Cargo Vessels

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	NARONIC So far as can be determined, no photographs of the vanished Naronic exist, likely due to her very short lifespan. This woodcut engraving illustrates her appearance....
Times of India	TITANIC GAVE A VALUABLE LESSON TO SHIP-MAKERS The sinking of luxury passenger liner Titanic on April 14, 1912 gave an important lesson to ship builders world over - that a ship, merely by being double-bottomed, does not become unsinkable.Since then, all large cargo vessels carrying oil the world over have become double-hulled rather than just being double-bottomed as was the case with Titanic, a senior official of Gujarat Adani Port Ltd said. ...	6th January 2006
Daily Telegraph	FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...	3rd July 1913
New York Times	BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...	11th July 1910
Washington Times	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 whi...	16th April 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION CO., LTD. Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., Ltd. Successors to Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Co. and the Albion Co. Established 50 years ago. This company maintain a regular service of passenger and cargo steamers between London and New Zealand, and...
	HORSE TRANSPORTATION Comfortable quarters with feed boxes were a new feature of the White Star livestock carriers....
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR Captain Charles B. Weeks Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...	11th January 2005
Cornwall & Devon Post	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
The Times	WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED Article...	4th April 1913
Chicago Inter Ocean	MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma...	19th April 1912
mirror.co.uk	PAINTINGS THAT NEARLY SANK ON THE TITANIC SOLD FOR £7M TWO Russian paintings that narrowly avoided being sent to a watery grave on the Titanic have sold for nearly Â£7million. The early-20th century works by Vasili Polenov were booked on the ship for exhibition in the US. But the cargo was delayed and missed the doomed linerâ€™s maiden voyage in April 1912. ...	2nd December 2011
The Star, Christchurch, New Zealand	BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES IN NEW ZEALAND, 1885 SHIPPING TELEGRAMS --- Auckland, Feb. 23. --- The Doric, S.S., Captain Jennings, arrived this evening. Left London Jan. 5 and Plymouth Jan. 8. Had fine weather to Teneriffe, arriving at 8a.m. Jan. ...	24th February 1885
Breeder’s Gazette	CONTENTED COWS This 1891 illustration from the Breeder’s Gazette shows how cattle were carried aboard the White Star freighters as truly contented cows....	1891
Breeder’s Gazette	RACEHORSES TRANSPORTED BY WHITE STAR STEAMER Thoroughbred racehorses were frequently passengers aboard the White Star livestock carriers. This illustration, “from a photograph taken on board a White Star steamship,” appeared in the Breeder’s Gazette in March 1893....	March 1893
BBC News	HARLAND AND WOLFF WINS NOMADIC REFURBISHMENT CONTRACT Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff H&W has rekindled its 100-year link with one of its most renowned vessels....	9th February 2011
Voyage	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...
Voyage	THE TUGS AT TITANIC'S DEPARTURE John P. Eaton Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years...	6th February 2005
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882)	SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
Voyage	ARGENTINE TRANSPORT John P. Eaton Empire Transport Co., Ltd. (Houlder Brothers, Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia. Left Narvik 3 April 1912 with a cargo of iron ore. On arrival at the intermediate stop of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, her captain reporte...	20th March 2005
kristv.com	ODYSSEY MARINE FINDS MORE SUNKEN TREASURE OFF FLORIDA COAST The Garisoppa does not hold the same place in history that the Titanic holds, but it is of interest to Odyssey Marine and the British government. "It was a cargo ship, it was carrying lots of interesting things of, most interest to us and probably our shareholders, it was carrying a lot of silver, potentially seven million ounces of silver," Gordon says. Seven million ounces of silver worth an estimated $220-million....	28th September 2011
	CARVED OAK SECTION Detail of carved oak section originally part of the handrail of Titanic's 1st class aft grand staircase. Found amid the floating debris by the Cable Steamer Minia....
	TITANIC CHANDELIER A light fitting from the Olympic, identical to ones fitted in the Grand Staircase of the Titanic ...
	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
royalgazette.com	MARIE CELESTIA WRECK OFFERS UP CARGO OF PERFUME - ROYAL GAZETTE Perfume bottles are the latest treasure to have been recovered from Bermuda wreck Marie Celestia. Phillippe Rouja, conservator of historic wrecks, announced the discovery of the bottles this week. Five unopened bottles of wine were found stashed in the bow of the Marie Celestia this past June. UK perfume historian David Pybus, who has uncovered perfume from the Titanic, has begun his analysis on the bottle's contents. Early research has revealed that the bottle contains a sample from a posh London perfumery that has since gone out of business......	22nd August 2011
Titanic Research	WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST Eqab S. Al-Otaibi Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the list is due to internal force. Off center weight i...	30th April 2003
Chronicles of the Cumming Club (1887)	SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART. SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART.; 'the sixth of a family of eight.' His father, Dr. Harland, a graduate of Edinburgh University, practised in Scarborough until nearly the period of his death, in 1866. He was a man of remarkable skill...	1887
	MOHAWK BROCHURE 4 "Appetizing menus are just another link in the chain that makes "Clyde Line Service" famous." "The traditional "Ship Shape" of sea-going vessels is well exemplified in these kitchens." "On the highly polished dancing deck where hap...
