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belfasttelegraph.co.uk	ALL'S SHIPSHAPE IN JOHN'S BOOK OF TITANIC FACTS - BELFAST TELEGRAPH John White’s new book, The RMS Titanic Miscellany, contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous ship, from facts and figures to biographies and urban myths surrounding the ill-fated voyage. John is not new to the specific art of writing fact books — with over 30 sports books to his name, he could be called something of an expert at the genre — but this book is certainly different to his usual fare....	21st July 2011
Telegraph.co.uk	MATCHSTICK TITANIC The ill-fated Titanic has helped a modelmaker sail into the record books...	10th January 2007
	JACOBEAN FURNITURE - COVER OF BOOK BY HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE	1916
Irish Times	A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the â€˜Titanicâ€™ from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for...	13th April 2010
	AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 81 (English). Theological student, 25 years of age, coming to finish his studies, lost his books and baggage and suffered from exposure. He is obliged to work his way through school. ($300)....	1913
Irish Times	A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the Titanic from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for...	13th April 2010
Montreal Gazette	TITANIC TITLES ANTICIPATE CENTENARY Publishers have already started releasing titles in anticipation of the 100th anniversary next year - the Titanic sank in April 1912, with a loss of 1490 lives - and these include books aimed at young readers....	22nd October 2011
Washington Times	BOOKS: 'TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN' According to reviewer Martin Rubin "The evidence Williams has marshaled in defense of Captain Lord is compelling, and so he has succeeded in his primary mission. But he has also provided an excellent and succinct tour d'horizon of the Titanic catastrophe in all its aspects, and so this book is doubly worthy of attention."...	20th February 2010
Scotsman.com	TITANIC EFFORT KEEPS HEAD ABOVE WATER NEARLY 100 years have passed since the worlds most famous cruise liner, the Titanic, sank on her maiden voyage. Since then we\'ve had documentaries, books, exhibitions and several television and movie versions chronicling the events of 15 April 1912. Celine Dion even had her biggest hit singing on the bow of the ship - albeit a replica....	22nd March 2007
deseretnews.com	'TITANIC' MUSICAL AT LAYTON HIGH The ill-fated "ship of dreams," Titanic, will set sail on the Layton High School stage starting Thursday. The story of the rise and fall of "the largest floating object in the world" has been told many times in books, TV specials and in three different movies....	5th March 2007
Everybody Plays	HIDDEN MYSTERIES TITANIC REVIEW We all know about the Titanic disaster - there's been much interest in it over the years with many many documentaries books and even a film produced about what remains the world's greatest shipping catastrophe. When the ship sank over 1500 people died due to poor direction into an iceberg and inadequate planning. Luckily though the game's nowhere near as much of a disaster....	29th November 2010
	MARK CHIRNSIDE'S RECEPTION ROOM Titanic and 'Olympic' class research site, with a focus on Mark Chirnside's books and articles....
