Largest Vessel Afloat

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Chicago Tribune LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH
Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...
18th April 1912
Jersey Journal FEAR JERSEY CITY GIRL'S FIANCÉ WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC
A few hours after the Titanic with hundreds of her passengers and crew went down to their ocean grave a letter was received in this city by Miss Sarah Weir of 173 Clendenny Avenue, from her sweetheart, Peter Sloan, chief electrician of the ill-fated ...
23rd April 1912
Chicago Daily News LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK
  Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ...
15th April 1912
OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK The Sphere OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK
Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...
30th September 1911
Washington Times CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE
That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...
16th April 1912
Weekly Irish Times GIGANTIC TO EXCEED 'AQUITANIA'
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14th December 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE 'NIEUW AMSTERDAM'   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE 'NIEUW AMSTERDAM'
The "NIEUW AMSTERDAM", the largest ship ever built in the Netherlands, will be famous for its architecture, decoration and exceptionally high standard of comfort. Modern profile, pleasing proportions and careful design all reflect the traditions o...
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Grimsby Evening News UNTITLED
As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t...
April 1912
New York Times DINE CAPT. ROSTRON ON THE MAURETANIA
156 Guests of Sir Ashley Sparks Pay Tribute to Commander's War Aid --- HE PRAISES HIS VESSEL --- Is Fastest and Finest Merchant Ship Afloat, He Says--Many Captains Present --- One hundred and fifty-six guests...
4th April 1922
Chicago Inter Ocean CONDITION OF TITANIC KNOWN AT OFFICE MONDAY
CONDITION OF TITANIC KNOWN AT OFFICE MONDAY ___________________ Timothy L. Woodruff Says Typewritte...
19th April 1912
The Times THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...
22nd July 1899
Trenton Evening Times TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE
Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t...
16th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was...
1967
Washington Times TITANIC'S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS
As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S...
17th April 1912
Trenton Evening Times BLACKWELL HAD HEAVY INSURANCE ACCIDENT POLICY FOR $33,000
Carried by Trenton Victim of the Titanic Besides the large personal estate, in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell, who lost his life on the Titanic, he also carried accident ...
4th May 1912
Shore Press COMPTON CARRIED HEAVY INSURANCE
Accident Policy For $29,000 Held by Lakewood Victim of the Titanic ---------- Besides the large personal estate in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell of Trenton, he als...
5th May 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times OTHER PASSENGERS
Among others on board the vessel, and who, it is feared, has been drowned, was Mr. E. W. Hamblyn, of Southampton, elder brother of Mrs. H. A. Jamieson, of Portesbury Road, Camberley, Surrey. He was a steward on the liner, having been promoted from th...
20th April 1912
Jersey Journal TITANIC SINKING SURVIVOR DIES IN BERGEN HOME
Mrs. O'Grady Often Told of Tragedy in Which 1,500 Lost Lives Mrs. Emily O'Grady, 52, of 553 Prospect at Ridgefield, survivor of the sinking of the White Star liner Titanic by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, when 1,500 persons lost their...
17th July 1946
New York Times 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 transatlant...
21st February 1903
CREWMAN E. BROWN AND TWO OTHER TITANIC SURVIVORS   CREWMAN E. BROWN AND TWO OTHER TITANIC SURVIVORS
Survivors from the Titanic disaster arrive in Southampton. The centre figure in the photograph is Mr E. Brown who was unable to swim but kept afloat for an hour by clinging to a lifebelt....
April 1912
Daily Home News JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD
PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan...
17th April 1912
Bowerchalke Parish Papers UNTITLED
Page 44. Extract:- More tragic was the death of Tom Kerley a chef on the ill-fated Titanic. His parents who worked on the Elliott's farm were very proud of their smart and popular son and especially of his progress to the largest and m...
24th April 1912
The Gazette (Montreal) THOUSANDS VISIT LAURENTIC
Thousands of interested sight-seers, each provided with a pass of admittance, without which the vessel would without doubt have been packed even beyond her great capacity, yesterday visited the new White Star-Dominion li...
10th May 1909
  MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937
TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ...
1937
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF
Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...
1908
The New York Times NEWS SUPPRESSED ON CELTIC
Loss of Titanic, Reported Monday, Told on Wednesday --- The Celtic, the first vessel of the White Star Line to reach New York from Europe since the sinking of the Titanic, arrived here yesterday. The Celtic ...
21st April 1912
Washington Times CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL
Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th...
