Lusitania Survivors

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	LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA Lusitania Postcard...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle	LUSITANIA ICEBERG Original Caption:...	11th May 1915
Chicago Examiner	HE SURVIVED TITANIC : ON THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, TOO Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when ...	10th May 1915
	SAILED ON LUSITANIA William Greenfield sailed to England on the Lusitania in March. Henry Blank was also on this voyage and this is where they most likely met, unless they were acquainted earlier....
New York Times	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
	TELEGRAM TO MRS SILVA "CLIFF LEFT THIS MORNING FOR YOU AND BABIES WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY. LOVE FROM ALL - BOB." ...
	LETTER POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE LUSITANIA One of Berthe's 19 transatlantic voyages was on the Lusitania sometime between 1912 and 1915. She wrote to her brother Samuel: "Another couple of days on board this ship. It is not too bad a trip but I cannot help feel...
	TELEGRAM TO MRS SILVA from W. H. Hubbard...
	LUSITANIA'S MAIDEN ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK A previoulsy unpublished view of the Lusitania's maiden arrival in New York City, September 1907....
New York Times	BIGGER THAN THE LUSITANIA White Star Line Decides to Build Vessel---Speed to be 22 Knots --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 11---A Belfast correspondent telegraphs that Harland & Wolff have officially admitted that the...	12th September 1907
The Times	TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA DISASTERS REVEAL DIFFERENCE IN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS Almost 100 years after the Titanic and the Lusitania sank in the North Atlantic, the contrasting fates of their passengers have helped to explain how altruism can take over from the selfish instinct to save oneself. A scientific comparison of the two maritime disasters, which together claimed more than 2,700 lives just three years apart, has suggested that self-preservation can be trumped by social pressure to stand back while others are rescued, but only when people have sufficient time to think. ...
New Mexican	BEMIS: LATEST LUSITANIA EXPEDITION WAS 'VERY USEFUL' Gregg Bemis arrived home to Santa Fe on Thursday night after spending two weeks off the southern coast of Ireland, where he explored the ruins of a ship sunk in the prelude to World War I. Bemis, a 79-year-old venture capitalist, estimated he has taken 30 trips to the area since he became interested in the Lusitania in 1969. In 1982, he became the sole owner of the wreck 300 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, about 12 miles south of County Cork in Irish territorial waters. ...	14th August 2011
	SILVA TRIBUTE Dear Mrs Silva:I have duly received your letter of May 13th. It is impossible for me to express in words how sorry I feel because of the untimely death of Tom. I learned to love him. He was a manly fellow, of noble character, and every inch...	3rd June 1915
Chicago Tribune	DEATHS ELSEWHERE Deaths Elsewhere __________ Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned t...	23rd December 1969
	WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA NYI, the following lot is among the highlights in Swann's Sept 15 auction of the Eric C. Caren Collection: Sale 2253 Lot 309 WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA? (STEAMSHIPS.) John Brown ...	30th August 2011
	LUSITANIA
New York Times	LOVE FOR SEA PREVAILS --- Chief Barber on the Titanic Obtains Post on the Lusitania --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5---Unable to resist traveling over the sea, August F. Weikman of Palmyra, N. J., who was the ch...	6th August 1912
	ETHEL SILVA
	THOMS AND FRANK SILVA
	CHELSEA PIERS The ship shown on this card is Luistania....
	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
BBC	LUSITANIA REMEMBERED AT MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUM A memorial service to mark the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the Liverpool liner, Lusitania, has taken place at Merseyside Maritime Museum. A German submarine torpedo sank the Cunard vessel off Kinsale, Ireland, on 7 May 1915, killing 1,200 people....	7th May 2011
	PICTURE OF MARGARET DEVANEY A very nice picture of Margaret Devaney can be found in the Herald Tribune published on 12 September 1973, illustrating article 'Survivors and Buffs of the Titanic' by Edward C. Burks. Other survivors pictured: Mrs Bertha Marshall and Mr. Franck Gold...	12th September 1973
	BETTINA SILVA Bettina Silva was born in 1913.Â ...
	BOBBY SILVA Bobby Silva was born in 1911....
	PHILIP SONNEBORN Actor Philip Sonneborn. Leo Schwabacher and Henry Sonneborn spent the two weeks before the Lusitania's final departure visiting with him in New York City....
	ETHEL SILVA Ethel Silva nee Dekle married Thomas Silva.Â They had two children Bettina and Bobby....
