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Waterbury Republican American	A TITANIC EVENT On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shattering the world's confidence in technology....	20th April 2010
The Local	TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS IN STOCKHOLM It was April 15th, 1912, when the world's first unsinkable ship sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.Since then, the Titanic has rested at the bottom of the sea. Her story left a legacy that has resonated around the world for nearly a century after her demise, and has now been captured in a new exhibition, Titanic, opening to the public on Friday, May 29th....	2nd June 2009
News Leader	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC SAND SCULPTURE See award-winning sand sculptors shape a Titanic masterpiece from a 15-ton, mountain of imported sand at the World's Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction in Branson Sept. 20-23. ...	20th September 2007
The Daily Banner	VICTIM SENDS A MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT WORLD Paris, May 14 William T. Stead, the famous writer and delver into the psychic, who went down in the wreck of the Titanic, is said to have sent a message from the spirit world saying that his death was painless and perfectly calm. ...	14th May 1912
Regina Leader-Post	FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE TITANIC Almost a century after the Titanic - at the time, the world's largest ship - sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives, the dramatic story continues to fascinate people around the world. Beginning Saturday, visitors to the Saskatchewan Science Centre will have an opportunity to journey back in time and take a poignant look at this iconic ship and its passengers....	30th September 2011
Titanic Stories	TITANIC THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN ALL OVER THE WORLD! If you are looking for Titanic based events attractions memorials and tours to do all over the world then look no further than the Titanic Today section on the Titanic Stories website. We keep to date listings of all the great Titanic related activities happening across the globe and especially in Belfast home of the Titanic. Visit our Titanic Today section for the all the latest! ...	20th February 2011
	THE ENGLISHMAN Poem composed on Olympic, April 18, 1912...	18th April 1912
Birmingham Post	HERITAGE CENTRE BID COULD HIGHLIGHT LINKS WITH TITANIC A maritime enthusiast is aiming to set up a Titanic heritage centre in the Midlands, as the focal point of events marking the tragedy's 100th anniversary in 2012.Howard Nelson, from Coventry, has already established the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust and believes the Midlands would be an ideal home for a museum dedicated to the Titanic as it has many links with the world's most famous ship....	7th January 2006
ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
Times of India	TITANIC GAVE A VALUABLE LESSON TO SHIP-MAKERS The sinking of luxury passenger liner Titanic on April 14, 1912 gave an important lesson to ship builders world over - that a ship, merely by being double-bottomed, does not become unsinkable.Since then, all large cargo vessels carrying oil the world over have become double-hulled rather than just being double-bottomed as was the case with Titanic, a senior official of Gujarat Adani Port Ltd said. ...	6th January 2006
World Records Academy	MOST EXPENSIVE LETTER FROM TITANIC-WORLD RECORD SET BY SPINK SMYTHE letter, dated April 10, 1912, from a first class passenger onboard the Titanic (written by passenger George Graham of Harriston of Canada, a sales manager for the Eaton's department store company, to a business colleague in Berlin, Germany) was sold at auction by Spink Smythe in New York City for $16,100-setting the world record for the Most expensive letter from Titanic....	24th February 2009
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Lilly Potter, 98, Was ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Red Cross --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2---Mrs. Lilly A. Wilson Potter, a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims who was known as the “Grand Old Lady...	3rd January 1954
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 2011
National Roll of the Great War	WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
	ALGONQUIN 1939 The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....	1939
National Geographic	TITANIC INTERACTIVE TIMELINE BRINGS HISTORY OF THE TITANIC TO LIFE Building Titanic: An Interactive Timeline When RMS Titanic was completed, she was the biggest man-made moving object on the planet. It would take thousands of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders in Belfast, Northern Ireland three years to construct her. When Titanic sailed her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, she was hailed ‘the new wonder of the world’ — she was the largest and most luxuriously appointed ship the world had ever seen. Now you can experience the incredible history of one of mankind's most remarkable feats of engineering. Travel through time to watch Titanic come to life, and don't forget to stop at key milestones along to way to explore the many fascinating stories behind this enduring marvel....	23rd June 2011
Rahway Daily Record	WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...	18th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED Joseph Duquemin of 47 Tormuck La., a veteran of World Ward I, died this morning at Stamford Hospital after a lingering illness. Born in England on November 24th 1892 Mr. Duquemin was a resident of Stamford, for 24 years. he was formerl...	6th January 1950
	H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons St Eloi Neuve Chapelle Y...
PR News	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC MUSEUM OPENS The Titanic attraction, officially named "The World's Largest Titanic Museum Attraction," opened in March.Museum owner John Joslyn is a former television producer who dove to the wreck in a submersible in 1987 and produced the documentary "Return to the Titanic ... Live."Joslyn has been a collector of Titanic artifacts and opened a smaller, similar attraction in Orlando, Fla., that he sold to build the Branson museum.The Titanic building looms above Missouri 76, Branson's Strip. The 100-foot-tall building recreates the bow of the ship, complete with a pool at its base that sprays water as though it were cutting through the ocean....	30th March 2006
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
News of the World	LOST IN THE TITANIC Hays, Head, Stead, Straus, Guggenheim...	21st April 1912
irishemigrant.com	BELFAST TRIP A TITANIC-SIZED EYE-OPENER - THE NEW YORK IRISH EMGIRANT I’m standing in the middle of an ever-growing crowd of people, a sense of great excitement heightening all around me. All of a sudden we are thrown back in time, to May 31, 1911. I can actually feel what it must have been like for the folks whose lives played out here at this famous shipyard - Harland and Wolff, birthplace of the Titanic and, at the time, the largest shipbuilding company in the world. ... A certain sense of expectation continues as Belfast readies itself for its bow on the world stage come April 15, 2012, when it will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of that unforgettable human tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York. Never ready to forget the lives lost, the lives of those who built Titanic, and how it all played out in history, Belfast is hard at work readying itself for the event....	23rd August 2011
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)	ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named...	25th October 1924
New York Times	PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ...	21st April 1912
Titanic Heritage Trust	TITANIC 95TH ANNIVERSARY STAMPS As 2007 approaches plans are well underway all over the world to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the tragic loss of R.M.S. Titanic and over 1500 lives on 15 April 1912.As part of the 95th Anniversary Commemorations, Titanic Heritage Trust will be issuing a Commemoration Royal Mail Stamp Sheet plus two First Day Covers, one with a Belfast Postmark and one with a Southampton Postmark. For further details: 95th Anniversary Stamps www.titanicheritagetrust.org.uk/95th_stamps.htm As a society, organization or individual you are invited to join any of our events, in particular our inaugural Convention in April. All Titanic Societies are welcome.If you are organizing an Titanic event for 2007 the we would like to hear about it. Whatever part of the world you are located. Please send details and we will include them in our calendar of events for 2007. enquiries@titanicheritagetrust.org.uk...	21st November 2006
New York Times	EDWARD MAYER IS DEAD World War I Air Veteran Had Been Investment Broker --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., June 10---Edward B. Mayer of Dalton, a veteran of World War I and a retired New York investment broker, died today in ...	11th June 1955
WOOD-TV	NEW IMAGES OF TITANIC WRECKAGE SURFACE Nearly 100 years after an iceberg sent it to the bottom of the North Atlantic the Titanic remains a topic of fascination around the world....	1st September 2010
The Times	A ROUND THE WORLD TRIP The first meeting of creditors was held yesterday at Bankruptcy-buildings under a receiving order made against Maurice Allan Robinson, of 47, Victoria-street, Westminster. Mr. D. WILLIAMS, Official Receiver, reported that the ...	3rd November 1925
