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| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | NO SIGN OF WRECK Steamer Bruce Sends One Brief Message Reporting Storms. By the Associated Press ST.JOHN'S, N.F., April 17.- Henry Duff Reid, vice president of the Reid Newfoundland Co., owner of the steamer Bruce, said he has re... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| St. John's Telegram | (2008) | BERG WATCHERS The iceberg season has begun, at least for the International Ice Patrol. The U.S. Coast Guard's annual hunt for ocean-going bits of glaciers drifting through Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland started with the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago.... | 26th February 2008 | |||
| MPNnow.com | (2009) | A 'TITANIC' EXHIBITION AT RMSC Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, a little over 450 miles from Newfoundland. The Olympic-class passenger liner sank in fewer than three hours, claiming the lives of 1,517 people.... | 1st October 2009 | |||
| Hilton Head Island Packet | (2007) | TITANIC LECTURE RAISES AWARENESS OF LEGENDARY SUNKEN LINER Looking for a break from the steady stream of Christmas-themed movies and music that tend to dominate the holidays? Well, what's more different than that famous Atlantic Ocean shipwreck roughly 400 miles off of Newfoundland, otherwise known as the Titanic? ... | 28th December 2007 | |||
| this is hampshire,net | (2007) | RECREATING THE VOICES OF THE TITANIC IT has already led to a Hollywood blockbuster, seen hundreds of valuable mementoes auctioned off and spawned a legion of enthusiasts worldwide.The sinking of the Titanic, when it hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, today continues to captivate generations.... | 13th February 2007 | |||
| The Gazette (Montreal) | (2008) | TITANIC SETS SAIL The sinking of the allegedly unsinkable Titanic has fascinated few more than it has Paul-Henry Nargeolet. He was among the very first to see the sunken ocean liner in its final resting place, 12,600 feet at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 645 kilometres southeast of Newfoundland. That was over 20 years ago.... | 17th November 2008 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1913) | JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge... | 28th October 1913 | |||
| CanWest News Service | (2007) | 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 | |||
| Gaston Gazette | (2009) | TITANTIC EXHIBIT TAKES VISITORS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN The newest exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium - "Titanic Aquatic" - features a display of nearly 200 artifacts recovered from the ship. In 28-degree water, as deep as 12,500 feet off the coast of Newfoundland, the wreckage of the Titanic was found in 1985 after sinking in April 1912.... | 31st January 2009 | |||
| Hampshire Independent | (1915) | IN MEMORIAM: NORMAN HARRISON In most loving memory of Norman Harrison, second engineer of the SS Titanic, who laid down his life in the fulfilment of his duty when that vessel foundered off the coast of Newfoundland, on the morning on Monday, April 15th, 1912. ''Fidelis usque... | 17th April 1915 | |||
| Toronto Star | (2008) | LAST DINNER ON THE TITANIC The year is 1912. As the Titanic steams toward its destiny an iceberg 563 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland its first-class dining room glows with life. Distinguished guests descend the Grand Staircase into a room glittering with silver and crystal, anticipating another sumptuous meal served on 24-karat, gold-rimmed china.... | 30th September 2008 | |||
| Regina Leader-Post | (2008) | FIVE-STAR ST. JOHN'S INN BOASTS LINKS TO TITANIC If you're a fan of the blockbuster movie Titanic, the elegant staircase at the Ryan Mansion Inn might deliver a sense of deja vu.The ship, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912, was luxuriously furnished to capture the growing transatlantic traffic of the era. Its grand staircase to the first-class quarters was a hallmark of the liner's opulence.... | 28th July 2008 | |||
| BLUE JACKET (Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days... | ||||||
| Irish Independent | (2007) | COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912.... | 15th August 2007 | |||
| Daily Mirror | (2006) | FAULTY RIVETS SANK TITANIC FAULTY rivets were to blame for the Titanic disaster, a 9/11 scientist says. Metal pins that should have held the hull together snapped after the liner hit an iceberg. They allowed it to open up like a zip when it sank off Newfoundland in 1912, leaving 1,523 dead. US forensic expert Tim Foecke, who probed the World Trade Centre terror attack, said the rivets were made from sub-standard wrought iron which snapped under pressure.... | 1st November 2006 | |||
| Canada.com | (2008) | TITANIC LIFE JACKET SELLS IN NEW YORK FOR $68,500 An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.The cork-filled life preserver - still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts - was thought to have been found by farmer John James Dunbar on the Halifax shoreline after the passenger ship sank off Newfoundland in April, 1912.... | 27th June 2008 | |||
| Scotsman | (2006) | WATCH OF TITANIC VICTIM ON SALE FOR ?25,000 NULL... | 5th January 2006 | |||
| Arcadia News Leader | (2009) | BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF THE TITANIC April 15, 1912--One of the most infamous calamities in recent history occurs: the largest and most opulent ship of its time, and the vessel most people deemed to be unsinkable, British luxury passenger liner, the Titanic, meets its demise during its maiden voyage. 1,500 people were killed as the stricken vessel sank into the icy waters about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, its massive body snapping in two before becoming completely immersed. "The whole thing was a tragedy from start to finish," said Don Lynch, leading Titanic historian, during the presentation he held this week in the Arcadia High School auditorium.... | 25th April 2009 | |||
| HARRISON FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Swainston Harrison Junior, who died at Ibi, Central Africa, 16th March 1892 aged 24 years. also Norman Harrison, second engineer SS Titanic foundered off the coast of Newf... | ||||||