Voyage	KURA John P. Eaton 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
Cape Cod Today	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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Chicago Record-Herald	LLOYDS NEAR TO PANIC Exciting scenes were witnessed at Lloyds underwriting rooms yesterday. Insurance losses in the last six months have been unparalleled in the history of Lloyds in liners of the biggest class. Since the Olympic collision, both the Del...	16th April 1912
ie	NEW TITANIC BOOK TELLS HER STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Titanic In Photographs tells her full story, from the shipyards of Harland & Wolff and its early vessels, with the backdrop of the great race to build the biggest and best passenger liner, to the frenzy of excitement surrounding her launch. Looking at her officers and crew, as well as her stops at Cherbourg and Queenstown the photographs follow the story to its inevitable conclusion, considering the lifeboats, the presence of the Carpathia and the aftermath of the shattering disaster....	14th September 2011
Scottish Field	THE FIRST OFFICER OF THE TITANIC Graham Kirkpatrick 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
The Times	TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...	27th April 1935
	IROQUOIS GROUNDING One of the most photographed liner mishaps of the pre-World War 2 years was the July 1927 stranding of the Clyde-Mallory Line's flagship Iroquois.Â She and her sister Shawnee proved to be the largest vessels Clyde-Mallory ever produced, ...
anglotopia.net	TITANIC BELFAST - A PREVIEW OF NEW EXHIBITION CENTER Decked out in hardhats and yellow safety jackets, we’re sloshing through grey mud towards the distinctive ship’s bow-shaped, silver building that is Titanic Belfast, a £100m visitor centre due to open March 31, 2012. Despite the legendary story of Titanic and her tragic sinking, few people know that she was just one of countless seagoing vessels built right here at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, and this attraction is bringing the legendary passenger liner – and it’s legacy – back home for the 100th Anniversary....	22nd February 2012
New York Times	AMAZON TRAFFIC HINDERED Booth Line Says Disturbances Make Deliveries Uncertain --- Political disturbances at Manaos, State of Amazonas, have interrupted navigation on the River Amazon. The Booth American Shipping Corporation, 17 Battery Place, announced yester...	22nd August 1924
Daily Express	TITAN HAS SUNK - JANUARY 1912 Article...	2nd January 1912
Scotsman	WATCH OF TITANIC VICTIM ON SALE FOR ?25,000 A POCKET watch discovered on the frozen body of a Scot who was the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic is being auctioned for ?25,000.The silver watch was found on Thomas Mullin, whose corpse was plucked from the sea the day before it became too treacherous for rescue vessels to continue searching. The 20-year-old, who was born in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, had signed on for the ill-fated voyage on 6 April, 1912, as a third-class steward.More than 1,500 died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland on the night of 14 April, 1912. ...	5th January 2006
New York Times	JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...	16th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars....	5th September 2008
New York Times	ADRIATIC TO SAIL TO-DAY Biggest Liner's Cabins Full on Her First Voyage Eastward --- With her saloon apartments filled, the White Star liner Adriatic, biggest and newest of transatlantic liners at present in commission, will sail for Southampton ...	22nd May 1907
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t...	1912
The Times	TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi...	2nd July 1958
Scarborough Mercury	HULL MAGISTRATE REPORTED SAFE Mother Staying at Scarborough Mr. Algernon H. Barkworth, J.P., of Tranby House, Hessle, Hull, who was one of the first-class passengers on the Titanic, is a young man of independent means, and had booked a passage on the Titanic in pre...	19th April 1912
New York Times	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
guardian.co.tt	THE UNHEARD STORY OF AMY AND THE TITANIC - TRINIDAD GUARDIAN Amy Pollard was a Guyanese infant who lost her English mother Elizabeth, in Guyana, at the age of one. The year was 1872. Her father William Branch Pollard, was from Demerara, but his ancestors had migrated to, and lived continuously in Barbados from the early 1600’s. William’s father was Barbadian. The Pollards’ ancient origins were Cornwall, England. Amy’s maternal English aunt was Hannah, nee Blackley, the barren wife of the “prince of shipbuilders,” illustrious William Imrie. Along with his partner, a Belfast Irishman—Robert Ismay, many famous sea vessels, including the Titanic, came into being. ...	8th October 2011
	FILM OF THE OLYMPIC These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...	1911
Hayle Weekly Mail	HAYLE MAN ONE OF THE STEWARDS On enquiring at Hayle we find that no passengers from this town have sailed in the ill-fated vessel, but that Mr. Samuel Rule, of Hayle, occupied the position of chief bathroom steward. Mr. Rule, who formerly lived at Clifton-terrace, is a bro...	18th April 1912

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