Lifeboats

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	VESTRIS : MANNING THE LIFEBOATS	November 1928
Newark Evening News	ROEBLING LAST SEEN WAVING TO LIFEBOATS NEW YORK, April 20---The last seen of Washington A. Roebling 2d by friends among the survivors of the Titanic was as he stood waving a farewell to one of the lifeboats as it left the vessel. Trenton, N. J., relatives yesterday had an interview with ...	20th April 1912
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	IN RACE TO TITANIC'S LIFEBOATS, WOULD I REALLY BE LAST TO LEAVE? He was chairman of the Titanic's shipping company and, on that terrifying night in 1912, got into a lifeboat with the women and children ... and survived. Some accounts say he ensured women and children were saved first and got in himself because there ......	8th April 2011
	LIFEBOATS FROM TITANIC REACH THE CARPATHIA	15th April 1912
Washington Times	MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa...	19th April 1912
The Evening Telegram	HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	ISMAY GOT INTO BOAT John R. Joyce, a banker of Carlsbad, N. M., a passenger on the Carpathia, said: "When the Carpathia reached the scene of the wreck, we saw eighteen boats and one raft on the water. The Carpathia picked them all up. Four pe...	19th April 1912
Graphic	A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER ‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times...	18th May 1912
shorenewstoday.com	LIFEBOAT BELIEVED TO BE FROM TITANIC ON DISPLAY STARTING SATURDAY - SHORE NEWS TODAY A lifeboat believed to be from the Titanic will be on exhibit at Silver Moon Antiques in the Shore Mall beginning Saturday, Oct. 22 to help raise funds for the Absecon Lighthouse. In December of 2007, Absecon Lighthouse came into possession of a donated Titanic exhibit, which included a Titanic-era original Harland and Wolff Lifeboat, circa 1909, believed to be one of the Titanic lifeboats....	19th October 2011
	JAMES AND GEORGE MCGOUGH MAN LIFEBOATS
	TITANIC LIFEBOAT MOVIE
	MOHAWK COLLISION AND GROUNDING PHOTO The morning after the multi-collision debacle in New York harbor, passengers are evacuated in calm and orderly fashion from the vessel, which lay perhaps 100 yards from the beach. In 1935 the view would be considerably different, as passengers and...	1935
Newark Evening News	LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....	20th April 1912
The Toronto World	THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...	20th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	MISTAKEN FOR WOMAN; FORCED INTO LIFEBOAT Hartford, Conn., Apr. 18--Resolved to die after having done his utmost to aid in placing the women and children of the Titanic aboard the lifeboats Councilman William T. Sloper, clad in a white night robe, was himself taken for a woman and thru...	19th April 1912
Les Petits naufragés du Titanic	LOWER AWAY! Illustration by G. Dutriac for a novel by Jacquin and Fabre. First French novel on the Titanic (1913)...	1913
Chicago Examiner	'MESSAGE' FROM STEAD RECITED BY MEDIUM Narrative Said to Be From Other World, Told in Church of Soul ____________ &...	29th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	MRS. CROSBY OF MILWAUKEE, ON WAY HOME, TELLS OF EXCITEMENT IN LOWERING BOATS Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon. Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs...	23rd April 1912
	LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo...
Chicago American	TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...	25th April 1912
	A LIFEBOAT APPROACHES THE CARPATHIA	15th April 1912
NDTV.com	MEMORIES OF THE TITANIC ON DISPLAY Grainy images of the Titanic the now-iconic ship that had a mahogany-panelled smoking room a swimming pool and a squash court. But not enough lifeboats for its 2200 passengers and the crew....	6th November 2010
NDTV.com	MEMORIES OF THE TITANIC ON DISPLAY Grainy images of the Titanic the now-iconic ship that had a mahogany-panelled smoking room a swimming pool and a squash court. But not enough lifeboats for its 2200 passengers and the crew....	6th November 2010
	BOAT DECK	May 1935
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY SEA TRIALS The Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary is shown standing off Gourock, Scotland on the Clyde for anchor trials, adjustment of the magnetic compasses and fitment of her lifeboats....	6th December 2006
Washington Times	DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h...	19th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press	AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...	23rd April 1912
	LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK	1938
Pocono Record	'UNSINKABLE': MONROE LIBRARY HOSTS ONE-WOMAN SHOW ABOUT TITANIC Many people wonder what it was like on the lifeboats after the Titanic went down. This is one of the reasons why Deborah Jean Templin chose to write and perform "Unsinkable Women â€” Stories and Songs of the Titanic."...	20th April 2010
Hudson Observer	LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf...	23rd April 1912
The Washington Post	RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ...	20th April 1912
Liverpool Echo	MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED Stephen Guy IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea....	10th October 2009
San Francisco Bulletin	SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ...	19th April 1912
	S.S. TITANIC LIFEBOAT PLAQUE S.S. Titanic plaque from Lifeboat no. 2. The plaque was retrieved by James W. Barker [?] a seaman on the Carpathia at the time it picked up the Titanic survivors....
