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| (1912) | CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t... | 1912 | ||||
| The Times | (1899) | FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w... | 28th November 1899 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | REPORT FUTRELLE SAFE London Hears Boston Author Is on Board Carpathia. London, April 17.-The list of survivors of the Titanic disaster as given out by the White Star line offices, contains the names of both Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Boston. Previous l... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT: ARTHUR WARD Ward Arthur of Manor House, Palmerston Street, Romsey, Hants. Administration London 6th June 1912 to Alfred Ward, Railway Agent. Effects £193.12s.1d. ... | 6th June 1912 | ||||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | AN EXETER PASSENGER It is also stated that Mr. Ralph Giles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Giles of Eaton-place, Exeter, was among the passengers. Mrs. Giles has wired to the Head Office of the White Star Line in London, but has received no reply. Mrs Giles’s sister-in-law... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WORD RECEIVED HERE OF C. M. HAYS’S RESCUE Among those well known in this city and suburbs whose name has been flashed as among the rescued from the Titanic, is Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway companies, of Canada, of Canada, a nephew of... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Cork Examiner | (1912) | UNTITLED A list of survivors published today contains no reference to the names of Mr. Patrick Colbert, Kilconlea, Abbeyfeale (Not Limerick as given) Mr. James Scanlon, Rathkeale, nor of other young men said to have been on board from East and North Kerry. Pa... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
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Montreal Gazette | (2006) | HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg.... | 3rd August 2006 | ||
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | (2008) | CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail.... | 15th May 2008 | ||
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| New York Times | (1907) | MORGAN HOPEFUL FOR OUR STOCKS Tells a Doubtful Fellow-Traveler He'll Change His Mind About Them --- A BIG DECLINE YESTERDAY --- Erie Issues Lead It-Dividend on the Second Preferred May Be Passed---Gold Coming Soon --- Special Cabl... | 23rd March 1907 | |||
| Dictionary of National Biography (1901) | ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (... | |||||
| New York Times | (1913) | ISMAY IS TO QUIT Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ... | 1st January 1913 | |||
| North American | (1912) | NORTH WALES VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC ARRIVE NORTH WALES, Pa., May 7---The bodies of Austin Van Billiard and one of his children, lost on the Titanic, which were picked up at sea by the Mackay-Bennett, reached here today and will be buried on Wednesday from the residence of his father, Burgess ... | 8th May 1912 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | (1910) | TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Proposed new port for White Star Liners (From Our Correspondent) New York, October 27 (1910). The report that a new terminal for the White Star Line will be established at Fort Pond Bay, in the eastern end of Lon... | 27th October 1910 | |||
| EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S... | ||||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil... | 1st January 1913 | |||
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Encyclopedia Titanica | (2008) | BULLETS RECOVERED FROM LUSITANIA'S "EMPTY" HOLD by Senan Molony - RIFLE ammunition bound for the Western Front during World War One has been raised from the wreck of the doomed Cunard liner RMS Lusitania....... | 27th September 2008 | ||
| (2004) | GLENDUN GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway... | 26th October 2004 | ||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION LEITCH, MISS JESSIE WILLS. Saved in Lifeboat number 11. 3, Claud Villa, Denmark Hill, London, SE. UK. Niece of Reverend J. Harper. Returned to England per SS Celtic 25th April 1912. Aged 30 years. Later became Mrs. Anderson. Died 6th February... | ||||||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | (1912) | UGBOROUGH MAN'S GRAPHIC STORY OF THE GREAT OCEAN TRAGEDY This item was almost word for word the same as that reported in the Western Morning News of 29 April 1912. However, in addition the article stated that his father was in the Metropolitan Police at Devonport. ... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | (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 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1966) | SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ... | 21st November 1966 | |||
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SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS A panoramic view of Southampton Terminus railway station, circa 1912, at which time it was known as Southampton Town & Dock.... | |||||
| The Times | (1885) | EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet... | 25th July 1885 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble.... | 24th November 1899 | |||
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Guardian Unlimited | (2007) | REUTERS GETS THAT SINKING FEELING News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week.... | 11th August 2007 | ||
| (2003) | 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 | ||||
| Glasgow Courier | (1955) | SERVICES FOR TAMPICO MAN SET FOR TODAY Page 1, Column 5 Funeral services for William DeMessemaker, 79, early-day Tampico homesteader and a survivor of the Titanic sinking, Atlantic disaster of 1912, were to be held at 3 this afternoon in St. Raphael's Catholic Church. The ... | 9th June 1955 | |||
| (1881) | 1881 CENSUS - LONDON At the time of the 1881 census Lilian Hughes (14) was living with her mother and father, Thomas Hughes (57) and Frances (Fanny) (50) at 80 Park Street, London. The census confirms Lilian's birthplace as within the parish of St George's Hanover... | 31st March 1881 | ||||
| Western Mail | (1912) | SWANSEA VALLEY VICTIMS It now transpires that the Titanic has claimed another victim from the Swansea Valley. In addition to Mr. W. J. Rogers, whose name appeared in the list of passengers in the Western mail in the early part of the week, it seems that he was accompanied ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| TOWER HILL, LONDON WAR MEMORIAL In Memory Of Fireman and Trimmer George Terrill Thresher SS Parkhill (Methil) Merchant Navy Who Died aged 52 [Fireman and Trimmer Thresher, Son of George Samuel and Catherine Thresher, husband of Jane Thresher of Felling, Co. Durh... | ||||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1916) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop Passed Away While Guest of Mrs. O. W. Cannon TAKEN ILL FRIDAY Had Arrived Here on Previous Day For Visit With Her Companion on Long Trip Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the surv... | 1916 | |||
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Worcester News | (2006) | ELLEN ASHES JOIN TITANIC VICTIM DAD The ashes of Mrs Walker, who married twice and had a son, were scattered off Cataclew Point, on the north Cornish coast, by the RNLI lifeboat Spirit of Padstow. Mrs Walker, known as Betty, died at Red Hill Nursing Home, Worces-ter, last year. Among those at the ceremony was north Cornwall auxiliary coastguard Ian Fuller, who became a friend to Mrs Walker when she lived next door to his father. He said: She kept all the cuttings about the Titanic that she could collect, and I believe she had a cabin key from the ship.... | 3rd November 2006 | ||
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(2004) | DUKE OF ALBANY (F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m... | 31st October 2004 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | [WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd... | 6th June 1907 | |||
| Dallas Times-Herald | (1935) | LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD London, April 22 (AP) - Lady Duff Gordon, 71, known for many years as one of the world's foremost modistes, died yesterday in a nursing home in Putney. She was the widow of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, with whom she escaped in a lifeb... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
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WW1 LETTER FROM THE FRONT - BY DANIEL BUCKLEY A letter to his mother from US infantryman Daniel Buckley, originally from Co. Cork, Ireland. Buckley was killed a month before the end of the war. He served with Company K of the 165th US Infantry, and wrote copious missive, some of ... | |||||
| EDWARD DODD The William Salt Library, Stafford Dodd, Edward C. Son of Mr. Dodd former electrical engineer and contractor of Crewe. Formerly in Crewe railway Works, was 3rd engineer on the Titanic.... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest Charles Cann was born in the village of Chapel Amble in the parish of St Kew near Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1883. He was the son of William Cann (labourer)and Sarah Jane Cann. (Sarah was 27 years younger than her husband and had been widowed sh... | ||||||
| PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN IN PARIS London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi... | 6th January 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FUNDS FOR SURVIVORS By the Associated Press New York and London Mayor's Start Movement for Titanic's Survivors New York- April 17 - Mayor William J. Gaynor today received the following cablegram: "London, England, April 17, 1... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT LOBB William Arthur of Bugle St Austell Cornwall engine driver died 14 April 1912 at sea Administration Bodmin 3 August 1912 to George Lobb clay labourer Effects £50 NB. Engine driver in this sense is a mine engine rather than conventional r... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Rood, Mr. Hugh Roscoe. Missing. Ritz Hotel, London, W. Black Moore & Co., 5 East India House, London, E.C. Hotel Regina, Paris. Seattle. Travelling to USA. Vice president of The Pacific Creosoting Company. Cabin A32.... | ||||||
| East Kent Gazette | (1965) | 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 | |||
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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... | |||||
| New York Times | (1932) | HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T... | 27th February 1932 | |||
| The Times | (1889) | SIR EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES AN M.P. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE BELFAST (NORTH DIVISION) The nomination for North Belfast took place yesterday. Six papers containing the names of Sir John Preston, Sir William Quartus Ewart, and Mr. Thomas M'Cormick (secretary of... | 13th August 1889 | |||
| Time Magazine | (1931) | MILESTONES Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife, Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; in London.... | 4th May 1931 | |||
| Providence Journal | (1912) | STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (2003) | 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 | ||||
| (1912) | MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAMME The Central North Chicago Ministerial Association at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. "The Offering" "The Nana Harper Fund to maintain and educate Nana, the six year old daughter of Rev. John Harper, pastor, Walworth Road Chu... | 21st April 1912 | ||||
| MEMORIAL In Memory of William Stone, late Inspector of L & S W Railway, died November 13th 1909 aged 64. Also of Agnes Mary Jane, wife of the above, died March 3rd 1929 aged 85. Also of Edmund Stone, son of the above, who was lost ... | ||||||
| MRS ADA E BALL (BALLS) NEE HALL Mrs Ada E BALL (BALLS) nee HALL Ada E HALL married Martin... | ||||||
| National Roll of the Great War | WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital... | |||||
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(1956) | QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold... | 1956 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MEMORIAL NOTICE HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR... | 28th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6... | 21st April 1931 | |||
| (1901) | 1901 CENSUS, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON At the time of the 1901 census Lilian (34) was living with her husband, the Rev. Ernest Courtenay Carter (43) in Whitechapel, London. He is described in the census as 'C of E Clergyman'.... | 31st March 1901 | ||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Harry Cotterill's father, Thomas Cotterill died in November 1898, aged 45. He was buried in Penzance Cemetery. Harry's mother died on 6 June 1940, aged 81 and was buried with her husband, there is no gravestone marker. Her administration repo... | ||||||
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(1912) | POSTCARD SENT BY MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TITANIC This postcard was sent to Miss M. Liesse by a one F. Liesse. The handwriting looks like a man's, but it could have been sent by a maid who travelled with her employers in London, Paris, Baden...) The text at the back of the card reads: ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| (1891) | 1891 CENSUS, CHARLTON, LONDON At the time of the 1891 census, Reginald G Smith, aged 11, was a school boarder at Park House, Cresswell Park, Charlton, London. ... | 31st March 1891 | ||||
| The Times | (1937) | MR. BRUCE ISMAY AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a... | 18th October 1937 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | SLUMS MOURN STEAD : OLD-TIMERS IN CHICAGO’S CHINATOWN REMEMBER SLUMS MOURN STEAD Old-Timers in Chicago’s Chinatown Remember English Author as “Billy, the Bum” Cleaned Streets in Chicago ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| (2005) | RIO PIRAHY 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 | ||||
| (1895) | PROBATE REPORT (WILLIAM BOWERMAN) Bowerman, William of Thorncliffe, 145 London-road St. Leonards-on-sea gentleman died 3 May 1895 Probate London to Edith Martha Bowerman widow George Bowerman gentleman and John Wilkie Bell butcher Effects £2851 19s 3d... | 1895 | ||||
| New York Times | (1932) | OPPOSE LONDON RADIO PROGRAM ON SINKING OF THE TITANIC By The Associated Press --- LONDON, Feb. 24---Many protests have been made against the proposal of the British Broadcasting Corporation to present a radio representation of the sinking of the Titanic. "That borrible scene... | 25th February 1932 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C... | 30th April 1931 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Most steamship researchers/scholars/enthusiasts know the many similarities between the Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland and the famous White Star Line leviathan Titanic. Both ships were express line... | 9th July 2002 | ||
