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Toronto Star | (2009) | NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
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WEAU-TV 13 | (2009) | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC Imagine seeing the Titanic, in person, deep under the waves in the north Atlantic. An author from Los Angeles with local roots is teaching kids about the disaster, with unique insight.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1967) | OBITUARY Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ... | 27th April 1967 | |||
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Branson Courier | (2009) | TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction.... | 9th March 2009 | ||
| TITANIC 97 YEARS UNDER Today marks the day of titanic's 97th anniversary of hitting the iceberg and sinking in the cold waters of the north Atlantic with a loss of 1517 lives. So I made this 7 min video to think about the lives that where lost on that horrific night. ... | ||||||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | TITANIC DISASTER REMEMBERED About 100 people assembled to commemorate one of the darkest days of Southampton's maritime history.They gathered at Holyrood Church for a service remembering the victims of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic 96 years ago tomorrow.... | 14th April 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2008) | TITANIC SURVIVOR AUCTIONS RELICS The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Now 96, Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.... | 16th October 2008 | ||
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Norwalk Plus Magazine | (2008) | TITANIC EXHIBIT AT FAIRFIELD MUSEUM This past April 14 marked the 96th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. On that fateful night in 1912, hundreds of men, women and children lost their lives in the waters of the North Atlantic, and those who survived went on with lives that were forever altered.... | 23rd April 2008 | ||
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KOLD-TV | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT COMES TO TUCSON You can see a piece of history come alive at a new exhibit in Tucson. It's all about Titanic and that fateful night in the North Atlantic in April of 1912.... | 3rd April 2009 | ||
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | (2009) | RMS TITANIC EXHIBIT TO HAVE THREE-MONTH RUN The world-renowned "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" surfaces for a three-month run Oct. 1 at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Experience the legendary story of this famous ship and its ill-fated maiden voyage across the North Atlantic.... | 24th September 2009 | ||
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East Valley Tribune | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBIT SHOWS TRAGEDY'S HUMAN SIDE 'That's my grandfather. That's him,' says a white-haired gentleman, tapping his finger on the name of August Wennerstrom, third-class passenger aboard the Titanic, the luxury ocean liner that sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
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Dive | (2007) | CARPATHIA SURVEYED A British-led team of technical divers has successfully completed a survey of the Titanic's rescue ship, the Carpathia, which lies at 160m in the north Atlantic. The team, led by Ric Waring and including Rich Stevenson and Jeff Cornish, penetrated the wreck situated 200 miles from the Irish Coast... | 1st November 2007 | ||
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abc40tv.com | (2009) | TITANIC ANNIVERSARY REMEMBERED SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (abc40)-- April 15th marks the anniversary of one of the most deadly peacetime maritime disasters in history.It was 97 years ago in the early hours of the morning, that the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg just hours earlier on the night of the 14th.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
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USA Today | (2009) | FEDERAL JUDGE TO RULE ON FATE OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS Nearly a century after the Titanic struck ice in the North Atlantic, a federal judge in Virginia is poised to preserve the largest collection of artifacts from the opulent oceanliner and protect the ship's resting place.... | 24th March 2009 | ||
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Nova News Now | (2008) | TITANIC SAILS INTO LIVERPOOL Over 1,500 lives were lost on April 14, 1912 when the ill-fated RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Ninety-six years later, the cast and creative team of the Winds of Change will bring the legendary story of the RMS Titanic and its passengers back to life, beginning on April 18, 2008.... | 15th April 2008 | ||
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Broadway World | (2007) | PHOTO PREVIEW: TITANIC THE MUSICAL AT TOBYS When they built the RMS Titanic in 1912, it made history. The largest floating object in the world (at the time) they said was unsinkable, but it was. Thousands lost their lives in the icy North Atlantic. But the memory of those lost and tributes to those who survived have captured the hearts and minds of mankind the world over.... | 5th September 2007 | ||
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The Chronicle Herald | (2008) | CEREMONY HONOURS TITANIC VICTIMS A decades-old ceremony held to remember the Titanic disaster came to Halifax on Tuesday, 96 years to the day after the luxury liner hit an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic.With bagpipers and priests present, 18 members of the United States Coast Guard's International Ice Patrol saluted the 1,500 people who died on April 15, 1912.... | 19th April 2008 | ||
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KTNV Las Vegas | (2009) | THE SPIRIT SOME SAY LURKS AT THE TITANIC EXHIBIT AT THE LUXOR Wednesday marked the 97th anniversary of the Titanic sinking to the bottom of the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 people died in the frigid waters that night, but about 700 survived. At the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor one of those survivors still lurks in the shadows.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
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U.S. News & World Report | (2008) | THE SECRET OF HOW THE TITANIC SANK For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank.... | 30th September 2008 | ||
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Mail on Sunday | (2008) | FAMILY OF 'COWARD' WHO STEERED THE TITANIC INTO AN ICEBERG REVEAL HIS 'LIFE-LONG GUILT AND SHAME' The sinking of the Titanic left a legacy of grief and heartbreak for hundreds of the survivors. But the suffering was not confined to those who lost loved ones in the icy seas of the North Atlantic. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was at the wheel of the liner on April 15, 1912, when she struck the iceberg that destroyed her. ... | 18th August 2008 | ||
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Brighton Standard Blade | (2007) | SHIP OF DREAMS DOCKS AT DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE As hard as it is for me to swallow, I didn't survive. Nor did my wife, Augusta, sons Charles, William, Harold and Sidney, or daughters Lillian and Jessie. My entire family, lost to the frigid waters of the north Atlantic.The worst part? The circumstances leading to our demise were a cruel mistake, a wicked, unplanned twist of fate.... | 3rd August 2007 | ||
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Newsweek | (2008) | THE TITANIC'S LAST SECRET The Titanic sank into the North Atlantic 97 years ago. Since then, as Harvard historian Steven Biel quipped, "Only Jesus and the Civil War have been written about more." In close to 200 books, documentaries and movies-and the highest-grossing film of all time-historians, scientists and Titanic buffs have fervently debated what really caused the biggest passenger ship of her day to sink just two hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg, carrying 1,522 people to their deaths.... | 6th October 2008 | ||
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Manchester Evening News | (2007) | DIVE TO TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP A SALFORD fireman has led the world's first successful dive to the wreck of a ship which steamed to the rescue of the Titanic.A 10-strong amateur dive team led by Ric Waring entered the record books by reaching the wreck and then salvaged artefacts from RMS Carpathia, which sits on the bottom of the north Atlantic some 500ft below the surface, 200 miles from the Irish coast.... | 19th September 2007 | ||
| The Times | (1913) | LIFE-SAVING AT SEA AWARD OF THE KING'S MEDALS The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award medals for gallantry in saving life at sea to the folowing persons: A silver medal t... | 12th July 1913 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | PRESENTATION OF MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY BUCKINGHAM PALACE, DEC. 16---The King this morning decorated the following with medals for acts of gallantry on land and at sea as stated against their names:--- BOARD OF TRADE MEDALS Lieutenant ... | 17th December 1913 | |||
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OnMilwaukee.com | (2008) | "TITANIC" IS A FASCINATING, EMOTIONAL JOURNEY It was nearly a century ago now that the RMS Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious vessel, sank during her maiden voyage after colliding with a North Atlantic iceberg. Most of us are familiar, if not fascinated, with this historic tragedy and the real objects and real stories presented in the Milwaukee Public Museum's "Titanic -- The Artifact Exhibition," opening Friday, Oct. 10 and running through May 25, 2009, bring us even closer to the fateful events of April 14 and 15, 1912.... | 9th October 2008 | ||
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Daily Mail | (2007) | WATCHES MADE FROM TITANIC'S HULL GO ON SALE FOR £75,000 Watches made from what must be one of the rarest materials on Earth - metal from the hull of the Titanic - are going on sale for up to £75,000. Salvaged by divers from the wreck of the liner - which lies 12,500ft under the North Atlantic where it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 with the loss of 1,500 lives - the metal has been blended with modern shipbuilding steel to make the casing of the timepieces.... | 6th August 2007 | ||
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GREAT LAKES TITANIC SOCIETY GLTS is an informal association of Titanic enthusiasts which got its start in the Great Lakes region. The website highlights the maritime connections of the region to the Titanic and other White Star Line ships. Great Lakes and North Atlantic maritime history are also explored.... | |||||
