Historical Research

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	MORE THAN A CREW LIST The “More than a List of Crew” Website Explained The historical circumstances that made merchant seafarers some of the best documented of nineteenth and early twentieth century workers in Britain...	30th August 2011
	KNORR The Research Ship Knorr, from which the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, 1st September, 1985The vessel is pictured at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in October 1999....
Toronto Star	EXCURSION TO TITANIC WRECK PROCEEDS DESPITE FIRE ON RESEARCH VESSEL A small fire broke out aboard a research vessel days before it is scheduled to leave Newfoundland for an expedition to the site of the Titanic shipwreck....	19th August 2010
	IRISH TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Irish Titanic Historical Society (ITHS) was founded in 1988 in Dublin and from small beginnings it now has an international membership of about 200. The main interests are The Titanic and the Irish Passengers who boarded at Queenstown. The Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Kinsale and general maritime history. ...
	PURSUIT OF GRACE: ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND A new historical fiction novel about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. This historically accurate account is written by a Salvation Army Staff Band member, the same band whose predecessors were aboard the Empress the night the ship sank....
bclocalnews.com	AUTHOR ENGAGES STUDENTS IN CANADA'S HISTORY Exploring the Titanic with his new-found friends, 14-year-old Jamie Laidlaw, has no idea that his world is about to turn upside down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down. Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the Titanic in his latest historical novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel....	30th August 2011
syracuse.com	OSWEGO HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT PERSONALITIES OF THE TITANIC George DeMass, of Oswego, chaplain to the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk titled “Titanic: 100 Years Later, A Personal Perspective: from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday Oct. 23 at the H. Lee White Marine Museum on West First Street Pier in Oswego. He will reflect on his experiences as chaplain of the Titanic Historical Society. DeMass spent time developing close ties to a number of survivors and the families of those who perished with the ship. During his presentation, he will speak about their personal stories. ...	18th October 2011
	NOVELIST POISED TO MAKE HISTORY WITH TITANIC BOOK W. Mae Kent June 2009 - Vineland, N.J. - In an ambitious first novel, author W. Mae Kent accomplishes a literary feat that has never been attempted before: she tells the story of the only black passenger traveling on the ill-fated Titanic. While Kent’s ...	9th September 2009
	MICHEL NAVRATIL JR IN PARIS At a Titanic Historical Society's Meeting ...	1996
New York Times	$5,000,000 IS WILLED FOR BLOOD RESEARCH Page 14, Column 4 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3-- Jefferson Medical College and Hospital will receive more than $5,000,000 for blood research under the will of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia art collector, explorer ...	4th August 1954
	FRED FLEET'S GRAVE Hollybrook Cemetery, Lordshill, Southampton...
irishtimes.com	TREASURE HUNTERS SAY IRISH WATERS HAVE VALUABLE WRECKS THE US marine exploration company which has located a British wartime shipwreck with £150 million worth of silver in the Atlantic has also been surveying southwest Irish waters where there are a number of "commodity" wrecks. The Naval Service has confirmed that it notified the company's research ship Odyssey Explorer some weeks ago that it should notify the Irish authorities of its activities. It said the Naval Service came across the vessel surveying some 25 miles west of the Blasket islands, in Co Kerry on August 2nd. Under international law, a ship undertaking scientific research should inform the relevant state, and should be licensed to tow a sidescan sonar in territorial waters....	28th September 2011
Crosby Herald	TITANIC HOME COMPLEX OPENS IN WATERLOO A NEW housing development with strong historical links to the Titanic has officially opened its doors....	25th March 2011
The Republican	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR, MILLVINA DEAN, WILL BE MISSED BY SPRINGFIELD-BASED TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPRINGFIELD - Millvina Dean kept a low profile about her connection to one of the world's most well known disasters until she was urged into the media spotlight by the Indian Orchard-based Titanic Historical Society. And, the society returned her goodwill, contributing to her care before her death on Sunday in England....	3rd June 2009
10TV	COSI EXHIBIT OFFERS HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC LOOK AT TITANIC The Titanic exhibit returns to central Ohio on Saturday for an encore, bringing pieces of history never before seen....	26th March 2010
	LETTER FROM F.D. MILLET AND THE NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY John Lamoreau A letter written by F.D. Millet shortly before he left on a trip to Rome early in 1912. In the letter he discusses his plans for painting murals for the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts that was being remodeled. In the letter he mention...	6th February 1912
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
thewesterlysun.com	FROM MYSTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Best known as the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, Ballard is also the founder and president of the Sea Research Foundation's Institute for Exploration. He visited the aquarium Thursday to kick off the new voyage of the Nautilus and to boldly go where no one has gone before......	28th July 2011
	NEW BOOK ABOUT TITANIC Margarita Campuzano An interesting and amazing research has just...