| New York Times | (1899) | THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died... | 24th November 1899 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com... | 8th March 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE DUFF GORDONS From London came a cablegram (to the White Star office), asking for news of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. The cable remained unanswered for some time as line officials and their employees had more than they could attend to in the handling of inquir... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Bristol Times and Mirror | (1912) | MISS JESSIE LEITCH Miss Jessie Leitch, of London, a second class passenger came ashore with the six-months infant of her cousin, the Rev. John Harper, of London, who was drowned. Mr. Harper handed the child to her, kissed the little one goodbye, and remained to perish.... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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Berkshire County Eagle | (1947) | THE WILLIAM PERINES CELEBRATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY [Pittsfield, Massachusetts] Mrs. Perine was passenger on ill-fated Titanic Among the 700 survivors of the White Star liner, Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic April 14, 1912, after striking an iceberg, was Mrs. ... | 29th January 1947 | ||
| Shoreham Society Newsletter | (1998) | A TITANIC LINK Little did any of us realise as we beat a path to South Coast Cinema doors to see that blockbuster movie Titanic that it had a Shoreham connection. A prominent Shoreham family lost one of their sons on the so-called ‘unsinkable ship’. Henry Head, ... | April 1998 | |||
| The Times | (1935) | TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC A coincidence between the Titanic and the Titanian was magnified in an article written by ex-sailor William Reeves in the April 1967 issue of the Sea Breezes magazine. Reeves was on lookout on the cargo vessel Titanian in April 1935 in the... | 27th April 1935 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | PRES. HAYS WIDOW LEAVES FOR HOME New York, April 19- Upon the arrival of the Carpathia, Mrs. Charles M. Hays, wife of the president of the Grand Trunk railway, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic and her two daughters, Mrs. Thornton Davidson and Miss. Margaret Hays, were met by... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1926) | ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had... | 24th April 1926 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MR. CHRISTOPHER HEAD Mr Christopher Head was the fifth son of the late Mr Henry Head, a well-known London underwriter. He was in his 43rd year, and was educated at Lancing end at Trinity College Cambridge. Called to the Bar ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | [OBITUARY OF MARGARET ISMAY] DEATH LIST OF A DAY --- *** Mrs. T. H. Ismay --- LONDON, Apr... | 10th April 1907 | |||
| (1901) | CENSUS In 1901 Susan Webber (born in North Tamerton, Cornwall) was aged 26 years. She lived in Clawton, Devon and worked as a Cook Domestic.... | 1901 | ||||
| North American | (1912) | NORTH WALES PEOPLE NOT AMONG SURVIVORS Messages received yesterday by James W. Van Billiard, burgess of North Wales, indicated that there is little hope for the safety of his son, Austin Van Billiard, and two grandchildren, who were passengers on the Titanic, and who are believed to have ... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO CHRISTOPHER HEAD Head, Mr. Christopher. Missing. Cabin B11. London address c/o Henry Head & Co., 27, Cornhill, London, E.C. There is a brass memorial to Mr. Head in St Nicolas Church, Old Shoreham, Susses. ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1901) | A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com... | 26th May 1901 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | J. P. MORGAN DUG INTO EGYPT'S PAST Financier Superintended the Search for Early Christian Cemetery at Khargeh. --- BUILT A HOUSE IN DESERT --- Had Force of Man at Work Under Egyptian Engineers, and Enjoyed Himself in Flannels ---... | 16th March 1912 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | BOY PREACHER FROM COBO, GUERNSEY Uncle Mr. D. Nicolle, Gele, of Castel, Guernsey. Going to c/o M. E. Collett, Port Byron, New York, USA. Booking Agent Mr. Boulton, Upper Holloway Road, London. Mr. Stuart Collett. Mr. Stuart Collett, the Boy Preacher who c... | 1912 | |||
| Salt Lake Tribune | (1912) | UTAH WOMAN ON TITANIC NOT NAMED AS SURVIVOR Page 1 Photograph of Mrs. Irene Colvin Corbett of Provo, who wrote she would take passage on Titanic. She is holding one of her three children, who are with their grandparents in Provo. (Photo of Mrs. Corbett and child... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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WEAU-TV 13 | (2009) | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC Imagine seeing the Titanic, in person, deep under the waves in the north Atlantic. An author from Los Angeles with local roots is teaching kids about the disaster, with unique insight.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Post | (1937) | OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d... | 18th October 1937 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Among the passengers of the Titanic was Mr. Charles Whilems, 31, a foreman in the employ of Messrs. Robinson King’s glass works, London. Mr. Whilems was taking the trip in order to visit some relatives in New York, and intended returning to London b... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| MR BENJAMIN HOWARD & MRS ELLEN HOWARD Mr & Mrs Benjamin HOWARD On researching Benjamin Howard and his wife Ellen Howard who both perished, their bodies were never found. I have been able to locate some details about them and their family members.... | ||||||
| New York American | (1935) | DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | (2009) | A FAMILY'S TITANIC MIRACLE LIVES ON Eugene Daly was born in 1883 in the town of Athlone in central Ireland. His father was a policeman, who was sent north to Belfast in the summer of 1895 to help keep the peace during the Protestant marches that marked the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
| Chicago Tribune | (1913) | SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London _________ ... | 10th August 1913 | |||
| Cornishman | (1912) | CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE (courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ... | 16th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1953) | JOHN HARDY Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEW PROVIDENCE, N. J., Oct. 9---John Hardy of 71 Gales Drive, who was chief steward of second class accommodations on the Titanic, died on Wednesday at the home of his son, Ronald M. Hardy, in Maplewood... | 10th October 1953 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC BAND MEMORIAL CONCERT THE TITANIC BAND MEMORIAL CONCERT Under the auspices of the Orchestral Association a concert was given yesterday at the Albert Hall in honour of the musicians who peris... | 25th May 1912 | |||
| TITANIC 97 YEARS UNDER Today marks the day of titanic's 97th anniversary of hitting the iceberg and sinking in the cold waters of the north Atlantic with a loss of 1517 lives. So I made this 7 min video to think about the lives that where lost on that horrific night. ... | ||||||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | TITANIC DISASTER REMEMBERED About 100 people assembled to commemorate one of the darkest days of Southampton's maritime history.They gathered at Holyrood Church for a service remembering the victims of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic 96 years ago tomorrow.... | 14th April 2008 | ||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO CHARLES LIGHTOLLER Mortlake Crematorium, London SW4. Is the site of his scattered ashes. Unmarked, plot 22. also he has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which ... | ||||||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC SURVIVOR AUCTIONS RELICS The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Now 96, Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.... | 16th October 2008 | ||
| STONE FAMILY INFORMATION Edmund Stone was born in Southampton in 1879. He was the son of William Stone (Railway Inspector) and Agnes Mary Jane Stone. In 1881 the UK Census has the family at 7 Brinton's Terrace, Southampton. With William and Agnes Stone were their 4 ... | ||||||
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(1910) | LUCY DUFF GORDON, PORTRAIT BY RITA MARTIN, LONDON | 1910 | |||
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Norwalk Plus Magazine | (2008) | TITANIC EXHIBIT AT FAIRFIELD MUSEUM This past April 14 marked the 96th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. On that fateful night in 1912, hundreds of men, women and children lost their lives in the waters of the North Atlantic, and those who survived went on with lives that were forever altered.... | 23rd April 2008 | ||
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KOLD-TV | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT COMES TO TUCSON You can see a piece of history come alive at a new exhibit in Tucson. It's all about Titanic and that fateful night in the North Atlantic in April of 1912.... | 3rd April 2009 | ||
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | (2009) | RMS TITANIC EXHIBIT TO HAVE THREE-MONTH RUN The world-renowned "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" surfaces for a three-month run Oct. 1 at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Experience the legendary story of this famous ship and its ill-fated maiden voyage across the North Atlantic.... | 24th September 2009 | ||
| The Times | (1937) | FUNERALS---MR. BRUCE ISMAY The funeral service of Mr. Bruce Ismay was held yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. E. K. C. Hamilton officiated. Members of the family and others present included:--- Mrs. Bruce Ismay, Mr. and Mrs. ... | 22nd October 1937 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974 Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f... | 1st February 1913 | |||
| New York Sun | (1935) | NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON London, April 22 - Lady Duff Gordon, for thirty years directress of the noted dress firm Lucile, with branches in New York, London, Paris and Chicago, and an innovator in feminine apparel, died yesterday in a London nursing home, following an illness... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| (2004) | SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee... | 2004 | ||||
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Lancaster Newspapers | (2008) | 'TITANIC' TASK FOR A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Sweating under unforgiving stage lights, the Solanco teens imagine a frigid April night, when the North Atlantic's icy waters swallowed 1,500 souls aboard a doomed ship.Sometimes after a scene, the young actors crack a few jokes backstage, just to keep from crying.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
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RYDE PIER A postcard view of Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, looking north towards the pierhead and Spithead, circa 1912. The Titanic would have passed this structure shortly after leaving Southampton on the first leg of her journey to Cherbourg. &nb... | |||||
| 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... | |||||
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East Valley Tribune | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT SHOWS TRAGEDY'S HUMAN SIDE 'That's my grandfather. That's him,' says a white-haired gentleman, tapping his finger on the name of August Wennerstrom, third-class passenger aboard the Titanic, the luxury ocean liner that sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
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(2006) | THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ... | 21st July 2006 | |||
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(1908) | SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON | 1908 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIM CREMATED NORTH BERGEN, May 4---The body of Tyrell W. Cavendish, who lost his life on the Titanic, was cremated here today. He lived at Little Onn Hall, Stafford, England. In December 1906, he married Miss Julia Florence Siegel, only daughter of Henry Siegel... | 4th May 1912 | |||
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Dive | (2007) | CARPATHIA SURVEYED A British-led team of technical divers has successfully completed a survey of the Titanic's rescue ship, the Carpathia, which lies at 160m in the north Atlantic. The team, led by Ric Waring and including Rich Stevenson and Jeff Cornish, penetrated the wreck situated 200 miles from the Irish Coast... | 1st November 2007 | ||
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KPNX-12 | (2008) | TITANIC EXPLORER DEBUTS NEW SCIENCE PROGRAM With a hearty laugh, Dr. Robert Ballard, world renowned oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, likes what he's seeing in north Phoenix. It's Ballard's latest project, and sharing his discoveries has been worth the struggle. "I go to incredible places, but it's hard to take a lot of people with me," Ballard confided.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette | (2008) | LITTLE BITES Local historian David McMunn will host this year's Titanic Dinner at Muriel's Eclectic Dining on the North Side. Guests at "A Night to Remember" will enjoy a re-creation of the last dinner served in the first class dining saloon on the night of the Titanic's infamous wreck.... | 27th March 2008 | ||
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abc40tv.com | (2009) | TITANIC ANNIVERSARY REMEMBERED SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (abc40)-- April 15th marks the anniversary of one of the most deadly peacetime maritime disasters in history.It was 97 years ago in the early hours of the morning, that the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg just hours earlier on the night of the 14th.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
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USA Today | (2009) | FEDERAL JUDGE TO RULE ON FATE OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS Nearly a century after the Titanic struck ice in the North Atlantic, a federal judge in Virginia is poised to preserve the largest collection of artifacts from the opulent oceanliner and protect the ship's resting place.... | 24th March 2009 | ||
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Nova News Now | (2008) | TITANIC SAILS INTO LIVERPOOL Over 1,500 lives were lost on April 14, 1912 when the ill-fated RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Ninety-six years later, the cast and creative team of the Winds of Change will bring the legendary story of the RMS Titanic and its passengers back to life, beginning on April 18, 2008.... | 15th April 2008 | ||
| (1901) | CENSUS In 1901 Mrs. Alice Louch (born in Hoxton, London) was aged 31 years. She lived in Clevedon, Somerset. She was a housewife.... | 1901 | ||||
