Captain And Crew
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(1911) | CAPTAIN AND CREW Captain Smith seen aboard the Olympic... | May 1911 | |||
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(1912) | LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH | 11th April 1912 | |||
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CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE | |||||
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HENRY WILDE AND CAPTAIN SMITH | |||||
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CAPTAIN LORD WITH OFFICERS OF A LATER COMMAND. Captain Stanley Lord (centre) of the Californian pictured with officers of a later command.... | |||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SMITH VOUCHED FOR BRAVERY OF CREW Told Shipbuilder His Men Would Die Like Those on Birkenhead --- LONDON, April 22---Manager Director Kemster, of the shipbuilding firm which constructed the Titanic, while speaking to a meeting at Belfast today, said that just before the... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MEDALS FOR RESCUING CREW Bill Introduced in House to Decorate Men on the Carpathia --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 22---Representative Francis of Ohio to-day introduced a resolution calling for Federal recognition and deco... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Independent Press | (1912) | ARTHUR WILLIAM BARRINGER Mr. Arthur William Barringer, son of Mr. William Barringer, of 15 Thoday Street, Cambridge, was a Steward on the Titanic. It is hoped that he may be among those of the crew who were rescued, but his name has not appeared among the survivors. Mr. Barr... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1939) | 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 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | TITANIC : A NICE LITTLE EARNER NULL... | 26th January 2006 | ||
| Highland News | (1912) | CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | EDWARD JOHN SMITH WITH DOG | 1912 | |||
| (1912) | BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912 THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her... | 1912 | ||||
| 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... | ||||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Shaldon has a particular interest in the loss. George Fox Hosking is senior third engineer on the Titanic. He is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs Hosking of The Green, Shaldon, and resides in London. He has a wife and three children. The parents... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in which... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH MEMORIAL Captain E. J. Smith Memorial A committee has been formed for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a suitable memorial to the late Commander Edward John Smith RNR, the Captain of the Titanic. It is pro... | 27th September 1913 | |||
| Newton Abbot Western Guardian | (1912) | UNTITLED Captain and Mrs. Hosking of Shaldon have received a telegram from Mr. Bock, Captain Hosking’s cousin in America, who had travelled about 300 miles to meet Mr. George Fox Hosking, the Senior Third Engineer on the ‘Titanic’ who he was hoping would be a... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVORS' STORIES ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH One hundred and sixty-seven survivors of the crew of the Titanic landed at Plymouth on Sunday from the Red Star liner Lapland. They told a large number of full and graphic stories of the disaster. One of the chief facts brought to light i... | 4th May 1912 | |||
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CARPATHIA MEDAL Captain Rostron, the officers and crew of the Carpathia each received a medal in recognition of their efforts on the night ... | |||||
| BLUE JACKET (Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days... | ||||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE OF THE TITANIC Captain Smith photographed by a newspaper photographer on the bridge of the Titanic. Southampton, April 1912. A Engine Telegraph is visible in the background.... | April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C... | 30th April 1931 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | CUNARD EMPLOYEES TO HONOR ROSTRON Fleet Is Taking Up Subscription for Testimonial to the Retiring Commodore --- DIGGLE HIS SUCCESSOR --- Captain Edgar T. Brltten Will Command Berengaria When She Returns In February --- Officers of the Scythi... | 3rd November 1930 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CONGRESS THANKS ROSTRON Bill Providing for Gold Medal to Captain Goes to Taft --- WASHINGTON, July 1---The thanks of Congress are conveyed to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron and the officers and crew of the liner Carpathia, for their rescue of 704 survivors of the Tit... | 2nd July 1912 | |||
| (1911) | CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC Famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | May 1911 | ||||
| (1911) | CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC Another famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'.... | May 1911 | ||||
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The Sun | (2008) | SACK FOR THE TITANIC CREW A LETTER showing the crew of the Titanic were sacked when news of its sinking reached Britain has been valued at £1million. The document, never seen in public before, has been loaned to an exhibition on the 1912 disaster.... | 24th July 2008 | ||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic. The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | ARTICLE Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth... | 29th April 1912 | |||
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CAPTAIN SMITH PLAQUE Plaque erected to the memory of Captain Smith... | |||||
| New York Times | (1922) | DINE CAPT. ROSTRON ON THE MAURETANIA 156 Guests of Sir Ashley Sparks Pay Tribute to Commander's War Aid --- HE PRAISES HIS VESSEL --- Is Fastest and Finest Merchant Ship Afloat, He Says--Many Captains Present --- One hundred and fifty-six guests... | 4th April 1922 | |||
| New York Times | (1943) | ROBERT J. HOPKINS Member of Titanic Crew Aided in Rescue of Mrs. John J. Astor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- HOBOKEN, N. J., Nov. 18---Robert J. Hopkins, who was a member of the crew of the ill-fated liner Titanic when it struck an ... | 19th November 1943 | |||
| New York Times | (1929) | ROSTRON'S CAT LEFT HERE Berengaria Master Sails Alone Because of British Quarantine --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunarder Berengaria, sailed early yesterday morning for the first time in many years without his pet Persian cat Abdul. The animal... | 6th January 1929 | |||
| 1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1924) | CAPT. ROSTRON RECEIVES ROYAL HONOR Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 25---Captain Arthur H. Rostron, commander of the Cunard liner Mauretania, who, as captain of the Carpathia, rescued the ... | 26th February 1924 | |||
| The Independent | (1875) | THE PERILS OF PASSENGERS ANOTHER very terrible wreck of an iron steamship has been reported and a loss of human lives has been the consequence, which must cause a shudder to the intending passengers to Europe this season. The unfortunate ship was the "Vicksburg"... | 24th June 1875 | |||
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| (1912) | IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912 This splendid document was published just days after the sinking of the Titanic. Its title is 'Souvenir in affectionate remembrance of the Captain, Mates, Crew and Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world's biggest liner S. S. T... | 1912 | ||||
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CARPATHIA PASSENGERS AND CREW LIST | |||||
| Daily Express | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH AND SIGNOR MARCONI DUMMIES Madame Tussaud's Exhibition - Several additions to this exhibition have been made since Easter; and the management have made various alterations in the building. The Titanic disaster is recalled by Mr John Tussaud's model of Captain Smith, ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Sketch | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. J. ASTOR Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Meets Again Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Cumings --- GOES TO SEE MRS. WIDENER --- With the Crew of the Carpathia He Will Attend Concert for Musicians' Families --- Capt. Arthur Henry Ros... | 1st June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | AUDIENCE CHEERS ROSTRON Carpathia's Captain and His Officers Get an Ovation at the Winter Garden --- New Yorkers had an opportunity last night to show the esteem in which Capt. Rostron and the other members of the ship's company of the Carpathia have been held... | 31st May 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | LIVED NOT IN VAIN, SAYS BUTT’S FRIEND American People Can Learn Lesson From Major’s Life, Is Captain’s Opinion --- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22---Major Archibald Butt did not give his life in vain in the Titanic disaster, if the American people will take the lesson of his l... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1926) | ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had... | 24th April 1926 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO CAPTAIN SMITH At Beacon Park, Lichfield, Staffordshire there is a fine statue to Captain Smith. The statue was sculptured by Kathleen, Lady Scott, C.V.O and unveiled by the Captain's daughter Helen on 29th July 1914.There is a stained glass window to ... | ||||||