	SIBONEY IN CONVOY From Historical Souvenir of the U.S.S. Siboney....
	TITANIC INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Titanic International is a non-profit historical organization based in New Jersey that was founded in 1989 to preserve and perpetuate the memory and history of the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, and those who sailed aboard her maiden and last voyage....
Las Vegas Weekly	TITANIC EXHIBIT AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CHILLING REMINDER OF HISTORICAL TRAGEDY There's a definite chill in the air when you step out on the deck re-creation of the new Titanic exhibit. One moment you are marveling at the stunning staterooms and grand lobby of the great ship, and the next you're so close to the icebergs, you can actually touch them....	2nd January 2009
southportvisiter.co.uk	TITANIC CIGAR BOX GOES FOR £25000 A CIGAR box that once belonged to the ill-fated captain of the Titanic raised Â£25000 at auction. The antique walnut humidor was found earlier this month in Southport, with the owner unaware of its historical significance. ...	19th May 2011
BBC News	OCEAN SCIENCE GIANT ALVIN SET FOR UPGRADE Few research tools in the history of science can match the achievements of Alvin the US manned deep-submersible....	16th December 2010
CBC.ca	HURRICANE HASTENS TITANIC WEDDING A young couple working on a research ship mapping the wreck of the Titanic celebrated their wedding aboard the vessel on Sunday....	1st September 2010
The Daily News of Newburyport	LOCAL FAMILY'S BRUSH WITH TITANIC DISASTER Life can be so unpredictable. Today, I am going to tell you a true story about a historical event most of you are familiar with, and how this event affected a local woman and her family. This particular event took place almost a century ago, in April 1912....	3rd April 2010
St. John's Telegram	RETURN TO THE TITANIC Archeologists oceanographers and other nautical scientists will leave Pier 17 in St. Johns Harbour Sunday onboard the research vessel Jean Charcot for an expedition to the Titanic wreckage where theyll create a three-dimensional map of the entire shipwreck area....	24th August 2010
Belfast Telegraph	HISTORIC HOME OF TITANIC SHIPYARD FOUNDER RAZED TO THE GROUND Residents last night spoke of their 'absolute shock' after the historical homes of Gustav Wolff - of Harland and Wolff fame - which they fought to save, were demolished. The two 19th century cottages in east Belfast were last summer spot listed by the Environmental Heritage Service (EHS) after a campaign was launched to prevent their destruction....	20th January 2009
Crosby Herald	WATERLOO'S TITANIC LINK IS MARKED AT NEW HOME DEVELOPMENT A NEW building development marks Waterloo's historical link to the Titanic.The former coach house in Murat Street, which was once the property of Titanic owner Thomas Henry Ismay, has been transformed into a new housing development....	24th April 2008
Boston Globe	FAMILY BATTLES MUSEUM OVER TITANIC LEGACY In 1987, five years after Goldsmith's death, his widow found among his personal papers a manuscript in which he put down his memories of the fateful day. Now, 20 years later, Goldsmith's family is battling the Springfield-based Titanic Historical Society, over the rights to the manuscript....	8th May 2007
thestar.co.uk	MUSEUM HOSTS NEW TITANIC SHOW A GLIMPSE into life on board doomed cruise liner the Titanic is being offered by Barnsley’s Cannon Hall Museum next Friday to mark the 99th anniversary of the disaster. The museum is hosting an exhibition of costumes, historical documents and testimonies from survivors who travelled on the ship’s only voyage in April 1912......	6th April 2011
Sarasota Herald-Tribune	EXPERT ON THE TITANIC WILL SPEAK AT LIBRARY Kenneyth Chamberlin, a member of the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk about the 1912 sinking of the luxury ocean linear."The Titanic: A Night to Remember" will be at 1 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Manatee County Central Library, 1301 Barcarrota Blvd. W., Bradenton. Admission is free. The Friends of the Central Library are sponsoring the program....	6th October 2008
MSNBC.com	VIEWING THE TITANIC WRECKAGE IN HIGH-DEF 3-D We saw our first pictures of the Titanic wreckage in 3-D high-def early this morning. I expected euphoria maybe cheering in the command room of the Jean Charcot the research vessel that's documenting the Titanic debris before it disintegrates. Instead there was an intense silence....	31st August 2010
	MARK CHIRNSIDE'S RECEPTION ROOM Titanic and 'Olympic' class research site, with a focus on Mark Chirnside's books and articles....