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The Tribune | (2008) | WITNESS NIGHT OF THE TITANIC Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic a ship widely heralded as 'unsinkable' struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Over the course of the next few hours, a great tragedy unfolded as weather, ice, the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship. In Night of the Titanic, now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium, experience the Titanic's last day to discover what went wrong, and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
| Glasgow Courier | (1955) | SERVICES FOR TAMPICO MAN SET FOR TODAY Page 1, Column 5 Funeral services for William DeMessemaker, 79, early-day Tampico homesteader and a survivor of the Titanic sinking, Atlantic disaster of 1912, were to be held at 3 this afternoon in St. Raphael's Catholic Church. The ... | 9th June 1955 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BOSTON BANKS TO MERGE H. K. Hallett to Head Combined Atlantic and Fourth National --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, July 21---The death of Arthur W. Newell, President of the Fourth National Bank, who was lost on the Titanic, is abou... | 22nd July 1912 | |||
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guardian.co.uk | (2009) | TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012.... | 31st March 2009 | ||
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Foxnews.com | (2006) | LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass.... | 7th May 2006 | ||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2006) | TWINNING WILL CEMENT TITANIC LINK In a cemetery in the Canadian town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, around 150 victims of the Titanic disaster are buried. Their bodies were recovered from the freezing waters of the north Atlantic days after the sinking.Now, leisure chiefs in Southampton are planning to cement the relationship between the two cities by signing an official "twinning" accord with the Canadians.The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor John Slade, is set to visit Halifax in March next year as part of the 95th anniversary commemorations of the disaster.... | 13th November 2006 | ||
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Canada.com | (2006) | LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ... | 8th May 2006 | ||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SOCIETY IS SHOCKED AT NEWS OF DEATH Washington society was shocked when news that the name of James C. Smith, of Chicago, was not included in the list of those saved from death when the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Mr. Smith was well known in Washington, where... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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Guardian Unlimited | (2007) | REUTERS GETS THAT SINKING FEELING News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week.... | 11th August 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1986) | JOHN RYERSON John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel fortune... | 24th January 1986 | |||
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CNW Group | (2007) | TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION COMES TO THE ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE IN JUNE 2007 TORONTO, Feb. 12 /CNW/ - April 10, 1912 the world's largest ship, Titanic, sets sail from Southampton, England on its maiden voyage to New York. Five days later after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, Titanic sinks and 1,500 lives are lost. On April 10, 2007, in recognition of the 95th anniversary of her launch, tickets go on sale to the public for Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition opening at the Ontario Science Centre for a six month run, June 2, 2007.... | 13th February 2007 | ||
| MEMORIALS Named on Millbrook Church Memorial. Named on St Mary's Church, Eling, nr. Southampton Memorial. The memorial is situated just inside the church on the right. ''To The Memory of'' Frederick Walter Godwin, 34 years old. Will... | ||||||
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Worcester News | (2006) | ELLEN ASHES JOIN TITANIC VICTIM DAD The ashes of Mrs Walker, who married twice and had a son, were scattered off Cataclew Point, on the north Cornish coast, by the RNLI lifeboat Spirit of Padstow. Mrs Walker, known as Betty, died at Red Hill Nursing Home, Worces-ter, last year. Among those at the ceremony was north Cornwall auxiliary coastguard Ian Fuller, who became a friend to Mrs Walker when she lived next door to his father. He said: She kept all the cuttings about the Titanic that she could collect, and I believe she had a cabin key from the ship.... | 3rd November 2006 | ||
| FAMILY GRAVE [The Church was demolished in 1860 but the churchyard still exists. The gravestones are next to the Storrow obelisk near the churchyards north-west gate.] Joseph Bell who departed this life on 8 December 1836, aged 69 years. Mar... | ||||||
| Providence Journal | (1912) | STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1965) | GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in the Mediterranean. She was the widow of Dr. Raymond S. Leopold, former executive vice ... | 12th August 1965 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1933) | SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER PASSES AWAY Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, wife of Arthur Stead, of 128 Reid street, died last night at her home after a lingering illness. Mrs. Stead was a survivor of the "Titanic" disaster twenty-one years ago. Born in England, she came to this country twenty-five ... | 8th July 1933 | |||
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The Times | (2006) | TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ... | 2nd November 2006 | ||
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International Herald Tribune | (2005) | THE TITANIC'S DEMISE Twenty years ago, a team of scientists led by Robert Ballard discovered the remains of the Titanic 12,400 feet under the surface of the North Atlantic. It was a big deal. When the search team returned to Woods Hole, it held a brief service to honor t... | 31st December 2005 | ||
| New York Times | (1952) | THOMAS D. M. CARDEZA Page 19, column 2 PHILADELPHIA, June 6 Thomas D. M. Cardeza, explorer and art collector, died today in his home at the age of 77. Mr. Cardeza served on the board of directors of the old Fidelity Trust Company ... | 7th June 1952 | |||
| The Times | (1889) | SIR EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES AN M.P. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE BELFAST (NORTH DIVISION) The nomination for North Belfast took place yesterday. Six papers containing the names of Sir John Preston, Sir William Quartus Ewart, and Mr. Thomas M'Cormick (secretary of... | 13th August 1889 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1975) | THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82 Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t... | 4th November 1975 | |||
| (2003) | EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH) Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ... | 2003 | ||||
| New York Times | (1931) | WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C... | 30th April 1931 | |||
| North American | (1912) | NORTH WALES VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC ARRIVE NORTH WALES, Pa., May 7---The bodies of Austin Van Billiard and one of his children, lost on the Titanic, which were picked up at sea by the Mackay-Bennett, reached here today and will be buried on Wednesday from the residence of his father, Burgess ... | 8th May 1912 | |||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | (1912) | THE LOCAL PASSENGERS The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1982) | FRANK GOLDSMITH, TITANIC SURVIVOR A former Detroit resident who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912 is dead at 79. Frank John William Goldsmith died Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived since 1979 after retiring from business. The funeral will ... | 1982 | |||
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(1910) | WALTER DOUGLAS CROSSING THE ATLANTIC Walter Douglas (in hat) crossing the Atlantic c.1910.... | 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | MORGAN HOPEFUL FOR OUR STOCKS Tells a Doubtful Fellow-Traveler He'll Change His Mind About Them --- A BIG DECLINE YESTERDAY --- Erie Issues Lead It-Dividend on the Second Preferred May Be Passed---Gold Coming Soon --- Special Cabl... | 23rd March 1907 | |||
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Berkshire County Eagle | (1947) | THE WILLIAM PERINES CELEBRATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY [Pittsfield, Massachusetts] Mrs. Perine was passenger on ill-fated Titanic Among the 700 survivors of the White Star liner, Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic April 14, 1912, after striking an iceberg, was Mrs. ... | 29th January 1947 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR Sunday, 26 April 2009 A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been... | 26th April 2009 | ||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1959) | MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi... | 4th October 1959 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1967) | MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was... | 1967 | |||
| (1901) | CENSUS In 1901 Susan Webber (born in North Tamerton, Cornwall) was aged 26 years. She lived in Clawton, Devon and worked as a Cook Domestic.... | 1901 | ||||
| North American | (1912) | NORTH WALES PEOPLE NOT AMONG SURVIVORS Messages received yesterday by James W. Van Billiard, burgess of North Wales, indicated that there is little hope for the safety of his son, Austin Van Billiard, and two grandchildren, who were passengers on the Titanic, and who are believed to have ... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Post | (1937) | OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d... | 18th October 1937 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | DYING MAN’S SON FOUND Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite son, Wil... | 29th October 1910 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Chronicle Herald | (2009) | BEFORE THE TITANIC : THE SS ATLANTIC Before the SS Titanic, there was the SS Atlantic, a "state-of-the-art" White Star Line ship going to her grave on April 1, 1873, within sight of the Nova Scotian coast and taking with her a staggering number of lives (over 500). The shee... | 18th October 2009 | ||
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Washington Herald | (1912) | COMMANDER OF THE ILL FATED TITANIC Capt. Smith was known for years as "The grand old man of the sea" and was probably one of the oldest and one of the most reliable mariners or ocean liners on the Atlantic.... | 17th April 1912 | ||
| Daily Sketch | (1912) | TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the... | 25th April 1912 | |||
