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		WHITE STAR TENDERS AT QUEENSTOWN A contemporary postcard showing the Clyde Shipping Co.'s tenders "Ireland" (outboard)and "America" (inboard) at the rear of the Jas Scott & Co shipping agency offices in Queenstown. ...	1909
		QUEENSTOWN AT THE WHITE STAR WHARF Postcard...
		TENDERS COMING ALONGSIDE THE LINER, QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR Postcard...
		POSTCARD (FRONT) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM QUEENSTOWN Sent by Berthe Leroy to her mother whilst the Titanic was stopped at Queenstown....	11th April 1912
		COBH MEMORIAL Memorial to all Irish emigrants at Cobh (formerly Queenstown), the memorial is accompanied by a plaque to those that lost their lives in the Titanic disaster....
		SALE OF ROGERS' POSTCARD In Sotheby's July 21/22 1992 Sale Lot 278: RMS Titanic postcard sent from the Titanic, written to James Day of Swansea by his friend ''W.J.R.'' in pencil . .. Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking going grand its a treat . . . '' coloured pos...	21st July 1992
		TITANIC RAISES ANCHOR FOR THE LAST TIME AND LEAVES QUEENSTOWN.	11th April 1912
		JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN Peter Gauthier To all who are interested in John Cotter, Harbor Pilot for Queenstown My name is Peter Gauthier and I am the Great, Great Grandson of said John Cotter. Specifically, one of his daughters Maggie or Margaret, who my mother is named ...
		TITANIC ARRIVES AT QUEENSTOWN 113 additional passengers embark. Seven disembark and one crew member deserts....	11th April 1912
		LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w...	11th April 1912
	New York Times	ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt...	10th January 1907
	New York Times	IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...	8th March 1907
		LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH	11th April 1912
		POSTCARD (BACK) POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM QUEENSTOWN "Chère mère, rassurez-vous, je suis la plus heureuse sur ce joli bateau et je voudrais vous le faire visiter. Berthe." [Translation] "Dear mother, rest assured, I am most happy on this lovely ship and wish I could let yo...	11th April 1912
		MARY CANAVAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Mary Canavan attended Massbrook School in Addergoole Parish. She was one of fourteen people from the parish who boarded RMS Titanic in Steerage at Queenstown (now Cobh). ...
	yourlocalguardian.co.uk	POSTCARD FROM THORNTON HEATH MAN ON TITANIC UP FOR SALE A postcard sent from a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic liner is set to fetch up to £4,000 at auction. Andrew Johnston, who lived with his family in Thornton Heath, sent the postcard to his dad from the ship as it left Queenstown, now Cobh in Cork, Ireland. ...	11th January 2012
	San Diego Union Tribune	TRAVEL TITANIC A DISASTER TO REMEMBER Its never too late to board the Titanic. The irrepressible story of the worlds most famous ship is coming to the forefront once again in places ranging from Cobh Queenstown Ireland where Titanic made its last port call to cities in the United States. All this leads up to April 15 2012 the 100th anniversary of the sinking of what was then the worlds most elegant and largest ocean liner....	25th March 2011
		LETTER FROM JACK BUTTERWORTH Prior to leaving on the Titanic, Jack had been courting his fiancee (a Miss May Hinton of Woolston, Southampton) and they had agreed to become engaged. Jack wrote the following letter (actual letter see next column) which was posted at Queenstown: (n...	1912
	irishtimes.com	COBH CEREMONY HONOURS VICTIMS OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES A COMMEMORATION of the victims of the Titanic's sinking was held in Cobh yesterday, one day short of 99 years after the liner called to the Cork town on her ill-fated voyage from Southampton to New York. On Thursday, April 11th, 1912, 123 steerage ......	11th April 2011
		ERNEST WALDRON KING : GENERAL INFORMATION King, Ernest Waldron. Lived at Currin Rectory, Clones, Ireland. Occupation - Clerk, Pursers Assistant. 28 years old. (Born in Dublin, Ireland). Body number 321. Interred at Fairview Cemetery, Halifa...
		LETTER FROM WILLIAM J. MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - QUEENSTOWN Letter written on RMS Titanic notepaper from second class passenger William J. Mellors to his mother...	11th April 1912
		IRISH TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Irish Titanic Historical Society (ITHS) was founded in 1988 in Dublin and from small beginnings it now has an international membership of about 200. The main interests are The Titanic and the Irish Passengers who boarded at Queenstown. The Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Kinsale and general maritime history. ...
