Second Officer

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Southern Evening Echo	OBITUARY Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ...	27th April 1967
Daily Sketch	MAN WHO WAS PULLED BACK Says Officer Shot Two Men Who tried to Enter Boat A graphic description of the scene on the Titanic after the boats had gone is given by an Athlone survivor, Mr ...	4th May 1912
Chicago Evening Post	ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom...	22nd April 1912
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser	MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH Mrs. Murdoch the widow of the late Lieutenant Murdoch, First Officer of the ill-fated liner, has received the following letter: Hotel Continental, Washington, April 24th, 1912. Dear Mrs. Murdoch, - I am writing on behalf of the surviving officers to ...	11th May 1912
	WILLIAM MACQUITTY, BOXHALL AND PITMAN AT THE PREMIERE OF A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Taken at the "Odeon" Leicester Square London July 3rd 1958 on the occasion of the premiere of the Titanic film "A Night to Remember". Left to Right. Wm McQuitty [sic] Director of th...	3rd July 1958
Southern Evening Echo	TITANIC MEN FOR PREMIERE OF NEW FILM A HANDFUL of survivors from the Titanic disaster in 1912, some of whom have not seen each other since, will be at the Odeon, Leicester Square, tonight, to see the premiere of the new Rank Organisation film, A Night To Remember. The fil...	3rd July 1958
Worcester Evening Gazette	HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ...	19th April 1912
Hampshire Chronicle	DESCENDANT OF TITANIC OFFICER TO TALK IN SHAWFORD NEXT MONTH THE grandson of an officer on the Titanic will talk about the sinking at a talk near Winchester next month....	22nd February 2011
northwalesweeklynews.co.uk	A LITTLE GIRL'S MEMORIES OF HAROLD LOWE THE FIFTH OFFICER FROM THE TITANIC N 1936, when Annette Roberts was ten years old, she was taken by her mother Eluned to the home of Harold Godfrey Lowe, who had been the fifth officer aboard the Titanic. Annette’s aunt Nancy was friendly with Lowe’s wife, Ellen. The two women would often visit each other, and this time Annette was invited along for afternoon tea....	26th January 2012
Chorley Guardian	TITANIC SURVIVOR FEATURED IN NEW BOOK The extraordinary life and career of a Titanic voyager from Chorley is being celebrated by a writer with a mission. Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller was the most senior surviving officer on the ship, and has fascinated writer Patrick Stenson for years. In a new edition of Patrick’s book, the former writer and broadcaster claims he has uncovered new evidence regarding the tragedy....	14th November 2011
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s...	1912
St James Parish Magazine	VICAR'S LETTER The awful tragedy of the Titanic is so much in the minds of us all that I cannot help referring to it in my letter, if only to say how widespread and sincere is the sympathy felt for Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mountain. Their nephew was Sixth officer of the i...	May 1912
Bristol Times and Mirror	TITANIC'S THIRD OFFICER AN OLD MERCHANT VENTURER Mr. H. J. Pitman, third officer on the Titanic, who was one of the four officers saved from the wreck is an West Countryman, being born at Castle Cary, in Somerset. His age is 34, and he received the shore part of his nautical training in the navigat...	27th April 1912
The San Francisco Call	PEOPLE OF ISMAY, TEX., THINK NAME A BLOT "Call Us After Officer Who "Cussed Him," They Ask --- HOUSTON. April 29-The people of Ismay, Jackson county, Tex., a new town less than a year old, are preparing to ask for permission to change the village...	30th April 1912
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
Unidentified Newspaper	DIGBY COUNTY AND THE TITANIC DISASTER... Question: What do the sinking of the Titanic and Digby County have in common? Answer: The rescue ship, Carpathia's Chief Officer was Thomas W. Hankinson. Thomas William Hankinson, born 1857, was ...
The Times	TORQUAY SHOOTING CHARGE TITANIC OFFICER SENT TO PENAL SERVITUDE Robert Hitchens, 51, a ship's navigating officer, who was stated to have been at the wheel of the Titanic when she was sunk in 1912 after striking an iceberg, appeared in the dock at Winchester A...	30th November 1933
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express	MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula...	20th April 1912
New York Times	C. H. LIGHTOLLER,78, OFFICER ON TITANIC Sole Ranking Member of Crew to Survive Disaster Dies---Aided Dunkerque Evacuation --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Dec. 8 --- Comdr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the only officer of the White Star liner Titanic...	9th December 1952
	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...
