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	THE TITANIC Frank Blackmarr The story of the most awful shipwreck of modern times may not be a pleasant subject for either the relator or the hearers but there is an interest in the details of the loss of the Titanic which warrents me in telling the story. And having been on...
	CARGO MANIFEST SS Titanic: Commercial Cargo Manifest: Net worth of total cargo: $420,0...
	MARCONIGRAMS SENT AND RECEIVED BY CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE TITANIC Marconigram to Commander Empress of Britain, 12 April, 1912, which read: Many thanks for your kind message from all here. Smith. Marconigram: 14th April 1912, 12.55pm. Commander Baltic. Thanks for your message and good wishes. Had fine...
	EPITAPH ON GRAVE OF R.N. WILLIAMS II IS FROM "SNOW-BOUND" Epitaph...
	ROAMING AROUND: MEMOIRS OF A MARCONI OPERATOR Alec Bagot Extract The next year went past for me in many experiences of life and places. I was a fully fledged Marconi operator, had visited my Australia of loving memories, Norway, with its North Cape, where I had taken photographs...
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920) White Star Line Triple Screw S.S. "Olympic" 46,439 tons Largest oil burning steamer 882½ feet long...
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	BELFAST, PORT OF Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
	SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 2 "On the afternoon of June 20th we entered the American War Zone and on the afternoon of the 21st a red light followed by a column of smoke which was believed to be the torching of an oil burning vessel was seen. Drawing nearer it was found to be t...
The Living Age	THE FLOATING ISLANDS Today, a floating city; tomorrow, a floating island. No other word is spacious enough for the gigantic ships now coming into existence. Next midsummer the largest ship in the World will be ploughing the Atlantic under the flag of th...	18th February 1911
Washington Times	FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic...	16th March 1912
New York Times	J. PIERPONT MORGAN WILL BE 75 YEARS OLD THIS WEEK During All That Time He Has Successfully Hidden from the Public His Real Self, Which Combines Diffidence and a Gentleness Very Unlike the Gruff Autocrat Familiar to Wall Street --- Should J. Pierpont Morgan feel moved n...	14th April 1912
Washington Times	PRESIDENT'S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil...	16th April 1912
Evening Bulletin	HAD PREMONITION OF DISASTER Nurse in Home of Mrs. J. B. Earnshaw Distrusted Early Despatches of Safety of Passengers --- A curious instance of the premonitions which are communicated to members of a family or even a household in time of disaster, was illustrated i...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK MISS CAROLINE BONNELL Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care To the Rescued---Four Buried At Sea --- BY MISS CAROLINE BONNELL (Copyrighted, ...	19th April 1912
Christian Science Monitor	WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...	19th April 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer	REMAINS IN HOPE HUSBAND IS SAVED Mrs. Geo. D. Wick, Denies All Evidence That Youngstown Man is Lost First of Rescued From Titanic Pass Through Cleveland Holding onto what is more than a forlorn hope, when hope in all other breasts is dead, Mrs. George...	20th April 1912
Daily Home News	JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish...	20th April 1912
New York Times	PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...	20th April 1912
New York Times	WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- TWO YOUNG MEN'S HEROISM --- Woman Tells How Roebling and Case Saved Her---Others' Tribute to Dead --- Among the chivalrous younger heroes of the Titanic disaster were Washington A. Roebling, 2d, of Tr...	20th April 1912
New York Times	TO HOLD ISMAY TO THE END Senate Committee Decides on That Course Sailor's Weird Tale Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 21. Chairman Smith of the Senate Subcommittee investigating th...	22nd April 1912
Jersey Journal	FEAR JERSEY CITY GIRL'S FIANCÉ WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC A few hours after the Titanic with hundreds of her passengers and crew went down to their ocean grave a letter was received in this city by Miss Sarah Weir of 173 Clendenny Avenue, from her sweetheart, Peter Sloan, chief electrician of the ill-fated ...	23rd April 1912
Evening Banner	RESCUED PASSENGER BRINGS WORD OF LOST SUPERINTENDENT A. H. BARKWORTH OF ENGLAND Tells of Acquaintance Made With Bennington Man on Steamship's First and Last Trip. The first information relative to Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of the J. C. Colgate estate, who lost his life in the T...	26th April 1912
New York Times	CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...	6th October 1918
New York Times	DINE CAPT. ROSTRON ON THE MAURETANIA 156 Guests of Sir Ashley Sparks Pay Tribute to Commander's War Aid --- HE PRAISES HIS VESSEL --- Is Fastest and Finest Merchant Ship Afloat, He Says--Many Captains Present --- One hundred and fifty-six guests...	4th April 1922
New York Times	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
New York Times	OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...	14th June 1924
New York Times	MRS. CHESTER O. SWAIN Mrs. Florence Thayer Swain, widow of Chester O. Swain, a former vice-president and director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, died yesterday in her home at 755 Park Avenue. Her age was 75. Mrs. Swain's first husband, John Bradley C...	3rd September 1949
Chicago Tribune	FRED A. WEBER Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 29, 1962, s. 3, p. 8: Obituaries Fred A. Weber Salt Lake City, Oct. 28 (AP)---Fred A. Weber, 72, one of the last surviving crew members of the Tita...	29th October 1962
Rockford Register Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR HAD ROCKFORD CONNECTION David Shultz Dagmar Bryhl: The young woman from Sweden was on the ocean liner with her brother and her fiancé to visit relatives in Rockford. By David Shultz Rockford Register Star. Rockford's connection to the Titanic spent less th...	21st December 1997
