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	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
Gare Maritime	A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...	2nd August 2006
	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...
Chicago Daily News	“EARS” OF TITANIC FAIL Local Hydrographic Experts Tell of Device on Bows to Catch Vibrations. Iceberg’s Drift Noiseless Operator of Submarine Phone Probably Crushed At His Post When Prow Was Smashed A ship’...	17th April 1912
Daily Enterprise	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
Chicago Tribune	UNCONFIRMED STORY OF HORROR A report is current here which is said to have emanated from the trading vessel Bruce, which is on the way to Sydney, C. B., giving a version of the Titanic disaster which the trader obtained from various ships. This is to...	17th April 1912
North American	BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the sinking of the Titanic was told yesterday by Charles Weikman, chief barber on the liner, at his home i...	20th April 1912
	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...
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
New York Times	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
New York Times	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
San Francisco Bulletin	DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the...	20th 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
New York Times	GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...	23rd April 1912
Titanic Research	RHEIMS, LIGHTOLLER, AND THE OFFICER'S SUICIDE ENIGMA Richard Krebes If the enigma of the "officer’s suicide" had been a work of fiction created by Rex Stout, creator of the legendary fictional sleuth Nero Wolfe, chances are Stout would have called it "Too Many Questions". For the q...	14th October 2008
St Ives Times	HAYLE MAN'S NARRATIVE TRIBUTE TO A KIND HEARTED CAPTAIN...
The Evening Post	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