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	TITANIC LIFEBOAT HOISTED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA From 'L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse'...	20th September 1956
Washington Times	SURVIVOR TELLS OF THE HEROISM OF CLARENCE MOORE Robert W. Daniels Says Banker Went to His Death Like a Man --- Stories of the heroism and resignation with which Clarence Moore, the well-known local banker and horseman of international repute, went to his death on the deck of the Tita...	22nd April 1912
Liverpool Echo	TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers....	11th October 2007
Chicago American	UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...	16th April 1912
Orange County Times-Press	TITANIC VICTIMS STARVED That several Titanic victims probably starved to death in lifeboats seemed probable when the White Star Liner Oceanic docked today. The Oceanic picked up, last Monday, a lifeboat containing three bodies terribly decomposed. Each vi...	17th May 1912
npr.org	'HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC,' AND SINK YOUR NAME J. Bruce Ismay probably shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as any of the true criminals of the 20th century, but for many years he may have been the most universally despised man in the Western world. Ismay, heir to the prominent British White Star Line shipping company, owned the Titanic, and he's the one who said it would be fine to put just 20 lifeboats on a ship that could hold 2,800 people. Why clutter the decks, he argued, when the ship itself is a lifeboat?...	15th October 2011
Chicago Examiner	EXAMINER FUND AIDS GIRLS FROM TITANIC Two Suffering From Shock Get $20 Each and Will Be Sent to a Sanitarium Two Titanic passengers, women, who still are suffering from the shock and exposure of the midnight tragedy, each received last night a $20 bill from th...	28th April 1912
The Greenwich News	GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself...	19th April 1912
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
New York Times	HOW THE HARRISES PARTED "Of Course, Ladies First," Said Mr. Harris, and Stayed on Board --- George Brayton, an asphalt manufacturer of Los Angeles, who was on the Titanic, last night gave an account of the parting of Henry B. Harris and his wife. He said:...	19th April 1912
New York Times	HOW J. B. THAYER DIED Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ...	19th April 1912
ie	NEW TITANIC BOOK TELLS HER STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Titanic In Photographs tells her full story, from the shipyards of Harland & Wolff and its early vessels, with the backdrop of the great race to build the biggest and best passenger liner, to the frenzy of excitement surrounding her launch. Looking at her officers and crew, as well as her stops at Cherbourg and Queenstown the photographs follow the story to its inevitable conclusion, considering the lifeboats, the presence of the Carpathia and the aftermath of the shattering disaster....	14th September 2011
Worcester Telegram	CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon....	20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...	20th April 1912
The Witney Gazette	CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the...	20th 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
Le Journal	HOW MRS. MEYER ESCAPED Mrs Meyer told reporters that her husband and herself hurried to the lifeboats as soon as the first jolt was felt. She wanted to stay with him but he strongly pushed her inside a boat and told her about their nine year old son, for whom she had to su...	20th April 1912
Daily Mail	TITANIC PICTURES FROM 1912: POIGNANT PHOTOS FROM THE AFTERMATH Astonishing unseen photographs of the aftermath of the Titanic disaster have emerged after 99 years. The black and white pictures show an iceberg at the site of the tragedy - and may even be the one that sunk the luxury liner. Another image shows two lifeboats packed full of survivors rowing for safety following the 1912 disaster in which 1,517 people died....	19th October 2011
Atlantic City Daily Press	LITTLE DISORDER ON TITANIC E. Z. Taylor, of London, Gives Graphic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue ---------- E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia and London, and stockholder in the American Mono- Service Co., told his story of the disaster and rescue in a cal...	20th April 1912
New York Times	TABLET TO WOMAN LOST ON TITANIC NORTHFIELD, Mass., May 31---A tablet in memory of Miss Annie Funk, who was lost in the Titanic disaster, was unveiled to-day at the Russell Sage Memorial Chapel at Northfield Seminary. Miss Funk, who was returning from missionary work in India, aide...	1st June 1914
The Syracuse Herald	WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat...	3rd May 1912
Washington Times	LIKE AWFUL DREAM, DECLARES WOMAN Mrs. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, Tells of Her Experience In Wreck --- NEW YORK, April 19---Among the survivors were Mrs. J. R. Cardeza, her son Thomas, and maid, Annie Ward, all of Philadelphia. "We crashed into the iceberg...	19th April 1912