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | (2009) | A FAMILY'S TITANIC MIRACLE LIVES ON Eugene Daly was born in 1883 in the town of Athlone in central Ireland. His father was a policeman, who was sent north to Belfast in the summer of 1895 to help keep the peace during the Protestant marches that marked the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.... | 16th April 2009 | ||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1943) | HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice... | 18th November 1943 | |||
| Camden Daily Courier | (1912) | SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (2003) | EDWARD HENRY BAGLEY (RESEARCH ABOUT HIS LIFE) Edward Henry Bagley was born to Edward Bagley and his wife Lucy Bagley (nee Longhurst) on the 4th March 1879. The family lived at 17 Wightman Street, Plaistow, London. His father worked as a labourer at a soap works, and by the time of the boy's bapt... | 2003 | ||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (2001) | LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ... | 2nd February 2001 | |||
| (2005) | RIO PIRAHY European and Brazilian Steam Ship Cp., Ltd. (Petersen and Co., Ltd. Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia via Halifax. Arrived Philadelphia 22 April and reported that on 8 April, in the vicinity of 42 degrees 44 ‘ N. by 49 ... | 12th April 2005 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| (2004) | SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee... | 2004 | ||||
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Lancaster Newspapers | (2008) | 'TITANIC' TASK FOR A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Sweating under unforgiving stage lights, the Solanco teens imagine a frigid April night, when the North Atlantic's icy waters swallowed 1,500 souls aboard a doomed ship.Sometimes after a scene, the young actors crack a few jokes backstage, just to keep from crying.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
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RYDE PIER A postcard view of Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, looking north towards the pierhead and Spithead, circa 1912. The Titanic would have passed this structure shortly after leaving Southampton on the first leg of her journey to Cherbourg. &nb... | |||||
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THE LOST TITANIC "Her passenger list was one of the greatest ever carried by an Atlantic liner."(Harpers Weekly 20 April 1912)... | |||||
| MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1904) | GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ... | 24th February 1904 | |||
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(2006) | THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ... | 21st July 2006 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | (1961) | DEATH NOTICE: HERBERT JOHN PITMAN At Pitcombe, Bruton, Somerset, aged 84. A survivor of the Titanic disaster; was third officer on the liner, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage.... | 18th December 1961 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1959) | MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr... | 4th November 1959 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TITANIC VICTIM CREMATED NORTH BERGEN, May 4---The body of Tyrell W. Cavendish, who lost his life on the Titanic, was cremated here today. He lived at Little Onn Hall, Stafford, England. In December 1906, he married Miss Julia Florence Siegel, only daughter of Henry Siegel... | 4th May 1912 | |||
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KPNX-12 | (2008) | TITANIC EXPLORER DEBUTS NEW SCIENCE PROGRAM With a hearty laugh, Dr. Robert Ballard, world renowned oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, likes what he's seeing in north Phoenix. It's Ballard's latest project, and sharing his discoveries has been worth the struggle. "I go to incredible places, but it's hard to take a lot of people with me," Ballard confided.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette | (2008) | LITTLE BITES Local historian David McMunn will host this year's Titanic Dinner at Muriel's Eclectic Dining on the North Side. Guests at "A Night to Remember" will enjoy a re-creation of the last dinner served in the first class dining saloon on the night of the Titanic's infamous wreck.... | 27th March 2008 | ||
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6abc.com | (2008) | LOCAL CONNECTIONS TO THE TITANIC Since she sank back in 1912, only a few scientists have actually seen the Titanic where it sits on the bottom of the northern Atlantic Ocean.Millions saw the recent movie, but experts say that was largely fiction.... | 11th April 2008 | ||
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BBC News | (2006) | TITANIC LIFE VEST FETCHES £43,000 One of the Titanic's few remaining lifejackets has been sold to a private collector for £43,000 ($80,000). The auction at Devizes in Wiltshire also featured dozens of letters sent by some of the 1,500 people who died when the ship sank in the Atlantic in 1912. ... | 1st October 2006 | ||
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Danbury News Times | (2008) | AN EVENING ABOARD THE TITANIC Perhaps no disaster had been revisited as much as has the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.We are endlessly fascinated with the luxurious and doomed ocean liner that, for almost a century, has rested silently on the bottom the Atlantic.... | 27th March 2008 | ||
| Barking Chronicle | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner.... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2008) | TITANIC'S SECRETS OF THE DEEP SHE lies in cold, still waters deep beneath the Atlantic, the once proud and pristine Ship of Dreams is now slowly but surely crumbling away as time, inexorably, takes its corrosive toll.... | 14th April 2008 | ||
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Irish Independent | (2008) | A STORY THAT WAS NEARLY LOST IN THE ICY ATLANTIC Martina Devlin, author of Ship of Dreams, had a family connection with the Titanic, which sank shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912 when it hit an iceberg. The largest steamer in the world took with her the lives of 1,500 people. But what was to happen to those who escaped?... | 4th February 2008 | ||
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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 | ||
| GENERAL INFORMATION LEITCH, MISS JESSIE WILLS. Saved in Lifeboat number 11. 3, Claud Villa, Denmark Hill, London, SE. UK. Niece of Reverend J. Harper. Returned to England per SS Celtic 25th April 1912. Aged 30 years. Later became Mrs. Anderson. Died 6th February... | ||||||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | UNTITLED Mr Frank Andrew, a married miner, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, near Redruth, was on his first trip across the Atlantic. He has a wife and one child, aged 2 years at Pencoys. Mr Andrews was originally from Lanner. (sic)... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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Liverpool Echo | (2009) | TITANIC'S LINKS TO LIVERPOOL TITANIC had strong links with Liverpool although she never visited her home port – by 1912 the White Star Line's largest and fastest Atlantic steamers were sailing from Southampton.... | 31st October 2009 | ||
| The Times | (1937) | MR. BRUCE ISMAY AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a... | 18th October 1937 | |||
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Press Association | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN : YOUNGEST PASSENGER, LAST SURVIVOR LONDON - Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic.Dean lived to become the disaster'... | 1st June 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1932) | 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 | |||
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BBC Berkshire | (2009) | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC A Crowthorne man has written a poem dedicated to a member of his wife's family who survived the sinking of the Titanic. Percival Blake, known as 'Nunk' to Paddy Boyle, miraculously survived after being plucked from the freezing Atlantic.... | 4th June 2009 | ||
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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 | ||
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BBC News | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the early hours of 15 April 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton.The disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people in the north Atlantic, largely du... | 31st May 2009 | ||
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Belfast Newsletter | (2008) | TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking.... | 24th April 2008 | ||
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Liverpool Daily Post | (2009) | LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009Today, Liverpool starts planning the centenary of Titanic's sinking in three years' time. Peter Elson reportsIT ALL started with an innocent game of billiards in one of Liverpool's great me... | 29th April 2009 | ||
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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 | ||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | DUMFRIES TITANIC VICTIMS Memorial unveiled on Dock Park. A very impressive ceremony, and one which attracted much public attention, took place on Saturday afternoon when the handsome memorial which has been erected on the Dock Park in honour of John Law Hume, ... | 1912 | |||
| GRAVE Here Rest In Christ Owen George Allum Shipwrecked on the Titanic and Drowned At Sea April 14th, 1912, Aged 17 years. Nearer My God To Thee [In the Winter 1989 issue of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin it was repo... | ||||||
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Broadway World | (2007) | TITANIC, THE MUSICAL: EPIC TRAGEDY, EPIC THEATRE J. Bruce Ismay, owner of the White Star Line was oft quoted as saying he wanted the RMS Titanic to become a legend in trans-Atlantic travel. In fact, he was on board for the maiden voyage to make sure that happened. ... | 11th September 2007 | ||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Halifax, April 16—Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless s... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | (2007) | 'TITANIC' DINNER TO BENEFIT WAR STREETS EFFORT Thursday, March 22, 2007By Nancy Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIt's been 95 years since the unsinkable luxury liner Titanic went to the bottom of the ocean.To commemorate the occasion, Titanic historian Dave McMunn and chef Douglas Ferraro at the Acanthus Restaurant, North Side, will make it a \"A Night to Remember\" by recreating the sumptuous dinner served to first-class passengers that night.The elegant seven-course menu features Consomme Olga, Roasted Salmon with Mousseline Sauce, Filet Mignon Lili with Foie Gras, Chateau Potatoes, Punch Romaine (palate cleanser), Watercress Salad with Asparagus Vinaigrette, Waldorf Pudding, Peaches in Chartreuse Jelly and Chef Ferraro\'s specialty, Oysters Acanthus.To add authenticity, Mr. McMunn includes tables of historic documents, photos, posters and other memorabilia, plus, piped in period music and a retelling of the fateful night\'s events. Period dress is encouraged; Mr. McMunn will be in tie and tails.Dates are April 13 and 14, with a March 30 deadline for reservations. Cocktails are at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $105; proceeds benefit the Mexican War Street Society\'s Street Tree plan. The restaurant is located at the Inn on the Mexican War Streets, 604 W. North Ave. Dinner details: 412-231-1316. Directions: 412-231-6544. The Titanic menu will be offered every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in April.... | 22nd March 2007 | ||
