Empire Transport Company

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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
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC: ICON OF AN AGE A new 'visual chronicle' of the story of Titanic is to be published next month in time for the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. The author, Michael McCaughan, was a curator at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum for over 40 years and is the former head of transport at National Museums NI....	23rd March 2012
	PITMAN'S MBE I Have the honour to send to you herewith the warrant under The King's Sign Manual granting you the dignity of a member of the Civil Division, of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and to inform you that the insignia has been sent ...	13th March 1948
rte.ie	ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT EXHIBIT CELEBRATES TITANIC CENTENARY Serving dishes and soap from the Titanic will form part of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's collection on the liner's owners next month. Serving dishes and soap from the Titanic will form part of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum's collection......	11th April 2011
	NORMANDIE BURNS Clouds of Smoke soar over the midtown skyline, almost hiding the Empire State Building in the background, as fire races through the upper decks of the former French luxury liner Normandie, recently seized by U.S. at its W.49th St. dock. There were...	March 1942
bbc.co.uk	ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT MUSEUM SECURES TITANIC ARTEFACTS It includes serving dishes and soap from the Titanic, as well as passenger lists, tickets, playing cards and a steward's menu ideas. The collection will form the basis of an exhibition at the museum to mark the centenary of the Titanic's launch....	12th April 2011
New York Times	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
liverpoolecho.co.uk	TITANIC PLANS NEED CAUTION It is being planned alongside a production at the Empire and new exhibitions at our museums as part of Liverpool's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. ...	1st June 2011
The Times	ISMAY RESIGNS CHAIRMANSHIPS The Asiatic Steam Navigation Company announce the resignation of Mr. J. Bruce Ismay , chairman of the company and its associated company, the Delta Insurance Company. Mr. Ismay has been a director of these companies for nearly 35 years....	30th July 1934
The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
New York Times	DEFICIT IN HARRIS ESTATE Theatrical Manager Left $365,443, but Had Large Debts --- Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager who lost his life in the Titanic disaster of April 15, 1912, left a gross estate of $365,443, according to an appraisal filed yesterday in ...	2nd July 1914
New York Times	MRS. DEAN MATHEY, TITANIC SURVIVOR, 72 Special to The New York Times --- PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 7---Mrs. Helen Newsom Mathey, a survivor of the liner Titanic, sunk in 1912 by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, died today in Princeton H...	8th September 1965
Barking Chronicle	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
The Times	DAVID BLAIR DECORATED BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 13--- The King held an Investiture of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at 10.30 o'clock this morning. The following were severally introduced into the presence o...	14th February 1918
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
BBC News	NEW TITANIC LINK TO THE PAST The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum says it has launched the most wide-ranging website ever dedicated to the Titanic and its place in Belfast's history. The site is backed by the NI Tourist Board and is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of virtual visitors. ...	5th March 2007
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM IN MINING CO. Holthoff and Loomis-Pettibone Corporations Are Merged --- Special to The New York Times --- MILWAUKEE, Dec. 31---The Holthoff Machinery Company of Cudahy has issued a circular announcing a change i...	1st January 1904
New York Times	$5,000,000 STERILIZED AIR COMPANY TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 4---The American Sterilized Air and Transportation Company, with a capital of $5,000,000, filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State to-day. The company is formed to develop a patented system of sterilizing, dehyd...	5th August 1899
Titanic Stories	TITANICA EXHIBITION - THE ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT, NORTHERN IRELAND The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is launching TITANICa: The Exhibition and TITANICa: The People’s Story to mark the centenary of Titanic’s launch on the 31st May, running until 31 August 2011....