	LETTER RE OFFICER WILDE Letter...	4th June 1915
Washington Times	J. B. BOXHALL, FOURTH OFFICER OF TITANIC	23rd April 1912
	THE FIRST MEAL ON BOARD Menu...	2nd April 1912
Newark Evening News	MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o...	19th April 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
Akron Beacon Journal	MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	HERBERT J. PITMAN Third Officer of the Titanic who Testified Before Senate Investigating Committee Today...	23rd April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr...
Hibbing Daily Tribune	MISS WILLARD TELLS OF WRECK Girl Well Known Here, Who was on the Titanic has reached St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn. - April 23 - Miss Constance, the 20-year-old daughter of David Willard, formerly of Duluth, has arrived at the home of her sister, Mrs. Hope McCall, on ...	23rd April 1912
Titanic Stories	TITANIC SURVIVORS Titanic Stories A first class passenger, second officer and fireman recall the moments leading up to Titanic finally going down. ...	30th September 2011
New York Herald	THOMAS WHITELEY : THREE WARNINGS WERE GIVEN TO THE OFFICER ON THE BRIDGE Thomas Whiteley, Tells of Hearing Men Who Were in Crows Nest Express Indignation Because Mr. Murdock, the First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger. ...	21st April 1912
New York Times	AUDIENCE CHEERS ROSTRON Carpathia's Captain and His Officers Get an Ovation at the Winter Garden --- New Yorkers had an opportunity last night to show the esteem in which Capt. Rostron and the other members of the ship's company of the Carpathia have been held...	31st May 1912
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTES : LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE : WILDE C.23. Wilde. Read letter dated 28th May, 1914, received from Mr. O. Jones Williams (one of the Guardians of the children of the late Chief Officer Wilde). The Hon. Secretary reported that he had requested Mr. Williams to attend at the ...	8th June 1914
Chicago Daily Tribune	SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND AND WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC. newspaper aticle...	20th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the...	20th April 1912
Scarborough Mercury	MR. J. P. MOODY Son of Mr. J. Moody We understand that Mr. J. P. Moody, one of the officers concerning whom no news has been received, is a son of Mr. J. Moody, solicitor, once in practice in Scarborough, and for some years a member of the Scarborough...	19th April 1912
The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand	ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o...	31st January 1890
The Mercury (Hobart)	THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in...	25th April 1912
telegraph.co.uk	THE 30 SECONDS THAT SANK THE TITANIC The Titanic could have been saved but for a 30 second delay in the officer in charge giving the order to change the ship's course after the iceberg had been spotted, a new study has found. ...	4th December 2011
Titanic Research	NAVIGATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF TITANIC'S CQD POSITION Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins On September 1, 1985, an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor in position 41° 43.9’ N., 49° 56.8’ W., some thirteen miles east of where she had reportedly foundered. Shortly after t...	7th November 2002
Daily Telegraph	DEATH NOTICE: HERBERT JOHN PITMAN At Pitcombe, Bruton, Somerset, aged 84. A survivor of the Titanic disaster; was third officer on the liner, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage....	18th December 1961
	PITMAN GRAVESTONE In Love We Remember. Herbert John Pitman M.B.E. 1877-1961. Merchant Navy 1895-1947 Rest In Peace. 3rd Officer S.S. Titanic 1912....
