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(1948) | PITMAN'S MBE I Have the honour to send to you herewith the warrant under The King's Sign Manual granting you the dignity of a member of the Civil Division, of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and to inform you that the insignia has been sent ... | 13th March 1948 | |||
| New York Times | (1926) | MAURETANIA'S CAPTAIN IS HONORED BY KING Roston [sic]Is Made a K. B. E. in Delayed Birthday List---48 Other Knights Created --- Copyright, 1926, by The New York Times Company --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The King's Bi... | 3rd July 1926 | |||
| The Times | (1918) | DAVID BLAIR DECORATED BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 13--- The King held an Investiture of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at 10.30 o'clock this morning. The following were severally introduced into the presence o... | 14th February 1918 | |||
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(2005) | ARGENTINE TRANSPORT Empire Transport Co., Ltd. (Houlder Brothers, Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia. Left Narvik 3 April 1912 with a cargo of iron ore. On arrival at the intermediate stop of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, her captain reporte... | 20th March 2005 | |||
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The ChronicleHerald.ca | (2008) | TITANIC FILE GETTING DIGITAL UPDATE IN N.S. The Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is digitizing the Titanic-related coverage, including maps, drawings and photographs, from April-May 1912 issues of The Sphere and The Daily Graphic, two British news magazines, in order to share them with a wider audience.... | 15th April 2008 | ||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | GEORGE WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 3) | 7th May 1912 | |||
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(1912) | JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 13) | 22nd May 1912 | |||
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(1912) | JOSEPH GROVES BOXHALL TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 14) | 23rd May 1912 | |||
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(1912) | FREDERICK BARRETT TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 3) | 7th May 1912 | |||
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(1912) | FREDERICK BARRETT TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY - DAY 4) | 8th May 1912 | |||
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The Independent | (2006) | LAST BRITISH 'TITANIC' SURVIVOR DISGUSTED BY SALVAGERS SELLING OFF SHIP'S TREASURES The last British survivor from the Titanic has condemned the people plundering the ship's wreckage where the bodies of hundreds, including her father, remain. Milveena Dean, 94, was shocked to learn that parts from the ship that is her father's grave are on sale on the black market as salvage companies and divers plunder the wreck.... | 30th October 2006 | ||
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(1912) | CHARLES ALFRED BARTLETT (MARINE SUPERINTENDENT - WHITE STAR LINE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY) | 11th June 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2003) | TITANIC'S FINAL MANOEUVRE She never was under a port helm? - She did not come on the port helm, Sir - on the starboard helm. ------Titanic’s QM Robert Hitchens to the British enquiry At both inquiries it was adduced that, at the time of the look... | 8th February 2003 | ||
| New York Times | (1915) | SUBMARINES SINK FOUR MORE SHIPS Three British and a French Steamer Destroyed, All Probably in Mediterranean --- 2 U-BOATS REPORTED LOST -- And a Third Is Said to Have Been Captured and Taken to Port by British Warships --- LONDON, Nov... | 11th November 1915 | |||
| Semi Weekly Iowegian | (1912) | TAKEN EAST TO BE DEPORTED - LEFEVRES AND WOMAN AND HER CHILD BEING TAKEN BACK TO NEW YORK TO SAIL FOR FRANCE Appanoose county saw the last of Frank Lefevres, the woman with whom he eloped from France, and one child of each Saturday when they were started to New York in charge of a government official and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baker who went along to assi... | 30th July 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 | |||
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Daily Graphic | (1912) | HERBERT PITMAN AND CHARLES LIGHTOLLER AT THE BRITISH INQUIRY | May 1912 | ||
| The Times | (1904) | MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu... | 21st April 1904 | |||
| (1908) | SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON | 1908 | ||||
| (1975) | GUS COHEN, 1975 From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]... | 1975 | ||||
| (1937) | MUTINY ON TITANIC RESCUE VESSEL - 1937 TROUBLE ON SOUTH AFRICAN VESSEL 'Mutiny' on Titanic Rescue Ship The Admiralty was informed last night that a wireless message had been received by HMS Resolution from the Sherard Osborn, bound from Table Bay to Rotterdam, which ... | 1937 | ||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TAFT DENIES BUT TWENT ON MISSION TO THANK PONTIFF President Sends Letter to Tennessean Explaining Trip of Military Aide --- President Taft today denied Major Archibald Butt was returning from a mission to Rome when he went to his death on the luckless Tiatnic. The denial... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | A DAY'S WEDDINGS SCHEFTEL-STRAUS --- Herbert Adolph Scheftel was married to Miss Vivian Straus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Sherry's, by the Rev. Dr. Schulman. The ceremony was follo... | 18th January 1907 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | THE BOY IN THE PICTURE Perhaps one of the most evocative images of the Titanic ... | 28th March 2002 | ||
| The Times | (1908) | NEW KNIGHT OF ST. PATRICK The King has been pleased to confer the honour of Knight of the Order of St. Patrick upon Lord Pirrie in the room of the Earl of Rosse, deceased.... | 9th October 1908 | |||
| The Times | (1960) | THE RT. REV. ALOYSIUS SMITH The Rt. Rev. Aloysius Smith was the eldest brother of Reginald George Smith, one of the saloon stewards on Titanic. This is his obituary- FIRST ABBOT OF BODMIN The Rt. Rev. Abbot Aloysius Smith, C.R.L., First Abbot of Bo... | 23rd August 1960 | |||
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(1912) | ERNEST EDWARD ARCHER TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY) | 4th June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1922) | ASTOR SALE LIKELY TO HELP MRS. DICK Permission to Dispose of Trust Property Would Raise Her Income to $60,000 --- NOW GETS $43,000 [sic] FROM IT --- Trustee Has Offer of $1,200,000 for Realty In West Thirty-Fourth Street---Affects Vincent --- A... | 1st August 1922 | |||
| EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL, 1975 From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]... | ||||||
| (1975) | EDITH [ROSENBAUM] RUSSELL'S PIG From publicity handout for 1970s TV documentary. See this interview at the British Pathé website [Film ID 3478.01]... | 1975 | ||||
