Fake Passengers

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New York Times	WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ...	13th January 1906
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	WALTER BELFORD Walter Belford did not appear on the Titanic's crew lists. In fact, he never was a Titanic crewman, he just told Walter Lord he was, and became famous as a "fake" Titanic survivor. At the time when this picture was published in Switzerland, in Septem...	20th September 1956
Chicago Tribune	TITANIC 'VICTIMS' BOB UP EVERYDAY Survivors Who Besiege Relief Committee Prove Imposters...	4th May 1912
Los Angeles Times	RACE SWINDLER SUSPECTS HELD Victim Spends Year on Trail of Asserted Fleecers ---------- SAN JOSE, July 4. (AP) - Charged with swindling J. T. Taylor, retired New Yorker, out of $27,000 in a fake horse race deal, C. W. Coleman 55 years of age, and...	5th July 1933
Chicago Inter Ocean	JAY YATES, GAMBLER, ONE OF THE HEROES Goes to His Death With Sinking Titanic After Helping Women and Children to Safety—Sends Good-By to Mother Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean New York, April 20—That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man...	21st April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...	26th April 1912
	BASIC STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER 324 1st class passengers, 201 survived. 277 2nd class passengers, 118 survived. 708 3rd class passengers, 181 survived 885 crewmembers, 212 survived 13 postmen/musicians, none lived. Grand total: 2,207 on board, 712 s...
	GROUP SHOT A groupf unidentified first class passengers poses before the superstructure on the maiden crossing....	May 1935
New York Herald	SILENCE ENJOINED ON MANY SURVIVORS Officers of the Titanic Taken from the Carpathia Secretly by Third Class Passengers' Gangway Mrs. Antoinette Fliggenheim, who would not give her address, but friends who met her at the pier said she was Philadelphia, made the statemen...	19th April 1912
com	TITANIC HONORS IRISH WITH PHOTOS The Titanic Branson Museum Attraction is spending all of March celebrating Irish passengers who boarded the ship 100 years ago. March is Irish Month at the museum, with music and storytelling highlighting the ship’s history. “We pay tribute to passengers who were Irish,” owner Mary Kellogg said. “The museum’s philosophy is to share stories of passengers.” She said there were 173 Irish people aboard the ship, with the most important Irish passenger being a priest, the Rev. Francis Browne....	13th March 2012
New York Times	MORGAN IN PARIS London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi...	6th January 1912
The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	CAMBORNE AND REDRUTH PASSENGERS There were no passengers on Titanic from Camborne, and only one from Redruth. Mr Frank Andrew (30 years), of Pencoys, who is missing. He leaves a wife (Rhoda) and one child (Lucy) at Pencoys. ...	18th April 1912
TC Palm	MYSTERY ABOUT 'TITANIC' TAKES STAGE AT RIVERSIDE 'Scotland Road' will open Saturday in Vero Beach...	1st May 2009
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,...	17th April 1912
New York Times	ADRIATIC GOT ON A MUD BANK White Star Liner Stuck Fast Five Hours Till a Tug Hauled Her Off --- The big White Star Line steamship Adriatic, incoming with many cabin passengers, spent five hours early yesterday morning on a mud bank on the so...	5th November 1909
The Times	THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning....	20th July 1918
The New York Times	NEWS SUPPRESSED ON CELTIC Loss of Titanic, Reported Monday, Told on Wednesday --- The Celtic, the first vessel of the White Star Line to reach New York from Europe since the sinking of the Titanic, arrived here yesterday. The Celtic ...	21st April 1912
Knoxville News Sentinel	SHIPSHAPE RE-CREATED TITANIC RISES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN PIGEON FORGE Half of the world's most famous ill-fated ship is being reconstructed in the Tennessee hills. A 30,000-square-foot replica of the Titanic is being built against the mountain backdrop of Pigeon Forge. The forward half of the ship will be re-created; it is half the size of the ocean liner sunk by an iceberg on its 1912 maiden voyage....	15th September 2009
	CAP ARCONA IN PROFILE The Cap Arcona was constructed by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. She measured 675.9' x 85.3, with a gross registered tonnage of 27,560. Her cruising speed was 20 knots. In her initial configuration, she carried 571 first class passengers, ...