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ET Research | (2003) | THE LAST OF THE LAST As the Carpathia steamed towards New York with the survivors from the Titanic, some of them, sensing that they had witnessed a momentous event, began to make notes of what they had experienced.ii Two of them, C... | 25th November 2003 | ||
| New York Times | (1930) | 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 | |||
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AFP | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN ENGLAND: BBC LONDON (AFP) - Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died Sunday at a care home in England where the lived, the BBC reported, citing a unnamed friend. She was 97.Dean was a two-month-old baby and her family were emigr... | 31st May 2009 | ||
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Broadway World | (2007) | PHOTO PREVIEW: TITANIC THE MUSICAL AT TOBYS When they built the RMS Titanic in 1912, it made history. The largest floating object in the world (at the time) they said was unsinkable, but it was. Thousands lost their lives in the icy North Atlantic. But the memory of those lost and tributes to those who survived have captured the hearts and minds of mankind the world over.... | 5th September 2007 | ||
| MRS WINNIE (MINNIE) COUTTS Information Held on the COUTTS Family MARRIAGE Taken from UK BMD Index Vol 2a Page 1180 ... | ||||||
| (1901) | CENSUS In 1901 David Reeves (born in Slinford, Suffolk) was aged 25 years. He lived in Battersea, London and worked as a Joiner.... | 1901 | ||||
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The Chronicle Herald | (2008) | CEREMONY HONOURS TITANIC VICTIMS A decades-old ceremony held to remember the Titanic disaster came to Halifax on Tuesday, 96 years to the day after the luxury liner hit an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic.With bagpipers and priests present, 18 members of the United States Coast Guard's International Ice Patrol saluted the 1,500 people who died on April 15, 1912.... | 19th April 2008 | ||
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KTNV Las Vegas | (2009) | THE SPIRIT SOME SAY LURKS AT THE TITANIC EXHIBIT AT THE LUXOR Wednesday marked the 97th anniversary of the Titanic sinking to the bottom of the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 people died in the frigid waters that night, but about 700 survived. At the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor one of those survivors still lurks in the shadows.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | 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 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | ALBERT BRIANT 1877 – 1912 A SHORT BIOGRAPHY Albert Briant c 1900 Albert Briant was born on 26 June 1877 at Melbourne Pl... | 14th September 2005 | ||
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U.S. News & World Report | (2008) | THE SECRET OF HOW THE TITANIC SANK For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank.... | 30th September 2008 | ||
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Mail on Sunday | (2008) | FAMILY OF 'COWARD' WHO STEERED THE TITANIC INTO AN ICEBERG REVEAL HIS 'LIFE-LONG GUILT AND SHAME' The sinking of the Titanic left a legacy of grief and heartbreak for hundreds of the survivors. But the suffering was not confined to those who lost loved ones in the icy seas of the North Atlantic. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was at the wheel of the liner on April 15, 1912, when she struck the iceberg that destroyed her. ... | 18th August 2008 | ||
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Brighton Standard Blade | (2007) | SHIP OF DREAMS DOCKS AT DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE As hard as it is for me to swallow, I didn't survive. Nor did my wife, Augusta, sons Charles, William, Harold and Sidney, or daughters Lillian and Jessie. My entire family, lost to the frigid waters of the north Atlantic.The worst part? The circumstances leading to our demise were a cruel mistake, a wicked, unplanned twist of fate.... | 3rd August 2007 | ||
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(2007) | LONDON'S RIVER A 1920s tour down the Thames. From Hampton Court to the Pool of London the viewer is taken on avocative journey through the historic heart of England's capitol.... | 21st July 2007 | |||
| Daily Post and Mercury | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIM'S FUNERAL LATE MR. A. ROWE'S BODY INTERRED IN LIVERPOOL Sorrowful scenes were witnessed at Smithdown road Cemetery, yesterday afternoon, when there were interred the remains of Mr. Alfred Rowe, a first class passenger who went d... | 15th May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1916) | LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte... | 1st January 1916 | |||
| Evening Times | (1912) | PAWTUCKET VISITOR AMONG THE VICTIMS One of the victims of the great wreck was Arthur E. Nicholson of London. England, a frequent visitor to this city. where he occasionally called upon his personal friends, ex senator Lyonas Delany of the firm of the Lyons Delany Company. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | J. P. MORGAN SAILS Has Six Staterooms on the Adriatic---Mrs. Waldorf Astor Also Departs --- Many passengers sailed yesterday in the outgoing liners for Europe. On the Adriatic went J. Pierpont Morgan and his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterl... | 27th February 1908 | |||
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Newsweek | (2008) | THE TITANIC'S LAST SECRET The Titanic sank into the North Atlantic 97 years ago. Since then, as Harvard historian Steven Biel quipped, "Only Jesus and the Civil War have been written about more." In close to 200 books, documentaries and movies-and the highest-grossing film of all time-historians, scientists and Titanic buffs have fervently debated what really caused the biggest passenger ship of her day to sink just two hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg, carrying 1,522 people to their deaths.... | 6th October 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1913) | ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth... | 16th January 1913 | |||
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Manchester Evening News | (2007) | DIVE TO TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP A SALFORD fireman has led the world's first successful dive to the wreck of a ship which steamed to the rescue of the Titanic.A 10-strong amateur dive team led by Ric Waring entered the record books by reaching the wreck and then salvaged artefacts from RMS Carpathia, which sits on the bottom of the north Atlantic some 500ft below the surface, 200 miles from the Irish coast.... | 19th September 2007 | ||
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | (2007) | 'TITANIC' DINNER TO BENEFIT WAR STREETS EFFORT Thursday, March 22, 2007By Nancy Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIt's been 95 years since the unsinkable luxury liner Titanic went to the bottom of the ocean.To commemorate the occasion, Titanic historian Dave McMunn and chef Douglas Ferraro at the Acanthus Restaurant, North Side, will make it a \"A Night to Remember\" by recreating the sumptuous dinner served to first-class passengers that night.The elegant seven-course menu features Consomme Olga, Roasted Salmon with Mousseline Sauce, Filet Mignon Lili with Foie Gras, Chateau Potatoes, Punch Romaine (palate cleanser), Watercress Salad with Asparagus Vinaigrette, Waldorf Pudding, Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly and Chef Ferraro\'s specialty, Oysters Acanthus.To add authenticity, Mr. McMunn includes tables of historic documents, photos, posters and other memorabilia, plus, piped in period music and a retelling of the fateful night\'s events. Period dress is encouraged; Mr. McMunn will be in tie and tails.Dates are April 13 and 14, with a March 30 deadline for reservations. Cocktails are at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $105; proceeds benefit the Mexican War Street Society\'s Street Tree plan. The restaurant is located at the Inn on the Mexican War Streets, 604 W. North Ave. Dinner details: 412-231-1316. Directions: 412-231-6544. The Titanic menu will be offered every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in April.... | 22nd March 2007 | ||
| The Times | (1913) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | PRESENTATION OF MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY BUCKINGHAM PALACE, DEC. 16---The King this morning decorated the following with medals for acts of gallantry on land and at sea as stated against their names:--- BOARD OF TRADE MEDALS Lieutenant ... | 17th December 1913 | |||
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OnMilwaukee.com | (2008) | "TITANIC" IS A FASCINATING, EMOTIONAL JOURNEY It was nearly a century ago now that the RMS Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious vessel, sank during her maiden voyage after colliding with a North Atlantic iceberg. Most of us are familiar, if not fascinated, with this historic tragedy and the real objects and real stories presented in the Milwaukee Public Museum's "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition," opening Friday, Oct. 10 and running through May 25, 2009, bring us even closer to the fateful events of April 14 and 15, 1912.... | 9th October 2008 | ||
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Daily Mail | (2007) | WATCHES MADE FROM TITANIC'S HULL GO ON SALE FOR £75,000 Watches made from what must be one of the rarest materials on Earth - metal from the hull of the Titanic - are going on sale for up to £75,000. Salvaged by divers from the wreck of the liner - which lies 12,500ft under the North Atlantic where it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 with the loss of 1,500 lives - the metal has been blended with modern shipbuilding steel to make the casing of the timepieces.... | 6th August 2007 | ||
| The Times | (1902) | FIREMAN KILLED WIFE Western Assizes William Mintram, 33, a mariner, was tried for the wilful murder of Eliza May Rose Mintram, his wife, at Southampton, on October 18th [1902]. Mr Evans Austin, and Mr E. L. Craik appeared for the prosecution on beh... | 24th November 1902 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | LADY DUFF-GORDON SAILS Coming to Open an American Branch of Her London Costume Shop --- SpeciaI Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 26---Lady Duff-Gordon sailed on the Lusitania to-day to put the finishing touch... | 27th February 1910 | |||
| San Francisco Examiner | (1912) | HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT [from Liverpool Library] Snape, Lucy Violet of Well Lane, Sandhills, Whitley, Surrey, widow. Administration (with will limited) London 11th October to Edward James Lennard, cowman. Effects £234.14s 2d.... | 11th October 1912 | ||||
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GREAT LAKES TITANIC SOCIETY GLTS is an informal association of Titanic enthusiasts which got its start in the Great Lakes region. The website highlights the maritime connections of the region to the Titanic and other White Star Line ships. Great Lakes and North Atlantic maritime history are also explored.... | |||||
| PROBATE REPORT HOCKING Samuel James Metcalfe of 101 Fore Street Devonport died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration London 21 August 1913 to Ada Hocking widow Effects £70... | ||||||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Allsop, Alfred Samuel, of 134 Malmesbury Road, Freemantle, Southampton. Ships Electrician. Administration London 10th May 1912 to Hilda Allsop widow. Effects £152.6.7d.... | 10th May 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1911) | GREENWICH EXPECTED THE WEDDING Special to The New York Times --- GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 7---The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of New York came to Greenwich this evening and is the guest of J. H. FlagIer in North Street, where he has often visited this Sum... | 8th September 1911 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | PRESIDENT’S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Outlook | (1911) | THE RACE FOR OCEAN SUPREMACY 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 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | WILL BRING TITANIC VICTIM'S BODY HERE Arrangements were made to have the body of John S. Marsh, the Newark superintendent of mails on the Titanic, brought to the home of the daughter, Miss Nellie Marsh, 39 Emmett street. His body was recovered by the cable ship at the scen... | 30th April 1912 | |||
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EDWARD DODD MEMORIAL On the west wall of the chancel in Christ Church Crewe is a plaque to the memory of Edward Dodd. It reads "In Memory of E... | |||||
| New York Times | (1939) | CAPT. JOHN W. BINKS OF WHITE STAR DIES Retired Skipper of Olympic Served in the British Navy During the World War --- SPENT 45 YEARS AT SEA --- Commander of Leviathan and Majestic on Last Voyages They Ever Made --- News was received yesterd... | 6th February 1939 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT McElroy, Hugh Walter of Polygon House, Southampton. Ship’s purser. Administration: London 31st July 1912 to Mrs Barbara McElroy widow, effects £ 4330.13. 3d. ... | 31st July 1912 | ||||
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Daily Telegraph | (2006) | 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 | ||
| (1915) | MINUTES OF TITANIC RELIEF FUND Liverpool Area Committee No. 415. Franklin, Mrs. B. Address for cheques: The National Provincial Bank of England Limited, London Street, Norwich. Net monthly allowance to widow £3. 7 2d one child £1 1 8d total £4 8 10d.... | 1st December 1915 | ||||
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The Tribune | (2008) | WITNESS NIGHT OF THE TITANIC Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic a ship widely heralded as 'unsinkable' struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Over the course of the next few hours, a great tragedy unfolded as weather, ice, the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship. In Night of the Titanic, now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium, experience the Titanic's last day to discover what went wrong, and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
| Boston Globe | (1912) | OTHERS OF REPUTED WEALTH Among the others of reputed wealth who were on board are Christopher Head a London barrister and one of the senior member of Lloyds, underwriters, was among the passengers.... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Murdoch, William McMaster, of 94 Belmont Road, Portswood, Southampton. Ships Officer. Administration, London 22nd July 1912 to Ada Florence Murdoch, widow. Effects £1141.9.4d.... | 22nd July 1912 | ||||
| 1911 Census | (1911) | THE SAGE FAMILY IN THE 1911 CENSUS The Sage family in 1911 were living at 246 Gladstone Street, Peterborough. The house had 5 rooms. Name: John G. Sage Relationship to ... | 2nd April 1911 | |||