| (1911) | GENUINE TITANIC STATIONARY This card (front) is a genuine Titanic item. There were stocks of it in Cherbourg, in order to supply the liner with it at each of her stops. After the sinking, the stocks were destroyed and a few pieces survived to this day.... | 1911 | ||||
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(1910) | SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER The French paper Le Journal, on 20 April 1912, read: "Mr. S.-L. Goldenberg crosses the Atlantic three times a year; he was a passenger on the liner that caused the Pluviôse disaster. As an important lace importer, he is well known on t... | 26th May 1910 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Thomas Mudd, a letter from his nephew says that the lad was just sixteen years old and one of a family of thirteen children. In order to give him a chance of a better life he was sent to American to join his brothers George and James who were already... | ||||||
| St. Ives Times & Express | (1912) | MR. WILLIAM CARBINES Mr. William Carbines, 19, of Nanjivey, was the fourth son of Mr. Nicholas Carbines, and he sailed on the "Titanic" in order to join one of his three other brothers also in Michigan. Although he had been mining in this part of the county for some time... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | JAMES CLAYTON BARR (MASTER - SS CARONIA) - BRITISH ENQUIRY TESTIMONY | 17th May 1912 | |||
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(1912) | STANLEY ADAMS (WIRELESS OPERATOR - MESABA) TESTIMONY (BRITISH INQUIRY) | 11th June 1912 | |||
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TITANIC INQUIRY PROJECT The site contains the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports.... | |||||
| New York Times | (1912) | LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1922) | COMES FOR $250,000 HE RISKED IN WAR Fighting Kept Captain Douglas From Earning $2,500 a Year Prescribed by Will --- BROTHER GETS HIS SHARE --- British Officer on Way to Minneapolis to Lay Hi... | 19th August 1922 | |||
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(1912) | STAND TO YOUR POST / BE BRITISH Recorded in London May or June 1912 "Stand To Your Post" by Bennett Scott "Be British" by Lawrence Wright and Paul Pelham ... | June 1912 | |||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2009) | TITANIC DISASTER'S LAST SURVIVOR MEETS ENTHUSIASTS ALL eyes were on Millvina Dean when hundreds of enthusiasts from all over the world descended on Southamp-ton for the annual British Titanic Society convention.... | 7th April 2009 | ||
| S.S. CHICAGO As she could not stand the idea of sailing again on a British liner, Mme Laroche decided that she would return in France on a French ship. She chose the French Line S.S. Chicago. She and her two daughters landed in Le Havre on 1 May 1912.... | ||||||
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(2005) | CALEDONIA Anchor Line On 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra. Port of Registry: Glasgow Flag of ... | 11th June 2005 | |||
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Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal | (2007) | THE TITANIC TALES THE TITANIC Tales, about the ill-fated British luxury liner, is written by Rory Thersby and is about nine individual characters out of the many thousands that boarded the ship that fateful night in Southampton in 1912. ... | 20th February 2007 | ||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1928) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr... | 29th July 1928 | |||
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(1912) | GERHARD CHRISTOPHER AFFELD (MARINE SUPERINTENDENT - RED STAR LINE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY) | 21st June 1912 | |||
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(1912) | WILLIAM DAVID ARCHER (PRINCIPAL SHIP SURVEYOR - BOARD OF TRADE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY) | 17th June 1912 | |||
| L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | (1956) | DAVID SARNOFF AT WORK This picture of wireless operator David Sarnoff was published in 1956 by 'L'Illustré", a weekly magazine from Switzerland. Sarnoff was among the first to receive Titanic's distress call and for 72 hours stood at his post at the top of Wanamaker in Ne... | 27th September 1956 | |||
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FOXNews.com | (2009) | AMERICAN RESEARCHERS DISPUTE CLAIMS OF 'POLITE' TITANIC VICTIMS American researchers are firing back at a Swiss university researcher's report that 'politeness' led to the deaths of 225 British passengers aboard the Titanic.... | 23rd January 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2005) | WHITE STAR LINE OFFICER'S UNIFORM CIRCA 1912 By and large the various British steamship company's officer's uniforms of the Edwardia... | 15th February 2005 | ||
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Peninsula News Review | (2007) | TITANIC RELICS WANTED The Royal BC Museum is looking for British Columbians with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard the Titanic 95 years ago. With just six weeks until the April 14 opening of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, the RBCM is collecting local links to the historic liner.... | 10th March 2007 | ||
| (1897) | LETTER WRITTEN BY FR. BYLES TO HIS BROTHER WINTER My Dear Winter: I am staying on in Germany after taking departure of the others in the hopes of getting a tutorship here for a few months. I thnk it is w. doubtful if I shall succeed; if not I shall go home probably in a week or two. I have b... | 14th September 1897 | ||||
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BBC News | (2009) | UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT A British man has died during an underwater filming mission, the Greek government has said.The diver, 37, was part of a National Geographic crew exploring a British ship, which was sunk during World War I and is owned by a UK businessman.... | 24th May 2009 | ||
| Newark Star | (1912) | SERVICE FOR TITANIC VICTIM RAHWAY, April 23---Tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock a solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church for Arthur Keefe, who lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic. The service will be attended by Rahway Aerie No. 1... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1909) | PIRRIE INVESTED AS KNIGHT OF ST. PATRICK Lord Pirrie was privately invested as a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at Dublin Castle yesterday.... | 5th February 1909 | |||
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Liverpool Daily Post | (2008) | TITANIC CONVENTION HELD IN LIVERPOOL THE annual convention of the British Titanic Society begins today in Liverpool.More than 100 delegates from the UK, Europe and the United States will meet in the city for a weekend of events marking the 96th anniversary of the tragedy.... | 14th April 2008 | ||