16th April 1912
OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920)   OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920)
White Star Line Triple Screw S.S. "Olympic" 46,439 tons Largest oil burning steamer 882½ feet long...
New York Times DOG SHOW OPENS TO-DAY
With more than 2,000 canine candidates for blue ribbons to be judged, the annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club will begin in Madison Square Garden this morning at 9 o'clock and continue until Friday. The show this year will be the largest...
20th February 1900
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...
Worcester Telegram ICE CAKE HELPED HIM TO ESCAPE
New York, April 19.- A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding Emilo Portaluppi of Aricgabo, Italy, in escaping death when the Titanic went down. Portaluppi, a second class passenger, was awakened by the explosion of one of the boilers of the ship. ...
20th April 1912
THE UNLUCKY STATENDAM Gare Maritime THE UNLUCKY STATENDAM
Jim Kalafus
Views of the elegant ocean liner...
18th December 2006 Gare Maritime
CHEROKEE   CHEROKEE
1930s snapshot of the Mohawk's sister ship Cherokee. She proved to be the least lucky of the Clyde-Mallory sisters. She  collided with a  sailing vessel, the Bright in 1927, and rammed and sank the British vessel Welcombe off Jacksonville Florid...
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New York Times THE GERMANIC AGAIN IN PORT
The White Star steamer Germanic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port late yesterday afternoon. This is the first trip the vessel has made since she sank alongside her pier on the North River last Winter from the weight of sno...
16th June 1899
Totnes Times & Devon News THE LOCAL PASSENGERS
The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su...
20th April 1912
A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC Weekly Irish Times A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC
A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...
21st September 1912
New York Times DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH
Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i...
16th April 1912
New York Times THE BIGGEST LINER IS NOW IN PORT
Adriatic Arrives After a Very Successful Maiden Voyage --- NO JARS ON THE TRIP --- Passengers Give Praise for Smoothness of Voyage on New White Star Liner --- The Adriatic, the biggest of transatlantic ...
17th May 1907
New York Times ADRIATIC GOT ON A MUD BANK
White Star Liner Stuck Fast Five Hours Till a Tug Hauled Her Off --- The big White Star Line steamship Adriatic, incoming with many cabin passengers, spent five hours early yesterday morning on a mud bank on the so...
5th November 1909
Denver Post WEALTHY COLORADO MINE OWNER DIES
Page 1 and 3 James Brown, Multi-Millionaire, Once Denverite Gained Riches at Leadville James J. Brown, former Denver multi-millionaire mine owner, who became famous as one of the four original owners of the Ibex or Lit...
7th September 1922
Portland Oregonian MRS. FRANK WARREN DESCRIBES THE TRAGEDY TO THE OREGONIAN
John Lamoreau
Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class couple from Oregon on the Titanic. Mrs. Warren, who was 60 years of age at the time of the sinking, reported in great detail the horrific events of the tragedy. Her account was published in Orego...
27th April 1912
Whitehaven News MILLOM'S CONNECTION WITH THE TITANIC DISASTER
THE widespread effects of the Titanic disaster is evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Beck of Cambridge Street, Millom, (Cumberland) had a relative aboard the ill-fated vessel. Mrs. Meanwell, first cousin of Mrs. Beck, who was proceeding on the Ti...
2nd May 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press LAKEWOOD WOMEN ARE AMONG SAVED
In the list of survivors of the Titanic this morning, there is no mention of A. J. Compton, jr., one of the largest stockholders of the Laurel House company at Lakewood, and of the Waumbeck Hotel company of Jefferson, N. H. Mr. Compton’s mother, Mrs....
19th April 1912
New York Times THREE BRAVE OFFICERS
In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers....
23rd April 1912
GIANT SHIPS SOON TO JOIN THE ATLANTIC FLEET New York Times GIANT SHIPS SOON TO JOIN THE ATLANTIC FLEET
Olympic and Titanic, Carrying 5,000 People---12,000 Tons Heavier, 50 Feet Longer Than Any Ship Afloat VISITORS to the commercial capital of Ireland by way of the Victoria Channel through Belfast Lough for the first time ca...
12th December 1909
Western People AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS
The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o...
20th April 1912
  J. BRUCE ISMAY RETURNS TO ENGLAND
J. Bruce Ismay, one of the owners of the White Star Line of steamships, and Hon. W. J. Pirrie of the shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff of Belfast, the builders of the White Star steamers, who recently came over on the C...