	Western People	AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o...	20th April 1912
	irishtimes.com	AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY Maybe it's time for another attempt to clear up one of the last remaining mysteries of the Titanic, the true identity of the passenger known as 'John Horgan', who for 99 years has been as silent as the depths into which the ship sunk. It is of course a common Irish name. And that a person so christened held a passenger ticket (Third class, No. 370377) for the doomed vessel is beyond doubt. So is the fact that somebody used that ticket to embark from Queenstown on the fateful day....	14th May 2011
	ie	NEW TITANIC BOOK TELLS HER STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Titanic In Photographs tells her full story, from the shipyards of Harland & Wolff and its early vessels, with the backdrop of the great race to build the biggest and best passenger liner, to the frenzy of excitement surrounding her launch. Looking at her officers and crew, as well as her stops at Cherbourg and Queenstown the photographs follow the story to its inevitable conclusion, considering the lifeboats, the presence of the Carpathia and the aftermath of the shattering disaster....	14th September 2011
		POSTCARD FROM ONBOARD THE TITANIC Two framed full color postcards of the Olympic/Titanic, one of which was sent from the Titanic. The postcards have identical images of the Olympic/Titanic on the front which are very rare, but only one was written onboard the Titanic. The postcard on...	10th April 1912
		NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck ...
		LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD Dear Miss Field, On board ship one has little to do to fill up time so I start to write a letter to yo...	10th April 1912
	Macclesfield Express	TOWN?S TITANIC LINK EXPECTED TO FETCH ?6K A POIGNANT postcard sent from the doomed ship Titanic to a Macclesfield hotel is going up for auction next weekend â€“ and is expected to fetch up to ?6,000.Second-class passenger, William Angle, sent a message from the liner to Miss Nelly Angle at the former Macclesfield Arms Hotel.He posted the card when the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Ireland, on its maiden voyage â€“ just days before the vessel crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean....	19th April 2006
		LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ...	11th April 1912
		CUP & SAUCER FROM TITANIC Spode Coplands Gold and cobalt blue, R4332...	1912
	Whitehaven News	MILLOM'S CONNECTION WITH THE TITANIC DISASTER THE widespread effects of the Titanic disaster is evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Beck of Cambridge Street, Millom, (Cumberland) had a relative aboard the ill-fated vessel. Mrs. Meanwell, first cousin of Mrs. Beck, who was proceeding on the Ti...	2nd May 1912
	Titanic Research	THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM Brian Odell Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known ph...	13th September 2011
	Washington Times	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
		LETTER FROM STAGG TO HIS WIFE Dear Bertie, Just a few lines to let you know I arrived on board all right but what a day we have had of it, it's been nothing but work all day long but I can tell you nothing as regards what people I have for nothing will be settled ...	1912
	Worcestershire Chronicle	FIRE UP HARD ''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions...	27th April 1912
	Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ...	17th April 1912
		TITANIC'S LAST STOP, COBH Titanic Stories Michael Martin, creator of ‘The Titanic Trail’ takes us on a tour of Cobh, the Titanic’s last port of call. He sets the scene of the day that Titanic left the Ireland, taking in the White Star Line Of...	29th October 2011
	New York Times	3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00...	10th May 1907
		FAMILY INFORMATION Re: Liverpool Echo article. "Henry had four children and his wife died on 24th December 1910, hardly shortly before sailing!. Of the four children, Jane, Harry, Arnold, and Nancy, Arnold is the sole survivor - he also happened to be ...	23rd June 1987
	Daily Mail	FATE OF A FAMILY Parents and Nine Children in Titanic Page 6 On board the Titanic were eleven residents of Peterborough, Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone-street, and their nine children, whose ages range from twenty-two to five years. M...	18th April 1912
	Connaught Telegraph	WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ...	20th April 1912
	New York Times	WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ...	13th January 1906
	New York Times	LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...	9th May 1913
	The Times	REQUIEM MASS AT WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL A Requiem Mass for the souls of those who lost their lives owing to the sinking of the Titanic was held in Westminster Cathedral yesterday morning. The clergy of the diocese have lost three of their members, the best known being Father By...	24th April 1912
	Staffordshire Advertiser	WEST BROMWICH MEN ON TITANIC Three West Bromwich men, Alfred Davies, aged 21, John Davies, aged 22, and Joseph Davies, aged 17 years, all of Hardware Street, and a relative named James Lester, aged 39, of Wolverhampton are believed to be among the ill-fated passengers. They l...	20th April 1912
	New York Times	BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester...	21st April 1912
		ANNIE MCGOWAN - SCHOOL REGISTER ENTRY Annie McGowan attended ...