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Weekly Irish Times | (1912) | A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ... | 21st September 1912 | ||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA’S LANDING New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Scotsman | (1912) | STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ... | 28th July 1912 | |||
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United Press International | (2009) | BUYER RETURNS MEMENTO TO TITANIC SURVIVOR DEVIZES, England, April 19 (UPI) -- An anonymous British buyer who bought a canvas bag belonging to a 97-year-old Titanic survivor has asked the auctioneer to return the memento to the seller.... | 22nd April 2009 | ||
| Le Petit Journal | (1912) | TITANIC COMPARED WITH NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS In order to give an idea of the size of the Titanic, French papers compared her with famous monuments. Here, Notre-Dame cathedral... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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Liverpool Echo | (2008) | EXHIBITION MODEL IS A PERFECT MATCH FOR DOOMED TITANIC A GIANT model of the Titanic made entirely from matches will be launched at a special convention to commemorate the ship next week.The British Titanic Society convention is being held at Liverpool's Liner hotel.... | 7th April 2008 | ||
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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 | ||
| The Times | (1925) | A ROUND THE WORLD TRIP The first meeting of creditors was held yesterday at Bankruptcy-buildings under a receiving order made against Maurice Allan Robinson, of 47, Victoria-street, Westminster. Mr. D. WILLIAMS, Official Receiver, reported that the ... | 3rd November 1925 | |||
| 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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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | (2008) | ABOARD THE TITANIC Twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Colder than freezing. Colder than an iceberg.That was the temperature of the ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, when the "unsinkable" British steamer Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Of the more than 2,200 passengers aboard, 1,500 died in water made colder than ice by the ocean's salt level.... | 10th October 2008 | ||
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The Sun Online | (2007) | LETTER PREDICTED TITANIC DANGER A TITANIC passenger's chilling final letter from the ship, in which he PREDICTED its tragic end, has finally emerged - 95 years after the disaster. British farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, described the giant liner as 'too big' and a 'positive danger' in the letter home to wife Constance.... | 30th March 2007 | ||
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The Sun | (2007) | LETTER PREDICTED TITANIC DANGER A TITANIC passenger's chilling final letter from the ship, in which he PREDICTED its tragic end, has finally emerged - 95 years after the disaster. British farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, described the giant liner as 'too big' and a 'positive danger' in the letter home to wife Constance.... | 1st 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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Canada News Wire | TITANIC THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION IN MONTREAL FOR AN ADDITIONAL MONTH! MONTREAL, Aug. 24 /CNW Telbec/ - Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will remain at the Montreal Exhibition Centre for an additional month in order to satisfy the demand especially from schools and groups.... | ||||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ... | 21st July 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1932) | OPPOSE LONDON RADIO PROGRAM ON SINKING OF THE TITANIC By The Associated Press --- LONDON, Feb. 24---Many protests have been made against the proposal of the British Broadcasting Corporation to present a radio representation of the sinking of the Titanic. "That borrible scene... | 25th February 1932 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MISS FUNK A memorial service will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Young Women’s Christian association for Miss Funk, who was one of the number that lost their lives on the Titanic. Miss Funk was house secretary of the local association for two years, giving... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MISS FUNK A memorial service will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Young Women’s Christian association for Miss Funk, who was one of the number that lost their lives on the Titanic. Miss Funk was house secretary of the local association for two years, giving ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
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United Press International | (2009) | TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release.... | 2nd January 2009 | ||
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The Telegram | (2007) | WAKING THE GHOSTS OF THE TITANIC I've got a ticket to sail on the Titanic and I'm feeling a little apprehensive about it. My name is Jennie Louise Howard and I'm a 45-year-old third-class passenger from Racine, Wisconsin who's returning home after visiting family in Denmark. It's the first time my husband and I have been back in 21 years. That might be the reason behind that feeling of apprehension, which had led me to tell my brother what type of funeral I want. At least that's what my boarding pass/admission ticket to the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria says.... | 8th August 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | FINED FOR IMPORTING LABOR J. Mandelberg & Co. Must Pay $2,000 for Violating Law --- J. Mandelberg & Co., raincoat manufacturers, of 18 Twentieth Street, were ordered yesterday in the Federal District Court to pay a fine of $2,000 for violations of the contract l... | 24th November 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | SERVICES FOR ARTHUR KEEFE Solemn Requiem High Mass Is Celebrated At St. Mary's Chrch Today ---------- In memory of Arthur Keefe, who went down when the steamer Titanic foundered, a solemn requiem high mass was celebrated in St. Mary's church this morning... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Telegraph | (1962) | ESTATE OF HERBERT JOHN PITMAN Mr Herbert John Pitman, of Pitcombe, Somerset, retired purser, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, left estate in Great Britain valued at pounds 21,158 gross, pounds 21,116 net. He left the residue of his estate to his niece [name withheld] for life,... | 9th April 1962 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SAY THEY HAVE "MONA LISA" Two Men Go to Rome to See J. P. Morgan About It --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 11---A newspaper whose artistic news is generally reliable says that two men le... | 12th April 1912 | |||
