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	Brooklyn Daily Times	L. I. YACHTSMEN WILL MISS FREDERICK M. HOYT Frederick M. Hoyt, broker and yachtsman, was one of the passengers who is believed to have gone down with the ship. His offices are at 45 Broadway and his city home at 112 East Seventy-third street, Manhattan. He has a beautiful summe...	17th April 1912
	YourNabe.com	TITANIC RELICS TAKE ANCHOR AT ASTORIA HISTORY GROUP Were you ever curious about that home on 11th Street in Long Island City festooned with memorabilia from the doomed ocean liner Titanic? The opportunity to see it there has passed, but the collection of memorabilia, once curated by lifelong Long Island City resident Joe Colletti, is now in the hands of the Greater Astoria Historical Society....	13th February 2010
	Daily Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
	Brooklyn Daily Times	JAMES CLINCH SMITH WAS NOTED CLUBMAN James Clinch Smith is one of the best-known clubmen of Long Island, and a member of one of the oldest Long Island families. He was one of the principal heirs of the late A. T. Stewart, and is said to have received a legacy of $3,000,000 from the Ste...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th April 1912
	Worcester Telegram	STORM STOPS NEWS: SABLE ISLAND COMMUNICATES BRIEFLY WITH THE CARPATHIA. Article...	18th April 1912
	Jersey Journal	THOS. MCCORMACK OF BAYONNE AT ELLIS ISLAND After hours of anxious searching relatives to-day learned that Thomas McCormack, the young Bayonne man who was on the Titanic, was at Ellis Island where he is being detained prior to his readmission to this country. ...	19th April 1912
		BEECHWOOD The Astor's Home in Newport, Rhode Island....
	patch.com	SMITHTOWN, A HISTORY: THE TITANIC TAKES ONE OF OUR OWN When the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, Smithtown residents lost one of their own. He was 56-year-old James Clinch Smith, a descendant of our town’s founder and brother-in-law of well-known architect Stanford White....	12th April 2011
	Halifax News Net	HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT TITANIC SINKING, OAK ISLAND LEGENDS Author and historian Dave Drummond will give lectures on Oak Island and the Titanic at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in August. Drummond, author of The Shipyard: Will It Float?, is a retired shipbuilder, born into a shipbuilding family that spanned three generations. His anecdotal writings, narrations, and discussions are factual, often surprising, and sprinkled with humour....
	Chicago Journal	A GREAT DEAL OF WRECKAGE FROM THE TITANIC BULLETIN: [Associated Press Telegram] Halifax, April 16--The Sable island cableship Minia reported this afternoon that it had sighted a great deal of wreckage from the Titanic, but no boats or rafts. This dispo...	16th April 1912
	liveauctioneers.com	RELATIVES OF TITANIC OFFICER SEEK RETURN OF HIS LAST LETTER - AUCTION CENTRAL NEWS Relatives of Titanic officer seek return of his last letterAuction Central NewsA two-page note John Edward Simpson wrote to his mother days before the ship sank in April 1912 is to expected to fetch at least $50000 at the auction later this week in Long Island, New York. Simpson's great-nephew John Martin said Sunday that the ......	27th February 2012
	New York Times	FIERMONTE ASSIGNED TO CLEANING OF JAIL Settles Down to Serving Rest of 5-Day Term on Rikers Island for Traffic Violation --- Enzo Fiermonte, former boxer, automobile racer and husband of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, was transferred yesterday from the Queens City...	8th July 1937
	boston.com	RELATIVES OF TITANIC OFFICER SEEK RETURN OF LETTER The descendants of a surgeon who died on the Titanic are appealing for help in purchasing a letter he wrote from the doomed ship. A two-page note John Edward Simpson wrote to his mother days before the ship sank in 1912 is to be auctioned in Long Island, New York, next month. His relatives cannot afford to bid for the artifact but want it returned to Simpson’s hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Simpson’s great nephew John Martin said Sunday that he hopes a benefactor will buy the letter and put it on public display in Belfast....	27th February 2012
	Long Island Report	BELFAST TITANIC LETTER FAILS TO SELL AT LONG ISLAND AUCTION The bidding started at $27,000. Within 10 seconds, it was at $33,000. Suddenly silence, no more bids. The auctioneer gave “fair warning” at $33,000, but what he said next drew murmurs from what had all day been a quiet crowd of about 30 bidders. “It’s going to pass at $33,000; it does not find a home today,” announced Philip Weiss, the auctioneer and owner of Philip Weiss Auctions in Oceanside. The item in question was a handwritten letter from Titanic assistant surgeon Dr John Edward Simpson to his mother in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The letter was emblazoned with the letterhead “On board R.M.S. Titanic,” and was dated April 11, 1912—just four days before the ship sank on April 15....	4th March 2012