	BETTINA SILVA IN HER OLD AGE "Bettina Silva is glad her fatherâ€™s story is being recorded as the 100th anniversary approaches, as if the preservation of memory were itself a passport to the past. "...	2006
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	UNIDENTIFIED TITANIC SURVIVORS ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA This picture, supposedly of unidentified Titanic survivors on board the Carpathia, was published in Switzerland in 1956....	27th September 1956
Southport Visiter	LOCAL MAN WAS TITANIC CAPTAIN The human cost of three sea disasters involving ships captained by men from Crosby, Blundellsands and Waterloo is on show in Liverpool.Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, looks at the trio of catastrophes that shook the world between 1912 and 1915....	14th September 2007
	CREWMAN E. BROWN AND TWO OTHER TITANIC SURVIVORS Survivors from the Titanic disaster arrive in Southampton. The centre figure in the photograph is Mr E. Brown who was unable to swim but kept afloat for an hour by clinging to a lifebelt....	April 1912
	THOMAS SILVA Portrait of Thomas Silva...
	PARSONS STEAM TURBINE INVENTOR From 'La Science et la Vie', July 1915...	1915
Duluth (MN) News Tribune	DIVES TO THE FITZGERALD SHOULD BE BANNED ALTOGETHER The Titanic, Empress Of Ireland, Lusitania and Andrea Doria are ships that all share an unfortunate bond: Their wrecks have been picked over mercilessly for artifacts.That's especially true of the wreck site of the Titanic, which has become a tasteless carnival for tourist dives. (Note: Registration at site may be needed to read entire article.)...	11th November 2008
	TITANIC: A SURVIVORS TALE Filmed in 1987 Eva Hart was then one of the last survivors of the Titanic. Just a brief glimpse into the events that are now nearly 100 years old....
	IRISH TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Irish Titanic Historical Society (ITHS) was founded in 1988 in Dublin and from small beginnings it now has an international membership of about 200. The main interests are The Titanic and the Irish Passengers who boarded at Queenstown. The Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Kinsale and general maritime history. ...
Globe and Mail	LETTER WRITTEN BY CANADIAN ABOARD TITANIC EXPECTED TO FETCH $10,000 For those who follow the lore of Eaton's department store, one tragedy stands out among others: the loss, in 1915, of the founder's granddaughter Iris Burnside in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. But three years before that, another member of the extended Eaton family, employee George Graham, had perished in an even more famous disaster, as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic during his return from a buying trip in Europe....	12th January 2009
International Herald Tribune	ONE OF LAST TITANIC SURVIVORS DIES IN ENGLAND AT AGE 96 Barbara West Dainton, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died at age 96.She died Oct. 16 at a nursing home in Camborne, England, according to Peter Visick, a distant relative. The funeral was held Monday at Truro Cathedral, Visick said Thursday....	8th November 2007
	SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 1 First of two photos showing the USS Siboney rescuing the survivors of the H.M.S. Dwinsk. These photos were printed in a commemorative book: Historical Souvenier of the U.S.S. Siboney April 8, 1918-August 1, 1919, which was made available after the...
The Mercury (Hobart)	TITANIC TRAGEDY--BROADCAST PLAY--CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S PROTEST TITANIC TRAGEDY --- Broadcast Play --- Captain Rostron's Protest --- LONDON, February 23. --- Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron who was commander of the liner Carpathla, ...	25th February 1932
Titanic Stories	TITANIC SURVIVORS Titanic Stories A first class passenger, second officer and fireman recall the moments leading up to Titanic finally going down. ...	30th September 2011
Liverpool Echo	MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED Stephen Guy IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea....	10th October 2009
New York Times	SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ...	1st November 1930
TDN	TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN Stuart's interest in the Titanic began when he encountered A Night to Remember as a freshman at West Bremerton High School. ...	5th June 2009
	TITANIC SURVIVORS 1950S Titanic survivors including Edith Russell and Lawrence Beesley filmed in the 1950s...
	VESTRIS SURVIVORS ABOARD THE BERLIN
New York Times	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
Newark Evening News	THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titanic disaster, are at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Flack, of 458 Central avenue, East Orange. ...	19th April 1912
Trenton Evening Times	GIVE UP HOPE FOR ROEBLING AND BLACKWELL Failure to receive word from either Washington A. Roebling II or Stephen W. Blackwell, following the arrival of the Carpathia with the Titanic’s survivors in New York tonight seems to confirm what has been generally believed from the first, that thes...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MOORE'S PARTNERS GIVE UP HOPE OF HEARING FROM HIM H. W. Hibbs, of Hibbs & Co., the brokerage firm with which Clarence Moore was connected, definitely gave up hope this morning that his partner had been saved from the Titanic. Moore’s friends are said to have generally come to the same conclusion....	17th April 1912

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