| Titanic Commutator | (1982) | FATE DEALS A HAND [EXCERPT] Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1982 Deeply engrossed in their own conversation, three men sat in nearby easy- chairs. One was Charles C. Jones, the superintendent of an estate in Vermont, while A. H. Barkworth was an English Justice of th... | 1982 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | CAPT. BOWER ISMAY DIES British Shipping and Racing Man Succumbs to Sleeping Sickness --- LONDON, May 25---Captain Bower Ismay, the shipowner and racehorse fancier, died today at Hazel Beech Hall, Northamptonshire. He had been ill since Feb. 8 with sleeping ... | 26th May 1924 | |||
| New York Times | (1915) | BUYER FINDS TRADE IN GERMANY STIFLED E. P. Calderhead Say Factories There Are Crippled Because They Lack Materials --- ALL PRICES HAVE ADVANCED --- Berlin Streets, Cafes, and Hotels Deserted---Factory Workers in France Are Men Over 70 --- A repo... | 23rd April 1915 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BOY WIRELESS SAVED THEM Rescues Resulted from Coltain's [sic] Untiring Devotion to Duty --- Harold Thomas Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia, through whose efforts more than to any one [sic] else the saving of a part of the Titanic's passengers wa... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| BLUE JACKET (Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1913) | SIR WILLIAM ARROL Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 a... | 21st February 1913 | |||
| Atlantic Daily Bulletin | (2005) | SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ... | 22nd November 2005 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Cambria Daily Leader | (1912) | UNTITLED Mr. Evan Davies of Ynismond, Glais, who was on board the Titanic with Mr. J. Rogers, another Swansea Valley man. It is feared that the lives of both have been lost. Our Swansea Valley reporter writes: The names of W. J.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Express | (1912) | TITAN HAS SUNK - JANUARY 1912 Steamer Founders Four of crew drowned A Lloyd's Constantinople messages says - The steamer 'Titan', late Craigearn, foundered 20 miles off Cape Doron. The crew was picked up by the British steamer 'Empress'. Four were dro... | 2nd January 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Examiner | (1912) | SACRAMENTO PAIR IN PASSENGER LIST Special Dispatch to “The Examiner.” SACRAMENTO, APRIL 15.–Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hold of this city were passengers on the Titanic. They were returning from a visit to Mrs. Hold’s father and other relatives in Cornwall, where they were m... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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Irish Examiner | (2006) | TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED NULL... | 26th January 2006 | ||
| The Washington Post | (1912) | BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the... | 22nd May 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Among the passengers of the Titanic was Mr. Charles Whilems, 31, a foreman in the employ of Messrs. Robinson King’s glass works, London. Mr. Whilems was taking the trip in order to visit some relatives in New York, and intended returning to London b... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Percy Andrew Bailey was born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1894, he was the eldest child of Joseph Bailey (butcher) and Edith Bailey. The 1901 British Census shows the family at 25 Gwavas Street, Penzance along with Percy's younger siblings, Ada (b... | ||||||
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ABC News | (2006) | PLUNDERING THE TITANIC The last British survivor of the Titanic disaster condemned black-market dealers today, after it emerged that relics from the world-famous shipwreck were up for sale. Millvina Dean, 94, of Hampshire, England, who was just an infant when the ship went down, said the sale of items from the Titanic was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved. "My father [who died on the ship] is still on there," she said to ABC News. "It's awfully wrong to take things especially from a ship where so many people perished. I don't suppose these people thought of that. ¢€¦ They just thought of the money." ... | 31st October 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | ELKS’ TRIBUTE TO HARRIS New York Lodge Holds Special Service for Departed Brother --- Special funeral services in memory of Henry B. Harris, theatrical manager, who lost his life on the Titanic, were held last night in the headquarters of New York Lodge No. 1,... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1907) | LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder... | 16th July 1907 | |||
| (1913) | MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND : PENNY (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 543. Penny, Phyllis, widow. Penny, Lionel William, child. Both class D dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Area)... | March 1913 | ||||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2007) | THE FLEECING OF HUGH WOOLNER Thomas Woolner... | 4th February 2007 | ||
| Daily Mining Gazette | (1951) | JOHN M. DAVIS, 45, FORMER C.C. MAN, PASSES IN DETROIT Page 2 John M. Davis, 45, a former Copper Country man, died suddenly in Detroit Sunday morning, according to word received here. Born in England, he came to the United States with his mother, being one of the survivors of th... | 17th December 1951 | |||
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Arcadia News Leader | (2009) | BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF THE TITANIC April 15, 1912--One of the most infamous calamities in recent history occurs: the largest and most opulent ship of its time, and the vessel most people deemed to be unsinkable, British luxury passenger liner, the Titanic, meets its demise during its maiden voyage. 1,500 people were killed as the stricken vessel sank into the icy waters about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, its massive body snapping in two before becoming completely immersed. "The whole thing was a tragedy from start to finish," said Don Lynch, leading Titanic historian, during the presentation he held this week in the Arcadia High School auditorium.... | 25th April 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2008) | LOADING THE REAR BOATS While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti... | 29th May 2008 | ||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT H. B. Stephenson, one of the Survivors, who, it was said, is attached to the Swedish legation at Washington, made the following statement: "At the time of the collision a Mr. Woolner and myself were seated in the cafe. There was only a ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in... | 15th 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 | |||
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NY Daily News (4/20/08 | (2008) | TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction.... | 20th April 2008 | ||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS White Star First Class Passengers During the last year the White Star Line carried 21,600 first class passengers from European ports to America, and 21,314 from America to Europe, the largest numbers taken by any British or Continental... | 26th January 1912 | |||