| The Times | (1909) | JUDICIAL CHANGES His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of... | 4th February 1909 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT: WOODWARD Woodward, John Wesley, of ''The Firs'' Windmill Road, Headington, Oxfordshire. Administration: London 6th June, 1912 to Martha Woodward, Widow. Effects £1195.3.5d.... | 6th June 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD PIRRIE TO RETIRE His Harland & Wolff Interests Sold to Brown & Co., Report Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, March 13---It is reported from Belfast on good authority that Lord Pirrie has intimated his intention not o... | 14th March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1962) | 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 | |||
| Southern Daily Echo | (2002) | HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive... | 16th February 2002 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT [from Liverpool Library] Parsons, Edward of 26 Roberts Road, Hill Lane, Southampton. Probate London 11th May to Clara Parsons, widow. Effects £451.1s.4d.... | 11th May 1912 | ||||
| Rutherford Republican | (1912) | MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1916) | PROBATE REPORT Smart, John Montgomery of F26/F27 Produce Exchange, New York, United States of America. Administration with Will limited, registered London 9th December 1916 to Samuel Peck Director attorney of Jeremiah Tivomey. Effects in England £134.17.9d.... | 9th December 1916 | ||||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Hamblyn Ernest William, of 2 Norman Villas, Dyer Road, Shirley Southampton. Ships Steward. Probate registered London 3rd June 1912 to Henry Archibald Jamieson, journalist. Effects £320.0.0.... | 3rd June 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Hodges, Henry Price, of "The Cotswolds", Highfield Lane Portswood, Southampton. Probate registered London 3rd September 1912, to Ellen Hodges, widow. Effects £16,694.5.3d. ... | 3rd September 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1935) | FIERMONTE AND WIFE BACK To Stay Here 3 Months---He Will Shun Prize Ring --- Enzo Fiermonte, former Italian prizefighter, returned to the United States on the North German Lloyd liner Europa yesterday, accompanied by his wife, the former Mrs. Madeleine Force As... | 2nd August 1935 | |||
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guardian.co.uk | (2009) | TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012.... | 31st March 2009 | ||
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Toronto Star | (2009) | NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1919) | DR. WASHINGTON DODGE DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL Section 2, page 13, columns 7-8 [Photo] Gunshot Wound, Inflicted in Attempt to Kill Himself June 21, Causes Death RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE Financier and Ex-Assessor Unconscious for 3 Days Befo... | 1st July 1919 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | DEATH NOTICE NICHOLSON---On Monday, April 15, 1912, Arthur Ernest Nicholson, at sea on the S. S. Titanic. Interment at Woodlawn, N. Y. Notice of funeral hereafter. London and Shanklin, Isle of Wight, papers please copy.... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Coleridge Reginald Charles of Hartford Huntingdonshire died 15 April 1912 at sea Probate London 10 June, 1912, to reverend Alexander Chorley Crosfield, clerk. Effects £455 14s 7d.... | 10th June 1912 | ||||
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Foxnews.com | (2006) | LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass.... | 7th May 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1899) | 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 | |||
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BBC News | (2007) | HISTORIC SHIP RECORDS GO ONLINE Details of more than 30 million people who emigrated from Britain by ship are being published on a new website. Previously family history researchers would have had to make the journey to The National Archives in London to read the lists... | 10th January 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | GEORGE B. GOLDSCHMIDT George B. Goldschmidt, lost in the sinking of the Titanic, was one of the oldest members of the Bar Association, having become a member in 1870. He was born in this city in 1840, admitted to practice in 1882, and was one of the best-known conveyancer... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Gee, Arthur, of ''Morningside'' Riley Avenue, St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire. Probate registered, London, 16th July, 1912, to Edith Gee, widow, William Edward Horrocks, chemist and Henry Scholes bank clerk. Effects £4,240.10.11d.... | 16th July 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Smith Edward John. of 17 Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool. Master Mariner. Probate issued: London 15th November 1912 to Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow. Effects £3,186.4.6d.... | 15th November 1912 | ||||
| The Times | (1941) | DEATH NOTICE Collett. - On May 6, 1941. Sidney Collett beloved husband of Ruth Collett passed peacefully away. Memorial service at Talbot Tabernacle. Bayswater. London. May 13 at 2.30. Interment Hendon Cemetery at 3.30. (Foreign papers, please copy).... | 10th May 1941 | |||
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ET Research | (2006) | A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James... | 13th October 2006 | ||
| NESHAN KREKORIAN : CLARIFICATIONS Mr. Krekorian had 3 children, not 4. Minor spelling error: city is St. Catharines, not St. Catherines. He was single when he left for North America - his first wife was killed by the Turks. My recollection of how he got into bo... | ||||||
| Berkshire Chronicle | (1912) | DETAINED AT WASHINGTON Detained at Washington. Among those who were expected to have arrived home on the Lapland was Mr, Frederick Dent Ray, of 'Akbar' 56 palmer Park Avenue, Reading. Mr Ray, who was a steward on the Titanic, cabled home to his relatives informing them... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Among the passengers on the Titanic were Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cavendish of London, and their two children. Mrs. Cavendish is a daughter of Henry Siegel, President of the Simpson-Crawford Company. She was making the trip here to visit her father at his ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| THE ADDERGOOLE PARISH LOSS John Bourke, his wife Katherine, his sister Mary, Honora Fleming and Mary Mangan were from the townland of Carrowskeheen (quarter land of the little bush), Lahardane, Addergoole Parish, Co Mayo, Irish Republic. All perished. Data from the 1911 cen... | ||||||
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Orlando Sentinel | (2008) | TITANIC TO SAIL TO NEW I-DRIVE LOCALE The Titanic exhibit that sailed into Central Florida almost a decade ago is headed back to International Drive, with plans for a $2 million investment to modernize and expand the attraction.Titanic -- The Experience, which introduces visitors to the world of the ill-fated ocean liner, will end its temporary run in the Orlando Science Center on Oct. 12. It will move to a 20,000-square-foot location at 7324 International Drive, a mile north of the now-demolished Mercado shopping-and-dining complex where the attraction had spent the first eight years of its existence.... | 11th September 2008 | ||
| (1912) | ALLSOP: PROBATE INFORMATION ALLSOP Frank Richard of 78 Obelisk Road Woolston Southampton died at sea 15 April 1912 Administration London 29 June 1912 to Elizabeth Allsop widow. Effects £69 13s 7d. ... | 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT: WILLIAM FARQUHARSON Farquharson, William Edward, of 90 Wilton Avenue, Southampton. Ships engineer. Administration, London 24th May 1912 to Martha Ellen Farquharson, widow. Effects £428.7.0d.... | 24th May 1912 | ||||
| Torquay Directory | (1913) | MAN WITH TWO NAMES : TORQUAY PENSIONER AND HIS SAILOR SON Claim For Loss on the “Titanic” At Torquay County Court on Saturday Judge Lush-Wilson arbitrated in an action under the Workman’s Compensation Act by George Barnhouse, of Stentiford’s Hill, T... | 23rd April 1913 | |||
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Glasgow Daily Record | (2006) | TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday.... | 7th December 2006 | ||
| PROBATE REPORT WEST Edwy Arthur of Bournemouth died 15 April 1912 at sea Probate London 9 July 1912 to Ada Mary West widow Effects £610 14s 6d... | ||||||
| Corriere della Sera | (1912) | STILL MISSING A COMPLETE LIST OF THE ITALIAN'S SHIPWREKED Page B07 [Translation] The enrolment of the waiters for the "Titanic" London, 17 April, night Till midnight no one new list of the survivors has reached, so except for Portaluppi and Pera... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2006) | TWINNING WILL CEMENT TITANIC LINK In a cemetery in the Canadian town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, around 150 victims of the Titanic disaster are buried. Their bodies were recovered from the freezing waters of the north Atlantic days after the sinking.Now, leisure chiefs in Southampton are planning to cement the relationship between the two cities by signing an official "twinning" accord with the Canadians.The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor John Slade, is set to visit Halifax in March next year as part of the 95th anniversary commemorations of the disaster.... | 13th November 2006 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC’S MAILS John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER NULL... | 11th January 2006 | ||
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Canada.com | (2006) | LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ... | 8th May 2006 | ||
| Southern Daily Echo | (1912) | DEATH NOTICE: PARSONS Parsons, Edward. Aged 37 years. Chief Storekeeper of the Titanic, and Dearly beloved Husband of Clarsia Parsons, 26, Roberts Road, Plymouth. Liverpool and London papers please copy. [Also Hampshire Independent 27th April 1912]... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
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DOWNSHIRE HOUSE This is the house where in the summer of 1907, the Olympic & Titanic were conceived by Lord William Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay.... | |||||
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(2002) | MEMORIAL TO THE LEFEBVRE FAMILY IN LIEVIN, FRANCE This memorial to the members of the Lefebvre family who lost their lives on the Titanic was erected in Lievin, north of France, by the Association Francaise du Titanic and Mr Kucheida, Mayor of the city. A plaque (see picture) is placed on each side ... | 30th March 2002 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SOCIETY IS SHOCKED AT NEWS OF DEATH Washington society was shocked when news that the name of James C. Smith, of Chicago, was not included in the list of those saved from death when the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Mr. Smith was well known in Washington, where... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Moody, James Paul of 136 Fildes Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Ships Officer. Probate registered: London 16th September 1912 to Christopher William Moody solicitors clerk and Margaret Moody spinster. Effects £449.8.8d.... | 16th September 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | HAMBLYN: PROBATE INFORMATION HAMBLYN Ernest William of 2 Norman Villas Dyer Road Freemantle Hampshire died 15 April 1912 at sea Probate London 3 June 1912 to Henry Archibald Jamieson journalist. Effects £320.... | 1912 | ||||
| Evening Star | (1912) | MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PARSONS: PROBATE INFORMATION PARSONS Edward of 26 Roberts Road Hill Lane Southampton died 15 April 1912 at sea Probate London 11 May 1912 to Clara Parsons widow. Effects £451 1s 4d.... | 1912 | ||||
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Born August 18th 1893 (Ref. register Book no 327 at Kennington Sub District Office). After returning to the UK she later married, September 12th 1931 to one James Barrow, Company Director of M. Ralph paper merchant of Upper Thames Stre... | ||||||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT Bell, Joseph of Barnton, 1 Belvidere Road, Great Crosby, Liverpool. Ships Engineer. Probate registered, London 2nd August 1912 to Maud Bell, widow and William Ralph Bates, Iron Works Manager. Effects £6457.0s.10d.... | 1912 | ||||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | WEST HOBOKEN MAN A PASSENGER ON THE LOST STEAMER John Ashby, of Traphagen street, West Hoboken, is on the list of second cabin passengers of the ill-fated Titanic and so far his name has not appeared among those of the rescued. He was returning from England to his son-in-law and two daughters in No... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FAMILY OF J. S. MARCH MAY RECEIVE $10,000 WASHINGTON, April 22---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic were introduced in the House today by Representative Reilly, of Conne... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT : CHRISTOPHER HEAD Head Christopher, of 7 Wyndham House, Sloane Square, Middlesex and 27, Cornhill, London. Probate registered 12th June, 1912 to Geoffrey Head esquire. Effects £56,207.8.2d.... | 12th June 1912 | ||||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1967) | OBITUARY Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ... | 27th April 1967 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic... | 16th March 1912 | |||
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LA Times | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the legendary ocean liner Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, died today. She was 97.She died at a nursing home near Southampton... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | SHAW, SAVILL AND ALBION CO., LTD. Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., Ltd. Successors to Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Co. and the Albion Co. Established 50 years ago. This company maintain a regular service of passenger and cargo steamers between London and New Zealand, and... | |||||
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Branson Courier | (2009) | TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction.... | 9th March 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1911) | AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne... | 9th January 1911 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Harper, Reverend John. Missing. Lived at 3, Claude Villas, Denmark Hill, London. UK. Born in Houston, Renfrewshire in 1872. In 1911 had a three month mission in Moody Church, Chicago and was travelling there when the ship sank. ... | ||||||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | 95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ... | 12th July 2006 | ||
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MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM T. STEAD "W. T. Stead. 1840-1912. This memorial to a journalist of wide renown was erected near the spot where he worked for more than 30 years by journalists of many lands in recognition of his brilliant gifts, fervert spirit, and untiring devotion to t... | |||||
