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	Godalming and District News	POST OFFICE MEMORIAL At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...	4th May 1912
		TITANIC NEWS VENDORS IN WASHINGTON D.C. Washington news vendors at the time of the Titanic disaster. Headline to The Washington Post: Mission of two United States cruisers fails; ...	April 1912
	New York Times	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
		SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee...	2004
	Newark Star	WILL BRING TITANIC VICTIM'S BODY HERE Arrangements were made to have the body of John S. Marsh, the Newark superintendent of mails on the Titanic, brought to the home of the daughter, Miss Nellie Marsh, 39 Emmett street. His body was recovered by the cable ship at the scen...	30th April 1912
	marketwatch.com	CANADA POST COMMEMORATES CANADIAN TITANIC TIES WITH STAMPS Canada Post unveiled today the images of the five stamps that will be issued on April 5 to mark the centennial of the sinking of RMS Titanic. The collection, created by Haligonian design team of Dennis Page and Oliver Hill, showcases the best-known ship in the world with depth and realism and adds some poignant Canadian attributes. Canadians, and the citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in particular, played a central role in the Titanic event through recovery efforts. "To this day, Canada, and especially Halifax, has an enduring and remarkably human connection to the Titanic story," says the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Regional Minister for Nova Scotia. "The Canadian legacy of the Titanic still resonates strongly with everyone." ...	20th March 2012
		THE MAIL SORTING ROOM ABOARD RMS TITANIC	April 1912
		MARCH MEMORIAL MARKER (On top) JOHN STARR MARCH DIED APRIL 15, 1912 225 (On face) U. S. SEA POST SERVICE R. M. S. TITANIC...
	Chicago Evening Post	LAPLAND WILL REPLACE TITANIC AS MAIL SHIP The Post office Department has made arrangements for the substitution of the steamer Lapland for the Titanic, in carrying mails to Europe from New York City....	17th April 1912
		MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
		OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1934, POST-MERGER)
	Times Online	TITANIC KEY TO A POSTMAN'S BRAVERY The band played on, engineers fought to maintain power and the captain remained at his post as the Titanic went down on the night of April 14, 1912. To these stubborn acts of courage can be be added those of the ship's five postmen....	13th April 2007
	New York Times	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
		JOIN THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA TITANICA TITANIC FORUM AND COMMUNITY Our new community is now live, it's your place to ask and answer questions, post Titanic events, articles, stories and news. And it's completely FREE to join....
	Southern Daily Echo	WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TITANIC PLAQUE? THE FUTURE of an important monument on Southampton's heritage trail has been thrown into doubt, the Daily Echo can reveal.Plans by Royal Mail to shut the city's main post office means the Titanic Postal Workers Memorial has an uncertain fate....	9th October 2007
		1901 CENSUS - LISKEARD, CORNWALL The 1901 Census reveals that John Richard Jago Smith (aged 24) was living and working in Liskeard, Cornwall as a Post Office sorting & telegraph clerk....
	Rutherford Republican	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
	Surrey Advertiser and County Times	THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...	April 1912
	Daily Sketch	THE HEROIC ENGINEERS Mr. Arthur Ward, one of the Titanic's engineers. In all the messages received no mention is made of what happened in the engine-room, of the gallant engineers sticking to their post with the water pouring into the bowels of the ship. That not one was...	22nd April 1912
	L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	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
		MEXICO CRUISE POST-DISASTER BROCHURE COVER A 1937 graphic, promoting the Oriente's service to Mexico. Legend has it that the Ward Line funnel markings have been painted out, as a sign of "mourning" for the Morro Castle and the Mohawk....	1937
	Inside Smithsonian Research	OSCAR SCOTT WOODY'S KEYS Stamped "Sea Post 101/US Mail 19," the antique, flat metal key has a patina of orange rust from its immersion in salt water nearly 100 years ago-while still in its owner's pocket. The key opened locks on the 200 bags of registered mail being carried across the Atlantic to New York City aboard the White Star Line steamship R.M.S. Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage in April 1912....	20th November 2007
		SEVENTY-FIVE REGISTERED LETTERS WERE SENT (FROM NORWAY) WITH THE TITANIC IN 1912 Arne Mjaland Top row 5th from left: Jorgen Birkesfol who sent a registered letter with Titanic...	26th August 1998
	Brooklyn Daily Times	W L GWYN, FORMER BROOKLYN MAIL CLERK, MAY HAVE BEEN LOST Postmaster Edward M. Morgan said yesterday that the Titanic was carrying 3,423 sacks of mail and added: "There are generally about four bags of prints---a postal term applied to all other pieces than letters---to one of letters. A bag ...	17th April 1912
	Primitive Methodist Leader	OUR BOYS ON THE 'TITANIC' April 1912 Extract '...there was Harry, whose desire was to help mother, he being the eldest of the four and his mother's mainstay, his father having died at his post a few years ago. He might have saved himself, but thought first of ...	1912
	Beneath This Stone	BOOKLET ABOUT CLEWER CHURCHYARD OWEN GEORGE ALLUM was a passenger on the "unsinkable" White Star Liner, Titanic which struck an ice berg and sank on her maiden voyage. Owen Allum was one of the 1,489 whose lives were lost. He had lived at Gerald Villas, Vansittart Road, Wind...
