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  MARK CHIRNSIDE’S RECEPTION ROOM
Titanic and 'Olympic' class research site, with a focus on Mark Chirnside's books and articles....
   
ET Reviews (2004) THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC BY MARK CHIRNSIDE
Titanic is arguably the most famous ship in history, and her popularity has often come at the expense of her siblings. Yet she was but one of a trio of sister ships. The number of titles that have attempted to tell the story ...
6th December 2004  
BBC Newsline (2006) BBC VIDEO OF NOMADIC HOMECOMING
One of the last remaining links to the Titanic, the SS Nomadic, has come home to Belfast. BBC Newsline has a series of special reports to mark the event....
18th July 2006  
stv.tv (2009) 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER
A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth. It was sent from Canada to Moray in Scotland on May 21, 1912 - around a month after...
15th October 2009  
Edmonton Sun (2006) HALIFAX HOSTS TITANIC'S 95TH
HALIFAX -- Maritime history buffs from Canada and Europe will gather in Halifax next year to mark the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic...
28th December 2006  
ET Research (2006) TITANIC CITATION CATALOG
Titanic Citation Catalogby Captain Charles WeeksI created this document to assist Titanic researchers. I have found it maddening to have to thumb through numerous books to find a particular citation on a certain subject. Using this...
21st October 2006  
Toledo Blade (2008) CROSWELL'S 'TITANIC' PREPARES TO SET SAIL
Director Mark DiPietro is expecting his show to sink this weekend.If it doesn't, something major is going wrong.DiPietro is in charge of Titanic, which opens the three-musical summer season tomorrow in the Croswell Opera House....
13th June 2008  
Toledo Blade (2008) CROSWELL'S 'TITANIC' PREPARES TO SET SAIL
Director Mark DiPietro is expecting his show to sink this weekend.If it doesn't, something major is going wrong.DiPietro is in charge of Titanic, which opens the three-musical summer season tomorrow in the Croswell Opera House....
13th June 2008  
  TITANIC SURVIVOR SINKS IN DEBT
Millvina Dean is the last living survivor of the Titanic and, at 96 years old, she has been forced to auction off her valuable Titanic souvenirs to pay for her nursing home. Mark Phillips reports. ...
   
  (1912) FEEDING THE PIDGEONS
John Hugo Ross, Unknown, McCaffry, Mark Fortune and Thomson Beattie feed pigeons in St. Mark's Square, Venice, March 1912...
  March 1912  
Canada.com (2007) TITANIC EXHIBIT LARGER THAN LIFE
Visitors to the Titanic exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum passed the 375,000 mark Wednesday, making the show one of the top-grossing in the last decade.The number of people who have viewed the nearly 300 Titanic artifacts is significantly more than the museum's conservative prediction of 250,000....
20th September 2007  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) TITANIC ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED
A poignant ceremony to mark the 95th anniversary of the launch of Titanic into the waters of Belfast Lough is to be held later this week.It was on May 31, 1911, that the ill-fated liner was pushed from its birthplace in the Harland and Wolff shipyard into the lough to float for the first time....
29th May 2006  
Toronto Daily Star (1929) FORTUNE
At her home, 2 Rose Park Crescent, Toronto, on Friday, March 8th, 1929, Mary Fortune, widow of the late Mark Fortune, formerly of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Funeral service at Mount Pleasant Mausoleum Chapel Monday at 2 o'clock. Montreal, Otta...
9th March 1929  
  MEMORIAL PLAQUE
Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ...
   
New York Times (1912) DEATH NOTICE OF ARTHUR L. RYERSON, JR.
RYERSON---April 8, 1912. Arthur L., age 20 years, son of Arthur and Emily Borie Ryerson. Funeral services St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, on Friday, April 19, at 3 P. M....
17th April 1912  
Times & Star (2009) TITANIC EXHIBITION IN ITS HOME TOWN
ITEMS from the Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet film Titanic will feature in a display in Maryport this month.The memorabilia, including a life belt and 'gold' first-class dining crockery, will be part of an exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the laying of the keel of the ill-fated ship....
6th March 2009  
Southern Daily Echo (2009) SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY
A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated....
18th March 2009  
Telegraph.co.uk (2009) TITANIC CRUISE TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF SHIP'S FATEFUL VOYAGE
The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is to be marked with a cruise that will follow the ship's original route.Bookings for the historic cruise opened today - exactly 97 years after the Titanic was lost - with the departure date set for early April, 2012....
16th April 2009  
Metro (2006) TITANIC FASCINATION GETS SOME STICK
Friday, June 2, 2006 It may be called Titanic, but Mark Colling never had a sinking feeling about his 7m model of the ship after building it out of more than 5million matchsticks. The father-of-four has just smashed the world ...
2nd June 2006  
UTV (2006) BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY
The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ...
29th November 2006  
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 (1912) A RESTORATION AT VENICE
J. P. Morgan Sees Removal of Scaffolding at St. Mark's Church --- VENICE, April 24---In the presence of J. Pierpont Morgan the scaffolding which has hitherto covered the northwest corner of the Church of St. Mark...
25th April 1912  
Baristanet (2009) THE TITANIC SURVIVOR'S DAUGHTER
The news that Hortense Bader-Wood, a retired Pennsylvania schoolteacher, died at 99 would seem to have no local resonance. Except that she was the daughter of a famous jeweler and Titanic survivor, Henry Blank, and grew up in a house in Glen Ridge. That house, at the corner of Ridgewood Ave. and Washington St., also happens to be the former home of RE/MAX agent Sam Joseph, whose connection with the Blank house is so strong that he had the "cress arrow" mark associated with Blank's jewelry company tattooed on his left calf....
14th January 2009  
The Times (2006) 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  
New York Times (1913) MONUMENT TO BUTT SOON
Promoters Almost Ready to Start Work on Fountain --- WASHINGTON, June 18---Work on the foundation for the fountain to be erected to the memory of Major Archibald W. Butt, Military Aid to President Taft, and Francis Millet, the arti...
19th June 1913  
Travel News (2009) FRED OLSEN CRUISE LINES SELLING TICKETS FOR TITANIC CRUISE
Exactly 97 years after the Titanic was lost to the sea, tickets have gone on sale for a Titanic memorial cruise. Tickets are on sale now and will be on sale until they are sold out or until the departure date of April 2012. This will mark the 100th year since the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic cruise will take place on the Balmoral, which is operated by Fred Olsen Curise Lines. The ship will carry 1,309 passengers, which is the same number that sailed on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The ship will also follow the same course as the Titanic did as well....
25th April 2009  
ET Research (2008) THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC’S CENTRAL PROPELLER
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5th May 2008  
The Globe (1912) EATON'S DAILY STORE NEWS
THE STORE WILL CLOSE AT 1 P.M. TO-DAY AS A TOKEN OF OUR SORROW and sympathy with the widow, family and friends of the late Mr. George E. Graham, and as a mark of honor [sic] and respect for his heroic end on...
20th April 1912  
Lisburn Today (2009) TITANIC SET TO 'MAKE A SPLASH' AT LEGACURRY
ONE of the most iconic ships in history, R.M.S Titanic, is set to make headlines again as Larchfield Community Development Association is hosting a festival to mark the centenary of the laying down of the keel of the famous White Star Liner....
8th September 2009  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH
Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P....
18th April 1912  
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH
Maj, Butt, a devout Episcopalian, chose the Celtic cross. There is a plaque on each side of the base. : On the back: A devoted son and brother, an efficient officer...
   