| The Times | (1956) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri... | 17th February 1956 | |||
| New York Times | (1986) | JOHN RYERSON John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel fortune... | 24th January 1986 | |||
| PRIDEAUX FAMILY INFORMATION John Arthur Prideaux (k/a Jack) was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 24 April 1888 at a house in Victoria Road, Woolston. He was the son of John Davey Prideaux and Annie Elizabeth (formerly Slade). His father, originally from Teignmouth, Dev... | ||||||
| ROSALIND New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Managers) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 6 April for New York. On 7 April at 45 degrees 10 ‘ N. by 56 degrees 40” W. encountered a str... | ||||||
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CNW Group | (2007) | TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION COMES TO THE ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE IN JUNE 2007 TORONTO, Feb. 12 /CNW/ - April 10, 1912 the world's largest ship, Titanic, sets sail from Southampton, England on its maiden voyage to New York. Five days later after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, Titanic sinks and 1,500 lives are lost. On April 10, 2007, in recognition of the 95th anniversary of her launch, tickets go on sale to the public for Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opening at the Ontario Science Centre for a six month run, June 2, 2007.... | 13th February 2007 | ||
| (1891) | 1891 CENSUS FOR WALWORTH 1891 Census for Walworth London, shows Frederick Dent Ray, aged 11 years living at 35, Darwin Buildings, with parents Charles & Sarah, Brothers Charles, Herbert, John, William & Sister Rose.... | 1891 | ||||
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Bromley Times | (2006) | LOOKS LIKE A SPLASH HIT SHOW AMATEUR opera singers will sail into Bromley's Churchill Theatre next week to perform the London premiere of a Broadway musical. The West Wickham Operatic Society limbered up for their production of Titanic - The Musical by soaking actor Kevin Gauntlett, who plays the role of the ship's owner, Bruce Ismay.... | 16th November 2006 | ||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORTS Probate Report: Millet, Francis Davis, of Russell House, Broadway, Worcestershire and Washington, United States of America. Probate report: Probate registered London, 13th November, 1912, to Lily Millet, widow. Effects in ... | 13th November 1912 | ||||
| MEMORIALS Named on Millbrook Church Memorial. Named on St Mary's Church, Eling, nr. Southampton Memorial. The memorial is situated just inside the church on the right. ''To The Memory of'' Frederick Walter Godwin, 34 years old. Will... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlantic lin... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| Denver Times | (1912) | MRS. STOIBER-ROOD DENIES REPORT HUSBAND IS ALIVE Says She Has Positive Evidence He Lost His Life on Titanic Disaster. Recent reports from London that a man seen there had been partially identified as Hugh R. Rood, supposed to have been one of the Titanic victims in April, 1912, have ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| (1919) | LIGHTOLLER TAKES 36 GERMAN NAVAL LIVES IN WAR On July 19, 1918, HMS Garry, Lieut Cmmdr C.H. Lightoller DSC, was cruising in the North Sea and was in Latitude 54.39 N. and Longitude 0.55 W., when an enemy submarine, which proved to be the UB-110, was observed. The Garry, having ... | 14th July 1919 | ||||
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Westmorland Gazette | (2008) | TITANIC ARTEFACTS SET TO RAISE THOUSANDS A RARE first-hand account of the Titanic tragedy written by the great-uncle of a South Lakeland resident is expected to fetch more than £15,000 when it is sold at auction.Having always been interested in the voyage of the ill-fated vessel, Joyce Ireland from Burneside read with interest an article previewing the sale of Titanic memorabilia at Sotheby's in London.... | 2nd December 2008 | ||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT: REVD JOHN HARPER Harper, Reverend John, of 3 Claude Villas, Love Walk, Denmark Hill, Surrey. Probate registered London 4th July 1912, to Jessie Wills spinster, Charles Livingstone sett maker and Harry Meikle, Baptist Minister. Effects £902.0.5.d... | 4th July 1912 | ||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | GLOOM AT HOLSWORTHY This disaster has cast a gloom over Holsworthy, there being no less than seven passengers from this district on board the ill-fated vessel. Mr. L. Braund, a native of Bridgerule, who had been on a visit to his native home after several years absence ... | 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | MR. CHARLES BAINBRIGGE Mr. Charles Bainbrigge was a son of Mrs. Bainbrigge of Rohais Manor. He was returning to Savage's International Stock Farm, Minnesota, U.S.A., where he had spent some years. The London "Globe" contained the following paragraph on Saturday:- Mr. Charl... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1883) | JOHN CHARLES BIGHAM MADE QUEEN'S COUNSEL From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Oct 30 CROWN OFFICE, OCT. 27 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal to constitute and appoint Richard Henn Collins, Esq., and John C... | 31st October 1883 | |||
| New York Times | (1914) | MRS. CARTER WEDS AGAIN Back from London, She Announces Her Marriage to George Brooke --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31--The announcement today of the marriage of Mrs. Lucile Polk Carter, prominent in Philadelphia, New ... | 1st September 1914 | |||
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Evening Bulletin | (1912) | BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA The second wireless operator on the Titanic being taken down the gang plank when the rescue ship Carpathia docked Thursday night. At the time Titanic struck Cottam {sic} was off duty and asleep in his berth, and was compelled to take charge of a lif... | 20th April 1912 | ||
| Oxford Magazine | (1912) | THE REV. ERNEST COURTENAY CARTER Vol. XXX, No. 17 A correspondent writes:- "The Rev. Ernest Courtenay Carter, of St. John's College, who perished, with his wife, in the Titanic disaster, was in many ways a remarkable man. Not specially gifted intellec- tually, he took... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | LOSES ALL HIS MONEY NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Ismay of London, England, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Ismay, to Capt. Ronald Cheape of the First Dragoon Guards of the English Army. Mrs. Ismay was Miss Florence Schieffelin of this city. ... | 26th November 1911 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| Time Magazine | (1935) | MILESTONES Died. Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), 71, famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile, Ltd (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt,... | 29th April 1935 | |||
| Cambridge Independent Press | (1912) | MR. R. C. COLERIDGE MISSING Page 5 There seems every reason to fear that Mr. Reginald C. Coleridge, of Hartford, who was among the second-class passengers on the Titanic, has lost his life. Every day since the disaster his friends have anxiously scanned the lists... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Shaldon has a particular interest in the loss. George Fox Hosking is senior third engineer on the Titanic. He is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs Hosking of The Green, Shaldon, and resides in London. He has a wife and three children. The parents... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Staten Islander | (1912) | MISS MARY DAVIES ''Staten Islanders in the vicinity of Tottenville, are rejoicing over the safe arrival of Miss Mary Davies, of London, a sister of Mrs. E. Langford. Miss Davies arrived at her sister's home about 1.30 yesterday morning, and was immediately placed und... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1900) | THOMAS H. ISMAY LEFT £1,297,881 LONDON, March 11---The will of the late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Steamship Company, who died in Liverpool last November, has been proved, showing a personal estate of £1,297,881. Numerous legacies, in all about £2... | 12th March 1900 | |||
| FAMILY GRAVE [The Church was demolished in 1860 but the churchyard still exists. The gravestones are next to the Storrow obelisk near the churchyards north-west gate.] Joseph Bell who departed this life on 8 December 1836, aged 69 years. Mar... | ||||||
| Newark Evening News | (1953) | JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82 New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest... | 8th October 1953 | |||
| Corriere della Sera | (1912) | ITALIANS SHIPWRECKED Page 5 [Translation] London, 17 April, night Italians aboard the Titanic numbered more than 50: two restaurant's directors L. Gatti, 36 years, and F. Scavino, two superintendents, Giuseppe Bochet, from s... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
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CCTV | (2007) | BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ... | 28th June 2007 | ||
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Press Association | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN : YOUNGEST PASSENGER, LAST SURVIVOR LONDON - Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic.Dean lived to become the disaster'... | 1st June 2009 | ||
| St. Annes on the Sea Express | (1912) | LOCAL PASSENGERS There were at least three local residents on board the Titanic' Amongst the passengers was Mr. Arthur Gee, who resided at Morningside, Riley Avenue, St. Annes. Mr. Gee represented Messrs. Whitehead, Summer, Harker, and Company, machinery exporters, o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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CNN | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLING MEMENTOS TO PAY BILLS LONDON, England (CNN) -- The last survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills.The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
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Daily Sketch | (1912) | WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD: THE BIOFIX PICTURES A few days before he boarded the Titanic W.T. Stead travelled to the Biofix studios at 56 The Strand, London. Photographs were taken of him displaying C... | 16th April 1912 | ||
| Evening Bulletin | (1965) | GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in the Mediterranean. She was the widow of Dr. Raymond S. Leopold, former executive vice ... | 12th August 1965 | |||
| North American | (1912) | SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Joseph Thomas and infant son, Anthony Yosbik, Joseph and Peter Simon and Brenton Harry, all of this city,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1933) | SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER PASSES AWAY Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, wife of Arthur Stead, of 128 Reid street, died last night at her home after a lingering illness. Mrs. Stead was a survivor of the "Titanic" disaster twenty-one years ago. Born in England, she came to this country twenty-five ... | 8th July 1933 | |||
| WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE'S FAMILY AND THE MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND William Dickson Mackie married Annie Thompson Anderson, in the West Ham district in 1903. Annie died on 2nd November 1911, aged 31. Her death was registered in Southampton... | ||||||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | NO SIGN OF WRECK Steamer Bruce Sends One Brief Message Reporting Storms. By the Associated Press ST.JOHN'S, N.F., April 17.- Henry Duff Reid, vice president of the Reid Newfoundland Co., owner of the steamer Bruce, said he has re... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1869) | PERSONAL - LADY DUFF GORDON The death of Lady DUFF GORDON was announced in London on July 17. Her Ladyship, who wielded an easy and agreeable pen, was one of the best known writers on Egyptian life and scenery. Lady DUFF GORDON had long been consumptive, and, as the atmosp... | 29th July 1869 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | LADY DUFF-GORDON TO OPEN A SHOP HERE Lady Duff-Gordon, wife of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, fifth baronet of that name, who under the firm name of Lucile conducts a dressmaking establishment in London, is in this city making arrangements to open a similar place here. She has taken a house... | 11th January 1910 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1968) | OBITUARY TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir... | 30th December 1968 | |||
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The Guardian | (2007) | FAMILY HISTORIANS AGHAST AS PAPER RECORDS LOCKED AWAY For years, genealogists and family historians have pored over the massive green and maroon ledgers at the Family Records Centre in London, searching for details of more than 150 years of births, marriages and deaths. But there was anger or outright incredulity this weekend as professional and amateur researchers arrived to find most of the shelves bare.... | 29th October 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD PIRRIE NOT RETIRING Report That He is Quitting Harland & Wolff is Denied --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, March 14---I am authorized to state that there is absolutely no truth in the statements... | 15th March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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International Herald Tribune | (2005) | THE TITANIC'S DEMISE Twenty years ago, a team of scientists led by Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic 12,400 feet under the surface of the North Atlantic. It was a big deal. When the search team returned to Woods Hole, it held a brief service to honor t... | 31st December 2005 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1952) | THOMAS D. M. CARDEZA Page 19, column 2 PHILADELPHIA, June 6 Thomas D. M. Cardeza, explorer and art collector, died today in his home at the age of 77. Mr. Cardeza served on the board of directors of the old Fidelity Trust Company ... | 7th June 1952 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | FOR BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL Senate Proposal Thus to Honor TItanic Victims Goes Over --- WASHINGTON, June 8---An effort was made in the Senate to-day to have adopted a resolution granting authority to erect on public land in Washington a joint memorial to the mem... | 9th June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | THE CRINOLINE QUESTION THE CRINOLINE QUESTION --- Some Modistes Scout Idea of Suggested Revival---Others Like It --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 4---The question whether the crinolin... | 17th September 1911 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | VAN BILLIARD BOYS MAY HAVE STUCK TO FATHER Relatives, However, Hope That They May Be Among the Titanic Waifs in New York---Father Was Returning Home With Many Diamonds. ---------- Many tales of heroism displayed by men, women and children aboard the Steamer Titanic during the la... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Southport Visitor | (1912) | MR. WALTER ENNIS Another local passenger was Mr Walter Ennis, who was engaged on the Titanic as Turkish bathman and masseur. He was previously employed by Smedley Hydro, Birkdale in a similar position, having been there about six years. This was his first voyage, and... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | CAPT. ROSTRON RECEIVES ROYAL HONOR Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 25---Captain Arthur H. Rostron, commander of the Cunard liner Mauretania, who, as captain of the Carpathia, rescued the ... | 26th February 1924 | |||