CBC.ca	TITANIC EXPLORERS PREPARE 3-D MAP PROJECT An ambitious research mission is set to leave St. John's this weekend with a team of scientists planning to create three-dimensional maps of the world's most famous shipwreck....	24th August 2010
New York Times	COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the...	21st April 1912
CNN News	TITANIC 100TH CRUISES SPARK BUZZ DEBATE The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history....	28th September 2010
New York Times	C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic...	9th December 1952
UTV	TITANIC TRAGEDY IS REMEMBERED A service has been held in Belfast to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. The world`s most famous maritime disaster happened when the vessel hit an iceberg in April 1912....	30th April 2007
New York Times	STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...	6th May 1907
KOLO	TITANIC MESSAGE: DREAM BIG The blue wall at Dilworth Middle School represents the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland. It's a project the seventh grade was doing in preparation for the visit of the world famous explorer Dr. Robert Ballard....	22nd April 2010
	TITANIC HYMN, 1912 As every other country in the world, France published many hymns celebrating the band of the Titanic....	1912
	THE HIPPACH FAMILY From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
Metro Canada - Calgary	SCIENCE CENTRE TO GO DOWN WITH TITANIC Organizers of a Titanic-themed exhibition hope to send the current Telus World of Science headquarters off in style....	5th February 2011
TravelVideo.tv	DIVE TO THE TITANIC BY SUBMERSIBLE VEHICLE In what will probably be the last commercial opportunity to view what is arguably the most famous ship in the world the luxury operator Luxury and More Travel is offering the chance to take one of the worlds undoubtedly most fantastic journeys....	22nd January 2011
	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
Irish Independent	A STORY THAT WAS NEARLY LOST IN THE ICY ATLANTIC Martina Devlin, author of Ship of Dreams, had a family connection with the Titanic, which sank shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912 when it hit an iceberg. The largest steamer in the world took with her the lives of 1,500 people. But what was to happen to those who escaped?...	4th February 2008
Washington Times	ACTOR IS WORRIED OVER FATE OF MAN ON UNFORTUNATE SHIP "Rene is safe; am uncertain about Harry; will wire you definite information as soon as received." This is the only comforting word received by Frank McIntyre, now appearing at the National Theater in “Snobs” and his company, which is a...	17th April 1912
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC TRAIL: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN BELFAST - DAILY MAIL We were on the Titanic Walking Tour and had arrived at the spot where the most celebrated ship in the world was designed. 'This,' as Chris put it, 'is where the Titanic dream began.' ...	25th July 2011
	MR. AND MRS. W. T. STEAD From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	1912
The Australian	TITANIC EXHIBITION A REALISTIC VOYAGE INTO LOST WORLD ALMOST a century after the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, it seems our fascination with the doomed passenger liner has not dimmed....	13th April 2010
The Australian	TITANIC EXHIBITION A REALISTIC VOYAGE INTO LOST WORLD ALMOST a century after the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, it seems our fascination with the doomed passenger liner has not dimmed....	13th April 2010
Wall Street Journal	FANS OF WORLD'S FASTEST OCEAN LINER PUT OUT A DISTRESS CALL Admirers call her the "Big U." Today, she could be in big trouble. The once-proud ship is rusting away in the Delaware River, across from an Ikea. Its owner, cruise line NCL Group, has put her up for sale....	29th September 2009
Huffington Post	TITANIC VIDEO FROM 1911 IS ONLY KNOWN FOOTAGE IN EXISTENCE PHOTOS American Locations Up For The World Heritage List. PHOTOS 18 World Cities With Old Town Neighborhoods. What Do You Think Is The Travel Story Of The Decade? . PHOTOS From Liverpool To NYC The Ultimate Lennon Tour. WATCH Former 'Baywatch' Star Says TSA Agent Singled Her Out . Airports Roads Shut Down In Snowy Paris. Oprah Lands In Australia To Join Her Giddy Guests. WATCH Cruise Ship Battles 30 Foot Waves In The Antarctic . Titanic VIDEO From 1911 Is Only Known Footage In Existence The Huffington Post Nicholas Graham First Posted 12- 8-10 0150 PM Updated 12- 8-10 0229 PM What's Your Reactiondiggfacebook Twitter stumble reddit del.ico.us Amazing Inspiring Funny Scary Hot Crazy Important Weird Read More The Titanic Titanic Footage Titanic Video Titanic Video Footage Video From The Titanic Video Of The Titanic Travel News 1192016 views144Get Travel Alerts Email Comments 144 Via Neatorama comes this rarel footage of the RMS Titanic while it was being built in 1911 by Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast Ireland. It is the only known video footage in existence....	9th December 2010
Duluth Weekly	TITANIC AQUATIC AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM ATLANTA (April 22, 2009) Premier Exhibitions, Inc. today announced its new blockbuster attraction, Titanic: Aquatic at the Georgia Aquarium, will be extending its run through September 7, 2009, due to the overwhelming demand for tickets. To date, this wildly successful Exhibition has had more than 150,000 attendees during the first few months of the run....	29th April 2009
Southern Daily Echo	TITANIC DISASTER'S LAST SURVIVOR MEETS ENTHUSIASTS ALL eyes were on Millvina Dean when hundreds of enthusiasts from all over the world descended on Southamp-ton for the annual British Titanic Society convention....	7th April 2009
Balkan Travellers	TITANIC RESURFACES IN THE GUMOSHTNIK VILLAGE, BULGARIA Based on the number of victims, the passenger linerâ€™s sinking was a tragic incident for the world, but for one village in Bulgaria, it was a true disaster....	22nd April 2010
BBC News	RECOGNITION FOR LANCASTRIA DEAD Victims of Britain's worst maritime disaster are to be officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice after a long campaign.An estimated 4,000 people died when the Clyde-built liner the Lancastria sank during World War II....	6th December 2007
BBC News	TOURING THE TITANIC QUARTER Once one of the world's busiest ports, Belfast was where the Titanic was designed, built and launched. The vast shipyards employed more than 30,000 people in the 1950s. Now the land is being cleared and redeveloped in one of Europe's biggest waterside schemes. ...	30th April 2009
	CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	1912
The Age	TITANIC THE ARTEFACT EXHIBITION WHEN oceanographer Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic in 1985 4km below the Atlantic surface the debris of the ship was scattered over 2.5 kilometres of ocean floor. Since then those remains have been scattered around the world....	25th May 2010
	HOW DID TITANIC SINK? NEW EVIDENCE! A top-secret expedition by The History Channel to the Titanic wreck site, conducted in August, 2005, produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel....
The Sydney Morning Herald	HAUNTING HALIFAX IF IT'S the Titanic you're thinking of, forget Leonardo DiCaprio.The name you need to know is Arthur Gordon McCrae. A second-class passenger on the ill-fated ship, McCrae was the only Australian passenger killed in the disaster that shook the world....	1st August 2007
bymnews.com	NEW PACKAGES FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE GO ON SALE With just over eight months to go until the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, more than 1309 passengers from all over the world are preparing to set sail on a replication of the fateful voyage. The original cruise leaving from Southampton is ......	2nd August 2011
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC PROJECT STILL ON COURSE The £97m Titanic Signature Project is on its way to becoming a world class destination, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said, during a visit to the Titanic Quarter yesterday....	5th December 2009
Chicago Inter Ocean	JAY YATES, GAMBLER, ONE OF THE HEROES Goes to His Death With Sinking Titanic After Helping Women and Children to Safety—Sends Good-By to Mother Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean New York, April 20—That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man...	21st April 1912
	TITANIC IN CHERBOURG This rare postcard shows the Titanic ablaze with lights heading out of Cherbourg harbour on 10 April 1912, at about 8 PM. Another image of the same series is known all over the world, but this one is totally different....	10th April 1912
Ilford Graphic	ILFORD PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC Ilford has her part to play in the latest tragedy of the ocean. On April 2nd last, Mr and Mrs Ben Hart were present at the "Cauliflower" in their honour prior to their departure for Canada. During the evening they were the recipients of a beautiful I...	19th April 1912
The Associated Press	ANOTHER TITANIC EXPEDITION POSSIBLE IN 2010 The president and CEO of the company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic says the company is interested in conducting its first salvage since 2004 at the world's most famous shipwreck....	27th October 2009
Southport Visiter	LOCAL MAN WAS TITANIC CAPTAIN The human cost of three sea disasters involving ships captained by men from Crosby, Blundellsands and Waterloo is on show in Liverpool.Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, looks at the trio of catastrophes that shook the world between 1912 and 1915....	14th September 2007
	SIBONEY IN CONVOY From Historical Souvenir of the U.S.S. Siboney....
