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ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
Gare Maritime	A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...	2nd August 2006
Gare Maritime	CUBA TO AMERICA ON THE ORIZABA A cruise from Cuba and along the East Coast in the 1920s taking in an excursion to Kensico Dam....	9th September 2006
This Is Mablethorpe	TITANIC COLLECTION OF MARITIME MEMORABILIA TO GO UNDER THE HAMMER COLLECTOR'S 30-year haul of maritime memorabilia which for decades was only displayed in an attic bedroom is to go under the hammer in Lincoln....	2nd June 2010
4NI	BID TO REVIVE BELFAST'S TITANIC HERITAGE Belfast is set to finally commemorate its full maritime and industrial heritage. It has just been revealed that one of the main objectives of a new initiative, the ¢€ËœTitanic Signature Project', is to record and celebrate the city's great maritime and industrial heritage....	18th October 2007
4NI.co.uk	TITANIC QUARTER TO REVIVE CITY'S HERITAGE Belfast is set to finally commemorate its full maritime and industrial heritage. It has just been revealed that one of the main objectives of a new initiative, the ¢€ËœTitanic Signature Project', is to record and celebrate the city's great maritime and industrial heritage....	23rd October 2007
Gare Maritime	THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....	10th July 2007
BBC News	FRESH APPEAL FOR MARITIME MUSEUM It was built in Belfast, yet no-one bothered to make an application for a museum to commemorate it. Now a fresh appeal is being made for the establishment of a maritime museum in Belfast linked to the Titanic....
Falmouth Penryn Packet	TITANIC DINING AT THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL To coincide with the hugely successful Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition being held at National Maritime Museum Cornwall, the Museum is commemorating the 97th anniversary of the tragedy with a dinner of Titanic proportions. ...	20th March 2009
Gare Maritime	ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN ON THE NIEUW AMSTERDAM 16mm film records a tour encompassing: Peurto Rice, Curacoa, Havana, Cartagena, Colombia, Panama Canal, Kingston Jamaica ending with the ship docking in New York City....	21st December 2006
Gare Maritime	STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS Unique and evocative home movie of the ill fated liner passing onlookers as she departs on her sea trials....	21st July 2006
	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....
Toronto Star	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
24 hour museum	LIGHTOLLER TITANIC BOOK ACQUIRED FOR RAMSGATE MARITIME MUSEUM Gorringes in Worthing were auctioning Titanic memorabilia, including the 1st edition, cloth-bound book "Titanic and other ships" by Commander Lightoller, senior surviving officer of the Titanic. Ramsgate Maritime Museum has care of the restored Motor Yacht Sundowner, a veteran of the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940, and the former property of Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller. The museum made a successful bid for the book. ...	19th April 2006
timesandstar.co.uk	CHILDREN INVESTIGATE TITANIC LINKS IN MARYPORT A TITANIC project in Maryport will end with a premier film show at the town’s Wave Centre in October. Thirty-five Maryport children spent last week exploring the town’s maritime heritage and its links to the Titanic through Thomas Ismay, who was born in Maryport and founded the White Star line of which the Titanic was part. The children interviewed experts on the subject like John Whitwell, Cliff Ismay and volunteers at the Maryport Maritime Museum....	4th August 2011
	LA GARE MARITIME (WITH NOMADIC AND TRAFFIC ALONGSIDE)
	THE RESCUE OF CARL SCHMIDT Carl Schmidt is pulled from aboard the Berlin after more than a day in the water. ...
Gare Maritime	THE UNLUCKY STATENDAM Jim Kalafus Views of the elegant ocean liner...	18th December 2006
Patriot-News	TITANIC EXHIBIT SET TO RE-DOCK SATUDAY AT HARRISBURG'S WHITAKER CENTER It couldnâ€™t sink, but it did. The greatest maritime disaster of its time shouldnâ€™t have happened, but it did....	23rd March 2010
	MEMORIAL Named on this memorial, now on display in two section at Southampton Maritime Museum....
