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	Bristol Times and Mirror	TITANIC'S THIRD OFFICER AN OLD MERCHANT VENTURER Mr. H. J. Pitman, third officer on the Titanic, who was one of the four officers saved from the wreck is an West Countryman, being born at Castle Cary, in Somerset. His age is 34, and he received the shore part of his nautical training in the navigat...	27th April 1912
	The Times	CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETIREMENT MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING --- CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETlREMENT --- The Prime Minister and the Shipping Controller have consented to the release from the end of the present month of the Right Hon. Lord Pirrie, ...	23rd December 1919
	The Times	LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES COMMITTEE, 1888 MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1888.-The first meeting of the comnmittee appointed under the provisions of the "Merchant Shippng (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888," took place at the Board of Trade...	19th November 1888
	Washington Herald	MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...	21st April 1912
		PITMAN GRAVESTONE In Love We Remember. Herbert John Pitman M.B.E. 1877-1961. Merchant Navy 1895-1947 Rest In Peace. 3rd Officer S.S. Titanic 1912....
	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
	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
		CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen...
		ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Born August 18th 1893 (Ref. register Book no 327 at Kennington Sub District Office). After returning to the UK she later married, September 12th 1931 to one James Barrow, Company Director of M. Ralph paper merchant of Upper Thames Stre...
	New York Times	HERMAN MANDELBAUM Herman Mandlebaum, a retired wholesale tobacco merchant, died yesterday at his residence, 200 West Eighty-sixth Street, after a long illness. He was born in Kassel, Germany, eighty-three years ago, and came to the United States at the age of 13. Th...	20th April 1933
		BAPTISMAL RECORD OF WILLIAM PIRRIE Pirrie---J. A. Pirrie of Quebec merchant, and Eliza his wife had a son born on the thirty first day of May and baptized on the seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, named William by John Cook, D.D., Min'r...	17th June 1847
	New York Times	MISS ROSENBAUM HURT IN FRANCE ROUEN, France, Aug. 21---Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured to-day in an automobile accident while on the way to this city from Paris. A German merchant named Lewe, who was driving the car, was killed....	22nd August 1911
		BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...	11th July 1912
		TOWER HILL, LONDON WAR MEMORIAL In Memory Of Fireman and Trimmer George Terrill Thresher SS Parkhill (Methil) Merchant Navy Who Died aged 52 [Fireman and Trimmer Thresher, Son of George Samuel and Catherine Thresher, husband of Jane Thresher of Felling, Co. Durh...
	National Roll of the Great War	WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
	New York Times	DINE CAPT. ROSTRON ON THE MAURETANIA 156 Guests of Sir Ashley Sparks Pay Tribute to Commander's War Aid --- HE PRAISES HIS VESSEL --- Is Fastest and Finest Merchant Ship Afloat, He Says--Many Captains Present --- One hundred and fifty-six guests...	4th April 1922
	Chicago Daily Tribune	OAK PARK TITANIC SURVIVOR (Photo: Mrs F. R. Kenyon) A letter written on board the Carpathia was received yesterday by Mrs. George P. Baldwin, 309 Linden avenue, Oak Park, announcing the death of F. R. Kenyon and the safety of Mrs. Kenyon, sister of Mrs. Baldwin...	21st April 1912
		PENROSE: PROBATE INFORMATION PENROSE John Poole of 13 Southview Road Southampton steward merchant service died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration Winchester 2 August 1912 to Florence Annie Penrose widow. Effects £131 3s 4d. === PENROSE Florence Ann of Crosby Clock House...	2nd August 1912
