Collapsible Lifeboat

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St. Paul Daily News	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
ET Comment	HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. Senan Molony The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...	6th November 2006
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
Cork Examiner	ECHO OF DISASTER : BOAT PICKED UP BODIES ON BOARD New York, Wednesday The White Star Line has received a marconigram from the Oceanic, dated May 13th, latitude 39.56, longitude 47.01, reporting that she had picked up a collapsible boat of the Titan...	16th May 1912
irishtimes.com	TITANIC KEYS TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION Titanic crewman Samuel Hemming followed his orders to the letter - even if it risked certain death. When the cruise liner struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on the night of April 14 1912, the lamp-trimmer received a personal order from the ship’s captain, Edward J Smith, to ensure all 15 lifeboats had lit oil lamps - making them easier for both survivors in the water and rescue ships to see. Despite being told the Titanic would sink in just 30 minutes the dedicated crewman made five trips below deck to bring the lamps - four at a time - to the top deck. After his job was done Mr Hemming, then aged 43, plunged into the freezing water and swam 200 yards to a collapsible lifeboat which he was heaved into....	20th March 2012
Sphere	INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT The Lukin Grave in England...	21st December 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN LEAPED FROM SINKING LINER WITH CHILD IN ARMS Two Little Children Stuck to Bridge Until Waves Broke Over Rail, and Both Were Lost When Final Plunge Came...	21st April 1912
	MOHAWK-LIFEBOAT The bow of a lifeboat that did not get away marked the site of the Mohawk wreck, to which it was still tethered....	1935
	VESTRIS : LIFEBOAT RESCUE 1928 print showing a Vestris lifeboat approaching the NDL Line's Berlin on Tuesday morning...	November 1928
Titanic Research	PLUCKED FROM THE SEA? Peter Engberg and Tad Fitch Survivors' Claims Reconsidered...	11th July 1999
	LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo...
BBC Northern Ireland	BROADCAST ARCHIVE KEEPS PAST ALIVE To hear the voice of Edith Russell, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, is one of those "hairs on the back of the neck" moments. Here was a woman who had told a BBC Northern Ireland radio programme that she was "the next to last passenger in the last lifeboat, and the only lifeboat that was full. ...	9th December 2006
The Times	THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ...	30th May 1912
shorenewstoday.com	LIFEBOAT BELIEVED TO BE FROM TITANIC ON DISPLAY STARTING SATURDAY - SHORE NEWS TODAY A lifeboat believed to be from the Titanic will be on exhibit at Silver Moon Antiques in the Shore Mall beginning Saturday, Oct. 22 to help raise funds for the Absecon Lighthouse. In December of 2007, Absecon Lighthouse came into possession of a donated Titanic exhibit, which included a Titanic-era original Harland and Wolff Lifeboat, circa 1909, believed to be one of the Titanic lifeboats....	19th October 2011
	GENERAL INFORMATION HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale...
	LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK AND LIFEBOAT	1938
The Toronto World	HOW MAJ. PEUCHEN ESCAPED. ----------------- Second Officer Lightholder (sic), who had charge of the lifeboats: "In the fourth lifeboat I was running short of seamen. I put two seamen in and one of them jumped out. ...	20th April 1912
	S.S. TITANIC LIFEBOAT PLAQUE S.S. Titanic plaque from Lifeboat no. 2. The plaque was retrieved by James W. Barker [?] a seaman on the Carpathia at the time it picked up the Titanic survivors....
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	TITANIC LIFEBOAT HOISTED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA From 'L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse'...	20th September 1956
	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION QUICK, MISS PHYLLIS MAY. Saved in Lifeboat number 11. Born 27th July 1909. Died 15th March 1954, and was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, Section 20, lot 1542. Family stayed together in lifeboat, Mrs. Qu...
Washington Times	PHILADELPHIAN RESCUED BY PARTY IN LIFEBOAT NEW YORK, April 19---Richard Williams, of Philadelphia, remained on the Titanic until she sank. He was standing at the extreme stern when the final plunge came. "After we hit the water the Titanic rebounded," he said, "and I was hurled...	19th April 1912
ET Comment	THE RECORD SPEAKS! Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ...	13th December 2006
	CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
	MEMORIAL There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
Titanic Research	NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS Peter Engberg Explore the difficulties in producing a credible list of lifeboat placements....	11th July 1999
Newark Evening News	SWAM TO BOAT; SAYS SAILORS BEAT HIM Special Service of the NEWS BAYONNE, April 20---The story that he was beaten by sailors when he swam to a lifeboat is told by Thomas McCormack, one of the Titanic survivors, who is now at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York. ...	20th April 1912
	BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th...	1912
	PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Erna Alexandra Andersson, 17, the daughter of Mr Anders Israelsson, was born in Finland. She lived in Kulla gard, Lovisa, Finland. Erna boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destinatio...	1912
Evening World	TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...	22nd April 1912
Newark Star	SIX BULLET HOLES TITANIC MEMENTOES Survivor Tells of Being Shot at by Officers While Entering Lifeboat --- WILKES BARRE, [sic] Pa., April 22---The story of having been shot at by officers on the Titanic when he sought to enter a lifeboat when the great liner was going...	23rd 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...
Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times	ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's...	4th May 1912
Daily Mail	REVEALED: HOW HERO FATHER DIED ON TITANIC AFTER LEAVING LIFEBOAT TO FETCH FLASK OF MILK FOR WIFE AND CHILDREN An heroic father perished on the Titanic while his wife and children sang songs to drown out the screams of drowning passengers, it has been revealed.New archives reveal how brave Arthur West helped wife Ada and daughters Constance and Barbara onto a lifeboat before dashing back to their cabin to grab a flask of hot milk for them....	26th March 2009
	ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW 'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
Washington Post	BABY THOUGHT LOST IS SAFE Mrs Aks and Child, Titanic Survivors, Reach Norfolk Norfolk, Va – April 24 – Mrs. Leah Aks and her infant, survivors from the Titanic disaster, has [sic] arrived here, but the woman was too ill to talk and had to go to bed. Mrs. Aks ca...	25th April 1912
ET Comment	SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i...	5th December 2006
George Jacub	AN EXPERIMENT UNVEILS THE TIMING OF THE AFT PORT BOATS I didn't know whether to cheer or to cringe. Having completed my research into the timing of the first lifeboats to leave the sinking Titanic, plus the last boats and half...	15th July 2011
The Times	LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ...	23rd September 1953
	LIFEBOAT 7 IS LAUNCHED	15th April 1912
Washington Times	DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...	22nd April 1912
	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
Chicago American	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
	THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE I was just about to go to bed and had my pajamas on when I heard a grating noise and the vessel came to a stop. I slipped on a pair of trousers and rushed on deck. I saw a lot of ice on the forward deck, the well deck, about twenty tons of it, ...	1912
	TITANIC LIFEBOAT MOVIE
Toronto Daily Star	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	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Annie May Stengel, 88, Was in Third Lifeboat --- Special to The New York Times --- MONTCLAIR, N. J., Jan. 24 ---Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Annie May Stengel, a survivor of the sinking of the Tita...	25th January 1956
The Toronto World	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
Evening Bulletin	GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in the Mediterranean. She was the widow of Dr. Raymond S. Leopold, former executive vice ...	12th August 1965
New York World	LOOKOUT CLAIMS MURDOCH SHOT HIMSELF "As we stood there on Collapsible B, each man holding on to his neighbours shoulder fearful every moment that some lurch would send us off again into that icy water, two of the men I knew had been on watch in the crow's nest...	21st April 1912
New York Times	HOW J. B. THAYER DIED Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ...	19th April 1912

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