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Waterbury Republican American	A TITANIC EVENT On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shattering the world's confidence in technology....	20th April 2010
The Local	TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS IN STOCKHOLM It was April 15th, 1912, when the world's first unsinkable ship sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.Since then, the Titanic has rested at the bottom of the sea. Her story left a legacy that has resonated around the world for nearly a century after her demise, and has now been captured in a new exhibition, Titanic, opening to the public on Friday, May 29th....	2nd June 2009
News Leader	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC SAND SCULPTURE See award-winning sand sculptors shape a Titanic masterpiece from a 15-ton, mountain of imported sand at the World's Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction in Branson Sept. 20-23. ...	20th September 2007
The Daily Banner	VICTIM SENDS A MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT WORLD Paris, May 14 William T. Stead, the famous writer and delver into the psychic, who went down in the wreck of the Titanic, is said to have sent a message from the spirit world saying that his death was painless and perfectly calm. ...	14th May 1912
Titanic Stories	TITANIC THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN ALL OVER THE WORLD! If you are looking for Titanic based events attractions memorials and tours to do all over the world then look no further than the Titanic Today section on the Titanic Stories website. We keep to date listings of all the great Titanic related activities happening across the globe and especially in Belfast home of the Titanic. Visit our Titanic Today section for the all the latest! ...	20th February 2011
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
	THE ENGLISHMAN Poem composed on Olympic, April 18, 1912...	18th April 1912
Birmingham Post	HERITAGE CENTRE BID COULD HIGHLIGHT LINKS WITH TITANIC A maritime enthusiast is aiming to set up a Titanic heritage centre in the Midlands, as the focal point of events marking the tragedy's 100th anniversary in 2012.Howard Nelson, from Coventry, has already established the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust and believes the Midlands would be an ideal home for a museum dedicated to the Titanic as it has many links with the world's most famous ship....	7th January 2006
ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
Times of India	TITANIC GAVE A VALUABLE LESSON TO SHIP-MAKERS The sinking of luxury passenger liner Titanic on April 14, 1912 gave an important lesson to ship builders world over - that a ship, merely by being double-bottomed, does not become unsinkable.Since then, all large cargo vessels carrying oil the world over have become double-hulled rather than just being double-bottomed as was the case with Titanic, a senior official of Gujarat Adani Port Ltd said. ...	6th January 2006
google.com	TITANIC WRECK 'COULD BECOME MUSEUM' The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said.Footage of the doomed vessel, which now has Unesco world heritage protection, from 4,000m under the ocean off the coast of Canada could be broadcast live, Dr Robert Ballard said.The oceanographer uncovered the vessel in 1985 and said the technology existed to beam material from the depths across the world."I see the Titanic becoming an underwater museum, accessed, with wonderful facilities," he said. "We hope to come live on the anniversary of the discovery, September 1."...	14th April 2012
World Records Academy	MOST EXPENSIVE LETTER FROM TITANIC-WORLD RECORD SET BY SPINK SMYTHE letter, dated April 10, 1912, from a first class passenger onboard the Titanic (written by passenger George Graham of Harriston of Canada, a sales manager for the Eaton's department store company, to a business colleague in Berlin, Germany) was sold at auction by Spink Smythe in New York City for $16,100-setting the world record for the Most expensive letter from Titanic....	24th February 2009
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Lilly Potter, 98, Was ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Red Cross --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2---Mrs. Lilly A. Wilson Potter, a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims who was known as the “Grand Old Lady...	3rd January 1954
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 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...
	ALGONQUIN 1939 The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....	1939
National Geographic	TITANIC INTERACTIVE TIMELINE BRINGS HISTORY OF THE TITANIC TO LIFE Building Titanic: An Interactive Timeline When RMS Titanic was completed, she was the biggest man-made moving object on the planet. It would take thousands of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders in Belfast, Northern Ireland three years to construct her. When Titanic sailed her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, she was hailed ‘the new wonder of the world’ — she was the largest and most luxuriously appointed ship the world had ever seen. Now you can experience the incredible history of one of mankind's most remarkable feats of engineering. Travel through time to watch Titanic come to life, and don't forget to stop at key milestones along to way to explore the many fascinating stories behind this enduring marvel....	23rd June 2011
Rahway Daily Record	WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...	18th April 1912
winnipegfreepress.com	SHIPLOAD OF TITANIC BOOKS AS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING NEARS Does the world need more books about the Titanic? Probably about as much as it needs a 3-D version of James Cameron's movie. Still, a veritable shipload is being released to commemorate the April 14 100th anniversary of the sinking. While the world would continuing spinning without most of them, happily, the titles discussed are all first-rate. All tell the well-trod tale of the rich and famous who sailed on the White Star Line's ill-fated luxury liner; some highlight the effects the catastrophe had on the survivors, and others tell the story of the officers and crew. Two are by Canadians; John Boileau and Hugh Brewster fill out neglected stories of Canadian victims and Halifax's role in the recovery and identification of the 1,517 lost....	24th March 2012
Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED Joseph Duquemin of 47 Tormuck La., a veteran of World Ward I, died this morning at Stamford Hospital after a lingering illness. Born in England on November 24th 1892 Mr. Duquemin was a resident of Stamford, for 24 years. he was formerl...	6th January 1950
	H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons St Eloi Neuve Chapelle Y...
