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Worcester Telegram (1912) TITANIC INSURED FOR $5,000,000
LONDON, April 15- The Titanic was insured for $5,000,000. No definate information is obtainable as to the amount of valuables on board but it is generally understood that the vessel took diamonds consigned to dealers whose estimated value is as high ...
16th April 1912  
Cape Cod Today (2009) 1912: CAPE LISTENS AS TITANIC SINKS
Shortly after midnight on this day in 1912, on the 13,600-ton Cunard liner Carpathia approximately 1,100 miles east of Cape Cod, wireless operator H.T. Cottam was preparing for bed after a long night of sending and receiving messages.Three hours earlier, the Carpathia's captain, Arthur H. Rostrom, alarmed by warnings from other ships of ice in the vicinity, asked Cottam what other vessels were within range of the wireless....
16th April 2009  
  CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS
BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ...
   
  (1915) MADELEINE ASTOR WITH STEPSON VINCENT
Vincent Astor (left) with his stepmother Madeleine, photographed at a circa 1915 public event (believed to be the opening of the Astor Cup Race)....
  1915  
Los Angeles Times (1933) RACE SWINDLER SUSPECTS HELD
Victim Spends Year on Trail of Asserted Fleecers ---------- SAN JOSE, July 4. (AP) - Charged with swindling J. T. Taylor, retired New Yorker, out of $27,000 in a fake horse race deal, C. W. Coleman 55 years of age, and...
5th July 1933  
  (1912) MARCONIGRAM
From Mr. Jules Brulatour, New York via Cape Cod to Miss Dorothy Gibson, Carpathia 'Will be worried to death till I hear from you what awful agony Julie' ...
16th April 1912  
Chicago Tribune (1912) WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND
Halifax, April 16—Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless s...
18th April 1912  
Chicago American (1912) 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  
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION CO., LTD.
Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., Ltd. Successors to Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Co. and the Albion Co. Established 50 years ago. This company maintain a regular service of passenger and cargo steamers between London and New Zealand, and...
   
  (1913) THOMAS WILLIAM SOLOMON BROWN'S DEATH CERTIFICATE
DEATH CERTIFICATE 1 - Name of deceased: Thomas William Solomon Brown 2 - Birthplace of the deceased: Cape Town 3 - Names of the parents of the deceased: Father: Thomas William Brown Mother: Unknown 4 ...
9th January 1913  
Independent ART TREASURES MAY BE SOLD TO FUND 'TITANIC' MUSEUM
Trotting along a deserted beach; leading out a pack of hounds in a winter landscape; or locked together in the heat of the race; the elegant horses in Sir Alfred Munnings' renowned paintings speak of a quieter, more traditional Britain....
   
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA
New York, April 19.- Mrs. C.F. Crane of Fort Sheridan, Ill, a passenger on the Carpathia, today gave this graphic account of the Carpathia's thrilling race with death. She said that news of the disaster had become known to the passengers on board the...
20th April 1912  
  (2005) ROYAL EDWARD
Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1...
10th May 2005  
  (2005) ARMENIAN
Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion. (courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Famous Liner...
27th March 2005  
Daily Express (1912) TITAN HAS SUNK - JANUARY 1912
Steamer Founders Four of crew drowned A Lloyd's Constantinople messages says - The steamer 'Titan', late Craigearn, foundered 20 miles off Cape Doron. The crew was picked up by the British steamer 'Empress'. Four were dro...
2nd January 1912  
New York Times (1912) RACE MEETING AT AUTEUIL
*** By Marconi Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times *** PARIS, Feb. 17---*** Mrs. Brandeis Cohn, Loyal B. Cohn, Walter H. Cohn and Emil Brandeis, who had been in Switzerland for the last six months, have arrived in Paris...
18th February 1912  
New York Times (1927) CHICAGO WIDOW SENDS PLANE FOR BRIDEGROOM BUT GALE DELAYS 9,000-MILE RACE TO ALTAR
Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Dec. 9---Mrs. Emily Boris [sic] Ryerson, wealthy widow of Arthur Ryerson, the steel maker, who was lost on the Titanic, today dispatched an airplane to St. Paul in an effort to bring her fiancé...
10th December 1927  
The Times (1924) OBITUARY---MR. C. BOWER ISMAY
Mr. Charles Bower Ismay, of Hazelbeech Hall, Northampton, who had been ill for some weeks, died yesterday morning. He was well known on the Turf, and was the owner of Craganour, which ran in the famous Derby of 1913. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay was...
26th May 1924  
ET Research (2004) 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG
WILLIAM McMaster Murdoch lost his life, in common with one and a half thousand others, in April 1912. He had tried to “port around” an iceberg, but “she was too close.” First Officer Murdoch tried to slalom the berg by orde...
6th February 2004  
New York Times (1910) COL. THOMAS POTTER, JR.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 2---Col. Thomas Potter, Jr., a wealthy oilcloth manufacturer of Philadelphia, died here to-night. Mrs. Potter, Wilson Potter, his son, and Mrs. Allen Earnshaw, his daughter, were at the bedside when the end came. When Col...
3rd December 1910  
The Toronto World (1912) WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS
------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T...
17th April 1912  
The Evening Post (1912) HOLDING BACK FACTS OF DISASTER STIRS CRITICISM
Charges ranging from indifference to deliberate suppression of news are being made against the White Star officials on both sides of the Atlantic . As ground for these charges one needs to go back only to the rapid sequ...
18th April 1912  
The Evening Telegram (1912) AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT
   S.S. Titanic Cape Race April 14 Mrs. Geo. E. Graham, 240 Dufferin st., Toronto, Canada ...
16th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) NO SIGN OF WRECK
Steamer Bruce Sends One Brief Message Reporting Storms. By the Associated Press ST.JOHN'S, N.F., April 17.- Henry Duff Reid, vice president of the Reid Newfoundland Co., owner of the steamer Bruce, said he has re...
18th April 1912  
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD
Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ...
   
