Seamen

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The Toronto World	HOW MAJ. PEUCHEN ESCAPED. ----------------- Second Officer Lightholder (sic), who had charge of the lifeboats: "In the fourth lifeboat I was running short of seamen. I put two seamen in and one of them jumped out. ...	20th April 1912
Sphere	SEAMEN'S ORPHANS ON HOLIDAY At sea in boats, August 1913...	30th August 1913
The Times	£25,000 FOR BRITISH MERCHANTMEN The Times, 2 January 1919 MR. ISMAY'S MUNIFICENT GIFT --- Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, son of the founder of the White Star Line, has given £25,000 in War Loan stock to the Mercanti...	2nd January 1919
New York Times	$100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...	14th May 1912
New York Times	SEAMEN'S STRIKE ABROAD LIVERPOOL, May 22---The projected move of the White Star Line to Southampton is responsible for a dispute between seamen and firemen and the company which threatens to spread. A hundred men belonging to the Oceanic refused to sai...	23rd May 1907
The New York Times	MOST OF THE CREW SAIL Sent Home on the Lapland---How Many Were Saved --- All of the crew of the Titanic, except the saved officers and about twenty of the crew who are to be witnesses, sailed for their homes yesterday morning on the R...	21st April 1912
The Times	THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL---The will of the late Mr. THOMAS HENRY ISMAY, head of the White Star Line, has been proved. The value of the real and personal estate is sworn at £1,297,881 14s. 1d. g...	12th March 1900
The Times	MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me...	22nd April 1912
Chicago Tribune	SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year...	10th August 1913
Worcester Evening Gazette	PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was...	20th April 1912
Sphere	TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913 Children emulate lifeboat scene...	30th August 1913
New York Times	[WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd...	6th June 1907
New York Times	HONOR TITANIC'S SURGEON A new emergency ward in St. Vincent's Hospital, equipped and furnished throughout as a memorial to Dr. Francis Norman O'Loughlin, the senior ship surgeon of the White Star Line, who perished in the disaster to the Titanic, was dedicated yesterday to ...	17th February 1914
Royal Purple	"THE UNKNOWN CHILD" OF THE TITANIC After the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, seamen recovered a 2-year-old boy from the water who would be known as “the unknown child” for years to come. It took more than 92 years for US Armed Forces DNA identification scientists and researchers to correctly identify “the unknown child” as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, who was aboard the maiden voyage with his mother Augusta, father Frederick, and five siblings Lilian (16), Charles (15), William (14), Jessie (12) and Harold (11)....	22nd November 2011
Worcester Evening Gazette	BRAVE COUNTESS TAKES CHARGE OF LIFEBOAT New York, April 19- Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a New York physician escaped from the Titanic on the same boat which carried the Countess Rothes. " The countess is an expert oarswoman." said Dr. Leader, " and thouroughly at home on the water. She pract...	19th April 1912
Guernsey Evening Press	JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks...	April 1912
Daily Mirror	IN THE TOWN OF SORROW (From our Special Correspondent) Southampton April 29th. Joy and sorrow, elation and depression are mingled in the homes here of the seamen, firemen and stewards of the Titanic. Feelings of compassion for the heroes who died and ...	30th April 1912
Newark Evening News	PRIEST GIVES AWAY A LIFEBELT OFFERED HIM Special Service of the NEWS WHIPPANY, April 23---More about the heroism of Rev. Thomas R. Byles, of England, who lost his life on the Titanic, was told yesterday by his brother William, of Brooklyn, who was a guest of Father Clifford, ...	23rd April 1912
Teignmouth Post	SHALDON AND THE DISASTER Mr. Henry Forbes Julian, one of the first-class passengers, of Redholme, Torquay, is also among the missing. He formerly resided at Ness House. Mr. Forbes made a fortune in South Africa with a patent for separating gold from quartz, and during his ...	26th April 1912
New York Times	GIVE LIGHTHOUSE FOR TITANIC'S DEAD Tower on Seamen's Institute Dedicated Before Those Who Created It --- TRIBUTES OF CLERGYMEN --- Light Will Shine for All Lower Harbor, and Time Ball Will Indicate Exact Noon --- With services commemorating th...	16th April 1913
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
Chicago Daily News	SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...	27th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
New York Times	ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN "Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w...	22nd April 1912
Oak Leaves	TITANIC DISASTER : OAK PARK TOUCHED BY GREATEST SHIPWRECK TITANIC DISASTER Oak Park Touched by Greatest Shipwreck Carelessness on Lake The Atlantic Wreck of 1873 Oak Park, like hundreds of o...	20th April 1912
The Syracuse Herald	FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS New York Aril 20th – That a fire had raged in the [?] bunkers of the liner Titanic from the day she left Southampton u...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...	19th April 1912
Wells Journal	LADY'S PRAISE OF A TITANIC SEAMAN One of the able seamen on the Titanic, Thomas Jones, a native of Anglesey has received the following letter from New York:- ''I feel I must write and tell you how splendidly you took charge of our boat on the fatal night. There were on...	30th May 1912
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
	MEMORIAL There is a new memorial in the Lifeboat House at Scarborough which was unveiled in April 2002 and reads: HMS Conway Trust Memorial James Paul Moody O.C. 6th Officer Titanic Born Scarborough, 21 August 1887...
Unidentified Newspaper	WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA Article...	20th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th April 1912
	HENRY BREWER'S WIFE? Robert J.Prewitt This is the family story as it has been passed to me form my grandparents, Edith and William Prewitt, now deceased and my father, Ronald Prewitt, very much alive as of 11/25/2005 born 3/16/1920. I spoke with him this ev...
Newark Evening News	THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titanic disaster, are at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Flack, of 458 Central avenue, East Orange. ...	19th April 1912
The Times	OBITUARY: MARGARET ISMAY MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in Cad...	10th April 1907
Guernsey Evening Press	MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...	2nd May 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer	SAYS MUSICIANS KNELT AS THEY PLAYED HYMN Mrs Ada M Clarke, one of the survivors, went to the White Star offices today to arrange for her passage back home to Southampton, England. Her husband, Charles S. Clarke, with whom she was on her way to California to make her...	20th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [Links to the earlier parts of this article can be found on the summary pages for the members of the Renouf/Jefferys family and the Carter family.] Among those who visited the White Star steamship offices in New York to-day in an endea...	16th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...	20th April 1912
New York Times	MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...	26th November 1975
The Evening Post	BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...	2nd May 1912
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	J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...	19th October 1937
Binghamton Press	MRS. CASSEBEER ACCOUNT Mrs. Henry Arthur Casebeer, Jr., of New York City, who is one of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, was in Binghamton this morning visiting her mother, Mrs. L.V. Fosdick at the House of the Good Shepherd and to a representative of the Bingham...	29th April 1912
	JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
Akron Beacon Journal	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
	ARCHIE JEWELL, BUDE BOY Bill Headdon King Street was owned by the Blanchminster of Charity, rent c2 old shillings a week. Our house was built of cob ...	28th May 2008
Gare Maritime	A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...	2nd August 2006
Dictionary of National Biography (1901)	ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY Prof. Sir John Knox Laughton, Litt.D. ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (...
Newark Star	STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-...	24th April 1912
The Times	FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w...	28th November 1899
New York Times	MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE birds...	22nd April 1912
Evanston Daily News	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
New York Times	THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t...	18th June 1911