	THE WORLD OF THE TITANIC Karlee Weiler A mosaic of pictures making up the story of the Titanic....	10th September 2009
CTV.ca	TITANIC EXPEDITION BACK AT SEA AND SCANNING WRECKAGE An expedition to map out the last resting place of the Titanic was back at sea Monday and continuing its work of preserving a virtual record of the world's most famous shipwreck....	14th September 2010
independent.co.uk	£220000 FOR TITANIC PLAN A plan of the Titanic used in the inquiry into the sinking of the ship in 1912 has sold for what is believed to be a world record price for memorabilia of the doomed boat. The 33ft (10m) hand-drawn plan, estimated to fetch between ......	30th May 2011
	JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
feedsportal.com	TITANIC ARTEFACTS TO GO UP FOR AUCTION - TELEGRAPH.CO.UK The owner of the largest trove of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck. ...	29th December 2011
CTV.ca	SCIENTISTS TO SET SAIL FOR TITANIC WRECKAGE SURVEY A team of scientists setting sail Sunday from St. John's harbour hope their expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck will help in the search of a more recent tragedy in the Atlantic Ocean -- that of the Air France Flight 447 crash last year. ...	24th August 2010
	BRITANNIC POSTCARD (AS HOSPITAL SHIP)
	MR. AND MRS. HARDER From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
NOW	APRIL 14, 1912 BRINGS A PHYSICAL KICK TO THE TITANIC TRAGEDY Theatre Rusticle's latest show, April 14, 1912, may commemorate the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, but don't expect any of its characters to shout that they're the king of the world....	20th September 2007
Today's TMJ4	RAW VIDEO: TITANIC EXHIBIT COMING TO PUBLIC MUSEUM One of the most popular exhibits in the world is coming to Milwaukee. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" shows hundreds of relics from the sunken ship. There will also be information about people from Milwaukee who were on board....	19th April 2008
com	HOW THE TITANIC DISASTER PUSHED UNCLE SAM TO "RULE THE AIR" - ARS TECHNICA The Times reported that it had learned from the Marconi company's Newfoundland station that the world's biggest ocean liner, the Titanic, had hit an iceberg en route from Southhampton, England. But not to worry, the newspaper assured its readers. ......	7th July 2011
New York Times	MRS. J. W. CARDEZA, TITANIC SURVIVOR Noted Yachtswoman and a Big Game Hunter of Early 90's Dies in Germantown ACTIVE IN PHILANTHROPY Twice Circumnavigated World in Own Yacht--Daughter of Late Thomas Drake PHIDADELPHIA, Aug. 1 ...	2nd August 1939
Washington Times	WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho...	16th April 1912
thestar.com	GETTING READY FOR 100 YEARS OF THE TITANIC In a graveyard in Halifax, I brushed the dead leaves from the wintered grave stone of John Clarke, the bass fiddle player from Liverpool, England, who played with the band while the Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 14, 1912. “How will the world remember the sinking of the Titanic?” I asked myself, and set off to find out....	9th September 2011
South Devon Herald Express	STEWARD'S LUCKY TITANIC ESCAPE AMAZING events surrounding the tragic sinking of the Titanic have been brought vividly to life through the experiences of two South Devon men. Torquay Museum is hosting an extensive exhibition about the world's most-famous ship, which struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people....	21st July 2008
New York Times	SMART HEIRS SEEM NOW TO BE A MYTH No Mention of Widely Sought Children in Will of Wealthy Man Lost on Titanic --- HE NEVER SPOKE OF THEM --- His Friends Recall Now After World Search That They Merely Thought That He Had Two --- Two children,...	7th January 1913
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
	TITANIC FOUNDATION Titanic Foundation exists to educate the world on Belfast’s maritime and industrial heritage- past, present and future. We want to be seen as a symbol of Belfast’s visionary future and to encourage new generations to believe anything is possible....
	MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
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
KPNX-12	TITANIC EXPLORER DEBUTS NEW SCIENCE PROGRAM With a hearty laugh, Dr. Robert Ballard, world renowned oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, likes what he's seeing in north Phoenix. It's Ballard's latest project, and sharing his discoveries has been worth the struggle. "I go to incredible places, but it's hard to take a lot of people with me," Ballard confided....	7th April 2008
This is Somerset	WEST'S MANY LINKS TO TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC The West Country has countless connections to the Titanic but here are some of the more famous ones One of the world's most famous Titanic auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Sons is based in Devizes Wiltshire. It holds auctions of memorabilia relating to the vessel several times a year....	26th March 2011
Armenian Weekly	SURVIVING THE TITANIC THE SAGA OF DAVIT VARTANIAN Davit David Vartanian was one of five young Armenian men making their way to the Free World for freedom opportunity and to earn money to send to loved ones back home in Tzermag Keghi in Historic Armenia. Their misfortune was that as third-class passengers they were booked in steerage in the bowels of the ill-fated unsinkable Titanic....	19th April 2011
New York Times	MORGAN FORTUNE NEAR $100,000,000 Financier Not Possessed of Vast Wealth of Rockefeller or Carnegie --- PUT $60,000,000 IN ART --- Lewis Cass Ledyard, His Counsel, Believed to Have Possession of His Will --- Mr. Morgan, in Wall Street's estimation, wa...	1st April 1913
Norwich Evening News	NORFOLK COUPLE'S LOVE FOR TITANIC It is a tragedy that has captured imaginations for almost a hundred years, and for one Norfolk couple the sinking of the Titanic has become a fascination.Robin and Sue Burrows, from Little Plumstead, are avid collectors of memorabilia and items connected to the vessel which at 882ft long and more than 46tonnes was the world's largest passenger steamship....	4th July 2008
	TITANIC : HISTORY ON A PLATE To be opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on 18th February 2011 ...
thespec.com	PLAN AFLOAT TO REMEMBER TITANIC STEWARD ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING William Edwy Ryerson has laid in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years, belying his involvement in the sinking of the Titanic, one of the world’s most infamous maritime disasters. Now, authorities of an Anglican Church outside London, England — where the former Hamiltonian was interred in 1949 in a pauper’s burial — are doing something about it....	5th December 2011
Chicago Tribune	LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...	18th April 1912
	TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT Terry Madill conducts a schools visit to the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, helping to educate young people about what life was like for those who worked on the building of the Titanic, the world's most famous ocean going liner...	30th August 2011
timesandstar.co.uk	SEEKING TITANIC VOLUNTEERS - TIMES AND STAR THIRTY volunteers are needed to help staff a Titanic display in Maryport from March to May. Joe Kewin, of Maryport Maritime Museum, said the exhibition at The Wave Centre would be one of the key events around the country and the world marking the 100th anniversary of the loss of the ship, which sank on its maiden voyage....	29th December 2011
Whittier Daily News	TAKE A TRIP ON THE TITANIC Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she went to sea (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank....	28th February 2010
TIME	THE TITANIC: "SHE WAS ALRIGHT WHEN SHE LEFT HERE" To grasp the extent of Belfast's tourism appeal during the three decades of the "Troubles," one only had to visit the Europa. Its status as the world's most bombed hotel underlined the fact that, for over 30 years, Northern Ireland's capital was a tourism desert. Today, Belfast's hostelries are packed with visitors as the city reaps the rewards of political stability....	28th January 2008
Southern Daily Echo	WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued....	20th October 2008
Southern Daily Echo	WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued....	20th October 2008
	TITANIC BOAT DECK From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
New York Times	ALEXANDER RICE, EXPLORER, WAS 80 Physician and Author Dies---Made Trips on the Amazon and Taught Navigation --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I, July 23---Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, explorer of the Amazon, author and member of the summe...	24th July 1956
The Mayo News	TITANIC FOR BALLINROBE WITH 42 main parts, a financial investment of €100,000, a set that was 1,000 hours in the making, music of epic quality and a tragic storyline that captured the imagination of the world like no other single event in the 20th century, Ballinrobe Musical Society promise audiences a 'night to remember' when 'Titanic The Musical' takes to the stage next week....	6th February 2008
New York Times	WILLIAM E. CARTER, TITANIC SURVIVOR Member of Old Philadelphia Family, Polo Player Before World War, Dies in Florida --- KNOWN AS A SPORTSMAN --- Was Seriously Injured in 1912 While Playing for Bryn Mawr Benedicts in Local Match --- PALM BEA...	21st March 1940
Liverpool Echo	TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers....	11th October 2007
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
Daily Gleaner	TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912....	22nd August 2008
Daily Gleaner	TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912....	22nd August 2008
Chicago American	UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...	16th April 1912
	FAMILY INFORMATION : GEORGE PELHAM George Pelham was one of six children, having four sisters and one brother: Thomas Walter (born Jan [1867]?), Ann (born 1 April 1869), Caroline (born 26 July 1872), George was next, Elizabeth (born 26 October 1875) and Louis...	11th August 2005
ARTINFO	ARTWORK SALE TO FUND TITANIC MUSEUM OPPOSED IN ENGLAND SOUTHAMPTON, Englandâ€” The Southampton City Councilâ€™s plans to auction off two artworks to help fund a museum dedicated to the Titanic is drawing art world opposition, with some critics fearing the precedent the sale might set....