| Milwaukee Journal | (1920) | TITANIC SURVIVOR TO BE BURIED SATURDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine E. Crosby, 72, widow of Captain E. G. Crosby, founder of the Crosby Steamship line, who died Thursday at her home, 474 Marshall St., will be held Saturday, 2 PM, at the residence, with entombment at Fairview mausol... | 30th July 1920 | |||
| ROSALIND New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Managers) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 6 April for New York. On 7 April at 45 degrees 10 ‘ N. by 56 degrees 40” W. encountered a str... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1959) | MISS MARIE YOUNG DIES Survivor of Titanic Was 83---Had Been Piano Teacher --- AMSTERDAM, N. Y., July 28 (AP)---Miss Marie C. Young, one of the survivors of the Titanic ship disaster, died yesterday at a rest home near here. Her age was 83. Mis... | 29th July 1959 | |||
| Associated Press | (2006) | TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Associated PressJune 9, 2006 at 4:45 PM EDTWashington - 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 ... | 10th June 2006 | |||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | (1944) | MRS. JOHN B. THAYER Mrs. John B. Thayer, widow of John B. Thayer, prominent Philadelphian and Pennsylvania Railroad official, died yesterday on the 32nd anniversary of her husband's death in the Titanic disaster. She was 72. When the Titanic sunk on April 14,... | 15th April 1944 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | TITANIC ICEBERG PICTURED FROM SS AMERIKA This nice postcard was produced on board the SS Amerika, a Hamburg Amerika Linie liner. The caption reads, in bad French, which should prove that the item was produced on board the liner in many languages: TERRE NEUVE. Eisberg r... | 8th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1976) | MARGARET MOORE, 83, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Margaret Graham Moore of Greenwich, Conn., a passenger on the Titanic when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, died in Greenwich Hospital yesterday. She was 83 years old. The 882-foot luxury liner, crowded with celebriti... | 27th April 1976 | |||
| CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ... | ||||||
| Salt Lake Tribune | (1912) | UTAH WOMAN ON TITANIC NOT NAMED AS SURVIVOR Page 1 Photograph of Mrs. Irene Colvin Corbett of Provo, who wrote she would take passage on Titanic. She is holding one of her three children, who are with their grandparents in Provo. (Photo of Mrs. Corbett and child... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1964) | 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1953) | JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82 New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest... | 8th October 1953 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| (2005) | SAMARA Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers) Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued t... | 23rd January 2005 | ||||
| Western People | (1912) | AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1997) | OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100 SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r... | 22nd January 1997 | |||
| Concord Enterprise | (1913) | TO INSTITUTE SUIT Miss Frances M. Ford of this town, who lost nine relatives in the wreck of the Titanic, including her mother, two brothers, two sisters, an uncle and an aunt, and their small children, is one of those to institute suit against the steamship company i... | 12th February 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1914) | DISPUTE J. M. SMART'S WILL Many Claimants Now for Estate of Titanic Victim --- Surrogate Fowler reserved decision yesterday on the contested will of James Montgomery Smart, a victim of the Titanic disaster. The authenticity of the will which bears the date of Jul... | 4th February 1914 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ... | 15th April 1912 | |||
| www.physorg.com | (2005) | TITANIC: SANK MORE QUICKLY THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT The scientists also discovered that after hitting an iceberg, the ship split into three pieces. During their visit they found two large pieces of the ship's hull half a kilometer away from the stern. Before this discovery, experts had beli... | 31st December 2005 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1966) | PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou... | 3rd April 1966 | |||
| The Times | (1935) | TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC A coincidence between the Titanic and the Titanian was magnified in an article written by ex-sailor William Reeves in the April 1967 issue of the Sea Breezes magazine. Reeves was on lookout on the cargo vessel Titanian in April 1935 in the... | 27th April 1935 | |||
| (2004) | KURA Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.) (Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees ... | 19th December 2004 | ||||
| (2005) | LORD CROMER Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor... | 9th January 2005 | ||||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT S.S. Titanic Cape Race April 14 Mrs. Geo. E. Graham, 240 Dufferin st., Toronto, Canada ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Santa Barbara News-Press | (1990) | 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 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1996) | OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ... | 10th April 1996 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | BODY OF W.C.PORTER REACHES WORCESTER Identified at Hallifax by Waldo E. Sessions who will have charge of the funeral which will be saturday. The body of Walter C. Porter, 10 Knox street of S. Porter & Co., last manufacturers, 25 Union street who met his death in the Titan... | 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 | |||
| San Francisco Examiner | (1919) | DR. WASHINGTON DODGE TRIES SUICIDE; MAY DIE Page 1, column 1, continued page 6, column 4 [Photo] Mind of S.F. Leader Fails; Shoots Self Former Assessor Uses Revolver in Garage at Home; Found by Wife; Taken to Hospital Suit Brought i... | 22nd June 1919 | |||
