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	GREAT LAKES TITANIC SOCIETY GLTS is an informal association of Titanic enthusiasts which got its start in the Great Lakes region. The website highlights the maritime connections of the region to the Titanic and other White Star Line ships. Great Lakes and North Atlantic maritime history are also explored....
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	LET'S HONOUR THE WORKING CLASS HEROES WHO BUILT THE GREAT TITANIC Why has this city been so tardy in marking its great link with the Titanic? Why are some here still griping about why we should even bother commemorating it now? The Titanic was a disaster, they say. Why bum about our role in building a ship that sank on its first outing? It's an argument that misses the point by a large iceberg. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindy-mcdowell/lets-honour-the-working-class-heroes-who-built-the-great-titanic-16006543.html#ixzz1OCWL6Mw0 ...	2nd June 2011
	MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri...
Greensburg Tribune-Review	SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SUCCUMBS Sophie Halaut Abraham, 82, of South Greensburg, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, died Saturday, Dec. 11. She was born on Feb. 10, 1894, in Shwahed, Syria, the daughter of the late John and Marian Abraham Easu. She was a member of ...	13th December 1976
Bristol Evening Post	WHY TITANIC TRIBUTE CONCERT WILL HAVE SPECIAL MEANING FOR CHARLOTTE Ii is the most memorable scene from every Titanic movie ever made – the string ensemble who took their instruments on to the deck, and heroically played on as the waves lapped around their ankles. It's not just artistic licence from Hollywood directors – there are plenty of eyewitness accounts to vouch for the fact that it actually happened when the ship went down in 1912. But for one Bristol teenager, the scene is particularly poignant. For 13-year-old Charlotte Woodward discovered just last year that her own great great uncle was the cellist with the doomed ensemble. John Wesley Woodward – Charlotte's great great grandfather's brother – was just 32 years old when he went down with the doomed White Star liner. Now Charlotte has a unique opportunity to pay tribute to her forefather. She has inherited the musical gene, and plays violin with the Bristol Schools Concert Orchestra – one of the local school bands that has been chosen to take part in a special centenary remembrance concert....	22nd March 2012
Chicago Tribune	ANN STRAUBE Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s...	31st January 1990
thisissurreytoday.co.uk	BOOK AIMS TO CLEAR GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF SINKING TITANIC THE great-granddaughter of the man who was at the helm of the Titanic when it sank has written a book she hopes will clear his name. Quartermaster Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who sank the "unsinkable" ship. He was at the wheel of the Titanic as she went to her doom and famously gave the "hard-a-starboard" command in a desperate attempt to steer away from the iceberg that would lead to the death of 1,500 people on April 15, 1912....	23rd September 2011
	OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...	1912
marketwatch.com	PAPERS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR WHO WROTE ABOUT SINKING ON DISPLAY The descendant of a survivor of the Titanic will travel from England to America to share letters and photographs of her great-grandmother, who was a women's rights advocate and journalist and wrote an account of her rescue. As part of the centennial observance of the sinking of the Titanic, Rosemary Gillham of Hertfordshire, will visit Norwalk for an exhibit at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum ( www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com ), titled Epic Voyage: The Extraordinary Life of Titanic Survivor Helen Churchill Candee, and will bring her great-grandmother's papers. The exhibit runs from April 25 to October 14. "My great-grandmother has always been an inspiration for me," said Gillham. "She was 53 when she traveled on the Titanic, and that tragic evening was just one night in a long and very full life. She had already achieved a huge amount and went on to travel and write extensively." ...	27th March 2012
The Times	EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet...	25th July 1885
NorthJersey.com	TITANIC DIVER, HISTORIAN LECTURES AT LAMBERT CASTLE Titanic historian, Charles Haas, will deliver part 2 of his Titanic lecture program at Lambert Castle on March 3, at 7 pm. Previously, he fascinated the audience at Lambert Castle with his knowledge of the history of the great ship and the famous accident. On this occasion, Haas will focus on the continuing tale of this great ship, Titanic: The Latest Chapters....	27th February 2010
NewDesignWorld	HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It began in April 1912. On April 25, 2009, the romance continues. Local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast are inviting all to experience being a part of making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit....	26th January 2009
net	SINKING OF TITANIC HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR VILONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL CUSTODIAN Fourth-grade students at the Vilonia Primary School on Friday learned about Sophie Abraham Halaut, a Titanic survivor, from her great-great niece who works at the school. “We knew her as Aunt Sophie, the aunt who was on the Titanic,” Tricia Gill told the students, regarding Halaut, who died in 1976....	13th September 2011
NewDesignWorld	DAVID G. BROWN AUTHOR AND TV DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER TO JOIN HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It's 'full steam ahead' as local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast continue making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise to be held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit April 25th, 2009....	2nd February 2009
	WILLIAM FARR PENNY Tony Evans My great uncle...
	WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain...	1915
Chicago Journal	A GREAT DEAL OF WRECKAGE FROM THE TITANIC BULLETIN: [Associated Press Telegram] Halifax, April 16--The Sable island cableship Minia reported this afternoon that it had sighted a great deal of wreckage from the Titanic, but no boats or rafts. This dispo...	16th 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
The Times	INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ...	29th January 1930
Newspaper	JOHN LAW HUME BIOGRAPHY;RMS TITANIC 'THE FIRST VIOLIN' BY YVONNE HUME Donna White I have just come across this article from the Sunday Mail in Scotland. This seems to be a fascinating book as it is written by a close relative, I can't wait to read the whole book. ...	27th March 2011
New York Times	THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...	25th November 1899
thisissussex.co.uk	EAST GRINSTEAD SISTERS TELL THE TALE OF RELATIVE'S TITANIC DISASTER A CENTURY after the Titanic disaster, two East Grinstead sisters have revealed how their great-grandfather went down with the ship. George Henry Green, a metal worker from Dorking, boarded the historic vessel as a third class passenger in April 1912 in search of a new life in America. But he never arrived, instead becoming one of more than 1,500 people who died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean 100 years ago. This week, great-granddaughters Penelope Simpson and Carolyn Whapham looked back on the life of a family man who they claim was never given the opportunity to be saved. Penelope, 69, of Wray Close, Ashurst Wood, said: "When he died, it threw everyone to bits. One minute they had everything and then their world fell apart....	26th April 2012
	THE THAYERS From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...
	THE WIDENERS From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...
	TITANIC HYMN, 1912 This is one of the many in memoriam cards published in Great Britain...	1912
	JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN Peter Gauthier To all who are interested in John Cotter, Harbor Pilot for Queenstown My name is Peter Gauthier and I am the Great, Great Grandson of said John Cotter. Specifically, one of his daughters Maggie or Margaret, who my mother is named ...
	WILLIAM EDWY RYERSON : EXTRA INFORMATION William Edwy Ryerson was born on 7th dec 1878 in Portland Dover, the son of George Arthur Ryerson and Catherine Hamilton. William had a brother, George A Ryerson born in 1880. when Williams father died on 21 january 1881, his mother took him an...
New York Times	SOUTHAMPTON EN FETE Arrival of Adriatic Inaugurates the New White Star Service --- SOUTHAMPTON, May 30---The City of Southampton was in holiday attire to-day in honor of the arrival here of the White Star liner Adriatic, f...	31st May 1907
	FAMILY MEMORIES Family memories...
Titanic Stories	TITANIC BELFAST: TITANIC IN MY BLOOD Susie Millar, whose great grandfather Thomas Millar died upon the Titanic, shows us around Belfast – birthplace of Titanic. ...
