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BBC News : Northern Ireland | (2006) | NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ... | 30th October 2006 | ||
| Bristol Times and Mirror | (1912) | 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 | |||
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'Berth 44' | (2009) | CARL SPENCER ~ A TRAGIC LOSS Sunday 24 May 2009, whilst diving on the wreck of the Britannic, 37 year old Carl Spencer part of the expedition team exploring the wreck site in the Agean sea, 150 nautical miles south-east of Athens, was taken ill with Decompression sickness (the bends). Carl was airlifted to a Naval hospital in Athens but never regained consciousness, he was pronounced dead at the military medical facility. Carl father of two was from from Burton-on-trent, Staffordshire, I only met him once, he will be a great loss to us all, our deepest sympathy to his family.... | 25th May 2009 | ||
| The Times | (1914) | THOMAS WHITELEY : ANOTHER TITANIC CASE In Mr Justice Darling's court yesterday Mr [W. Norman] Raeburn on behalf of the defendants in Whiteley v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (Limited), asked that a date should be fixed for the hearing. He said that the plaintiff, who was a ... | 17th January 1914 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | “EARS” OF TITANIC FAIL Local Hydrographic Experts Tell of Device on Bows to Catch Vibrations. Iceberg’s Drift Noiseless Operator of Submarine Phone Probably Crushed At His Post When Prow Was Smashed A ship’... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2004) | MYSTERY SHIP MADE SIMPLE THE PERSISTENT notion that the Californian is the Titanic's mystery ship - seen at an average of 5.6 miles off the port bow by Inquiry evidence from Titanic witnesses - can be exploded by this relatively... | 17th February 2004 | ||
| New York Times | (1899) | THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o... | 25th November 1899 | |||
| (2007) | RMS TITANIC’S MAIDEN VOYAGE 'RUN DATA' APRIL 11 - 14, 1912. Date... | 20th October 2007 | ||||
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Inverness Courier | (2006) | STAN'S 'TITANIC' AMBITION IS A MUSEUM OF THE SEA 11 July, 2006THE Titanic has not sunk - it is all shipshape and has been seen at the entrance to the Caledonian Canal.However, this version is just a tenth the size of the original liner which sank with the loss of 1503 lives ... | 11th July 2006 | ||
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ET Reviews | (2002) | COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK It is often not an easy task, nor a popular enterprise, to be a revisionist of ocean liner history. Proof of this is found, for example, in Coli... | 29th September 2002 | ||
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ET Research | (2007) | KEEPING TRACK OF A MAIDEN VOYAGE On Thursday the 11th of April 1912, the RMS Titanic departed Queenstown on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic ocean to New York. About 2:20 PM GMT, she took departure from the Daunt’s Rock light vessel, and pro... | 20th February 2007 | ||
| (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 | ||||
| New York Times | (1928) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr... | 29th July 1928 | |||
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ET Research | (2007) | ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER 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 | ||
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ET Research | (2008) | COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ... | 28th February 2008 | ||
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ET Research | (2006) | A PV SOLVES A PUZZLE THE devil is in the detail... and nowhere is that phrase more true than in particular areas of Titanic study. There has been controversy, for instance, over an impression given - to some - by remarks made by Captain James... | 13th October 2006 | ||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | 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 | |||
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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 | ||
