River Lagan

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	TITANIC LEAVING BELFAST Harley Crossley — Titanic leaving Belfast (Acrylic on Canvas)...
BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ...	19th July 2006
guardian.co.uk	TITANIC LAUNCH MARKED 100 YEARS ON efore he left Belfast on board the Titanic, deck engineer Thomas Millar, 33, gave both his sons two new pennies, telling them: "Don't spend those until I see you again." He never came back. His younger son kept those pennies and passed them on to his daughter, Susie Millar, who was present at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the launch of the luxury liner into the river Lagan in Belfast, where the ship had been built....	31st May 2011
BBC News	MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ...	18th July 2006
The Guardian	NORTHERN IRELAND LOOKS TO TITANIC FOR ECONOMIC BOOST The most famous ship to sink is being used to refloat Northern Ireland's flagging economy. On the banks of the river where the Titanic was constructed, a leisure and education project is almost complete. The Stormont government hopes it will attract 50,000 extra tourists a year. With its gleaming glass, curved shape and illuminated roof, the Titanic building resembles the Bilbao Guggenheim. Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism....	10th October 2011
Belfast Today	EVERY DAY IS A POTENTIAL ANNIVERSARY ON THE RIVER LAGAN Una Reilly, Chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society mobilised our memories and organised a simple ceremony on the river. "This anniversary marks a reclaiming by Belfast of her very important part in the worldwide Titanic story," Una explained as she planned the boat trip on the MV Joyce Too. "Contrary to popular belief, Titanic was not launched by a notable lady wearing a big hat and smashing a bottle on her bow," she reminded me. "She was simply pushed into the water by hydraulic rams when a signal was given and a whistle was blown at 12.13 pm on May 31, 1911, and 62 seconds later Titanic was afloat for the first time. ...	5th June 2006
The Times	OLYMPIC BERTHED AT JARROW FAREWELL SALUTE FROM SIRENS The Olympic, which is to be broken up by Messrs.T.W.Ward and Co at Jarrow to provide employment, was safely berthed alongside Palmers shipyard today. The coming of the liner to the Tyne attracted many thousa...	14th October 1935
Scottish Field	THE FIRST OFFICER OF THE TITANIC Graham Kirkpatrick Captain William MacMaster Murdoch joined the Titanic from her sister ship the Olympic, of which he had also been First Officer. His family had been seafarers for generations. His father left his native Isle of Lewis and settled in Dalbeattie, Kirkcud...	April 1985
Chicago Examiner	HOPE FOR THE SAFETY OF MISSING PASSENGERS BULLETIN New York, April 17 (Wednesday), 1:30 A.M.---A vague hope for the safety of some of the missing passengers was given last night by the captain of the tramp steamer Ultonia, whic...	17th April 1912
BBC News	RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP The ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January. It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard. Social Development Minister David Hanson said: "Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way." ...	5th July 2006
	NORMANDIE POSTFIRE VIEW #2 A second view taken from the river boat....	1942
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
BBC News	QE2 BACK ON CLYDE AFTER 40 YEARS The QE2 has marked the 40th anniversary of its launch by returning to the stretch of river where it was built.The liner, which has been on a celebratory tour, will be given a gala reception at Greenock, on the Clyde. ...	20th September 2007
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT: NOMADIC SAILS INTO BELFAST Fans of the SS Nomadic will be dressing up in period costume to welcome her as she makes a triumphant return to Belfast's docks this evening.The ship has already made an appearance in Belfast Lough as she arrived on Saturday morning but her official homecoming will take place this evening.As the Titanic's 'little sister' proceeds up the Lagan to dock next to the Odyssey Arena, she will receive a chorus from a brass band as supporters dressed in Edwardian fashion cheer her.A party of members of the French Titanic Society (AFT) who worked closely with Belfast Industrial Heritage in the hard-fought campaign to save Nomadic from the scrapyard will be present this evening to welcome her home.The 95-year-old vessel was bought by the Department of Social Development in January at auction in Paris....	17th July 2006
Wall Street Journal	FANS OF WORLD'S FASTEST OCEAN LINER PUT OUT A DISTRESS CALL Admirers call her the "Big U." Today, she could be in big trouble. The once-proud ship is rusting away in the Delaware River, across from an Ikea. Its owner, cruise line NCL Group, has put her up for sale....	29th September 2009
	KONSTANZ 1908 (BACK) Konstanz, 1908. "July 27/08. We are staying at this hotel. It is an old Kloster built in the 12th Century. it is very interesting (?) and situated on the Rhine River & Bodensee. (?) is very beautiful. love to your apretns and all. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
	NEW YORK CITY : ARRIVAL The New York Financial District Skyline looms up in the distance as a Moran tug and Playland Line's Americana escort the Normandie toward the North River....	3rd June 1935
The Times	LAST VOYAGE OF THE OLYMPIC CIVIC RECEPTION ON BOARD AT JARROW The liner Olympic (45,439 tons gross) sailed from Southampton last evening on her last voyage to Jarrow, where she is to be broken up. Among the hundred people who waved the liner farewell were a ...	12th October 1935
	MOHAWK BROCHURE 3 "Glass-enclosed promenades provide comfort in all weather." "When darkness shrouds the ocean or when the falling temperatureÂ emphasizes the comfort of indoors, then the many social halls and lounges become the center of attraction." ...