| Cork Examiner | (1912) | UNTITLED A list of survivors published today contains no reference to the names of Mr. Patrick Colbert, Kilconlea, Abbeyfeale (Not Limerick as given) Mr. James Scanlon, Rathkeale, nor of other young men said to have been on board from East and North Kerry. Pa... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
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New York Post | (2007) | TIME AND TIDE: GAL OF 95 IS TITANIC'S SOLE SURVIVOR After the Oscar-winning movie and dozens of PBS re-enactments, there remains but one survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. Elizabeth Dean, 95, of Southampton, England, was only 2 months old when on April 15, 1912, the supposedly unsinkable vessel went to the bottom of the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. ... | 26th November 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1962) | HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t... | 23rd May 1962 | |||
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Chicago Sun-Times | (2008) | ST. PAT'S QUEEN HONORS GREAT-GRANNY'S COURAGE Nearly a century ago, 15-year-old Anne McGowan sat freezing in a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic. Her aunt, Katherine McGowan, was dead more than 2 miles below with the wreckage of the Titanic as young Anne waited for a rescue ship to arrive.... | 12th March 2008 | ||
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Chronicle Herald | (2008) | SAILING WITH TITANIC ROLE TORONTO'S THEATRE RUSTICLE is excited to bring its Titanic play right to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean."I'm entranced right now watching the ferry and the gulls and the fog," says Toronto actor Lucy Rupert, sitting in the lobby of Dartmouth's Alderney Landing Theatre.... | 1st May 2008 | ||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1919) | DR. WASHINGTON DODGE DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL Section 2, page 13, columns 7-8 [Photo] Gunshot Wound, Inflicted in Attempt to Kill Himself June 21, Causes Death RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE Financier and Ex-Assessor Unconscious for 3 Days Befo... | 1st July 1919 | |||
| New York Times | (1915) | TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ... | 1st May 1915 | |||
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TC Palm | (2009) | MYSTERY ABOUT 'TITANIC' TAKES STAGE AT RIVERSIDE VERO BEACH - A 7-Eleven store in South Dakota sounds like an unlikely spot for the birth of a play about the Titanic. But that provided the inspiration for Jeffrey Hatcher, whose 'Scotland Road' opens Saturday and rounds out the Second Stage season a... | 1st May 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1911) | GREENWICH EXPECTED THE WEDDING Special to The New York Times --- GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 7---The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of New York came to Greenwich this evening and is the guest of J. H. FlagIer in North Street, where he has often visited this Sum... | 8th September 1911 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1965) | TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o... | 12th January 1965 | |||
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Daily Telegraph | (2006) | NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO PUT TITANIC RECORDS ON THE NET ?2.5m deal to scan and place online the National Archives' entire historical database of passengers who embarked on sea voyages from Britain's shores between 1890 and 1960. This includes the one and only voyage of Titanic, which was made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio.The estimated 30m individual records include details of emigrations to Australia, North and South America, India and Africa.... | 2nd April 2006 | ||
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nwi.com | (2007) | LOCAL MUSICAL PRODUCTION IS 'TITANIC' IN EVERY WAY The American Dream is well represented in "Titanic: The Musical" in the eyes of Allen Horner, who is bringing the extravaganza to Valparaiso's Memorial Opera House. "The most expensive thing you could do on earth then was to ride the Titanic across the Atlantic Ocean, and all these millionaires did it, the Guggenheims, the Astors, the Thayers," he said. ... | 13th February 2007 | ||
| MEMORIAL PLAQUE Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ... | ||||||
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BBC News | (2009) | BRASS BOX HOLDS TITANIC 'SECRET' It was a small brass trinket box that held safe its secret link to the Titanic across the years and thousands of miles. The box was picked up by an Irishman at a flea market in New York.He brought it home across the Atlantic - across the site where in 1912 more than 1,500 people perished in the icy waters of the ocean.... | 8th April 2009 | ||
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | (2008) | SCIENCE CENTER GETS SET FOR 'TITANIC' SUMMER The Carnegie Science Center will open a special summer exhibit on the Titanic, the ship that struck an iceberg 96 years ago on the night of April 14th, and sank into the Atlantic Ocean early the next morning. ... | 19th April 2008 | ||
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Seacoastonline | (2007) | THE TITANIC MUSEUM: A MORNING REMEMBERED Briny icy air bit the pale cheeks of the 9-year-old boy as he looked up into the clear black sky studded with brilliant stars. It was after 2 a.m. in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Shivering in the crowded lifeboat bobbing on the brutal waves of the Atlantic, he huddled against his fear filled mother who shielded him from the sight of the sinking ship.... | 30th April 2007 | ||
| The Times | (1913) | MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil... | 1st January 1913 | |||
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Norwich Evening News | (2008) | TITANIC MUSICAL AT THE THEATRE ROYAL Take a trip across the seas with the cast of the award-winning Titanic musical. The show comes sailing into the Theatre Royal to retell the tale of the historic and tragic night in April 1912, when so many lives were lost in the icy Atlantic waters.... | 28th January 2008 | ||
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The Local | (2009) | TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS IN STOCKHOLM It was April 15th, 1912, when the world's first unsinkable ship sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.Since then, the Titanic has rested at the bottom of the sea. Her story left a legacy that has resonated around the world for nearly a century after her demise, and has now been captured in a new exhibition, Titanic, opening to the public on Friday, May 29th.... | 2nd June 2009 | ||
| The Times | (1885) | EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet... | 25th July 1885 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | FIERMONTE AND WIFE BACK To Stay Here 3 Months---He Will Shun Prize Ring --- Enzo Fiermonte, former Italian prizefighter, returned to the United States on the North German Lloyd liner Europa yesterday, accompanied by his wife, the former Mrs. Madeleine Force As... | 2nd August 1935 | |||
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Toronto Star | (2008) | TINY LOCAL LINK TO THE TITANIC 12 streetcar tickets unearthed from Titanic are remnants of wealthy living in Toronto in 1912From the depths of the Atlantic, among the ruins of the legendary ship Titanic, comes a forgotten piece of Toronto history and the story of a once-notorious local survivor, now faded from collective memory. ... | 4th January 2008 | ||
| The Times | (1930) | FILM "ATLANTIC" - ACTRESS INJURED IN RECREATION OF "TITANIC" SCENES Court of Appeal Actress's claim under Workmen's Compensation Act Armour v. British International Pictures Ltd. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Slesser and Lord Justice... | 30th July 1930 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | THE GERMANIC AGAIN IN PORT The White Star steamer Germanic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port late yesterday afternoon. This is the first trip the vessel has made since she sank alongside her pier on the North River last Winter from the weight of sno... | 16th June 1899 | |||
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Prince George Free Press | (2007) | TITANIC RELIC FROM THE DEEP When you hold it, the nearly 100-year-old brass compass feels heavier than metal. You want to handle it gingerly, like glass. And respectfully, like an Egyptian tomb artifact. The old navigational relic had laid undisturbed for decades in its watery grave on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean until rescue teams recovered it, along with thousands of other artifacts taken from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. ... | 6th January 2007 | ||
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Daily Gleaner | (2008) | TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912.... | 22nd August 2008 | ||
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | (2008) | CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail.... | 15th May 2008 | ||
| Chicago Tribune | (1966) | SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ... | 21st November 1966 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | GEORGE B. GOLDSCHMIDT George B. Goldschmidt, lost in the sinking of the Titanic, was one of the oldest members of the Bar Association, having become a member in 1870. He was born in this city in 1840, admitted to practice in 1882, and was one of the best-known conveyancer... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Times Colonist | (2007) | TITANIC OFFERS BEER INSPIRATION Paul Hadfield has dredged the Atlantic for inspiration for a trio of new brews at Spinnakers Gastro Brewpub.While the publican brews something new and quirky at least twice a year, just because he can, this time the beer will serve a purpose beyond quenching a thirst as it's promoting the imminent Titanic exhibit at the Royal B.C. Museum.... | 2nd April 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1901) | A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com... | 26th May 1901 | |||