KPVI-TV	MUSEUM OF IDAHO NEEDS VOLUNTEERS FOR TITANIC EXHIBIT In just two weeks, the Museum of Idaho unveils its latest and very exciting exhibit. In 1912 the world's largest ship, the Titanic, sank after colliding with an iceberg. Now, 96 years later, you can get up close and personal with the story from the iconic ship to the fate of its passengers....	20th February 2009
chroniclelive.co.uk	STROKE OF LUCK SAVED GEORDIE LAD FROM TITANIC - CHRONICLELIVE Stroke of luck saved Geordie lad from TitanicChronicleLiveIt turned out that if the original booking had went ahead, the Stein family would have left these shores aboard probably the most famous ship in the world, the ill-fated Titanic. But although Calvert later said that he was at the time disappointed not ......	23rd November 2011
The Times	MR. BRUCE ISMAY A correspondent writes:--- Will you permit me to supplement the articles concerning the late Bruce Ismay, which have already appeared in your columns, by the publication of a short personal tribute by an old frien...	23rd October 1937
New York Times	EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig...	6th May 1975
	IN MEMORY OF THE TITANIC CATASTROPHE Henry Tiedemann Grand Memorial Fantasie Words and Music by Henry Tiedemann Published 1912 by the Southern Music Company, Dallas, Texas Listen to this Piece...	1912
PRLog.Org	EAST TENNESSEE ABUZZ OVER APRIL LAUNCH OF TITANIC MUSEUM The 30,000-square-foot Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. is featured in The Mountain Press as it prepares to set sail in 2010. The world's largest Titanic Museum will feature hundreds of artifacts, interactive galleries, exclusive onboard photographs and will tell the stories of the legendary ship and its passengers....	8th December 2009
Examiner.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America.....
shorenewstoday.com	WORLD TRAVELERS RECALL TRIP TO TITANIC BURIAL SITE Hearing about a display of artifacts from the Titanic at Shore Mall in Egg Harbor Township brought back memories for Rose and Bill Povse of Absecon. Not memories back to 1912 â€“ the couple, in their early 80s, laughed at the thought of that â€“ but of a visit to Nova Scotia they took in 2004, where many of the bodies recovered from the ill-fated voyage were taken....	1st December 2011
	NORMANDIE AND NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE 1936 The Normandie, outward bound on a 1936 voyage, passes lower Manhattan. The area cleared in the 1960s to make way for the World Trade Center lies between her first and third funnels....	1936
Weekly Irish Times	GIGANTIC TO EXCEED 'AQUITANIA' Article...	14th December 1912
Milton Keynes Today	NOMADIC : SAVE THE LAST LINK WITH THE TITANIC John White, from Heelands, who has dedicated his life to preserving the story of the 'unsinkable' ship and toured the world telling her story to tens of thousands, is now leading a bid to rescue the SS Nomadic â€“ last of the White Star Line. The boat was the Titanic's tender and built to carry first and second-class passengers out to the liner from Cherbourg....	10th January 2006
The Times	AROUND THE WORLD IN A YACHT [ADVERTISEMENT] Commander C. H. Lightoller, DSC, RD, RNR, and Mrs Lightoller are inviting ladies and gentlemen to join in a ten months cruise on their 3,000-ton motor sailing yacht "Westward." Sailing end of October, visiting West Indies, South Sea islands an...	30th August 1924
Memphis Commercial Appeal	GET OUTTA TOWN: TITANIC SET TO DOCK SOON IN PIGEON FORGE A new attraction has set sail for Pigeon Forge and will become the world's second largest museum attraction solely about the Titanic.The 30,000-square-foot ship-shaped Titanic Tennessee will be located near the Black Bear Jamboree, just off the Parkway in Pigeon Forge....	24th November 2008
	DANIEL BUCKLEY AS US INFANTRYMAN Titanic survivor Daniel Buckley in the uniform and puttees of the United States Army. Buckley fought and died in World War One, and is now buried in his home town of Ballydesmond, Co. Cork, Ireland. Titanic crewman Sid Daniels also fought i...
Chicago Sun-Times	KUP'S COLUMN Irv Kupcinet ". . . . Almost as soon as the news of the sinking of the Andrea Doria was flashed to the world, 20th Century-Fox decided to reissue its epic of a sea drama, "Titanic," story of the maritime disaster of 44 years ago. . . . "...	31st July 1956
npr.org	'HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC,' AND SINK YOUR NAME J. Bruce Ismay probably shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as any of the true criminals of the 20th century, but for many years he may have been the most universally despised man in the Western world. Ismay, heir to the prominent British White Star Line shipping company, owned the Titanic, and he's the one who said it would be fine to put just 20 lifeboats on a ship that could hold 2,800 people. Why clutter the decks, he argued, when the ship itself is a lifeboat?...	15th October 2011
dailymail.co.uk	AN EERIE TRIP DIVING TWO MILES TO SEE THE TITANIC As the craft glides through the freezing depths of the ocean, more than two miles below the surface, I stare out through the thick glass window into the abyss. From the external lights of our vessel, I can see across the ancient terrain, which looks almost like a lunar landscape. Occasionally strange aquatic creatures dart across my vision, adding to the alien atmosphere. Then suddenly, there it is, the sight I shall never forget. Rising before my eyes is the prow of the most famous ship in the world. ...	12th January 2012
The Times	MR BRUCE ISMAY - AN ANONYMOUS TRIBUTE “Will you permit me to supplement the articles concerning the late Bruce Ismay, which have already appeared in your columns, by the publication of a short personal tribute by an old friend? In the world at large Bruce Ismay may possi...	23rd August 1937
Guardian Unlimited	REUTERS GETS THAT SINKING FEELING News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week....	11th August 2007
Daily Sketch	HOW CAPTAIN SMITH DIED His Last Act was to Save a Child's Life Refused to get into a boat. Of all the wild and irresponsible messages that were sent to this country in the first hours following the sinking of the Titanic the one that caused th...	30th April 1912
New York Times	SOCIETY NOTES FROM ABROAD *** Miss Gladys Cherry, who was one of the passengers rescued from the Titanic, is a cousin of the Earl of Rothes, being a daughter of the late J. F. Cherry and Lady Emily Cherry. Miss Cherry was on her way to New York with Lady Rothes. She an...	12th May 1912
International Falls Daily Journal	TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Exhibit at Science Museum bring visitors closer than ever the real TitanicOn June 12, the Science Museum of Minnesota will open the doors of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, an exhibition that features a spectacular collection of more than 250 authentic artifacts recovered from the haunting wreckage of the world-famous ocean liner....	22nd May 2009
OnMilwaukee.com	"TITANIC" IS A FASCINATING, EMOTIONAL JOURNEY It was nearly a century ago now that the RMS Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious vessel, sank during her maiden voyage after colliding with a North Atlantic iceberg. Most of us are familiar, if not fascinated, with this historic tragedy and the real objects and real stories presented in the Milwaukee Public Museum's "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition," opening Friday, Oct. 10 and running through May 25, 2009, bring us even closer to the fateful events of April 14 and 15, 1912....	9th October 2008
BBC News	GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ...	15th April 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
Chicago Tribune	ROUND ABOUT THE SOCIETY WORLD. Page 15 A number of Chicago relatives and friends will leave for the east Oct. 20 to attend the wedding of Miss Emily Ryerson and George Hyde Clark, which will take place on Oct. 23 at Ringwood, near Cooperstown, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Edw...	7th October 1915
ie	TITANIC EXPLORER VISITS SHIP'S BIRTHPLACE Dr. Ballard, the world famous oceanographer who discovered Titanic, has visited the ship’s birthplace in the former Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices in Belfast. Dr. Ballard was in town as part of preparations for the centenary of Titanic’s loss next year and is providing unseen Titanic material for the new £97m Titanic Belfast visitor attraction....	1st November 2011