bbc.co.uk	HISTORIC TITANIC COMPANY MINUTE BOOK BOUGHT AT AUCTION BY H&W - BBC NEWS The Belfast shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, which built the Titanic, has bought back its original Minute Book for an undisclosed sum. The item was just one lot that went under the hammer at an auction of rare books and historical memorabilia in Dublin this afternoon. ...	14th December 2011
guardian.co.uk	HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC, OR THE SINKING OF J BRUCE ISMAY BY FRANCES WILSON ... - THE GUARDIAN In the end, the subject of this fascinating book is not just historical or biographical uncertainty, but psychological and moral ambiguity. Ismay became a kind of modern ancient mariner, endlessly trying to explain himself, but his solipsism meant that the 1,500 people who died on the Titanic collapsed into the intractable problem of his disappointment in himself. As Conrad's narrator Marlow finally realises at the end of Lord Jim's story: "Nobody, nobody is good enough."...	12th August 2011
	SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 1 First of two photos showing the USS Siboney rescuing the survivors of the H.M.S. Dwinsk. These photos were printed in a commemorative book: Historical Souvenier of the U.S.S. Siboney April 8, 1918-August 1, 1919, which was made available after the...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	CAN TITANIC CENTRE DELIVER AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE? It’s great to hear all about the architectural features of the building as ‘Belfast’s Eiffel Tower’ and the banqueting for 750 covers. But will not visitors from across the globe also want to see something really historical, original and unique in the galleries to bring out that special factor? Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/can-titanic-centre-deliver-authentic-experience-16005003.html#ixzz1NZQ08O92 ...	27th May 2011
YourNabe.com	TITANIC RELICS TAKE ANCHOR AT ASTORIA HISTORY GROUP Were you ever curious about that home on 11th Street in Long Island City festooned with memorabilia from the doomed ocean liner Titanic? The opportunity to see it there has passed, but the collection of memorabilia, once curated by lifelong Long Island City resident Joe Colletti, is now in the hands of the Greater Astoria Historical Society....	13th February 2010
PRLog.org	TITANIC GIFT COMPANY WINS INNOVATION VOUCHER White Star Momentos Ltd based on the shores of Belfast Lough have just been awarded an amazing £4000 Innovation Voucher by Invest Northern Ireland. The voucher is to be used for research and developement skills locally to design and produce a unique commissioned piece of Silver Jewelry....	26th January 2011
Daily Telegraph	NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO PUT TITANIC RECORDS ON THE NET ?2.5m deal to scan and place online the National Archives' entire historical database of passengers who embarked on sea voyages from Britain's shores between 1890 and 1960. This includes the one and only voyage of Titanic, which was made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio.The estimated 30m individual records include details of emigrations to Australia, North and South America, India and Africa....	2nd April 2006
bbc.co.uk	ULSTER FOLK AND TRANSPORT MUSEUM SECURES TITANIC ARTEFACTS It includes serving dishes and soap from the Titanic, as well as passenger lists, tickets, playing cards and a steward's menu ideas. The collection will form the basis of an exhibition at the museum to mark the centenary of the Titanic's launch....	12th April 2011
	TOURISM IRELAND : TITANIC STORIES Titanic Stories is designed to direct you to the most authentic information and experiences about the Titanic on the island of Ireland. There is a wealth of undiscovered stories to find within the pages of this website and on the many Titanic tours, historical sites, towns and cities connected to RMS Titanic. ...	24th March 2011
ibtimes.com	UNSEEN PICTURES OF TITANIC ON 100TH YEAR OF LAUNCH NOAA wants to ensure that the memorial, historical, archaeological and scientific values of Titanic is preserved for future generations while sharing the story and images of the wreck with the public, it said. While NOAA strives to protect as well as make Titanic wreck site accessible to the public through 2010 documentation and pictures, start the slideshow to view some of the never-before-seen pictures of Titanic before it sank, the shipwreck and more:...	2nd June 2011
