Thompson Graving Dock

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OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK The Sphere OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK
Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...
30th September 1911
FILM OF TITANIC ENTERING THE THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK   FILM OF TITANIC ENTERING THE THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK
...
3rd February 1912
  TITANIC : REAL ARCHIVE FILM 1912
Original archive movie film of the Titanic entering dock at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast,....
  MARCONIGRAM
From: Winfield Thompson. ''Operator Carpathia. Can you get survivor write Boston Globe full narrative disaster and also wireless report to Franconia, so get most promising man preferably Frank D. Millett or Major Butt. All charges paid here. Winfield...
17th April 1912
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...
Worcestershire Chronicle FIRE UP HARD
''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions...
27th April 1912
THOMAS WHITELEY, JOHN THOMPSON AND OTHER SURVIVORS IN NEW YORK   THOMAS WHITELEY, JOHN THOMPSON AND OTHER SURVIVORS IN NEW YORK
John William Thompson, Thomas Whiteley, William McIntyre, Emilio Pallas y Castillo are shown in New York after the sinking.  Whiteley was being treated at St. Vincent's Hospital...
April 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF
Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...
1908
Worcester Telegram BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA
Article...
18th April 1912
A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER Titanic Research A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER
Senan Molony
PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the ne...
21st October 2005
Nomadic Preservation Society PROGRAMME FOR NOMADIC CENTENERY CELEBRATIONS REVEALED
Celebrating a century of maritime history Outline programme Friday 3rd June 2011 13:30 ~ 17:00. Delegate registration at Holiday Inn, Belfast. 13:30 ~ 17:00. Exclusive opening tour...
5th November 2010
New York Times DR. RICE, IN WILDS OF BRAZIL, IN TOUCH BY RADIO WITH HIS FRIENDS IN NEW YORK EVERY NIGHT
Deep in the wilds of Brazil, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, surgeon and explorer, is encamped on the Rio Brancho in Manaos, studying tropical diseases. New York, although long ago over its uneasiness for the safety of the Rice party which arose late la...
16th December 1924
  MEMORIAL PLAQUE
Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ...
Belfast Newsletter BELFAST FIREMAN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE
The story of a fireman's fortunate escape from sailing in the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic was told yesterday in the Belfast Custody Court, when, before Sir Andrew Newton-Brady, RM, [Resident Magistrate] Patrick Morgan...
26th April 1912
SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS   SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS
Looking towards the Ocean /White Star Dock c. 1912...
SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS   SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS
A panoramic view of  Southampton Terminus railway station, circa 1912, at which time it was known as Southampton Town & Dock....
The Times MRS W. D. MARVIN
Mrs W. D. Marvin, of New York, who was on her honeymoon trip, was almost prostrated when she learned on reaching the dock that her husband had not been picked up by some other boat:- As I was put into the boat he cried to me "It's alright, little gir...
20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper DUMFRIES TITANIC VICTIMS
Memorial unveiled on Dock Park. A very impressive ceremony, and one which attracted much public attention, took place on Saturday afternoon when the handsome memorial which has been erected on the Dock Park in honour of John Law Hume, ...
1912
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
Chicago American LOSES FAMILY BY WRECK
Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry...
21st April 1912
Chicago Examiner MISTAKEN FOR WOMAN; FORCED INTO LIFEBOAT
Hartford, Conn., Apr. 18--Resolved to die after having done his utmost to aid in placing the women and children of the Titanic aboard the lifeboats Councilman William T. Sloper, clad in a white night robe, was himself taken for a woman and thru...
19th April 1912
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
BOARDING THE PRINCESS SOPHIA   BOARDING THE PRINCESS SOPHIA
An Ohio family travelling to the Yukon in June 1916 took this view of the Princess Sophia's port side....
1916 Gare Maritime
  MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
NORMANDIE BURNS   NORMANDIE BURNS
Clouds of Smoke soar over the midtown skyline, almost hiding the Empire State Building in the background, as fire races through the upper decks of the former French luxury liner Normandie, recently seized by U.S. at its W.49th St. dock. There were...
March 1942 Gare Maritime
St. Paul Daily News TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER
- Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...
17th May 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette ASTOR PUT BOY BY WIFE'S SIDE
A fine act of heroism by Col. John Jacob Astor was told by George A. Harder, a Brooklyn man, who survived the Titanic disaster. "When Col. Astor had assisted his tearful young wife and her maid into a life boat, he tried to put in a yo...