Herald News	CALL OF TITANIC WILL GO OUT AGAIN Nearly 100 years ago, Jimmy Myrick, a 14-year-old Newfoundland boy, was one of the first people to hear RMS Titanic's late-night distress call. The transmissions from the stricken vessel and the resulting bustle of activity at the Cape Race Marconi Station that occurred after Myrick alerted the station’s wireless operators to the impending disaster will be re-enacted on April 14 as part of the 100th anniversary of the world’s most fascinating marine tragedies....	14th January 2012
Larne Today	TITANIC DRESS LOOKS SHIP-SHAPE WITH HELP FROM WELDER GRAEME A LARNE welder has spoken of his pride after being called upon to help create a unique dress inspired by one of Belfast’s most stunning buildings. Titanic Belfast, which will be the world’s largest visitor attraction based on the ill-fated ocean liner, commissioned the dress to celebrate the centenary of ship’s maiden voyage and the opening of the building next spring....	12th October 2011
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
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
Belfast Titanic Society	TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP On Friday 15th April at 12 noon, members of the Belfast Titanic Society will gather at Belfast City Hall to remember those from the city who were lost aboard RMS Titanic in 1912. Wreaths will be placed at the Titanic Memorial, on the Donegall Square East side of the City Hall grounds....	13th April 2011
dudleynews.co.uk	RETURN FOR NETHERTON TITANIC ANCHOR DUDLEY councillors have given the thumbs up to the return of a piece of Netherton’s history. The replica lifesize Titanic anchor, which was made as part of last year’s Channel 4 documentary about the world’s most famous ship, will be heading back to Netherton for good, after members of the Development Control Committee agreed for a permanent plinth to be installed in the town’s centre at the meeting on August 30. ...	6th September 2011
	BRIDGE OF LA PROVENCE First liner to receive Titanic's distress call...
Realscreen.com	JAMES CAMERON TEAMING WITH NAT GEO FOR TITANIC DOC Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron will bring together the director with some of the world’s leading Titanic experts for what the network is calling “the ultimate forensic investigation into the science behind what sank the unsinkable ship on her maiden voyage.” The experts will also examine Cameron’s feature film take on the event, and bring to the fore what technology has revealed about the shipwreck since 1997....	7th December 2011
	QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold...	1956
New York Times	MEMORIAL NOTICE HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR...	28th April 1912
Irish Independent	COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912....	15th August 2007
PR.Log.org	TITANIC 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS... NEWS... The World Awaits the final release of Titanic's 100th Anniversary Celebrations Program of Events. Maritime Festivals and Commemorations are in the final stages of planning. The leading Titanic Gift Company are poised to release some amazing news....	1st February 2011
Delco News Network	THE BRANDYWINE COOKING SCHOOL RECREATES TITANIC DINNER MENU The Queen of the Ocean luxury liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to the United States on April 14 1912. The unsinkable ship carrying 2229 passengers and crew hit an iceberg at 1140 p.m. and by 217 a.m. April 15 it had broken in half. Only 713 people survived most of them women and children. One of the ships most prominent passengers was Col. John Jacob Astor one of the richest men in America if not the world....	30th April 2010
GlobalAtlanta.com	ATLANTA COMPANY BRINGS TITANIC MYSTIQUE TO GEORGIA AQUARIUM Atlantans might be familiar with the story of RMS Titanic, the 'unsinkable ship' that met its end on its maiden voyage, but a new exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium is drawing more than 1,000 visitors a day to get a better picture of life on the famous ocean liner.Sites all over the world pay homage to the victims of the Titanic's tragic sinking, but a partnership between two Atlanta entities made the exhibit's worldwide debut at the aquarium possible....	15th September 2008
	CAPTAIN SMITH WAS TUSSAUDS EXHIBIT 1919 Madame Tussaud & Sons Catalogue entry 27. Commander Edward J. Smith, R.N.R., born 1853. Commander Smith was Captain of the White Star liner ''Titanic'' which went down in the Atlantic on 14 April, 1912, during her maiden voyage t...
The Counter Project	TITANIC EXHIBIT PARKS UP AT HENRY FORD MUSEUM On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world’s largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. During the 100th anniversary of the sinking, The Henry Ford will host the largest touring exhibition of “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition,” in the Henry Ford Museum, March 31 through Sept. 20, 2012....	27th April 2011
New York Times	LADY PIRRIE DEAD; HEADED SHIP FIRM Widow of Belfast Builder of Many Vessels Succeeded Him in Control of Concern --- ADVISED HIM FOR YEARS --- He Had Often Publicly Paid High Tribute to Her Assistance---Daughter of Professor --- LONDON, June 19...	20th June 1935
Southern Daily Echo	SELLING TITANIC ITEMS IS WRONG SAYS SURVIVOR Milvina Dean A HAMPSHIRE Titanic survivor has slammed black market dealers who are selling relics from the world-famous shipwreck.Britain's last survivor Milvina Dean, 94, of Woodlands, near Southampton, said the sale of items from the ship which sank killing more than 1,500 people in 1912, was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved....	30th October 2006
	CAP ARCONA WINTER GARDEN A winter garden might seem a bit superfluous on a liner who, by nature of her run, spent most of her voyage in Equatorial regions. But, they were on obligatory first class fixture until the post World War 2 years and so the Cap Arcona fea...
WebWire	TITANIC TO REMAIN OPEN IN ORLANDO The Experience owner G. Michael Harris and Unicorp Development owner Chuck Whittall are pleased to announce that after a private morning meeting; an amicable agreement has been reached between the two parties. The world renowned attraction, located on International Drive in Orlando since 1999, is now re-open for business and will remain open through a 'final weekend celebration' ending at close of business on Labor Day - Monday, September 3rd....	27th August 2007
Portsmouth Herald News	TITANIC SITE SCUBA DIVER VISITS BERWICK ACADEMY World-renowned diver John Chatterton has been involved in many high-profile shipwrecks, but it was his work diving at the site of the Titanic that brought him to Berwick Academy.On Thursday morning, sixth-graders in Susan Morris' science class could not stop asking questions of Chatterton as he recounted his adventures diving for the famous ship....	11th December 2007
Globe and Mail	LAST REMAINING CP STEAMSHIP COMING HOME TO CANADA The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era. The elegant ship, with its oak and mahogany dining room and stained-glass windows, ferried passengers and freight from Georgian Bay to Lake Superior for more than 50 years, until it was decommissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1965....	14th October 2011
New Mexican	BEMIS: LATEST LUSITANIA EXPEDITION WAS 'VERY USEFUL' Gregg Bemis arrived home to Santa Fe on Thursday night after spending two weeks off the southern coast of Ireland, where he explored the ruins of a ship sunk in the prelude to World War I. Bemis, a 79-year-old venture capitalist, estimated he has taken 30 trips to the area since he became interested in the Lusitania in 1969. In 1982, he became the sole owner of the wreck 300 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, about 12 miles south of County Cork in Irish territorial waters. ...	14th August 2011
	IROQUOIS GROUNDING One of the most photographed liner mishaps of the pre-World War 2 years was the July 1927 stranding of the Clyde-Mallory Line's flagship Iroquois.Â She and her sister Shawnee proved to be the largest vessels Clyde-Mallory ever produced, ...