Western Morning News	FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo...	20th April 1912
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
Daily Telegraph	THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC Louise Patten whose grandfather was the only surviving officer on the Titanic reveals the truth about how it sank....	22nd September 2010
	PROBATE REPORT Murdoch, William McMaster, of 94 Belmont Road, Portswood, Southampton. Ships Officer. Administration, London 22nd July 1912 to Ada Florence Murdoch, widow. Effects £1141.9.4d....	22nd July 1912
	MORRO CASTLE SURVIVOR OFFICER JAMES BUTE
Bridgwater Mercury	WEST COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE TITANIC: CASTLE CARY The third officer was Mr. H. J. Pitman of Castle Cary, who was reported yesterday (Thursday) to be amongst the officers saved, having presumably been in charge of one of the boats containing the women....	20th April 1912
standard.net.au	CELEBRATING AN ILL-FATED SHIP TO REMEMBER PORT Fairy will commemorate 100 years since the launch of the Titanic with a nautical-themed weekend next month. Visitor Information Centre's tourism officer Andrea Lowenthal said the town had some unusual links to the vessel, which led to the decision ......	13th April 2011
Cumberland News	MR. WILLIAM MURDOCH The first officer of the ill-fated ship was Mr. William Murdoch, son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, Oakland, Dalbeattie, who was transferred from the Olympic, on which he was one of the chief officers....	20th April 1912
	BOAT DECK	1937
New York Times	SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ...	1st November 1930
	HENRY WILDE AND CAPTAIN SMITH
Chicago American	TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...	25th April 1912
	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
Chorley Guardian	WIDOW OF TITANIC OFFICER VISITS CHORLEY Seeks Family Crest Motto - ''Let your light shine'' By a coincidence, a visitor to Chorley this week was Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller, widow of the late Cdr. C. H. Lightoller, who is played by Kenneth ...	18th July 1958
Chorley Guardian	THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...	27th April 1912
	HENRY T. WILDE
Leatherhead, Advertiser, Epsom District Times and County Post	WRECK OF THE TITANIC LITTLE GIRLS ACCOUNT Mrs. Tate, of Elm Villas, Leatherhead, has just received from her daughter (Mrs. Collyer) a copy of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, containing an account of the wreck of the Titanic, as depicted by her daughter Margery, eight years of age. It will be remem...	18th May 1912
	CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER. RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...	27th April 1912
New York Times	SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...	19th April 1912
bbc.co.uk	CENTENARY PROVES ENDURING APPEAL OF THE TITANIC STORY - BBC NEWS Tickets are already selling well as there appears to be no dip in the public's enthusiasm for the story of the ill-fated luxury liner. Louise Patten, granddaughter of the ship's second officer Charles Lightoller, told the BBC why she believes the story still exerts such a powerful pull 100 years on....	22nd December 2011
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
	BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912 THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...	1912
	A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Kenneth More as Second Officer Lightoller in a publicity still for the 1958 film A Night to Remember...
	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....
walesonline.co.uk	TITANIC VALOUR OF HAROLD LOWE- THE WELSHMAN WHO ROWED BACK TO SAVE DROWNING ... - WALESONLINE He has been cast as one of the few courageous figures to emerge on a night best remembered for cowardice and folly. But the author of a new book on the Titanic’s fifth officer Harold Lowe says the received wisdom that paints him as the one seaman brave enough to attempt a rescue tells only half the story, as Darren Devine finds out. ...	21st January 2012
New York Times	SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr...	29th July 1928
The Times	WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED Article...	4th April 1913
Western Daily Mercury	ARTICLE Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...	29th April 1912
Graphic	SKETCH OF HAROLD LOWE Fifth Officer attends New York Inquiry...	11th May 1912
New York Times	HOW THE HARRISES PARTED "Of Course, Ladies First," Said Mr. Harris, and Stayed on Board --- George Brayton, an asphalt manufacturer of Los Angeles, who was on the Titanic, last night gave an account of the parting of Henry B. Harris and his wife. He said:...	19th April 1912
The Times	LIFE-SAVING AT SEA AWARD OF THE KING'S MEDALS The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award medals for gallantry in saving life at sea to the folowing persons: A silver medal t...	12th July 1913
The Evening Telegram	THE SECOND OFFICER LIGHTHOLDER [sic] The man who directed Major Peuchen to enter the Titanic lifeboat. Telling of his own escape before the Senate Inquiry, he was asked: "Did you leave the sh...	22nd April 1912
The Times	PRESENTATION OF MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY BUCKINGHAM PALACE, DEC. 16---The King this morning decorated the following with medals for acts of gallantry on land and at sea as stated against their names:--- BOARD OF TRADE MEDALS Lieutenant ...	17th December 1913
New York Herald	BRAVERY OF TITANIC SURGEON DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS NORMAN O'LOUGHLIN In accounts printed about the Titanic and the bravery of her officers little has been said of one who probably was the most widely known and best beloved of all classes....	22nd April 1912
Voyage	WHITE STAR LINE OFFICER'S UNIFORM CIRCA 1912 John Hemmert By and large the various British steamship company's officer's uniforms of the Edwardia...	15th February 2005
Castle Carey Visitor	CARYITES ON BOARD The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H...	April 1912
New York Times	TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...	25th April 1912
	HENRY WILDE IN WHITE UNIFORM Henry Tingle Wilde pictured in Summer White uniform...