Titanic Research	A MATTER OF COURSE Randy Bryan Bigham There was more to Great Britain’s fashionable Countess of Rothes than banquets and garden parties. She proved that the night Titanic went down. ...	22nd September 2006
	SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE Dear Madam,In reply to yours of the 26th- inst. we beg to say that we greatly regret being unable to give you any information in reference to Mr Silva and can only state that up to the present time there has been no indication that any of t...	29th May 1915
New York Times	THE LOSS OF JAMES CLINCH SMITH Amid the maelstrom of mourning in connection with the recent disaster, (which was indeed "Titanic,") the city press seems to have overlooked the loss of one of our most estimable citizens. I refer to Mr. James Clinch Smith, a bro...	24th April 1912
Chicago Sun-Times	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
	JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN Portrait of the great financier, industrialist and shipowner....
Town and Country	AN ENGLISHMAN OF MUCH INTEREST Mr. Tyrell William Cavendish, the only son of the late Charles Tyrell Cavendish, who is the fiance of Miss Julie Siegel, is an Englishman of interest. Very quietly Mr. and Mrs. Henry Siegel made the announcement of the engagement of Mr. Sieg...	26th December 1906
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC EXHIBITION SAILS INTO DUBLIN Almost 100 years after the Titanic sank beneath icy waters on an April night in 1912, the spirit of the great ship is coming to Ireland....	8th December 2009
The South Bend Tribune	MRS FATIMA MOUSSELMANI Michael D. Lacopo (transcriber) TITANIC SURVIVOR WEDS Michigan City Woman Brings Word of Drowning of South Bend Men Michigan City, Ind., May 8 -- Mohammed Mustafa Ajamy and Miss Fatima Muselmanie, the latter a Titanic survivor and the woman who brought word of the...	8th May 1912
St. Ives Times & Express	MR. CARBINES INTERRED Through the courtesy of Mr. Carbines — brother of the late Mr. William Carbines, a passenger on the "Titanic" and who has only just arrived in St. Ives from America — we are able to give some information from a letter which Mr. William Cogar, loca...	10th May 1912
Pittsburgh Post Gazette	'TITANIC' ON STAGE AT MUSIC HALL The great ship Titanic will sink once again, this time on a stage in Carnegie with a cast of 62 actors who range in age from 5 to 82....	5th November 2009
	WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD STUDIO PORTRAIT From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
dailymail.co.uk	'I OWE MY LIFE TO THE TITANIC' 'My great-grandparents' romance inspired the film Titanic and I owe my life to the disaster': Woman claims her grandmother was conceived on ill-fated ship....	15th March 2012
Totnes Times & Devon News	UGBOROUGH MAN'S GRAPHIC STORY OF THE GREAT OCEAN TRAGEDY This item was almost word for word the same as that reported in the Western Morning News of 29 April 1912. However, in addition the article stated that his father was in the Metropolitan Police at Devonport. ...	4th May 1912
edp24.co.uk	NORFOLK FARMWORKER REVEALS GREAT TITANIC ESCAPE The young steward had been determined to join the crew of the Titanic, pictured right, in March 1912. “But,” his eldest son recalled, “he failed the medical inspection because he had a cold and a touch of flu. He was really cut-up about that.”...	14th May 2011
New York Times	LADY PIRRIE MAY HEAD HARLAND & WOLFF, THE GREAT BRITISH SHIPBUILDING FIRM Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 16---It is the general belief in shipping circles that Lady Pirrie will assume the post of President of the great shipbu...	17th July 1924
Denver Post	LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...	19th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	SAD NEWS CAUSES COLLAPSE Owing to the great anxiety and mental anguish under which Mrs. Margaret O'Brien, of 90 Monroe street, has been laboring for the past few days since the wreck of the Titanic and the probable drowning of her brother, Arthur Keefe, were reported, she co...	19th April 1912
Liverpool Echo	ART ON THE HIGH SEAS SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic....	23rd February 2008
	GENEVA 1908 (BACK) Geneva. Sept. 3/08 "This is another beautiful city. A great deal of life here and lots of beautiful shops. hope youa re all well. We are awfully worn out and will be glad to get to Paris for a few days rest. Love to you all. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
Boston Daily Globe	LATTIMER MOURNED Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and...	20th April 1912

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