	MEMORIAL Named on the left hand panel of the St. Augustines Church Memorial, (Maritime Museum) Southampton....
CNN News	TITANIC 100TH CRUISES SPARK BUZZ DEBATE The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history....	28th September 2010
UTV	TITANIC TRAGEDY IS REMEMBERED A service has been held in Belfast to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. The world`s most famous maritime disaster happened when the vessel hit an iceberg in April 1912....	30th April 2007
Falmouth Penryn Packet	FALMOUTH REVEALS MORE TITANIC MEMORABILIA The National Maritime Museum Cornwall has been lent two more fascinating artefacts with a Cornish connection. Local historian and author Ernie Warmington has come forward with a Christmas card and memorial postcard....	2nd June 2009
scarborougheveningnews.co.uk	DON'T MISS THE TITANIC BOAT. Scarborough's tourism bosses are being urged not to “miss the boat” and commemorate the town’s links to an historic maritime disaster....	11th January 2012
Falmouth Penryn Packet	UNIQUE TITANIC EXHIBITION IN FALMOUTH The National Maritime Museum Cornwall's announcement of a new Titanic exhibition and a request for locals to get in touch with their memories has revealed some incredible stories....	29th December 2008
BBC News	RECOGNITION FOR LANCASTRIA DEAD Victims of Britain's worst maritime disaster are to be officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice after a long campaign.An estimated 4,000 people died when the Clyde-built liner the Lancastria sank during World War II....	6th December 2007
Southern Daily Echo	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
BBC News	SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM PLAN GETS GREEN LIGHT Southampton City Council says it will consider selling off assets and short-term borrowing to raise the extra £10m needed to build a £15m maritime museum....	4th August 2010
NOAA	PROPOSED LEGISLATION GIVES NOAA THE LEAD ON PROTECTING RMS TITANIC ...the agreement and legislation will designate the RMS Titanic wreck site as an international maritime memorial to those who lost their lives in its tragic sinking and whose graves should be given appropriate respect....	26th July 2007
Cape May County Herald	CG INTL. ICE PATROL REMEMBERS TITANIC The haunting melody of "Amazing Grace" cuts through the solemn silence of Fairview Lawn Cemetery here as 18 U.S. Coast Guardsmen pay their respects to the victims of possibly the most tragic maritime disaster in history, the sinking of the RMS Titanic....	5th May 2008
Irish Times	CALL FOR 'TITANIC' EXHIBIT TO COME TO COBH THE LINK between the maritime town of Cobh, Co Cork, and the Titanic is consistently being overlooked, according to the president of the townâ€™s chamber of commerce, who has criticised a decision to host a major exhibition regarding the doomed liner in Dublin....	15th December 2009
BBC News	TITANIC MODEL AVOIDS PLANNING AXE A maritime enthusiast who built a model of RMS Titanic in his back garden has been told that the project will not be sunk by planning regulations......	5th September 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
BBC News	BELFAST LOSES REPLICA TITANIC ANCHOR BID TO DUDLEY Belfast is proud of having built the Titanic but the city has lost out on one piece of maritime memorabilia to landlocked Dudley in the West Midlands....	19th June 2010
News & Star	TITANIC REPLICA ON SHOW IN MARYPORT A model of the Titanic made its maiden voyage in Maryport this week.The model is part of an exhibition by the Maritime Heritage Group looking at the iconic ship and its history....	3rd April 2009
BBC News	SOUTHAMPTON'S £8M AERONAUTICA MUSEUM PLAN UNVEILED Plans have been unveiled for a £8m museum celebrating Southampton's maritime and aviation history. ...	19th June 2010
Belfast Telegraph	STRANMILLIS PUPILS DOCK FOR TITANIC HISTORY LESSON Stranmillis Primary School pupils have enjoyed a titanic experience at Belfasts maritime landmark sites courtesy of the Northern Ireland Science Park....	22nd February 2011
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
	OLYMPIC CLOCK A study fot the Olympic's clock in the Grand Staircase, pictured at Southampton's Maritime Museum....
