Mystery Ship

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  EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM GEORGE BEHE
''A few years ago I found an interesting titbit which, I believe, clears up any mystery surrounding how he was saved. His photograph appears in the May 4, 1912 issue of the Illustrated London News along with other crewmen who had returned to England....
20th May 1989
New York Times THE SMART MYSTERY
A young man of 20 years and a girl of 18 were the objects of a great deal of sympathy when the Titanic went down last April. They were the children, according to gossip, of JAMES MONTGOMERY SMART, who perished in the wreck. Orphaned and desolate, som...
8th January 1913
MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE Titanic Research MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE
Senan Molony
Case-closed on the Californian?...
17th February 2004
The Argus (Melbourne) UNTITLED ARTICLE DESCRIBING LIGHTOLLER'S FORT DENISON ACTIVITY
SYDNEY, Thursday The antiquated piece of ordnance which surmounts Fort Denison, a short distance from Circular Quay, was charged and fired off before daybreak last Saturday morning.  Who perpetrated such a ...
12th October 1900
  ST KEVERNE CHURCH, CORNWALL, BAPTISM REGISTER
The baptism register for St Keverne reveals that Hayden Sobey (son of Richard & Mary Jane Sobey nee Hayden)was one of 8 children, strangely though, both he and his sister Amelia do not feature in the register. The children that do, with their date...
THE TITANIC AND THE INDIFFERENT STRANGER Titanic Review THE TITANIC AND THE INDIFFERENT STRANGER
Paul Rogers
The scandal of a ship, within sight of the sinking Titanic that did nothing to help. Rockets were seen and ignored...but was the Captain guilty of mass murder? Did 1500 people needlessly die?...
24th July 2009
ICE:  CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER Titanic Research ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER
Senan Molony
This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies....
14th October 2007
LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE! Titanic Research LIFEBOATS DON'T LIE!
Senan Molony
FEWER and fewer revisionists of the Titanic disaster are now making the overt claim that the Mystery Ship seen off the port bow at the time of the sinking was (as the American and British Inquiries stated in 1912) the Leyland Liner Ca...
13th November 2005
  PENNAL FAMILY INFORMATION
Thomas Frederick Pennal (to use his full and correct names) was known as Frederick and because of uncertainty with his surname, for example, he appears on the Titanic Engagement Sheet as F. Pumal (Ref. No 178, 1st Class Victualling Dept.) he has unti...
TITANIC SCANDAL: THE TRIAL OF THE MOUNT TEMPLE Titanic Review TITANIC SCANDAL: THE TRIAL OF THE MOUNT TEMPLE
Charles A. Haas
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5th February 2010
Santa Barbara News-Press RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...
8th July 1990
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
Chicago Tribune TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT
Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—...
18th April 1912
  PASCOE FAMILY INFORMATION
Charles was born on the 18 March 1867 in the village of Breage, a few miles west of Helston in south-west Cornwall. He was baptised at the parish church on 18 August 1867 and was the son of Anthony and Jane Anne Pascoe. (The 1881 UK census shows his...
Chicago Tribune THIRD SUICIDE IN FAMILY MYSTERY
Northwestern ‘U’ Student Kills Himself Two years ago Dr. John R. Minahan, wealthy and prominent surgeon of Green Bay, Wis., was summoned to Chicago. His oldest son, John Jr., had ended his life in a frat...
20th February 1925
  CONFUSION OVER A NAME: YROIS OR YVOIS
John Lamoreau
Almost since the Titanic sank there has been confusion over the name of a second class passenger. What we know for positive was that her first name was Henriette. She was traveling with film maker William Harbeck. They both lost t...
The Times THE RT. REV. ALOYSIUS SMITH
The Rt. Rev. Aloysius Smith was the eldest brother of Reginald George Smith, one of the saloon stewards on Titanic. This is his obituary- FIRST ABBOT OF BODMIN The Rt. Rev. Abbot Aloysius Smith, C.R.L., First Abbot of Bo...
23rd August 1960
TITANIC - VOICES FROM THE ARCHIVES Titanic Review TITANIC - VOICES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers reviews a new BBC audiobook of Titanic recollections....
13th April 2012
  VIOLIN PLAYED AS TITANIC SUNK IN 1912 FINALLY DISCOVERED!
A new book to be published this week, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner, claims that the violin which band leader Wallace Hartley played as the Titanic sank in April 1912 survived, and may be offered for sale at the time of next year's centenary....
28th March 2011
TITANIC'S ROCKETS Titanic Research TITANIC'S ROCKETS
Senan Molony
Why more were fired and why it matters....
15th March 2002
CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?   CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?
Senan Molony
(William McQuillan, from a family photo)...
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT Titanic Review THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers reviews a new book exploring the mystery of the "Californian Incident"...
16th June 2009
  THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES BARNES AND ROBERT BARNHOUSE
Mike Holgate
In April 1913, an article appeared in the Torquay Times under the headline: Echo Of The Titanic Disaster : The Strange Story Of The Man With Two Names. A hearing at Torquay County Court had established the true identity of a stoke...
9th April 2009
MYSTERIOUS WAIF OF THE WAVES.. MGU? Titanic Research MYSTERIOUS WAIF OF THE WAVES.. MGU?
Jim Currie
Unresolved questions regarding the April 1912 voyage of the SS Campanello and the possibility of her involvement in the Titanic disaster. ...
12th July 2011
Cornishman NEWLYN MAN RESCUED
AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi...
18th April 1912
SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC Titanic Research SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC
Jim Currie
As a professional mariner and Marine Accident Investigator, I was irresistibly drawn to the detailed information available concerning the few minutes before Titanic began her death throwes....
30th December 2011
  THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK
John Lamoreau
William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska...
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