express.co.uk	MY GRANDFATHER TOOK TITANIC'S DEADLY SECRET TO THE GRAVE - EXPRESS.CO.UK MANY families have a secret, a skeleton that stays well and truly locked int he closet. City high-flier and novelist Louise Patten knows all about this kind of cloak and dagger concealment because for almost a century her own family has kept a secret of historical magnitude. Her story is not a tale of illegitimate heirs or ill gotten gains. Instead Louise, 57, who is married to former Conservative education secretary and life peer John Patten, claims to know what caused the Titanic to sink....	31st October 2011
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
canadaeast.com	GEOLOGIST TAKES ON TITANIC RESEARCH Steve Blasco, a Nova Scotia-based researcher, had spent countless hours beneath the waves during his career, exploring seascapes at depths never before experienced by human beings. But this was different. Nearly 4,000 metres below the surface of the frigid North Atlantic, 79 years after an iceberg appeared out of the mist cutting short the lives of 1,517 men, women and children, Blasco was about to see the most famous shipwreck in history. ...	21st October 2011
Business Wire	CARPATHIA PLAN FOR RMS TITANIC INC. Legal Access Technologies, whose name is currently being changed to UnderSea Recovery Corporation (UnderSea), announced today that it has entered into joint venture agreement with RMS Titanic, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions Inc, to conduct research and recovery expeditions to the RMS Carpathia. The joint salvage efforts are scheduled to start later in 2006....	20th January 2006
pendletoday.co.uk	MP VERY IMPRESSED BY NEW TITANIC MUSEUM PENDLE’s latest attraction - the Titanic In Lancashire Museum - is now open to the public and has had a visit from the borough’s MP, Mr Andrew Stephenson. The museum is based in the Parish Rooms next to St Bartholomew’s Church in Church Street, Colne. Mr Stephenson was very impressed by his visit and said: “The Titanic In Lancashire Museum is a fascinating collection of both historical artefacts and the numerous links between our area and the Titanic....	28th August 2011
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars....	5th September 2008
Fernie Free Press	A TITANIC STORY Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the famous ship in his novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel. The Deadly Voyage is part of the popular I Am Canada series, which uses events in Canadian history as a backdrop to exciting adventures of daring young men. The book focuses on 14 year old Jamie Laidlaw, who has no idea that his world is about to turn up-side down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down....	8th October 2011
	DOROTHY GIBSON IN 'HANDS ACROSS THE SEA' A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enacting events of the American Revolut...	1911
The Times	TINY FLAWS THAT CAUSED A TITANIC WASTE OF LIFE New evidence suggests that the rescue of 1,500 people would have succeeded but for weak rivets that allowed the hull to 'unzip', Mark Henderson reports THE most celebrated disaster in maritime history owed as much to substandard rivets as it did to the iceberg, an analysis of the sinking of the Titanic has revealed. The liner would have survived the collision for long enough for most of, or even all, its passengers to be rescued had it not been put together with weak rivets that caused its hull to 'unzip' on impact with the ice, according to the new research....	16th September 2006
PR-CANADA.net	IUNIVERSE WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF TITANIC: RELATIVE FATE BY V.C. KING Nearly one hundred years after the catastrophe, people around the world are still intrigued by the events leading up to the ultimate destruction and sinking of the historic ship, Titanic. Wanting to engage readers in a present-day story fabricated from the legendary ship, author V.C. King put her research skills, interest in the topic and natural story-telling abilities together to create her second published book, Titanic: Relative Fate....	20th May 2008
heraldnews.com	TITANIC SOCIETY WORRIED THAT REPLICA AT MARINE MUSEUM COULD FALL BY WAYSIDE - FALL RIVER HERALD NEWS The Titanic Historical Society Inc., which donated a 28-foot, 1-ton replica to the Marine Museum 25 years ago, recently sought assurance that its famous model would not sink into oblivion. Questions over the ship’s status, society members said, were prompted by a series of Herald News stories, including one on Oct. 27 reporting that the Internal Revenue Service revoked the Marine Museum’s nonprofit standing this year as a result of its failure to file IRS 990 forms for at least three years....	21st November 2011
