Collision Theories

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Titanic Research	THE LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC David G. Brown A reevaluation of the fatal collision....	31st January 2001
Belfast Newsletter	TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking....	24th April 2008
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	WAS IT REALLY TITANIC THAT SANK? An event like the Titanic disaster will always attract conspiracy theories but can we really believe that the ship that struck the iceberg on that fateful night wasn't, in fact, the Titanic at all? In Robin Gardiner's detailed book, Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank?, he claims that the loss of the ship was the result of an insurance claim that went badly wrong. Imagine, if you will, that the Titanic's near identical sister ship The Olympic was severely damaged in a collision while sailing from Southampton. The cruiser HMS Hawke smashed into the side of the Olympic and an inquiry later exonerated the Hawke of all blame....	24th March 2012
	MOHAWK COLLISION AND GROUNDING PHOTO The morning after the multi-collision debacle in New York harbor, passengers are evacuated in calm and orderly fashion from the vessel, which lay perhaps 100 yards from the beach. In 1935 the view would be considerably different, as passengers and...	1935
Chicago Examiner	BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT Admiralty Court Renders Decision in Olympic Collision Case Special Cable to the Examiner Sir Samuel Evans, president of the Admiralty Court, announced...	20th December 1911
	OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...	1912
Chicago Examiner	VANDERBILTS ESCAPE WRECK ON THE FRANCE Liners Near Collision in Heavy Mist; Passengers Thrown About Decks New York, March 22---Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt were among the passengers on th...	23rd March 1913
oxfordmail.co.uk	FRESH IDEAS ON WHY TITANIC WENT DOWN AN OXFORDSHIRE scientist is attracting international attention with his new theories about the world’s most famous maritime disaster. Richard Corfield, from Long Hanborough, has advanced new ideas about the role of science in the sinking of the Titanic, on the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe. Writing in the journal Physics World, he takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the ‘unsinkable’ ship, highlighting the significant roles played by maths and physics. ...	26th April 2012
Daily Northwestern	A SAD FAREWELL Mrs. Wick's recollections...	17th April 1912
	SS NEW YORK Famous because of her near collision with the Titanic....
	SS NEW YORK Famous because of her near collision with the Titanic....
Unidentified Newspaper	ALL SAFE AFTER COLLISION From an unidentified French paper...	15th April 1912
Cambridge Independent Press	MR. F. E. G. COY Mr. F. E. G. Coy, nephew of Mr. Jonathan Coy, of Prickwillow Road, Ely, was an engineer on the Titanic, and no news has been received of his being among those rescued. He also was on the Olympic at the time of the collision, and was afterwards transf...	26th April 1912
Manchester Evening News	A TRULY TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT THE famous liner steams towards its fatal collision with an iceberg in this amazingly realistic computer generated scene from Granada's Titanic: Birth of a Legend....	20th February 2007
	MOHAWK - THE LAST SONG Sheet music artwork for I Saw Stars, the 1934 hit the Mohawk orhcestra was playing at the moment of the collision....
Surrey Advertiser and County Times	OTHER PASSENGERS Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th...	20th April 1912
	SS NEW YORK Famous because of her near collision with the Titanic, the New York was a ship most people like to travel on. This is view 3 out of 3...
	DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE	20th September 1911
	DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE	20th September 1911
thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	'TERRIBLE NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC' THAT is how The Staffordshire Sentinel reported the sinking of the Titanic in ...Stoke & Staffordshire. The story read: 'The terribly alarming news reached us this morning that the new White Star Line Titanic, which was proceeding upon her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, has been in collision with an iceberg, and was in a sinking condition. ......	26th May 2011
Chicago Tribune	SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year...	10th August 1913
The Times	TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...	27th April 1935
The Evening Post	MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...	16th April 1912
The Evening Telegram	HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
thesun.co.uk	TITANIC CAPTAIN 'DRUNK WHEN SHIP HIT ICEBERG' THE captain of the Titanic may have been under the influence of alcohol when the liner hit an iceberg, according to a never-seen-before letter. Survivor Emily Richards claimed she saw Captain Edward Smith drinking in the saloon bar of the ship in the run-up to the disaster. The history books record the white-whiskered skipper attending a first class dinner party a few hours before the collision and then retiring to his cabin. ...	8th March 2012
Titanic Timeline	FREDERICK FLEET SIGHTS AN ICEBERG The ship is steaming at 22 1/2 knots. Lookout Frederick Fleet sights an iceberg. He rings the bridge. "What did you see", is the response. He replies "Iceberg right ahead"! It is estimated that 37 seconds pass between the si...	14th 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
	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...
