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BBC News (2008) GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY
Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ...
15th April 2008  
BBC Northern Ireland (2006) NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER
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11th January 2006  
Newark Evening News (1912) GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE
The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar...
29th April 1912  
New York Times (1935) FIERMONTES FACE CHARGE OF BIGAMY
Lawyer Urges Former Mrs. Astor to Depart From Italy Lest Government Act --- ROME, Feb. 11 (AP)---The possibility of legal action by the Italian Government on charges of bigamy against both Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte and h...
12th February 1935  
New York Times (1907) IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST
Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...
8th March 1907  
Belfast Newsletter (2007) A TASTE OF ULSTER WHETS US APPETITES
THE arrival of Ulster's sizeable contingent of Government ministers, representatives of trade and industry, culture, tourism and leisure is the culmination of a four-month appetiser being served up in Washington DC. ...
28th June 2007  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) TITANIC £97M PLAN ON COURSE FOR 2012 FINISH
The £97m Titanic Signature Project is "on course" to be ready for the centenary of the doomed liner after the Executive finalised its financial commitment, according to the government department leading the project....
3rd November 2009  
BBC News (2008) NOMADIC RESTORATION SURFS THE WEB
The restoration of the SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, is to be charted on a new website. The ship was transported to Belfast in 2006 after being bought by the government. It saw out the end of the last century as a floating restaurant beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris....
28th May 2008  
San Francisco Examiner (1919) DOCTOR DODGE IS OPERATED ON; CONDITION SERIOUS
Page 13, column 7 Former Broker and Assessor Very Low After Attempted Suicide With Pistol Following an operation at the St. Francis Hospital yesterday, the condition of Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker and Assessor ...
23rd June 1919  
New York Times (1912) MRS. GAGE REMAINS IN ASYLUM
WASHINGTON, March 12---Mrs. Mary E. Gage, who was committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane yesterday for threatening Charles J. Bell, a Washington banker, still is a patient in that institution. Habeas corpus proceedings for her release we...
13th March 1912  
BBC News : Northern Ireland (2006) NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS
The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ...
30th October 2006  
The Times (1921) VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE
The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...
23rd June 1921  
New York Times (1911) LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED
All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ...
28th May 1911  
Examiner.com TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1
Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America.....
   
The Post Standard (1961) TITANIC SURVIVOR FINALLY AWARDED $280
Roberta Bolling, 68, who survived the sinking of the Titanic nearly 50 years ago, finally got a check Friday in compensation for losses and sufferings she encountered that night. The check, from trustees administering the compensation fund, was fo...
27th May 1961  
New York Times (1911) AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911  
New York Times (1911) RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON
Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Under­valued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f...
27th May 1911  
Irish Examiner (2006) TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED
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26th January 2006  
New York Times (1939) MRS. E. B. SHERFESEE, ONCE HOOVER AIDE
Head of the American Fund for French Wounded Won Croix de Guerre---Titanic Survivor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 29---Mrs. Emily Borie Sherfesee, wife of Forsythe Sherfesee, former fiananc...
30th December 1939  
New York Times (1913) MONUMENT TO BUTT SOON
Promoters Almost Ready to Start Work on Fountain --- WASHINGTON, June 18---Work on the foundation for the fountain to be erected to the memory of Major Archibald W. Butt, Military Aid to President Taft, and Francis Millet, the arti...
19th June 1913  
BBC News (2006) RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP
Return for 'living history' ship [Photo] The Nomadic took passengers out to the TitanicThe ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought b...
5th July 2006  
ic Birmingham (2006) LABOUR TO THE RESCUE
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27th January 2006  
New York Times (1912) MEDALS FOR RESCUING CREW
Bill Introduced in House to Decorate Men on the Carpathia --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 22---Representative Francis of Ohio to-day introduced a resolution calling for Federal recognition and deco...
23rd April 1912  
  (2005) NEW YORK
(American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic...
20th July 2005  
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 (1927) TITANIC WIDOW TO WED
Mrs. Ryerson of Chicago Will Marry Forsythe Sherfesse, Financier --- CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (AP)---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson, whose husband, Albert [sic] Ryerson, lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be married next week, it is announced, ...