CanWest News Service	U.S. BEATS CANADA TO TITANIC LEGISLATION While Canada dithers, the United States has taken a key step toward ensuring the wreck of the Titanic -- watery grave for hundreds of victims of the famous 1912 sinking off the coast of Newfoundland -- will officially become an international maritime memorial site protected from relic hunters....	8th August 2007
BBC News	LOTTERY CASH FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM A new maritime museum in Hampshire has moved a step closer after the plan was awarded a Â£4.6m lottery grant. Southampton City Council had planned to sell off artwork to raise Â£5m of the total Â£15m cost but dropped the idea after criticism....	30th March 2010
	TITANIC FOUNDATION Titanic Foundation exists to educate the world on Belfast’s maritime and industrial heritage- past, present and future. We want to be seen as a symbol of Belfast’s visionary future and to encourage new generations to believe anything is possible....
Fort Scott Tribune	'TITANIC' PRODUCTION OPENS THURSDAY The multitudinous human aspects of one of the worst maritime tragedies in history the 1912 sinking of the Titanic will be portrayed in the Nevada High School Drama Department's production of "Titanic Tragedy and Trial" at 7 p.m. Thursday Friday and Saturday....	10th November 2010
Swindon Advertiser	MITCHELL BUYS A PIECE OF TITANIC HISTORY A FRAGMENT of maritime history has ended up in a Purton teenager's bedroom. Mitchell Tovey, 13, has seen the Hollywood adaptation of the story of doomed passenger liner RMS Titanic more than 100 times. And because of that he has become fascinated by its tragic story....	23rd October 2008
thespec.com	PLAN AFLOAT TO REMEMBER TITANIC STEWARD ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING William Edwy Ryerson has laid in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years, belying his involvement in the sinking of the Titanic, one of the world’s most infamous maritime disasters. Now, authorities of an Anglican Church outside London, England — where the former Hamiltonian was interred in 1949 in a pauper’s burial — are doing something about it....	5th December 2011
timesandstar.co.uk	SEEKING TITANIC VOLUNTEERS - TIMES AND STAR THIRTY volunteers are needed to help staff a Titanic display in Maryport from March to May. Joe Kewin, of Maryport Maritime Museum, said the exhibition at The Wave Centre would be one of the key events around the country and the world marking the 100th anniversary of the loss of the ship, which sank on its maiden voyage....	29th December 2011
Deutsche Welle	TV FILM ON NAZI GERMANY'S "TITANIC" DRAWS MILLIONS OF VIEWERS Millions of Germans tuned in to a television film about the 1945 sinking of a Nazi ship full of refugees in the Baltic, which cost 9,000 lives and surpassed the Titanic as the worst maritime disaster in modern times....	4th March 2008
The Times	ANNOUNCEMENT: DEATH OF LORD MERSEY We announce with much regret that VISCOUNT MERSEY died suddenly yesterday at his country house at Littlehampton, at the age of 89. Though latterly he had become physically feeble, his mental activity showed no sign of impairment. He had a long care...	4th October 1929
The Cornishman	TITANIC LINKS SOUGHT FOR EXHIBITION THE most famous ill-fated ship in history, the Titanic, is to be the subject of a major new exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Falmouth next year and the search is on to find local people with a personal connection.Although the exhibition won't be unveiled until next March, the museum is appealing now for people with their own stories to tell to come forward....	26th November 2008
philly.com	99 YEARS AFTER THE TITANIC SANK, ITS RIPPLE EFFECTS ARE STILL FELT Ninety-nine years ago tonight the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the still, starlit waters of the North Atlantic. Spoiler alert if you haven't seen the movie: The Titanic sank. Much of the good that came from the maritime disaster is lasting....	14th April 2011
