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Worcester Telegram	3500 SACKS OF MAIL ON TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16- Postmaster Edward M. Morgan stated today that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3500 sacks of mail. It is not likely, he said that the mails were saved because during the few hours that the vessel floated after running int...	17th April 1912
Newark Evening News	JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa...	20th April 1912
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
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
Asbury Park Evening Press	MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...	26th April 1912
	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
Newark Evening News	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
	THE MAIL SORTING ROOM ABOARD RMS TITANIC	April 1912
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
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
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
Glasgow Daily Record	TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday....	7th December 2006
Washington Times	WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ...	16th April 1912
Evening Star	MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t...	22nd April 1912
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
La Presse	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
	GREEN FAMILY INFORMATION Details of the early years of George Green have yet to be firmly established but it has been found that he married Theresa Jean Morris in late 1901, the marriage being registered at Dorking, Surrey. The births of their 3 daughters were also ...
	PROUDFOOT FAMILY INFORMATION Richard Royston Proudfoot, signed on as a trimmer for the Titanic engine department in April 1912. His birth was registered at Plymouth, Devon in the September Quarter of 1890. He was the son of Royston Jesse Proudfoot and Jane Gendle (nee W...
	HAMBLYN FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest William Hamblyn was born in Plymouth, Devon and his birth was registered there in the December Quarter of 1865. He remains elusive in early life but has been traced to Shirley, Southampton in the England & Wales 1901 census. It h...
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
	GENERAL INFORMATION He was a First Class passenger registered on the ships passenger list under the assumed name of Mr. George Thorne, travelling with his mistress, Mrs. Gertrude Thorne, a survivor....
	PROBATE REPORT Sloan, Peter of 77a Clovelly Road, Southampton. Electrician. Probate registered 24th May, 1912 to Annie Sloan, widow. Effects £487.0.0d....	24th May 1912
	PROBATE REPORT Smart, John Montgomery of F26/F27 Produce Exchange, New York, United States of America. Administration with Will limited, registered London 9th December 1916 to Samuel Peck Director attorney of Jeremiah Tivomey. Effects in England £134.17.9d....	9th December 1916
	PROBATE REPORT Hamblyn Ernest William, of 2 Norman Villas, Dyer Road, Shirley Southampton. Ships Steward. Probate registered London 3rd June 1912 to Henry Archibald Jamieson, journalist. Effects £320.0.0....	3rd June 1912
	PROBATE REPORT Hodges, Henry Price, of "The Cotswolds", Highfield Lane Portswood, Southampton. Probate registered London 3rd September 1912, to Ellen Hodges, widow. Effects £16,694.5.3d. ...	3rd September 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC MAIL CLERK'S WIFE ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR NEWS ABOUT HIM Mrs. Lelia Woody, wife of O. S. Woody, United States mail clerk aboard the Titanic, is in Clifton, Va., today, anxiously awaiting news of the disaster, and hoping against hope he did not go down with the wrecked steamer. Woody is well ...	17th April 1912
	PROBATE REPORT Gee, Arthur, of ''Morningside'' Riley Avenue, St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire. Probate registered, London, 16th July, 1912, to Edith Gee, widow, William Edward Horrocks, chemist and Henry Scholes bank clerk. Effects £4,240.10.11d....	16th July 1912
Voyage	THE TUGS AT TITANIC'S DEPARTURE John P. Eaton Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years...	6th February 2005
liverpoolecho.co.uk	TITANIC TIES THAT BOUND TRAGIC LINER TO LIVERPOOL Liverpool is inextricably linked with the Titanic. After all, it was the city with its name on the bow. Although the great liner sailed from Southampton and was born in Belfast, it was conceived and registered here, within sight of the River Mersey....	11th February 2012
	PROBATE REPORT Moody, James Paul of 136 Fildes Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Ships Officer. Probate registered: London 16th September 1912 to Christopher William Moody solicitors clerk and Margaret Moody spinster. Effects £449.8.8d....	16th September 1912
	PROBATE REPORT Probate Report...	1912
	PROBATE REPORT : CHRISTOPHER HEAD Head Christopher, of 7 Wyndham House, Sloane Square, Middlesex and 27, Cornhill, London. Probate registered 12th June, 1912 to Geoffrey Head esquire. Effects £56,207.8.2d....	12th June 1912
	PROBATE REPORTS Probate Report: Millet, Francis Davis, of Russell House, Broadway, Worcestershire and Washington, United States of America. Probate report: Probate registered London, 13th November, 1912, to Lily Millet, widow. Effects in ...	13th November 1912
	PROBATE REPORT: REVD JOHN HARPER Harper, Reverend John, of 3 Claude Villas, Love Walk, Denmark Hill, Surrey. Probate registered London 4th July 1912, to Jessie Wills spinster, Charles Livingstone sett maker and Harry Meikle, Baptist Minister. Effects £902.0.5.d...	4th July 1912
	THE PARENTS OF WILLIAM JEFFREY WARE William Jeffrey Ware was the only child of Samuel Ware and Ann Louisa (formerly Witheridge). Their marriage was registered at Tavistock, Devon in the December Quarter of 1888. His father Samuel worked as a blacksmith at one of the copper mine...