| (1973) | COPY OF LETTER SENT BY MR. KNOWLES'S DAUGHTER Dear Cousin, What a pleasant surprise to receive your letter on November 22nd. I am Thomas Knowles's daughter. My father would have been 104 years old last May, therefore he would, I presume, be the ninth generation. I myse... | 28th November 1973 | ||||
| (2006) | TITANIC RELIEF FUND – CREW “MASTER LIST” CASE NUMBERS ... | 29th April 2006 | ||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Greenwich News | (1912) | GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ... | |||||
| CAPTAIN SMITHS GRANDCHILDREN Priscilla Russell-Cooke Phipps and her twin brother Simon were born June 18, 1923 to Captain E. J. Smith's only child, Helen Melville Smith Russell-Cooke. Simon died in 1944 while serving in WWII having never married. Priscilla married in 1946 to a ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1918) | CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED 215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N... | 20th July 1918 | |||
| New York Times | (1922) | COMES FOR $250,000 HE RISKED IN WAR Fighting Kept Captain Douglas From Earning $2,500 a Year Prescribed by Will --- BROTHER GETS HIS SHARE --- British Officer on Way to Minneapolis to Lay Hi... | 19th August 1922 | |||
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HENRY WILDE IN WHITE UNIFORM Henry Tingle Wilde pictured in Summer White uniform... | |||||
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Central Florida News | (2007) | TITANIC: THE EXPERIENCE EVICTED FROM I-DRIVE BUILDING A moving crew began hauling items out of Titanic: The Experience museum on International Drive Monday. The museum renters said their landlord told them last week they were being evicted. Less than a week later, they showed up with the sheriff's office and a moving crew.... | 21st August 2007 | ||
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(1890) | CAPTAIN SMITH IN THE 1890S | 1890 | |||
| Le Matin | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH AND BARZOI | 17th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | (1930) | 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 | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1912) | TITANIC CAPTAIN BLAMED FOR WRECK Senate Committee Also Scores [sic] Captain of the Steamer Californian. COULD HAVE SAVED ALL. Praise for Carpathia Crew and Gold Medal for her Captain. WASHINGTON. May 28. –The Titanic disaster of April ... | 29th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1926) | MAURETANIA'S CAPTAIN IS HONORED BY KING Roston [sic]Is Made a K. B. E. in Delayed Birthday List---48 Other Knights Created --- Copyright, 1926, by The New York Times Company --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The King's Bi... | 3rd July 1926 | |||
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(1903) | CAPTAIN SMITH ON BOARD THE MAJESTIC | 29th May 1903 | |||
| L'Echo du Nord | (1912) | MRS SMITH, CAPTAIN SMITH'S WIDOW | 29th April 1912 | |||
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White Star Magazine | (1924) | CAPTAIN DAVID BLAIR, 1924 | February 1924 | ||
| New York Times | (1900) | OUTING IN NEW HANDS The Publication Purchased by Caspar Whitney and Ten Other Men --- Caspar Whitney, for many years connected with the Harpers as writer on sporting topics, announces that he and ten other men have bought the publication known as Outing, ... | 15th February 1900 | |||
| Brighton Argus | (1912) | SUSSEX AND THE DISASTER: WORTHING ASSOCIATIONS Among the crew of the Titanic was a young man named Crosby a nephew of Mrs. Sole, of Langleigh, Ham-road, Worthing, who was one of the Turkish bath attendants on the liner. Another member of the crew was Mr. A. D. Eagle, a nephew of Mr. E. Best, of L... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL | |||||
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(1906) | CAPTAIN SMITH'S SIGNATURE From an RMS Baltic menu.... | 18th February 1906 | |||
| New York Times | (1946) | CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise... | 6th October 1946 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH’S HEROISM After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ... | 11th June 1912 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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| (1912) | CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH From 'Le Petit Journal'... | 17th April 1912 | ||||
| L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | (1956) | WALTER BELFORD Walter Belford did not appear on the Titanic's crew lists. In fact, he never was a Titanic crewman, he just told Walter Lord he was, and became famous as a "fake" Titanic survivor. At the time when this picture was published in Switzerland, in Septem... | 20th September 1956 | |||
| (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS From an unidentified French paper... | 1912 | ||||
| The Times | (1918) | THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning.... | 20th July 1918 | |||
| MARCONIGRAMS SENT AND RECEIVED BY CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE TITANIC Marconigram to Commander Empress of Britain, 12 April, 1912, which read: Many thanks for your kind message from all here. Smith. Marconigram: 14th April 1912, 12.55pm. Commander Baltic. Thanks for your message and good wishes. Had fine... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVORS HONOR CAPT. ROSTRON They Present Silver Loving Cup to Him and Medals to His Officers and Men --- GIVES CREDIT TO HIS CREW --- Modest Skipper Praises and Thanks His Men for Them Loyalty and Committee for Its Gifts --- When the Cu... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| (1912) | MRS. J.J. (MARGARET "MOLLY") BROWN PRESENTING LOVING CUP TO CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON | 1912 | ||||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR TO THE DEFENSE OF ISMAY Special Service of the NEWS PLAINFIELD, April 23---Miss Georgette Alexander Magill, aged sixteen years, who was among the first of those rescued from the Titanic to be put aboard the Carpathia, yesterday at Plainfield defended J. Bruce... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | MISS HILDA SLAYTER Miss Hilda Slayter, one of the first class passengers saved from the Titanic was coming back to Canada on the Titanic to marry Mr Reginald Lacon, one of the big ranch owners of British Colombia, and son of the late Hon. Mr. Lacon. Miss Slater, wh... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1959) | 3 VICTIMS LAUD TITANIC FILM Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y... | 25th February 1959 | |||
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Branson Courier | (2009) | TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction.... | 9th March 2009 | ||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | ISMAY AND OFFICERS OF TITANIC GO TO EUROPE New York May 3 – In a state of near collapse, J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, sailed for England yesterday on the White Star Liner Adriatic. He made only this brief statement to the newspaper men.... | 3rd May 1912 | |||
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| (1926) | RADIOS FROM NOTABLE PASSENGERS "The next day, which was Sunday, we passed the Titanic, receiving many friendly radios from our friends on board. Personally, I exchanged messages with Mr. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) and Mr. John Jacob Astor. Captain Barr received a wirele... | 1926 | ||||
| (1919) | LIGHTOLLER TAKES 36 GERMAN NAVAL LIVES IN WAR On July 19, 1918, HMS Garry, Lieut Cmmdr C.H. Lightoller DSC, was cruising in the North Sea and was in Latitude 54.39 N. and Longitude 0.55 W., when an enemy submarine, which proved to be the UB-110, was observed. The Garry, having ... | 14th July 1919 | ||||
| Daily Enterprise | (1912) | LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED ---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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| The Times | (1935) | LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ... | 12th October 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq... | 9th November 1930 | |||
| New York Times | (1928) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr... | 29th July 1928 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | SAILED IN '70S WITH TITANIC'S CAPTAIN Page 6 [Photo] Capt. J. R. Mullet Capt. J. R. Mullet, a veteran seaman, retired ten years ago on a pension from the White Star lines after thirty-five years of faithful service, yesterday recalled the days when he and C... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
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JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ... | |||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH AND LAUNCH OF TITANIC From an unidentified French paper... | 1912 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | MET DEATH LIKE A HERO ---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved... | 3rd May 1912 | |||
| CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON'S GRAVE Pictured in 1998... | ||||||
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CAPTAIN LORD'S CHART COMPASS | |||||
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Sentinel | (1953) | RELATIVES OF TITANIC COMMANDER VISIT FILM Only living first cousin of Captain E.J. Smith, Sarah Harris (my great grandmother) in her 94th ... | 28th August 1953 | ||
| TITANIC DISCHARGED CREW Crew members, most of whom had "signed-on" but, for one reason or another, failed to board the ship or were not aboard when the accident occurred. ... | ||||||