9news.com	MOLLY BROWN'S 144TH BIRTHDAY JUBILEE - 9NEWS.COM This Sunday, a family-friendly birthday bash is planned for the Denver icon and Titanic survivor at her namesake house and museum on Pennsylvania Street. Molly Brown has been the subject of many books, movies and stage productions, ......	12th July 2011
New York Times	TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Legend" Bring $3,100---$1,400 Paid for Christopher Columbus's "Epistola” --- "The Golden ...	17th April 1912
Norwich Bulletin	TITANIC EXHIBITION VISITS FOXWOODS RESORT CASINO The story is one that has been passed down throughout the years, told in countless ways in books, movies and TV specials. On April 15, 1912, the worldâ€™s largest ship at that time, the Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg. The disaster claimed more than 1,500 lives. All thatâ€™s left is the wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic: A debris field stretching about a mile long with items from the period....	13th February 2010
Newsweek	THE TITANIC'S LAST SECRET The Titanic sank into the North Atlantic 97 years ago. Since then, as Harvard historian Steven Biel quipped, "Only Jesus and the Civil War have been written about more." In close to 200 books, documentaries and movies-and the highest-grossing film of all time-historians, scientists and Titanic buffs have fervently debated what really caused the biggest passenger ship of her day to sink just two hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg, carrying 1,522 people to their deaths....	6th October 2008
bbc.co.uk	HISTORIC TITANIC COMPANY MINUTE BOOK BOUGHT AT AUCTION BY H&W - BBC NEWS The Belfast shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, which built the Titanic, has bought back its original Minute Book for an undisclosed sum. The item was just one lot that went under the hammer at an auction of rare books and historical memorabilia in Dublin this afternoon. ...	14th December 2011
Sarasota Herald-Tribune	THE RMS TITANIC Grab your boarding pass, it's time to embark on an exhilarating voyage aboard history's most notorious ocean liner.By now, the tragic events surrounding the Titanic's maiden voyage and catastrophic sinking, which left 1,523 people dead, are well-known.Countless books, expeditions and motion pictures have meticulosity analyzed, theorized and re-created every aspect of the "unsinkable" passenger liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912....	6th October 2008
Manchester Evening News	DIVE TO TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP A SALFORD fireman has led the world's first successful dive to the wreck of a ship which steamed to the rescue of the Titanic.A 10-strong amateur dive team led by Ric Waring entered the record books by reaching the wreck and then salvaged artefacts from RMS Carpathia, which sits on the bottom of the north Atlantic some 500ft below the surface, 200 miles from the Irish coast....	19th September 2007
New York Times Book Review	BOOKS AND MEN Elinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" and the recently published "Reflections of Ambrosine," is Mrs. Clayton Glyn, a sister of Lady Duff Gordon. She is an intimate friend of Lady Warwick. Lady Gordon is one of the well-known titled En...	15th November 1902
Belfast Telegraph	RARE COPY OF ORIGINAL TITANIC REPORT AT FAIR A rare copy of the original report on the loss of the Titanic, dated July 30, 1912 - three months after the tragedy - will be on display at the Belfast Antiquarian Book Fair in the Wellington Park Hotel on Saturday (10am-5pm).The report, which was completed by mid-summer after the sinking on April 14, is being presented for sale by Arthur Davidson of Davidson Books at Spa, Ballynahinch....	8th November 2006
guardian.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012....	31st March 2009
New York Times	BOOK NOTES Macmillan has obtained what are believed to be the only pictures of the rescue of the Titanic’s survivors and these will be used to illustrate Sir Arthur Rostron's forthcoming autobiography, "'Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, in command of the Ca...	22nd July 1931
Shepton Mallet Journal	REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher....	2nd March 2000
timeslive.co.za	AN EPIC LOVE STORY AND TITANIC RETOLD - TIMES LIVE An estimated 1 000 books have already been written on the liner and its fate. A lot more are coming. The challenge, therefore, for writers is to find a new way to tell the story. For Richard Davenport-Hines, whose just-published Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew (HarperPress) has drawn lavish praise from the critics, the answer lay not only in detailing the stories of the passengers - from the upper class toffs to the political, religious and economic refugees in third class - but also those of the men who built and owned the ship, and the crew who serviced her, thus presenting a more complete overview of Edwardian society....	9th January 2012
New York Times	TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE W. A. Spencer Left Property Worth $2,218,650 --- William Augustus Spencer, who was drowned when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, left a net estate of $2,218,650, according to an appraisal filed yesterday. The beneficiaries are Mrs. M...	10th July 1914
New York Times	P. A. B. WIDENER GIVES $4,000,000 TO SCHOOL Endowment Is Announced Coincident with the Filing of His Son’s and Grandson’s Wills --- TO AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN --- George Widener, Lost on the Titanic, Left His Estate to Family---Harry’s Rare Books for Harvard --...	21st May 1912
New York Times Book Review	THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT DOWN TO ETERNITY. By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...	19th February 1956
	MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE Page 77 (Coat of Arms) Certificate...	14th February 1912
New York Times	OUTING IN NEW HANDS The Publication Purchased by Caspar Whitney and Ten Other Men --- Caspar Whitney, for many years connected with the Harpers as writer on sporting topics, announces that he and ten other men have bought the publication known as Outing, ...	15th February 1900
New York Times	MRS. HELEN C. CANDEE SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES Page 25, column 2 YORK HARBOR, ME., Aug 23 Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, author and lecturer, of this place and Washington, D.C., died here today after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Candee, an authority on tapes...	24th August 1949
The Nation	STEAD AND FUTRELLE article...	25th April 1912
	ARTEMIS OF VERSAILLES The Artemis of Versailles, a small copy of the classical statue, lay on the mantle piece above the fireplace in the Titanic's first class lounge. The statue was one of the artefacts photographed when Dr Robert Ballard and ...