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The Sun | (2006) | TITANIC MEMOIRS UNEARTHED SHE was the Titanic survivor whose story inspired Kate Winslet's role in the blockbuster movie.Now a haunting account of her inspiring real-life ordeal has emerged for the first time.In it, Helen Churchill Candee describes in harrowing detail the final moments of the ill-fated ship as it sank in the icy Atlantic - claiming 1,523 lives while many still clung in hopeless terror to its deck.... | 18th April 2006 | ||
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Daily Gleaner | (2008) | TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912.... | 22nd August 2008 | ||
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Acton-The Beacon | (2009) | ACTON LIBRARY TO HOST 'TITANIC SINKS' Mon Apr 27, 2009, 08:37 AM EDTActon, Mass. - The Delvena Theatre Company will present 'The Titanic Sinks as Acton Sleeps' at the Acton Memorial Library on Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m. Actors Lynne Moulton and Carl Rossi will assume multipl... | 29th April 2009 | ||
| NESHAN KREKORIAN : CLARIFICATIONS Mr. Krekorian had 3 children, not 4. Minor spelling error: city is St. Catharines, not St. Catherines. He was single when he left for North America - his first wife was killed by the Turks. My recollection of how he got into bo... | ||||||
| Berkshire Chronicle | (1912) | DETAINED AT WASHINGTON Detained at Washington. Among those who were expected to have arrived home on the Lapland was Mr, Frederick Dent Ray, of 'Akbar' 56 palmer Park Avenue, Reading. Mr Ray, who was a steward on the Titanic, cabled home to his relatives informing them... | 29th April 1912 | |||
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LocalNews8.com | (2009) | TITANIC AUTHOR SPEAKS AT MUSEUM OF IDAHO By Hailey Higgins, Local News 8 ReporterIDAHO FALLS - A man who made the journey to Titanic's watery grave is in Idaho Falls to share his life's work.Charles Haas has written five books about the ship. He says he was the first... | 15th May 2009 | ||
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Orlando Sentinel | (2008) | TITANIC TO SAIL TO NEW I-DRIVE LOCALE The Titanic exhibit that sailed into Central Florida almost a decade ago is headed back to International Drive, with plans for a $2 million investment to modernize and expand the attraction.Titanic -- The Experience, which introduces visitors to the world of the ill-fated ocean liner, will end its temporary run in the Orlando Science Center on Oct. 12. It will move to a 20,000-square-foot location at 7324 International Drive, a mile north of the now-demolished Mercado shopping-and-dining complex where the attraction had spent the first eight years of its existence.... | 11th September 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1898) | NOTES OF THE YACHTSMEN The following have recently been elected members of the Atlantic Yacht Club: J. Pierpont Morgan, Alexander King, Isaac Stern, James D. Smith, John J. Slater, and Mrs. J. W. Cardeza. Mrs. Cardeza owns the steam yacht Eleanor, and is elected a flag me... | 25th December 1898 | |||
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Journal Times | (2009) | A TITANIC LOVE STORY Nearly a century before Leonardo DiCaprio clung to Kate Winslet, David Vartanian lived a real 'Titanic' love story.He was a third-class passenger on the ship, the broken halves of which slipped under the Atlantic Ocean's surface early on his 22nd birthday. Back home in Turkish Armenia, his wife, Mary, thought he was among the more than 1,500 who had died.... | 4th February 2009 | ||
| (1908) | ST-LAZARE TRAIN STATION, PARIS The passengers who boarded in Cherbourg travelled on the Atlantic Train from St-Lazare station in Paris. Only Alfred Fernand Omont, French 1st class passenger, arrived in Cherbourg in a different way: his chauffeur drove him there from Le Havre.... | 1908 | ||||
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The Argus Observer | (2007) | RE-CREATING THE TITANIC La Grande - Ninety-five years ago today the R.M.S. Titanic and more than 1,000 of its passengers plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, entombing their place in history.Saturday and tonight, thanks to a determined collector and an unwavering chef, anyone can experience the final First Class dinner - served only hours before the ship struck an iceberg around 11 p.m. April 12, 1914, during its maiden voyage - at Foley Station in La Grande. ... | 30th April 2007 | ||
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Beaver County Times | (2008) | TITANIC RISES IN PITTSBURGH Had the RMS Titanic successfully sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, Englishman Escott Phillips and his daughter, Alice, would have made New Brighton their first home in America.William Phillips wanted to welcome his 42-year-old brother and his 21-year-old niece to his house on 13th Street. He'd found his brother a factory job.... | 24th May 2008 | ||
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RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA THE weather-beaten remains of the giant model used for the 1981 film flop "Raise the Titanic" is rapidly disintegrating in the village of Kalkara, Malta. The 55-foot-long steel hull now provides an uncanny above-sea-level glimp... | |||||
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Inside Smithsonian Research | (2007) | OSCAR SCOTT WOODY'S KEYS Stamped "Sea Post 101/US Mail 19," the antique, flat metal key has a patina of orange rust from its immersion in salt water nearly 100 years ago-while still in its owner's pocket. The key opened locks on the 200 bags of registered mail being carried across the Atlantic to New York City aboard the White Star Line steamship R.M.S. Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage in April 1912.... | 20th November 2007 | ||
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BBC Northern Ireland | (2006) | NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER NULL... | 11th January 2006 | ||
| 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 | |||
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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 | ||
| 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... | ||||||
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette | (2008) | TITANIC ON THE OHIO: EXTENSIVE 'ARTIFACT EXHIBITION' SURFACES AT THE SCIENCE CENTER "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" takes visitors on a vivid journey through one of history's most tragic chapters -- the sinking of RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912.The traveling exhibition opens Saturday at Carnegie Science Center's SportsWorks.... | 22nd May 2008 | ||
| (2002) | MEMORIAL TO THE LEFEBVRE FAMILY IN LIEVIN, FRANCE This memorial to the members of the Lefebvre family who lost their lives on the Titanic was erected in Lievin, north of France, by the Association Francaise du Titanic and Mr Kucheida, Mayor of the city. A plaque (see picture) is placed on each side ... | 30th March 2002 | ||||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1958) | ARTICLE SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard... | 14th April 1958 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | WEST HOBOKEN MAN A PASSENGER ON THE LOST STEAMER John Ashby, of Traphagen street, West Hoboken, is on the list of second cabin passengers of the ill-fated Titanic and so far his name has not appeared among those of the rescued. He was returning from England to his son-in-law and two daughters in No... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FAMILY OF J. S. MARCH MAY RECEIVE $10,000 WASHINGTON, April 22---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic were introduced in the House today by Representative Reilly, of Conne... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
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Halifax News Net | HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT TITANIC SINKING, OAK ISLAND LEGENDS Author and historian Dave Drummond will give lectures on Oak Island and the Titanic at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in August. Drummond, author of The Shipyard: Will It Float?, is a retired shipbuilder, born into a shipbuilding family that spanned three generations. His anecdotal writings, narrations, and discussions are factual, often surprising, and sprinkled with humour.... | ||||
| New York Times | (1906) | HUGE WAVE SWEEPS OCEANIC Captain Thrown from the Bridge and Left Unconscious --- While plowing her way through the worst weather met with on the North Atlantic lane in many months, the White Star liner Oceanic, in last night from Liverpool, was boarded... | 29th November 1906 | |||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | 95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ... | 12th July 2006 | ||
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Record Eagle | (1953) | STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING IN PARIS after a voyage from the United States, Italian film star Anna Magnani (left) denies reports that she will quit the screen, declaring there would be no change for at least two years. With her is Edith Russell, a veteran traveller who ha... | 15th May 1953 | ||
| (1844) | FIRST USE OF MORSE CODE These four words were the first ever to be flashed over the electric telegraph wire. They ran in Morse Code on a line from Washington to Baltimore in 1844. Samuel Morse had sent the first electrically coded message at the age of 53, after h... | 1844 | ||||
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USA Today | (2008) | GEORGIA AQUARIUM TO HOST EXHIBITION OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS An exhibition of artifacts from the ill-fated ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is opening at the Georgia Aquarium.The exhibition will include interactive displays, videos and recreations of rooms aboard the ship. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.... | 19th August 2008 | ||
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Winona Daily News | (2009) | HISTORIAN BRINGS TITANIC TO LIFE FOR STUDENTS By Dustin KassARCADIA, Wis. -- 'You died. You lived. You died.'One after another, the Arcadia Elementary School students showed Titanic historian Donald Lynch their 'boarding passes.' Each bore the name of a RMS Titanic passen... | 29th April 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1921) | MRS. HENRI MARQUISAN’S FUNERAL Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Oct. 11---Funeral services were held today in the chapel of the Rue Honore d’Eylan Church for Mrs. Henri Marquisan, who was Miss Frances Moore, daughter of the late Clarence Moore, who... | 12th October 1921 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1916) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop Passed Away While Guest of Mrs. O. W. Cannon TAKEN ILL FRIDAY Had Arrived Here on Previous Day For Visit With Her Companion on Long Trip Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the surv... | 1916 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL There is more for ocean liner enthusiasts in the English city of Bristol than simply visiting the S. S. Great Britain. The world's first great ocean liner, the Great Britain was built by the influential engineer Isambard K... | 8th November 2001 | ||