scientificcomputing.com	TITANIC EXPLORER DETAILS NEW DEEP-SEA JOURNEY Oceanographer Robert Ballard, best known for discovering the Titanic wreck, has new plans to plumb the depths of the seas. Ballard said on July 28, 2011 that his latest deep-sea venture will send crews combing through the Black, Aegean and Mediterranean seas for artifacts from ship wrecks and ancient civilizations. His research vessel, the E/V Nautilus, set out from a port in Turkey last week on a four-month mission that will use four remote-operated vehicles and sonar technology to explore lost cities, as well as hydrothermal vents and undersea volcanoes....	2nd August 2011
patch.com	EXPLORE THE TITANIC AT THE LACEY LIBRARY The display consists of first, second, and third class plate sets; photographs of survivors; and jewelry from the ship itself. Egolf was invited on the Titanic expedition when they tried to raise a piece of the ship. On that trip, Egolf met Titanic survivors Edith Brown Haisman and Michael Navratil. After the expedition, Egolf got further involved in the research of the Titanic....	9th April 2011
ABC News	TITANIC SPLIT THEORY CHALLENGED "This ship didn't split apart because it sank," said John Chatterton, a co-host of the History Channel's "Deep Sea Detectives." "It sank because it split apart. And if you're the person onboard a ship, having it split apart is even scarier than having it slowly sink."Chatterton and his co-host, Richie Kohler, set out on an expedition to research the legendary ocean liner last summer. They encountered two huge sections of the bottom - 60 feet by 90 feet - from the area where the ship had split in two. That led to a new theory about how the Titanic had sunk. ...	26th February 2006
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	MADNESS STAR SUGGS COMES TO COLNE TO RESEARCH TITANIC BAND LEADER WALLACE HARTLEY MADNESS frontman Suggs toured East Lancashire in the search of its Titanic legacy. He stopped off at Blackburn train station before boarding the train to Colne on his voyage of discovery yesterday. Along with the production team from UKTV, he filmed near The Crown pub, at Colne Cemetery and at the statue of Wallace Henry Hartley who famously led a band as RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. ...	3rd November 2011
Unidentified Newspaper	OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ...	10th April 1996
royalgazette.com	MARIE CELESTIA WRECK OFFERS UP CARGO OF PERFUME - ROYAL GAZETTE Perfume bottles are the latest treasure to have been recovered from Bermuda wreck Marie Celestia. Phillippe Rouja, conservator of historic wrecks, announced the discovery of the bottles this week. Five unopened bottles of wine were found stashed in the bow of the Marie Celestia this past June. UK perfume historian David Pybus, who has uncovered perfume from the Titanic, has begun his analysis on the bottle's contents. Early research has revealed that the bottle contains a sample from a posh London perfumery that has since gone out of business......	22nd August 2011
Titanic Research	TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY Randy Bryan Bigham Internet research tips for beginners From biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading online destination for original, in-depth studi...	20th September 2005
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
MinnPost	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 topic raises questions about the historical accuracy of the 1997 hit movie that catapulted the disaster into the realm of popular culture. ...	14th June 2009
	BRAVERY AWARD Trevor M. Bailey Ernest G F Brown...	1st April 2005
EurekAlert	WOODS HOLE ENGINEERING TEAM FROM TITANIC DISCOVERY TO BE HONORED The underwater research vehicle Jason Jr., which gained international attention for its exploration inside the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic in July 1986, and its engineering team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be honored July 14 with the 2006 GlobalSpec Great Moments in Engineering award.The honor comes on the 20th anniversary of the Institution's second expedition to the wreck of Titanic, nine months after the initial discovery by an unmanned towed camera system named Argo. At the time the Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) at WHOI, part of the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, was developing the dual vehicle Argo/Jason system for deep ocean exploration. Jason Jr. was a prototype meant to test design concepts for the planned and much larger remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason, which is controlled from the surface via a miles long cable....	12th July 2006
	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...