19th September 1901
Chicago Daily Journal FIRST VESSEL EVER LOST ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE
New York, April 16,---In the melancholy roll of marine tragedies that which overtook the Titanic is the first on record wherein a conspicuous vessel has met disaster on her maiden voyage. The nearest approach to such an unfortunate f...
16th April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS
Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
Unidentified Newspaper OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...
22nd January 1997
Stratford Express THE TITANIC DISASTER
Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For...
20th April 1912
Camden Post-Telegram HADDONFIELD MAN ON BOARD TITANIC
Nothing Yet Heard from Frederick W. Sutton Whose Name is on Passenger List --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- Fredrich [sic] W. Sutton, a highly esteemed wealthy resident of Haddonfield is said to have been on board...
17th April 1912
IROQUOIS GROUNDING   IROQUOIS GROUNDING
One of the most photographed liner mishaps of the pre-World War 2 years was the July 1927 stranding of the Clyde-Mallory Line's flagship Iroquois.  She and her sister Shawnee proved to be the largest vessels Clyde-Mallory ever produced, ...
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Elizabeth Daily Journal LONE SURVIVOR IS PENNILESS
Mrs. Peter Reniff is Left Destitute ---------- SAW NO LIGHTS OF OTHER SHIPS AS TITANIC SUNK Made penniless by the recent Titanic disaster in which she lost her husband, two brothers, cousin and two friends, Mrs. Peter Ren...
26th April 1912
New York Times 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
Elizabeth Daily Journal BELIEVES BROTHER LOST
Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S...
19th April 1912
Western People WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC, 46,326 TONS. THE LARGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD.
The completion of the "Titanic" at Harland and Wolf's great Belfast Ship-building yard marks a further stage in the progress of British shipping and ship building, and in the development of the White Star Line. The construction of two such notable ve...
13th April 1912
New York Times HARVARD'S LARGEST CLASS GRADUATED
Degrees for 1,205 Students at the University’s 274th Commencement --- LOWELL TALKS ON WAR --- Says Conflict Imposes Burden Upon Us---Widener Memorial Library Is Dedicated --- Special to The New York Times...
25th June 1915
New York Times BIGGER THAN THE LUSITANIA
White Star Line Decides to Build Vessel---Speed to be 22 Knots --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 11---A Belfast correspondent telegraphs that Harland & Wolff have officially admitted that the...
12th September 1907
The Evening Post MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...
16th April 1912
POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM.   POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM.
DINING ROOM: Every detail of the First Class Dining Room is calculated to enhance your enjoyment of the lavish meals served aboard ship. The golden, padded ceiling, tinted mirrors and soft, diffused lighting lend an air of quiet distinction. On cruis...
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Dictionary of National Biography (1901) ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY
Prof. Sir John Knox Laughton, Litt.D.
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 (...
Washington Herald ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA
White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...
19th April 1912
Paterson Morning Call JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP
Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ...
23rd April 1912
The San Francisco Call RESIDENTS OF SACRAMENTO ON BOARD VESSEL
Stephen Hold and Wife and H. Klaber Passengers on the Titanic --- [Special Dispatch to The Call] --- SACRAMENTO, April 15 -Three Sacramento persons were on board the ill fated liner Titanic, which sank in...
16th April 1912
The Times FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS
21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...
26th January 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH
Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P....
18th April 1912
New York Times 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 Sun (New York) SMITH THOUGHT HIS SHIP UNSINKABLE
Titanic's Skipper Was Never in an Accident on High Seas Before This One --- LOVED OCEAN LIKE A BOY --- Grew Up With White Star Line and Had Its Confidence---Junior Officers on Board --- ...
16th April 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) HARLAND AND WOLFF, LTD.
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast. Shipbuilding in Belfast as a progressive industry is of comparatively recent growth, and yet there is probably no commertial [sic] centre more prominently identified with the trade to-day than th...
1908
Rahway Daily Record STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR
William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ...
19th April 1912
Daily Home News ROEBLING WENT DOWN IN TITANIC
TRENTON, April 19---Ferdinand W. Roebling, jr., of 216 West Statestreet, late last night telephoned from New York to this city saying that neither Washington A. Roebling, 2d, nor Stephen W. Blackwell was among the rescued passengers on the Carpathia ...
19th April 1912
R-100 IN CANADA.   R-100 IN CANADA.
A view of England's R-100, companion vessel to the ill-fated R-101, in Canada....
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Weekly Advocate NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE
Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ...
2nd May 1912
Portland Oregonian PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK
Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho...
27th April 1912
New York Times THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY
Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t...