burnleycitizen.co.uk	NEW TITANIC IN LANCASHIRE MUSEUM TO OPEN IN COLNE THE story of the RMS Titanic and her maiden voyage will be brought to life at a new museum set to open in Colne - home to the ship's famous band leader. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson is putting the finishing touches to the Titanic in Lancashire...	1st June 2011
Stamford Plus Magazine	MUSICAL VOYAGE TELLS TITANIC'S STORY LIVE ON STAGE Ninety nine years ago the greatest maritime tragedy of all time was born of a ship whose name would become generic in terms of describing future large scale endeavors TITANIC. And now a musical telling of this tragic voyage takes berth at Stamford's Kweskin Theatre when Curtain Call's production opens April 1....	7th March 2011
Chicago Sun-Times	KUP'S COLUMN Irv Kupcinet ". . . . Almost as soon as the news of the sinking of the Andrea Doria was flashed to the world, 20th Century-Fox decided to reissue its epic of a sea drama, "Titanic," story of the maritime disaster of 44 years ago. . . . "...	31st July 1956
The National	TITANIC ANNIVERSARY A television mini-series from the Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes, focusing on the most notorious accident in maritime history....	2nd April 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
United Press International	MUSEUM DIRECTOR CHARGED IN TITANIC THEFT The former head of a Virginia maritime museum has been charged with selling off items from its Titanic collection and other memorabilia.Lester Weber, onetime director of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, was charged along with his wife with 26 counts of theft, fraud and failure to file tax returns....	22nd February 2008
4NI	FUNDING BLOW FOR TITANIC PROJECT Belfast's Titanic Signature Project - showcasing the city's maritime and industrial heritage and likely to cost an estimated £90m, has suffered a setback. The initiative, which aims to attract thousands of tourists to the Titanic Quarter, had applied to receive 25m of lottery money and has now failed to reach the final funding shortlist for the lottery's Living Landmarks Fund....	19th October 2007
	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. ...
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....
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. ...
PR.Log.org	TITANIC 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS... NEWS... The World Awaits the final release of Titanic's 100th Anniversary Celebrations Program of Events. Maritime Festivals and Commemorations are in the final stages of planning. The leading Titanic Gift Company are poised to release some amazing news....	1st February 2011
windycitymediagroup.com	HISTORIC IDEAS FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the sailing of Titanic's maiden voyage. Several destinations, tour operators and exhibition companies are getting ready. For the real deal, visit Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax has a rich maritime history due to its closeness to the sea and as a safe harbor to ships coming from Europe. It may come as a surprise to many that Halifax played a significant role in the recovery effort after the sinking of the Titanic. ...	25th August 2011
artdaily.org	ONLY SURVIVING FIRST CLASS TICKET HIGHLIGHT OF TITANIC CENTENARY EXHIBITION The only known surviving First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the Titanic disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking......	11th April 2011
Dumfries and Galloway Standard	NEW TITANIC CLAIMS BLAME DALBEATTIE MAN A SON of Dalbeattie could have prevented the world’s worst maritime disaster. William Murdoch, first officer on the ill-fated Titanic, might have saved the “unsinkable” passenger liner had he taken immediate action when an iceberg was spotted. Instead, according to a new book, Murdoch delayed for 30 seconds, analysing information coming his way. And that delay, the researchers who wrote “Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal” claim, meant the ship was unable to avoid the collision that ended with more than 1,500 people losing their lives....	16th December 2011
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago....
