1898 at 20 Alexandra Road, Waterloo, Litherland, near Liverpool. The birth was registered by Edward John Smith on 3rd May 1898. Helen Melvi...
eturbonews.com	ALL EYES ON TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS AS THE 100TH YEAR APPROACHES In May 1911, the RMS Titanic slid down Slipway No. 3 at the Queen's Yard of Harland & Wolff and settled on the waters of the Victoria Channel in Belfast, Ireland while more than 100000 people looked on....	23rd May 2011
Voyage	ALEXANDRA John P. Eaton Det Forenede Dampskibs Selsk (United Steamship Co.) Departed Emden, Germany for Boston, 13 March. On 3 April at 45 degrees 04'N. by 56 degrees 38'W. saw drifting ice and ice fields. Arrived at Boston 7 April. ...	16th January 2005
	NORMANDIE: DECEMBER 25 1939 "Ethel" from Tulsa Oklahoma is barely visible as she poses in front of the laid up Normandie on Christmas Day 1939. The stern of the Queen Mary is seen on the right...	25th December 1939
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
mirror.co.uk	GOING OVERBOARD AS TITANIC FEVER BEGINS TO GO ON ... AND ON AND ON - MIRROR.CO.UK (BLOG) There is little doubt that we are all going to be engulfed with Titanic fever over the next few months, as the centenary of the liner's sinking approaches. Memorial cruises, films and exhibitions are all being prepared for the great event which will capture our attention before the arrival of distractions such as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics....	2nd January 2012
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	BELFAST, PORT OF Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
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
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
The Times	EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet...	25th July 1885
Toronto Daily Star	BLISS, EMMA Page 32 At the Nevers Nursing home, on Wednesday, June 17, 1959, Emma Junod, beloved wife of the late Ernest John Bliss, loving mother of Mrs. Amy Armstrong, Henry and Ernest Bliss, dear grandmother of Jack Armstrong and great-grandmo...	19th June 1959
The Times	LADY PIRRIE WIDOW OF THE GREAT SHIPBUILDER --- Viscountess Pirrie, widow of the famous Belfast shipbuilder and shipowner, died yesterday at her home in Carlos Place, W., at the age of 78. She was Margaret Montgomer...	20th June 1935
New York Times	BARRED FROM BERMUDA Enzo Fiermonte, Boxer, Will Return to the United States --- HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 13 (AP)---Refused permission to land in Bermuda, Enzo Fiermonte, Italian boxer, who is reported to be seeking the hand of the wealthy Mrs. Madeline Dick...	14th October 1933
	DOROTHY GIBSON IN 'HANDS ACROSS THE SEA' A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enacting events of the American Revolut...	1911
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
Gare Maritime	STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials....	21st July 2006
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
New York Times	MISS ASTOR AT FESTIVAL Sees 1,000 Children In Folk Dances and a Maypole Romp --- RED BANK, N. J., June 14---Miss Muriel Alice Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor, who lost his life on the Titanic, was one of the interested spectators at the playground festiva...	15th June 1915
Coventry Standard	UNTITLED EXTRACT George Green, husband of Mrs Theresa Green, a native of Coventry, had decided to emigrate to America and booked his passage on the Titanic. Mr Green and his family had resided at Dorking for some years. His home there had been broken up just before h...	26th April 1912
	CHARLES VALENTINE CLARKE Charles was born on St Valentine’s Day in 1883. His parents were Harry Clarke and his wife Jane Emma (nee Hall). He was born in Cosham, (which was in the district of Widley at that time), Portsmouth in Hampshire. The family home was a public house ca...
Cork Examiner	TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Sir William Arrol and two disasters...	8th February 1913
The Times	MRS. PIRRIE HONORED BELFAST, April 5 --- At the meeting of the City Corporation to-day Alderman John McCormick moved a resolution electing and admitting Mrs. Pirrie an honorary burgess of the city of Belfast in recognition of her signal...	6th April 1904
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
The Times	SWEARING-IN OF MR. JUSTICE BIGHAM QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION (Before MR. JUSTICE MATHEW, MR. JUSTICE WILLS, MR. JUSTICE LAWRANCE, MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT, MR. JUSTICE BRUCE, and MR. JUSTICE KENNEDY.) In the absence of the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justic...
New York Times	BOXER SAYS MRS. DICK WILL WED HIM SOON Fiermonte, Back From Bermuda, Declares They Will Marry When She Quits Hospital --- Enzo Fiermonte, the Italian boxer who was refused admittance last week to Bermuda, where he was going to visit Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick, widow of J...	17th October 1933
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY AND FAT RASCALS ON OFFER IN YORKSHIRE Gavin Murphy 1930s Art Deco in a York tea shop...	19th September 2002
Newark Star	ORANGE CHURCH HONORS VICTIM OF TITANIC Grace Episcopal Church, Orange, was crowded to the doors yesterday afternoon during memorial services held for the Titanic victims. W. Anderson Walker, who lost his life on the ship and who was a well-known member of the church, was remembered durin...	29th April 1912
The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand	ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o...	31st January 1890
	MR. & MRS. E. A. SANDERS (UNCLE AND AUNT) In April 1912 the Exeter Flying Post newspaper reported that Titanic victim, Mrs. Lilian Carter, was a neice of Mrs. E. A. Sanders of Stoke House. Mrs. Lilian Carter (formerly Hughes) was a daughter of Thomas Hughes and Frances (formerly Ford)...