| (1912) | TITANIC LEAVES BELFAST FOR SOUTHAMPTON Titanic departs commanded by Captain Bartlett, later to command the Britannic on her final voyage.... | 2nd April 1912 | ||||
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| Exeter Flying Post | (1912) | DEVONIANS ON BOARD George Fox Hosking, 36, senior third engineer, eldest son of Captain Hosking, The Green, Shaldon, leaves a wife and three children.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | TITANIC ARRIVES AT QUEENSTOWN 113 additional passengers embark. Seven disembark and one crew member deserts.... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| Dowagiac Daily News | (1912) | BISHOPS GO BEFORE SENATE BOARD OF INQUIRY TO GIVE STORY OF TITANIC DISASTER Both Are Called to Stand At Washington on Tuesday PUSHED TO SAFETY Mrs. Bishop Tells How They Were Hurried Aboard the Lifers When the Titanic Struck Huge Berg --------------- Mr. and Mrs.... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SAYS ISMAY CHOSE OWN BOAT CREW New York- April 19- According to Mrs. W.J. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, after she had arrived at the Ritz-Carlton with T.D.M. Cardeza, J.Bruce Ismay was not only safely seated in a lifeboat before it was filled, but he also selected the crew that rowed ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1958) | SCREEN: SINKING OF THE TITANIC 'A Night to Remember' Opens at Criterion --- By BOSLEY CROWTHER --- EVEN though the tragic story of the sinking of the Titanic is an old and oft-repeated one, it still makes for tense, exciting and supremely awesome drama ... | 17th December 1958 | |||
| The Epsom, Ewell & Banstead Post | (2005) | TITANIC SURVIVOR TO BE COMMEMORATED Titanic disaster survivor George Pelham, a one-time patient of one of the Epsom cluster of former psychiatric hospitals, will be commemorated. One of the roads on the Livingstone Park housing development being built by Charles Church, on t... | 23rd March 2005 | |||
| 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... | ||||||
| (2006) | CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ... | 28th December 2006 | ||||
| New York Times | (1917) | INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here... | 28th January 1917 | |||
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(1911) | FILM OF CAPTAIN SMITH These shots were taken in New York on board the Olympic probably on the occasion of her first arrival in 1911. The photographer is unknown. ... | May 1911 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | NIAGARA NEAR TITANIC'S FATE French Liner Arrives Under Own Power After Striking Iceberg. New York, April 16—Close to where the Titanic sank the new French line steamer Niagara on the night of April 10 crashed into an ice field and sent out a wi... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1926) | LOVE LIFTS JAIL SENTENCE OF LAWRENCE VAIL WHEN FRENCHMAN HE STRUCK WINS HIS SISTER PARIS, Dec. 29 (AP)---Love has found a way to make a new, Franco-American match---a blow over the head with a champagne bottle. The Frenchman who was hit, Captain Allain Lemerdy, son of a General, is going to marry Clothilde Vail, sister of the Ameri... | 30th December 1926 | |||
| (1908) | MAURETANIA PRIVATE PICTURE, 1908 Roger Bricoux, Wallace Hartley, Theodore Brailey and Captain Rostron are four of the many names that link the Titanic tragedy and the Cunarder Mauretania... | 24th July 1908 | ||||
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CAPTAIN LORD IN SUMMER WHITES ABOARD A LEYLAND LINER | |||||
| Weekly Advocate | (1912) | NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning --- Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to t... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
| Mid Cumberland and Westmoreland Herald | (1912) | UNKNOWN TITLE Another Cumberland man who appears on the list of the crew is J. Shepherd, the junior assistant second engineer. He cannot be traced at the moment, as the name of the town from which he came is not stated. His age is given as 35.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Liverpool Echo | (2008) | TITANIC'S SUPER HERO The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 continues to fascinate people and one man is remembered as the shining hero of the rescue operation Captain Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia.... | 28th January 2008 | ||
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Telegraph.co.uk | (2009) | RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION By Andrew Alderson The key and other artefacts were recovered when Mr Stone's dead body was recovered from the water Photo: Christopher Jones The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could s... | 11th April 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1940) | CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE... | 6th November 1940 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | THOMAS WHITELEY : DESCRIBES LAST MEAL ON TITANIC “It Was the Gayest Night of Trip Among Diners,” Says Assistant Steward --- New York, N. Y., April 20---Propped up on pillows in a bed in St. Vincent's Hospital this afternoon, Thomas Whitely, an assistant steward in the f... | 21st April 1912 | |||
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Times Online | (2007) | TITANIC KEY TO A POSTMAN'S BRAVERY The band played on, engineers fought to maintain power and the captain remained at his post as the Titanic went down on the night of April 14, 1912. To these stubborn acts of courage can be be added those of the ship's five postmen.... | 13th April 2007 | ||
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ET Reviews | (2009) | E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh... | 5th May 2009 | ||
| (1912) | CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON This portrait of Carpathia's commander was published in the 1912 book 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'... | 1912 | ||||
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ET Research | (2007) | CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD AFTER the Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th April, 1912 the sea around the site was littered with the flotsam and jetsam of the liner. Among the broken decking, furniture and fittings were hundreds of bodies floating around. Eac... | 31st March 2007 | ||
| Cumberland News | (1912) | MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH The first officer of the ill-fated ship was Mr. William Murdoch, son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, Oakland, Dalbeattie, who was transferred from the Olympic, on which he was one of the chief officers.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | A CAPTAIN'S CAREER “When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say- uneventful. Of course there have been winter storms and gales and fog and the like, but in all ... | 23rd August 2005 | ||
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EMMA BLISS' GRAVE | |||||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH WITH LORD PIRRIE OF HARLAND AND WOLFF | 1912 | |||
| (2005) | SAMARA Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers) Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued t... | 23rd January 2005 | ||||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY BROTHER STEWARD ON TITANIC Charles Lydiatt Had Been Steward on Every Boat on White Star Line--Brother Waiting for News "Only last Friday Sergeant George Lydiatt, of No. 4 Police Stat... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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TITANIC BISCUIT A biscuit with an impressed image of the Titanic measuring 2 ½ in. diameter, made by Carr, Carlisle. Removed from the ship by Board of Trade official Captain Morris Harvey Clarke, Southampton 1912.... | |||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | ALL SAFE AFTER COLLISION This article published on 15 April 1912 headlined that 'Both passengers and crew are safe'... | 15th April 1912 | |||
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Cult news | (2007) | DOCTOR WHO : CHRISTMAS ON THE TITANIC? Sitcom star Geoffrey Palmer is reportedly the latest actor to have signed up for the Doctor Who Christmas Special, playing the captain of the Titanic. ... | 10th July 2007 | ||
| 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 ... | ||||||
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Southport Visiter | (2007) | 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 | ||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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CAPTAIN LORD AND OFFICERS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON | |||||
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9NEWS.com | (2009) | TITANIC TREASURES ON VIEW FOR FREE BROOMFIELD‚ - Two metro area shopping malls, along with Country Financial have teamed up to offer a free historic exhibit for the public.Titanic, Treasures of the Deep is a traveling exhibit that is in the Denver area for the next two wee... | 29th April 2009 | ||
| GEORGE WRIGHT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, HALIFAX NS According to Eaton and Haas, Captain DeCarteret of the recovery ship Minia lived in this development.... | ||||||
