Lusitania Victims

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	TELEGRAM TO MRS SILVA "CLIFF LEFT THIS MORNING FOR YOU AND BABIES WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY. LOVE FROM ALL - BOB." ...
	TELEGRAM TO MRS SILVA from W. H. Hubbard...
	ETHEL SILVA
	THOMS AND FRANK SILVA
	LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA Lusitania Postcard...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle	LUSITANIA ICEBERG Original Caption:...	11th May 1915
	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
	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
	THOMAS SILVA Portrait of Thomas Silva...
	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...
	LUSITANIA'S MAIDEN ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK A previoulsy unpublished view of the Lusitania's maiden arrival in New York City, September 1907....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
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
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
The Day	INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL REMEMBERS TITANIC VICTIMS The U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol recently paid its respects to the victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic....	15th May 2008
	SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE Dear Madam,In reply to yours of the 26th- inst. we beg to say that we greatly regret being unable to give you any information in reference to Mr Silva and can only state that up to the present time there has been no indication that any of t...	29th May 1915
	CHELSEA PIERS The ship shown on this card is Luistania....
Orange County Times-Press	TITANIC VICTIMS STARVED That several Titanic victims probably starved to death in lifeboats seemed probable when the White Star Liner Oceanic docked today. The Oceanic picked up, last Monday, a lifeboat containing three bodies terribly decomposed. Each vi...	17th May 1912
irishtimes.com	COBH CEREMONY HONOURS VICTIMS OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES A COMMEMORATION of the victims of the Titanic's sinking was held in Cobh yesterday, one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York. On Thursday, April 11th, 1912, 123 steerage ......	11th April 2011
	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
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO CELEBRATE DISASTER'S CENTENARY WITH DESCENDANTS OF VICTIMS The world's largest Titanic museum will mark the centenary of the ship's sinking by welcoming descendants of survivors and victims. The ceremony on April 14 - exactly 100 years after the world's most famous passenger liner collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sunk - will include a symbolic re-enactment of the launching of the ship's distress flares. A memorial flame will also be lit to commemorate the 1,517 passengers and crew who perished during the fateful voyage in 1912 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114391/Titanic-museum-celebrate-disasters-centenary-descendants-victims-survivors-aboard-half-size-replica-doomed-ship.html#ixzz1p1lseE8h ...	13th March 2012
New York Times	BELGIANS PLAN TITANIC SUITS Pierre Mali, the Belgian Consul in this city, applied yesterday to Surrogate Cohalan for letters of administration on the estates of several victims of the sinking of the steamship Titanic for the purpose of bringing suits on behalf of their survivin...	8th August 1913
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
St. Paul Daily News	TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER - Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...	17th May 1912
	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
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
	WHEN YOU SEE 'TITANIC' ... REMEMBER ANNIE FUNK Short biography with bibliography...
New York Times	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
	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
	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
Boston Globe	TITANIC VICTIMS GRAVE MARKED For nearly a century her body lay in an unmarked grave in a West Roxbury cemetery....	25th May 2010
Evening Times	PAWTUCKET VISITOR AMONG THE VICTIMS Arne Mjåland 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
	MOVING FILM OF WT STEAD
Chicago Tribune	[ALGERINE] PICKS UP ONE TITANIC VICTIM Unidentified Remains of Wreck Victim Brought to St. Johns by Steamer Algerine S...	8th June 1912
guardian.co.uk	ROBIN GIBB TO HONOUR TITANIC VICTIMS IN FIRST 'CLASSICAL' COMPOSITION - OBSERVER Titanic Requiem – which will be composed by Bee Gees singer and son – will be played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...	20th January 2012
	TITANIC MEMORIAL IN GREECE Memorial for the Greek victims of the Titanic tragedy...	6th October 2005
DNAinfo	TITANIC PARK REOPENS IN FINANCIAL DISTRICT FOLLOWING RENOVATIONS The park features a lighthouse dedicated to the 1517 Titanic victims....	16th November 2010
	LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH	11th April 1912

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