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ANCESTORS ON BOARD Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. With ancestors... | |||||
| New York Times | (1912) | GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | SEALED ASTOR PAPERS FILED Rockland County Sends Them to Dutchess---Everything Secret --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 10---The sealed papers in the divorce action of Ava Willing Astor against John Jacob Astor were fil... | 11th November 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | TITANIC MOVING PICTURES BARRED IN BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport, Conn.- Superintendent of police Birmingham yesterday issued an order prohibiting the exhibition of so-call... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1914) | DEFICIT IN HARRIS ESTATE Theatrical Manager Left $365,443, but Had Large Debts --- Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager who lost his life in the Titanic disaster of April 15, 1912, left a gross estate of $365,443, according to an appraisal filed yesterday in ... | 2nd July 1914 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | HORSEWOMEN IN PARADE Mrs. Burleson, Wife of Army Officer In Command of Suffrage Pageant --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, Jan. 10---A cavalcade of horsewomen is to lead the woman's suffrage parade, or p... | 11th April 1913 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | TITANIC AS METAPHOR WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR... | 20th March 2005 | ||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FUNDS FOR SURVIVORS By the Associated Press New York and London Mayor's Start Movement for Titanic's Survivors New York- April 17 - Mayor William J. Gaynor today received the following cablegram: "London, England, April 17, 1... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of where she had reportedly foundered. Shortly after t... | 7th November 2002 | ||
| (2005) | NEPTUNE Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal... | 6th March 2005 | ||||
| The Times | (1906) | THE OLYMPIAN GAMES The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h... | 28th February 1906 | |||
| La Presse | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS Two Survivors This afternoon, the Daily Mail welcomed in their Parisian offices, rue des Capucines, the American doctor Joseph Leidy. Mr. Leidy was visiting the Daily Mail reporters in order to show them a wireless he had just received ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LADY DUFF GORDON SUES Husband of the Former Mrs. Chapman Refuses to Pay for Valuable Gowns --- Lady Duff Gordon, who, under the name of Lucile, Ltd., of London and Paris, sells feminine apparel of her own design, is suing for $600 in the City Court P... | 14th April 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | MUST PRODUCE MINE STOCK John Weir Held In Contempt for Dodging Sheriff's Attachment --- The Appellate Division yesterday reversed an order of the Supreme Court denying a motion made on behalf of Sheriff Hayes to compel John Weir to produce 42,000 shares of sto... | 17th July 1907 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SMITH VOUCHED FOR BRAVERY OF CREW Told Shipbuilder His Men Would Die Like Those on Birkenhead --- LONDON, April 22---Manager Director Kemster, of the shipbuilding firm which constructed the Titanic, while speaking to a meeting at Belfast today, said that just before the... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1964) | MRS. SELMA ASPLUND [OBITUARY] Mrs. Selma A. (Johnson) Asplund, 90, of 39 Fairlawn Circle, Shrewsbury, died Wednesday night in St. Vincent Hospital, a few hours after being admitted. Born in Smaland, Sweden, she moved to Kansas City, Mo., 71 years ago, and to Worcester a ye... | 17th April 1964 | |||
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UTV | (2006) | HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912.... | 16th May 2006 | ||
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ET Research | (2002) | RMS TITANIC: A LEGAL UPDATE 2 Court's Opinion The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia confirmed on 12 April 2002 that RMS Titanic Inc. (RMST), a salvage and exhibition company based in Atlanta, Georgia, has neither title to artifacts it... | 19th April 2002 | ||
| (2005) | HECTOR Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles... | 13th March 2005 | ||||
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Belfast Today | (2006) | EVERY DAY IS A POTENTIAL ANNIVERSARY ON THE RIVER LAGAN Published Date: 01 June 2006 Every day is a potential anniversary on the River Lagan. There are no blind dates in Belfast's maritime diary! Centuries of shipbuilding and millions of tons of ships means that the city can rendez... | 5th June 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1913) | ROSTRON GETS MEDAL TO-DAY Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Arrives in Washington to Receive Honor --- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28---Capt. A. H. Rostron, who, as commander of the steamship Carpathia, directed the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, arrived here ... | 1st March 1913 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [The preceeding paragrpahs of this article can be found through the summary pages for the Renouf/Jefferys family, the Carter family and the Peacock family, in that order.] From early this morning when the first dispatches began to come... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| MRS WEISZ ON THE CARPATHIA Mrs Weisz could speak French and second class survivor Juliette Laroche met her on the Carpathia. Her daughter, Louise Laroche, remembered Mrs Weisz well. She was a strong character and on the Carpathia, she cried after her husband: "Mon pauvre Léopo... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1923) | WEIRD MISFORTUNES BLAMED ON MUMMY Beautiful but Malignant Priestess Is Said to Resent Touching Her Coffin Lid --- IT IS IN BRITISH MUSEUM --- Officials Call Stories Myths, but Superstitious Even Blame Her for Sinking of Titanic --- Copyright,... | 7th April 1923 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1983) | ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90 ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So... | 20th September 1983 | |||