| Newark Star | (1912) | C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | (1912) | TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | TITANTIC (SIC) STOOD ON END FOR MINUTES BEFORE SHE SUNK (SIC) LIGHTS ALL BLAZED UNTIL SHE TOOK a VERTICAL POSITION and STOOD WITH 150 FEET OUT of WATER---SLOWLY DIVED DOWN. "As we rowed away from the Titanic we look... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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CAPTAIN STANLEY LORD AND HIS WIFE IN THEIR CAR Stanley Lord at the wheel of a car accompanied by his wife Mabel... | |||||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1929) | FRANCE HONORS ROSTRON Cunard Commodore Receives Legion of Honor Aboard Berengaria --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHERBOURG, Feb. 27---France honored a life of heroism and seamanship tonight when she awarded the Legion of Honor to S... | 28th February 1929 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | (1999) | PURSER MCELROY Hugh Walter McElroy was born on 28th October 1874 at 3, Percy Street, Liverpool, the son of Richard McElroy, and his wife Jessie (nee Fox). On Hugh’s certificate his father’s occupation is shown as Shipbuilder, [he was a ships carpenter] and he was k... | April 1999 | |||
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Andover Townsman | (2007) | ALL HANDS ON DECK: "TITANIC" SAILS IN ONE WEEK AT AHS Next week, 55 Andover High School students will become distinguished aristocrats, a ship captain, crewmen and third-class passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic. Opening night of the AHS fall musical, "Titanic," is Thursday, Nov. 15.... | 9th November 2007 | ||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA By the Associated Press GIVES RESCUED AS 705 Boston Man On Franconia Reports Communicating With Carpathia NEW YORK, April 17.-... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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Shoreham Herald | (2009) | SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Mayn... | 15th July 2009 | ||
| L'Excelsior | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH COMMITTED SUICIDE From the French paper L'Excelsior, 20 April 1912, drawing by Paul Thiriat.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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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 | ||
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ET Research | (2009) | MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was a m... | 8th October 2009 | ||
| Barking Chronicle | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner.... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TITANIC’S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1939) | RESCUED BY THE SAME LIFEBOAT TITANIC SURVIVORS UNITED AGAIN "A tragedy so great that it forever gives its survivors a common bond was the sinking of the Titanic. Sgt. John Collins was so impressed by his experiences of that famous occasion that he is trying to form a Titanic Association. He found three other ... | 16th April 1939 | |||
| New York Times | (1928) | ROSTRON NOW CUNARD COMMODORE Captain Sir Arthur H. Rostron will succeed the late Sir James Charles as Commodore of the Cunard fleet and will hoist his flag on the Berengaria next Saturday when she leaves Southampton for New York. The Aquitania has been the flagship of the Cu... | 24th July 1928 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE’S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr... | 14th June 1924 | |||
| Stirling Observer | (1912) | IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM YOUNG MOYES The news received last week of the awful wreck of the Titanic seems to have stupefied the British and American nations - indeed, has cast a gloom over the whole world - and while the loss of every life is deplored, and every act of heroism and self-s... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Exeter Flying Post | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER Quartermaster G. Rowe, a native of Topsham, is among the crew saved. Submitter's footnote: I have read elsewhere that it was in fact George Rowe's married sister who resided at Topsham, Devon. It seems he was a regular visitor ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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State-Journal.com | (2008) | "TITANIC' EXPERT TO REVEAL ARTIFACTS FROM SUNKEN SHIP When Frankfort's Titanic authority Roland Herzel travels across the ocean and a storm hits, his mind immediately goes to the night that ill-fated ship sank."There was no moon. There were no waves to allow them to see the iceberg," that night in 1912, Herzel says. The captain, overconfident in his impeccable sailing record, failed to ask for help right away.... | 7th October 2008 | ||
| REPORT FROM DR. DODGE Dr. Dodge says he believes this young mans story implicitly: He, Mellors, "was standing by this boat when one of the crew was endeavouring to cut the fastenings that bound it to the vessel just as the onrush of waters came up which tore it loose.... | ||||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Richard Nosworthy, son of Mr J Nosworthy, Fisher Road, Newton Abbot, was going to Canada to join friends there. He was to have sailed in the Olympic, but through disorganised train services he missed that boat and joined Titanic.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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CARD CASE Silver plated card case from the Titanic. The case was reputedly pilfered from the ship by a steward — a member of the delivery crew from Belfast — because of his disappointment at being transferred to the Olympic prior to the maid... | |||||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | (1912) | PARISIAN'S WIRELESS EXPERT OFF DUTY WHEN TITANIC STRUCK BERG But for This It Is Believed the Stricken Giant's Cries for Help Would Have Been Heard in Time to Save All --------- HALIFAX, N. S., April 18.--With two expeditions on the way to search for Titani... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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Peninsula News Review | (2007) | TITANIC RELICS WANTED The Royal BC Museum is looking for British Columbians with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard the Titanic 95 years ago. With just six weeks until the April 14 opening of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, the RBCM is collecting local links to the historic liner.... | 10th March 2007 | ||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | (1912) | TOUCHING MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN'S WIFE Shortly before three on Thursday afternoon the following message from Mrs. E. J. Smith, the wife of the Captain of the lost liner, was posted on the notice-board at the White Star office, Canute Road, Southampton. TO MY POOR FELLOW SUF... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(1909) | LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909... | 1909 | |||
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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 | ||
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(2006) | THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ... | 21st July 2006 | |||
| East Kent Gazette | (1965) | A CANADIAN REFERENCE A reference to Miss Buss is made in the Toronto Daily Star of April 20th, as the following extract will show:- ''Special to the 'Star' by a staff reporter - New York, April 20th - What happened at the regular Sunday service on board th... | 4th May 1965 | |||
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ET Research | (2006) | A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James... | 13th October 2006 | ||
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Vallejo Times-Herald | (2007) | 'TITANIC' CREW READY TO DOCK AND ROLL Capt. Edward John Smith was 62 with white beard. Joe Harney is 28 and clean-shaven. No matter. When the recent University of California, Davis graduate dons faux facial fur, jacket replete with medals and sword, he'll be the doomed skipper of the "Titanic."... | 5th October 2007 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
| ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR This anchor was fashioned following the disaster by Irish AB William McCarthy, of Cork, who was saved in lifeboat 4. McCarthy was praised for his heroism by Mrs Walter Miller Clark, who said he had conducted himself "most commendably." ... | ||||||
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Atlanta Journal Constitution | (2008) | GEORGIA AQUARIUM: IS TITANIC HAUNTED? No one noticed activity by passengers and crew when the Titanic artifact exhibit was in Miami, but there have been some strange happenings at the exhibit in the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Experts were brought in to check it out.... | 27th October 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1965) | TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o... | 12th January 1965 | |||
| The Times | (1956) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri... | 17th February 1956 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY’S RETURN The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq... | 13th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | CAPT. BOWER ISMAY DIES British Shipping and Racing Man Succumbs to Sleeping Sickness --- LONDON, May 25---Captain Bower Ismay, the shipowner and racehorse fancier, died today at Hazel Beech Hall, Northamptonshire. He had been ill since Feb. 8 with sleeping ... | 26th May 1924 | |||
| Daily Sketch | (1912) | 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 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w... | 28th November 1899 | |||
| (2004) | KURA Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.) (Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees ... | 19th December 2004 | ||||
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Liverpool Daily Post | (2009) | TITANIC HAD MANY LIVERPOOL LINKS, REPORTS PETER ELSON by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009ALTHOUGH she never visited Liverpool, Titanic had strong links with her home port.Planning for her maiden voyage, including the selection of her officers, was made by Charles Bartlett, Whit... | 29th April 2009 | ||