19th April 1912
  SHIERS FAMILY INFORMATION
Alfred Charles Shiers was born in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon on 11th June 1886, the son of Alfred and May Shiers. His siblings were Frederick (b.1888) and Michael (b.1890). Shortly following his birth the family left Devon and settled at Southampton...
The Times TORQUAY SHOOTING CHARGE
TITANIC OFFICER SENT TO PENAL SERVITUDE Robert Hitchens, 51, a ship's navigating officer, who was stated to have been at the wheel of the Titanic when she was sunk in 1912 after striking an iceberg, appeared in the dock at Winchester A...
30th November 1933
New York Times LLOYD MOORE WEDS MRS. E. H. PRESTON
Daughter of Former Senator Hawes of Missouri Bride in Ceremony Here --- Mrs. Eppes Hawes Preston, daughter of former Senator and Mrs. Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, was married to Lloyd Moore of this city, son of the late Clarence Moore of...
8th December 1935
Toronto Daily Star JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT
H.B. Stephenson Account...
19th 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
The Times TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC
Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...
27th April 1935
  THE MILLER'S SON
Albert Barker was born in the village of King's Worthy on the River Itchen in Hampshire, just a few miles upstream from the dock where Titanic would begin its voyage 19 years later. His father was a miller at nearby Abbot's W...
Unidentified Newspaper HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES
A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ...
6th November 1974
Oak Leaves MEETS CARPATHIA
George P. Baldwin Relates Experience When Titanic Survivors Reach New York on Cunard Ship George P. Baldwin of 309 Linden, who went to New York to meet the survivors of the Titanic on the ...
27th April 1912
  WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE'S FAMILY AND THE MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
William's family and the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund...
CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY   CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY
RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah...
THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER Voyage THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER
Mark Chirnside
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5th May 2008
  ALBERT ERVINE'S LAST LETTER
"Yours received in Cherbourg, France yesterday evening. We have had everything working nicely so far, except when leaving Southampton. As soon as the Titanic began to move out of the dock, the suction caused the Oceanic, which was alon...
11th April 1912
Newark Evening News TWO SURVIVORS WERE TO VISIT IN ARLINGTON
Among those reported saved from the wreck of the Titanic are Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, England, who were expected to visit Arlington as guests of Mrs. Etta Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue. They left home to join Mrs...
17th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette SAFETY OF FORMER RESIDENTS OF WORCESTER CAUSES WORRY AMONG FRIENDS IN THIS CITY
Believing that Charles Asplund and family, formerly of Worcester, were on board the ill-fated Titanic when it foundered., Charles E. Carlson of 193 Vernon street, left Worcester today for New York to make inquiries concerning the fate of the family, ...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily News CHICAGOAN'S KIN TITANIC STEWARD
A brother of William J. Stroud, 217 East 31st street, was a steward on the ill fated Titanic. Today Mrs. Stroud, sobbing tearfully, begged for news of her brother-in-law, Harry Stroud, of Southampton, England. “If Harry is dead,...
18th April 1912
The Times SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH
DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b...
29th April 1912
New York Times NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS
Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...
27th April 1912
Voyage HERCULES
John P. Eaton
One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock. Port of Registry: South...
20th February 2005
  HENRY BREWER'S WIFE?
Robert J.Prewitt
     This is the family story as it has been passed to me form my grandparents, Edith and William Prewitt, now deceased and my father, Ronald Prewitt, very much alive as of 11/25/2005 born 3/16/1920. I spoke with him this ev...
The New York Times OLYMPIC CUTS HER OWN TIME
Five Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes from Daunt's Rock to the Lightship --- The new White Star liner Olympic, which arrived in Quarantine last night and anchored, has made even better time on her second voyage th...
19th July 1911
Daily Home News HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA'S LANDING
New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu...
19th April 1912
TITANIC BLUEPRINT   TITANIC BLUEPRINT
"R.M.S. Titanic" Harland & Wolff design dept schematic scale blueprint of "Titanic's" plumbing & water systems. Approx 9ft x 20ins. This drawing was the personal property of W.D. Wilson esq., leading draughtsman at Harlan...
Atlantic Daily Bulletin THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES
Brian J. Ticehurst
SOME of you who were on the Titanic's re-enactment voyage on the Waterfront Ferry Hotspur VI, out of Southampton docks back at the Convention in April, may remember that the Captain of the Ferry we were aboard passed me a note sa...
1992
  LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC?
Pete Morrall
Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?...