Worcester Telegram	CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon....	20th 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
Washington Herald	PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and...	21st April 1912
Dumfries and Galloway Standard	NEW TITANIC CLAIMS BLAME DALBEATTIE MAN A SON of Dalbeattie could have prevented the world’s worst maritime disaster. William Murdoch, first officer on the ill-fated Titanic, might have saved the “unsinkable” passenger liner had he taken immediate action when an iceberg was spotted. Instead, according to a new book, Murdoch delayed for 30 seconds, analysing information coming his way. And that delay, the researchers who wrote “Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal” claim, meant the ship was unable to avoid the collision that ended with more than 1,500 people losing their lives....	16th December 2011
	BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...	11th July 1912
Chicago Record Herald	NONE PICKED UP CELTIC General Passenger Agent Jeffries of the White Star Line today denied the report that an officer and woman steerage passenger of the Titanic were picked up by the Celtic, which arrived in this city on Saturday morning, as related in a dispatch last...	23rd April 1912
BBC News	TITANIC HERO HAROLD LOWE'S PLAQUE IS FUNDED BY COUNCIL Memorabilia from the Titanic will not now have to be sold off to pay for a plaque commemorating a hero of the disaster from Barmouth in Gwynedd. Records show Fifth Officer Harold Lowe was in the only lifeboat that went back to the sinking ship to rescue people from freezing waters in April 1912. The Titanic Trust gave the town council council a set of medals which were due to be auctioned for the plaque fund....	20th October 2011
	FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY CATHERINE (POLLY) THE DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF LIEUT. HENRY T WILDE RNR. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 24th DECR. 1910 AGED 38 YEARS. ALSO THE TWIN SONS OF THE ABOVE, ARCHIE AND RICHARD WHO DIED IN INFANCY DECEMBER 1910 "A LOVI...
thisislancashire.co.uk	BLUE PLAQUE TRIBUTE TO CHORLEY'S HIGH-RANKING TITANIC SURVIVOR A BLUE PLAQUE has been unveiled on the gates of a high school to commemorate Lancashire man who was the highest-ranking survivor of the Titanic disaster. Charles Lightoller, the son of mill owners, grew up at Yarrow House, Chorley on the site later occupied Albany Science College . He was 38 at the time of the ship’s maiden voyage and was Second Officer. On the night of April 14, 1912, he commanded the last bridge watch before the ship’s collision with an iceberg. ...	14th September 2011
24 hour museum	LIGHTOLLER TITANIC BOOK ACQUIRED FOR RAMSGATE MARITIME MUSEUM Gorringes in Worthing were auctioning Titanic memorabilia, including the 1st edition, cloth-bound book "Titanic and other ships" by Commander Lightoller, senior surviving officer of the Titanic. Ramsgate Maritime Museum has care of the restored Motor Yacht Sundowner, a veteran of the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940, and the former property of Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller. The museum made a successful bid for the book. ...	19th April 2006
The Cadet	MOODY MEMORIAL CUP The Cup presented by Mrs Day and other relatives of J P Mood, who was lost in the "Titanic", to perpetuate his memory on board, reached the Ship during the Easter holidays, and is a great acquisition to our collection of trophies in the way of cup...	13th June 1914
Newton Abbot Western Guardian	UNTITLED Captain and Mrs. Hosking of Shaldon have received a telegram from Mr. Bock, Captain Hosking’s cousin in America, who had travelled about 300 miles to meet Mr. George Fox Hosking, the Senior Third Engineer on the ‘Titanic’ who he was hoping would be a...	25th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	"I'M STARVED!" WAS ISMAY'S FIRST WORD "For God's sake get me something to eat. I'm starved. I don't care what it costs or what it is, bring it to me." This was the first statement made by J. Bruce Ismay, directing head of the White Star line, o...	19th April 1912
New-York Tribune	MAJESTIC IN WITH CHIEF OFFICER A HERO Passengers Cheer David Blair, Who Risked Life in Fog to Save Fireman --- DIVED IN MIDOCEAN --- Women Weep as Gallant Sailor and Man for Whom He Jumped Are Helped Over Side ---...	9th May 1913
Hayle Weekly Mail	HAYLE MAN ONE OF THE STEWARDS On enquiring at Hayle we find that no passengers from this town have sailed in the ill-fated vessel, but that Mr. Samuel Rule, of Hayle, occupied the position of chief bathroom steward. Mr. Rule, who formerly lived at Clifton-terrace, is a bro...	18th April 1912
	SIBONEY LIFEBOAT RESCUE 2 "On the afternoon of June 20th we entered the American War Zone and on the afternoon of the 21st a red light followed by a column of smoke which was believed to be the torching of an oil burning vessel was seen. Drawing nearer it was found to be t...