| (1926) | THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo... | 1926 | ||||
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Yeovil Express | (2007) | TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil.... | 25th July 2007 | ||
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ET Research | (2004) | MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE THE PERSISTENT notion that the Californian is the Titanic's mystery ship - seen at an average of 5.6 miles off the port bow by Inquiry evidence from Titanic witnesses - can be exploded by this relatively... | 17th February 2004 | ||
| Scottish Field | (1985) | THE FIRST OFFICER OF THE TITANIC Captain William MacMaster Murdoch joined the Titanic from her sister ship the Olympic, of which he had also been First Officer. His family had been seafarers for generations. His father left his native Isle of Lewis and settled in Dalbeattie, Kirkcud... | April 1985 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| (1987) | CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO NO disaster of modern times has quite excited the same horror and at the same time, fascination, doubt, bravery and cowardice as the sinking of the Titanic. Fred Barrett lived in Hanley with his wife ... | 26th February 1987 | ||||
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Henley Standard | (2008) | HAODS TO STAGE A TITANIC MUSICAL HISTORY'S most famous shipwreck comes to the stage of the Kenton Theatre next month, when HAODS stages Titanic - The Musical. It tells the story of the hopes, loves and dreams of the real-life passengers and crew as the gigantic liner embarked on her maiden voyage in April 1912.... | 4th November 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2009) | SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated.... | 18th March 2009 | ||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1943) | HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice... | 18th November 1943 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED Lord Mersey, the specially appointed Commissioner of Wrecks to enquire into the loss of the White Star Liner Titanic, on Tuesday delivered the finding of the Court. The attendance at the London-Scottish Hall, Westminster, where the in... | 3rd August 1912 | |||
| (1962) | JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL - RADIO INTERVIEW Joseph Boxhall Radio Interview, October 1962 Transcribed by Capt. Charles B. Weeks and Cathy Akers-Jordan On that Sunday night the, 14th, of April, along with Moody who was the Si... | October 1962 | ||||
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Romsey Advertiser | (2009) | TITANIC MEMORABILIA FROM THE GRAPES UP FOR AUCTION A FORMER Southampton pub's collection of Titanic memorabilia is to go under the hammer at a Dorset auction house today.The Grapes in Oxford Street was steeped in Titanic folklore and, according to city legend, was where six lucky crew were drinking when they forgot the time and missed the liner's doomed maiden sailing. ... | 2nd March 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED) IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ... | ||||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | LIKE AWFUL DREAM, DECLARES WOMAN Mrs. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, Tells of Her Experience In Wreck --- NEW YORK, April 19---Among the survivors were Mrs. J. R. Cardeza, her son Thomas, and maid, Annie Ward, all of Philadelphia. "We crashed into the iceberg... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1912) | SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world. The Ritz Restaurant (as it was called) was situated on B deck and was for the exclusive use of First Class passengers only. Th... | 19th September 2005 | ||
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The Times | (2006) | TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ... | 2nd November 2006 | ||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | MAJ. BUTT' S PLACE NOT YET FILLED President Taft Has Not Asked War Department to Fill Vacancy as Chief Aid --- President Taft has not yet asked the War Department to detail a chief White House aid to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Maj. Butt. The War Department ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| La Chronique de Bayonne | (1912) | S.S. NIAGARA HITS AN ICEBERG « New York. Le transatlantique « Niagara » est arrivé. Il rapporte que dans la nuit de mercredi, presque à l’endroit où le « Titanic » a coulé, le « Niagara » est venu donner dans un banc de glace. Le choc fut si violent qu’aussitôt le commandant fit... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| (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 | ||||
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Daily News | (2008) | LOCALS WITH TITANIC TIES CALL MOODY GARDENS Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship's maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner.... | 2nd April 2008 | ||
| Evening World | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1919) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Edith Temple Gracie Adams, wife of Captain Dunbar Adams, and daughter of the late Colonel Archibald Gracie of Washington, died Tuesday of pneumonia, following influenza, at the Nursery and Child's Hospital. Mrs. Adams was a survivor of the Tita... | 2nd January 1919 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1958) | ARTICLE SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard... | 14th April 1958 | |||
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ET Research | (2006) | THE PORTRUSH LETTER THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp... | 31st January 2006 | ||
| (2004) | MARCONIGRAM FROM SS BALTIC The MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, Ltd. Office of origin: S.S. Baltic 14 Apr 1912 Office sent to: MGY ... | 23rd July 2004 | ||||
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Peoria Journal Star | (2009) | TITANIC EMOTIONS More people have been to outer space than have journeyed 2.5 miles below the ocean surface to view one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. Even so, when Lowell Lytle got the opportunity to tag along on a salvage mission to the Titanic in 2000, ... | 25th May 2009 | ||
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Sphere | (1913) | TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton, including the offspring of many crew drowned on the Titanic, on holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight. A little over a year before, their fathers looked out from the sinking Titanic at what... | 30th August 1913 | ||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | (1912) | ABERDEEN ENGINEER ABOARD As indicated on Monday, there were no Aberdeen passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel, but we learn that a Torry engineer was a member of the crew. About ten days ago Mr. James Fraser, 85 Menzies Road, received a letter from his son, Mr. James Fra... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th... | ||||||
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Liverpool Echo | (2009) | SECRETS OF THE TITANIC... ONLINE THE Titanic disaster is THE major shipping disaster of all time. More lives have been lost in other ship-wrecks/sinkings but the Titanic remains the iconic disaster.There were of course plenty of links to Liverpool at the time of Titanic's fateful maiden voyage in April 1912 and the documentary evidence that can be accessed relating to her crew and families is a huge bonus for genealogists interested in Titanic links.... | 6th January 2009 | ||
| Coventry Standard | (1912) | IRISH PRIESTS LOST Amongst various stories of church services after the disaster, Roman Catholic priest of St Mary’s Church in Coventry; on Sunday morning Reverend R. F. Rea said in church that amongst those lost were two Irish priests and a number of Catholics belongi... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1952) | UNTITLED A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living... | 14th May 1952 | |||
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Canada News Wire | (2007) | COUNTDOWN IS ON: ONLY 30 DAYS LEFT FOR TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Visitors have only thirty days left to experience the internationally acclaimed Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre. The exhibition has engaged and intrigued adults and children around the world. The tragic tale of the famous ship Titanic is brought to life through photographs, sounds and stories of the passengers and crew members.... | 7th December 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | SENATORS GREET ROSTRON Hero of Titanic Disaster Warmly Welcomed in Congress --- WASHINGTON, Dec. 9---Capt. Arthur S. [sic] Rostron, who drove the steamship Carpathia at full speed through a sea of icebergs to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaste... | 10th December 1912 | |||
| Lloyds Weekly News | (1912) | LORD CHARLES BERESFORD TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK SQUAD A fine tribute to the engineers and boiler room staff of the ‘Titanic’, the ’Black Squad’, who stood their posts in the bowels of the ship, to the last, was paid by Lord Charles Beresford in a letter to the Times. He Wrote: - “In the lat... | 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | LIGHTS AID BOATS KEEPING TOGETHER New York, April 19.- G.E.H.Stengel of Newark escaped in the only life boat which carried lights. He believes that a number of persons owe their lives to the forethought of a member of the crew who was quickwitted enough to snatch up three green glass... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1915) | LETTER RE OFFICER WILDE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OFFICE 3 & 4 CLEMENTS INN, STRAND, LONDON W.C. 4th June 1915. Titanic Relief Fund Dear Mr. Corkhill, Mr. Allen had a personal interview with Mrs. Smith, the widow of Captain Smith, yesterday ... | 4th June 1915 | ||||