VULCAN Voyage VULCAN
John P. Eaton
Vulcan struggling to pull the stern of the New York (left) away from Titanic's port side (Eaton-Haas Collection)...
13th February 2005
Chicago Daily Journal ONLY ONE OF IRISH PARTY BOUND FOR CHICAGO LIVES
Of the five members of a party that included the Burke family, who left Castlebar, Ireland, to come to America, there was only one aboard the Carpathia when it crept up to its dock in New York. She was Annie Kelly, 16 years old. Her si...
19th April 1912
New York Times AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911
La Voix du Nord MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY
Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...
8th July 1972
Washington Herald ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK
Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He...
19th April 1912
Newark Star MR. STENGEL SENDS WORD HE IS SAFE
Nothing Heard of Three Other Essex Men Who Were on Doomed Ship --- Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel were rejoiced yesterday when a wireless message was received from Mr. Ivan Stengel stating that his father and ...
18th April 1912
ASTOR'S FIRST WIFE TO ATTEND FUNERAL   ASTOR'S FIRST WIFE TO ATTEND FUNERAL
New York, May 3.      The train bearing the body of John Jacob Astor reached R...
3rd May 1912
New York Times TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES
To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...
1st May 1915
JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY   JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
The Times FILM "ATLANTIC" - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF "TITANIC" SCENES
Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice...
30th July 1930
War Cry SALVATIONISTS ON THE TITANIC: TWO RESCUED
- Mother spends five hours on raft and sees sons drown - Died Like true Soldiers Commissioner Eva Booth Meets Survivors Indescribably Pathetic Scenes at Wharf - New York Stricken with Grief - Army Shelt...
27th 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
Cleveland Plain Dealer JOY AND SADNESS COME WITH NEWS
Happiness or Gloom Seizes Ohio Relatives of Titanic Passengers Memorial Services to be Held for Youngstown Business Man Gladness mingled with grief yesterday when word came that two persons mourned by relatives in Clev...
20th April 1912
FORTUNE FAMILY PARTED IN BOAT IN GOOD CHEER Manitoba Free Press FORTUNE FAMILY PARTED IN BOAT IN GOOD CHEER
(Special Staff Correspondent)
Women Had No Idea of Serious Condition of the Titanic Gave Their Money to Charlie For Safe-Keeping Until They Met Hugo Ross Was Ill in Bed When Disaster Occurred—Rescued Loathe to Talk...
20th April 1912
RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY   RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY
IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...
23rd March 2011
NOMADIC RETURNS   NOMADIC RETURNS
Kathleen Neill
The SS Nomadic is the last White Star Line vessel still afloat and the last real maritime link with Titanic.  Built on No.1 Slip by Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, and fitted out in the Abercorn Basin, Nomadic attended ...
3rd January 2007
The Times STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM
After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...
29th April 1912
Titanic Research HARLAND & WOLFF AND THE PARTITION OF ULSTER
Glenn Simpson
Harland and Wolff is at the symbolic forefront of Ulster's identity, its economic importance pivotal in explaining what gave Ulster Unionists political leverage during the Home rule question. To accurately portray Harland & Wolff’...
3rd September 2011
Voyage LORD CROMER
John P. Eaton
Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...
9th January 2005
Worcester Telegram CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY
Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon....
20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912
OCEANIC Voyage OCEANIC
John P. Eaton
White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...
11th July 2005
  COPY OF LETTER SENT BY MR. KNOWLES'S DAUGHTER
Dear Cousin, What a pleasant surprise to receive your letter on November 22nd. I am Thomas Knowles's daughter. My father would have been 104 years old last May, therefore he would, I presume, be the ninth generation. I myse...
28th November 1973
The Toronto Daily Star MAJOR'S DAUGHTER REMINDS HIM THAT IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY
Jessie Peuchen Listened to Father's Graphic Story, Then Wished Him Many Returns HOW THE MAJOR TOLD HIS ENTRALLING TALE ...
19th April 1912
Times-Tribune 50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC
Rosemary Mossien
BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....
1962
Philadelphia Inquirer PARISIAN'S WIRELESS EXPERT OFF DUTY WHEN TITANIC STRUCK BERG
But for This It Is Believed the Stricken Giant's Cries for Help Would Have Been Heard in Time to Save All --------- HALIFAX, N. S., April 18.--With two expeditions on the way to search for Titani...
19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT
Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—...
18th April 1912
LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY Titanic Review LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY
Dave Bryceson
Reviewed by Dave Bryceson...
21st October 2009
 

 
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