Birmingham Post	HERITAGE CENTRE BID COULD HIGHLIGHT LINKS WITH TITANIC A maritime enthusiast is aiming to set up a Titanic heritage centre in the Midlands, as the focal point of events marking the tragedy's 100th anniversary in 2012.Howard Nelson, from Coventry, has already established the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust and believes the Midlands would be an ideal home for a museum dedicated to the Titanic as it has many links with the world's most famous ship....	7th January 2006
birminghampost.net	BIRMINGHAM'S FORGOTTEN INDUSTRIAL PIONEER WHO DIED ON THE TITANIC He is perhaps Birmingham’s forgotten industrial pioneer – and he met his end during the most infamous maritime disaster in history. His contribution to industry in Birmingham was as significant and compelling as the likes of Matthew Boulton and George Cadbury, yet few are familiar with the name William Hipkins. As managing director, William Edward Hipkins transformed W&T Avery Limited from a burgeoning maker of scales into the world’s largest manufacturer of weighing machines. ...	4th November 2011
Click Liverpool	TITANIC TRAGEDY DISPLAY AT LIVERPOOL MUSEUM Fascinating objects salvaged from around the wreck of the liner Titanic, 2.5 miles down on the ocean floor are new attractions at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.The exhibits are a wrist watch, spectacles, a White Star Line cup, lead ventilation grill, a gold wristwatch, five tie pins and a five dollar banknote.When the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, with the loss of 1,500 lives, she broke up as she plunged down into the depths. The bow and stern sections of the wreck lie 1,970 ft apart surrounded by debris scattered far and wide....	15th December 2008
The Times	TINY FLAWS THAT CAUSED A TITANIC WASTE OF LIFE New evidence suggests that the rescue of 1,500 people would have succeeded but for weak rivets that allowed the hull to 'unzip', Mark Henderson reports THE most celebrated disaster in maritime history owed as much to substandard rivets as it did to the iceberg, an analysis of the sinking of the Titanic has revealed. The liner would have survived the collision for long enough for most of, or even all, its passengers to be rescued had it not been put together with weak rivets that caused its hull to 'unzip' on impact with the ice, according to the new research....	16th September 2006
Southern Daily Echo	SELL ART OR NO TITANIC MUSEUM SAYS COUNCIL LEADER THE leader of Southampton City Council has laid down an ultimatum in the city's art sell-off row "we either flog some paintings or don't get a Titanic museum. Tories are planning to sell paintings worth millions to help pay for a "world class" maritime attraction, dubbed Sea City Museum. ...
Roanoke Times	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
4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985...	2nd November 2011
journalpioneer.com	TITANIC DINNER THEATRE CRUISING INTO SUMMERSIDE The touring production of “Titanic: The Fated Voyage” will be docking in Summerside in September on its Maritime tour. The Classic Dinner Theatre Productions’ Summerside show will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1 at Shipyard Market. “Titanic – The Fated Voyage” is a three act dramatic production performed by an eight-person cast. The production features musical performances consisting of folk, ragtime jazz and other popular music from Titanic’s era. The show is set in the first class lounge of Titanic on April 14, 1912....	11th August 2011
Gare Maritime	THE LOSS OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA Jim Kalafus The worst wreck, in terms of verifiable fatalities, on the North American west coast...	3rd December 2006
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
	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...
TV Guide	TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECESA New Breed Of Film Making Click HereA top-secret expedition by The History Channel to the Titanic wreck site, conducted in August, 2005, produced never-before-seen footage that could completely rewrite the final moments of the world's most famous sunken vessel. Using high-definition photographic equipment, an internationally acknowledged team of experts has located brand-new information that maritime historian Simon Mills has termed 'â€¦possibly the most significant pieces of evidence since the wreck was located in 1985.' ...	8th February 2006
	POSTWAR 1 EXQUISITE DÃ‰COR; in boldness of concept and beauty of design, the ebony and bronze stairway shown symbolizes the manner in which art and function have been blended in the Nieuw Amsterdam. Working hand-in-hand, Hollandâ€™s leading designe...