New York Times	DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i...	16th April 1912
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
Daily Sketch	THE SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE TITANIC The surviving officers of the Titanic - Messrs. Lightoller, Lowe, Boxhall and Pitman - reached Liverpool by the same ship as Mr. Ismay - the Adriatic. The fifth officer, Mr. Lowe, who told the American Court of Inquiry that he asked Mr. Is...	13th May 1912
Newark Evening News	HAWTHORNE YOUTH ON TITANIC WAS A HERO HAWTHORNE, May 3---Through Frank Turnquist, one of the stewards of the Titanic, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Johnson, of Diamond Bridge avenue, have learned that their son, William C. Johnson Jr., who was a petty officer on the ill-fated steamship, mig...	3rd May 1912
	CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA Senan Molony CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...	28th December 2006
Daily Northwestern	SAW THE ICEBERG Silverthorne account...	17th April 1912
Niles Daily News	SURVIVOR FROM TITANIC ARRIVES IN NILES Philip Zanni Tells a Tragic Story of His Rescue - Assisted in Rowing Lifeboat Away from Sinking Ship --------------- The first survivor of the ill fated ship the "Titanic" that has reached Niles is Philip Zanni [sic],...	25th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...	20th April 1912
Cornishman	SAFETY OF A HAYLE MAN - MR. SAMUEL RULE Capt. Rule of Hayle, has received a telegram from his niece announcing the safety of his brother, Mr. Samuel Rule, chief steward of the Titanic. The telegram reads as follows:- ‘Anfield, Liverpool,-To Rule, Carnsew, Hayle. Fath...	18th April 1912
Newark Evening News	LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....	20th April 1912
The Times	COMMANDER C. H. LIGHTOLLER Commander C. H. Lightoller died at his home at Twickenham yesterday at the age of 78. He was for many years with the White Star Line and was second officer in the Titanic when on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1912 she struck and iceb...	9th December 1952
Brighton Argus	MR. PITMAN Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w...	24th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press	AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...	23rd April 1912
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
	TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
New York Times	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
	BRAVERY AWARD Trevor M. Bailey Ernest G F Brown...	1st April 2005
Daily Sketch	HOW CAPTAIN SMITH DIED His Last Act was to Save a Child's Life Refused to get into a boat. Of all the wild and irresponsible messages that were sent to this country in the first hours following the sinking of the Titanic the one that caused th...	30th April 1912
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	HORSEWOMEN IN PARADE Mrs. Burleson, Wife of Army Officer In Command of Suffrage Pageant --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, Jan. 10---A cavalcade of horsewomen is to lead the woman's suffrage parade, or p...	11th April 1913
	GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c...
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
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	GROVES' INAPPROPRIATE JOKE Senan Molony The maturity of Charles Victor Groves, third officer of the ss Californian, is called sharply into question by a recollection of his Captai...	11th September 2010
Newark Star	SIX BULLET HOLES TITANIC MEMENTOES Survivor Tells of Being Shot at by Officers While Entering Lifeboat --- WILKES BARRE, [sic] Pa., April 22---The story of having been shot at by officers on the Titanic when he sought to enter a lifeboat when the great liner was going...	23rd April 1912
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S FINAL MANOEUVRE Captain Lewis Marmaduke Collins She never was under a port helm? - She did not come on the port helm, Sir - on the starboard helm. ------Titanic’s QM Robert Hitchens to the British enquiry At both inquiries it was adduced that, at the time of the look...	8th February 2003
	CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah...