icCoventry	HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC RICHARD ALLEN has relived the tale behind his grandfather's desperate escape from the sinking Titanic.Boiler-room worker Ernest Allen was one of 705 people to survive the stricken liner's sinking on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 perished.His grandson Richard, of Greendale Road, Whoberley, Coventry, said his grandfather plunged off the ship's deck to make a daring escape.Richard, aged 48, said: "He waded through the water in the engine rooms and got up to the deck but the lifeboats were full....	20th January 2006
BBC News	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died aged 97....	31st May 2009
Worcester Telegram	3500 SACKS OF MAIL ON TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16- Postmaster Edward M. Morgan stated today that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3500 sacks of mail. It is not likely, he said that the mails were saved because during the few hours that the vessel floated after running int...	17th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	PEACOCK STILL HOPING TO FIND BROTHERS Benjamin Peacock, who lost his wife and two children in the Titanic disaster, returned to his work in the Public Service power house on South avenue, Cranford, yesterday. He told his friends that his wife and two children had been placed in one of t...	23rd April 1912
irishtimes.com	PROTESTANTS ON TOP: 'TITANIC' WAS A MICROCOSM OF ULSTER SOCIETY Designed and built by unionist Freemasons at exactly the moment they were plotting partition, the ship contained many coded references to their secret political goal. The most obvious of these were the watertight compartments, any four of which could flood without sinking the vessel. Likewise, Northern Ireland was designed to stay afloat even if four counties filled up with Catholics. The decision to include lifeboats for only two-thirds of the people on board reflected the idea of Northern Ireland itself as a lifeboat for only two-thirds of the people on board. But there were life-vests for everyone, which frankly was more than some of them deserved....	1st June 2011
Brooklyn Daily Times	MRS. CORNELL IS SISTER OF PROMINENT MAGISTRATE BAYSIDE, April 16---Mrs. Edward W. Appleton, who was on the Titanic, is the wife of Edward W. Appleton, of this village. With her is Mrs. J. M. Brown, a relative, from Boston, who had spent some time at the home of the Appletons. Both women are rep...	16th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	HEARS SISTER IS ALIVE Daniel Tobin of Denver, Colo., now in Chicago, passed most of yesterday at the local offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown of Denver. Tobin shouted his joy when a report was received i...	17th April 1912
The Witney Gazette	TITANIC SURVIVORS' STORIES ON ARRIVAL AT PLYMOUTH One hundred and sixty-seven survivors of the crew of the Titanic landed at Plymouth on Sunday from the Red Star liner Lapland. They told a large number of full and graphic stories of the disaster. One of the chief facts brought to light i...	4th May 1912
Titanic Stories	TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS Speculation, exaggeration, propaganda and lies! Titanic has inspired many tall tales – but what is really true and what’s not?...	8th July 2011
New York Times	TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o...	12th January 1965
The Toronto World	HOW MAJ. PEUCHEN ESCAPED. ----------------- Second Officer Lightholder (sic), who had charge of the lifeboats: "In the fourth lifeboat I was running short of seamen. I put two seamen in and one of them jumped out. ...	20th April 1912
Daily Enterprise	LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED ---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...	20th April 1912
Niles Daily News	SURVIVOR FROM TITANIC ARRIVES IN NILES Philip Zanni Tells a Tragic Story of His Rescue - Assisted in Rowing Lifeboat Away from Sinking Ship --------------- The first survivor of the ill fated ship the "Titanic" that has reached Niles is Philip Zanni [sic],...	25th April 1912
Camden Post-Telegram	TITANIC SURVIVOR AT ELKS' TO-MORROW Gus Weikman, Ship's Barber, Will Tell Camden Lodge of His Experience --- Picked up by one of the lifeboats after being blown overboard by an explosion just before the boat went down, Gus Weikman, head barber on the Titanic, will be the ...	13th May 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
Chicago Evening Post	DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...	23rd April 1912
New York Times	FUNERAL OF T. W. CAVENDISH Body of Henry Siegel's Son-in-Law to be Cremated To-day --- The body of Tyrell W. Cavendish, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be cremated at North Bergen, N. J., today. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Frank F...	4th May 1912
Dowagiac Daily News	BISHOPS GO BEFORE SENATE BOARD OF INQUIRY TO GIVE STORY OF TITANIC DISASTER Both Are Called to Stand At Washington on Tuesday PUSHED TO SAFETY Mrs. Bishop Tells How They Were Hurried Aboard the Lifers When the Titanic Struck Huge Berg --------------- Mr. and Mrs....	26th April 1912