New York Times	THE GERMANIC AGAIN IN PORT The White Star steamer Germanic, from Liverpool, arrived at this port late yesterday afternoon. This is the first trip the vessel has made since she sank alongside her pier on the North River last Winter from the weight of sno...	16th June 1899
	THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards. The m...
New York Times	FIERMONTE BUYS ESTATE Husband of Former Mrs. Astor Gets Southern Plantation --- CHARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 30 (AP)---The purchase of Dixie Plantations, a 600-acre estate on a high bluff overlooking Stono River, by Enzo Fiemonte of New York was announced here t...	1st December 1935
	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
heraldnews.com	TITANIC SOCIETY WORRIED THAT REPLICA AT MARINE MUSEUM COULD FALL BY WAYSIDE - FALL RIVER HERALD NEWS The Titanic Historical Society Inc., which donated a 28-foot, 1-ton replica to the Marine Museum 25 years ago, recently sought assurance that its famous model would not sink into oblivion. Questions over the ship’s status, society members said, were prompted by a series of Herald News stories, including one on Oct. 27 reporting that the Internal Revenue Service revoked the Marine Museum’s nonprofit standing this year as a result of its failure to file IRS 990 forms for at least three years....	21st November 2011
Evening Bulletin	BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA Second Wireless Operator of the Titanic...	20th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. G. D. WIDENER TO MARRY DR. RICE South American Explorer to Wed Widow of Titanic Victim in Boston on Oct. 14 --- HER MEMORIAL GIFTS --- Philadelphia Society Woman Noted for Her Beauty and Jewels---Dr. Rice's Scientific Achievements --- Speci...	6th October 1915
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO CHARLES LIGHTOLLER Mortlake Crematorium, London SW4. Is the site of his scattered ashes. Unmarked, plot 22. also he has a Memorial brick in his name in the Woolston, Southampton, Millennium Garden known as the Feathers in Victoria Road Woolston - which ...
New York Times	AMAZON TRAFFIC HINDERED Booth Line Says Disturbances Make Deliveries Uncertain --- Political disturbances at Manaos, State of Amazonas, have interrupted navigation on the River Amazon. The Booth American Shipping Corporation, 17 Battery Place, announced yester...	22nd August 1924
	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...
New York Times	EXPLORER RICE BACK; SAW WHITE INDIANS Rare Amazonian Tribe Spoke Language of Their Own, Doctor Declares --- DISCOVERED BY HINTON --- Naval Filer Made Perilous Flight Over 75-Mile Jungle---Party Met Many Hardships --- Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, ...	11th July 1925
Sphere	INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT The Lukin Grave in England...	21st December 1912
New York Times	LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlant...	21st February 1903
Titanic Research	A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER Senan Molony PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the ne...	21st October 2005
Grimsby Evening News	UNTITLED As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t...	April 1912
The Evening Post	COL. ASTORS BODY IS TAKEN THROUGH CITY The body of John Jacob Astor, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, passed through Worcester this morning from Portland, ...	2nd May 1912
New York Times	MRS. MADELEINE DICK LOSES HOME BY FIRE $50,000 Winter House Destroyed---$100,800 Jewelry Stolen --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 4---Mrs. Madeleine F. Dick’s Winter residence at Dixie Plantation, twenty miles from here on the Stono ...	5th December 1939
Voyage	NOMADIC John P. Eaton One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ...	22nd August 2005
	ABOUT OLE OLSEN Ole Olsen...	9th October 2007
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	BELFAST, PORT OF Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
New York Times	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...	16th April 1912
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...	10th July 1910
	THE MOODY CUP Officer Moody served on the Royal Navy training ship HMS Conway in the River Mersey for two years from 1902 to 1903. After the disaster his parents presented a cup which became known as the Moody Cup and was dedicated to his memory....
New York Times	R. W. DANIEL MARRIES MRS. C. B. CHRISTIAN President of Liberty National Bank Weds as Third Wife Distant Relative in Virginia --- Special to The New York Times --- RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 10---Robert W. Daniel, president of the Liberty National Bank of New York, and Mr...	11th October 1929
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS --- Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The rise and progress of the leviathan liners n...	10th July 1910
	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...