	WRECK OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA A 1919 postcard view, taken from either shore or Vanderbilt Reef (in an uncropped version of this photo, a rocky strip of land is visible in the lower left corner) which shows the Sophia wreck site soon after the disaster. The mast was not visible...	1919
eventmagazine.co.uk	LIVERPOOL TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC WITH GIANT STREET THEATRE PERFORMANCE - EVENT MAGAZINE Gigantic puppets will roam the centre of Liverpool next April as the city commemorates the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic was registered in Liverpool making the city its home port, and at least 90 members of its crew were from Merseyside, or had close links to the area....	14th December 2011
Liverpool Daily Post	TITANIC LUNCH FOR COMMEMORATION PLAN LIVERPOOL Lord Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday hosted a lunch identical to the last meal eaten by passengers onboard the Titanic.It was part of the first gathering of the 'Titanic Cities' event, aimed at bringing together representatives from places with a connection with the ill-fated vessel. The ship was registered in Liverpool and had the city's name on her stern, although she was built in Southampton....	15th July 2008
	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
	CAP ARCONA IN PROFILE The Cap Arcona was constructed by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. She measured 675.9' x 85.3, with a gross registered tonnage of 27,560. Her cruising speed was 20 knots. In her initial configuration, she carried 571 first class passengers, ...
	WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE'S FAMILY AND THE MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND William's family and the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund...
	MEMORIAL TO ROGER BRICOUX, TITANIC CELLO PLAYER On November 2nd 2000, the Association Francaise du Titanic unveiled a memorial plaque in memory of Roger Bricoux in Cosne-sur-Loire, the city where he was born on June 1st 1891. In 1913, Roger had been considered a desertor by the French army, and it...	2nd November 2000
	MACKIE FAMILY INFORMATION The birth of George William Mackie was registered at Lambeth, London in the 1st quarter of 1878. He was the son of William and Mary Mackie. George married Mary Broomfield, the daughter of James and Martha Broomfield. James was a Devon dairy farmer...
bbc.co.uk	GIANT GIRL PUPPET TO BE USED FOR LIVERPOOL TITANIC EVENT A giant puppet of a girl will lead three days of street theatre in Liverpool to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic. Sea Odyssey, from 20 to 22 April 2012, will mark the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the liner, which was registered in Liverpool. The girl puppet was used in the 2006 Sultan's Elephant in London, which was seen by 1.5 million people....	22nd September 2011
	LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ...	22nd April 1912
	PROBATE REPORT: WILDE HENRY TINGLE Probate Report: Wilde Henry Tingle, of 25 Grey Road, Walton, Liverpool. Ships Officer. Probate registered London, 12th July to Richard Owen Jones rubber merchants clerk and Owen Jones Williams estate agent. Effects: £6783.3.9d....	12th July 1912
Newark Evening News	GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar...	29th April 1912
Liverpool Daily Post	WORLD SHOULD UNITE TO COMMEMORATE THE TITANIC TRAGEDY WITH time not dispelling the ever- growing worldwide interest in the sinking of the White Star Line's RMS Titanic, it is reassuring to know that Liverpool is already planning to commemorate the centenary of the tragic loss of this superliner, which was owned and registered in the city.A special lunch, with a menu replicating that served to first-class passengers on Titanic's final, fatal night, has already been hosted by Judith Feather, Liverpool Culture Company's head of events, to bring together the ports associated with the liner....	16th September 2008
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC TRAIL: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN BELFAST - DAILY MAIL We were on the Titanic Walking Tour and had arrived at the spot where the most celebrated ship in the world was designed. 'This,' as Chris put it, 'is where the Titanic dream began.' ...	25th July 2011
The East Oregonian	IN THE WAKE OF THE RMS TITANIC Among the list of movers and shakers who perished during the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic's maiden voyage was filmmaker William Harbek, who filmed the 1911 Round-Up and reportedly had the original copy with him on the ship. ...	22nd April 2008

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