Weekly Irish Times	BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON Article...	7th September 1912
Travel Daily News	TITANIC TRAIL PUTS BELFAST AT HEART OF DIGITAL TOURISM REVOLUTION Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have launched the world's first interactive multi-media digital tourism trail and, appropriately, it is based around the city's most famous product, ¢€ËœTitanic'. The trail is launched at the same time as a new heritage guide focussing on the history of shipbuilding, and in particular Harland and Wolff also is published by the Council.The ¢€ËœBelfast Titanic Trail' uses the latest GPS-based technology, the Node Explorer, to take visitors ¢€Ëœback to the future' leading them on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story, from the grounds of City Hall to Queen's Island, finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look. Using a portable, robust media player, which is both user-friendly and ultra-modern, the Node Explorer being used for the first time in Belfast uses a combination of the latest computer technology, still images, video footage, dramatic reconstructions, text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time telling the story of the mighty Titanic and the people associated with her. ...	8th August 2006
Daily Sketch	DEATH OF LUCILE Page 1 Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile," the fashion expert whose articles in the Daily Sketch were for years a notable and most popular feature has died in Putney. Her husband Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bt., died in April four y...	22nd April 1935
The Times	MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me...	22nd April 1912
The Times	HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill...	25th December 1895
The Times	WOLFF, GUSTAV W. OBITUARY --- MR. G. W. WOLFF --- Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, for long a partner in Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, died yesterday at his residence in Park-street, W. He underwent an operation on Tuesday. ...	18th April 1913
	THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND Word and Music by Leveridge The Roast Beef of Old England was the tune played by the Bugler, P.W. Fletcher, to call first class passengers to meals. ...
New York Times	SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...	18th May 1964
The Times	THE TITANIC BAND MEMORIAL CONCERT THE TITANIC BAND MEMORIAL CONCERT Under the auspices of the Orchestral Association a concert was given yesterday at the Albert Hall in honour of the musicians who peris...	25th May 1912
Washington Herald	PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and...	21st 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
Port Huron Times Herald	BERT JOHNS, SURVIVOR OF 1912 TITANIC DISASTER, DIES Page 1, columns 6-7 Bert Johns, 66, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, operator of Bert's Tavern, 622 Water Street, for 15 years, Port Huron resident 32 years, died Saturday in his home, 216 Broad Street, after an illness of on...	3rd February 1952
The Times	LORD PIRRIE'S ESTATE The RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., LL.D. D.Sc., of Witley Park, Godalming, and of Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Limited, shipbuilders and eng...	4th April 1925
New York Times	LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	4th September 1929
Sunday Press	TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR Sunday Press: Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r...	21st September 1952
	IN MEMORY OF THE TITANIC CATASTROPHE Henry Tiedemann Grand Memorial Fantasie Words and Music by Henry Tiedemann Published 1912 by the Southern Music Company, Dallas, Texas Listen to this Piece...	1912
Chronicles of the Cumming Club (1887)	SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART. SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART.; 'the sixth of a family of eight.' His father, Dr. Harland, a graduate of Edinburgh University, practised in Scarborough until nearly the period of his death, in 1866. He was a man of remarkable skill...	1887
BBC News	TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built....	8th September 2009
	RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...	23rd March 2011
New York Sun	NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON Lady Duff Gordon Designed Fashions for Royalty...	22nd April 1935
Chicago American	TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...	25th April 1912
LA Times	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean was about 2 months old when she sailed on the doomed ocean liner in 1912. She, her mother and brother were saved. Her father was among those who went down with the ship....	31st May 2009
The Times	MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu...	21st April 1904
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been used to create the image by Rita Duffy, who hopes to raise money for the poor in sub-Saharan Africa. The Titanic, which was dubbed unsinkable before it hit an iceberg and foundered in the north Atlantic in April 1912, is at the centre of plans to rejuvenate a large part of the city's docklands. ...	26th April 2009
Voyage	DUKE OF ALBANY John P. Eaton (F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m...	31st October 2004
	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
New York Times	LORD RIBBLESDALE DEAD; LINE EXTINCT Widow Was the First Wife of the Late John Jacob Astor, Formerly Miss Willing --- BARON LOST SONS IN WAR --- Aristocratic Appearance Drew Compliment From King Edward---Lady Oxford Kin by Marriage --- Copyright...	22nd October 1925
	GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c...
The Toronto World	WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME --------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...	17th April 1912