	Guernsey Weekly Press	REPORTED MISSING: E. H. WHEADON Mr. E.H. Wheadon was in his 67th year. He was the head of the agricultural firm of E.H. Wheadon and Sons, Couture. He was a man of most kindly nature and charitable disposition. Among the members of the family and their very wide circle of friends hi...	22nd April 1912
	Laguna Beach Post	TITANIC SURVIVOR MEMORIAL SERVICE Lilian Minahan Obituary...	25th January 1962
	The Sydney Morning Herald	THE REPORTED GUN FIRE AT FORT DENISON The report sent to the police the other day that someone had fired a gun at Fort Denison has not yet been cleared up. The charge of the island is in the hands of the Navigation Department. Last Saturday morning the Superintenden...	12th October 1900
	New York Times	MARSHALL DREW Marshall Drew, a survivor of the Titanic, died Friday at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, L. I. He was 82 years old and lived in Westerly, L. I. Mr. Drew, who was born in Greenport, taught fine arts at Grover Cleveland High S...	11th June 1986
	Quad City Times	TITANIC EXHIBIT SAILING INTO PUTNAM IN MARCH He grew up in Rock Island. He even attended some of the public schools there. But Charles Melville Hays was destined for fortune and fame far from his hometown....	21st December 2010
	Brooklyn Daily Times	BROOKLYNITES ARE LOST AS TITANIC SINKS Several Are Believed to Have Sunk With Ship --- According to the latest reports from the White Star officials there were Brooklyn and Long Island people among those who were lost when the ill fated Titanic sank. The dead ...	16th April 1912
	North American	TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w...	3rd May 1912
	Washington Times	MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the...	16th April 1912
	Hampshire Independent	IN MEMORIAM: FAY In ever loving memory of Thomas Joseph, the dearly beloved husband of Frances Fay . . . Three long years have now passed by. Since this great sorrow fell, Yet in my heart I mourn the loss, Of one I love so well. Time rolls on, the years pass by, What...	17th April 1915
	Port Jefferson Echo	A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER J. CLINCH SMITH NOT SAVED James Clinch Smith, of Smithtown, one of the passengers of the steamship Titanic, whose name is not reported among the survivors, was well known on Long Island as a sportsman and society man. ...	20th April 1912
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	CELEBRATIONS LOOK SET TO SPARK A TITANIC £40M BOOST FOR TOURISM - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Year long Titanic celebration events are expected to help generate an extra £40m for the economy in 2012. The Business Barometer survey by Close Invoice Finance found around 31% of Northern Ireland companies expect the year-long ......	18th July 2011
	Newark Evening News	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
	Guernsey Weekly Press	MR. H. MITCHELL Mr. H. Mitchell, who was aged 73, was on his way to pay a visit to his brother and other relatives. He was an ex-Donzenier of Canton No. 1 and was for some years in business in the boot trade in Mill-street. He was a widower and resided with his daug...	22nd April 1912
	Lisburn Today	TITANIC SAILS INTO THE ISLAND ARTS CENTRE LOCAL people are invited to take a voyage into the past as a new two man production arrives in Lisburn tomorrow night Saturday which explores the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic and particularly the role played by J. Bruce Ismay during that fateful night....	30th October 2010
	New York Times	HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t...	23rd May 1962
	Providence Journal	R.I. WOMAN, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES AT 92 Page 26 Mrs. Lulu Thorne Opie, 92, of the Old Post Road at Dunn's Corners in Westerly, a survivor of the sinking of the British passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Tuesday at the Watch Hill Nursing Home. One of the other ...	4th June 1970
		THOMAS SILVA LETTER Dearest Eff,After a long hard journey I arrived in New York on the 29th of April. The trip was certainly a long one and I was glad indeed when it was over. The first thing that I endeavoured to do was to try to get my passport. After t...	1st May 1915