| Daily Express | (1932) | BBC DENY TITANIC RADIO PLAY TO BE BROADCAST BBC and the Titanic Disaster A formal statement contradicting the reports published in some newspapers (not the Daily Express) to the effect that the BBC intended to broadcast a play based on the Titanic disaster has been issued by the... | 25th February 1932 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final... | 5th March 1910 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | MISS HILDA SLAYTER Miss Hilda Slayter, one of the first class passengers saved from the Titanic was coming back to Canada on the Titanic to marry Mr Reginald Lacon, one of the big ranch owners of British Colombia, and son of the late Hon. Mr. Lacon. Miss Slater, wh... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1929) | ROSTRON'S CAT LEFT HERE Berengaria Master Sails Alone Because of British Quarantine --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunarder Berengaria, sailed early yesterday morning for the first time in many years without his pet Persian cat Abdul. The animal... | 6th January 1929 | |||
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Irish Independent | (2004) | J. BRUCE ISMAY RETREAT FOR SALE The fishing lodge at Casla, Co Galway, where J. Bruce Ismay spent many happy years after his retirement from the White Star Line in 1913. There is a memorial stone to Ismay in the extensive gardens. This property, being sold by Agnes Toohey... | 9th July 2004 | ||
| 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 | (1930) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ... | 1st November 1930 | |||
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Associated Press | (2006) | TITANIC SHOULD BE ?MARITIME MEMORIAL,' U.S. SAYS Associated PressJune 9, 2006 at 4:45 PM EDTWashington - The United States, Canada, Britain and France will work together to increase protection for the Titanic and its wreck site under legislation the U.S. administration sent ... | 10th June 2006 | ||
| 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 | (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 | |||
| New York Times | (1940) | ACCEPT OFFER BY DICK Mrs. Fiermonte's Executors Agree to Compromise on Claims --- The executors of the estate of Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte were authorized by Surrogate James A. Foley, it was learned yesterday, to accept a compromise offer of... | 17th December 1940 | |||
| 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 | |||
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CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah... | |||||
| New York Times | (1912) | ST. LOUIS PASSENGERS Theophile Papin, Jr., and Wealthy Miss Madill Among the Missourians --- Special to The New York Times --- ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 15---Among the St. Louis folk on the Titanic were Mrs. Edward Robert of 4,140 Lindell Avenue, ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK 'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | MRS. ASTOR ASKS A DECREE Seeks Final Order in Her Divorce Suit in White Plains --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 1---Counsel for Mrs. Ava Willing Astor filed a note of issue to-day for a motion to make permanent the interlocutory decree of divorce she obtained fro... | 2nd March 1910 | |||
| 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 | |||
| FILLBROOK FAMILY INFORMATION Joseph Charles Fillbrook (k/a as Charles) was born in Truro, Cornwall in 1894. He was the son of William Fillbrook, a mason by occupation and Kate (nee Vincent). He had five siblings, Edward John, William Arthur, George, Rose Hetta (k/a Rosetta) and... | ||||||
| The Times | (1914) | A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC. MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number... | 19th June 1914 | |||
| (2004) | MUSGRAVE On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ... | 12th December 2004 | ||||
| (2005) | AJAX Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag:... | 27th February 2005 | ||||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1915) | EXPLORER RICE WEDS MRS. G. D. WIDENER Law Requiring Five Days' Delay After Securing License Waived by a Court Order --- PLANS FOR SECRECY FAIL --- Bishop Lawrence Officiates at Ceremony in Emmanuel Church Vestry Witnessed by Twelve Persons --- Sp... | 7th October 1915 | |||
| New York Times | (1889) | THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ... | 20th January 1889 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in which... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c... | ||||||
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ET Research | (1999) | NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS When it comes to deciding how the survivors escaped the Titanic, there are often contradictory ideas / theories, e.g. Edwina Celia Troutt, who some people claim left in collapsible D, whereas others claim she was in boat 16. Edwina herself... | 11th July 1999 | ||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | 50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster... | 21st 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 | |||
| New York Times Book Review | (1901) | THE AUTHOR OF "AN OKLAHOMA ROMANCE" The author of "An Oklahoma Romance," the story of a love affair complicated with a land claim, which the Century Company are publishing, is Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee. She is a New Yorker of a family that has been well known in the metropolis for... | 19th October 1901 | |||
| War Cry! | WAR CRY! THE SALVATION ARMY While women weep as they do now I'll fight! While little children go hungry as they do now I'll fight! While men go to prison, in and out, in and out I'll fight! I'll fight to the very end! General William Boo... | |||||
| New York Times | (1946) | CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise... | 6th October 1946 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | HOPE LODGE TO MOURN DEATH OF ITS MASTER A special meeting of Hope Lodge No. 124, F. and A. M., of East Orange, which, arranged some time ago, was to have been in the nature of a red-letter day for the master, W. Anderson Walker, will take the form of a lodge of sorrow. The meeting is to b... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MR H.FORBES JULIAN The Carpathia has brought to New York no news of Mr H Forbes Julian, who was well known among metallurgical engineers. From 1886 to 1893 he was consultant for mines at Barberton, Johannesburg, and Kimberley, superintending the op... | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | CAPT. ROSTRON GETS MEDAL Taft and Bryce Both Praising the Titanic Rescuer --- WASHINGTON, March 1---President Taft presented to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron to-day the gold medal authorized by Congress for his courage and gallantry in rescuing the survivors of the T... | 2nd March 1913 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | ICE ON DECK My first article about the newly discovered Bremen Iceberg that appeared in Encyclopedia Titanica in July 2001 (The Iceberg resurfaced?) was about the photograph itself. This second article ... | 12th February 2002 | ||
| New York Times | (1910) | LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT-STATE OF NEW YORK, New York County.---In the matter of the Petition of LUCILE, LIMITED, for authority to change its name to LUCILE, LIMITED, NEW YORK AND PARIS.--Notice is hereby given that Lucile, Limited, a corporation organized ... | 24th May 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1915) | MRS. LURATI WINS POINT Surrogate Indicates She Is Entitled to Accounting in Guggenheim Suit --- Surrogate Fowler announced yesterday that it was his opinion that Mrs. Amy G. Lurati, once known as Amy G. Tuska, is entitled to ask for an accounting of the execu... | 13th November 1915 | |||