Dumfries and Galloway Standard	NEW TITANIC CLAIMS BLAME DALBEATTIE MAN A SON of Dalbeattie could have prevented the world’s worst maritime disaster. William Murdoch, first officer on the ill-fated Titanic, might have saved the “unsinkable” passenger liner had he taken immediate action when an iceberg was spotted. Instead, according to a new book, Murdoch delayed for 30 seconds, analysing information coming his way. And that delay, the researchers who wrote “Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal” claim, meant the ship was unable to avoid the collision that ended with more than 1,500 people losing their lives....	16th December 2011
bclocalnews.com	AUTHOR ENGAGES STUDENTS IN CANADA'S HISTORY Exploring the Titanic with his new-found friends, 14-year-old Jamie Laidlaw, has no idea that his world is about to turn upside down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down. Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the Titanic in his latest historical novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel....	30th August 2011
eturbonews.com	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS GIVING AWAY 12 'BACK TO TITANIC' TRIPS TO BELFAST To commemorate Titanic’s Irish heritage, Titanic Museum Attractions in Branson, Mo. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. will give away six 11-day trips for two to Belfast beginning today. The 12 winners of the “Back to Titanic 100th Year ‘Tour Ireland’ Sweepstakes” will go to Belfast where they will visit the birthplace of the world’s best-known, most luxurious ocean liner. ...	14th June 2011
Dallas Times-Herald	LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD obituary...	22nd April 1935
Liverpool Daily Post	WORLD SHOULD UNITE TO COMMEMORATE THE TITANIC TRAGEDY WITH time not dispelling the ever- growing worldwide interest in the sinking of the White Star Line's RMS Titanic, it is reassuring to know that Liverpool is already planning to commemorate the centenary of the tragic loss of this superliner, which was owned and registered in the city.A special lunch, with a menu replicating that served to first-class passengers on Titanic's final, fatal night, has already been hosted by Judith Feather, Liverpool Culture Company's head of events, to bring together the ports associated with the liner....	16th September 2008
	SILVA TRIBUTE Dear Mrs Silva:I have duly received your letter of May 13th. It is impossible for me to express in words how sorry I feel because of the untimely death of Tom. I learned to love him. He was a manly fellow, of noble character, and every inch...	3rd June 1915
	MEMORIAL TO DENZIL JOHN JARVIS 2nd class passenger memorial...
birminghampost.net	BIRMINGHAM'S FORGOTTEN INDUSTRIAL PIONEER WHO DIED ON THE TITANIC He is perhaps Birmingham’s forgotten industrial pioneer – and he met his end during the most infamous maritime disaster in history. His contribution to industry in Birmingham was as significant and compelling as the likes of Matthew Boulton and George Cadbury, yet few are familiar with the name William Hipkins. As managing director, William Edward Hipkins transformed W&T Avery Limited from a burgeoning maker of scales into the world’s largest manufacturer of weighing machines. ...	4th November 2011
Villages Daily Sun	FIRST BAPTIST OF OXFORD USING STORY OF THE TITANIC TO ILLUSTRATE BIBLICAL MESSAGE When the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, the ship was deemed the biggest, fastest ship in the world, and most importantly, it was called unsinkable. Tragically, five days later, the ship struck an iceberg and sank, taking with it 1,523 lives out of the 2,228 passengers on board.The story of the Titanic is probably one of the most well-known tragedies in history. In the eyes of the Rev. Don Manley, of First Baptist Church of Oxford, it is also an event that illustrates the uncertainty of life and the need to be spiritually prepared for whatever might come....	15th September 2008
Leicester Mercury	REMINDER OF A SEA DISASTER There's a large black stone cross in the churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene, Knighton, that serves as a permanent reminder of a sea tragedy that shook the world 70 years ago. The inscription says: Erected to the beloved memory of Denzil ...	6th April 1982
PRNewswire	SAVE THE TITANIC FOUNDATION ASSEMBLES 100TH YEAR TITANIC ANNIVERSARY GALA AND CONCERT The Save the Titanic Foundation (http://www.savethetitanic.org) today announced details of the 2012 Global telecast concert event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Titanic. The 100th anniversary event will be staged simultaneously at Madison Square Garden -- The World's Most Famous Arena in the heart of New York City, the celebrated Wembley Stadium in London, and the Odyssey Arena -- The largest indoor concert arena in Ireland....	10th September 2009
Southern Daily Echo	DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM THE team that will design Southampton's £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre....
Southern Daily Echo	SELL ART OR NO TITANIC MUSEUM SAYS COUNCIL LEADER THE leader of Southampton City Council has laid down an ultimatum in the city's art sell-off row "we either flog some paintings or don't get a Titanic museum. Tories are planning to sell paintings worth millions to help pay for a "world class" maritime attraction, dubbed Sea City Museum. ...
Examiner.com	TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION NOW PLAYING IN SIX CITIES FROM LAS VEGAS TO LISBON After 97 years, the R.M.S. Titanic has finally docked in New York City. On June 24, 2009 Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opened at the Discovery Times Square Exposition for a limited engagement. Located in the heart of Times Square in the former printing press room of The New York Times, the 12,500 sq. ft. exhibition features the largest collection of Titanic artifacts in the world....	30th June 2009
Telegraph.co.uk	INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPH OF WEALTHY TITANIC VICTIM MADELEINE ASTOR GOES ON SALE A poignant photograph of Madeleine Astor, a pregnant woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic, is to go on sale.The intimate photograph was taken on Christmas Day 1911, shortly after the young bride had created a scandal with her marriage to the world's richest man. Yet four months after the picture was taken in Paris, Madeleine Astor, aged just 18 and pregnant, was a widow....	16th April 2009
BBC News	NOMADIC GOES ON SHOW AT ODYSSEY A clean-up operation has begun on the SS Nomadic before it is unveiled to the public on Monday. The ship, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, will dock at the Odyssey in Belfast at about 1830 BST. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A reception, including a brass band, has been prepared for the ship which saw action as a troop carrier in both world wars. It arrived in Belfast at the weekend after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre. ...	17th July 2006
PR-CANADA.net	IUNIVERSE WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF TITANIC: RELATIVE FATE BY V.C. KING Nearly one hundred years after the catastrophe, people around the world are still intrigued by the events leading up to the ultimate destruction and sinking of the historic ship, Titanic. Wanting to engage readers in a present-day story fabricated from the legendary ship, author V.C. King put her research skills, interest in the topic and natural story-telling abilities together to create her second published book, Titanic: Relative Fate....	20th May 2008
Newark Star	JERSEY WOMAN LOST FORTUNE ON TITANIC --- NEW YORK, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, of Bernardsville, N. J., who was saved, with her daughters, when the Titanic foundered, but whose husband, Samuel Herman, was drowned, lost all she had in the world in that disaster. He...	25th April 1912
	VIOLET JESSOP IN HER VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT UNIFORM Violet Jessop in her V.A.D. uniform...
