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  ROAMING AROUND: MEMOIRS OF A MARCONI OPERATOR
Extract The next year went past for me in many experiences of life and places. I was a fully fledged Marconi operator, had visited my Australia of loving memories, Norway, with its North Cape, where I had taken photographs...
   
  NEW BOOK ABOUT TITANIC
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Lectures pour Tous (1912) JOHN GEORGE PHILLIPS
The monthly magazine 'Lectures pour Tous' (France) published a long article on life saving appliances in its July 1912 issue. They illustrated the article with a dramatic vision of 'Jack' Phillips sending SOS messages...
  1912  
Surrey Advertiser and County Times (1912) THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...
  April 1912  
Boston Globe (1912) PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS
Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips...
16th April 1912  
Wiltshire Times (1912) TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...
20th April 1912  
The Times (1918) THE LOSS OF RMS LEINSTER
THE SUNK IRISH PACKET DEATH ROLL 451  STERN PROTEST BY MR BALFOUR Further details of the loss of the Royal Mail steamer Leinster, the torpedoing of which was announced yesterday, emphases the ...
12th October 1918  
Democrat and Chronicle (1931) ROCHESTER WOMAN TELLS OF TITANIC SINKING IN 1912
Mrs. John Black Barely Reached Last Boat To Leave Ship, And Tiny Craft Was Nearly Drawn Into Great Vortex by Samuel B. Covey "No, I am not averse to another ocean voyage, although I have not been on one since, for I re...
15th April 1931  
The Times (1934) 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  
New York Times (1940) CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER
Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE...
6th November 1940  
Southern Evening Echo (1952) UNTITLED
A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living...
14th May 1952  
New York Times (1955) THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. By Walter Lord. Illustrated. 209 pp. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $3.50. By BURKE WILKINSON The night which Walter Lord reconjures for us in tense and telling detail is the night of April 14, 1912. It...
20th November 1955  
Chicago American (1959) 3 VICTIMS LAUD TITANIC FILM
Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y...
25th February 1959  
Jersey Journal (1959) MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr...
4th November 1959  
Nord-Matin (1966) SINKING OF THE TITANIC: "I WAS THERE" TOLD US A LADY FROM BéTHUNE
Picture by Jean HEMERY On Sunday evening(a), an American movie by Jean Negulesco opened on the 1st channel; it was dedicated to the dramatic sinking of the Titanic which, in the night of April 14th/15th, 1912, caused the death of 1695 ...
  1966  
New York Times (1975) MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC
TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...
26th November 1975  
Awake (1981) I SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC
IT BEGAN while I was visiting my elderly parents and uncle in , Florida. This was shortly before my uncle died a few months ago. As usual, we went to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesse...
  1981  
ET Research (2001) SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES
Introduction ...
20th June 2001  
ET Research (2004) MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE
THE PERSISTENT notion that the Californian is the Titanic's mystery ship - seen at an average of 5.6 miles off the port bow by Inquiry evidence from Titanic witnesses - can be exploded by this relatively...
17th February 2004  
ET Research (2004) IMPACT OF TITANIC UPON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW
No other shipwreck in history has left such an indelible imprint upon the public consciousness as that of the RMS Titanic. Ninety-two years after her loss, the story of that great liner continues to...
31st August 2004  
ET Research (2005) A CAPTAIN ACCUSED
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1st July 2005  
ET Research (2005) LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE!
FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...
13th November 2005  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (2005) SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER
OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...
22nd November 2005  
ET Research (2006) A MATTER OF COURSE
The story of Noëlle Rothes, Titanic’s ‘Plucky Little Countess’ by Randy Bryan Bigham ...
22nd September 2006  
ET Research (2006) A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE
THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James...
13th October 2006  
ET Research (2006) BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS!
Birma from a contemporary postcard (Courtesy of Senan Molony) JOSEPH Cannon was a newly-qualified, newlywed wi...
28th December 2006  
ET Research (2007) ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER
This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies....
14th October 2007  
ET Research (2009) IT’S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST
This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the Titanic wreck site. Note to...
9th January 2009  
ET Research (2009) THE INFORMATIVE "MORNING NEWS"
TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case.   There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ...
12th February 2009  
Knoxville News Sentinel (2009) SHIPSHAPE RE-CREATED TITANIC RISES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN PIGEON FORGE
PIGEON FORGE - Half of the world's most famous ill-fated ship is being reconstructed in the Tennessee hills. A 30,000-square-foot replica of the Titanic is being built against the mountain backdrop of Pigeon Forge. The forward half of th...
15th September 2009  
ET Research (2010) ROCKETS, LIFEBOATS, AND TIME CHANGES
A FLASH OF LIGHT IN THE SKY  The story of what took place on the tramp steamer Californian the night of April 14, 1912, is one of those tales that cause some people...
4th March 2010  
 

 
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