Quartermaster

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	QUARTERMASTER WALTER WYNN : PHOTOGRAPH
Paterson Morning Call	WILLIAM C. JOHNSON, JR. [The opening paragraphs of this article, which do not relate to Mr. Johnson, have been omitted.] The death of William C. Johnson, Jr., of Hawthorne, has been confirmed when his parents received a message reading as follows: “William C....	20th April 1912
The Shere	QUARTERMASTER ROBERT HICHENS GIVES EVIDENCE AT THE BRITISH INQUIRY	10th May 1912
Newark Evening News	MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th...	20th April 1912
Washington Herald	MAJ. BUTT' S PLACE NOT YET FILLED President Taft Has Not Asked War Department to Fill Vacancy as Chief Aid --- President Taft has not yet asked the War Department to detail a chief White House aid to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Maj. Butt. The War Department ...	21st April 1912
Exeter Flying Post	THE TITANIC DISASTER Quartermaster G. Rowe, a native of Topsham, is among the crew saved. Submitter's footnote: I have read elsewhere that it was in fact George Rowe's married sister who resided at Topsham, Devon. It seems he was a regular visitor ...	27th April 1912
Mid Cumberland and Westmoreland Herald	JOSEPH BELL The Chief Engineer was Joseph Bell, son of the late Mr. John Bell, who at one time farmed at Farlam, but subsequently lived for many years in retirement at Bishoptown, Carlisle, before going to Bristol, where he died a few years ago. The latter was a...	20th April 1912
Mail on Sunday	FAMILY OF 'COWARD' WHO STEERED THE TITANIC INTO AN ICEBERG REVEAL HIS 'LIFE-LONG GUILT AND SHAME' The sinking of the Titanic left a legacy of grief and heartbreak for hundreds of the survivors. But the suffering was not confined to those who lost loved ones in the icy seas of the North Atlantic. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was at the wheel of the liner on April 15, 1912, when she struck the iceberg that destroyed her. ...	18th August 2008
thisissurreytoday.co.uk	BOOK AIMS TO CLEAR GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF SINKING TITANIC THE great-granddaughter of the man who was at the helm of the Titanic when it sank has written a book she hopes will clear his name. Quartermaster Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who sank the "unsinkable" ship. He was at the wheel of the Titanic as she went to her doom and famously gave the "hard-a-starboard" command in a desperate attempt to steer away from the iceberg that would lead to the death of 1,500 people on April 15, 1912....	23rd September 2011
Cornishman	NEWLYN MAN RESCUED AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi...	18th April 1912
	MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri...
	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...
Washington Times	DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-...	19th April 1912
Titanic Research	NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins 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
Chicago Examiner	INVESTIGATORS SEND TUG 25 MILES DOWN HARBOR TO TAKE SAILOR OFF LINER; INQUIRY GOES TO WASHINGTON TO PREVENT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES. New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland ...	21st April 1912
Chicago American	ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...	24th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	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
Paterson Morning Call	MET DEATH LIKE A HERO ---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...	3rd May 1912
Washington Times	TAFT FEELS LOSS OF AIDE AS IF HE HAD BEEN BROTHER President, In Statement, Praises Fidelity of Late Military Aide --- President Taft today issued another statement relative to the fate of Major Butt, in which he dwelt particularly on his incapability to indulge in “intrigue or insincer...	19th April 1912
New York Times	MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT President's Aid Had Gone on a Special Mission to the Pope --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major Archibald Willingham Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, [sic] was returning on the Titanic afte...	16th April 1912
	DYER FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Ryland Dyer, or Harry, was born in Jhansi, India on 21 December 1887 during the time that his father was serving with the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment as a Quartermaster Sergeant. Harry’s father, Henry Thomas Dyer was born a...
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S ROCKETS Senan Molony Why more were fired and why it matters....	15th March 2002
New York Times	HUGE WAVE SWEEPS OCEANIC Captain Thrown from the Bridge and Left Unconscious --- While plowing her way through the worst weather met with on the North Atlantic lane in many months, the White Star liner Oceanic, in last night from Liverpool, was boarded...	29th November 1906
Titanic Research	SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC Jim Currie As a professional mariner and Marine Accident Investigator, I was irresistibly drawn to the detailed information available concerning the few minutes before Titanic began her death throwes....	30th December 2011
New York Times	TAFT'S TRIBUTE TO BUTT WASHINGTON, April 19---President Taft was notified as soon as the Carpathia docked and the corrected list of survivors was made public that Major Butt was not on board. With all hope for the rescue of his aid abandoned, the President to-day issued...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER'S HERO Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo...	20th April 1912
Liverpool Echo	MARITIME TALES: CARPATHIA RESCUE MISSON TO THE TITANIC RELIVED Stephen Guy IT STARTED out as a routine voyage between New York and the Adriatic and ended as one of the greatest rescues in the history of the sea....	10th October 2009
Washington Times	ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi...	16th April 1912
Hampshire Chronicle	SURVIVOR FROM “TITANIC” A Newhaven A.B. Who Has Faced Many Perils of the Deep Mr Will Clifford Weller, who was an able...	27th April 1912