New York Times	WALDMANS SEEK DIVORCE Mother of Children Who Fell to Death Here Sues in Paris --- Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Co. --- PARIS, Nov. 27---Mrs. Barbara Guggenheim Waldman, whose two children were killed in a thirteen-story fall from the roof o...	28th November 1929
Titanic Review	COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK Gavin Murphy 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
Titanic Research	THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HUGH WALTER MCELROY : CHIEF PURSER OF R.M.S. TITANIC Frank McElroy Coat of Arms...	19th June 2009
TDN	TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN Stuart's interest in the Titanic began when he encountered A Night to Remember as a freshman at West Bremerton High School. ...	5th June 2009
Unidentified Encyclopædia	JOHN HARPER Aguilla Webb [Extract] John Harper, the newly called pastor of Moody Church in the early 1900's, manifested his Christian character in the sinking of the Titanic. Dr. W. B. Riley related the death of Harper. "We have the history of John Harper's en...
	EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH) Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ...	2003
Titanic Review	SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED Mark Chirnside Mark Chirnside reviews Andrew Wilson's new book exploring the later lives of Titanic's survivors....	29th November 2011
	EDWARD HENRY BAGLEY (RESEARCH ABOUT HIS LIFE) Edward Henry Bagley was born to Edward Bagley and his wife Lucy Bagley (nee Longhurst) on the 4th March 1879. The family lived at 17 Wightman Street, Plaistow, London. His father worked as a labourer at a soap works, and by the time of the boy's bapt...	2003
examiner.com	'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Historical Society, and googling Titanic results in 24,400,000 results....	8th July 2009
	MISS DOROTHY GIBSON, HARRISON FISHER MUSE, NOW PICTURE STAR Miss Dorothy Gibson, the well-known beauty who is the muse of Mr. Harrison Fisher, the popular illustrator of feminine charms, has forsaken the studio of the artist for that of the motion picture. Miss Gibson, who is the sitter for man...	1911
	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 ...
Unidentified Newspaper	LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...	2nd February 2001
	NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic...
BBC News	DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck....	21st November 2008
Titanic Review	RETURN TO TITANIC, BY DR. ROBERT D. BALLARD Richard A. Krebes Minnetonka, Minnesota. May, 1988... In a one-level rambler on a street with the pretty name "Croftview Terrace", a young boy sits mesmerized. A letter in his hand. A letter written on the stationary of the Wood...	9th April 2009
Duluth Weekly	TITANIC AQUATIC AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM ATLANTA (April 22, 2009) Premier Exhibitions, Inc. today announced its new blockbuster attraction, Titanic: Aquatic at the Georgia Aquarium, will be extending its run through September 7, 2009, due to the overwhelming demand for tickets. To date, this wildly successful Exhibition has had more than 150,000 attendees during the first few months of the run....	29th April 2009
Southern Daily Echo	DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM THE team that will design Southampton's £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre....