Washington Herald	PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and...	21st April 1912
Dumfries and Galloway Standard	NEW TITANIC CLAIMS BLAME DALBEATTIE MAN A SON of Dalbeattie could have prevented the world’s worst maritime disaster. William Murdoch, first officer on the ill-fated Titanic, might have saved the “unsinkable” passenger liner had he taken immediate action when an iceberg was spotted. Instead, according to a new book, Murdoch delayed for 30 seconds, analysing information coming his way. And that delay, the researchers who wrote “Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal” claim, meant the ship was unable to avoid the collision that ended with more than 1,500 people losing their lives....	16th December 2011
	CHEROKEE 1930s snapshot of the Mohawk's sister ship Cherokee. She proved to be the least lucky of the Clyde-Mallory sisters. SheÂ collided with aÂ sailing vessel, the Bright in 1927, and rammed and sank the British vessel Welcombe off Jacksonville Florid...
	MEMORIAL CARD: HULDA CLASéN That my unforgettable daughter Hulda Kristina Eugenia Clasén, born Löfqvist, died in the sadly notorious Titanic collision on the Atlantic, intimately and deeply grieved by ...	27th April 1912
	DIE WOCHE (GERMANY), APRIL 20 1912 Titanic victims in a German weekly...	20th April 1912
The Times	TINY FLAWS THAT CAUSED A TITANIC WASTE OF LIFE New evidence suggests that the rescue of 1,500 people would have succeeded but for weak rivets that allowed the hull to 'unzip', Mark Henderson reports THE most celebrated disaster in maritime history owed as much to substandard rivets as it did to the iceberg, an analysis of the sinking of the Titanic has revealed. The liner would have survived the collision for long enough for most of, or even all, its passengers to be rescued had it not been put together with weak rivets that caused its hull to 'unzip' on impact with the ice, according to the new research....	16th September 2006
Brighton Argos	SHOREHAM MAN MISSING [ISAAC MAYNARD] Article about Titanic survivor Isaac Maynard from Shoreham, Sussex...	17th April 1912
	LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ...	11th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	HE SURVIVED TITANIC : ON THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, TOO Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when ...	10th May 1915
Cambridge Independent Press	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
Cornishman	NEWLYN MAN RESCUED AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi...	18th April 1912
thisislancashire.co.uk	BLUE PLAQUE TRIBUTE TO CHORLEY'S HIGH-RANKING TITANIC SURVIVOR A BLUE PLAQUE has been unveiled on the gates of a high school to commemorate Lancashire man who was the highest-ranking survivor of the Titanic disaster. Charles Lightoller, the son of mill owners, grew up at Yarrow House, Chorley on the site later occupied Albany Science College . He was 38 at the time of the ship’s maiden voyage and was Second Officer. On the night of April 14, 1912, he commanded the last bridge watch before the ship’s collision with an iceberg. ...	14th September 2011
Lowell Sun	THOMAS WHITELEY TO SPEAK AT MASSACHUSETTS THEATRE The 27th May 1912 Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachsetts, carried the following advertisement: Merrimack Square Theatre "The Coolest Spot in Town" QUALITY AND QUANTITY THE WATCHWORDS FOR&nb...	27th May 1912
	SONGE D'AUTOMNE Songe d'Autmone (Dream of Autumn) was composed by Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 to 22 March 1963). Joyce, popularly known as the "English Waltz King", had considerable success in England with this piece which was included in the re...	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...
Daily Northwestern	SAW THE ICEBERG Silverthorne account...	17th April 1912
Evening Echo	GUS COHEN Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called him the Cat, because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on...	7th August 1978
Titanic Review	COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK Gavin Murphy It is often not an easy task, nor a popular enterprise, to be a revisionist of ocean liner history. Proof of this is found, for example, in Coli...	29th September 2002
Brighton Argus	MR. PITMAN Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w...	24th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT H.B. Stephenson Account...	19th April 1912
	FAMILY GRAVE [The Church was demolished in 1860 but the churchyard still exists. The gravestones are next to the Storrow obelisk near the churchyards north-west gate.] Joseph Bell who departed this life on 8 December 1836, aged 69 years. Mar...
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

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