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
Chicago Tribune	SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-...	19th April 1912
New York Times	GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq...	9th November 1930
	WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH Mark Garfien William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se...
Torquay Times	DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED RESIDENT. Torquay has lost an old and respected inhabitant in the death of Mrs. Rebecca Parsons, of Bronshill Road. Originally of Torrington, she had for many years resided at Torquay and took a very active interest in the work of the United Methodist Church ...	1st December 1922
	MURDOCH MEMORIAL PRIZE STEWARTRY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION COMMITTEE DALBEATTIE HIGH SCHOOL Dalbeattie District School Management Committee hereby certify that CHARLES CONNOR has been the Winner of a Prize of FOUR POUN...
	ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH The place chosen by Maj. Butt as his final resting place...
St. Paul Daily News	TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER - Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...	17th May 1912
	CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
	THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE I was just about to go to bed and had my pajamas on when I heard a grating noise and the vessel came to a stop. I slipped on a pair of trousers and rushed on deck. I saw a lot of ice on the forward deck, the well deck, about twenty tons of it, ...	1912
New York Times	CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE...	6th November 1940
North American	TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w...	3rd May 1912
	THE BLUE PLAQUE Blue Plaque on his old House...
Christian Science Monitor	WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...	16th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	UNKNOWN TITLE Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...	1997
New York Times	THE CEDRIC'S PARROT MASCOT "Baden-Powell" Won Purser McElroy's Heart by Sighting a "Landlubber off the Starboard Not since the days of Funston the famous Mexican parrot of Castle William on Governors Island, has there been seen in the...	4th May 1903
New York Herald	WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary...	19th April 1912
The Times	LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ...	23rd September 1953
Chicago Examiner	A TITANIC HERO Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down. He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com...	2nd June 1912
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	MEMORIAL TO JAMES MOODY Memorial...	1993
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
ET Comment	THE RECORD SPEAKS! Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ...	13th December 2006
Unidentified Newspaper	WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA Article...	20th April 1912
Titanic Research	THE PORTRUSH LETTER Senan Molony THE LETTER fell onto the hall floor in the house at Main Street, Portrush, Co Antrim, in late April 1912. Hugh Smith, descending the stair, noticed it and picked it up. The American stamp...	31st January 2006
	MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR C. H. LIGHTOLLER, TWICKENHAM Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller RNR, DSC* 1874-1952 RICHMOND SLIPWAYS, 1 DUCK'S WALK Commander Lightol...
George Jacub	AN EXPERIMENT UNVEILS THE TIMING OF THE AFT PORT BOATS I didn't know whether to cheer or to cringe. Having completed my research into the timing of the first lifeboats to leave the sinking Titanic, plus the last boats and half...	15th July 2011
Newark Star	DRUNKEN INDIAN IN PASSENGER'S HOME Former Employee Sleeps in Bed of Doctor Who Sailed on Titanic --- MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., April 18---While the friends of William C. Dulles of Philadelphia, who has a summer home at Goshen, a passenger on the lost Titanic, were awaiting with...	19th April 1912
Western Morning News	UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ...	29th 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
The Sphere	AN ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER BY A SURVIVOR Joseph Scarrott "The night of April 14, 1912, will never be forgotten. It was a beautiful starlight night, no wind, and the sea was as calm as a lake, but the air was very cold." "Everybody was in good spirits and everything throughout the ship ...	1912
San Francisco Bulletin	DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the...	20th April 1912
Staffordshire Advertiser	STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr....	20th April 1912
San Francisco Bulletin	SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ...	19th April 1912
The Toronto Daily Star	LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A. ------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S...	17th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune	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
Washington Herald	MRS. CANDEE LAUDS MAJ. BUTT'S HEROISM Mrs. Churchill Candee "The Action of Men of the Titanic Was Noble," She Writes --- By MRS. CHURCHILL CANDEE, Of Washington. --- New York, April 18---The action of the men on the Titanic was noble. They stood back in every instance that ...	19th April 1912
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
Christian Science Sentinel	TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD It is difficult to tell from the experience which follows, but the student of the Christian Science will readily see in it that acceptance of the truth made the overcoming of fear possible, even as in the case if disease, and that divine Princi...	October 1912
The Sun (New York)	SMITH THOUGHT HIS SHIP UNSINKABLE Titanic's Skipper Was Never in an Accident on High Seas Before This One --- LOVED OCEAN LIKE A BOY --- Grew Up With White Star Line and Had Its Confidence---Junior Officers on Board --- ...	16th April 1912
Titanic Review	COMPELLING TITANIC THOUGHTS FROM THE ROCK Gavin Murphy It is often not an easy task, nor a popular enterprise, to be a revisionist of ocean liner history. Proof of this is found, for example, in Coli...	29th September 2002
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
Chicago Tribune	LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...	18th April 1912
Titanic Research	LOADING THE REAR BOATS George Jacub While working on a major project involving the Titanic, I ran into a snag. I thought I could unravel the problem by examining the order the rear boats were loaded and lowered. The answer helped, though less than I had hoped. But I was sti...	29th May 2008
New York Times	CAPTAIN'S OFFICIAL REPORTS Rostron Tells How the Carpathia Did Work of Rescue --- Just before the Carpathia sailed yesterday afternoon on her interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Capt. Rostron, her commander, gave out what he declared to be the first and only...	20th April 1912
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier	MRS. HANSON IS HOME MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________ ...