18th June 1911
Surrey Advertiser and County Times TWO WITLEY VICTIMS
Widows sad experience Among those who were serving on board the ill-fated vessel was Mrs. Lucy Violet Snape, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Leonard, of Well Lane, Sandhills, Witley, who was employed as a second class stewardess. At the ti...
20th April 1912
LOLA STERN : WILLIAM GREENFIELDS MOTHER IN LAW   LOLA STERN : WILLIAM GREENFIELDS MOTHER IN LAW
Lola Stern was born in Belgium c. 1878 to the largest diamond distributors in the world at the time. She married William Greenfields father-inlaw after his wife died - shortly after the ...
Chicago Daily News FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY
FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY      Willaim Haines, a publisher, father of Mrs. Marion Smith, who was reported rescued from the doomed vessel, was prostrated with grief when ...
17th April 1912
The Times THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED
The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning....
20th July 1918
Rahway Daily Record ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC
Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a...
16th April 1912
New York Times BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD
BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...
11th July 1910
Toronto Daily Star TITANTIC (SIC) STOOD ON END FOR MINUTES BEFORE SHE SUNK (SIC)
Newspaper article...
19th April 1912
Voyage BLUE JACKET
(Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days...
Denver Post PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK
'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat...
19th April 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser THE TRURO CHURCHES
The Rev. W. F. Fenwick (vicar) referred to the disaster at St. John’s on Sunday morning and at the evening service the Rev. G. Rhys said that from that small parish two persons (Messrs. West and Fillbrook) had gone down with the doomed vessel: he tru...
25th April 1912
Concord Enterprise ALGERNON H. BARKWORTH
Algernon H. Barkworth of York, England, was a guest at the home of Mrs. Richard F. Wood, Main st., Friday. Mr. Barkworth is one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster. Although Mr. Barkworth has traveled extensively in various parts of the w...
1st May 1912
Chicago Examiner LA FRANCE, NEWEST LINER, HAS CONSORT
La Touraine Guards Her on Maiden Trip Special Cable to the Examiner Paris, April 21---La France, the newest and largest French transatlantic liner, left Havre today on her maiden voyage to...
22nd April 1912
New York Times LUCILE'S CREDITORS FORCE RECEIVERSHIP
Dressmakers Established by Lady Duff Gordon Owe $175,000, Have $75,000 --- HER $200 A WEEK UNPAID --- General Business Blamed and Report Is Denied of Bad Bills Among Patrons --- Lucile, Ltd., dressmakers, 19 East Fifty-f...
21st March 1922
  MEXICO MENU
A souvenir of the final Ward Line vessel....
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  HOW DID TITANIC SINK? NEW EVIDENCE!
A top-secret expedition by The History Channel to the Titanic wreck site, conducted in August, 2005, produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel....
The Times TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC
Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...
27th April 1935
Chicago Tribune DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912
KNORR   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....
New York Times BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY
Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ...
24th January 1912
New York Times LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES
Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ...
19th April 1912
  REPORT FROM DR. DODGE
Dr. Dodge says he believes this young mans story implicitly: He, Mellors, "was standing by this boat when one of the crew was endeavouring to cut the fastenings that bound it to the vessel just as the onrush of waters came up which tore it loose....
Hudson Observer JERSEY CITY MAN HEARS FATHER AND SISTER ARE SAFE
Among the passengers aboard the ill-fated steamer Titanic were MissGertrude Myles, of 266 Grove street, Jersey City, and her father,Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., who was her companion on a trip toLondon. Frederick Myles...
17th April 1912
Borough of West Ham, East Ham, and Stratford Express THE TITANIC DISASTER
The only son of the Rev. R. Partner, who for many years was minister at Balaam-street Congregational Church, was also a passenger on the vessel. It is still uncertain whether or not he is saved, and Mr. ...
20th April 1912
Chicago Daily News ICE KEPT AID FROM TITANIC
Ice Kept Aid from Titanic [By The Associated Press] Maasluis, Holland, April 23—Masses of ice prevented the Russian steamer Birma, which left New York for Rotterdam and Libau April 11, from reaching the Titanic in repl...
23rd April 1912
WORLD'S LARGEST AND FASTEST LINER TO MAKE SPECIAL VOYAGE TO RIO DE JANEIRO   WORLD'S LARGEST AND FASTEST LINER TO MAKE SPECIAL VOYAGE TO RIO DE JANEIRO
S. S. "NORMANDIE" TO SAIL ON CRUISE World's largest and fastest liner to make special voyage to Rio de Janeiro FRENCH LINE AND RAYMOND-WHITCOMB ARRANGE REMARKABLE WINTER HOLIDAY If ever the announcement of a new Cruise dese...