| ET Reviews | (2009) | THE TITANIC AND THE INDIFFERENT STRANGER Reviewed by Paul Rogers ... | 24th July 2009 | |||
| 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 | (1913) | ANNIE ROBINSON ABOARD "GALATEA" IN 1913; CONVERSATION WITH KING AND QUEEN The spectacle on which their Majesties looked when they embarked on the Galatea, the dock port tender, was indeed unparalleled. There never has been such an assembly of merchant vessels in review order before. The mere statistics are asto... | 12th July 1913 | |||
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(2004) | DUKE OF ALBANY (F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m... | 31st October 2004 | |||
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ET Research | (2002) | A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Most steamship researchers/scholars/enthusiasts know the many similarities between the Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland and the famous White Star Line leviathan Titanic. Both ships were express line... | 9th July 2002 | ||
| New York Evening Journal | (1912) | ASTOR TO DYNAMITE TITANIC A plan to blow up the wreckage of the Titanic with a powerful explosive in order to recover the body of John Jacob Astor, one of the passengers who was carried down, is being seriously considered to-day by Vincent Astor, son of the late Colonel.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MRS. HARRIS GAINS STRENGTH Mrs. Henry B Harris, widow of the theatrical manager who was lost on the Titanic, was regaining strength yesterday, but she was still in a nervous condition. Her shoulder, which she injured a day before the sinking of the ship, was healing normally. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | FUNERAL OF ISIDOR STRAUS The funeral of Isidor Straus, who died in the wreck of the Titanic, was held at noon yesterday at the family residence, an old frame house at 105th Street and Broadway, which is one of the landmarks of early New York. In order to avoid a great outpou... | 9th May 1912 | |||
| Women's Wear Daily | (1911) | EDITH L. ROSENBAUM'S LETTER She Describes Some of the Newest Things in Furs (Special Correspondence of Women’s Wear) Paris, July 17, 1911 – With the intensity of the present Paris heat, which is most unusual, one is really almost unable to see anyt... | 25th July 1911 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | CHICAGOAN CREATES SCENE IN OFFICES OF THE WHITE STAR LINE Special Dispatch to the Inter Ocean New York, April 18—Late this afternoon John Gillespie of Chicago, accompanied by a friend, entered the offices of the White Star line. His voice rang through the big rooms as he demanded informati... | 19th 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | LADY PIRRIE MAY HEAD HARLAND & WOLFF, THE GREAT BRITISH SHIPBUILDING FIRM Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 16---It is the general belief in shipping circles that Lady Pirrie will assume the post of President of the great shipbu... | 17th July 1924 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1926) | ALEXANDER CARLISLE OBITUARY ALEXANDER CARLISLE The Right Hon Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, who died yesterday in London at the age of 71, was a ... | 6th March 1926 | |||
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stv.tv | (2009) | 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth. It was sent from Canada to Moray in Scotland on May 21, 1912 - around a month after... | 15th October 2009 | ||
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ET Research | (2001) | THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER Save this Document Titanic's... | 14th February 2001 | ||
| 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 | |||
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(2004) | HORNBY May 31, 1911 Assisted following the launch of Titanic April 2, 1912 Assisted Titanic on her sea trials Port of Registry Liverpool Flag of Registry British Funnel B... | 5th December 2004 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| (2005) | HERCULES One of the tugs that got lines aboard New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock. Port of Registry: South... | 20th February 2005 | ||||
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CRI English | (2009) | REMEMBERING THE TITANIC It's April 1912 and the Titanic's Captain, Edward John Smith, is preparing for the maiden voyage of the world's greatest liner.The ship is equipped with everything from an emergency telephone to lifeboats ...... little did they know how i... | 8th April 2009 | ||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS” Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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(2004) | JACKAL While Titanic was outfitting, Jackal served as an auxiliary vessel moored alongside, her generator providing light and power aboard the ship for the outfitting workers. Also used as a yard tug. ... | 5th December 2004 | |||
| BARNES : MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 52. Barnes, Amelia, widow. Alice, Rose, William, Ann and Henry children. All class G dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southam... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1909) | COL. ASTOR’S WIFE SEEKS SEPARATION Lawyer Appointed Referee by Justice Mills to Take Testimony in the Case --- GREAT SECRECY ABOUT IT --- Suit Comes Nearly a Year After Mrs. William Astor's Death---Col. Astor Yachting with His Son --- Mrs. Ava... | 27th October 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1959) | VINCENT ASTOR DIES IN HIS HOME AT 67 Vincent Astor, millionaire real estate owner and head of the American branch of the famous family, died yesterday in his apartment at 120 East End Avenue. Mr. Astor, who was 67 years old, succumbed to a heart attack at 1 A. M. A spokes... | 4th February 1959 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TITANIC’S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1913) | WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED THE WHITE STAR LINE AND ITS OFFICERS IMPROVED CONDITIONS The Imperial Merchant Service Guild is officially informed by the White Star Line of substantial improvements in the pay and general conditions of the officers of ... | 4th April 1913 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s... | 1912 | ||||
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(2005) | CASSANDRA (Donaldson Brothers) On 9 April, while eastbound St. John, New Brunswick to Glasgow, Cassandra transmitted a warning of ice at 43 degrees 38’ N. by 49 degrees 16’ W. which was relayed at 2:55 p.m. by the Caledonia to the Bul... | 23rd May 2005 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne... | 9th January 1911 | |||