Chicago American	300 OF TITANIC'S PASSENGERS WERE BOOKED AT PARIS News of the Titanic disaster has caused the utmost excitment here, especially in the American colony......	16th April 1912
	LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909...	1909
Hudson Observer	HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w...	16th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa...	19th April 1912
New York Times	3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00...	10th May 1907
The Times	SOME ARMENIAN VICTIMS Mr G.Hagoian writes from 25, Chesilton Road, Fulham:- In the disaster to the Titanic Armenia has furnished more than her quota of unfortunate passengers. Six Armenians from Keghi, travelling to Marseilles, had proceeded to Cherbourg and t...	13th May 1912
Chicago Tribune	CELTIC PASSENGERS IN PANIC News of Titanic Disaster Spreads Despite Efforts of the Officers of Vessel New York, April 20--[Special]--The Celtic of the White Star line arrived in port today with the news that she had received the &qu...	21st April 1912
Delco News Network	THE BRANDYWINE COOKING SCHOOL RECREATES TITANIC DINNER MENU The Queen of the Ocean luxury liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to the United States on April 14 1912. The unsinkable ship carrying 2229 passengers and crew hit an iceberg at 1140 p.m. and by 217 a.m. April 15 it had broken in half. Only 713 people survived most of them women and children. One of the ships most prominent passengers was Col. John Jacob Astor one of the richest men in America if not the world....	30th April 2010
PRLog.Org (press release)	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTION WELCOMES 50000 PASSENGERS IN FIRST THREE WEEKS The new Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge Tenn. has welcomed 50000 passengers in its first 21 days of operation. The worlds largest Titanic Museum Attraction which is also the newest major attraction in the popular resort area surrounding the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is exceeding its business projections in all areas....	25th May 2010
	MOHAWK PASSENGERS BRUCKER, WILLIAMS AND DANN Victims Jeanette Brucker (left) and Alice Williams (right)along with survivor Dorothy Dann (Center)...
Chicago American	UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...	16th April 1912
Salt Lake Tribune	FEAR PROVO WOMAN DISASTER VICTIM Page 3 Special to The Tribune PROVO, April 1900 Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no word had been received in this city of the fate of Mrs. Irene C. Corbett who is supposed to have been a passenger on the Titanic when it...	20th April 1912
New York Times	BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ...	24th January 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be...	18th April 1912
Hampshire Observer	WINCHESTER'S MELANCHOLY INTEREST April 1912 Although there were no Winchester people so far as we have ascertained among the passengers on the Titanic, yet Winchester has a melancholy interest in the disaster, especially as it affects the ill-fated crew. Among the sec...	1912
Newark Evening News	W. HULL BOTSFORD, OF ORANGE, MAY BE LOST W. Hull Botsford. of Orange, is believed to be among the second cabin passengers on the Titanic who were lost. Mr. Botsford has been touring in Europe since early in February, and although he was not expected home before the end of the month, the nam...	17th April 1912
Chicago Journal	SHIP TOWED TO HALIFAX New Haven, Conn., April 15--The operating officers of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company have been notified that the passengers of the Titanic will be landed at Halifax. There will be about 600 passengers requiring tr...	15th April 1912
Western People	AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o...	20th April 1912
Branson Courier	TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction....	9th March 2009
Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 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
Western Morning News	THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Among the passengers of the Titanic was Mr. Charles Whilems, 31, a foreman in the employ of Messrs. Robinson King’s glass works, London. Mr. Whilems was taking the trip in order to visit some relatives in New York, and intended returning to London b...	19th April 1912
Chicago American	TITANIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS LEFT TO DIE, SAYS GIRL Fears are entertained by Dr. Thomas J. O’Malley, who is attending Miss Annie Kelly, the seventeen-year-old girl survivor of the Titanic, that she will never gain her normal condition as a result of her harrowing experiences when the sh...	25th April 1912
Bucks Free Press	REV E. C. AND MRS L. CARTER The Bishop of Stepney, who preached at St Jude’s on Sunday, paid a high tribute to the personality and the work of Mr & Mrs Carter. ...	26th April 1912
Newark Star	FEAR ELIZABETH FOLK WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC ELIZABETH, April 17---Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, is fearful that his two brothers, Ernest and Robert, were among those lost on the steamship Titanic. Mr. Peacock's wife and two children were also passengers on the boat, but it is p...	18th April 1912
	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
UTV	HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912....	16th May 2006
Newark Evening News	LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ...	19th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	NEWS ONLY FROM AMERICA Writing under the impression that the Titanic was saved, the newspapers call attention to the absence of any dry dock on the American seaboard large enough to accommodate such a vessel....	17th April 1912

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