Titanic Research	DETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC Stephanie Clements The RMS. Titanic has laid 2.5 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since her sinking, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 14, 1912. Many questions were raised on the state of the vessel condition and how sh...	11th January 2008
South Devon Herald Express	TRUE IDENTITY OF TITANIC VICTIM HISTORIAN Mike Holgate has discovered the answer to a mystery surrounding the identity of a Torquay man who died on the Titanic....	29th April 2009
New York Times	HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t...	23rd May 1962
Titanic Research	THE LAST OF THE LOST Alan Ruffman & Ryan Parr A preliminary report on the Palaeo-DNA Project and the unidentified Titanic victims in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, cemeteries...	3rd August 2002
BBC News	VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from Â£2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 killing 1,517 people....	8th October 2009
Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED EXTRACT Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ...	1987
Lancashire Telegraph	TITANIC BANDMASTER'S VIOLIN MAY BE SOLD Peter Magill Tests are being carried out on a violin thought to have belonged to Wallace Hartley, who famously played on as the White Star Liner sank in April 1912. And if the instrument turns out to be genuine experts believe it could break the £100,000 record for an artefact from the wreck. ...	2nd April 2011
New York Times	NOW ABRAHAM & STRAUS BIG CHANGE IN A BIG STORE WHICH ALL BROOKLYN KNOWS --- One of the most interesting business changes of the year went into effect yesterday, when the retail dry goods firm of Wechsler & Abraham became the firm of Abraham & Straus, the ne...	2nd April 1893
Brighton Argus	CAR BOOT BARGAIN HUNT FINDS TITANIC TREASURE Jessica Mangold Bravery Award...	2nd April 2005
Chicago Examiner	STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON Message From Other World Upon Titanic Disaster Goes Ast...	16th December 1913
New York Times	ALEXANDER RICE, EXPLORER, WAS 80 Physician and Author Dies---Made Trips on the Amazon and Taught Navigation --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I, July 23---Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, explorer of the Amazon, author and member of the summe...	24th July 1956
Orland Park Prairie	TITANIC ARRIVES IN ORLAND PARK It was a honeymoon gone wrong for John Henry Chapman and his bride, Sarah Elizabeth Lawry. Lawry, 29, of Spokane, Wash., was headed from Southhampton, England, to Fitzburn, Wisc. with her husband to be closer to her brother, William....
Santa Barbara News-Press	RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...	8th July 1990
Titanic Review	ON BOARD RMS TITANIC : MEMORIES OF THE MAIDEN VOYAGE Peter Engberg Peter Engberg reviews George Behe's compilation of letters written aboard RMS Titanic...	12th February 2012
	1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC Dennis Foley By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
New York Times	ORIGIN OF NAMES OF HOTELS HERE Named for Interested Families or After Well-Known European Hostelries --- ST. REGIS CALLED FOR LAKE --- Suggested to the Late John Jacob Astor by Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson --- So numerous are the hotels of New Yo...	9th March 1930
	VIOLIN PLAYED AS TITANIC SUNK IN 1912 FINALLY DISCOVERED! A new book to be published this week, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner, claims that the violin which band leader Wallace Hartley played as the Titanic sank in April 1912 survived, and may be offered for sale at the time of next year's centenary....	28th March 2011
	NOTE BY FRANCES WILSON ON THE ISMAY FAMILY ARCHIVE Frances Wilson Frances Wilson, author of How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay discusses her enduring interest in the Titanic and her discovery of the Ismay family archive...	11th August 2011
Titanic Review	THE WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT: VOICES FROM THE TITANIC Randy Bryan Bigham Allan Wolf lyricizes the Titanic in a fact-based, poignant evocation of the 100 year old tragedy...	29th December 2011
Titanic Review	THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC Michael Tennaro In this new book, Chirnside has done the triplets proud, with a thoroughly researched history of each of these vessels. ...	6th December 2004
Titanic Review	A RARE TITANIC FAMILY: THE CALDWELLS' STORY OF SURVIVAL Mike Poirier Families are often the guardians of history. Who would have imagined that a new, amateur photo taken aboard Titanic on the day she sailed would grace the cover of a book? Julie Hedgepeth Williams, a journalism professor, has gone throu...	11th February 2012
Titanic Research	RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 1 Gavin Murphy Explaining the legal position of the Titanic wreck...	15th March 2002
Titanic Review	THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT Paul Rogers Paul Rogers reviews a new book exploring the mystery of the "Californian Incident"...	16th June 2009