	coventrytelegraph.net	COVENTRY MARKS LINKS TO TITANIC ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRAGEDY A RANGE of events have been scheduled for Coventry to mark 100 years since the Titantic sank. The city-based Titanic Heritage Trust has put together a fascinating programme of talks and theatrical events at Blue Coat School, Stoke, to mark the anniversary of RMS Titanic’s tragic sinking in 1912. The five-month programme begins this month. Events include the poignant reflections of David Haisman – a local relative of Edith Brown, the Titanic’s oldest survivor – who himself served in the Merchant Navy and worked as look-out on ice fields across the North Atlantic....	1st November 2011
	Tipperary Star	DEATH OF TITANIC SURVIVOR Mrs. Catherine Croke, Ballinntemple, Dundrum, whose death has occurred is believed to have been the last survivor in Ireland of the ill-fated Titanic. She was aged 21 at the time of the disaster and it was her first experience of being aboard a ship....	20th November 1948
	The Times	NEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT BlGHAM, JOHN CHARLES, Q.C. (Liverpool, Exchange) (L.U.), of 19, Palace-gate, Kensington, second s. of the late Mr. John Bigham, a merchant, of Liverpool, b. 1840, and educated at the Liverpool Institute and the Gym...	23rd July 1895
	Chicago Daily Tribune	MERCHANT FAINTS FROM JOY page 3 Business Man Swoons on Learning Relatives Were Rescued from Titanic Wreck Aurora, Ill., April 17- [Special]- Oscar W. Johnson, 32 years old, a business man living at St. Charles, Ill., fell over in a dead faint ...	18th April 1912
	Concord Journal	CAROLINE LAMSON BROWN The death of Mrs. John Murray Brown on Tuesday, June 26th, at the Emerson Hospital in Concord, removed from the scene a type of the handsome, accomplished woman who so well represented old New York in the late sixties and seventies of the last centur...	28th June 1928
		MORE THAN A CREW LIST The “More than a List of Crew” Website Explained The historical circumstances that made merchant seafarers some of the best documented of nineteenth and early twentieth century workers in Britain...	30th August 2011
	San Francisco Chronicle	GIVES LIFE FOR LOVE OF HUSBAND Relatives Here Believe Wife of Isidor Straus Refused to Leave His Side. That her devotion to her husband, refusing to leave the ship unless he accompanied her from the ill-fated Titanic, cost the life of Mrs. Isidor...	17th April 1912
	New York Herald	WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary...	19th April 1912
		MR. & MRS. E. A. SANDERS (UNCLE AND AUNT) In April 1912 the Exeter Flying Post newspaper reported that Titanic victim, Mrs. Lilian Carter, was a neice of Mrs. E. A. Sanders of Stoke House. Mrs. Lilian Carter (formerly Hughes) was a daughter of Thomas Hughes and Frances (formerly Ford)...
		GENERAL INFORMATION Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ...
	New York Times Book Review	THE AUTHOR OF "AN OKLAHOMA ROMANCE" The author of "An Oklahoma Romance," the story of a love affair complicated with a land claim, which the Century Company are publishing, is Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee. She is a New Yorker of a family that has been well known in the metropolis for...	19th October 1901
		AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF FUND: KANTOR No. 228. (Russian). The husband, about thirty years of age, was drowned. He was travelling with his wife, who was saved. He had been a commission merchant, earning about $2,500 a year, and was bringing to this country several trunks of valuable furs ...	1913
	New York Times	JOHN J. ASTOR 5TH, 79; SON OF BUILDER OF HOTEL John Jacob Astor 5th, a descendant of one of America's most fabled merchant princes, died yesterday at his home in Miami Beach. He was 79 years old. His death was reported by two of his cousins, R. Thornton Wilson, and Stephen Spencer,...	27th June 1992
		HENRY BREWER'S WIFE? Robert J.Prewitt This is the family story as it has been passed to me form my grandparents, Edith and William Prewitt, now deceased and my father, Ronald Prewitt, very much alive as of 11/25/2005 born 3/16/1920. I spoke with him this ev...