2nd December 1927  
New York Times (1914) MANILA HONORS BUTT
Cathedral Dedicated to Titanic Hero and to Dr. Freer --- MANILA, May 1---The Rt. Rev. C. H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Philippines, to-day dedicated memorial windows in the American Cathedral here to Major Archibald W. Bu...
11th May 1914  
UTV (2006) 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  
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  
  (2005) BULGARIA
(aka Canada, Hercules, Philippines,Drachtenstein) Hamburg-Amerika Line On Tuesday, April 9, while traveling westbound Hamburg-Southampton-Baltimore, received a wireless message from the Caledonia ...
24th June 2005  
Worcester Telegram (1912) NO SIGN OF WRECK
Steamer Bruce Sends One Brief Message Reporting Storms. By the Associated Press ST.JOHN'S, N.F., April 17.- Henry Duff Reid, vice president of the Reid Newfoundland Co., owner of the steamer Bruce, said he has re...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MRS. GAGE BLAMES ALL ON MRS. GRACIE
Court Adjourns to Give District Attorney Time to Find Missing Witness --- C. J. BELL STILL NERVOUS --- Banker Insists Upon Mrs. Gage Being Returned to the Asylum for Fear of a Tragedy --- Special to The New Y...
13th April 1912  
Semi Weekly Iowegian (1912) TAKEN EAST TO BE DEPORTED - LEFEVRES AND WOMAN AND HER CHILD BEING TAKEN BACK TO NEW YORK TO SAIL FOR FRANCE
Appanoose county saw the last of Frank Lefevres, the woman with whom he eloped from France, and one child of each Saturday when they were started to New York in charge of a government official and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baker who went along to assi...
30th July 1912  
New York Times (1949) MRS. HELEN C. CANDEE SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Page 25, column 2 YORK HARBOR, ME., Aug 23 Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, author and lecturer, of this place and Washington, D.C., died here today after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Candee, an authority on tapes...
24th August 1949  
New York Times (1912) BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL
President Taft and Washington Friends Raise Funds for a Tablet --- WASHINGTON, May 30---President Taft, members of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington, and many high Government officials have contributed to a fund of several thousand dol...
31st May 1912  
New York Times (1912) THE TITANIC
Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...
28th July 1912  
New York Times (1912) TO PROVE MRS. GAGE DESCENDANT OF KINGS
Defense Introduces Family Tree in Proceedings Brought by Banker C. J. Bell --- ROOSEVELT'S ROYAL ORIGIN --- Miss Gage Testifies That an Ancestor of Colonel Was a Scottish King—--Threaten Mrs. Gracie with Arrest ---...
12th April 1912  
New York Times (1907) 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  
New York Times (1893) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND ISIDOR STRAUS TALKED OF
Among those politicians who have been industriously at work during the last two weeks speculating as to the make-up of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, a new name was suggested yesterday. It was that of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who was said to ...
7th February 1893  
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST
MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...
22nd April 1912  
  (2005) CALEDONIA
Anchor Line On 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra. Port of Registry: Glasgow Flag of ...
11th June 2005  
New York Times (1912) GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS
Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ...
21st April 1912  
Chicago Tribune (1912) WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND
Halifax, April 16—Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless s...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. B. THAYER
Philadelphia Survivor of the Titanic Entertains Commander of the Carpathia --- NOTABLES AT THE TABLE --- Skipper and His Surgeon Go to Haverford with Hostess Following Astor Luncheon---Come Back To-day --- S...
2nd June 1912  
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  
New York Times (1909) SMUGGLERS PLAN TO OUTWIT LOEB
Collector Hears of Attempts to Take Off Dutiable Goods in Small Boats --- STRICT WATCH AT PIERS --- Hold-Up and Search of Steamship Captains Themselves Reveals Thoroughness of New Search --- Now that Collector Lo...
17th August 1909  
Rutherford Republican (1912) MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY
Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1911) LADY DUFF-GORDON EXAMINED
Declared She Merely Lent Her Name to Corporation, Lucile, Limited --- Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon visited the Federal Building yesterday with her counsel, Bainbridge Colby, to have a talk with Assistant United States District Attorney Wemple...