Daily Northwestern	A SAD FAREWELL Mrs. Wick's recollections...	17th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES Widow says husband at the rail with Butt and Millet at the end...	25th April 1912
	LEADBELLY : THE TITANIC Huddie Ledbetter - Leadbelly Blues singer/songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana in 1885. Leadbelly remarked in th...	15th October 1948
Washington Herald	CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic...	19th April 1912
The Times	ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus...	20th April 1912
Daily Herald	AFTER 72 YRS., TITANIC SURVIVOR TALKS TO PRESS ABOUT FATAL NIGHT Kris Kopp Newspaper Article...	15th April 1984
Montreal Daily Witness	YOUNGEST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, GLEEFUL WITH FOSTER PARENTS newspaper article...	22nd April 1912
	TITANIC LIFEBOATS Roger L. Williams I have recently seen a new film about the sinking of the Titanic on the TV and have been reading about Titanic lifeboats on. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org It seems there is no real record of what happened to those lifeboats....	1st August 2011
Chicago Daily News	SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW “Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...	19th April 1912
New York Times	SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....	26th June 1915
Washington Times	SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...	19th April 1912
Sphere	LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY Mary Eloise Smith pregnant on Titanic...	28th December 1912
St. Paul Daily News	TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER - Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...	17th May 1912
Burlington Daily Gazette	GUNNAR TENGLIN "It was not a hard shock," said Tenglin, "but my friend and myself, finding the engines stopped, thought, we would go up and investigate. I put on all my clothes but my shoes and we went to the forward deck. The deck was covered ...	25th April 1912
	FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET - A TITANIC LIFE - PETER ENGSTROM After many publications, writings, mentions, manuscripts, articles and even a dissertation we introduce the biography of Francis Davis Millet. 465 pages of history, common knowledge and eye-witness accounts have been collected and compiled by A...
Washington Herald	MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...	21st April 1912
North American	TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w...	3rd May 1912
The Times	AUCTION OF OLYMPIC FITTINGS SALE CONCLUDED The sale at Jarrow of the fittings of the Olympic concluded today, which was the tenth day, and the last lot offered was No.4,456.. The total realized was not announced, and several lots were not sold. On some days during ...	19th November 1935
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
Christian Science Monitor	WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...	19th April 1912
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
	MEMORIAL There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
The New York Times	MOST OF THE CREW SAIL Sent Home on the Lapland---How Many Were Saved --- All of the crew of the Titanic, except the saved officers and about twenty of the crew who are to be witnesses, sailed for their homes yesterday morning on the R...	21st April 1912
Daily Home News	JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish...	20th 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
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM, DYING, SENT WIFE MESSAGE Tried to Do His Duty, He Asked Steward to Tell Her --- “GO DOWN LIKE GENTLEMEN” --- He and His Secretary, Facing Death, Wore Full Evening Dress---Brother Bitter Against Company --- James Etches, assistant ste...	20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA Article...	20th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster...	21st April 1912
Chicago Daily News	TITANIC RESCUED HERE TITANIC RESCUED HERE Five Left of Party of Ten from Sweden Arrive on Way to Pacific Coast Tells of their Escapes Companions Lost After Entering Li...	24th April 1912
Bristol Times and Mirror	GRAPHIC STORIES OF HEROISM The New York correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'' cables a special and graphic message regarding the heroism of some of the women in the wreck. According to this source of information: The heroism of Edith Evans, who gave up her own life that ano...	27th April 1912
Camden Daily Courier	EXPLOSION PITCHED HIM INTO SEA Titanic's Barber Passes Through Camden on Way to Palmyra Home --- WAS SAVED BY SAILOR SAVED BY HIM --- The 5.28 train to Palmyra from this city last night carried the only survivor of the Titanic wreck from this part of th...	20th April 1912
The Daily Banner	FOR THE CHILDREN Two Baby Waifs Rescued From the Sunken Titanic. When the steamship...	9th May 1912
The Times	OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...	20th April 1912