PR News	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC MUSEUM OPENS The Titanic attraction, officially named "The World's Largest Titanic Museum Attraction," opened in March.Museum owner John Joslyn is a former television producer who dove to the wreck in a submersible in 1987 and produced the documentary "Return to the Titanic ... Live."Joslyn has been a collector of Titanic artifacts and opened a smaller, similar attraction in Orlando, Fla., that he sold to build the Branson museum.The Titanic building looms above Missouri 76, Branson's Strip. The 100-foot-tall building recreates the bow of the ship, complete with a pool at its base that sprays water as though it were cutting through the ocean....	30th March 2006
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
News of the World	LOST IN THE TITANIC Hays, Head, Stead, Straus, Guggenheim...	21st April 1912
irishemigrant.com	BELFAST TRIP A TITANIC-SIZED EYE-OPENER - THE NEW YORK IRISH EMGIRANT I’m standing in the middle of an ever-growing crowd of people, a sense of great excitement heightening all around me. All of a sudden we are thrown back in time, to May 31, 1911. I can actually feel what it must have been like for the folks whose lives played out here at this famous shipyard - Harland and Wolff, birthplace of the Titanic and, at the time, the largest shipbuilding company in the world. ... A certain sense of expectation continues as Belfast readies itself for its bow on the world stage come April 15, 2012, when it will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of that unforgettable human tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York. Never ready to forget the lives lost, the lives of those who built Titanic, and how it all played out in history, Belfast is hard at work readying itself for the event....	23rd August 2011
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO CELEBRATE DISASTER'S CENTENARY WITH DESCENDANTS OF VICTIMS The world's largest Titanic museum will mark the centenary of the ship's sinking by welcoming descendants of survivors and victims. The ceremony on April 14 - exactly 100 years after the world's most famous passenger liner collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sunk - will include a symbolic re-enactment of the launching of the ship's distress flares. A memorial flame will also be lit to commemorate the 1,517 passengers and crew who perished during the fateful voyage in 1912 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114391/Titanic-museum-celebrate-disasters-centenary-descendants-victims-survivors-aboard-half-size-replica-doomed-ship.html#ixzz1p1lseE8h ...	13th March 2012
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)	ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named...	25th October 1924
New York Times	PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ...	21st April 1912
Titanic Heritage Trust	TITANIC 95TH ANNIVERSARY STAMPS As 2007 approaches plans are well underway all over the world to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the tragic loss of R.M.S. Titanic and over 1500 lives on 15 April 1912.As part of the 95th Anniversary Commemorations, Titanic Heritage Trust will be issuing a Commemoration Royal Mail Stamp Sheet plus two First Day Covers, one with a Belfast Postmark and one with a Southampton Postmark. For further details: 95th Anniversary Stamps www.titanicheritagetrust.org.uk/95th_stamps.htm As a society, organization or individual you are invited to join any of our events, in particular our inaugural Convention in April. All Titanic Societies are welcome.If you are organizing an Titanic event for 2007 the we would like to hear about it. Whatever part of the world you are located. Please send details and we will include them in our calendar of events for 2007. enquiries@titanicheritagetrust.org.uk...	21st November 2006
telegraph.co.uk	BELFAST'S MONUMENT TO THE TITANIC TALE The World's Largest Titanic Visitor Experience opens on Saturday, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking on April 15, 1912. Other places (Southampton, Liverpool, Nova Scotia) like to trumpet their Titanic connections but Belfast is determined to ensure that the rest of the world recognises its superior claim. It has spent £97m – Northern Ireland's biggest-ever outlay on a tourism project – on Titanic Belfast, a glittering edifice at the Harland and Wolff dockyards where the ship was built. Less-imaginative people might think a city which constructed a supposedly unsinkable liner that went down, with the loss of 1,517 lives, on its maiden voyage would be inclined to keep quiet about it. This is not the Belfast way. "Ah, you know how people here love to celebrate a disaster," as a taxi driver explains it. ("Gore tours" – trips around infamous atrocity spots during the Troubles – have been tourist offerings for years.) In any case, the firm line you'll hear from Belfast residents on the Titanic's subsequent tribulations is: "She was fine when she left here". ...	29th March 2012