| Providence Journal | (1970) | R.I. WOMAN, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES AT 92 Page 26 Mrs. Lulu Thorne Opie, 92, of the Old Post Road at Dunn's Corners in Westerly, a survivor of the sinking of the British passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Tuesday at the Watch Hill Nursing Home. One of the other ... | 4th June 1970 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | COL. THOMAS POTTER, JR. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 2---Col. Thomas Potter, Jr., a wealthy oilcloth manufacturer of Philadelphia, died here to-night. Mrs. Potter, Wilson Potter, his son, and Mrs. Allen Earnshaw, his daughter, were at the bedside when the end came. When Col... | 3rd December 1910 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlantic lin... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| CAPTAIN SMITH WAS TUSSAUDS EXHIBIT 1919 Madame Tussaud & Sons Catalogue entry 27. Commander Edward J. Smith, R.N.R., born 1853. Commander Smith was Captain of the White Star liner ''Titanic'' which went down in the Atlantic on 14 April, 1912, during her maiden voyage t... | ||||||
| GRAVESTONE Sacred to the memory of Austin Partner of Tolworth, Surbiton who lost his life in the foundering of the steamship "Titanic" in mid-Atlantic on the 15th day of April, 1912, whose body was recovered and interred here May 23rd. Aged 40 years. ... | ||||||
| (1919) | LIGHTOLLER TAKES 36 GERMAN NAVAL LIVES IN WAR On July 19, 1918, HMS Garry, Lieut Cmmdr C.H. Lightoller DSC, was cruising in the North Sea and was in Latitude 54.39 N. and Longitude 0.55 W., when an enemy submarine, which proved to be the UB-110, was observed. The Garry, having ... | 14th July 1919 | ||||
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Shoreham Herald | (2009) | SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Mayn... | 15th July 2009 | ||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | GLOOM AT HOLSWORTHY This disaster has cast a gloom over Holsworthy, there being no less than seven passengers from this district on board the ill-fated vessel. Mr. L. Braund, a native of Bridgerule, who had been on a visit to his native home after several years absence ... | 1912 | |||
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The Express Times | (2008) | 'TITANIC THE MUSICAL' A TITANIC SHOW William Sanders was busy Monday "refining and tweaking" cues with his technical crew in preparation for tonight's opening of "Titanic the Musical" at Civic Theatre of Allentown. Sanders says the Tony Award-winning musical focuses on the actual passengers aboard the trans-Atlantic liner, RMS Titanic, on that fateful night of April 15, 1912, as the "ship of dreams" was making her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.... | 6th June 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1911) | CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo... | 6th June 1911 | |||
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Evening Bulletin | (1912) | BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA The second wireless operator on the Titanic being taken down the gang plank when the rescue ship Carpathia docked Thursday night. At the time Titanic struck Cottam {sic} was off duty and asleep in his berth, and was compelled to take charge of a lif... | 20th April 1912 | ||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | LOSES ALL HIS MONEY NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Macclesfield Express | (2006) | TOWN?S TITANIC LINK EXPECTED TO FETCH ?6K A POIGNANT postcard sent from the doomed ship Titanic to a Macclesfield hotel is going up for auction next weekend – and is expected to fetch up to ?6,000.Second-class passenger, William Angle, sent a message from the liner to Miss Nelly Angle at the former Macclesfield Arms Hotel.He posted the card when the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Ireland, on its maiden voyage – just days before the vessel crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean.... | 19th April 2006 | ||
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(1912) | MEMORIAL CARD: HULDA CLASéN That my unforgettable daughter Hulda Kristina Eugenia Clasén, born Löfqvist, died in the sadly notorious Titanic collision on the Atlantic, intimately and deeply grieved by ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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LA Times | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the legendary ocean liner Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, died today. She was 97.She died at a nursing home near Southampton... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| The Times | (1912) | PARTNER DEPARTED Stockbroker Lost in the Titanic Disaster It is observed with great regret in the Stock Exchange that the name of Mr Austin Partner is not among the list of those saved from the Titanic. Mr Partner was making one of his annual... | 26th April 1912 | |||
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The Republican | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR, MILLVINA DEAN, WILL BE MISSED BY SPRINGFIELD-BASED TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY By RAY KELLY rkelly@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Millvina Dean kept a low profile about her connection to one of the world's most well known disasters until she was urged into the media spotlight by the Indian Orchard-based Titanic Historical Society.... | 3rd June 2009 | ||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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ET Reviews | (2009) | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NIGHT The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost The “Californian Incident”, as it has become known, has probably generated more debate, destro... | 16th June 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1973) | TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER" GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo... | 9th October 1973 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | FUNERAL OF T. W. CAVENDISH Body of Henry Siegel's Son-in-Law to be Cremated To-day --- The body of Tyrell W. Cavendish, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be cremated at North Bergen, N. J., today. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Frank F... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem... | 8th January 1907 | |||
| North American | (1912) | SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Joseph Thomas and infant son, Anthony Yosbik, Joseph and Peter Simon and Brenton Harry, all of this city,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | BELIEVES BROTHER LOST Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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(1913) | THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913 The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected by the contributions of friends of Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Francis Davis Millet. "The 8-foot-high fountain is composed of a marble shaft of simple Neo-c... | 1913 | |||
| The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) | SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes... | |||||
| The Times | (1912) | THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| Geneva Times | (1976) | MRS BERTHA CHRISTENSEN DIES - TITANIC SURVIVOR Mrs. Bertha Christensen. 82 of 88 White Springs Rd., one of the few remaining survivors of the Titanic, which went down April 14 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean, died this morning at Geneva General Hospital. The Bennett Funeral Home is in charge of... | 30th September 1976 | |||
| (1912) | MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAMME The Central North Chicago Ministerial Association at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. "The Offering" "The Nana Harper Fund to maintain and educate Nana, the six year old daughter of Rev. John Harper, pastor, Walworth Road Chu... | 21st April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | FOR BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL Senate Proposal Thus to Honor TItanic Victims Goes Over --- WASHINGTON, June 8---An effort was made in the Senate to-day to have adopted a resolution granting authority to erect on public land in Washington a joint memorial to the mem... | 9th June 1912 | |||
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PRLog.org | (2009) | TITANIC SURVIVOR WAS PLANNING 100TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISE Millvina Dean, the last surviving passenger from the Titanic who died recently, was planning to go on a 100th anniversary memorial cruise back across the Atlantic in 2012. Just days before she died Millvina met with travel agent Miles Morg... | 15th June 2009 | ||
| Whitehaven News | (1912) | MILLOM'S CONNECTION WITH THE TITANIC DISASTER THE widespread effects of the Titanic disaster is evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Beck of Cambridge Street, Millom, (Cumberland) had a relative aboard the ill-fated vessel. Mrs. Meanwell, first cousin of Mrs. Beck, who was proceeding on the Ti... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| Southport Visitor | (1912) | MR. WALTER ENNIS Another local passenger was Mr Walter Ennis, who was engaged on the Titanic as Turkish bathman and masseur. He was previously employed by Smedley Hydro, Birkdale in a similar position, having been there about six years. This was his first voyage, and... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1937) | MRS. A. H. RICE'S FUNERAL AUG. 11 Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener have returned here from Newport to prepare for the opening of the home of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice before his arrival on the Europa Aug. 9 with the body of wife, Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Rice, mother of Mr. Widener, who d... | 20th July 1937 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | GIRL VICTIM OF TITANIC NEAR DEATH; GOT ONLY $25 Margaret McGowan, in Chicago, Tells How official of Line Gave Her “Recompense” Margaret McGowan, one of the few steerage passengers who started for America on the Titanic and reached here, is at the home... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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KARE | (2009) | TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION A 3,000 pound piece of one of history's best known stories recently arrived at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It came to Saint Paul on a special flatbed truck. Then museum crews had to rent a heavy-duty fork lift to move it. &quo... | 12th June 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1931) | A CUNARD COMMODORE HOME FROM THE SEA. By Arthur H. Rostron. Illustrated. 259 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. --- Sir Arthur was commodore of the Cunard fleet when recently he retired from active service. For four years and more he commanded t... | 8th November 1931 | |||
