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| (1912) | FREDERICK FLEET SIGHTS AN ICEBERG The ship is steaming at 22 1/2 knots. Lookout Frederick Fleet sights an iceberg. He rings the bridge. "What did you see", is the response. He replies "Iceberg right ahead"! It is estimated that 37 seconds pass between the sighting and the collision.... | 14th April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1928) | ROSTRON NOW CUNARD COMMODORE Captain Sir Arthur H. Rostron will succeed the late Sir James Charles as Commodore of the Cunard fleet and will hoist his flag on the Berengaria next Saturday when she leaves Southampton for New York. The Aquitania has been the flagship of the Cu... | 24th July 1928 | |||
| Southampton Echo | (1965) | TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ... | 11th January 1965 | |||
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Washington Times | (1912) | FREDERICK FLEET / MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN | 24th April 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1965) | TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o... | 12th January 1965 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | CUNARD EMPLOYEES TO HONOR ROSTRON Fleet Is Taking Up Subscription for Testimonial to the Retiring Commodore --- DIGGLE HIS SUCCESSOR --- Captain Edgar T. Brltten Will Command Berengaria When She Returns In February --- Officers of the Scythi... | 3rd November 1930 | |||
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Liverpool Echo | (2008) | THE FAMOUS WHITE STAR LINE WHICH LATER INCLUDED THE TITANIC AMONG ITS FLEET WAS FOUNDED IN LIVERPOOL IN 1869 BY SHIPPING MOGUL THOMAS HENRY ISMAY. Known also as the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, White Star eventually led the way in building prestigious luxury liners such as Titanic and her almost identical sisters Olympic and Britannic.When Ismay died in 1899 his elaborate tomb can still be seen in Thurstaston churchyard, Wirral White Star was the most successful transatlantic passenger line.... | 23rd June 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) | SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes... | |||||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | MORGAN'S BARBER LOST Man Who Always Shaved Financier Was on Titanic By Plain Dealer's Leased Wire New York, April 18--Arthur White, once a rich English barber and known in England as the soap wrapper king, is among those lost on the Titanic. White used to... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1903) | 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 transatlantic lin... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La... | 12th July 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ... | 1st November 1930 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | STORM STOPS NEWS: SABLE ISLAND COMMUNICATES BRIEFLY WITH THE CARPATHIA. By the Associated Press HALIFAX. N. S., April 17.- The wireless station at Sable Island was in communication for a time this morning with the Cunarder Carpathia, bound for New York with the survivors of the Titanic on board.... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah... | |||||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq... | 9th November 1930 | |||
| The Times | (1896) | T. ISMAY CONTRIBUTES TO PIRRIE HOSPITAL FUND BELFAST, DEC 16 Much gratification is expressed in Belfast with regard to a letter received by the Lord Mayor, who is a partner in the large shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, from Mr. Thom... | 17th December 1896 | |||
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MinnPost | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS ST. PAUL; RESEARCHER SAYS HIT MOVIE NOT ACCURATE As the Titanic exhibit opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- with artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck along with newly discovered articles from the ship that rescued many of the passengers -- a Minnesota writer with a passion for the top... | 14th June 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1946) | CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise... | 6th October 1946 | |||
| New York Times | (1928) | 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 | |||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION CO., LTD. Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., Ltd. Successors to Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Co. and the Albion Co. Established 50 years ago. This company maintain a regular service of passenger and cargo steamers between London and New Zealand, and... | |||||
| New York Times | (1929) | FRANCE HONORS ROSTRON Cunard Commodore Receives Legion of Honor Aboard Berengaria --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHERBOURG, Feb. 27---France honored a life of heroism and seamanship tonight when she awarded the Legion of Honor to S... | 28th February 1929 | |||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT Largest Steamship Afloat Pronounced Steady as a Rock --- Gales and High Seas Made No Impression on Her, and None of the Passengers Was Seasick --- The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made he... | 21st February 1903 | |||
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Liverpool Daily Post | (2009) | TITANIC HAD MANY LIVERPOOL LINKS, REPORTS PETER ELSON by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009ALTHOUGH she never visited Liverpool, Titanic had strong links with her home port.Planning for her maiden voyage, including the selection of her officers, was made by Charles Bartlett, Whit... | 29th April 2009 | ||
| Chicago Sun-Times | (1990) | ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan... | 2nd February 1990 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED THE WHITE STAR LINE AND ITS OFFICERS IMPROVED CONDITIONS The Imperial Merchant Service Guild is officially informed by the White Star Line of substantial improvements in the pay and general conditions of the officers of ... | 4th April 1913 | |||
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(2004) | ROYAL STANDARD White Star Line The White Star Line was founded in 1845 by two Liverpool ship brokers, Henry Threlfall Wilson and... | 14th November 2004 | |||
| New York Times | (1940) | CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE... | 6th November 1940 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo... | 6th June 1911 | |||
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ET Reviews | (2002) | COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK 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 | ||
| (2005) | THE TUGS AT TITANIC’S DEPARTURE 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 | ||||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | THE ICEBERG — RESURFACED? Nearly nine decades after the Titanic went down in the Atlantic, probably the first authentic photograph of the iceberg has come to light. It lay unpublished in private ownership until it was rediscovered in April 2000. The photograph shows... | 9th July 2001 | ||
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TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ... | |||||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | PORTER SANK WITH TITANIC HEROES Family and Friends of Worcester Man Now Satisfied He Is Among Those Lost Walter E. Bigelow, business associate and friend of Walter C.Porter, last of the Titanic, who made a special trip to New York yesterday in the hope of securing fa... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2004) | WHY DID WHITE STAR SETTLE WITH WHITELEY? THOMAS Whiteley was an unimportant member of crew on the latest White Star liner. He was only eighteen, a solid and presentable youth with some s... | 26th April 2004 | ||
| Concord Journal | (1928) | CAROLINE LAMSON BROWN The death of Mrs. John Murray Brown on Tuesday, June 26th, at the Emerson Hospital in Concord, removed from the scene a type of the handsome, accomplished woman who so well represented old New York in the late sixties and seventies of the last centur... | 28th June 1928 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | NEW YORK YACHT CLUB New Members Admitted---Models for the Paris Exposition --- The adjourned third general meeting of the New York Yacht Club was held yesterday afternoon in Delmonico's, Beaver Street. The principal business transacted was the election of ... | 16th June 1899 | |||
| Dictionary of National Biography (1901) | ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (... | |||||
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(2005) | NOMADIC One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ... | 22nd August 2005 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | A CUNARD COMMODORE HOME FROM THE SEA. By Arthur H. Rostron. Illustrated. 259 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. --- Sir Arthur was commodore of the Cunard fleet when recently he retired from active service. For four years and more he commanded t... | 8th November 1931 | |||
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ET Research | (2009) | DEFENDING FLEET AND LEE The iceberg that doomed the Titanic and 1,523 people to die left a gash of about 300 feet in the ship’s side from beneath the stem of her bow to the boiler room number 6. The 1997 film that took her name as it’s title go... | 14th January 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1903) | THE CEDRIC'S PARROT MASCOT "Baden-Powell" Won Purser McElroy's Heart by Sighting a "Landlubber off the Starboard Not since the days of Funston the famous Mexican parrot of Castle William on Governors Island, has there been seen in the... | 4th May 1903 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble.... | 24th November 1899 | |||