	NEW BOOK ABOUT TITANIC Margarita Campuzano An interesting and amazing research has just...
	CARGO MANIFEST SS Titanic: Commercial Cargo Manifest: Net worth of total cargo: $420,0...
New York Times	THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912 Review...	20th November 1955
Titanic Review	A RARE TITANIC FAMILY: THE CALDWELLS' STORY OF SURVIVAL Mike Poirier Families are often the guardians of history. Who would have imagined that a new, amateur photo taken aboard Titanic on the day she sailed would grace the cover of a book? Julie Hedgepeth Williams, a journalism professor, has gone throu...	11th February 2012
St. Ives Times & Express	UNKNOWN TITLE Died January 9th 1988. RICHARDS, William (Willie) Rowe Richards of Carbis Bay whose death at the age of 78 is reported on page 7 was one of the few survivors remaining of the Titanic disaster in which in April 1912 claimed 1,500 lives....	22nd January 1988
New York Times	FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t...	29th January 1935
examiner.com	'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Historical Society, and googling Titanic results in 24,400,000 results....	8th July 2009
New York Times	EDGAR J. MEYER ANOTHER HERO Helped Mrs. Harris Into a Boat and Died with Her Husband --- Edgar J. Meyer is a name to be added to the list of those who perished nobly on the Titanic. His wife was saved. It has been impossible to interview her, but through ...	23rd April 1912
Gare Maritime	NEW BOOKS CELEBRATE ITALIAN OCEAN LINERS Jim Kalafus In a world increasingly glutted with coffee-table format books, filled with minimal quantities of large-sized text and awash in “rare photographs and memorabilia” that are neither rare nor well-reproduced, it was refreshing to simul...	10th December 2011
Titanic Review	THE TITANIC AND THE INDIFFERENT STRANGER Paul Rogers The scandal of a ship, within sight of the sinking Titanic that did nothing to help. Rockets were seen and ignored...but was the Captain guilty of mass murder? Did 1500 people needlessly die?...	24th July 2009
	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
New York Times	HARVARD'S LARGEST CLASS GRADUATED Degrees for 1,205 Students at the University’s 274th Commencement --- LOWELL TALKS ON WAR --- Says Conflict Imposes Burden Upon Us---Widener Memorial Library Is Dedicated --- Special to The New York Times...	25th June 1915
Titanic Review	THE DREAM AND THEN THE NIGHTMARE George Jacub Syrians on the Titanic...	1st July 2011
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
Titanic Research	NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of where she had reportedly foundered. Shortly after t...	7th November 2002
Unidentified Newspaper	OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY] Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ...	1980
New York Times	ASTOR VILLA AUCTIONED AT NEWPORT; CHAIN DRUG STORE OWNER IS BUYER Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., July l7---A chain drugstore owner purchased today the fourteen-room French villa of John Jacob Astor here for less than half of its original purchase price. The showplace went under the ...	18th July 1948
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR Captain Charles B. Weeks Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...	11th January 2005
New York Times	ASTOR BEQUESTS HAVE ALL BEEN PAID Cost of Administering Estate to Date, with Transfer Tax, Foots Up $3,305,480 --- $24,715,478 DISTRIBUTED --- The Four Executors File Their First Judicial Accounting, Covering Personal Property Only --- The fi...	29th April 1914
Denver Post	SURPRISES AND EMOTIONS SURFACE AT TITANIC EXHIBIT The story of the Titanic is a schoolhouse staple and one of the great cautionary tales of hubris.It has spawned countless books, award-winning documentaries and memorable movies, notably the Oscar-winning blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, with its memorable image of the couple standing with arms outstretched on the ship's bow....	29th April 2009