	Irish Independent	GUINNESS 'TITANIC' TV ADVERT BANNED Drinks commercial does not survive Titanic treatment A Guinness 'Titantic' ad has been banned because it could have caused offence to descendants of people who lost their lives in the tragedy. SINKING a pint has tak...	3rd September 2004
	The New York Times	OLYMPIC CUTS HER OWN TIME Five Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes from Daunt's Rock to the Lightship --- The new White Star liner Olympic, which arrived in Quarantine last night and anchored, has made even better time on her second voyage th...	19th July 1911
		ELOPEMENT Mr Denis Lennon and Mary Mullin were actually eloping to the United States together, hence the shroud of secrecy and the reason why the two are listed as brother and sister. The truth is Denis found a job as barman in the Mullin family's ...
		ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po...
	Irish Independent	WITNESSES SOUGHT AFTER TITANIC PUB BLAZE GARDAI have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a fire caused up to ƒ¢¢€Å¡‚¬1.5m damage to a bar set up by a Lotto winner. The fire broke out at 9.30pm on April 26 and caused extensive damage to the Titanic Bar and Restaurant in Cobh, Co Cork....	5th May 2009
	Unidentified Newspaper	THE SAGE FAMILY LOST In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an...	April 1912
	Titanic Research	THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER Lester Mitcham An in-depth analysis of the number of Titanic passengers lost and saved....	14th February 2001
		LETTER FROM WILLIAM J. MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - SOUTHAMPTON Letter written on RMS Titanic notepaper from second class passenger William J. Mellors to his mother...	10th April 1912
		THE ADDERGOOLE PARISH LOSS John Bourke, his wife Katherine, his sister Mary, Honora Fleming and Mary Mangan were from the townland of Carrowskeheen (quarter land of the little bush), Lahardane, Addergoole Parish, Co Mayo, Irish Republic. All perished. Data from the 1911 cen...
	St. Annes on the Sea Express	LOCAL PASSENGERS There were at least three local residents on board the Titanic' Amongst the passengers was Mr. Arthur Gee, who resided at Morningside, Riley Avenue, St. Annes. Mr. Gee represented Messrs. Whitehead, Summer, Harker, and Company, machinery exporters, o...	19th April 1912
		TITANIC DISCHARGED CREW Crew members, most of whom had "signed-on" but, for one reason or another, failed to board the ship or were not aboard when the accident occurred. ...
	Chicago Tribune	PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER _____________ Arthur Tree Brings Pictures of Giant Floes in Which Titanic Met Doom...	18th April 1912
	New York Times	NEW WHITE STAR SERVICE TO TAP CHERBOURG TRADE Adriatic, Biggest Ship Yet Built, to Start It in May --- SHE WILL CARRY 3,000 SOULS --- And Have a Turkish Bath, Plunge, and Orchestra Aboard---Line to Liverpool to Stay. --- With the putting in commis...	7th January 1907
	Connaught Telegraph	LOSS OF THE TITANIC. Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c...	25th May 1912
	Gare Maritime	LEST WE FORGET : THE COUGHLIN FAMILY Michael Poirier and Jim Kalafus A beautiful spring day had brought together a band of people who wanted to honor the memory of a Titanic victim, Kate Buckley. Sitting under a tent, waiting for the service to start, Shelley Dziedzic began talking to a friendly-looking...	14th September 2010
		ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t...
	Santa Barbara News-Press	MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa...	27th May 1956
		THE WHITE STAR LINE George Henry Preble THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"...
	New York Times	A CUNARD COMMODORE HOME FROM THE SEA. By Arthur H. Rostron. Illustrated. 259 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. --- Sir Arthur was commodore of the Cunard fleet when recently he retired from active service. For four years and more he commanded t...	8th November 1931
	Titanic Research	TITANIC'S TIME ENIGMAS Markus Philipp One of the thorniest questions about the Titanic disaster is, how her clock was changed during the journey. Several events observed by differing observers at different locations add to the confusion about the difference between Titani...	16th February 2003
	Portland Oregonian	PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the Story of the Titanic." BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Sho...	27th April 1912
	Gare Maritime	THE PRICE OF FAME : ROSE ELLEN MURRAY, THE LUSITANIA'S TITANIC SURVIVOR Jim Kalafus and Michael Poirier Rose Ellen Murray, of Dublin and Philadelphia, became a minor celebrity after she survived the Lusitania disaster. However, her celebrity proved to be her undoing twenty years after the vessel was destroyed. Mrs. Murray'...	7th May 2010