| New York Times | (1937) | MRS. A. H. RICE'S FUNERAL AUG. 11 Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener have returned here from Newport to prepare for the opening of the home of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice before his arrival on the Europa Aug. 9 with the body of wife, Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Rice, mother of Mr. Widener, who d... | 20th July 1937 | |||
| New York Times Book Review | (1902) | BOOKS AND MEN Elinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" and the recently published "Reflections of Ambrosine," is Mrs. Clayton Glyn, a sister of Lady Duff Gordon. She is an intimate friend of Lady Warwick. Lady Gordon is one of the well-known titled En... | 15th November 1902 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1975) | THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82 Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t... | 4th November 1975 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem... | 8th January 1907 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | GIRL VICTIM OF TITANIC NEAR DEATH; GOT ONLY $25 Margaret McGowan, in Chicago, Tells How official of Line Gave Her “Recompense” Margaret McGowan, one of the few steerage passengers who started for America on the Titanic and reached here, is at the home... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | MISS ASTOR TO WED RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN He Was Recently Divorced From One of the Daughters of Czar Alexander II --- ONE OF ANCIENT LINE --- Bride-to-Be Is Daughter of the Late John Jacob Astor of New York --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES... | 4th July 1924 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | CAPT. BOWER ISMAY DIES British Shipping and Racing Man Succumbs to Sleeping Sickness --- LONDON, May 25---Captain Bower Ismay, the shipowner and racehorse fancier, died today at Hazel Beech Hall, Northamptonshire. He had been ill since Feb. 8 with sleeping ... | 26th May 1924 | |||
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Irish Times | (2009) | LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud... | 14th July 2009 | ||
| Chicago Tribune | (1990) | ANN STRAUBE Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s... | 31st January 1990 | |||
| New York Times | (1946) | COL. WILSON POTTER Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and University of Pennsylvania football star in 1906 and 1907, died last night at his home here after a long... | 13th June 1946 | |||
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(1913) | THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913 The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected by the contributions of friends of Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Francis Davis Millet. "The 8-foot-high fountain is composed of a marble shaft of simple Neo-c... | 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | SIR WILLIAM ARROL Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 a... | 21st February 1913 | |||
| The Times | (1917) | A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat... | 23rd April 1917 | |||
| (1912) | PROBATE REPORT: WILDE HENRY TINGLE Probate Report: Wilde Henry Tingle, of 25 Grey Road, Walton, Liverpool. Ships Officer. Probate registered London, 12th July to Richard Owen Jones rubber merchants clerk and Owen Jones Williams estate agent. Effects: £6783.3.9d.... | 12th July 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | CAVENDISH CHILDREN ESCAPE Henry Siegel Wanted to See Them, but They Stayed in England --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 22--- T. W. Cavendish, who was drowned in the Titanic, was a son of Charles Cavendish, who is a grandso... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
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(1913) | JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN AND HIS SON IN LONDON At the time of Pierpont Morgan's death, the French magazine 'Je Sais Tout' published a long article on the famous banker. Among the pictures published, one showed him strolling in the streets of Paris with his daughter, or walking out of the thermal ... | 15th April 1913 | |||
| Worcester Evening Post | (1912) | MARINE DISASTER CAUSED WEAKNESS IN SECURITIES London, April 16- The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness today in gilt-edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International mercantile mar... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD PIRRIE OPERATED UPON Belfast Shipbuilder Has Recovered from the Immediate Effects --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Feb. 22---Lord Pirrie, head of the Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff... | 23rd February 1912 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Stokes, Mr. Phillip Joseph. Missing. c/o Thomas Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, London, UK. Lived at 91 Hawstead Road, Catford, S.E. c/o Thomas Cook & Son, Paris, France. Bricklayer. En route to uncle Mr. Phillip O'Grady, Kewanee, Illinois. Aged 25 yea... | ||||||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC [The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1943) | GUGGENHEIM HEIRESS WED TO CORPORAL Mrs. Hazel McKinley Bride of Larry Leonard in Denver --- DENVER, Col., Sept. 30 (AP)---Mrs. Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, mining-family heiress, and Larry Leonard, an Army corporal, were married tonight at the home of Charles Ginsburg, Mrs... | 1st October 1943 | |||
| RELIEF FUND Smith, (Schmidt) Mr. Augustus. Missing. UK address - 11, Berwick Street, London, N. UK. Insurance claim 38. Life: $30,000 filed by A.H.C. Claim 172. Life: $30,000. Claim filed by parents. (Schmidt). (From: Mansion House... | ||||||
| Salt Lake Tribune | (1912) | WESTERN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE Page 4 Mrs. Walter Clark, Whose Husband Went Down to Death, Prostrated INTERVIEWERS DENIED W. A. Clark, Jr., Son of Former Senator, Will Escort Her to Los Angeles William A. Clark, Jr., ... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf... | 10th February 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | $1,000,000 FOR WITLEY COURT Lord Pirrie Buys Estate Upon Which Whitaker Wright Spent $3,500,000 --- LONDON, May 9---Lord Pirrie has purchased Witley Court, near Hazelmere, one of the finest estates in England. It formerly belonged to Whitaker Wright, who committe... | 10th May 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CHANGE FATAL TO GUGGENHEIM Had Booked Passage on the Lusitania, Whose Sailing Was Canceled --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 18---A business friend of Benjamin Guggenheim says that had the Lusitania sailed as arranged on Apri... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1925) | MRS. ALEX. H. RICE TO SAIL MARCH 21 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, accompanied by her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener, and the latter’s daughter, Miss Diana Dodge, has arranged to sail on the Leviathan March 21. Mrs. Rice will go to London and Paris and later to... | 6th March 1925 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO GEORGE FOX HOSKING Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES FRASER Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM FARQUHARSON Is remembered on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered o... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS: HUGH FITZPATRICK Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial a... | ||||||
| The Washington Post | (1912) | 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 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO GEORGE ALEXANDER CHISNALL Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES HESKETH Named on the magnificent Engineer's Memorial in East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembere... | ||||||
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Roanoke Times | (2008) | VESTED IN THE TITANIC After Christie's got $119,000 for a Titanic life jacket at an auction in London last year, Gregg Dietrich was not surprised that his phone kept ringing with offers of other items from the ill-fated ship."When we sell one ... more seem to come out of the woodwork," said Dietrich, who heads the maritime (or "ocean liner") division of the auction house here. "We're been inundated with Titanic offers."The problem was, many of the calls came from people like the man who was certain he had all sorts of valuable Titanic keepsakes: a first-class passenger list, a menu from its Cafe Parisienne, even a passenger ticket that would have been the first ever auctioned.Except it wasn't.... | 7th July 2008 | ||
| MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on the Institut... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. a... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent - Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the L... | ||||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | BAPTIST MINISTER DROWNED At the Baptist Church, Pastor Whitter said the disaster had filled two continents with sorrow, and affected in some way or other their fellows all over the world. He specially referred to the loss of a brother minister who had frequently preached in ... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1910) | SIR JOHN BIGHAM Sir John Bigham will take his farewell leave of the Bar on Monday in the first Court of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. All the Comnmon Law Judges who are in town will attend, and the ... | 12th March 1910 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM KELLY Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO FANK PARSONS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
| DEATH OF A CRESWELL SOLDIER According to an obituary in the Worksop Guardian Mr. Hardwick lived at 70 Duke Street, Creswell. He succumbed following an illness of two days at the Fulham Hospital, London. He had only been a soldier for eight weeks, having been in training ... | ||||||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | GILT-EDGED STOCKS AFFECTED BY DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch London, April 16.---The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness to-day in glit edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International Mercantile Mari... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN TO MEET KAISER Report That Settlement of Italian-Turkish War Will Be Discussed --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, April 5---According to a dispatch from Modena, sent out by the Ex... | 6th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO ALFRED MIDDLETON Assistant Electrician. Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memori... | ||||||
| PROBATE REPORTS Bailey, Annie Margaret of Fourwynds, 2 Wellesworth Lane, Bowes Hill, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire (wife of Joseph Northey Bailey) died 1 March 1960. Probate Winchester 9 May 1960 to National Provincial Bank Limited. Effects £22894 6s 11d ... | ||||||
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Graphic | (1912) | 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 | ||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | PENSION FAMILIES OF LOST CLERKS Congress would give $10,000 to Each---Mrs. Gwinn of This City Would Benefit ---------- WASHINGTON, April 23---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1902) | LATEST ITEMS ABOUT THE DOINGS OF AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES [Copyright 1902.] London, Sept. 12---George Meredith is to write the introduction to the revised edition of Lady Duff-Gordon's "Letters from Egypt." It will be recalled that one series appeared ... | 13th September 1902 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1982) | FRANK GOLDSMITH, TITANIC SURVIVOR A former Detroit resident who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912 is dead at 79. Frank John William Goldsmith died Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived since 1979 after retiring from business. The funeral will ... | 1982 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE’S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr... | 14th June 1924 | |||
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Wiltshire Times | (2009) | TITANIC BAG HANDED BACK 24th April 2009A mailbag from the Titanic belonging to last living survivor Millvina Dean sold for £2,000 in Devizes on Saturday before the winning bidder handed it straight back to her. London-based advertising agency direct... | 25th April 2009 | ||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
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ET Research | (2001) | MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL There is more for ocean liner enthusiasts in the English city of Bristol than simply visiting the S. S. Great Britain. The world's first great ocean liner, the Great Britain was built by the influential engineer Isambard K... | 8th November 2001 | ||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO EDWARD DODD Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO RENNY DODDS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ... | ||||||
| MEMORIALS TO ALBERT GEORGE ERVINE Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial.... | ||||||
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ET Research | (2009) | THE INFORMATIVE "MORNING NEWS" TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ... | 12th February 2009 | ||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1930) | INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ... | 29th January 1930 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE! FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca... | 13th November 2005 | ||
| New York Times | (1924) | LOUIS BUTT DIES HERE Brother of Roosevelt’s Aid Was a Cotton Buyer of Georgia --- Louis Butt of Augusta, Ga., a cotton buyer and cotton exporter, died at 11:05 last night in Roosevelt Hospital of intestinal hemorrhages caused by an intestinal abscess.&... | 1st August 1924 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | AMERICANS IN ROME Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---[Three paragraphs which are irrelevant for present purposes have bee... | 7th April 1912 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO ARTHUR WARD Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on... | ||||||
| Evening Echo | (1978) | GUS COHEN Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called him the Cat, because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on the Titanic. Af... | 7th August 1978 | |||