New York Times	EDWARD MAYER IS DEAD World War I Air Veteran Had Been Investment Broker --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., June 10---Edward B. Mayer of Dalton, a veteran of World War I and a retired New York investment broker, died today in ...	11th June 1955
WOOD-TV	NEW IMAGES OF TITANIC WRECKAGE SURFACE Nearly 100 years after an iceberg sent it to the bottom of the North Atlantic the Titanic remains a topic of fascination around the world....	1st September 2010
The Times	A ROUND THE WORLD TRIP The first meeting of creditors was held yesterday at Bankruptcy-buildings under a receiving order made against Maurice Allan Robinson, of 47, Victoria-street, Westminster. Mr. D. WILLIAMS, Official Receiver, reported that the ...	3rd November 1925
wsj.com	WHEN THE GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN The sinking of the Titanic was like "a fancy dress ball in Dante's Hell," said survivor Helen Candee. In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the world's most luxurious ocean liner struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank into frigid water. Of 2,223 passengers and crew onboard, only 706 survived. Such cataclysm may seem an odd subject for children's books, but young readers are perhaps no more immune to fascination with the glamorous Titanic than anyone else. At any rate, the approaching centennial of the sinking has launched a fleet of narratives about the vessel that gripped the world's imagination even before it was launched. For "Titanic: Voices From the Disaster" (Scholastic, 285 pages, $17.99), Deborah Hopkinson has drawn from the vast archives of the event—eyewitness accounts, survivors' memoirs, telegraph transmissions—to relate what happened chiefly from the point of view of the people on the ship. The result, aimed at readers ages 11-16, is an affecting portrait of human ambition, folly and almost unbearable nobility in the face of death....	16th March 2012
CBC.ca	TITANIC EXPLORERS PREPARE 3-D MAP PROJECT An ambitious research mission is set to leave St. John's this weekend with a team of scientists planning to create three-dimensional maps of the world's most famous shipwreck....	24th August 2010
New York Times	COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the...	21st April 1912
CNN News	TITANIC 100TH CRUISES SPARK BUZZ DEBATE The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history....	28th September 2010
New York Times	C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic...	9th December 1952
UTV	TITANIC TRAGEDY IS REMEMBERED A service has been held in Belfast to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. The world`s most famous maritime disaster happened when the vessel hit an iceberg in April 1912....	30th April 2007
u.tv	TITANIC DRY DOCK GETS £1.5M FUNDING An iconic part of Northern Ireland's industrial history and the largest authentic Titanic landmark in the world is being given a new lease of life after receiving £1.5million to secure its preservation....	1st March 2012
New York Times	STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...	6th May 1907
KOLO	TITANIC MESSAGE: DREAM BIG The blue wall at Dilworth Middle School represents the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland. It's a project the seventh grade was doing in preparation for the visit of the world famous explorer Dr. Robert Ballard....	22nd April 2010
	TITANIC HYMN, 1912 As every other country in the world, France published many hymns celebrating the band of the Titanic....	1912
	THE HIPPACH FAMILY From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
Metro Canada - Calgary	SCIENCE CENTRE TO GO DOWN WITH TITANIC Organizers of a Titanic-themed exhibition hope to send the current Telus World of Science headquarters off in style....	5th February 2011
TravelVideo.tv	DIVE TO THE TITANIC BY SUBMERSIBLE VEHICLE In what will probably be the last commercial opportunity to view what is arguably the most famous ship in the world the luxury operator Luxury and More Travel is offering the chance to take one of the worlds undoubtedly most fantastic journeys....	22nd January 2011
	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
Irish Independent	A STORY THAT WAS NEARLY LOST IN THE ICY ATLANTIC Martina Devlin, author of Ship of Dreams, had a family connection with the Titanic, which sank shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912 when it hit an iceberg. The largest steamer in the world took with her the lives of 1,500 people. But what was to happen to those who escaped?...	4th February 2008
Washington Times	ACTOR IS WORRIED OVER FATE OF MAN ON UNFORTUNATE SHIP "Rene is safe; am uncertain about Harry; will wire you definite information as soon as received." This is the only comforting word received by Frank McIntyre, now appearing at the National Theater in “Snobs” and his company, which is a...	17th April 1912
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC TRAIL: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN BELFAST - DAILY MAIL We were on the Titanic Walking Tour and had arrived at the spot where the most celebrated ship in the world was designed. 'This,' as Chris put it, 'is where the Titanic dream began.' ...	25th July 2011

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