New York Times	SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....	26th June 1915
Chicago Daily News	GIRL TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HERE Miss Annie Kelley Last Woman to Leave Sinking Ship, She Says Miss Annie Kelley, 17 years old, a sister of Miss Beatrice Kelley, 303 Eugenie street, arrived in Chicago last night and told of her escape from the sinking Tit...	23rd April 1912
New York Times	THE SAILORS WERE BEATEN Morris Park Cricketers Put up a Good Game Against the Majestic Team --- The Morris Park Cricket Club was determined to defeat the team of the steamship Majestic yesterday at Morris Park, and they took no chances in t...	15th August 1893
Washington Times	NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER'S HERO Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo...	20th April 1912
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)	ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named...	25th October 1924
Washington Post	TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th...	20th April 1912
Maidenhead Advertiser	AN ACCOUNT OF MY JOURNEY ON THE TITANIC Nellie Walcroft Sir, I am sending the account of my journey on the Titanic thinking that it will interest those at Maidenhead whom I know. I left Maidenhead on April 9th., stayed in London and caught 'the special train to Southampton at...	29th April 1912
Newark Evening News	BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...	19th April 1912
Voyage	A CAPTAIN'S CAREER John P. Eaton “When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say- uneventful. Of course there have been winter storms and gales and fog and the like, but in all ...	23rd August 2005
Titanic Research	COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER? Dave Gittins If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ...	28th February 2008
New York Times	MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...	20th September 1952
Titanic Research	THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC David G. Brown and Parks E. Stephenson Explores the hypothesis that that Titanic grounded on an underwater shelf of the iceberg....	6th June 2001
Bridgwater Mercury	T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...	April 1912
Voyage	THE BOXHALL LETTERS Joe Carvalho & Shelley Dziedzic The following five letters, written to Mr. Joe Carvalho of Massaschusetts by Commander Joseph G. Boxhall span the time period of April 1961 through July of 1962, and reveal the sentiments of the Titanic officer r...	23rd May 2005
Ilford Graphic	THE TALE OF THE TITANIC (2ND PAGE OF THE ARTICLE) And now, I come to a part of my story that I shrink from telling. Indeed, I think I have lingered over the first part because I dread relating the events of that awful night. I have read some where of people living a whole lifetime in a few hours. I ...	10th May 1912
	STANLEY LORD IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE HARRISON Leslie Harrison Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961....	19th August 1961
New York Times	ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt. Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y...	27th April 1912
The Evening Post	LEAPS FROM LINER'S DECK. Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea ...	20th April 1912
Titanic Research	TITANIC'S ROCKETS Senan Molony Why more were fired and why it matters....	15th March 2002
New York Times	LOVE LIFTS JAIL SENTENCE OF LAWRENCE VAIL WHEN FRENCHMAN HE STRUCK WINS HIS SISTER PARIS, Dec. 29 (AP)---Love has found a way to make a new, Franco-American match---a blow over the head with a champagne bottle. The Frenchman who was hit, Captain Allain Lemerdy, son of a General, is going to marry Clothilde Vail, sister of the Ameri...	30th December 1926
Daily Enterprise	LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED ---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...	20th April 1912