| The Times | (1912) | MR. A. H. BARKWORTH Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking-room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck. He described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted the foremast was listin... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Perthshire Advertiser | (2008) | PERTH'S TITANIC: THE MUSICAL STARTS WITH NEW CREW PERTH Amateur Operatic Society's most exciting and challenging production to date, ¢€ËœTitanic: the Musical', sets sail in Perth Theatre tonight, with a new and exciting production team at the helm.Wielding the baton as musical director will be local music teacher Allan Kelman, while Ewan Campbell, who is already known to the society as co-owner of Utopia Costumes, takes over as director.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
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| Brighton Argus | (1912) | MR. A. H. BARKWORTH Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on the deck. he described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted that the foremast w... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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The Express Times | (2008) | 'TITANIC THE MUSICAL' A TITANIC SHOW William Sanders was busy Monday "refining and tweaking" cues with his technical crew in preparation for tonight's opening of "Titanic the Musical" at Civic Theatre of Allentown. Sanders says the Tony Award-winning musical focuses on the actual passengers aboard the trans-Atlantic liner, RMS Titanic, on that fateful night of April 15, 1912, as the "ship of dreams" was making her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.... | 6th June 2008 | ||
| (1913) | TITANIC RELIEF FUND : RE CHARLES LIGHTOLLER (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area) Date December 22nd 1913. An offer of £2 0s 0d was made by Mrs Sylvia Lightoller for a ring and a pair of ear-rings which had been anonymously presented to the Re... | 22nd December 1913 | ||||
| Ormskirk Advertiser | (1998) | WALTER JAMES BROWN WALTER JAMES BROWN was 39 [sic] years old when he joined the crew of the Titanic as a First Class Saloon Steward. Before joining The White Star Lines, Brown worked for his older brother, William, in his grocery store on Moor Street in Ormskirk. Walte... | 5th February 1998 | |||
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guardian.co.uk | (2009) | TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012.... | 31st March 2009 | ||
| (1991) | LETTER FROM FRASER'S DAUGHTER ''I was only two years old at the time and my brother six weeks old, my mother died at the age of forty-nine. When war was declared my brother James choose to serve in the Navy. After a short training at HMS Collingwood, I think I am correct in sa... | 1991 | ||||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1958) | TITANIC MEN FOR PREMIERE OF NEW FILM A HANDFUL of survivors from the Titanic disaster in 1912, some of whom have not seen each other since, will be at the Odeon, Leicester Square, tonight, to see the premiere of the new Rank Organisation film, A Night To Remember. The fil... | 3rd July 1958 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat... | 3rd May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1906) | THE OLYMPIAN GAMES The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h... | 28th February 1906 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among those on board the Titanic was a son of Mrs Parsons of Bronshill Road, Torquay. Mr Edward Parsons had been in the service of the White Star Line practically all his life and has a wife and five children at Southampton. He was visiting his mot... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | CUP & SAUCER FROM TITANIC This Spode Coplands gold and cobalt blue cup and saucer were made specially for Titanic. This cup and saucer, along with a few more pieces in this pattern, were taken off the ship before it left Queenstown as souvenirs by crew or passengers. This rem... | 1912 | ||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Cornwall & Devon Post | (1936) | AT SEA IN A BLIZZARD: BUDE SEAMAN FOUND WRAPPED IN THE MAINSAIL Adventure recalled by death of Mr. J. Jewell The passing of Mr. John Jewell early Sunday morning at 8, King Street, Bude, at the age of 79 years, recalls the old days of Bude shipping, consisting of small coasters of 35 to 80 tons, whi... | 24th January 1936 | |||
| Hampshire Observer | (1912) | WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec... | 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1968) | R. NORRIS WILLIAMS 2D, TENNIS TITLIST, DEAD AT 77 Survivor of Titanic's Sinking Was on 7 Davis Cup Teams---Pennsylvania Historian --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, June 3---R. Norris Williams 2d, former national tennis champion and a survivor of the sin... | 4th June 1968 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Our Gunnislake correspondent writes that William Ware, who was 22 years of age, returned from South Africa six weeks ago. His mother resides at King Street, Gunnislake; his father in South Africa. Frederick Pengelly is 21 years of age, his mother r... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | ADRIATIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE Great New White Star Liner Leaves Liverpool for New York --- LIVERPOOL, May 8---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic left here to-day for New York. The Adriatic was launched at Belfast last September. She has an... | 9th May 1907 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM CAPTAIN SMITH'S WIDOW Woodhead Winn Road Southampton Telephone 1400 Dear Frank, I'm sorry to be so long in answering your letter and picture of your family which I am pleased to have. What a lovely outlook from your home. By the "Olympi... | 6th June 1912 | ||||
| Milwaukee Journal | (1920) | TITANIC SURVIVOR TO BE BURIED SATURDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine E. Crosby, 72, widow of Captain E. G. Crosby, founder of the Crosby Steamship line, who died Thursday at her home, 474 Marshall St., will be held Saturday, 2 PM, at the residence, with entombment at Fairview mausol... | 30th July 1920 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Corriere Mercantile | (1912) | THE NAMES OF THE ITALIANS Num. 67, p.1 [Translation] As we said yesterday among the Titanic's crew were many italians names, between them Mr. Gatti, service's manager, Mr. Donini, his coadiuvator, L. Mombello - L. Zarraghi, 26 years old - C. Scav... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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CRI English | (2009) | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC It's April 1912 and the Titanic's Captain, Edward John Smith, is preparing for the maiden voyage of the world's greatest liner.The ship is equipped with everything from an emergency telephone to lifeboats ...... little did they know how i... | 8th April 2009 | ||
| Providence Journal | (1912) | STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se... | ||||||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Corriere della Sera | (1912) | STILL MISSING A COMPLETE LIST OF THE ITALIAN'S SHIPWREKED Page B07 [Translation] The enrolment of the waiters for the "Titanic" London, 17 April, night Till midnight no one new list of the survivors has reached, so except for Portaluppi and Pera... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks... | April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1940) | NEW M.P. FOR EAST BELFAST Mr. Henry P. Harland, a director of Harland and Wolff, was yesterday returned as Conservative member of Parliament for East Belfast. No other candidate was nominated. The seat became vacant through the elevation to the peera... | 9th February 1940 | |||
| The Cadet | (1914) | MOODY MEMORIAL CUP The Cup presented by Mrs Day and other relatives of J P Mood, who was lost in the "Titanic", to perpetuate his memory on board, reached the Ship during the Easter holidays, and is a great acquisition to our collection of trophies in the way of cup... | 13th June 1914 | |||
| The Times | (1918) | THE LOSS OF RMS LEINSTER THE SUNK IRISH PACKET DEATH ROLL 451 STERN PROTEST BY MR BALFOUR Further details of the loss of the Royal Mail steamer Leinster, the torpedoing of which was announced yesterday, emphases the ... | 12th October 1918 | |||
| Daily Northwestern | (1912) | A SAD FAREWELL William F. Bonnell, a cousin of the party, made the following statement as coming from Mrs. Wick: "When the collision occurred, Mrs. Wick and her husband were In their Stateroom. They thought that a boiler, had exploded. When they reached ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CREW BEHAVED ADMIRABLY Miss Elizabeth Allen of St. Louis was one of the first women passengers to leave the Carpathia. She was accompanied by Mrs Edward Roberts and Miss E A Mardell, also of St Louis. The three women appeared to be cool. Miss Allen who is a young woman of ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS” Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in... | 15th May 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | WHITE STAR LINE OFFICER'S UNIFORM CIRCA 1912 By and large the various British steamship company's officer's uniforms of the Edwardia... | 15th February 2005 | ||