6th June 1911  
  (1912) 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  
Newark Evening News (1912) NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC’S MAILS
John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ...
16th April 1912  
The Living Age (1911) THE FLOATING ISLANDS
Today, a floating city; tomorrow, a floating island. No other word is spacious enough for the gigantic ships now coming into existence. Next midsummer the largest ship in the World will be ploughing the Atlantic under the flag of th...
18th February 1911  
Washington Herald (1912) CLAIMS MRS. GAGE SUFFERS PARANOIA
Dr. William A. White Testifies Concerning Examination of Defendant in Insanity Case --- Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, testified yesterday afternoon before Justice Barnard and a jury, giv...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1927) CHICAGO WIDOW SENDS PLANE FOR BRIDEGROOM BUT GALE DELAYS 9,000-MILE RACE TO ALTAR
Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Dec. 9---Mrs. Emily Boris [sic] Ryerson, wealthy widow of Arthur Ryerson, the steel maker, who was lost on the Titanic, today dispatched an airplane to St. Paul in an effort to bring her fiancé...
10th December 1927  
New York Times (1912) BELIEVE MRS. GAGE HAS SOCIAL DELUSION
Her Threats Against C. J. Bell, Alienists Testify, Were Due to Form of Paranoia --- DAUGHTER NAMES INFORMANT --- Says Mrs. Archibald Gracie Told That Banker Blocked Mother's Plans---Belva Lockwood Defends Her ---...
5th April 1912  
New York Times (1915) BUYER FINDS TRADE IN GERMANY STIFLED
E. P. Calderhead Say Factories There Are Crippled Because They Lack Materials --- ALL PRICES HAVE ADVANCED --- Berlin Streets, Cafes, and Hotels Deserted---Factory Workers in France Are Men Over 70 --- A repo...
23rd April 1915  
BBC News (2009) POLICE CALLED IN OVER NOMADIC ROW
The police were called to look into the removal of artefacts from the historic White Star vessel SS Nomadic, it has emerged. The artefacts - two ornate doors - were taken by the Nomadic Preservation Society which said it bought them in Par...
23rd September 2009  
The Evening Post (1912) HOLDING BACK FACTS OF DISASTER STIRS CRITICISM
Charges ranging from indifference to deliberate suppression of news are being made against the White Star officials on both sides of the Atlantic . As ground for these charges one needs to go back only to the rapid sequ...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1918) CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED
215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N...
20th July 1918  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) TITANIC'S "LITTLE SISTER" MAY MISS ANNIVERSARY REFIT DATE
The £7m restoration of a tender ship that ferried passengers on board the doomed Titanic may not be finished in time for the centenary of its launch, an official report warns today. The charitable trust responsible for refitting the derelict...
24th June 2009  
BBC News (2009) UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT
A British man has died during an underwater filming mission, the Greek government has said.The diver, 37, was part of a National Geographic crew exploring a British ship, which was sunk during World War I and is owned by a UK businessman....
24th May 2009  
New York Times (1912) SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY
Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...
22nd April 1912  
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  
New York Times (1912) ACCUSE WIRELESS OPERATOR
PHILADELPHIA, April 20---Charges were made to-day by the chief electrician of the United States scout cruiser Chester, which was sent to the aid of the Carpathia, having on board the survivors of the Titanic, that the wireless operators on board the ...
21st April 1912  
  ROSALIND
New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Managers) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 6 April for New York.   On 7 April at 45 degrees 10 ‘ N. by 56 degrees 40” W. encountered a str...
   
New York Times (1899) THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD
Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died...
24th November 1899  
New York Times (1915) SUBMARINES SINK FOUR MORE SHIPS
Three British and a French Steamer Destroyed, All Probably in Mediterranean --- 2 U-BOATS REPORTED LOST -- And a Third Is Said to Have Been Captured and Taken to Port by British Warships --- LONDON, Nov...
11th November 1915  
Transactions of the Devonshire Association (1912) HENRY FORBES JULIAN
'Mr Julian, one of the noble band of heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Titanic disaster on 14 April 1912, so that the women and children might be saved, was the son of Mr Henry Julian, of Cork and Bolton, and belonged to a mixed...
  1912  
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 (...
   
  (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 (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  
 

 
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