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	SURVIVORS' FIRST MEETING First class survivor Marjorie Newell Robb meets third class survivor ...
	MARIA PANULA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH Maria Panula and her husband Juha Panula on their wedding day 14 Feb. 1892...	19th September 2011
nj.com	NEWARKER'S TITANIC ACCOUNT FOR SALE AT CHRISTIE'S The consignor is choosing to part with the keepsake because he already has shared its contents with the "encyclopedia-titanica.org" Web site and no longer feels he can properly care for and insure the historic document....	28th June 2007
	SINKING ANIMATION ...
	WALLACE HENRY HARTLEY MEMORIAL ...
	MEMORIAL CARD, 1912 This memorial card with thick black lines around it was published just days after the sinking. Somebody wrote something at the back of it with a pencil but the text was erased and cannot be read now. This image inspired another memorial document whic...	1912
	TITANIC PASSENGERS FROM COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS John Kelly by a great-nephew of Anna Katherine Kelly...	3rd September 2011
	ORPHEUS This was a popular selection in the Edwardian period and very likely to have been played on the Titanic. In one of the films about the Titanic the ship's band is featured playing Orpheus. This particular re...	1912
	NEARER MY GOD TO THEE This is a well recorded vocal version of Nearer My God to Thee to the tune Bethany (Mason). Listen to this 1902 recording of Nearer My God to Thee (Real Audio&...	1902
	FRAGMENT OF EDITH RUSSELL'S LUCKY PIG TO SELL AT AUCTION A tiny fragment of a Titanic Survivor's lucky mascot will go under the hammer....	14th November 2011
New York Times	LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlant...	21st February 1903
Titanic Research	GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE Senan Molony The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captai...	11th September 2010
	THE BAND PLAYED NEARER MY GOD TO THEE AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN In Memory of the Heroes of the Ill-Fated Titanic Words by Mark Bean Music by Harold Jones Published 1912 by Joe Morris Music Co., New York, USA ...	1912
	ANTOINETTE FLEGENHEIM(ER) – FIRST CLASS PASSENGER ON THE TITANIC Gerhard Schmidt-Grillmeier Since 2000, I have tried to find out more about Antoinette Flegenheimer, the only passenger from Berlin aboard "Titanic". So far, I have not reached a satisfactory conclusion as to where she came from and where she went. Maybe this artic...	2nd March 2010
Titanic Review	RACING THROUGH THE NIGHT : OLYMPIC'S ATTEMPT TO REACH TITANIC Michael Poirier The story of Olympic's abortive 350 mile dash to save Titanic....	17th November 2011
	THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC The Titanic was a common subject for folk and blues singers in the 1920s and '30s. Artistes such as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Ernest V. Stoneham and Vernon Dalhart all recorded Titanic numbers. Most had a common theme and derivation ...	1927
The San Francisco Call	RELATIVES HERE AWAIT TIDINGS John Bartholomew, son of John Bartholomew, head of the commissary of the Titanic, is staying at the St. Francis. Young Bartholomew is a traveling agent of a large linen house of England and is here on one of his regular ...	16th April 1912
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....
	THE SINKING TITANIC By Marcellus O. Ruch Published 1912 by M. O. Ruch, Canton, Ohio, USA [Midi] ...	1912
	THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND Word and Music by Leveridge The Roast Beef of Old England was the tune played by the Bugler, P.W. Fletcher, to call first class passengers to meals. ...
Irish Times	A TITANIC DISCOVERY IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY Having climbed on a pile of old books to retrieve a tome about the â€˜Titanicâ€™ from a library top shelf, ROSITA BOLAND found more than she had hoped for...	13th April 2010
Gare Maritime	THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....	10th July 2007
Southern Daily Echo	MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES She died this morning after being cared for at a nursing home in Woodlands, in the New Forest. ...	31st May 2009
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC REFLOATS TITANIC'S TALE The tragic tale of the Titanic is to be performed over three nights â€” onboard her tender. GCSE Drama students from Dominican College in Fortwilliam will stage the play â€˜Titanicâ€™ on the SS Nomadic, the Belfast-built vessel that carried first class passengers on to the legendary liner before she set off on her doomed maiden voyage....
	THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC William Baltzell A Descriptive Composition for Piano Solo By William Baltzell Published 1912 by Aubrey Stauffer & Co., Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [Midi] ...	1912
Gare Maritime	STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials....	21st July 2006
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
	THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC Jeanette Forrest A Descriptive Piano Composition Word and Music by Jeanette Forrest Published 1912 by Frank K. Root & Co. Chicago : New York Listen to this Piece [Midi] ...	1912
	THE TITANIC'S DISASTER : DER NASER KEIVER Words (in Yiddish) by S. Small Music by Henry A. Rusotto Listen to this Piece [...	1912
coventrytelegraph.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S SON RECOUNTS STORY TO COVENTRY SCHOOLKIDS - COVENTRY TELEGRAPH THE son of Titanicâ€™s oldest survivor came to Coventry to share his motherâ€™s harrowing tale of survival on the maiden voyage. Edith Brown was just 15 when she sailed on the Titanic as a second-class passenger with her mum and dad. Before her death in 1997 at the age of 101, she told her 10 children about the tragic sinking of the legendary vessel, which struck an iceberg 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada, on April 14 1912....	28th November 2011
	IN MEMORY OF THE TITANIC CATASTROPHE Henry Tiedemann Grand Memorial Fantasie Words and Music by Henry Tiedemann Published 1912 by the Southern Music Company, Dallas, Texas Listen to this Piece...	1912
	MY SWEETHEART WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP Words by Roger Lewis Music by F. Henri Klickmann Published 1912 by Frank K. Root & Co. Chicago and New York, USA [Midi / Recording]...	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
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
	ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t...
	THE TITANIC : OUR STORY M. E. S. and E. M. E. SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an...	1912
Gare Maritime	CUBA TO AMERICA ON THE ORIZABA A cruise from Cuba and along the East Coast in the 1920s taking in an excursion to Kensico Dam....	9th September 2006
	ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY Bill Headdon King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...	28th May 2008
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
	JUST AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN - A SONG OF THE SEA A Song of the Sea Words by Edith Maida Lessing Music by Bernie Adler and Sidney Gibson Published 1912 by the Harold Rossiter Music Company, Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [...	1912
Titanic Research	CSI TITANIC : WHO DIED HOW? Luke Owens One of the iconic images many of us carry from the sinking of Titanic is of the 705 people in lifeboats listening to the death cries of 1,500-plus people drowning in the North Atlantic after the ship sank. The trouble is, that&rsq...	26th June 2007
Titanic Review	SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED Mark Chirnside Mark Chirnside reviews Andrew Wilson's new book exploring the later lives of Titanic's survivors....	29th November 2011
	DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE Dorsey Murdock Dixon (14 October 1897 - 17 April 1968) - Guitar, Vocals Howard Dixon (19 June 1903 - 24 March 1961) - Steel Guitar Dorsey Dixon and his younger brother Howard were born in the South Carolina mill town of Darli...	25th January 1938
	E. J. SMITH, COPTIC AGROUND AND RIO---TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD? Mark Baber E. J. Smith, Coptic Aground and Rio---Two out of three ain’t bad? There are several standard White Star history volumes which associate E. J. Smith...
Titanic Research	ON ROOTING ABOUT IN A SWEDISH TITANIC FAMILY TREE Alan Ruffman The search for geneaological data relating to the Palaeo-DNA Project...	10th May 2002
Titanic Research	ANNA KATHERINE KELLY 1892 - 1969 John Kelly Anna Katherine Kelly, “Annie Kate,” later to become also known as Sister Patrick Joseph, was born on January 14, 1892 in Cuilmullagh, Lahardane, in Addergoole civil parish, County Mayo, Ireland. Her parents, John Kelly and Ellen Fla...	9th September 2011
	THE MOTIVES OF HEROISM Jason Lewis Heroes are iconic in past and present societies....	15th February 2008
Gare Maritime	ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN ON THE NIEUW AMSTERDAM 16mm film records a tour encompassing: Peurto Rice, Curacoa, Havana, Cartagena, Colombia, Panama Canal, Kingston Jamaica ending with the ship docking in New York City....	21st December 2006
Titanic Research	THE FINAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE 'UNKNOWN CHILD' Alan Ruffman The Final Identification of the ‘Unknown Child’ of the TITANIC buried as Body No. 4 on May 4, 1912 in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery of Halifax, Nova Scotia...	9th September 2011
	ARTEMIS OF VERSAILLES The Artemis of Versailles, a small copy of the classical statue, lay on the mantle piece above the fireplace in the Titanic's first class lounge. The statue was one of the artefacts photographed when Dr Robert Ballard and ...