| The Scotsman | (1912) | STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(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 | |||
| New York Times | (1929) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h... | 14th May 1912 | |||
| (1948) | THE TITANIC Blues singer/songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana in 1885. Leadbelly remarked in th... | 15th October 1948 | ||||
| MR WILLIAM TAGGART – DELIVERY CREW TRIMMER Mr William Taggart was born in Belfast in 1889 and began work with the Harland & Wolff yard as an apprentice. He was one of the workers who helped to build Titanic from day one. He had also been a crewmember of the Olympic. When the Titanic was deli... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Hampshire Chronicle | (1912) | SURVIVOR FROM “TITANIC” A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able-seaman abo... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS Named on Millbrook Church Memorial. Named on St Mary's Church, Eling, nr. Southampton Memorial. The memorial is situated just inside the church on the right. ''To The Memory of'' Frederick Walter Godwin, 34 years old. Will... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | 2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Guardian | (1912) | REPORTED PORT ISAAC VICTIM It is greatly feared that Mr. Frank Couch, registered in the Titanic as 28, A.B., of Port Isaac, is among the victims of that terrible disaster. On Saturday last there was a ray of hope, the name of Church appearing among the survivors, but a wire ar... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | LIVERPOOL AWARDS TO CARPATHIA CREW Page 3Engineers of the Carpathia honoured The Lord Mayor of Liverpool has made various presentations to the engineers and electricians of the Carpathia who gave service on the night of the Titanic disaster. Mr A. Johnsto... | 16th December 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | EXPEDITION TO USE PLANES FOR SURVEY Rice's Party, Seeking Source of Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, Adopts New Plan --- The South American expedition led by Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, who is accompanied by Mrs. Rice, formerly Mrs. George D. Widener of Philadelphia, is equipp... | 23rd August 1924 | |||
| (2005) | LORD CROMER Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor... | 9th January 2005 | ||||
| Brighton Argus | (2005) | CAR BOOT BARGAIN HUNT FINDS TITANIC TREASURE A rare item of memorabilia from the Titanic worth thousands of pounds has turned up at a car boot sale. Amateur historian Trevor Bailey, of Kings Road, Brighton, and his daughter Rachel paid just £10 for the bundle... | 2nd April 2005 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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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 | ||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1970) | ARTICLE Titanic survivor 77-year-old Mr Lee James Hyland, of Sarnia Court, Boniface Crescent, Lordshill, Southampton who recalls Fred Allen a boy crew member mentioned in reference the playing of the Titanic Hymn. Allen, who lost his life in the disaster was... | 24th November 1970 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | STEAD AND ASTOR CLING TO RAFT New York, April 19- One version of the deaths of John Jacob Astor and William T. Stead was told by Philip Mock, who, with his sister, Mrs.Paul Schabert, were among the survivors. "Many men were hanging on to rafts in the sea," said Mr.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| (1989) | EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM GEORGE BEHE ''A few years ago I found an interesting titbit which, I believe, clears up any mystery surrounding how he was saved. His photograph appears in the May 4, 1912 issue of the Illustrated London News along with other crewmen who had returned to England.... | 20th May 1989 | ||||
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(1912) | F. BEST - RELIEF FUND POSTER Titanic disaster poster from Frederick Best and Sons, a fish business, at 33 Millbank Street, Northam, Southampton. it states, in full: "TITANIC" DISASTER. F. BEST BEGS TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF HIS MANY PATRONS AND OTHERS, THAT A... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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Sphere | (1913) | SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY JOLLY DAYS FOR SEAMEN'S ORPHANS A Visit to the Isle of Wight Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton who are enjoying a Summer Holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight Among them are many youngsters whose father... | 30th August 1913 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi... | ||||||
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(1912) | POSTCARD SENT BY MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TITANIC This postcard was sent to Miss M. Liesse by a one F. Liesse. The handwriting looks like a man's, but it could have been sent by a maid who travelled with her employers in London, Paris, Baden...) The text at the back of the card reads: ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Eastbourne Gazette | (1912) | HERO MUSICIANS : SUGGESTED MEMORIAL TO MR. J. W. WOODWARD The Titanic Disaster While the horror of the Titanic disaster is still fresh in the public mind, and the nation is contributing with an almost unexampled generosity to funds for the survivors and the families of the crew, would it not ... | 1st May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1937) | FUNERALS---MR. BRUCE ISMAY The funeral service of Mr. Bruce Ismay was held yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. E. K. C. Hamilton officiated. Members of the family and others present included:--- Mrs. Bruce Ismay, Mr. and Mrs. ... | 22nd October 1937 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital... | 15th May 1912 | |||
| Corriere della Sera | (1912) | ITALIANS SHIPWRECKED Page 5 [Translation] London, 17 April, night Italians aboard the Titanic numbered more than 50: two restaurant's directors L. Gatti, 36 years, and F. Scavino, two superintendents, Giuseppe Bochet, from s... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CAPTAIN'S OFFICIAL REPORTS Rostron Tells How the Carpathia Did Work of Rescue --- Just before the Carpathia sailed yesterday afternoon on her interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Capt. Rostron, her commander, gave out what he declared to be the first and only... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1934) | RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT HORSWILL ... | 10th May 1934 | ||||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY . . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | BELIEVES BROTHER LOST Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | TWO WITLEY VICTIMS Widows sad experience Among those who were serving on board the ill-fated vessel was Mrs. Lucy Violet Snape, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Leonard, of Well Lane, Sandhills, Witley, who was employed as a second class stewardess. At the ti... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1934) | THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir... | 10th September 1934 | |||
| Wells Journal | (1912) | LADY'S PRAISE OF A TITANIC SEAMAN One of the able seamen on the Titanic, Thomas Jones, a native of Anglesey has received the following letter from New York:- ''I feel I must write and tell you how splendidly you took charge of our boat on the fatal night. There were on... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN "Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Oxford Times | (1912) | STEWARD'S STATEMENT Propped up on pillows in bed at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thomas Whiteley, steward of the First Class Saloon of the Titanic, described the scene in the dining-room on the night of the disaster. ''We had made great time,... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FUNDS FOR SURVIVORS By the Associated Press New York and London Mayor's Start Movement for Titanic's Survivors New York- April 17 - Mayor William J. Gaynor today received the following cablegram: "London, England, April 17, 1... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Portland Oregonian | (1912) | PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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Associated Press | (2006) | TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Associated PressJune 9, 2006 at 4:45 PM EDTWashington - The United States, Canada, Britain and France will work together to increase protection for the Titanic and its wreck site under legislation the U.S. administration sent ... | 10th June 2006 | ||
| The Times | (1912) | OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | (1915) | SUBMARINES SINK FOUR MORE SHIPS Three British and a French Steamer Destroyed, All Probably in Mediterranean --- 2 U-BOATS REPORTED LOST -- And a Third Is Said to Have Been Captured and Taken to Port by British Warships --- LONDON, Nov... | 11th November 1915 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | HAD PREMONITION OF HARM Annie Ward, Cardeza Maid, Saved from Titanic, Didn't Want to Go Aboard --- Miss Annie Ward, maid to Mrs. J. W. M. Cardeza, of Germantown, who was saved from the wreck of the Titanic, had a premonition that something was going to happen ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Unknown | (1912) | LEST WE FORGET by Marie G. Young - A Survivor of the Titanic Miss Marie G. Young, Former Music Teacher at the White House, Rescued From the Titanic, Describes the Sufferings of Some of the Survivors Six months have elapsed since the ... | 1912 | |||