	The Times	ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto...	12th July 1913
	Chicago Tribune	OAK PARK WOMAN TITANIC SURVIVOR LETTER SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR WHILE ABOARD THE CARPATHIA SENT TO SISTER IN OAK PARK A letter written on board the Carpathi...	21st April 1912
	The Times	JUDICIAL CHANGES His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of...	4th February 1909
	Chicago Sun-Times	ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan...	2nd February 1990
	The Star, Christchurch, New Zealand	BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES IN NEW ZEALAND, 1885 SHIPPING TELEGRAMS --- Auckland, Feb. 23. --- The Doric, S.S., Captain Jennings, arrived this evening. Left London Jan. 5 and Plymouth Jan. 8. Had fine weather to Teneriffe, arriving at 8a.m. Jan. ...	24th February 1885
	New York Times	CUBA REFUSED HIS PEANUTS And as Baumann Lost Over the Deal He is Suing His Partner --- John D. Baumann, a jute and gum merchant at 120 Maiden Lane, is seeking damages in the Supreme Court against Salvador Comas on the charge of alleged conversion, the basis of ...	7th August 1909
	New York Times	EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig...	6th May 1975
	New York Times	SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...	18th May 1964
	The Times	WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED Article...	4th April 1913
	Atlantic Daily Bulletin	SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER Brian J. Ticehurst OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...	22nd November 2005
	San Francisco Examiner	HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu...	16th April 1912
	The Evening Post	LEAPS FROM LINER'S DECK. Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea ...	20th April 1912
	The Evening Post	BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...	2nd May 1912
	New York Times	WILLIAM T. STEAD English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in...	16th April 1912
	Women's Wear Daily	EDITH L. ROSENBAUM REPORTED HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT A number of the daily papers this morning have the following press dispatch from Rouen, France: "Rouen, Monday: – Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured today in an automobile accident while on her way to this city from Paris. A Ger...	22nd August 1911
	New York Times	MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...	3rd March 1912
	Unidentified Newspaper	DIGBY COUNTY AND THE TITANIC DISASTER... Question: What do the sinking of the Titanic and Digby County have in common? Answer: The rescue ship, Carpathia's Chief Officer was Thomas W. Hankinson. Thomas William Hankinson, born 1857, was ...
	The Shields Gazette	PHYLLIS COULD HAVE DIED ON TITANIC, BUT LIVED TO 102 A WOMAN whose life was almost cut short has died after reaching the grand old age of 102. Five-year-old Phyllis Ray should have been a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic as her family set out to start a new life in America....	30th April 2009
	BBC News	UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT The man, one of Britain's most experienced dive masters, was leading a filming expedition around the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic....	24th May 2009
	Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens	JONATHAN H. BLACKWELL JONATHAN H. BLACKWELL---Born at Hopewell, Mercer County, December 20. 1841; son of Stephen and Francenia (Hunt) Blackwell; married at Hopewell, N. J., on October 5, 1865, to Susan Weart, daughter of Spencer Weart of Hopewell....
	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
	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
	The Times	£25,000 FOR BRITISH MERCHANTMEN The Times, 2 January 1919 MR. ISMAY'S MUNIFICENT GIFT --- Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, son of the founder of the White Star Line, has given £25,000 in War Loan stock to the Mercanti...	2nd January 1919
	New York Times	FAVORS ISIDOR STRAUS RICHARD CROKER SAYS HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO BUSINESS MEN --- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10---Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady, John R Sexton. and John F. Carroll, well-known Tammany men, who have been in Florida since la...	11th February 1893
		FAMILY INFORMATION ABOUT ARTHUR PAINTIN, HIS WIFE AND CHILD Alice and Arthur courted for four years before they married. Arthur had intended to come out of the merchant Navy in 1912 because Alice was pregnant, Titanic being his last planned voyage. He and Alice wanted to buy a small hotel in Ox...
	New York Times	MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne...	4th May 1912
	Journal	JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER-CREW Geoff Knight Family historians uncover story of ‘lost’ Titanic survivor ...	28th February 2010
		ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY Bill Headdon King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...	28th May 2008
	Voyage	OCEANIC John P. Eaton White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...	11th July 2005
	Voyage	NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic...	20th July 2005
		FREDERICK SHEATH Brian J. Ticehurst FREDERICK SHEATH was born in 1892 at number 12 Bell Street, Southampton, the house was a two-up, two-down terraced house with an outside toilet and no garden. Bell Street was situated in the lower, poorer part of town and not f...
	New York Times	STRAUS MEMORIALS HELD Anniversary of Titanic Disaster Marked by Two Meetings --- Memorial services for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, were held yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Straus Memorial Hall of the Edu...	16th April 1913
	New York Times	HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...	27th February 1932
	New York Times	DAUGHTERS OF JACOB HONOR IDA STRAUS Unveil Tablet in Their Home Commemorating Her Beautiful Life and Heroic End --- AGED CHANT PRAYERS FOR HER --- Self-Sacrificing Devotion of Titanic Victim Held Up as an Inspiration to the Women of Her Race ---...	25th November 1912
	The Times	LORD PIRRIE - DOMINANT FIGURE IN SHIPBUILDING PEACE AND WAR SERVICES ...	9th June 1924