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(2005) | 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 | |||
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Irish Times | (2009) | LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city’s relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast’s proud... | 14th July 2009 | ||
| Chicago Tribune | (1990) | ANN STRAUBE Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s... | 31st January 1990 | |||
| New York Times | (1946) | COL. WILSON POTTER Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and University of Pennsylvania football star in 1906 and 1907, died last night at his home here after a long... | 13th June 1946 | |||
| The Times | (1917) | A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat... | 23rd April 1917 | |||
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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 | ||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC [The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1934) | MRS. DULLES FONTANA Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25---Mrs. Dulles Fontana, formerly Miss Margaret Dulles, who once sued her husband to prevent him from collecting $75 a week support from her, died today in the Barclay Hotel after a long ... | 26th January 1934 | |||
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BBC News | (2009) | VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from £2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 ki... | 8th October 2009 | ||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | SLUMS MOURN STEAD : OLD-TIMERS IN CHICAGO’S CHINATOWN REMEMBER SLUMS MOURN STEAD Old-Timers in Chicago’s Chinatown Remember English Author as “Billy, the Bum” Cleaned Streets in Chicago ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912 This splendid document was published just days after the sinking of the Titanic. Its title is 'Souvenir in affectionate remembrance of the Captain, Mates, Crew and Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world's biggest liner S. S. T... | 1912 | ||||
| (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 | ||||
| The Times | (1912) | LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf... | 10th February 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com... | 8th March 1907 | |||
| The Times | (1952) | COMMANDER C. H. LIGHTOLLER Commander C. H. Lightoller died at his home at Twickenham yesterday at the age of 78. He was for many years with the White Star Line and was second officer in the Titanic when on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1912 she struck and iceb... | 9th December 1952 | |||
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PR | (2006) | TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES In August 2005, a History Channel expedition team made a shocking discovery more than two miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean: large missing pieces of Titanic's bottom, more than 1,500 feet from the rest of the ship, so well preserved that even the original red paint is still clearly visible. These pieces were little known and never examined for their role in the sinking, and they tell a new and potentially more terrifying story of Titanic's final moments, rewriting the script that had previously been taken as fact. Relive the disaster, the history, and the deep-sea search for new clues in high-definition in TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES, premiering Sunday, February 26th at 9:00 p.m. on The History Channel.... | 21st February 2006 | ||
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The Times | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97 Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97.Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known as Millvina, died today at the nursing home near Southampton where he... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | PENSION FAMILIES OF LOST CLERKS Congress would give $10,000 to Each---Mrs. Gwinn of This City Would Benefit ---------- WASHINGTON, April 23---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1955) | THE NIGHTMARE OF APRIL 14, 1912 A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. By Walter Lord. Illustrated. 209 pp. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $3.50. By BURKE WILKINSON The night which Walter Lord reconjures for us in tense and telling detail is the night of April 14, 1912. It... | 20th November 1955 | |||
| Manchester Evening News | (1912) | MANCHESTER VICTIMS: CHIEF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER ON THE TITANIC Mr. Alfred S. Allsop, the chief electrical engineer of the Titanic, who, it is feared, has gone down in the ill-fated ship, was a Manchester man. He was about 35 years of age, and was born in Brunswick Street, C.-on-M., but he has not lived in the ci... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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MSNBC | (2009) | LAST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC DIES, AGED 97 LONDON - Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was 97 years old, and she d... | 9th June 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1924) | LOUIS BUTT DIES HERE Brother of Roosevelt’s Aid Was a Cotton Buyer of Georgia --- Louis Butt of Augusta, Ga., a cotton buyer and cotton exporter, died at 11:05 last night in Roosevelt Hospital of intestinal hemorrhages caused by an intestinal abscess.&... | 1st August 1924 | |||
| Gloucester Citizen | (1912) | HODGES HENRY P. : GLOUCESTERIAN'S BROTHER UNLISTED WITH THE SAVED [Photo] Among the Titanic victims was Mr. H. P. Hodges, of The Cotswolds, Highfield Lane, Southampton, who is an elder brother of Mr. R. Hodges, of Melcombe, Vicarage Road, Gloucester, one of the staff at Hatherley Road Council Schools... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | AMERICANS IN ROME Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---[Three paragraphs which are irrelevant for present purposes have bee... | 7th April 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w... | 3rd May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1935) | AUCTION OF OLYMPIC FITTINGS SALE CONCLUDED The sale at Jarrow of the fittings of the Olympic concluded today, which was the tenth day, and the last lot offered was No.4,456.. The total realized was not announced, and several lots were not sold. On some days during ... | 19th November 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1900) | YACHT ELEANOR'S LONG CRUISE Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza's steam yacht Eleanor has been prepared at Tebo's basin, South Brooklyn, for another of the many long voyages she has made during the six years of her existence, and will probably sail within a wek [sic] or ten days for... | 16th June 1900 | |||
| The Times | (1953) | LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ... | 23rd September 1953 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MR. CHRISTOPHER HEAD Mr Christopher Head was the fifth son of the late Mr Henry Head, a well-known London underwriter. He was in his 43rd year, and was educated at Lancing end at Trinity College Cambridge. Called to the Bar ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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AFP | (2009) | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN ENGLAND: BBC LONDON (AFP) - Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died Sunday at a care home in England where the lived, the BBC reported, citing a unnamed friend. She was 97.Dean was a two-month-old baby and her family were emigr... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P.... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq... | 9th November 1930 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w... | 28th November 1899 | |||
| The Times | (1926) | ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had... | 24th April 1926 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | ASPLUND FUND TOTALS $1031.25, BUT BODY OF VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER FAILS TO REACH WORCESTER The benefit fund for Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children saved from the titanic, while her husband and three sons went to their deaths, yesterday passed the $1000 mark. The total amount subscribed last night was $1031.25, and tha... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| (1987) | CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO NO disaster of modern times has quite excited the same horror and at the same time, fascination, doubt, bravery and cowardice as the sinking of the Titanic. Fred Barrett lived in Hanley with his wife ... | 26th February 1987 | ||||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1965) | MRS. DEAN MATHEY, TITANIC SURVIVOR, 72 Special to The New York Times --- PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 7---Mrs. Helen Newsom Mathey, a survivor of the liner Titanic, sunk in 1912 by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, died today in Princeton H... | 8th September 1965 | |||
| 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 | |||
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ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH Maj, Butt, a devout Episcopalian, chose the Celtic cross. There is a plaque on each side of the base. : On the back: A devoted son and brother, an efficient officer... | |||||
| New York Times | (1928) | DEATH OF BOYS HELD ACCIDENT BY NORRIS Medical Examiner Announces Finding After Iquiry Into Waldman Tragedy --- HEARS SEVEN WITNESSES --- Absolves Police for Moving Bodies and Says Their Inquiry Was Thorough --- WORKER TELLS OF FALL ---... | 25th October 1928 | |||
| The Times | (1918) | THE CARPATHIA TORPEDOED The Cunard steamer Carpathia was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Atlantic, west of Ireland, last Wednesday while on the outward voyage. Survivors state that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine at about 9:15 on Wednesday morning.... | 20th July 1918 | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1919) | DR. DODGE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Page 1, column 3, continued page 2, column 2 EX-ASSESSOR FIRES BULLET THROUGH HEAD Little Hope for His Recovery From Wound Inflicted in Garage Basement ILLNESS BELIEVED CAUSE Long Promine... | 22nd June 1919 | |||
| North American | (1912) | WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1940) | CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE... | 6th November 1940 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | (1912) | BLACKWELL HAD HEAVY INSURANCE ACCIDENT POLICY FOR $33,000 Carried by Trenton Victim of the Titanic Besides the large personal estate, in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell, who lost his life on the Titanic, he also carried accident ... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | (1912) | BELFAST FIREMAN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE The story of a fireman's fortunate escape from sailing in the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic was told yesterday in the Belfast Custody Court, when, before Sir Andrew Newton-Brady, RM, [Resident Magistrate] Patrick Morgan... | 26th April 1912 | |||