Brooklyn Daily Times	STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st...	19th April 1912
New York Dramatic Mirror	GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS Dorothy Gibson has been engaged as leading woman for the New American stock of the Éclair Company. Her portrait appears on another page. She had gained some attention on the stage before going into pictures and had also posed for Harrison Fisher, the...	9th August 1911
	HICHENS: PROBATE INDEX HICHENS, Robert of 40 Shirley Road, Southampton Died 23 September 1940 at Aberdeen Bay Aberdeen. Administration Winchester 20 January 1941 to Robert Hichens transport clerk and Phillis May Russell (wife of Alfred Sydney Russell). Effects £124 16s 10...	1941
newsletter.co.uk	TITANIC RELICS SURFACE FOR FIRST TIME IN ULSTER A NUMBER of items recovered from the Titanic will surface for the first time when an exhibition opens in Co Down this month. The new display at Cultra's Folk and Transport Museum, which marks the 100th anniversary of Titanic's launch, will feature 35 ......	12th May 2011
Attractions Management	TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN AT ULSTER MUSEUM TITANICa The Exhibition is to launch at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum County Down at the end of May to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic. ...	9th March 2011
	TITANIC PAINTINGS \| TITANIC ART \| TITANIC IMAGES \| TITANIC PICTURES BY DEBRA WENLOCK Debra Wenlock, transport and motoring artist, for paintings and illustrations of all automotive subjects....	1st October 2011
New York Times	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
The Times	MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu...	21st April 1904
Voyage	ROYAL EDWARD John P. Eaton Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1...	10th May 2005
opodo.co.uk	BELFAST EXHIBITION TELLS STORY OF THE TITANIC - OPODO Belfast exhibition tells story of the TitanicOpodoPeople with an interest in the story of the Titanic can pay a visit to Belfast this year to see a new exhibition. TITANICa: The Exhibition is currently showing at the Ulster Transport Museum, which is located seven miles east of Belfast city centre. ......	1st July 2011
The Associated Press	ANOTHER TITANIC EXPEDITION POSSIBLE IN 2010 The president and CEO of the company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic says the company is interested in conducting its first salvage since 2004 at the world's most famous shipwreck....	27th October 2009
New York Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES HERE J. Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Mauretania. With him was Vice President Harold A. Sanderson and E. C. Grenfell, the latter a Director of ...	27th February 1910
The Times	INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ...	29th January 1930
bbc.co.uk	SS NOMADIC The Titanic's tender ship, the SS Nomadic has celebrated its centenary. The ship, which is undergoing restoration at the Hamilton Dock in Titanic quarter in Belfast was used to transport first and second class passengers to Titanic at the French port of Cherbourg. The Nomadic, like the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. ...	25th April 2011
Washington Herald	E. N. KIMBALL SAVED Boston, April 18---A wireless message was received at the Hall & Kimball Piano Company here saying that Edwin Nelson Kimball, jr., president of the company, had been saved and is aboard the Carpathia....	19th April 1912
Toronto Star	NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic....	16th April 2009
New York Times	14 IN GLASS TRADE FINED IN TRUST CASE They Plead Nolo Contendere at Chicago on Price-Fixing --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Jan. 22---Fourteen corporate and individual defendants in the glazing industry, accused of fixing prices of glass...	23rd January 1941
The Associated Press	TITANIC SALVAGE COMPANY WINS AWARD FROM VA. COURT The company with exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is entitled to full compensation for artifacts worth about $110 million that it has recovered in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck a federal judge has ruled....	14th August 2010
newsok.com	'SAVING THE TITANIC' PREMIERES APRIL 1 ON PBS She was the Pride of the British Empire and a leading example of state-of-the art engineering in a time of groundbreaking scientific and technological innovations on a global scale. Yet the RMS Titanic sank less than three hours after striking an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Everyone knows about the many deaths in the icy waters, the fates of the rich and famous on the ship's maiden voyage and the dramas that played out in the Titanic's last hours. What is less known is how a team of shipbuilders and engineers attempted to save the stricken vessel. One hundred years after the sinking of the vessel considered unsinkable, SAVING THE TITANIC is the untold story of self-sacrifice and dignity of the ship's engineers, stokers and firemen in the face of impending death....	19th March 2012
	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
newsletter.co.uk	PENSIONERS TELL OF PRIDE OVER TITANIC DISPLAY A LARGE outdoor ceramic artwork on the Titanic created by a group of pensioners has gone on display in north Belfast. The display put together by 15 people was inspired by personal memories and a trip to ‘TITANICa’ at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s — an exhibition which opened earlier this year to mark the centenary of the launch of the ship. As part of the creative process, the pensioners explored the history of Edwardian Belfast, the shipbuilding industry in Belfast and the on-board lifestyle of passengers who travelled on the Titanic. ...	3rd November 2011
New York Times	GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ...	24th February 1904
	MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
New York Times	EXTENDING PUMP CO. PLANTS On Inspection Tour President Guggenheim Finds Orders Beyond Capacity --- President Benjamin Guggenheim of the International Steam Pump Company, who has just returned from a tour of inspection of the company's Eastern plants, issued a sta...	21st October 1909
ca	HALIFAX EXPLOSION VESSEL'S REMNANTS LIE IN FALKLANDS Built in 1889 by White Star, the same company that built the Titanic, it was first called the SS Runic, then the Tampican, and transported passengers on the Atlantic. In 1912, it was sold to Norway's South Pacific Whaling Company. The Imo amazingly survived its only terrible accident in Halifax but, with its new name, lasted only a few years....	6th December 2011
National Roll of the Great War	WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
Worcester City Directory	WALTER C. PORTER'S LAST MANUF. COMPANY S.Porter Directory Ad 1907...	1909
New York Times	A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974 Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f...	1st February 1913
New York Times	ASTOR SALE LIKELY TO HELP MRS. DICK Permission to Dispose of Trust Property Would Raise Her Income to $60,000 --- NOW GETS $43,000 [sic] FROM IT --- Trustee Has Offer of $1,200,000 for Realty In West Thirty-Fourth Street---Affects Vincent --- A...	1st August 1922
Fulton County Daily Report	LAW PROFESSOR HELPS ATLANTA COMPANY BECOME SOLE OWNER OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS With special thanks to Emory University law professor David J. Bederman, an Atlanta company can now make, with a high degree of certainty, this claim: Artifacts recovered from the Titanic wreck site are theirs, all theirs....	8th August 2007
New York Times	ISMAY IS TO QUIT Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...	1st January 1913

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