	DOROTHY GIBSON: STAR STYLE Model and actress Dorothy Gibson and her mother, Pauline C. Gibson, filed suit against the White Star Line for recovery of property they lost on Titanic. Their damage claims were fairly modest, compared to other female petitioners, amounting to $2,38...	31st January 1913
Titanic Review	TITANIC LOVE STORIES Monica Hall Gill Paul sets off to beguile us with romance but the facts keep getting in the way....	25th October 2011
Daily Herald	AFTER 72 YRS., TITANIC SURVIVOR TALKS TO PRESS ABOUT FATAL NIGHT Kris Kopp Newspaper Article...	15th April 1984
Titanic Review	TITANIC : THE SHIP MAGNIFICENT : REVIEWED Dave Gittins Dave Gittins reviews Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, the ambitious two-volume edition that describes the achievement that was "Titanic" in detail as never before. ...	3rd April 2008
Titanic Review	THE 'OLYMPIC' CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC (REVISED EDITION) Art Braunschweiger Review of Mark Chirnside's ‘Olympic’ Class Ships: Olympic – Titanic – Britannic...	3rd January 2012
Titanic Research	TITANIC CITATION CATALOG Captain Charles B. Weeks Titanic Citation Catalogby Captain Charles WeeksI created this document to assist Titanic researchers. I have found it maddening to have to thumb through numerous books to find a particular citation on a certain subject. Using this...	21st October 2006
PA	TITANIC MISSION BRINGS TITANIC LUXURY TO LIFE The luxurious surroundings enjoyed by some of the passengers on board the doomed Titanic can be seen for the first time in almost 100 years after a team of experts recreated parts of the ship....	27th September 2010
New York Times	CUSTOMS MEN CALL LADY DUFF-GORDON After Arresting Manager of Her Shop on Charge of Undervaluing Imported Gowns --- WANT HER AS WITNESS --- Only Employe, Not President, of Lucile, Limited, Now, It is Said -...	26th May 1911
Titanic Review	TITANIC IN PHOTOGRAPHS Paul Rogers Paul Rogers reviews a magnificent new volume of Titanic images....	21st December 2011
Titanic Review	ON BOARD RMS TITANIC : MEMORIES OF THE MAIDEN VOYAGE Peter Engberg Peter Engberg reviews George Behe's compilation of letters written aboard RMS Titanic...	12th February 2012
Worksop Today	TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD AN AFTERNOON surfing on the internet led a Creswell woman to the discovery that a Titanic survivor, who died in the First World War, is believed to be buried in the village. Rita Williams, 63, of Wood Avenue, spotted the biography of Reginald Hardwick while surfing for stories about her village."I think this discovery is fantastic. It's really exciting, I have only had my computer a year. When I came across a Titanic survivor in Creswell, I passed it to my friends straight away," said Rita.Reginald is believed to have been working as a kitchen porter on board the ill-fated voyage of 1912 when the famous ship hit an iceberg.But he managed to escape on lifeboat 11. He was then taken on board the rescue ship Carpathia with other survivors which docked in New York....	22nd June 2006
Titanic Crew Biography	CHARLES S. REED, 2ND CLASS BEDROOM STEWARD Peter Northover New research reveals the identity of a Titanic steward....	10th December 2011
New York Times	SYNAGOGUE UNVEILS A STRAUS WINDOW Impressive Services When Memorial Is Dedicated Before Montefiore Cbongregation --- MR. STRAUS'S BROAD CHARITY --- Edward Lauterbach Praises Him for His Gifts to People of All Faiths --- Impressive services we...	27th May 1912
New York Times	STRAUS MEMORIALS HELD Anniversary of Titanic Disaster Marked by Two Meetings --- Memorial services for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, were held yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Straus Memorial Hall of the Edu...	16th April 1913