Witness Statements

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Brighton Argus	MR. PITMAN Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w...	24th April 1912
Washington Herald	MAJ. BUTT TOLD FRIENDS HE HAD FEAR OF MISHAP Remarks of the President's Aid Before Going Abroad Are Recalled --- President Taft yesterday made earnest efforts to obtain news of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aid. He communicated two or three times with the White Star offices i...	17th April 1912
Liverpool Echo	TITANIC MEMORIES A STARCHED white apron bears silent witness to the terrible night when the luxury White Star liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives....	14th April 2008
Southern Daily Echo	LINK WITH THE TITANIC: DEATH OF LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON A notable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by death at the Sailors' Home at Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) yesterday afternoon. Le...	8th August 1913
Je Sais Tout	GUGLIELMO MARCONI About eighteen months after this picture was taken, Marconi would be a key witness at the Senate enquiry into the loss of the Titanic....	15th December 1910
New York Times	MRS. GAGE BLAMES ALL ON MRS. GRACIE Court Adjourns to Give District Attorney Time to Find Missing Witness --- C. J. BELL STILL NERVOUS --- Banker Insists Upon Mrs. Gage Being Returned to the Asylum for Fear of a Tragedy --- Special to The New Y...	13th April 1912
The Virginian-Pilot	TITANIC-ARTIFACTS CASE DELAYED FOR APPRAISER A hearing on the future of the Titanic artifacts has been delayed until Nov. 23 to enable a key witness to testify....	10th November 2009
New York Times	LORD PIRRIE NOT RETIRING Report That He is Quitting Harland & Wolff is Denied --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, March 14---I am authorized to state that there is absolutely no truth in the statements...	15th March 1912
New York Times	POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...	23rd October 1928
New York Times	POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...	23rd October 1928
The Times	B.B.C. AND THE TITANIC DISASTER The following statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not in The Times) to the effect that the B.B.C. intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster has been issued by the B...	15th February 1932
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
The Tribune	WITNESS NIGHT OF THE TITANIC Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic a ship widely heralded as 'unsinkable' struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Over the course of the next few hours, a great tragedy unfolded as weather, ice, the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship. In Night of the Titanic, now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium, experience the Titanic's last day to discover what went wrong, and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future....	7th April 2008
The Syracuse Herald	WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat...	3rd May 1912
Daily Express	BBC DENY TITANIC RADIO PLAY TO BE BROADCAST BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster has been issued by the...	25th February 1932
	LOUIS GARRETT'S TESTIMONY From the French edition of the Witnesses of Jehovah's journal...	22nd January 1982
New York Times	TITANIC DEATH STARTS SUIT Executor of Col. Weir Seeks to Recover Alleged Brokerage Account --- Surrogate Cohalan denied yesterday as "unreasonably inquisitorial" an application by Harold M. Weir, executor of the estate of Col. John Weir, to examine Mrs. Elizabet...	4th October 1912
Torquay Times	ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER : STRANGE STORY OF MAN WITH TWO NAMES There was an echo of the Titanic disaster at the Torquay County Court on Saturday, when Mr E Hutchings made an application under the Workmen’s Compensation Act on behalf of George Barnhouse, an old age pensioner, residing at Arch Row, Stenti...	25th April 1913
	R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY. A large scales plan of the Titanic used during the Titanic enquiry is offered for sale......
	LETTER FROM RICHARD GILL TO THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA To The Provincial Secretary Halifax. Nova Scotia July 24 1912 I Richard Gill of Joy House Cougresbury In the County of Somers...	24th July 1912
New York Times	WALDMAN DEATHS AGAIN HELD ACCIDENT Police After Second Inquiry Stick to Original Theory of Children's Fall --- WORKMEN TELL OF TRAGEDY --- Describe the Mother's Frantic Efforts to Save Sons---Norris Investigation to Go On --- The second police...	24th October 1928
	FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET - A TITANIC LIFE - PETER ENGSTROM After many publications, writings, mentions, manuscripts, articles and even a dissertation we introduce the biography of Francis Davis Millet. 465 pages of history, common knowledge and eye-witness accounts have been collected and compiled by A...