The Toronto World	C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ...	17th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's "little sister" is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what they believe to be her ship's wheel and will be handing it over to the team responsible for restoring her in the next fortnight. SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and once ferried first class passengers onto the Titanic at Cherbourg on the mighty liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. ...	25th April 2009
	TITANIC LIFEBOATS Roger L. Williams I have recently seen a new film about the sinking of the Titanic on the TV and have been reading about Titanic lifeboats on. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org It seems there is no real record of what happened to those lifeboats....	1st August 2011
Gare Maritime	THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....	10th July 2007
Worcester Evening Gazette	GAZETTE STAFF MAN ON CARPATHIA'S PIER Gives Description of Scenes on Pier Silence Most Oppressive Even Crowd and City Hushed By Homer J. Wheaton Gazette Staff Reporter New York, April 19- News of the Titanics wreck was flashed to the wor...	19th April 1912
New York Times	FAVORS ISIDOR STRAUS RICHARD CROKER SAYS HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO BUSINESS MEN --- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10---Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady, John R Sexton. and John F. Carroll, well-known Tammany men, who have been in Florida since la...	11th February 1893
New York Times	EXPLORER TO SEEK ORINOCO'S SOURCE Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice Is Now at Para With His Wife and Flier Hinton --- VOYAGE TO TAKE 2 YEARS --- Seaplane and Radio Will Be Used to Penetrate Hitherto Uncharted Region --- Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice,...	12th August 1924
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM ESTATE VALUED AT $3,551,994 Victim of Titanic Disaster Left Widow $785,199---Daughters Get About $500,000 Each --- MANY CHARITABLE BEQUESTS --- Sisters Receive Incomes from Trust Funds of $75,000 and Sisters-in-Law from $25,000 --- Benj...	18th January 1916
New York Times	ROBERT W. DANIEL, EX-BANKER HERE, 56 Virginia State Senator, Once Head of Liberty National, Stricken in Richmond --- OWNED HISTORIC ESTATE --- Brandon-on James Was Visited by Many Presidents---Was Survivor of the Titanic --- RICHMOND, Va., Dec. ...	21st December 1940
Nomadic Preservation Society	PROGRAMME FOR NOMADIC CENTENERY CELEBRATIONS REVEALED Celebrating a century of maritime history Outline programme Friday 3rd June 2011 13:30 ~ 17:00. Delegate registration at Holiday Inn, Belfast. 13:30 ~ 17:00. Exclusive opening tour...	5th November 2010
	INFORMATION FOR CRUISE MEMBERS An outside double room with bath. Rooms decorated in this fashion may be found on the Main, B and C Decks. INFORMATION FOR CRUISE-MEMBERS Membership in the Cruise includes accommodations in the Normandie from New Y...	1937
New York Times	OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...	14th June 1924
Titanic Research	MOUNT TEMPLE TEMP'S MEMORIES Senan Molony THE replacement Fourth Officer of the Mount Temple on her homeward voyage in April 1912 was ...	8th October 2009
New York Times	ORIGIN OF NAMES OF HOTELS HERE Named for Interested Families or After Well-Known European Hostelries --- ST. REGIS CALLED FOR LAKE --- Suggested to the Late John Jacob Astor by Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson --- So numerous are the hotels of New Yo...	9th March 1930
Daily Home News	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
Atlantic City Daily Press	ATLANTIC SURVIVOR TELLS OF DISASTER E. Z. Taylor, On Telephone With City Clerk Donnelly, Describes AwfulScene---Third Member of His Party, Fletcher Williams, Lost---Did NotHear of Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Earnshaw.----------Atlantic City was in direct personal ...	19th April 1912
Gare Maritime	SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Gavin Murphy Story of the Empress of Ireland whose loss resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the Titanic disaster....	20th June 2001
Worcester Telegram	WALTER PORTER AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC Miss. Carrie Endres Sister of Worcester Man Also on Board Lost Liner When The Telegram informed Mrs. Albert J. Gifford, 9 King street last night that the 318(?) saloon passengers on the wrecked Titanic had been reported saved and would...	16th April 1912
New York Times	COL. ASTOR MAY WED ANY DAY Leaves in Noma with Miss Force and Her Family for Astor Country Home --- LAND AT FERNCLIFF TO-DAY --- Belief That the Ceremony Will Take Place There---Labor Day Visit with Trunks --- Rumors that the wedding ...	2nd September 1911
Southern Star	CORK TITANIC SOCIETY PLANNING TO ERECT "LOST AT SEA" MEMORIAL CORK Titanic Society is planning to erect a "Lost at Sea" memorial in the inner harbour and is holding its annual commemoration for same at 12.15am Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross, Mahon, in Cork Harbour on Sunday, May 31, to which everyone is welcome....	29th April 2009