Rahway Daily Record (1912) 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  
ET Research (2005) TITANIC TEXT : DEMYSTIFYING HISTORICAL STUDY
Internet research tips for beginners From biographies and cultural essays to technical papers and scientific analyses, ET Research at Encyclopedia-Titanica.org is the leading online destination for original, in-depth studi...
20th September 2005  
ET Research (2007) OLYMPIC AND TITANIC : MAIDEN VOYAGE MYSTERIES
ROUTES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC The new White Star liner Olympic, the first of three gigantic liners ordered by the White Star Line for the highly competitive transatlantic service, was launched from the Queen’s Island yard of Harlan...
29th April 2007  
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  
Washington Times (1912) DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC
Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...
22nd April 1912  
Kings County Record (2009) A TITANIC VOYAGE 100 YEARS LATER SET FOR APRIL 2012
When we heard the news on the radio, my 10-year-old son and I stared at each other.Had we heard right? Was a voyage being planned to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic? Yes.Almost everyone has heard of th...
5th May 2009  
New York Times (1911) CHANGE IN COMMODORES
Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo...
6th June 1911  
ET Research (2001) AN 'OLYMPIC' CLASS PROPULSION SYSTEM
The decision to incorporate a Parsons low-pressure turbine in the new vessels of the ‘Olympic’ class, was a departure for the White Star Line from the conventional system of two piston-based reciprocating engines driving twin propeller...
25th June 2001  
ET Research (2007) SPEED AND REVOLUTIONS
"We were working out a slip table, and we had not quite finished when she went down. All of us were on, working out a slip table, how many turns of the engine it would require to do so many knots; and all this, and it tapered down." - Titanic's 5t...
18th September 2007  
Unidentified Newspaper (1980) OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY]
Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ...
  1980  
ET Research (2009) IT’S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST
This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the Titanic wreck site. Note to...
9th January 2009  
The Times (1935) LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC
 CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ...
12th October 1935  
New York Times (1911) LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED
All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ...
28th May 1911  
The Times (1898) PIRRIE BECOMES FIRST HONORARY BURGESS OF BELFAST
BELFAST, JULY 24 Mr. W. J. Pirrie, High Sheriff of county Antrim, and ex-Lord Mayor of the city, entertained at Ormiston on Thursday the Judges of Assize, Lord Chief Baron Palles and Lord Justice...
25th July 1898  
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News (1998) CHRISTOPHER HEAD
A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...
  April 1998  
  (1912) THE BAND PLAYED NEARER MY GOD TO THEE AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN
In Memory of the Heroes of the Ill-Fated Titanic Words by Mark Bean Music by Harold Jones Published 1912 by Joe Morris Music Co., New York, USA ...
  1912  
ET Research (2002) RMS OLYMPIC: ANOTHER PREMATURE DEATH?
The ‘Olympic’ class suffered for the most part unfortunate deaths; of the three liners, only two remained in service for more than four days; only one remained in service for more than eleven months. Britannic’s...
8th April 2002  
  (1972) ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972  
New York Times (1913) LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN
Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...
9th May 1913  
New York Times (1910) BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910  
  (2006) CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA
CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...
28th December 2006  
  (2009) IT’S A CQD OLD MAN: 41.46 NORTH, 50.14 WEST - PART 2
This two-part article is primarily concerned with how the Titanic’s reported distress positions came about, and why they were so far west of the now known position of the Titanic wreck site. In the first part ...
9th January 2009  
The Times (1914) A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC.
MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number...
19th June 1914  
 

 
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