	The Times	WOLFF, GUSTAV W. OBITUARY --- MR. G. W. WOLFF --- Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, for long a partner in Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, died yesterday at his residence in Park-street, W. He underwent an operation on Tuesday. ...	18th April 1913
	Boston Globe	DIAGRAMS FROM TITANIC INQUEST TO BE AUCTIONED A British auctioneer is offering two diagrams of the ill-fated liner Titanic for sale on Oct. 29. The diagrams were used during the official inquest following the ship's sinking in 1912, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Wednesday. A 32.5-foot-long (9.9-meter-long) cutaway diagram of the ship's interior, also used at the inquest, fetched 220,000 pounds ($363,000) at an auction at in April by Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes in southwest England....	19th October 2011
	Sunday Press	TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR Sunday Press: Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r...	21st September 1952
	The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)	ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named...	25th October 1924
	Records of Grace Church, URI Archives, Special Collections	EUGENE'S BAPTISM AT GRACE CHURCH From the records of Grace Episcopal Church, Providence Rhode Island: Eugene Joseph Abbott was baptised on April 2, 1904, born March 31, 1898. Sponsors: Rhoda (Rosa) Abbott and Emil Shultey Presider: The Rev. Edmund Rousmaniere, Rector. Twenty...	1904
	Isle of Man Today	OPERATIC SOCIETY TO PERFORM TITANIC THE MUSICAL THE Manx Operatic Society has announced it will perform Titanic The Musical in March 2009. It will be another Island premier by the society which believes in trying to bring the best in musical theatre to the Isle of Man and constantly challenging its members new and old with the diversity of its productions....	12th March 2008
	Daily Home News	JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan...	17th April 1912
		STEPHEN & ANNIE HOLD Newly married at St. Keverne, Cornwall on 18 October 1909, Annie's first trip to America with her husband Stephen Hold was on board Teutonic. They arrived at New York on 24 November 1909 having departed from Southampton. The ship's manifest sh...	1909
	New York Times	HAYS HEADS GRAND TRUNK Directors of Canadian Line Elect Rock Island, Ill., Man Present [sic] --- LONDON, Jan. 7---At a meeting to-day of the Directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, Charles M. Hays was elected President. ...	8th January 1910
		MARCONIGRAM FROM SS BALTIC The MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, Ltd. Office of origin: S.S. Baltic 14 Apr 1912 Office sent to: MGY ...	23rd July 2004
	dnainfo.com	THE STRAY CAT WAS NAMED AFTER "THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN," A TITANIC ... - DNAINFO The stray cat that washed up on Governors Island finally has a name: Molly Brown, in honor of the Titanic passenger who saved lives as the ship was sinking. Molly Brown received the most votes of the five final name ......	13th May 2011
	Shore Press	SHE LOSES BROTHER IN TITANIC WRECK In the wreck of the White Star liner Titanic, Mrs. A. J. Ripley of Long Branch lost her brother, Arthur E. Nicholson. He was in the tea business and maintained an office at 128 Front street, New York. It had been his custom each year ...	12th April 1912
		BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH DIVISION OF RECORDS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH # 1...	1963
		TOURISM IRELAND : TITANIC STORIES Titanic Stories is designed to direct you to the most authentic information and experiences about the Titanic on the island of Ireland. There is a wealth of undiscovered stories to find within the pages of this website and on the many Titanic tours, historical sites, towns and cities connected to RMS Titanic. ...	24th March 2011
		OUR GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST (O God, Our Help in Ages Past) The Hymn "Our God, our help in ages past" was recalled by Colonel Archibald Gracie, as the last to be sung at the morning service, presided over by Ca...
	Guernsey Press and Star	ISLAND'S TITANIC CONNECTION James Varley TITANIC'S journey and demise in 1912 is legendary. Archive film footage, news cuttings and big-budget movies mean the tragic tale of the ship dubbed 'unsinkable' will never be forgotten....	9th October 2009
		GRAVE OF MILTON C. LONG
		GRAVE OF MORRO CASTLE SURVIVOR FLORIDE 'FLORA' LAROCHE Grave of survivor Floride 'Flora' LaRoche, Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence, Rhode Island....

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