Titanic Research	BIODETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC Roy Cullimore & Lori Johnston How marine organism activity will lead to the eventual destruction of the Titanic...	28th January 2001
Titanic Research	AN 'OLYMPIC' CLASS PROPULSION SYSTEM Mark Chirnside How the White Star Line's greatest ships were propelled....	25th June 2001
Titanic Research	THE CALIFORNIAN INCIDENT, A REALITY CHECK Tracy Smith, Michael H. Standart & Captain Erik D. Wood Could Captain Lord and the Californian have done more to save the passengers and crew of the Titanic....	8th November 2001
Gare Maritime	MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gavin Murphy Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar...	8th November 2001
Titanic Research	RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 1 Gavin Murphy Explaining the legal position of the Titanic wreck...	15th March 2002
Gare Maritime	RMS OLYMPIC: ANOTHER PREMATURE DEATH? Mark Chirnside The demise of the 'Old Reliable'...	8th April 2002
	MARCONIGRAM FROM SS BALTIC The MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, Ltd. Office of origin: S.S. Baltic 14 Apr 1912 Office sent to: MGY ...	23rd July 2004
Titanic Research	IMPACT OF TITANIC UPON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW Allison Lane No other shipwreck in history has left such an indelible imprint upon the public consciousness as that of the RMS Titanic. Ninety-two years after her loss, the story of that great liner continues to...	31st August 2004
Voyage	ROYAL STANDARD John P. Eaton White Star Line The White Star Line was founded in 1845 by two Liverpool ship brokers, Henry Threlfall Wilson and...	14th November 2004
	BRAVERY AWARD Trevor M. Bailey Ernest G F Brown...	1st April 2005
Voyage	THE HERMAN FAMILY Michael A. Findlay In recent years much has been written about those who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic. Stories of heroism, selflessness and cowardice on that fateful night have emerged through the lives of those who were witnesses to the Ti...	25th August 2005
Voyage	TUNISIAN John P. Eaton Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. On 10 April reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site. Port of Registry: Glasgow ...	12th November 2005
Titanic Research	LIFE'S DECOR: A BIOGRAPHY OF HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE Randy Bryan Bigham “When beauty assails, reason has no part.” –– HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE ...	23rd December 2005
Gare Maritime	GERBAULT AND THE FIRECREST Classic account of a real life ocean adventure...	15th February 2006
Titanic Research	A PEN TO SINK A THOUSAND SHIPS Lee Kendall THE BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY AND THE ART OF FORTUNINO MATANIA Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) was, without doubt, the greatest of the Edwardian illustrators, in the long sha...	7th March 2006
	AT REST - THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MISS LILLIAN G. ASPLUND Shelley Dziedzic Worcester, Massachusetts is a city of approximately 180,00 living souls, located in what the state likes to call the “Heart of the Commonwealth. It is, like Rome, a city of seven hills and the second largest city in the state after nearby Boston...	10th May 2006
Voyage	WHEN ANIMALS TRAVELLED FIRST CLASS Charles A. Haas Today’s newscasts often feature airline passengers discussing their “being treated just like cattle.” In the late 19th Century, Britain’s White Star Line took the meaning of that phrase to new heights. While we recall th...	10th November 2006
Gare Maritime	THE LOSS OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA Jim Kalafus The worst wreck, in terms of verifiable fatalities, on the North American west coast...	3rd December 2006
Gare Maritime	ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE Pierette Domenica Simpson From "Alive on the Andrea Doria"...	9th January 2007
Gare Maritime	RECALLING THE INDIANAPOLIS - CLEATUS LEBOW Cleatus Lebow I was in the water, I was swimming away from the ship in the dark... I heard the loudest, worst noise I’d ever heard...	30th July 2007
Titanic Research	*HONOUR & GLORY: CROWING* TIME!** Senan Molony WE KNOW well the allegorical figures of Honour and Glory… They appear as heraldic supporters to the clock located in the alcove atop the Tita...	20th August 2007
Titanic Research	ICE: CLEAR AND ABSENT DANGER Senan Molony This is an argument hewn from ice… a substance that offers solidity and occasional clarity. But it is also an argument about the absence of ice – meaning nothing less than clear water, with all the plain sailing that implies....	14th October 2007
Voyage	WILLIAM J. MELLORS Robert L. Bracken A survivor emerges from the mists of time....	26th March 2008
New York Times	FIGHT FOR ASTOR ESTATE MIRRORS BATTLE 50 YEARS AGO The son of Brooke Astor, late widow of Vincent Astor (son of Titanic victim John Jacob Astor and his first wife), stands accused of elder abuse and theft of the Astor fortune. Fifty years ago, John Jacob Astor VI, son of JJA and survivor/2nd wife Madeline, accused Brooke Astor of undue influence over Vincent to claim the Astor fortune....	26th April 2009
Titanic Research	WHO TALKED TO TITANIC? Senan Molony Marconi chart offers insight into Titanic interlocutors...	11th March 2010
Swann Galleries	STANDING ROOM ONLY FOR OCEAN LINER AUCTION New York—It was standing room only at Swann Galleries on March 4 for the two-part sale of The Christopher Bou Collec...	15th March 2010
Titanic Research	WHEN DID TITANIC TRY FOR HELP? Senan Molony When did the Titanic transmit her distress signal?...	7th April 2010
Titanic Research	ROSTRON'S LOST REPORT Senan Molony ...	13th June 2010
Titanic Review	HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY Senan Molony Ismay as Ecce Homo...	11th August 2011
Titanic Research	LIFEBOATS EXTINGUISHED THEIR LIGHTS! Senan Molony  Lifeboats from the Titanic extinguished their lights in order not to become attractive beacons for swimmers after the sinking....	6th December 2011