| Nottingham Daily Express | (1912) | DERBYSHIRE VICTIM Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER’S HERO Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Portland Oregonian | (1912) | MRS. FRANK WARREN DESCRIBES THE TRAGEDY TO THE OREGONIAN Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class couple from Oregon on the Titanic. Mrs. Warren, who was 60 years of age at the time of the sinking, reported in great detail the horrific events of the tragedy. Her account was published in Orego... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Cumberland News | (1912) | LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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AFP | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN ENGLAND: BBC LONDON (AFP) - Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died Sunday at a care home in England where the lived, the BBC reported, citing a unnamed friend. She was 97.Dean was a two-month-old baby and her family were emigr... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS ON STEAMER TITANIC Each Boat Would Accommodate Fifty People---Equipped with All Modern Improvements. Speaking about the lifeboat equipment of the Titanic, M... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THINKS CAPT. SMITH IS ALIVE Baltimore Mariner Declares He Met Titanic Commander in Street --- Special to The New York Times --- BALTIMORE, Md., July 20---Capt. Peter Pryal, one of the oldest mariners in Baltimore and well known in shipping... | 21st July 1912 | |||
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examiner.com | (2009) | 'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Hi... | 8th July 2009 | ||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW “Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Post | (1974) | THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le... | 9th January 1974 | |||
| Southport Visitor | (1912) | MR. JAMES WALPOLE As stated in Tuesdays Visitor among the crew of the ill fated liner was Mr. James Walpole, brother of Mr. Horace Walpole, of 17 Line-street, Southport and brother-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Browne. A native of Southport... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Awake | (1981) | I SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC IT BEGAN while I was visiting my elderly parents and uncle in , Florida. This was shortly before my uncle died a few months ago. As usual, we went to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesse... | 1981 | |||
| New York Times | (1983) | ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90 ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So... | 20th September 1983 | |||
| The Times | (1916) | LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte... | 1st January 1916 | |||
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ET Research | (2008) | COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ... | 28th February 2008 | ||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 205. (English). The husband, a fireman on the Titanic was drowned. He is survived by his wife living in Canada and earning a living for her two children as a charwoman. Her eldest boy, fourteen years of age, works in an office, earning five dolla... | 1913 | ||||
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(1912) | FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | 50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Barking Chronicle | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | WESTCOUNTRY CONNECTIONS A representative called at the residence of Mr. J. A. Pascoe, Crownhill, whose brother, Mr. C. H. Pascoe, is believed to be the only Westcountry member of the crew saved in the Titanic disaster, and had the pleasure of an interesting conversation wit... | 29th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2003) | TITANIC'S FINAL MANOEUVRE She never was under a port helm? - She did not come on the port helm, Sir - on the starboard helm. ------Titanic’s QM Robert Hitchens to the British enquiry At both inquiries it was adduced that, at the time of the look... | 8th February 2003 | ||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Illustrated London News | (1870) | THE SEA MESSENGER THE SEA MESSENGER The little vessel represented in our illustration has been invented by Mr J. A. R. Vandenbergh of Portsmouth (Eng.), to be freighted with letters and papers belonging to any ship in danger of foundering at sea, or in ... | 21st May 1870 | ||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | MAJOR PEUCHEN BLAMES CAPTAIN WHO WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP Loss of Titanic, He Says, Was Due to Criminal Carelessness in Running at Full Speed Thru the Ice With a New Crew--Capt. Smith Was Having His Dinner When Crash Came--Major Peuchen Left in Third Boat, Which Had Only 22 People and Could Have... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L... | 21st May 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... | 29th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Introduction ... | 20th June 2001 | ||
| St. Paul Daily News | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER - Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T... | 17th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | ROSENSHINE LEFT $161,033 Brother and Partner of Titanic Victim Residuary Legatee --- The appraisal of the estate of George Rosenshine, President of Rosenshine Bros., importers of ostrich feathers, who perished in the Titanic disaster, was filed yesterday showin... | 11th May 1913 | |||
| Scarborough Mercury | (1912) | MR. J. P. MOODY Son of Mr. J. Moody We understand that Mr. J. P. Moody, one of the officers concerning whom no news has been received, is a son of Mr. J. Moody, solicitor, once in practice in Scarborough, and for some years a member of the Scarborough... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ... | 9th May 1913 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | OLYMPIC BARRED SENDING TITANIC NEWS BY WIRELESS By wireless to Glace Bay, N. S. --- Edward L. Doheny of Los Angeles, a passenger on the Olympic, says that a bulletin stating that all the Titanic passengers were safe, was po... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens | JONATHAN H. BLACKWELL JONATHAN H. BLACKWELL---Born at Hopewell, Mercer County, December 20. 1841; son of Stephen and Francenia (Hunt) Blackwell; married at Hopewell, N. J., on October 5, 1865, to Susan Weart, daughter of Spencer Weart of Hopewell.... | |||||
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(1912) | FILM OF CARPATHIA RETURNING SURVIVORS TO NEW YORK The Carpathia arrived in New York on the evening of 18 April 1912. ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1952) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1913) | JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge... | 28th October 1913 | |||
| (1926) | NEAR TRAGEDY ON THE SEAS FOR STRAUS FAMILY The following year both Captain Barr and myself were transferred to the Caronia for a voyage down to Alexandria from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) were on board, and occupying one of the suites on the upper deck. ... | 1926 | ||||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Observer | (1943) | ROBERT HOPKINS, HERO OF TITANIC, DIES IN HOBOKEN The funeral of Robert J. Hopkins, 77, of 1035 Garden street, Hoboken, one of the heroes of the disastrous sinking of the Titanic in mid-Atlantic in 1912, will be held at 8 a. m. tomorrow from the Bosworth Funeral Home, 311 Willow avenue, Hoboken.... | 18th November 1943 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC Presented for consideration by the Marine Forensic Panel (SD-7) chartered by the The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at Gibbs & Cox, Inc., Suite 700, 1235 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia... | 6th June 2001 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW An Exonian on board was Mr Harry Dyer, second son of Q.M.S. Dyer and Mrs Dyer of Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter. A smart young fellow, 25 years of age, he was fourth engineer, having transferred from the Olympic. He was in Exeter for a short holiday a... | 1912 | |||
| (2005) | EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec... | 8th December 2005 | ||||
| ET Research | (2009) | ERNEST GILL IN AUSTRALIA Judiciously, Ernest Gill journeyed to Australia. The former Californian crewman, a profiteer from the Titanic disaster, plied his seafaring trade Down Under in years thereafter. A do... | 29th July 2009 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | THE TITANIC : OUR STORY SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an... | 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | FLOWERS FOR OCEAN GRAVE Wife of Titanic Victim Strews Then Near Scene of Wreck --- When the Cunarder Carmania was in latitude 39.16, longitude 50.14 West, the nearest she approached to the place where the Titanic foundered, Mrs. J. H. Loring, a first-cabin pas... | 13th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Herald | (1984) | AFTER 72 YRS., TITANIC SURVIVOR TALKS TO PRESS ABOUT FATAL NIGHT For 72 years she has kept her memories of that miserable night to herself, always refusing to tell reporters what she saw, what she felt. "When I came to Chicago they would pester me and pester me," she said of the aggressive reporters who... | 15th April 1984 | |||

























