| (1912) | MARCONIGRAMS Marconigram sent 18th April 1912 to: Boultons, Upper Holloway, London. ''Inform friends safe Carpathia, arrange Baggage insurance. - Collett.'' Marconigram sent 18th April 1912 to: Collett, Baptist Parsonage, Port Byron New York. ''Saf... | 18th April 1912 | ||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION ON MR. WILLER (WELLER) Weller, Mr. Aaron. (also listed as Harry Willer). Missing. En route to his wife at 1330 South Halstead Street, Chicago, Illinois. From Russia. Tailor aged 37 years (Aaron Weller). Had lived in America for several years but returned to London after fa... | ||||||
| REV. JOHN HARPER Rev. John Harper was minister at Paisley Road Baptist Church, in Plantation area of Glasgow, near Govan, (now the Harper Memorial Baptist Church) before moving to London. He had completed a Mission time at the Moody Church in Chicago, in 1911,... | ||||||
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(1904) | LADY DUFF GORDON Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon wearing a pair of 18th century emerald and pearl cross-shaped earrings that were lost in the sinking of the Titanic. They were Duff Gordon family heirlooms given to her by her husband as a present on their wedding in 1900. The ... | 1904 | |||
| New York Times | (1929) | LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES... | 4th September 1929 | |||
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ET Research | (2008) | DETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC 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 | ||
| Evening News | (1988) | FRANK MILLET Frank Millet, 65, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who had lived the last 25 years of his life in Broadway, and was widely popular in the picturesque Cotswold village. He was born in America, served as a drummer boy w... | 24th January 1988 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in... | 15th May 1912 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO HENRY DYER Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ... | ||||||
| North American | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Torquay Times | (1913) | ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER : STRANGE STORY OF MAN WITH TWO NAMES There was an echo of the Titanic disaster at the Torquay County Court on Saturday, when Mr E Hutchings made an application under the Workmen’s Compensation Act on behalf of George Barnhouse, an old age pensioner, residing at Arch Row, Stenti... | 25th April 1913 | |||
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(1958) | WILLIAM MACQUITTY, BOXHALL AND PITMAN AT THE PREMIERE OF A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Taken at the "Odeon" Leicester Square London July 3rd 1958 on the occasion of the premiere of the Titanic film "A Night to Remember". Left to Right. Wm McQuitty [sic] Director of th... | 3rd July 1958 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | CUNARD EMPLOYEES TO HONOR ROSTRON Fleet Is Taking Up Subscription for Testimonial to the Retiring Commodore --- DIGGLE HIS SUCCESSOR --- Captain Edgar T. Brltten Will Command Berengaria When She Returns In February --- Officers of the Scythi... | 3rd November 1930 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | ISMAY AND OFFICERS OF TITANIC GO TO EUROPE New York May 3 – In a state of near collapse, J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, sailed for England yesterday on the White Star Liner Adriatic. He made only this brief statement to the newspaper men.... | 3rd May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1935) | 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 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR Sunday, 26 April 2009 A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been... | 26th April 2009 | ||
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The Times | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97 Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97.Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known as Millvina, died today at the nursing home near Southampton where he... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ... | ||||||
| (1915) | LETTER RE OFFICER WILDE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OFFICE 3 & 4 CLEMENTS INN, STRAND, LONDON W.C. 4th June 1915. Titanic Relief Fund Dear Mr. Corkhill, Mr. Allen had a personal interview with Mrs. Smith, the widow of Captain Smith, yesterday ... | 4th June 1915 | ||||
| New York Times | (1937) | J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7... | 19th October 1937 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | LIGHTOLLER PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT, R.N.R. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 ADMIRALTY, AUG. 13 ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE In accordance with the Regulatious for the Royal Naval Reserve Engineer M. H. Fisher has been placed on the ... | 16th August 1913 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r... | ||||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | COL. GRACIE TO BE MET IN NEW YORK BY HIS DAUGHTER Rescued Man Was Returning From Trip to Europe Taken In Search of Health --- Col. Archibald Gracie, whose rescue from the Titanic is indicated by all the lists of passengers saved, made the trip abroad on account of poor health, it is st... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS: ARTHUR ROUS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r... | ||||||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1959) | MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi... | 4th October 1959 | |||
| Reading Observer | (1912) | UNTITLED Inquiries made at the local shipping offices by a Reading Observer' representative elicited the fact that there were no Reading people among the passengers. Several local residents had friends and relatives on board. Mr. Stuart Collett, nephew of Mrs... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1900) | YACHT ELEANOR'S LONG CRUISE Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza's steam yacht Eleanor has been prepared at Tebo's basin, South Brooklyn, for another of the many long voyages she has made during the six years of her existence, and will probably sail within a wek [sic] or ten days for... | 16th June 1900 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | TITANIC INSURED FOR $5,000,000 LONDON, April 15- The Titanic was insured for $5,000,000. No definate information is obtainable as to the amount of valuables on board but it is generally understood that the vessel took diamonds consigned to dealers whose estimated value is as high ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Plaza last night, said that Capt. Smith had been informed by the White Star Company that he was to ret... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | JUDGMENT FOR $266,249 LOAN Judgment for $266,249 was entered by default yesterday against John D. Baumann & Co., a New York corporation, in favor of Charles G., Hugh L., Herbert R., and William R. Arbuthnot, merchants of London. The judgment was entered for amounts claimed as ... | 4th February 1909 | |||
| The Times | (1953) | LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ... | 23rd September 1953 | |||
| (1901) | CENSUS Thomas Blake is shown aged 25 living in Woolwich, London. He was described as a ships fireman and stated as born in St. Austell, Cornwall. Reference to the 1881 census shows Thomas Blake aged 5, the son of Guy Blake (gardener) and Harriet. At... | 1901 | ||||
| (1912) | PENROSE: PROBATE INFORMATION PENROSE John Poole of 13 Southview Road Southampton steward merchant service died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration Winchester 2 August 1912 to Florence Annie Penrose widow. Effects £131 3s 4d. === PENROSE Florence Ann of Crosby Clock House... | 2nd August 1912 | ||||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | PLEA FOR TITANIC ARRIVALS Girl Immigrants Here Get Only Nightgowns in New York OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE Use of Money Collected Here Urged for Their Assistance Immigration officer in Chicago who have come in contact with Titanic s... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TITANIC TESTS HER SPEED Then She Sails for Southampton to Prepare for Maiden Voyage by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times LONDON, April 2.—The White Star liner Titanic, which has just been completed by Ha... | 3rd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | PREMONITION CAME TO NOTED NOVELIST Atlanta, April 17---"Turn down a glass for me," was the last written message Jacques Futrelle sent from Europe to a friend in Atlanta. Hugh Cordosk received the following note a few days before Futrelle sailed: "Been all... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS: WILLIAM DUFFY Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial.... | ||||||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1961) | MRS. E.F. GORDON Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes... | 22nd March 1961 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Legend" Bring $3,100---$1,400 Paid for Christopher Columbus's "Epistola” --- "The Golden ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SMITH VOUCHED FOR BRAVERY OF CREW Told Shipbuilder His Men Would Die Like Those on Birkenhead --- LONDON, April 22---Manager Director Kemster, of the shipbuilding firm which constructed the Titanic, while speaking to a meeting at Belfast today, said that just before the... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1989) | EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM GEORGE BEHE ''A few years ago I found an interesting titbit which, I believe, clears up any mystery surrounding how he was saved. His photograph appears in the May 4, 1912 issue of the Illustrated London News along with other crewmen who had returned to England.... | 20th May 1989 | ||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES SMITH Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on... | ||||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers memorial, East Park. also named on a grave in the Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool. The inscription reads: Also Peter Only Son of the Above Who Lost His Life With Other Brave Of... | ||||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1967) | 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 | |||
| (1897) | LETTER WRITTEN BY FR. BYLES TO HIS BROTHER WINTER My Dear Winter: I am staying on in Germany after taking departure of the others in the hopes of getting a tutorship here for a few months. I thnk it is w. doubtful if I shall succeed; if not I shall go home probably in a week or two. I have b... | 14th September 1897 | ||||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO NORMAN HARRISON Named on the magnificent Engineer's Memorial in East Park, Southampton. also named on a grave in Knotty Ash Parish Church Cemetery, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. also mentioned on a grave in Kirkdale Cemetery, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool.... | ||||||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | ASPLUND FUND TOTALS $1031.25, BUT BODY OF VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER FAILS TO REACH WORCESTER The benefit fund for Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children saved from the titanic, while her husband and three sons went to their deaths, yesterday passed the $1000 mark. The total amount subscribed last night was $1031.25, and tha... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La... | 12th July 1913 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | JERSEY DEATH ROLL DETAILS Besides Residents of This State, Many Victims Had Connections Here ---------- ANGUISH OF THE RELATIVES ---------- In addition to the New Jersey residents who lost their lives in the disaster, fourteen more who met death had friends and r... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1925) | LORD RIBBLESDALE DEAD; LINE EXTINCT Widow Was the First Wife of the Late John Jacob Astor, Formerly Miss Willing --- BARON LOST SONS IN WAR --- Aristocratic Appearance Drew Compliment From King Edward---Lady Oxford Kin by Marriage --- Copyright... | 22nd October 1925 | |||
| Evening News | (1986) | MILLET ''Drowned, too was a famous man from Broadway - 65-years-old F. D. Millet, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who lived at Russell House on the main approach from Evesham into the picturesque Worcestershire village. ... | 5th August 1986 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Free Press | (1912) | THE TITANIC FUND During the last week it has transpired that one of the bandsmen on board the Titanic was a man named J. W. Woodward, who was born and educated at Hill Top, West Bromwich. Woodward's father was at one time manager of the Hill Top Foundry, and W... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | WOMAN MISSIONARY MAY BE AMONG LOST POTTSTOWN, Pa., April 18---The name of Miss Annie Funk, a returned missionary from India and a daughter of James Funk, a well-to-do grist mill owner at Palm, this county, is not among the list of second-class passengers on the ill-fated Titanic who w... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | 30-KNOT LINER PROBABLE Statement of the Managing Director of Harland & Wolff --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Aug. 22---According to New York reports published here, Lord Pirrie, head of the firm of... | 23rd August 1907 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | PITIFUL APPEALS FOR NEWS AT OFFICE HERE UNGRATIFIED Heartrending appeals for information concerning the dead or rescued from the Titanic poured into the Chicago offices of the White Stair line, throughout the day. Men, Women and children telephoned the offices at LaSalle and Washington stre... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | 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 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1964) | KEEPING IN TOUCH FIFTY-TWO years ago, Titanic survivor Mr Ernest Allen, of 40 Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton was a stoker in the ill-fated Titanic. Today at 72 years of age, he is still stoking and at the Ordnance Survey Office, London Road, Southampton, cont... | 4th September 1964 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | HONORS W. T. STEAD Peace Society Adopts Minute In Memory of Titanic Victim --- At the annual meeting of the New York Peace Society yesterday the following minute concerning the death of William T. Stead was adopted: The New York Peace So... | 7th June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1904) | BETWEEN SIPS OF TEA Lady Duff-Gordon is one of the English titled women who are "in trade," as it is termed in England. She started a dress-making establishment some years since in London, and, having energy and taste, it has proved most successful. She is a Canadian... | 11th December 1904 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra... | 5th June 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | 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 | |||
| RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3) Titles "Elevators and grand stair cases afford easy access from deck to deck "Dancing is an evening pastime on every voyage." "The smoking room is an apartment of much elegance, with the atmosphere and servcie of a metropolitan club. ... | ||||||
| ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card.... | ||||||
| Trenton Evening Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| San Francisco Examiner | (1919) | DR. WASHINGTON DODGE TRIES SUICIDE; MAY DIE Page 1, column 1, continued page 6, column 4 [Photo] Mind of S.F. Leader Fails; Shoots Self Former Assessor Uses Revolver in Garage at Home; Found by Wife; Taken to Hospital Suit Brought i... | 22nd June 1919 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LADY DUFF GORDON SUES Husband of the Former Mrs. Chapman Refuses to Pay for Valuable Gowns --- Lady Duff Gordon, who, under the name of Lucile, Ltd., of London and Paris, sells feminine apparel of her own design, is suing for $600 in the City Court P... | 14th April 1911 | |||
| News Tribune | (2001) | KING OF HOPS: THE LEGACY OF HERMAN KLABER CURTIS, Lewis County – Come spring in the Boistfort Valley, hops pop up, green and fragrant, in the hay fields. Boistfort Elementary School sits next to a big hay field where hops sprout, searching the sky for support. The only clue to... | 12th April 2001 | |||
| New York Times | (1915) | SUBMARINES SINK FOUR MORE SHIPS Three British and a French Steamer Destroyed, All Probably in Mediterranean --- 2 U-BOATS REPORTED LOST -- And a Third Is Said to Have Been Captured and Taken to Port by British Warships --- LONDON, Nov... | 11th November 1915 | |||
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ET Research | (2007) | ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies.... | 14th October 2007 | ||
| The Times | (1895) | HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill... | 25th December 1895 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT Largest Steamship Afloat Pronounced Steady as a Rock --- Gales and High Seas Made No Impression on Her, and None of the Passengers Was Seasick --- The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made he... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO BERTIE WILSON Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT President's Aid Had Gone on a Special Mission to the Pope --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major Archibald Willingham Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, [sic] was returning on the Titanic afte... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Cumberland News | (1912) | LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | LADY PIRRIE DEAD; HEADED SHIP FIRM Widow of Belfast Builder of Many Vessels Succeeded Him in Control of Concern --- ADVISED HIM FOR YEARS --- He Had Often Publicly Paid High Tribute to Her Assistance---Daughter of Professor --- LONDON, June 19... | 20th June 1935 | |||
| Derbyshire Times | (1918) | PRIVATE REGINALD HARDWICKE, A.S.A. Private Reginald Hardwicke, A.S.A., of 7- Duke Street, Creswell, Derbyshire has succumbed to a two days illness at the Fulham Hospital, London. He only joined up eight weeks ago, having been in training at Isleworth, Middlesex. He was 26 years... | 9th March 1918 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | MORGAN TO ENTERTAIN QUEEN He Sails To-day to Show His Art Objects to Alexandra --- J. P. Morgan sails on the Adriatic today for his usual holiday in Europe. He will go directly to London. In response to a desire on the part of Queen Alexandra t... | 26th February 1908 | |||
| Shore Press | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | J. P. MORGAN SAILS; IS GOING TO EGYPT No Worry in Washington, Where He Is to Testify Some Time About Steel and Money --- NOT ON PASSENGER LIST --- Lords Deceis [sic; should be "Decies"] and Camoys, with Their American Brides, Also on th... | 31st December 1911 | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1919) | DR. DODGE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Page 1, column 3, continued page 2, column 2 EX-ASSESSOR FIRES BULLET THROUGH HEAD Little Hope for His Recovery From Wound Inflicted in Garage Basement ILLNESS BELIEVED CAUSE Long Promine... | 22nd June 1919 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | ROYALTY'S DEEP SYMPATHY ------- London, April 16. (Can Press.) ---King George has sent the following message to the White Star Co.: "The Queen and I are horrified at the appaling disaster which has happened to the ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1940) | CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE... | 6th November 1940 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WRITES OF NEGLIGENCE “MORE THAN CRIMINAL” Two survivors from the wreck of the Titanic, Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, who are expected to arrive at Arlington Thursday and spend a week with Mrs. Rita Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue, are temporarily at 204 West 128... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1984) | HAROLD COTTAM Wireless operator in rescue of Titanic survivors page 18 Mr Harold Cottam, who died yesterday in Nottingham at the age of 93, was the wireless operator on he Carpathia on the night of April 12 (sic) 1912, when the Titani... | 31st May 1984 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist. Her mother marrie... | 4th August 1907 | |||
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Worksop Today | (2006) | TITANIC SURVIVOR BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN CRESWELL CHURCHYARD 22 June 2006 AN AFTERNOON surfing on the internet led a Creswell woman to the discovery that a Titanic survivor, who died in the First World War, is believed to be buried in the village.Rita Williams, 63, of Wood Avenue, spott... | 22nd June 2006 | ||
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AP | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT AGE 97 LONDON (AP) -- The Titanic International Society says Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died.The society's president, Charles Haas, tells The Associated Press that Dean died Sunday at age 97. He said she ... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS WERE TO VISIT IN ARLINGTON Among those reported saved from the wreck of the Titanic are Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, England, who were expected to visit Arlington as guests of Mrs. Etta Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue. They left home to join Mrs... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2006) | BIRMA'S WIRELESS BEARS WITNESS! Birma from a contemporary postcard (Courtesy of Senan Molony) JOSEPH Cannon was a newly-qualified, newlywed wi... | 28th December 2006 | ||
| Le Grand Echo du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais | (1912) | A SURVIVOR FROM SAINS-BOUVIGNY A young lady from Sains-Bouvigny among passengers – She is safe and sound A few months ago, a young lady from Sains-Bouvigny, Melle Leroy, left her home here and was hired by rich Americans as a maid. After a short time in Paris... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CLARENCE MOORE Washington Banker One of the Best-Known Sportsmen in America --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---Clarence Moore of 1,748 Massachusetts Avenue, a passenger on the Titanic, is one of the best-known s... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| FILLBROOK FAMILY INFORMATION Joseph Charles Fillbrook (k/a as Charles) was born in Truro, Cornwall in 1894. He was the son of William Fillbrook, a mason by occupation and Kate (nee Vincent). He had five siblings, Edward John, William Arthur, George, Rose Hetta (k/a Rosetta) and... | ||||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | SEEKS LIEN ON ESTATE OF A TITANIC VICTIM John S.Fanning, of East Orange, N.J., applied yesterday to Surrogate Fowler, for letters of administration for the estate of John D. Baumann, a promoter of South American rubber and timber companies, who was lost on the Titanic. Mr Fanning said th... | 7th September 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THOSE WHO SAW THE RESCUE Carpathia's Passengers, Who Were Bound for Mediterranean, Back. The passengers on the Carpathia, whose trip to the Mediterranean was interrupted to aid those saved from the Titanic, are: Rev. R. B. Anderson, Baltimore,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Syracuse Herald-Journal | (1987) | 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 | |||
| Daily Mail | (1912) | FATE OF A FAMILY Parents and Nine Children in Titanic Page 6 On board the Titanic were eleven residents of Peterborough, Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone-street, and their nine children, whose ages range from twenty-two to five years. M... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1943) | HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice... | 18th November 1943 | |||
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MSNBC | (2009) | LAST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC DIES, AGED 97 LONDON - Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was 97 years old, and she d... | 9th June 2009 | ||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | SAILED IN '70S WITH TITANIC'S CAPTAIN Page 6 [Photo] Capt. J. R. Mullet Capt. J. R. Mullet, a veteran seaman, retired ten years ago on a pension from the White Star lines after thirty-five years of faithful service, yesterday recalled the days when he and C... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ... | 11th June 1912 | |||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | (1912) | MR. F. D. MILLET In modern times at any rate the life of a successful artist is unusually placid and uneventful; few have crowded into it such variety as Mr. F. D. Millet, whose loss in the disaster which has befallen the Titanic will be deeply felt by many, both ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LOST TWO IN IROQUOIS FIRE Daughters of Rescued Titanic Passenger Killed in Chicago Holocaust --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Ill., April 16---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, wife of L. A. Hippach, manufacturer, of 7,352 Sheridan Road, and Miss ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Daily Courier | (1912) | SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ROCHESTER GIRL IS SAVED But Traveling Guardian of Little Miss Bentham Is Missing --- Special to The New York Times --- ROCHESTER, April 18---Lilian Bentham of 11 Kay Terrace is saved on the Carpathia, but her mother is suffering from nervous stra... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Mirror | (1937) | TITANIC SURVIVORS PRISON CELL CLAIM Survivor of the Titanic disaster, Charles Hichens will be released in a few weeks from Maidstone Gaol, where he is serving ten years' penal servitude for shooting another seaman dead. Hichen who seeks only to end his days in "peace and quiet", is cla... | 26th July 1937 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | (1908) | ISMAY, JAMES [SIC] BRUCE Ismay, James [sic] Bruce (b. Liverpool, 1862). President and Managing Director of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Educated Harrow, and on leaving school entered the office of Messrs. Ismay, Imrie and Co. (White Star Line). After se... | 1908 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (2001) | 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 | |||
| (2005) | LUCIGEN Lucigen – Lucigen Steamship Co., (H.E. Moss & Co.) Departed Bremen, Germany 8 March for New York. On 24 March at 46 degrees N, 46 degrees West, encountered heavy pack ice with numerous bergs... | 2nd January 2005 | ||||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette | (1914) | CLAIM TITANIC NOT SEAWORTHY FIRST TIME SUGGESTION IS MADE SINCE DISASTER Plea Advanced by Injured Employee of Liner Which Went Down After Collision With Iceberg - Assert Negligence Also By Associated P... | 16th January 1914 | |||
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THE BLUE PLAQUE A PLAQUE commemorating Harold Bride, Second Wireless Operator on the RMS Titanic has been placed by the London Borough of Bromley on Number 58, Ravensbourne Avenue, Shortlands, Kent - the house where he grew up. The plaque was unveiled on Wednesday ... | |||||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1919) | DR. DODGE DYING, IS REPORT Page 1, column 4 Dr. Washington Dodge, banker, former county Assessor and former Supervisor, who shot himself in the head Saturday night, is dying at the St. Francis Hospital, according to reports from his bedside today. Si... | 28th June 1919 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BATHS ARE HELPING MORGAN Aix-les-Bains Correspondent Tells of the Financier's Strenuous "Cure" --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 3---An Aix-les-Bains correspondent says: ... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| Steubenville Herald-Star | (1957) | DEATHS AND FUNERALS : WILLIAM COUTTS Police said William L. Coutts, 55, of 561 S. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, was found dead at 11.31 p.m., Tuesday, between two houses in the 100 block of S. Water Street. Coutt's body was discovered by Alfred Rhea of 155 S. Wter St., who told po... | 25th December 1957 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | THE BOY IN THE PICTURE Perhaps one of the most evocative images of the Titanic ... | 28th March 2002 | ||
| Newark Star | (1912) | STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1952) | C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic... | 9th December 1952 | |||
| GOODWIN FAMILY UPDATED BIOGRAPHIES Goodwin, Mr. Charles Frederick. (40). Missing. Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, Wiltshire. Ticket number CA2144 cost £46 18s 0d. There is a memorial to the whole famil... | ||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1929) | 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 | |||
| PENGELLY (PENGILLY) FAMILY INFORMATION Frederick (Fred) William Pengelly was born in the parish of Calstock, East Cornwall in early 1893 whilst his father was working in the area as a mining engineer. Fred’s father, Frederick William Cardell Pengilly (sic) was born in 1861 ... | ||||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ... | ||||||
| Jersey Journal | (1959) | MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr... | 4th November 1959 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia... | 6th May 1907 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Introduction ... | 20th June 2001 | ||
| New York Times | (1911) | RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Undervalued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f... | 27th May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | P. A. B. WIDENER HOME; SUBPOENAED AT PIER His Famous $500,000 Van Dykes Sent on Six Weeks Ago to Lynwood Hall --- SERVED IN TRACTION SUIT --- Dr. Holland Decorated by Kaiser and Fallieres for Gifts of Carnegie Casts of Diplodocus --- Afte... | 10th July 1908 | |||
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ET Research | (2009) | MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was a m... | 8th October 2009 | ||