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ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC The Times ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC
Wild panic reported in August 1912 emergency...
14th August 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) BELFAST, PORT OF
Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
Lloyds Weekly News LORD CHARLES BERESFORD TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK SQUAD
A fine tribute to the engineers and boiler room staff of the ‘Titanic’, the ’Black Squad’, who stood their posts in the bowels of the ship, to the last, was paid by Lord Charles Beresford in a letter to the Times. He Wrote: - “In the lat...
1912
  CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS
BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ...
The Times OLYMPIC BERTHED AT JARROW
FAREWELL SALUTE FROM SIRENS The Olympic, which is to be broken up by Messrs.T.W.Ward and Co at Jarrow to provide employment, was safely berthed alongside Palmers shipyard today. The coming of the liner to the Tyne attracted many thousa...
14th October 1935
Hampshire Independent IN MEMORIAM: NORMAN HARRISON
In most loving memory of Norman Harrison, second engineer of the SS Titanic, who laid down his life in the fulfilment of his duty when that vessel foundered off the coast of Newfoundland, on the morning on Monday, April 15th, 1912. ''Fidelis usque...
17th April 1915
Worcester Evening Gazette BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS
New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...
20th April 1912
Newark Evening News MICHAEL DUANE LEARNS FATHER WAS ON TITANIC
MORRISTOWN, April 23---The fears of Michael Duane, of Morris Township, that his father was a victim of the Titanic disaster were confirmed this morning, when he received an answer to a cablegram announcing that Mr. Duane had sailed on the vessel....
23rd April 1912
Hudson Dispatch TWO WEST HOBOKEN MEN WERE AMONG VICTIMS ON TITANIC
So far as can be learned two of the victims of the Titanic disaster lived in West Hoboken. They are John Ashby, father of Arthur Ashby, of 629 Traphagen street, and Albert Walker, father in law of Charles Robertson, proprietor of the Colonial Theatre...
17th April 1912
THE HEROIC ENGINEERS Daily Sketch THE HEROIC ENGINEERS
Mr. Arthur Ward, one of the Titanic's engineers. In all the messages received no mention is made of what happened in the engine-room, of the gallant engineers sticking to their post with the water pouring into the bowels of the ship. That not one was...
22nd April 1912
The Gazette (Montreal) LAURENTIC IS HERE
The Gazette, Montreal, 8 May 1909 Maiden Voyage Upholds the Satisfactory Results Achieved on Trial Trip --- AN EPOCH IN SHIPPING --- P...
8th May 1909
HINDENBURG CABIN   HINDENBURG CABIN
1936 stereoview of a Hindenburg cabin. In this regard, the Hindenburg represented a distinct step backward. Gone were the Graf Zeppelin's cabins with their cheerful wall coverings, couch and window. In its place was a room that, for $400, replicated a Third Class cabin on a pre-War vessel....
Gare Maritime
Highland News CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP
Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ...
20th April 1912
ADDERGOOLE TITANIC MEMORIAL   ADDERGOOLE TITANIC MEMORIAL
The Addergoole Titanic Society erected this memorial in St Patrick’s Church, Lahardane, Addergoole, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on...
JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY Chicago Tribune JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY
TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY     Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England...
21st April 1912
Cambridge Independent Press DAVID BARTON
David Barton, a Wicken lad, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw Barton, of Wicken, was on the Titanic, on his way to the United States. where he intended to settle, and it is feared he is one of those who have lost their lives. He should have left by anothe...
19th April 1912
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
Western Daily Mercury ARTICLE
Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...
29th April 1912
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
Hudson Observer HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED
Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w...
16th April 1912
THOMAS WHITELEY : APPEARING AT THE MERRIMACK SQUARE THEATRE Lowell Sun THOMAS WHITELEY : APPEARING AT THE MERRIMACK SQUARE THEATRE
The attendance at both perfomances at the Merrimack Square theatre yesterday was extraordinarily large, and the many patrons seemed well satisfied with the bill as presented, for practically each number was received with loud applause.  ...
28th May 1912
The Times LIFE-SAVING AT SEA
AWARD OF THE KING'S MEDALS The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award medals for gallantry in saving life at sea to the folowing persons: A silver medal t...