Cokato Enterprise	MRS. WM. LAHTINEN DIES WITH HUSBAND Refuses Chance to Be Saved and Both Go Down With Ill-Fated Titanic Refusing to be parted from her husband, and preferring death to separation, is the thrilling story relat...	25th April 1912
New York Times	GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...	23rd April 1912
North American	WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ...	20th April 1912
Press Association	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT FETCHES £20,000 A woman's account of escaping the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold for £20,000 at auction. Laura Francatelli from London said she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down and "then came screams and cries&...	20th October 2010
New York Times	WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...	20th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. HARRIS GAINS STRENGTH Mrs. Henry B Harris, widow of the theatrical manager who was lost on the Titanic, was regaining strength yesterday, but she was still in a nervous condition. Her shoulder, which she injured a day before the sinking of the ship, was healing normally. ...	20th April 1912
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle	SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP Margaret Frawley MRS. EDWARD BEANE, THEN BRIDE OF 17, SAW SHIP SINK AS SHE CRUISED NEARBY IN BOAT; HUSBAND SWAM AROUND TILL PICKED UP; NOW HAVE 2 CHILDREN It was a strange honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beane of 44 Michigan Street when on April 14, ...	15th April 1931
Chicago Daily Tribune	STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng...	20th April 1912
Chorley Guardian	THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...	27th April 1912
East Kent Gazette	A CANADIAN REFERENCE A reference to Miss Buss is made in the Toronto Daily Star of April 20th, as the following extract will show:- ''Special to the 'Star' by a staff reporter - New York, April 20th - What happened at the regular Sunday service on board th...	4th May 1965
	ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po...
	LETTER HOME BY TITANIC SURVIVOR ERNST PERSSON I can't find words to describe how dreadful everything was......
Greensburg Herald Tribune	YOUNG GREENSBURG WOMAN WAS PASSENGER ON ILL-FATED SHIP "Oh, I feel bad, ver' bad, los' money, los' friend. When I stand up I see ship come again, when I shut my eyes. I see people go down, down, down--Oh ver' bad time." And, with the remembrance of it, Mrs. Sophie Abraham, 20 years old, shuddered and bur...	22nd April 1912
Binghamton Press	MRS. CASSEBEER ACCOUNT Mrs. Henry Arthur Casebeer, Jr., of New York City, who is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, was in Binghamton this morning visiting her mother, Mrs. L.V. Fosdick at the House of the Good Shepherd and to a representative of the Bingham...	29th April 1912
Khaleej Times	THE TITANIC AND THE SINKING OF HEARTS I know I wouldn't have been half as moved by the news of Millvina's death at a ripe old age had it not been for Cameron's Titanic. ...	4th June 2009
La Voix du Nord	SHE NEARLY DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC... André Pelletier ...and almost was burned to death in a Florida hotel Mme Bourlard, 80, now lives peaceful days in Béthune Sunday May 9th and Monday May 10th, 1965 Mme Bourlard, who was born in Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, 80 ...	9th May 1965
Manitoba Free Press	FORTUNE FAMILY PARTED IN BOAT IN GOOD CHEER (Special Staff Correspondent) Women Had No Idea of Serious Condition of the Titanic Gave Their Money to Charlie For Safe-Keeping Until They Met Hugo Ross Was Ill in Bed When Disaster Occurred—Rescued Loathe to Talk...	20th April 1912
Adams County News	LOCAL INTEREST IN TITANIC LOSS Wife of Lutheran Missionary Returning Home with Three Children All Saved in Midnight Transfer to Life Boats Many Gettysburg people are keenly interested in the welfare of four passengers who were o...	20th 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
New York Times	SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...	19th April 1912
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
New York Times	CAPTAIN'S OFFICIAL REPORTS Rostron Tells How the Carpathia Did Work of Rescue --- Just before the Carpathia sailed yesterday afternoon on her interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Capt. Rostron, her commander, gave out what he declared to be the first and only...	20th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	ONLY ONE OF IRISH PARTY BOUND FOR CHICAGO LIVES Of the five members of a party that included the Burke family, who left Castlebar, Ireland, to come to America, there was only one aboard the Carpathia when it crept up to its dock in New York. She was Annie Kelly, 16 years old. Her si...	19th April 1912
Newark Star	C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig...	6th May 1975
Washington Times	PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP "The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e...	16th April 1912
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
	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...