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	COLNE TITANIC MUSUEM WANTS TO ATTRACT 100000 VISITORS A NEW museum commemorating the RMS Titanic is hoping to attract around 100,000 visitors in the run up to the centenary of when the ship sank. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson, 42, has brought the Titanic and her maiden voyage to life as he opened the Titanic in Lancashire Museum, in the old Colne Grammar School, off Albert Road, Colne on Wednesday. Nigel, of Humphrey Street, Brierfield is hoping to attract visitors from around the world with his display remembering the 71 Lancashire people who were on board the doomed vessel - including Wallace Hartley, the ship’s famous band leader from Colne. ...	14th August 2011
	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 ...
nationalpost.com	STEALING THE TITANIC: ARTIFACTS AUCTION DRAWS ACCUSATIONS OF GRAVE ROBBERY On April 15, on the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking, an auction house in New York will sell off $185-million-worth of items salvaged from the wreck: Eye-glasses, antique currency, jewellery, clothing and — the pièce de resistance — a 17-tonne section of the hull ripped clean in the ship’s final violent moments. In Halifax, the burial place of 150 Titanic victims, news of the auction prompted disgust. “We’re into preserving and documenting — not into pillaging,” Lynn-Marie Richard, registrar for the city’s Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, told The Chronicle Herald. The man who located the Titanic sitting upright at the bottom of the Atlantic would agree....	28th January 2012
	IROQUOIS PASSENGER LIST COVER An unusual Iroquois passenger list cover from August 1934. Less than a month later, Iroquois was pressed into Ward Line service to replace the lost Morro Castle on her outbound September 8th voyage. About 50 passengers c...
dgstandard.co.uk	RED ROSES FOR TITANIC HERO MUSICIAN - JOCK HUME ALMOST a century has past since the great ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The worst maritime disaster at peacetime in living history claimed the lives of 1,517 people on April 15, 1912, including that of one of the ship’s musicians, a young man called John Law Hume. Born and raised in Dumfries, before joining the ill-fated band of musicians on the White Star Ocean liner, the body of 21-year-old Jock was recovered from the waters of the Northern Atlantic by the MacKay Bennett shortly after the Titanic sank. His unidentified body was buried in May of that year at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia....	4th November 2011
Associated Press	TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Washington - The United States, Canada, Britain and France will work together to increase protection for the Titanic and its wreck site under legislation the U.S. administration sent to Congress Friday.State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said concerted action by the four countries most closely associated with the Titanic would effectively foreclose financing for and the technical ability to conduct unregulated salvage and other potentially harmful activities.Much of what remains of the Titanic rests underwater, about 560 kilometres from Newfoundland, where the British liner sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. A total of 1,522 passengers and crew were killed in the wreck. More than 700 survived....	10th June 2006
Southern Star	CORK TITANIC SOCIETY PLANNING TO ERECT "LOST AT SEA" MEMORIAL CORK Titanic Society is planning to erect a "Lost at Sea" memorial in the inner harbour and is holding its annual commemoration for same at 12.15am Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross, Mahon, in Cork Harbour on Sunday, May 31, to which everyone is welcome....	29th April 2009
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO ARTHUR WILLIAM MAY Named on the right hand panel of the St. Augustines Church Memorial, (Maritime Museum) Southampton. also has a stone in Fair view Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Titanic section, number 141. (Late in 1990 I found a grave at ...
Gare Maritime	NORMANDIE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Jim Kalafus Spectacular views of the quintessential superliner....	1st January 2006
Belfast Today	EVERY DAY IS A POTENTIAL ANNIVERSARY ON THE RIVER LAGAN Una Reilly, Chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society mobilised our memories and organised a simple ceremony on the river. "This anniversary marks a reclaiming by Belfast of her very important part in the worldwide Titanic story," Una explained as she planned the boat trip on the MV Joyce Too. "Contrary to popular belief, Titanic was not launched by a notable lady wearing a big hat and smashing a bottle on her bow," she reminded me. "She was simply pushed into the water by hydraulic rams when a signal was given and a whistle was blown at 12.13 pm on May 31, 1911, and 62 seconds later Titanic was afloat for the first time. ...	5th June 2006
Irish Independent	'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy....	29th April 2009
Rahway Daily Record	WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...	18th April 1912
Gare Maritime	QUEEN MARY SEA TRIALS The Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary is shown standing off Gourock, Scotland on the Clyde for anchor trials, adjustment of the magnetic compasses and fitment of her lifeboats....	6th December 2006
The Times	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
Nomadic Preservation Society	PROGRAMME FOR NOMADIC CENTENERY CELEBRATIONS REVEALED Celebrating a century of maritime history Outline programme Friday 3rd June 2011 13:30 ~ 17:00. Delegate registration at Holiday Inn, Belfast. 13:30 ~ 17:00. Exclusive opening tour...	5th November 2010
	MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR C. H. LIGHTOLLER, TWICKENHAM Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller RNR, DSC* 1874-1952 RICHMOND SLIPWAYS, 1 DUCK'S WALK Commander Lightol...