The Times (1984) HAROLD COTTAM
Wireless operator in rescue of Titanic survivors page 18 Mr Harold Cottam, who died yesterday in Nottingham at the age of 93, was the wireless operator on he Carpathia on the night of April 12 (sic) 1912, when the Titani...
31st May 1984  
  JOHN FREDERICK PRESTON CLARKE
Clarke, John Frederick Preston. 22 Tunstall Street, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. Orchestra (Bass). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ...
   
Washington Times (1912) 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  
New York Times (1909) INCREASING PROFANITY AMONG BOYS [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To the Editor of The New York Times: Of late we see accounts both in the United States and Canada calling attention to how profane and bad language is increasing among the boys. The truth of this cannot be denied by any one...
30th June 1909  
New York Times (1912) JAMES CLINCH SMITH
Brother-in-Law of Stanford White---Well-Known Sportsman --- James Clinch Smith, a brother-in-law of the late Stanford White, is well known as a sportsman and in society circles both in this city and in Paris. Until May, 1911, when he r...
16th April 1912  
The Syracuse Herald (1912) FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS
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20th April 1912  
The Charleroi Mail (1912) MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER.
SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...
23rd April 1912  
New York Times (1912) AUTEUIL SOUNDS THE PANNIER'S DOOM
Smart Display of Summer Fashions at Paris Race Course Shows Radical Style Changes --- NOVEL ROBESPIERRE GOWNS --- Immense Crowd Out to See the French Grand National---Americans Less Numerous Than Usual...
24th June 1912  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (1992) THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES
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  
New York Times (1912) DAUGHTERS OF JACOB HONOR IDA STRAUS
Unveil Tablet in Their Home Commemorating Her Beautiful Life and Heroic End --- AGED CHANT PRAYERS FOR HER --- Self-Sacrificing Devotion of Titanic Victim Held Up as an Inspiration to the Women of Her Race ---...
25th November 1912  
Women's Wear Daily (1911) EDITH L. ROSENBAUM'S LETTER
She Describes Some of the Newest Things in Furs (Special Correspondence of Women’s Wear) Paris, July 17, 1911 – With the intensity of the present Paris heat, which is most unusual, one is really almost unable to see anyt...
25th July 1911  
  THE ROSSENDALE BARD FROM ADDERGOOLE
Andrew Houston was born in Doonbreedia in the parish of Addergoole, Lahardane, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on 1st May 1849, and would have attended Rathkell National School w...
   
Ulster Star (2009) AUCTION OF TITANIC FURNITURE PIECE
IT may only be a small piece of furniture, but its special link to the Titanic means it is set to create a buzz when it goes under the hammer at an auction in Lambeg Parish Church next Saturday (May 30th).Nearly 100 years after its launch...
22nd May 2009  
  (2005) RIO PIRAHY
European and Brazilian Steam Ship Cp., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. by 49 ...
12th April 2005  
New York Times (1912) MEMORIAL NOTICE FOR ISIDOR AND IDA STRAUS
STRAUS---The Directors of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children tender their heartfelt sympathy to the family of Isidor and Ida Straus, called by Him who holds the mighty ocean in the hollow of His hand. Isidor Straus was distinguished fo...
21st April 1912  
  (1932) THEODOOR DE MULDER'S CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To Be Given To The Person Naturalized No. 3637076 CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP Petition No. 71418 Personal description of holder as of date of naturalizatio...
5th December 1932  
ET Research (2003) TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS
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  
  ROAMING AROUND: MEMOIRS OF A MARCONI OPERATOR
Extract The next year went past for me in many experiences of life and places. I was a fully fledged Marconi operator, had visited my Australia of loving memories, Norway, with its North Cape, where I had taken photographs...
   