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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 | ||
| The Times | (1958) | TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi... | 2nd July 1958 | |||
| East Kent Gazette | (1965) | A CANADIAN REFERENCE A reference to Miss Buss is made in the Toronto Daily Star of April 20th, as the following extract will show:- ''Special to the 'Star' by a staff reporter - New York, April 20th - What happened at the regular Sunday service on board th... | 4th May 1965 | |||
| Syracuse Herald-Journal | (1987) | MARY WILBURN, OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES pp. B1 and B4 Mary Davis Wilburn, 104, oldest known survivor of the Titanic disaster, died peacefully Wednesday at Community-General Hospital, leaving behind unpleasant memories of death and terror in the North Atlantic. She was one o... | 30th July 1987 | |||
| The Times | (1895) | HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill... | 25th December 1895 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT Largest Steamship Afloat Pronounced Steady as a Rock --- Gales and High Seas Made No Impression on Her, and None of the Passengers Was Seasick --- The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made he... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| Jersey Observer | (1943) | ROBERT HOPKINS, HERO OF TITANIC, DIES IN HOBOKEN The funeral of Robert J. Hopkins, 77, of 1035 Garden street, Hoboken, one of the heroes of the disastrous sinking of the Titanic in mid-Atlantic in 1912, will be held at 8 a. m. tomorrow from the Bosworth Funeral Home, 311 Willow avenue, Hoboken.... | 18th November 1943 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | COUSIN OF CITY CLERK DONNELLY AMONG RESCUED Elmer Taylor, Paper Cup Manufacturer, Mrs. Thos. Potter, Mrs. Boulton Earnshaw (Olive Potter) and Miss Hayes Are Safe On Carpathia ---------- COTTAGE SECTION HERE IN FERMENT ---------- Many Atlantic City people ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Oxford Illustrated | (1912) | JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD MR WOODWARD was the youngest son of Mrs Woodward of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen College Choir, living in Oakthorpe Road, Oxford. Mr. Wesley Woodward left Oxford about a fortnight ago to joi... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | GAMBLERS ON TITANIC ESCAPE BY DRESSING AS WOMEN An extraordinary story is reported in New York of the escape from the sinking Titanic of two well-known gamblers who, for some years, have frequented the Atlantic liners, and against whose card-sharking tricks notices have been posted on ... | 11th May 1912 | |||
| Shore Press | (1912) | COMPTON CARRIED HEAVY INSURANCE Accident Policy For $29,000 Held by Lakewood Victim of the Titanic ---------- Besides the large personal estate in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell of Trenton, he als... | 5th May 1912 | |||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest Charles Cann was born in the village of Chapel Amble in the parish of St Kew near Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1883. He was the son of William Cann (labourer)and Sarah Jane Cann. (Sarah was 27 years younger than her husband and had been widowed sh... | ||||||
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ET Research | (2002) | QUEEN MARY AND FAT RASCALS ON OFFER IN YORKSHIRE ... | 19th September 2002 | ||
| PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1907) | INSANE WOMAN DEPORTED Miss Hyman, Who Came to Visit Her Brother, Had Suicidal Mania --- Closely guarded to prevent her carrying out her suicidal mania, Miss Jessie Hyman, a well-dressed woman about 28 yours old; was deported yesterday on the White Star ... | 12th September 1907 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS ------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Windsor, Eton & Slough Express | (1912) | UNTITLED The old churchyard of Clewer has witnessed many strange and touching scenes during the long roll of centuries that is has borne the designation of "God's Acre", still, perhaps never one so unusual or pathetic as that which occurred on Wednesday, when... | 25th May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | PRESUMED DEATH IN THE TITANIC T. Franklin presumed deceased [Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court hearing] This was a motion to swear the death of Thomas Parnham Franklin, of Sunningdale, Ceylon Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, who is believed to have lost his... | 11th June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1949) | ELMER ZELBY [SIC] TAYLOR Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., May 22---Elmer Zelby [sic; should be "Zebley"] Taylor, a pioneer in the paper container industry and a consulting engineer for the Continental Can Company, Inc., of New York, died he... | 23rd May 1949 | |||
| Le Grand Echo du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais | (1912) | A SURVIVOR FROM SAINS-BOUVIGNY A young lady from Sains-Bouvigny among passengers – She is safe and sound A few months ago, a young lady from Sains-Bouvigny, Melle Leroy, left her home here and was hired by rich Americans as a maid. After a short time in Paris... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | ONLY ONE OF IRISH PARTY BOUND FOR CHICAGO LIVES Of the five members of a party that included the Burke family, who left Castlebar, Ireland, to come to America, there was only one aboard the Carpathia when it crept up to its dock in New York. She was Annie Kelly, 16 years old. Her si... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CLARENCE MOORE Washington Banker One of the Best-Known Sportsmen in America --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---Clarence Moore of 1,748 Massachusetts Avenue, a passenger on the Titanic, is one of the best-known s... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | (1993) | MEMORIAL TO JAMES MOODY From Rev'd Anthony Stratford, SCARBOROUGH. British Titanic Society Member Rev'd Tony Stafford a lifetime lover of ships, the sea and the Titanic has recently retired to Dulverton Hall, St. Martin's Square, Scarborough. O... | 1993 | |||
| 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 | (1912) | THOSE WHO SAW THE RESCUE Carpathia's Passengers, Who Were Bound for Mediterranean, Back. The passengers on the Carpathia, whose trip to the Mediterranean was interrupted to aid those saved from the Titanic, are: Rev. R. B. Anderson, Baltimore,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger... | 5th March 1910 | |||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | (1912) | PARISIAN'S WIRELESS EXPERT OFF DUTY WHEN TITANIC STRUCK BERG But for This It Is Believed the Stricken Giant's Cries for Help Would Have Been Heard in Time to Save All --------- HALIFAX, N. S., April 18.--With two expeditions on the way to search for Titani... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2004) | 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG WILLIAM McMaster Murdoch lost his life, in common with one and a half thousand others, in April 1912. He had tried to “port around” an iceberg, but “she was too close.” First Officer Murdoch tried to slalom the berg by orde... | 6th February 2004 | ||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | SAILED IN '70S WITH TITANIC'S CAPTAIN Page 6 [Photo] Capt. J. R. Mullet Capt. J. R. Mullet, a veteran seaman, retired ten years ago on a pension from the White Star lines after thirty-five years of faithful service, yesterday recalled the days when he and C... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
| Daily Mirror | (1912) | FUNERAL OF A TITANIC VICTIM IN CORNWALL ... | 31st May 1912 | |||
| (2005) | LUCIGEN Lucigen – Lucigen Steamship Co., (H.E. Moss & Co.) Departed Bremen, Germany 8 March for New York. On 24 March at 46 degrees N, 46 degrees West, encountered heavy pack ice with numerous bergs... | 2nd January 2005 | ||||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Cokato Enterprise | (1912) | MRS. WM. LAHTINEN DIES WITH HUSBAND Refuses Chance to Be Saved and Both Go Down With Ill-Fated Titanic Refusing to be parted from her husband, and preferring death to separation, is the thrilling story relat... | 25th April 1912 | |||
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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 | ||
| Outlook | (1911) | THE RACE FOR OCEAN SUPREMACY A little more than ten years ago I crossed the Atlantic on the first trip of what was then the largest ocean liner in the world. A distinguished ship-builder who made the voyage at the same time expressed the opinion that this steamship marked the... | 24th June 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1923) | R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P... | 7th December 1923 | |||
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(2007) | THE CAP ARCONA : GALLERY OF A LOVELY - DOOMED LINER The Cap Arcona Perhaps the loveliest of the “forgotten” liners is Hamburg-Sudamerikanische’s Cap Arcona. She was conceived and built in the mid-1920s for service between Northern Europe and Argentin... | 14th July 2007 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | ATLANTIC SURVIVOR TELLS OF DISASTER E. Z. Taylor, On Telephone With City Clerk Donnelly, Describes AwfulScene---Third Member of His Party, Fletcher Williams, Lost---Did NotHear of Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Earnshaw.----------Atlantic City was in direct personal ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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EDWARD DODD MEMORIAL On the west wall of the chancel in Christ Church Crewe is a plaque to the memory of Edward Dodd. It reads "In Memory of E... | |||||
| The Times | (1899) | DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble.... | 24th November 1899 | |||
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The Times | (1912) | ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC The Corsican's Injuries As announced in the later editions of the Times of yesterday, the Allan liner Corsican struck an iceberg at 4pm on Monday (August 12, 1912). The vessel was at the time about 120 miles east of Belle Isle, and was... | 14th August 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1924) | LORD PIRRIE DIES ON SHIP BOUND HERE Head of Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Stricken With Pneumonia --- ON TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA --- A Leader in the Formation of the International Mercantile Marine --- Viscount Pirrie, head of the famous firm of... | 9th June 1924 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2009) | MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was a m... | 8th October 2009 | ||


