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ET Research | (2004) | A LAST BRIGHT SHINING LIE THEY died, to a man, at their posts; fighting to give the opportunity of life to others until walls of water overcame them. Bunkum. The last lie of Titanic's extensiv... | 24th August 2004 | ||
| (2004) | WALLASEY Wallasey assisted during Titanic’s sea trials and launch on May 31, 1911 and stood by on her sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April, 1912. Port of Registry: Liverpool Flag of Regi... | 30th October 2004 | ||||
| Rutherford Republican | (1912) | MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY’S RETURN The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq... | 13th May 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1919) | CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETIREMENT MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING --- CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETlREMENT --- The Prime Minister and the Shipping Controller have consented to the release from the end of the present month of the Right Hon. Lord Pirrie, ... | 23rd December 1919 | |||
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ET Reviews | (2009) | LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY ... | 21st October 2009 | ||
| Worcester Evening Post | (1912) | ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| (2004) | ALEXANDRA Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. Alexandra assisted during Titanic’s launch on 31 May, 1911 and during her sea trails Port of R... | 14th November 2004 | ||||
| (1926) | MY MAIDEN VOYAGE When I say that I am a survivor of the Titanic you will know at once that my story is to be one of great tragedy, for even after fourteen years, the name of that ill-fated vessel brings a shudder of horror to those who remember it's wr... | 1926 | ||||
| Bridgwater Mercury | (1912) | T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ... | April 1912 | |||
| 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 | (1913) | ISMAY IS TO QUIT Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ... | 1st January 1913 | |||
| PRONUNCIATION OF "ROTHES" DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915 ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie) [Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”] Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl and a Represen... | ||||||
| Chicago Sun-Times | (1990) | ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan... | 2nd February 1990 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ... | ||||||
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(2005) | VULCAN One of two tugs that threw lines aboard New York, keeping her from striking Titanic as the latter, while leaving the dock at Southampton, pulled the New York toward her. ... | 13th February 2005 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette | (1915) | TITANIC OWNERS OFFER TO SETTLE FOR $664,000 New York, Dec 17 – The White Star line has agreed to pay $664,000 in settlement of all claims arising for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, when more than 1,5000 persons were drowned, the line announced here to-day. Of this amo... | 18th December 1915 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | PHILADELPHIA SURVIVORS ILL Two in Hospital, Hysterical---Mrs. Widener Has Severe Cold --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Philadelphia survivors of the Titanic are under the care of physicians, several of them in a serious... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and... | 21st April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2008) | COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ... | 28th February 2008 | ||
| GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr... | ||||||
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ET Research | (2001) | GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC In over 2000 pages of testimony at the two official inquiries into the sinking of Titanic, there are only three documented cases in which a gun was fired, however, only one was thoroughly investigated. This case involves Fifth Officer Harold ... | 30th July 2001 | ||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1965) | WIFE OF STATE FARM FOUNDER DIES AT 80 MRS. MECHERLE SURVIVOR OF ILL-FATED TITANIC Mrs. Sylvia Mecherle, 80, widow of the founder of State Farm Insurance Companies, died at 12:36 a.m. Thursday at Brokaw Hospital, where she had been a patient for 14 months. Her fu... | 15th January 1965 | |||
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ET Research | (2004) | THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing with statistics, some d... | 17th December 2004 | ||
| (2005) | SAMARA Samara Steam Ship Samara Co., Ltd. (Maclay & MacIntyre, Managers) Westbound Cardiff to Philadelphia on April 1st at 43 degrees 12’ N. by 45 degrees 14”W. southeast off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, rescued t... | 23rd January 2005 | ||||
| Women's Wear Daily | (1911) | EDITH L. ROSENBAUM REPORTED HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT A number of the daily papers this morning have the following press dispatch from Rouen, France: "Rouen, Monday: – Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured today in an automobile accident while on her way to this city from Paris. A Ger... | 22nd August 1911 | |||
| ET Comment | (2006) | THE RECORD SPEAKS! In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ... | 13th December 2006 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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Examiner.com | TITANIC MEMORIAL IN DC Admit it, you've done it too. You and a significant other have probably stood at some point at or near the bow of a boat and imitated the doubleheaded flying figurehead pose from the 1997 film "Titanic" (If you haven't, you surely know s... | ||||
| (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 | ||||
| (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 | ||||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | JUST TOLD SEA TOOK HUSBAND ---------- News that Gwinn Perished on Titanic Long Kept from Asbury Park Woman ---------- WAS MAIL CLERK ON LINER Special Service of the NEWS ASBURY PARK, April 26---It was not until today that the ... | 26th April 1912 | |||
| BRISTOW FAMILY INFORMATION Harry Bristow was a son of John Bristow and Mary Ann (nee Barnes). He was born in 1873 at the south Cornwall coastal town of East Looe in the part of the town known as Shutta. His father, John Bristow worked for British Railways and was born... | ||||||
| (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 | ||||
| (2006) | TITANIC RELIEF FUND – CREW “MASTER LIST” CASE NUMBERS ... | 29th April 2006 | ||||
| New York Times | (1958) | SCREEN: SINKING OF THE TITANIC 'A Night to Remember' Opens at Criterion --- By BOSLEY CROWTHER --- EVEN though the tragic story of the sinking of the Titanic is an old and oft-repeated one, it still makes for tense, exciting and supremely awesome drama ... | 17th December 1958 | |||

