  (1937) MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937
TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ...
  1937  
New York Times (1912) STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE
The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Voice (2009) FORGOTTEN TITANIC HERO WHO SAVED HIS FAMILY
THE LAST known survivor of the Titanic, Millvina Dean, received a great deal of media attention when she died recently, but how many know about the only black family that sailed on the ill-fated liner? Haitian Joseph Phillippe Lemercier La...
15th June 2009  
Washington Herald (1912) 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  
  COLERIDGE FAMILY INFORMATION
Reginald Coleridge was born in 1883 at 23 Bitton Street, Teignmouth, Devon. He was the only son of Charles Coleridge (cabinet maker) and Annie. He had a younger sister named Augusta. Reginald’s grandfather, James Coleridge (1824-1904...
   
Daily Telegraph (1912) RUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE – ICEFIELD DESCRIBED
SS. Birma (off Dover), Monday, April 22. We left New York in the Birma, of the Russian East Asiatic Com­pany, on Thursday afternoon, the 11th inst., bound for Rotterdam and Libau (Russia), in splendid we...
25th April 1912  
  (1912) STAND TO YOUR POST / BE BRITISH
Recorded in London May or June 1912 "Stand To Your Post" by Bennett Scott "Be British" by Lawrence Wright and Paul Pelham ...
  June 1912  
Trenton Evening Times (1912) ROEBLING SAID GOODBYE TO FRIENDS AND THEN PERISHED WITH BLACKWELL, HIS COMPANION
"You will be back with us on the ship again soon", were the last words of Washington A. Roebling, II, so far as Trenton relatives know. In an interview this morning at the Waldorf-Astoria between Miss Caroline Bonnell and Ferdinand W. Roebling,...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1903) THE CEDRIC'S PARROT MASCOT
"Baden-Powell" Won Purser McElroy's Heart by Sighting a "Landlubber off the Starboard Not since the days of Funston the famous Mexican parrot of Castle William on Governors Island, has there been seen in the...
4th May 1903  
New York Times (1908) COL. ASTOR IMPORTS A NEW BREED OF DOG
Animal, Which Society Is Expected to Take Up, Is a Cross Between a Bear and a Hound --- GROWLS AT CUSTOMS MEN --- Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Praises Hammerstein's Productions---Duchess of Marlborough's Return Delayed --...
22nd September 1908  
New York Times (1912) MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS--- A Special Meeting of the Board Of Directors of Montefiore Home, held April 21, 1912. The President, Jacob H. Schiff, announced the melancholy death of the Honorable Isidor Straus and his devoted wife in the dis...
22nd April 1912  
San Francisco Chronicle (1912) GIVES LIFE FOR LOVE OF HUSBAND
Relatives Here Believe Wife of Isidor Straus Refused to Leave His Side. That her devotion to her husband, refusing to leave the ship unless he accompanied her from the ill-fated Titanic, cost the life of Mrs. Isidor...
17th April 1912  
Liverpool Echo (2009) MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED
IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea. The Cunard liner was not long on her journey when her radio operator contacted another ship with a sta...
10th October 2009  
New York Times (1912) SYNAGOGUE UNVEILS A STRAUS WINDOW
Impressive Services When Memorial Is Dedicated Before Montefiore Cbongregation --- MR. STRAUS'S BROAD CHARITY --- Edward Lauterbach Praises Him for His Gifts to People of All Faiths --- Impressive services we...
27th May 1912  
ET Research (2004) A RACE THROUGH A NIGHTMARE
“The English racing establishment would never let a horse owned by Ismay win the hallowed Derby…” If the 1913 Derby at Epsom is remembered for anything, it is the shocking protest by a suffragette who dashed fro...
27th February 2004  
PRNewswire (2009) 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 Madiso...
10th September 2009  
  (2004) ROYAL STANDARD
White Star Line The White Star Line was founded in 1845 by two Liverpool ship brokers, Henry Threlfall Wilson and...
14th November 2004  
ET Research (2009) IT’S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST
This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the Titanic wreck site. Note to...
9th January 2009  
 

 
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