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| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SAVES DOGS WHILE PASSENGERS PERISH New York, April 19- A narrative of the disaster to the Titanic as prepared by one of the stewards of the rescuing ship Carpathia contains the following: "One of the earlier boats to arrive was seen to contain a woman tenderly clasping ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1898) | PROFILE FROM THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS William Edward Hipkins (1858 - 1912) MIMechE Elected: Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1898 Designation: Managing Director Business address: Soho Foundry, Smethwick, Birmingham ... | 1898 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Atlantic Daily Bulletin | (2002) | RECOLLECTIONS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR EDMOND RYAN I JOINED the ship at Queenstown, County Cork and had to go out in a tender, about three miles I think, to get on board the ship. The tender looked like a match stick alongside the great liner. A big door opened in her side, and a ... | 9th July 2002 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR TITANIC'S 'LITTLE SISTER' NOMADIC Some 1,600 curious visitors have poured across the gangplank of Titanic’s ‘little sister’ since last week to see the vessel before wholesale restoration gets under way. Although plans for SS Nomadic’s restoration had been delaye... | ||||
| The Times | (1912) | ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN 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 ... | |||||
| Evanston Daily News | (1912) | MARY HEWLETT - SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE Mrs. Mary Hewlitt, of Lucknow, India, Was Rescued From the Disabled Craft, Gives Description of Disaster Was Traveling Alone Woman Stops Here At Home of J. L. Hebblet... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | WYCOFF VAN DERHOEF HAD BIG CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Wycoff Van Derhoef, of 109 Joralemon street, was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the Eastern District and Secretary of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Van Derhoef was on his way from a visit to his sister in Euro... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Dowagiac Daily News | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. BISHOP GIVE FIRST AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW CONCERNING TITANTIC [SIC] DISASTER THEY RECITE A GRAPHIC TALE OF THE GREAT SEA DISASTER OF A WEEK AGO. "Ladies and Grooms First" Was Order They Obeyed and Both Left the Ship Together TELL EXPERIENCES WHILE AFLOAT German Baron Would Not A... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1974) | HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ... | 6th November 1974 | |||
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NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic... | |||||
| (1987) | CITY'S UNSUNG TITANIC HERO NO disaster of modern times has quite excited the same horror and at the same time, fascination, doubt, bravery and cowardice as the sinking of the Titanic. Fred Barrett lived in Hanley with his wife ... | 26th February 1987 | ||||
| New York Times | (1937) | MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ... | 14th July 1937 | |||
| Galesburg Republican Register | (1912) | FRANK KORUN REACHES HOME Titanic Survivor, Daughter and Austrian Friend Saved From Ocean Grave TELLS EXPERIENCES Last Man to Get in Boat — For Hours Among Ice Floes. When Frank Korun, one of the Titanic survivors, stepped from th... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at... | 22nd April 1912 | ||||
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ET Research | (2001) | MY TITANIC DIVE Arrival in St. Johns, Canada: We're hoping hurricane Henry ... | 30th November 2001 | ||
| Akron Beacon Journal | (1912) | AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1934) | THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir... | 10th September 1934 | |||
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(2006) | STRATHALLAN SEA TRIALS The ill-fated liner passes onlookers off Gourock, Scotland. This film is by the same photographer as our Queen Mary film but taken a year later. ... | 21st July 2006 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE Stubborn Fire in the Cellar of 679 Broadway---One Man in the Hospital --- For two hours last evening firemen fought a fire in the sub-cellar of the five-story building 679 Broadway, adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel. Dense, stifling ... | 7th November 1893 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | 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 | |||
| (1912) | THE TITANIC : OUR STORY SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an... | 1912 | ||||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BELIEVE MRS. GAGE HAS SOCIAL DELUSION Her Threats Against C. J. Bell, Alienists Testify, Were Due to Form of Paranoia --- DAUGHTER NAMES INFORMANT --- Says Mrs. Archibald Gracie Told That Banker Blocked Mother's Plans---Belva Lockwood Defends Her ---... | 5th April 1912 | |||
| LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo... | ||||||
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Galesburg.com | (2008) | GALESBURG MAN LED A CHARMED BUT HARROWING LIFE Tracking History — On Sunday evening, April 14, 1913, a wall caved in at the historic Lindell House Hotel on Depot Street near the Knox College campus. Originally known as the American Hotel it... | 16th May 2008 | ||
| Whitehaven News | (1912) | LOCAL CONNECTION WITH TITANIC DISASTER The Blackburn Times of the 20th inst. contains the following account of an interview with Mr. James Shepherd, son of the late Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, formerly of Whitehaven, and now residing at Blackburn, whose son, Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, was one of t... | 2nd May 1912 | |||