Titanic Research	JOHN EDWARD HART: DUBIOUS HERO David Gleicher Was Hart really a hero?...	26th January 2001
	THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK John Lamoreau William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska...
The Gazette (Montreal)	LAURENTIC IS HERE The Gazette, Montreal, 8 May 1909 Maiden Voyage Upholds the Satisfactory Results Achieved on Trial Trip --- AN EPOCH IN SHIPPING --- P...	8th May 1909
Titanic Review	STARBOARD AT MIDNIGHT, THE STORY OF SURVIVORS KARL BEHR AND HELEN NEWSOM Randy Bryan Bigham Love at the helm: New Titanic title blends romance and history....	24th October 2011
	INTERMENTS IN THE GRACIE PLOT Lot # 971-974, Plot: Catalpa, Sec. 23 & 24, Area 1024' Deed # 609 Aff. # 4,757. Archibald Gracie IV, died 12/4/1912, age 54 Constance Julie, wife of Archibald Gracie, IV died 12 December 1937, age 88 Co...
Titanic Review	LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY Dave Bryceson Reviewed by Dave Bryceson...	21st October 2009
Titanic Review	SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE Monica Hall OLYMPIC & TITANIC - The Truth Behind The Conspiracy by Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge The Olympic–Tit...	12th July 2004
Titanic Research	WHY A LOW ANGLE BREAK? Samuel Halpern In the James Cameron film "Titanic," we all saw the stern of the ship rise up in the air and take on a relatively steep angle as the bow of the ship sank deeper and deeper into the water. Suddenly, the hull split and the stern came...	23rd October 2008
	STAND TO YOUR POST / BE BRITISH Recorded in London May or June 1912 "Stand To Your Post" by Bennett Scott "Be British" by Lawrence Wright and Paul Pelham ...	June 1912
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
	TITANIC LIFEBOATS Roger L. Williams I have recently seen a new film about the sinking of the Titanic on the TV and have been reading about Titanic lifeboats on. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org It seems there is no real record of what happened to those lifeboats....	1st August 2011
Titanic Review	NOMADIC : THE BELFAST CHILD - REVIEWED Philip Hind 1987, on the lon...	25th June 2008
Titanic Research	MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES Senan Molony THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was ...	8th October 2009
	LEADBELLY : THE TITANIC Huddie Ledbetter - Leadbelly Blues singer/songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana in 1885. Leadbelly remarked in th...	15th October 1948
Titanic Research	ICE ON DECK Henning Pfeifer Further analysis of the iceberg impact....	12th February 2002
Titanic Research	TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY Randy Bryan Bigham Internet research tips for beginners From biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading online destination for original, in-depth studi...	20th September 2005
Titanic Research	LOOKOUTS Captain Laurence V. Wade The Human Perspective...	30th April 2003
	1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC Dennis Foley By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
Titanic Research	A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE Senan Molony THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James...	13th October 2006
Titanic Research	THE LAST OF THE LAST Margaret Mehl How Masabumi Hosono’s Night was Forgotten...	25th November 2003
Titanic Research	THE MORNING AFTER... WHERE WERE THE BODIES? Jan C. Nielsen It was April 23, 1912, at daybreak, out on the North Atlantic. The seascape looked every bit like a well-adorned graveyard, with an overcast sky, rolling fog and, as far as one could see, pieces of wreckage that bobbed in...	20th September 2002
Voyage	CERAMIC : THE SOLE SURVIVOR By 1942, the White Star Line had merged with Cunard, and many of its ships had been sold off or sent to the scrapyard. Among the former was Ceramic, launched in 1913 and for many years the largest vessel in ...	18th December 2006
Titanic Research	SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS Samuel Halpern "We were working out a slip table, and we had not quite finished when she went down. All of us were on, working out a slip table, how many turns of the engine it would require to do so many knots; and all this, and it tapered down." - Titanic's 5t...	18th September 2007
Titanic Research	LAWRENCE BEESLEY AND MACPHAIRSON CLONGLOCKETTY ANGUS Pat Cook A progress report on the long awaited Annotated Beesley....	27th January 2001
Titanic Research	PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG Senan Molony ...	19th July 2004