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Worcester Telegram	NO SIGN OF WRECK Article...	18th April 1912
KOLO	TITANIC MESSAGE: DREAM BIG The blue wall at Dilworth Middle School represents the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland. It's a project the seventh grade was doing in preparation for the visit of the world famous explorer Dr. Robert Ballard....	22nd April 2010
Gizmag	AUVS ROVS KEY TO BRINGING BACK NEW TITANIC IMAGES AND DATA Last week the RMS Titanic Inc. finally finished up an unprecedented photography expedition at the site of the sunken Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland....	28th September 2010
St. John's Telegram	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	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
this is hampshire,net	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)	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
Tulsa World	ALL ABOARD FOR ONE TITANIC CELEBRATION She left Southampton April 10, 1912, bound for New York, with stops at Cherbourg and Queens-town â€” now Cobh, in southern Cork County, Ireland â€” in between. Before she sank famously about 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the RMS Titanic served, well, the meal of a lifetime....	15th April 2010
com	HOW THE TITANIC DISASTER PUSHED UNCLE SAM TO "RULE THE AIR" - ARS TECHNICA The Times reported that it had learned from the Marconi company's Newfoundland station that the world's biggest ocean liner, the Titanic, had hit an iceberg en route from Southhampton, England. But not to worry, the newspaper assured its readers. ......	7th July 2011
Chicago Tribune	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	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	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
Toronto Star	EXCURSION TO TITANIC WRECK PROCEEDS DESPITE FIRE ON RESEARCH VESSEL A small fire broke out aboard a research vessel days before it is scheduled to leave Newfoundland for an expedition to the site of the Titanic shipwreck....	19th August 2010
CBC.ca	TITANIC EXPEDITION CLOSE TO WRECK SITE The Titanic sunk in April 1912 on its first-ever voyage almost 600 kilometres south of Newfoundland. Associated Press A high-tech expedition that hopes to produce startling new images of the wreck of the Titanic is arriving on the scene Wednesday morning....	25th August 2010
Hampshire Independent	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
Regina Leader-Post	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
Toronto Star	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
coventrytelegraph.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S SON RECOUNTS STORY TO COVENTRY SCHOOLKIDS - COVENTRY TELEGRAPH THE son of Titanicâ€™s oldest survivor came to Coventry to share his motherâ€™s harrowing tale of survival on the maiden voyage. Edith Brown was just 15 when she sailed on the Titanic as a second-class passenger with her mum and dad. Before her death in 1997 at the age of 101, she told her 10 children about the tragic sinking of the legendary vessel, which struck an iceberg 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada, on April 14 1912....	28th November 2011
Herald News	CALL OF TITANIC WILL GO OUT AGAIN Nearly 100 years ago, Jimmy Myrick, a 14-year-old Newfoundland boy, was one of the first people to hear RMS Titanic's late-night distress call. The transmissions from the stricken vessel and the resulting bustle of activity at the Cape Race Marconi Station that occurred after Myrick alerted the station’s wireless operators to the impending disaster will be re-enacted on April 14 as part of the 100th anniversary of the world’s most fascinating marine tragedies....	14th January 2012
Irish Independent	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
Voyage	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...
Canada.com	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
thegeorgian.ca	STEPHENVILLE CROSSING RESIDENT BUILDS REPLICA OF FAMOUS SHIP Karl McFatridge isn’t one to stay idle for very long. This Stephenville Crossing resident kept himself active through the past several months by building a replica of the Titanic, the passenger liner that famously struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank in 1912. “I started last September and I finished it about two weeks ago,” said Karl. “Starting off is the worst – the keel is a lot of work. But it comes up slowly and it’s a good pastime.”...	8th August 2011
Scotsman	WATCH OF TITANIC VICTIM ON SALE FOR ?25,000 A POCKET watch discovered on the frozen body of a Scot who was the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic is being auctioned for ?25,000.The silver watch was found on Thomas Mullin, whose corpse was plucked from the sea the day before it became too treacherous for rescue vessels to continue searching. The 20-year-old, who was born in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, had signed on for the ill-fated voyage on 6 April, 1912, as a third-class steward.More than 1,500 died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland on the night of 14 April, 1912. ...	5th January 2006
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 2011
Arcadia News Leader	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
northernlife.ca	SCIENCE NORTH COMMEMORATES THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC It was majestic. It was technologically advanced. It was supreme luxury. It sank off the coast of Newfoundland nearly 100 years ago and 1,517 people perished. More importantly, 706 survived to tell their stories. Fascination with the Titanic continues to this day, and on April 14, 2012, Science North will commemorate the sinking of the Titanic with a gala evening befitting of the most famous ocean liner in history. This event will bring people back in history to that fateful evening in 1912, and will include a modernized version of the last dinner served to the first class guests on the Titanic. ...	14th June 2011
	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	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
Voyage	ROSALIND John P. Eaton 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	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	TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Washington - 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 to Congress Friday.State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said concerted action by the four countries most closely associated with the Titanic would effectively foreclose financing for and the technical ability to conduct unregulated salvage and other potentially harmful activities.Much of what remains of the Titanic rests underwater, about 560 kilometres from Newfoundland, where the British liner sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. A total of 1,522 passengers and crew were killed in the wreck. More than 700 survived....	10th June 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer	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
Chicago Daily Tribune	SALAVAGE SHIP ACTIVE WHERE TITANIC SANK A British salvage vessel, the Help, was reported today using heavy explosives in the north Atlantic roughly over the spot where the Titanic sank in 1912. Nothing could be learned of the nature of the ship's activities, first reported ...	1st August 1953
The Syracuse Herald	FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS New York Aril 20th – That a fire had raged in the [?] bunkers of the liner Titanic from the day she left Southampton u...	20th April 1912
	TITANIC ICEBERG PICTURED FROM SS AMERIKA Postcard sold on board SS Amerika...	8th May 1912
New York Times	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	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	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	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
New York Times	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
Newark Evening News	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
Voyage	SAMARA John P. Eaton 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	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	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
New York Times	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
Concord Enterprise	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
Titanic Review	COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK Gavin Murphy 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
Chicago Daily News	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
Chicago Tribune	PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER _____________ Arthur Tree Brings Pictures of Giant Floes in Which Titanic Met Doom...	18th April 1912
www.physorg.com	TITANIC: SANK MORE QUICKLY THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT After visiting the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in August 2005, scientists have discovered that Titanic took just five minutes to sink ? much faster than previously thought....	31st December 2005
Chicago Tribune	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	TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC Cargo vessel's encounter with ice...	27th April 1935
Voyage	KURA John P. Eaton 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
Voyage	LORD CROMER John P. Eaton 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	AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
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
Unidentified Newspaper	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	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
San Francisco Examiner	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