Voyage	RIO PIRAHY John P. Eaton European and Brazilian Steam Ship Cp., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. by 49 ...	12th April 2005
Newark Evening News	BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...	19th April 1912
Hanford Sentinel	RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA Doris Robertson Polley Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
Washington Times	NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK MISS CAROLINE BONNELL Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care To the Rescued---Four Buried At Sea --- BY MISS CAROLINE BONNELL (Copyrighted, ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	THE TITANIC Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...	28th July 1912
Standard Union	FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita...	4th May 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer	TELLS OF WOMEN PULLING AT OARS Page 1 Youngstown Woman Relates Story of Escape from Sinking Titanic Men Tire and Passengers Row Boats to Safety From Disaster From reports received from the steamer Carpathia when it docked at New York ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...	26th November 1975
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
New York Times	SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz...	22nd April 1912
Syracuse Herald-Journal	MARY WILBURN, OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES pp. B1 and B4 Mary Davis Wilburn, 104, oldest known survivor of the Titanic disaster, died peacefully Wednesday at Community-General Hospital, leaving behind unpleasant memories of death and terror in the North Atlantic. She was one o...	30th July 1987
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM BYLES TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW Bernards' Inn Bernardsville, N.J. April 21, 1912 My dear Mamma, Here we are at Bernardsville...went to St. Vincent's Hospital, when we met first some young boys and afterwards some girls who had been on the...	21st April 1912
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 Daily News	KARL MIDSTJO AND OTHERS ARE TO BE ASKED ABOUT RUMORS OF DISCRIMINATION Third cabin passengers on the lost Titanic who arrive in Chicago during the next few days will be met by representatives of the Immigrants’ Protective league and closely interrogated in regard to treatment received at the hands of officers a...	22nd April 1912
New York Times	EDGAR J. MEYER ANOTHER HERO Helped Mrs. Harris Into a Boat and Died with Her Husband --- Edgar J. Meyer is a name to be added to the list of those who perished nobly on the Titanic. His wife was saved. It has been impossible to interview her, but through ...	23rd April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr...
	EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TITANIC Dimensions and Statistics: • Length - 882 feet 6 inches. • Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. • Draft - 34 feet 6 inches. • Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline). • Dec...	8th December 2005
Titanic Research	NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS Peter Engberg Explore the difficulties in producing a credible list of lifeboat placements....	11th July 1999
The New York Times	THINKS TIMES LIST SAVED FATHER'S LIFE Survivor Says Aged Man Got Hope from Interpretation of Faulty Wireless Message --- 'WILLIAMS' MEANT 'WILHEMS' --- ...	21st April 1912
Southampton Echo	TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ...	11th January 1965
The Washington Post	BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...	22nd May 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	JAY YATES, GAMBLER, ONE OF THE HEROES Goes to His Death With Sinking Titanic After Helping Women and Children to Safety—Sends Good-By to Mother Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean New York, April 20—That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man...	21st April 1912
CRI English	REMEMBERING THE TITANIC Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean was just 9 weeks old when her mother carried her into a lifeboat, shortly before her father drowned in the dosaster 97 years ago.Ahead of the April 14 anniversary of the disaster, Millvina attended the Titanic Convention in Southampton (April 4, 2009)....	8th April 2009
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
	MY MAIDEN VOYAGE Roberta Maioni When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr...	1926
The Evening Post	THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS” Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio...	19th April 1912