	Chicago Tribune	FRANCES A. KING, NéE STRAUBE - OBITUARY Frances A. King, née Straube, loving mother of Raymond R., Robert A. and Arthur W.; devoted daughter of Raymond and Ann Straube, née McGowan; fond sister of Jacqueline Komay and Mary Kapolnek. Funeral Monday, 9:30 a.m., from funeral home,...	27th March 1960
	bbc.co.uk	TITANIC HERO MEMORIAL IN GODALMING TO BE RESTORED A memorial to the chief telegraphist on the Titanic is to be restored in time for the centenary of the sinking of the ship on its maiden voyage in 1912. Jack Phillips, who was born in Godalming, Surrey stayed at his post as the ship went down, sending messages to the Carpathia to rescue survivors. Phillips Memorial Park, in Godalming, is to receive £335,000 from the National Lottery for the restoration....	11th July 2011
		CAP ARCONA WINTER GARDEN A winter garden might seem a bit superfluous on a liner who, by nature of her run, spent most of her voyage in Equatorial regions. But, they were on obligatory first class fixture until the post World War 2 years and so the Cap Arcona fea...
	Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M...	18th April 1912
	New York Times	KEMPNER-GUGGENHEIM Sigmund M. Kempner, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Kempner of 305 West End Avenue, and Miss Barbara H. Guggenheim, a daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 270 Park Avenue, were married yesterday afternoon in the Ritz-Carlton ballroom and the receptio...	21st June 1921
	Asbury Park Evening Press	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
	New York Times	MISS GUGGENHEIM TO WED JUNE 20 Miss Barbara Hazel Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 270 Park Avenue, and Sigmund Marshall Kempner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph W. Kempner of 305 West End Avenue, whose engagement was announced in April, will be married on June 20....	3rd June 1921
	Newark Evening News	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
	Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 1912
		LETTER FROM SARAH GILL TO THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA Stamp: RECEIVED Mrs. J. Gill AUG 3 1912 3 Griffin Road Provincial Secretary's Clevedon Office Somerset E...
	Asbury Park Evening Press	GWINN FAMILY LEAVES SUDDENLY Mrs. William L. Gwinn, whose husband, a postal clerk on the Titanic stood at his post trying to save the mails as the ship went down, left Asbury Park suddenly yesterday with her two children. The Gwinn’s [sic] had moved to this city some weeks befor...	27th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	LONDON PAPERS ATTACK SMITH Several more papers severely attack the American inquiry. The Standard says Senator Smith "is rather less qualified for such a task than any individual picked up in an American street car." The Morning Post...	26th April 1912
	New York Times	LOVE FOR SEA PREVAILS --- Chief Barber on the Titanic Obtains Post on the Lusitania --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5---Unable to resist traveling over the sea, August F. Weikman of Palmyra, N. J., who was the ch...	6th August 1912
	New York Times	J. P. MORGAN IN ROME Arrives There from Naples with His Sister, Mrs. Burns --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, March 16---J. P. Morgan and his sister, Mrs. Burns, arrived from Naples this...	17th March 1912
	Chicago Tribune	VERDICT ON 'RAISE THE TITANIC' : "LIFE IS TOO SHORT" Aaron Gold TOWER TICKER ". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" mutterin...	5th August 1980
		IROQUOIS PASSENGER LIST COVER An unusual Iroquois passenger list cover from August 1934. Less than a month later, Iroquois was pressed into Ward Line service to replace the lost Morro Castle on her outbound September 8th voyage. About 50 passengers c...
	Chicago Daily Journal	THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...	19th April 1912
	Elizabeth Daily Journal	RAHWAY MAN ON LOST SHIP Arthur Keefe Passenger on Liner Titanic ---------- SISTER ANXIOUSLY AWAITS NEWS OF DISASTER ---------- (Special to the Journal) Rahway, April 16---Almost frantic with anxiety and grief, Mrs. Margaret O’Brien...	16th April 1912
	irishtimes.com	'TITANIC' SINKING TELEGRAM TO BE AUCTIONED IN DUBLIN THE FIRST report of the Titanic disaster to reach an Irish newspaper is expected to sell for up to €30,000 when it is auctioned in Dublin next month. A telegram sent to the Belfast Evening Telegraph alerted journalists that the Titanic “is sinking in mid-Atlantic” after a collision with an iceberg. The communication was stamped by the post office in Belfast on April 15th, 1912, the day the White Star liner sank. The author of the telegram, who quoted a Reuters report as the news source, has not been identified. A telegram was essentially the Edwardian equivalent of a Tweet or text message. A short communication was transmitted electronically to an office of the posts and telegraphs service, where it was deciphered and either handwritten or typed up and delivered to the recipient....	29th March 2012
		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
		ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
		THE MILLER'S SON Albert Barker was born in the village of King's Worthy on the River Itchen in Hampshire, just a few miles upstream from the dock where Titanic would begin its voyage 19 years later. His father was a miller at nearby Abbot's W...
	Surrey Advertiser and County Times	AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ...	April 1912
	Chicago Evening Post	ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom...	22nd April 1912

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