Washington Times	MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...	19th April 1912
Irish Independent	'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. Millvina Dean, at just nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger to be carried into the third class accommodation on the ship. Her father perished after saving his wife, young son and baby daughter and his body was never recovered. ...	26th April 2009
Washington Times	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
Gare Maritime	THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER Jim Kalafus Recalling the loveliest of the 'forgotten' liners...	14th July 2007
New York Times	FRANCE HONORS ROSTRON Cunard Commodore Receives Legion of Honor Aboard Berengaria --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHERBOURG, Feb. 27---France honored a life of heroism and seamanship tonight when she awarded the Legion of Honor to S...	28th February 1929
Press Release	TITANIC WALKS : IPHONE APP : TITANIC TRAIL IN SOUTHAMPTON, UK Almost a century on, Southampton, England—the home port of RMS Titanic—carefully preserves the memory of the ship and those who tragically lost their lives on her ill-fated maiden voyage. Locals and visitors to Southampton who, in t...	20th October 2010
examiner.com	'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Historical Society, and googling Titanic results in 24,400,000 results....	8th July 2009
	THE MOODY CUP Officer Moody served on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Conway in the River Mersey for two years from 1902 to 1903. After the disaster his parents presented a cup which became known as the Moody Cup and was dedicated to his memory....
Belfast Telegraph	£7 MILLION RESTORATION OF TITANIC SHIP GOES AHEAD The £7 million restoration of a tender ship which ferried first-class passengers on board the Titanic is to begin early next year after the project today secured another £500,000 cash injection....	16th September 2009
Gare Maritime	ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE Pierette Domenica Simpson From "Alive on the Andrea Doria"...	9th January 2007
CNN	TITANIC 100TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISES SPARK CONTROVERSY The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history. At least two cruises are planned in the spring of 2012 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with both touting special activities lectures and memorials to commemorate the tragic voyage....	22nd September 2010
Boston Daily Globe	LATTIMER MOURNED Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and...	20th April 1912
Liverpool Daily Post	LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY IT ALL started with an innocent game of billards in one of Liverpool's great merchant palaces....	29th April 2009
Titanic Research	WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH? Captain Charles B. Weeks There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic’s rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and t...	29th September 2002
New York Times	RECITES CLOSE CALL OF TITANIC RESCUE Sir Arthur Rostron Tells How Radio Man Got S 0 S as He Prepared to Quit Post --- RECALLS 46 YEARS AT SEA --- Carpathia's Former Master, in New Autobiography, Describes "Most Memorable Night" of Career --- If ...	27th October 1931
Voyage	CERAMIC : THE SOLE SURVIVOR By 1942, the White Star Line had merged with Cunard, and many of its ships had been sold off or sent to the scrapyard. Among the former was Ceramic, launched in 1913 and for many years the largest vessel in ...	18th December 2006
Journal	JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER-CREW Geoff Knight Family historians uncover story of ‘lost’ Titanic survivor ...	28th February 2010
Daily Sketch	TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the...	25th April 1912
	TITANIC'S UNKNOWN CHILD Sandi Krawchenko Altner A small pair of brown shoes have provided the determining factor in deciding the true identity of Titanic's Unknown child. ...	28th April 2011
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC TENDER NOMADIC RECEIVES LOTTERY BOOST Plans to restore the SS Nomadic have moved a step closer to winning more than £2 million in lottery funding....	27th September 2010
Connaught Telegraph	WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ...	20th April 1912