ABC News	PLUNDERING THE TITANIC The last British survivor of the Titanic disaster condemned black-market dealers today, after it emerged that relics from the world-famous shipwreck were up for sale. Millvina Dean, 94, of Hampshire, England, who was just an infant when the ship went down, said the sale of items from the Titanic was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved. "My father [who died on the ship] is still on there," she said to ABC News. "It's awfully wrong to take things especially from a ship where so many people perished. I don't suppose these people thought of that. ¢€¦ They just thought of the money." ...	31st October 2006
derryjournal.com	BOOK CLUB FOR CHILDREN GETS A TITANIC START A thrilling read for older children, ‘Spirit of the Titanic’ follows the infamous journey and demise of the Titanic through the eyes of Sam, a fifteen year-old who plunges to his death whilst building his beloved Titanic. Now, as the greatest ship the world has ever seen, crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Sam finds himself on board – as a ghost. His spirit roams the ship, from the glamour of first class to the party atmosphere of third class. Sam shares the excitement of Jim, Isobel and their children - on their way to a new life in America....	23rd August 2011
Unidentified Newspaper	BAPTIST MINISTER DROWNED At the Baptist Church, Pastor Whitter said the disaster had filled two continents with sorrow, and affected in some way or other their fellows all over the world. He specially referred to the loss of a brother minister who had frequently preached in ...	26th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars....	5th September 2008
Orlando Sentinel	TITANIC TO SAIL TO NEW I-DRIVE LOCALE The Titanic exhibit that sailed into Central Florida almost a decade ago is headed back to International Drive, with plans for a $2 million investment to modernize and expand the attraction.Titanic -- The Experience, which introduces visitors to the world of the ill-fated ocean liner, will end its temporary run in the Orlando Science Center on Oct. 12. It will move to a 20,000-square-foot location at 7324 International Drive, a mile north of the now-demolished Mercado shopping-and-dining complex where the attraction had spent the first eight years of its existence....	11th September 2008
wimbledonguardian.co.uk	THE JOURNALIST WHO 'SANK' THE TITANIC Journalist W.T. Stead, one of the best known victims of the Titanic disaster exactly 100 years ago in April this year, was also one of Wimbledon’s most famous residents.William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) lived at Cambridge House, Wimbledon Park Road South (now part of Church Road). At 2.20am, 15 April 1912 he was on the world’s most famous ship as it sank into the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. ...	6th January 2012
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR $57,000 A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night. Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US ex...	12th April 2006
Canada.com	LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ...	8th May 2006
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST ON A BARGE SS Nomadic will return to Belfast on a barge brought from the other side of the world specially for the task.It will take five days to ferry the former Titanic tender from the French port of Le Havre to Belfast, where she was built 95 years ago.The Department of Social Development (DSD) has confirmed that the final remaining White Star Line vessel will return in July this year.She was saved from the scrapyard when she was bought at auction in Paris by DSD for the reserve price of €250,000.The Belfast Telegraph has spearheaded the media campaign to rescue Nomadic. ...	16th May 2006
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ...	3rd July 2011
Daily Mail	FIRST MODEL OF THE TITANIC BUILT FROM SHIP'S ORIGINAL PLANS WILL SET YOU BACK A COOL £1.3M The world's first model of the Titanic to be built from the ship's original plans has been revealed - but if you want to lay your hands on it it will cost you a whopping £1.3m. The stunning 1:48 model is a precise replica of the White Star liner which famously hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, costing the lives of more than 1,500 passengers.Made from brass, wood and fibreglass, the model took seven years to build using the original plans, drawings and measurements from the liner....	27th May 2008
4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
New York Times	CAPT. JOHN W. BINKS OF WHITE STAR DIES Retired Skipper of Olympic Served in the British Navy During the World War --- SPENT 45 YEARS AT SEA --- Commander of Leviathan and Majestic on Last Voyages They Ever Made --- News was received yesterd...	6th February 1939
Chicago Tribune	CHAMPION AT RACQUETS LOST. [BY CABLE TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE] London, April 17---Among the Titanic’s passengers was Charles Williams, the professional racquet champion of the world who was on his way to New York to play Standing, the Americ...	18th April 1912
ic Birmingham	LABOUR TO THE RESCUE he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic - following a campaign by a Coventry man.Titanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic, the last remaining vessel with direct links to the ill-fated ship.Yesterday the Government's bid of ?170,000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where it was originally built in 1912, to be renovated, the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson. ...	27th January 2006
Fernie Free Press	A TITANIC STORY Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the famous ship in his novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel. The Deadly Voyage is part of the popular I Am Canada series, which uses events in Canadian history as a backdrop to exciting adventures of daring young men. The book focuses on 14 year old Jamie Laidlaw, who has no idea that his world is about to turn up-side down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down....	8th October 2011
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
Washington Times	FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic...	16th March 1912
New York Times	SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...	22nd April 1912
New York Times	JOHN RYERSON John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel...	24th January 1986
Richmond Today	C. H. LIGHTOLLER AND RICHMOND SLIPWAYS At the end of the war an elderly mariner, who had rescued 130 troops from Dunkirk, moved to East Twickenham and set up a boatyard at 1 Ducks Walk, opposite the site of the old Tudor palace. Richmond Slipways as it was called, mostly repaired po...
New York Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...	19th October 1937
Liverpool Echo	MIKE LITHERLAND RECALLS THE FATE OF THE CARPATHIA, WHICH RESCUED SURVIVORS FROM THE TITANIC Mike Litherland recalls the fate of the Carpathia, which rescued survivors from the Titanic Apr 24 2010 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Echo Add a commentRecommend WE ALL know the story of the Titanic and know the Carpathia came to the rescue , well recently the grandson of Francis McLean - a waiter on the Carpathia - brought in his medals, which included his First World War medals and a medal issued to the crew of the Carpathia for their rescue of 705 people from the ill- fated Titanic....	24th April 2010
	SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 2 "On the afternoon of June 20th we entered the American War Zone and on the afternoon of the 21st a red light followed by a column of smoke which was believed to be the torching of an oil burning vessel was seen. Drawing nearer it was found to be t...
	HUSBAND OF HELEN ALICE WILSON Axel Johannas Rosenquist was the husband of Helen Alice Wilson who survived the sinking of the Titanic, the following information gives brief details of how their lives continued after the disaste...
New York Times	TITANIC WIDOW TO WED Mrs. Ryerson of Chicago Will Marry Forsythe Sherfesse, Financier --- CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (AP)---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson, whose husband, Albert [sic] Ryerson, lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be married next week, it is announced, ...	2nd December 1927
TV Guide	TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECESA New Breed Of Film Making Click HereA top-secret expedition by The History Channel to the Titanic wreck site, conducted in August, 2005, produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel. Using high-definition photographic equipment, an internationally acknowledged team of experts has located brand-new information that maritime historian Simon Mills has termed 'â€¦possibly the most significant pieces of evidence since the wreck was located in 1985.' ...	8th February 2006
suite101.com	ROBERT BALLARD VOYAGING BACK TO RMS TITANIC TO PHOTOGRAPH STERN Robert Ballard, the man who found the RMS Titanic in 1985, is going back to the site. He'll be taking photos for the world's largest Titanic attraction. For the first time since 2004 the explorer who discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1985 is returning to her grave to view and photograph her. Robert Ballard, the noted American oceanographer, is going back to the site of the ship in the North Atlantic to take photos of the stern section for a new attraction being built in Belfast....	7th August 2011
Toronto Daily Star	MRS. E.F. GORDON Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...	22nd March 1961
New York Times	MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...	16th April 1912
	IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912 Memorial document published in Great Britain in April 1912...	1912
Evening Echo	GUS COHEN Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called him the Cat, because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on...	7th August 1978
Cleveland Plain Dealer	LOSES ALL HIS MONEY NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w...	20th April 1912
New York Times	TO DEDICATE NEW CAMPANILE Italy's Invitation Includes Engraving by American Artist --- VENICE, March 27---J. Pierpont Morgan has written a cordial letter to the committee, announcing that he will be in Venice on April 23 for the inauguration of t...	28th March 1912
	WORLD'S LARGEST AND FASTEST LINER TO MAKE SPECIAL VOYAGE TO RIO DE JANEIRO S. S. "NORMANDIE" TO SAIL ON CRUISE World's largest and fastest liner to make special voyage to Rio de Janeiro FRENCH LINE AND RAYMOND-WHITCOMB ARRANGE REMARKABLE WINTER HOLIDAY If ever the announcement of a new Cruise dese...	1937
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	COLNE TITANIC MUSUEM WANTS TO ATTRACT 100000 VISITORS A NEW museum commemorating the RMS Titanic is hoping to attract around 100,000 visitors in the run up to the centenary of when the ship sank. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson, 42, has brought the Titanic and her maiden voyage to life as he opened the Titanic in Lancashire Museum, in the old Colne Grammar School, off Albert Road, Colne on Wednesday. Nigel, of Humphrey Street, Brierfield is hoping to attract visitors from around the world with his display remembering the 71 Lancashire people who were on board the doomed vessel - including Wallace Hartley, the ship’s famous band leader from Colne. ...	14th August 2011
Chicago Daily Journal	LEAPS FROM THE SHIP Charles Williams, the racquet coach at Harrow, England, who is the professional champion of the world , was coming to New York to defend his title, said he was in the smoking room when the boat struck. He rushed out, saw the iceberg, whic...	19th April 1912
AP Wire	CAMERON PLANS 'TITANIC' RESTAURANT-SLASH-NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE LAS VEGAS - Harrah's Entertainment Inc., the world's largest casino operator, unveiled its vision Monday for a high-tech theme park called "iPort" that will anchor its bid to build a casino megaresort in Singapore.The project's executive producer is Hollywood director James Cameron, who will contribute the rights and oversight to develop interactive rides based on his hit movies."We've been discussing already an 'Aliens' attraction and there's a discussion of a 'Titanic' attraction, what I call the 'Titanic' restaurant-slash-near-death experience," Cameron told reporters at an unveiling in Las Vegas....	14th March 2006
Titanic Stories	TITANICA EXHIBITION - THE ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT, NORTHERN IRELAND The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is launching TITANICa: The Exhibition and TITANICa: The People’s Story to mark the centenary of Titanic’s launch on the 31st May, running until 31 August 2011....