New York Times	TO PROVE MRS. GAGE DESCENDANT OF KINGS Defense Introduces Family Tree in Proceedings Brought by Banker C. J. Bell --- ROOSEVELT'S ROYAL ORIGIN --- Miss Gage Testifies That an Ancestor of Colonel Was a Scottish King—--Threaten Mrs. Gracie with Arrest ---...	12th April 1912
Port Jefferson Echo	A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER J. CLINCH SMITH NOT SAVED James Clinch Smith, of Smithtown, one of the passengers of the steamship Titanic, whose name is not reported among the survivors, was well known on Long Island as a sportsman and society man. ...	20th April 1912
Chicago American	ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...	24th April 1912
New York Times	MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday --- A DIVORCE WAS RUMORED --- Couple Were Wed Here Late in 1933---She Is the Former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick --- Enzo Fierm...	31st January 1935
Hampshire Advertiser	LINK WITH TITANIC - DEATH OF THE LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON A noticeable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by the death at the Sailors’ Home Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) on Friday afternoo...	9th August 1913
Washington Herald	MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT'S HEROISM Mrs. Churchill Candee "The Action of Men of the Titanic Was Noble," She Writes --- By MRS. CHURCHILL CANDEE, Of Washington. --- New York, April 18---The action of the men on the Titanic was noble. They stood back in every instance that ...	19th April 1912
The Witney Gazette	CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the...	20th April 1912
New York Times	FLOWERS FOR OCEAN GRAVE Wife of Titanic Victim Strews Then Near Scene of Wreck --- When the Cunarder Carmania was in latitude 39.16, longitude 50.14 West, the nearest she approached to the place where the Titanic foundered, Mrs. J. H. Loring, a first-cabin pas...	13th May 1912
New York Times	SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....	26th June 1915
New York Times	BELIEVE MRS. GAGE HAS SOCIAL DELUSION Her Threats Against C. J. Bell, Alienists Testify, Were Due to Form of Paranoia --- DAUGHTER NAMES INFORMANT --- Says Mrs. Archibald Gracie Told That Banker Blocked Mother's Plans---Belva Lockwood Defends Her ---...	5th April 1912
Torquay Directory	MAN WITH TWO NAMES : TORQUAY PENSIONER AND HIS SAILOR SON Claim For Loss on the “Titanic” At Torquay County Court on Saturday Judge Lush-Wilson arbitrated in an action under the Workman’s Compensation Act by George Barnhouse, of Stentiford’s Hill, T...	23rd April 1913
The Washington Post	BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...	22nd May 1912
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
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
New York Times	MARRIED IN EARLY DECEMBER A brilliant and fashionable assemblage gathered at noon yesterday in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth-avenue, to witness the marriage of Miss Florence Schieffelin, a daughter of George R. Schieffelin and a great favorite in New-York society,...	5th December 1888
New York Herald	BRAVERY OF TITANIC SURGEON DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS NORMAN O'LOUGHLIN In accounts printed about the Titanic and the bravery of her officers little has been said of one who probably was the most widely known and best beloved of all classes....	22nd April 1912
The Times	OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...	20th April 1912
New York American	DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,...	22nd April 1935
New York Times	LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ...	28th May 1911
Washington Herald	WENT TO DEATH WITH HIS HOUNDS Clarence Moore Had Pack of Prize Animals with Him on the Titanic --- That about a hundred of the finest drag hounds money could buy went to a watery grave with Clarence Moore, for many years master of hounds of the exclusive Chevy Chas...	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
Rahway Daily Record	STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ...	19th April 1912
	REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
Titanic Research	RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC Brian J. Ticehurst ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world. The Ritz Restaurant (as it was called) was situated on B deck and was for the exclusive use of First Class passengers only. Th...	19th September 2005
	MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE Page 77 (Coat of Arms) Certificate...	14th February 1912
	CHRISTOPHER MILLS LETTER A letter from a relation of Chris Mills. Written in the days following the sinking it mentions the uncertainty of knowing whether or not he had survived......	20th April 1912
Rockford Morning Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...	26th April 1912
Washington Times	MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ...	16th April 1912
Evening World	TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...	22nd April 1912
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
	CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA Senan Molony CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...	28th December 2006
New York Times	2 GUGGENHEIM HEIRS DIE IN 13-STORY FALL Baby Boy and Brother Drop From Arms of Mother on Hotel Surrey Roof --- SHE IS STRICKEN BY SHOCK --- Mrs. M. S. Waldman, Daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, Unable to Explain Accident --- Terrence and Benjamin W...	20th October 1928
Titanic Research	ICE ON DECK Henning Pfeifer Further analysis of the iceberg impact....	12th February 2002
New York Times	DEATH OF BOYS HELD ACCIDENT BY NORRIS Medical Examiner Announces Finding After Iquiry Into Waldman Tragedy --- HEARS SEVEN WITNESSES --- Absolves Police for Moving Bodies and Says Their Inquiry Was Thorough --- WORKER TELLS OF FALL ---...	25th October 1928
Hudson Observer	LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf...	23rd April 1912
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS Markus Philipp One of the thorniest questions about the Titanic disaster is, how her clock was changed during the journey. Several events observed by differing observers at different locations add to the confusion about the difference between Titani...	16th February 2003
ET Comment	SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i...	5th December 2006
Chicago Tribune	SKIPPER PREDICTS FATE OF TITANIC SKIPPER PREDICTS FATE OF TITANIC Wreck of Liner Fulfills Prophecy Made by a Veteran Steamship Captain ...	18th April 1912