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ABC News	TITANIC MUSEUM Iceberg ahead! OK, so everyone knows how that story ends. But now, thanks to a new museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., tourists can get a first-hand feel for what it was like aboard the doomed ocean liner....	10th April 2010
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC WEBSITE SHOWS BELFAST LINK A Titanic website has been unveiled in New York. It will profile Northern Ireland and its shipbuilding heritage and aims to attract thousands of tourists....	30th September 2010
newsletter.co.uk	TITANIC WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE OLYMPICS A TRAVEL journalist has claimed that the Titanic commemorations in Belfast will be an even bigger draw for tourists than this year’s London Olympics. ...	18th January 2012
AFP	FINNISH BUSINESSMAN WANTS TO BUILD NEW TITANIC A flamboyant Finnish businessman said Wednesday he aimed to build a full-sized copy of the Titanic on dry land, housing a hotel and restaurants to lure tourists to northern Finland....	26th March 2009
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
MovieMaker Magazine	TITANIC'S CINEMATOGRAPHER RUSSELL CARPENTER Rush hour at the Hamburger Hamlet on Hollywood Boulevard. On a street crammed with tourists, nobody seems to notice a brand new Academy Award winner slip through the doors. Russell Carpenter, the tall, lanky, Oscar-winning cinematographer of Titanic, has come to dinner to discuss the movie and his future....	3rd November 2007
Telegraph.co.uk	TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP TO BECOME DIVERS' PARADISE When it was launched in 1914 it was intended to be superior to its sister ship the Titanic but, two years later, the Britannic lay at the bottom of the Aegean Sea - the victim of a mine laid by a German U-boat.Now a project is under way to transform it into a subaquatic paradise for divers and a haven for tourists....	2nd August 2007
4NI	FUNDING BLOW FOR TITANIC PROJECT Belfast's Titanic Signature Project - showcasing the city's maritime and industrial heritage and likely to cost an estimated £90m, has suffered a setback. The initiative, which aims to attract thousands of tourists to the Titanic Quarter, had applied to receive 25m of lottery money and has now failed to reach the final funding shortlist for the lottery's Living Landmarks Fund....	19th October 2007
u.tv	PUBLIC ACCESS TO TITANIC DRAWING OFFICE - U.TV The seven-year agreement between the Department of Enterprise and developers at Titanic Quarter is expected to be signed soon. It is hoped the building could be open to tourists for the centenary of the ship's sinking next April, after Titanic Belfast opens its doors to the world at the end of March. The attraction is expected to be thronged with visitors - but until recently all those enthusiasts could not have expected to get inside the historic drawing offices nearby where the vessel was designed....	12th December 2011
The Guardian	NORTHERN IRELAND LOOKS TO TITANIC FOR ECONOMIC BOOST The most famous ship to sink is being used to refloat Northern Ireland's flagging economy. On the banks of the river where the Titanic was constructed, a leisure and education project is almost complete. The Stormont government hopes it will attract 50,000 extra tourists a year. With its gleaming glass, curved shape and illuminated roof, the Titanic building resembles the Bilbao Guggenheim. Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism....	10th October 2011
	ANCESTORS ON BOARD Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. With ancestorsonboard, you can search for records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York....
Associated Press	PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri...	16th April 1912
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BBC News	UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT The man, one of Britain's most experienced dive masters, was leading a filming expedition around the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic....	24th May 2009
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
Chicago Evening Post	AMERICANS IN PARIS MOURN LOST KINSMEN Hundreds in French Capital Had Relatives Aboard the Titanic...	16th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop Passed Away While Guest of Mrs. O. W. Cannon TAKEN ILL FRIDAY Had Arrived Here on Previous Day For Visit With Her Companion on Long Trip Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the surv...	1916
New York Times	J. P. MORGAN DUG INTO EGYPT'S PAST Financier Superintended the Search for Early Christian Cemetery at Khargeh. --- BUILT A HOUSE IN DESERT --- Had Force of Man at Work Under Egyptian Engineers, and Enjoyed Himself in Flannels ---...	16th March 1912
Hexham Courant	OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF Helen Compson Summer 2004 news report...	21st May 2004
Newark Star	THREE OF TEN JERSEY PASSENGERS ARE SAFE Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel and Henry Blank Reported Among Those Rescued from the Titanic Wreck --- Up to a late hour last night only three of the ten New Jersey passengers on the Titanic were definitely known to be among the survi...	17th April 1912
New York Times	WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...	8th January 1907
BBC News	DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck....	21st November 2008
Town and Country	MASTERS OF THE SEA A. I. M. The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans...	19th April 1902