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	LOLA STERN : WILLIAM GREENFIELDS MOTHER IN LAW Lola Stern was born in Belgium c. 1878 to the largest diamond distributors in the world at the time. She married William Greenfields father-inlaw after his wife died - shortly after the ...
	IROQUOIS PASSENGER LIST COVER An unusual Iroquois passenger list cover from August 1934. Less than a month later, Iroquois was pressed into Ward Line service to replace the lost Morro Castle on her outbound September 8th voyage. About 50 passengers c...
Doncaster Evening Post	SAVED FROM OCEAN THANKS TO A TOY PIG Shirley Davenport A PROMISE and a toy pig saved an American woman from drowning on the Titanic's maiden voyage 62 years ago....	7th June 1974
Buda Plain Dealer	TITANIC SURVIVOR Edward Dorking, the young man from Oglesby who survived the terrible experiences of the "Titanic" disaster, will speak in Opera Hall in Buda, Saturday evening May 18. He gave his first address in Princeton, where it was heard with intense interest, f...	17th May 1912
The Times	A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC. MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number...	19th June 1914
The Evening Telegram	WON'T AFFECT STOCK MARKET Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Southern Evening Echo	KEEPING IN TOUCH FIFTY-TWO years ago, Titanic survivor Mr Ernest Allen, of 40 Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton was a stoker in the ill-fated Titanic. Today at 72 years of age, he is still stoking and at the Ordnance Survey Office, London Road, Southampton, cont...	4th September 1964
The Toronto World	WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME --------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...	17th April 1912
New York Times	SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ...	1st November 1930
Hull Times	DEATH OF MR. ALGERNON BARKWORTH Mr. Algernon H. Barkworth a well- known figure in Hull and east Riding public life, died on Sunday at his home at Tranby House, Hessle, at the age of 80. For 35 years a member of the east Riding bench, Mr. Barkworth retired from the po...	7th January 1945
New York Times	MISS EVELYN BAYNE TO WED H. M. BLANK Junior League Girl's Betrothal Announced by Grandmother, Mrs. Lockwood --- Mrs. Williston D. Lockwood of 40 East Sixty-second Street has announced the engagement of her granddaughter, Miss Evelyn Bayne, to Henry M. Blank, son of Mr. and...	16th March 1929
Western People	THE TITANIC DISASTER Moy Salmon The lamentation, mourning, and woe for the ill-fated Titanic shall rise in hundreds of sorrow-stricken hearts for at least half a century. In a little while and its unparalleled awfulness shall be well nigh forgotten by the world at large --shall be ...	11th May 1912
New York Times	COL. WILSON POTTER Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and University of Pennsylvania football star in 1906 and 1907, died last night at his home here after a long...	13th June 1946
Daily Sketch	TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the...	25th April 1912
New York Times	MARION SCRANTON MARRIED Wedded at Scranton, Pa., to Edward Mayer of This City --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 16---Miss Marion Margery Scranton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Scranton, the latter a member of the R...	17th January 1932
New York Times	FORCED MR. ASTOR TO DISMOUNT Cyclists Will Be Shut Out from Ferncliff as a Result --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 1---The fine roads of Ferncliff, the home of the Astors, at Rhinebeck, are closed to cyclers because of an unpleasant incident a few days ago, which resul...	2nd May 1897
Grimsby Evening News	UNTITLED As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t...	April 1912
New York Times	RULERS COMPLIMENT MORGAN ON BIRTHDAY Financier 75 Years Old Yesterday-Is at Aix and in Excellent Health --- DISASTER ALTERS HIS PLANS --- He Continually Seeks News Regarding the Titanic Catastrophe-Postpones Ceremony at Aix --- Spec...	18th April 1912
	ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND This 1911 record made by the Victor Military Band is very well recorded and gives an idea of the fast pace the song used to be played at. This is one song that many survivors recall being played on the night of the sinking. In fact it is not r...	1911
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THEATRE, ARTWORK. In front of the theatre, forward, there is a striking panel, 25 feet long, by Reyer Stolk. It is executed in solid masses of gold, black, red and maroon, and its theme the spread of the theatreâ€™s influence over the world by ships. Greek and Dutch E...
Unidentified Newspaper	FRANK GOLDSMITH, TITANIC SURVIVOR A former Detroit resident who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912 is dead at 79. Frank John William Goldsmith died Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived since 1979 after retiring from business. The funeral will ...	1982
New York Times	VETERANS HONOR THE DEAD Seventh Regiment Men Attend Memorial Services --- Memorial services were held yesterday afternoon by the veterans of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., in St. Thomas's Church. The Rev. Claudius M. Roome preached the memorial sermon. Mr....	29th April 1912
The Republican	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR, MILLVINA DEAN, WILL BE MISSED BY SPRINGFIELD-BASED TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPRINGFIELD - Millvina Dean kept a low profile about her connection to one of the world's most well known disasters until she was urged into the media spotlight by the Indian Orchard-based Titanic Historical Society. And, the society returned her goodwill, contributing to her care before her death on Sunday in England....	3rd June 2009
Titanic Research	THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HUGH WALTER MCELROY : CHIEF PURSER OF R.M.S. TITANIC Frank McElroy Coat of Arms...	19th June 2009
Jerseyman	MRS. PATTERSON IS CALLED BY DEATH (Morristown, New Jersey) Page 1 Wife of Editor of Jerseyman Dies in Memorial Hospital Mrs. Susan Ryerson Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago, and wife of George W. Patterson, Jr., editor of THE J...	14th January 1921
New York Times	AMERICANS IN ROME Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---[Three paragraphs which are irrelevant for present purposes have bee...	7th April 1912
"The Independent" newspaper of London, UK	ROBERT FISK: IN THE TITANIC CEMETERY, A DAY TO REMEMBER It comes as a shock to walk through the Titanic cemetery. A Canadian cable ship brought back dozens of bodies from the Atlantic. To walk past the headstones in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a deeply moving experience; they were "restored" some years ago and do not look as old as they should. Many of the Titanic dead in Halifax have no name. Others do....	25th June 2006

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