12th July 1913
Hudson Dispatch BODY OF WEST HOBOKEN MAN, VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER, FOUND AT SEA
Recovered by the Mackay-Bennett Ship and Will Be Sent Home. --------------- IDENTIFIED BY MARKS --------------- Fifteen More Bodies Were Found by Same Vessel Today --------------- Greenwood Robertson, of 222...
23rd April 1912
  1901 CENSUS, POOLE, DORSET
Frank Couch, aged 16, born Port Isaac, Cornwall is shown as a ships cook on board a vessel named 'Deveron'. Moored at Poole Quay, Dorset at the time of the census the Master was shown as Charles Couch, aged 24, born in Plymouth, Devon ...
1901
Atlantic Daily Bulletin SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER
Brian J. Ticehurst
OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...
22nd November 2005
New York Times 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
STEWARD'S PREMONITION : THOMAS WHITELEY Daily Sketch STEWARD'S PREMONITION : THOMAS WHITELEY
Mr. Thomas Whiteley, a steward on the Titanic, who was saved.  He states that the two men in the crow's nest, who were rescued, were very indignant, and said that their warnings concerning the presence of an iceberg ...
April 1912
Aberdeen Daily Journal ABERDEEN ENGINEER ABOARD
As indicated on Monday, there were no Aberdeen passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel, but we learn that a Torry engineer was a member of the crew. About ten days ago Mr. James Fraser, 85 Menzies Road, received a letter from his son, Mr. James Fra...
17th April 1912
Oak Leaves TITANIC DISASTER : OAK PARK TOUCHED BY GREATEST SHIPWRECK
TITANIC DISASTER Oak Park Touched by Greatest Shipwreck Carelessness on Lake The Atlantic Wreck of 1873 Oak Park, like hundreds of o...
20th April 1912
San Francisco Bulletin DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE
Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the...
20th April 1912
Democrat and Chronicle ROCHESTER WOMAN TELLS OF TITANIC SINKING IN 1912
Mrs. John Black Barely Reached Last Boat To Leave Ship, And Tiny Craft Was Nearly Drawn Into Great Vortex by Samuel B. Covey "No, I am not averse to another ocean voyage, although I have not been on one since, for I re...
15th April 1931
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THEATRE, 1938   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THEATRE, 1938
THE THEATRE: The theatre was designed by Cornelis J. Engelen in cooperation with Mrs. Elisabeth de Boer. It is built in the shape of half an eggshell; following the contours of the vessel, and of the visual and aural points of focus. The color scheme...
Gare Maritime
NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH   NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH
Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck ...
Rahway Daily Record NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY
Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ...
26th April 1912
Chicago Tribune UNCONFIRMED STORY OF HORROR
A report is current here which is said to have emanated from the trading vessel Bruce, which is on the way to Sydney, C. B., giving a version of the Titanic disaster which the trader obtained from various ships. This is to...
17th April 1912
The Times 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
Chicago Record Herald NONE PICKED UP CELTIC
General Passenger Agent Jeffries of the White Star Line today denied the report that an officer and woman steerage passenger of the Titanic were picked up by the Celtic, which arrived in this city on Saturday morning, as related in a dispatch last...
23rd April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR LOST
Stewardess of Ill-Fated Steamer Jumps from Leyland Liner --- BOSTON, Oct. 10---Mrs. Annie Robinson of Liverpool, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, jumped from the Leyland Line steamer Devonian last night while the liner was groping ...
11th October 1914
Outlook THE RACE FOR OCEAN SUPREMACY
Earl Mayo
A little more than ten years ago I crossed the Atlantic on the first trip of what was then the largest ocean liner in the world. A distinguished ship-builder who made the voyage at the same time expressed the opinion that this steamship marked the...
24th June 1911
New York Times NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS
Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...
27th April 1912
THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI   THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI
The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards. The m...
LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST Titanic Research LAST LAP OF THE LARGEST
Senan Molony
APRIL tenth, 1912 – A day tinged with sadness for the RMS Olympic. She put in to New York for the last time as the Ship of Superlatives, or so she thought. The next White Star Line leviathan to dock here wou...
12th February 2010
Rahway Daily Record ARTHUR KEEFE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD THE TITANIC
New York Papers This Morning Give His Name In List of Passengers Embarking at Southampton ---------- FEAR HE IS AMONG MISSING ---------- His Sister in East Rahway Feels That He Met His Fate When The Ill Starred Vessel Sank...
17th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED
New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...
20th April 1912
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