Ship Construction

234 items found relating to : Ship Construction

HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
A general construction view, showing the work area through a section of the ship's frame. From a stereoscopic image....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
The Hindenburg tethered to a small indoor mooring mast during her construction. Phot originally stereographic. ...
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
A general view under the hull, looking aft. Photo originally steroscopic....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Installing one of the motor gondolas. Photo originally stereoscopic....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Crew gangway, the same as described in Sky Cruise.  From a stereoscopic image....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
The installation of the control car. Froma stereoscopic image....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
The control car. Photo originally steroscopic....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
The Hindenburg, like the Graf Zeppelin, was a powerful propaganda tool. Here, the Swastika has been applied to her fins....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
The interior of the Hindenburg's control car, showing her wheel.  From a stereographic image....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
A view of the Hindenburg as her skin was being installed. From a stereoscopic photo....
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HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
A striking stereoview showing the Hindenburg's framework....
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The Times VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE
The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...
23rd June 1921
WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH? Titanic Research WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH?
Captain Charles B. Weeks
There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic’s rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and t...
29th September 2002
BUILDING THE TITANIC   BUILDING THE TITANIC
This original picture shows the Titanic under construction in Belfast, certainly in late 1911. Note that three funnels are not yet painted, there is a scaffolding around the fourth funnel....
1911
A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC Weekly Irish Times A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC
A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...
21st September 1912
HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Under the hull, looking forward towards the motor gondolas. Original photo stereoscopic....
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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
NORMANDIE FITTING OUT   NORMANDIE FITTING OUT
1933 Gare Maritime
NORMANDIE FITTING OUT   NORMANDIE FITTING OUT
1933 Gare Maritime
NORMANDIE FITTING OUT   NORMANDIE FITTING OUT
1933 Gare Maritime
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
STATENDAM 1929, CA 1923 BROCHURE COVER.   STATENDAM 1929, CA 1923 BROCHURE COVER.
This is the cover for an elaborate brochure issued to promote the commencing of construction on the new Statendam, replacement for the Statendam/Justicia....
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New York Times CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES
Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...
6th October 1918
The Times THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...
22nd July 1899
New York Times BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD
BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...
11th July 1910
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND
SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
New York Times THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED
A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...
20th January 1889
Newark Star MR. STENGEL SENDS WORD HE IS SAFE
Nothing Heard of Three Other Essex Men Who Were on Doomed Ship --- Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel were rejoiced yesterday when a wireless message was received from Mr. Ivan Stengel stating that his father and ...
18th April 1912
Titanic Stories A LUCKY ESCAPE FROM THE TITANIC - FATHER BROWNE
Titanic Stories
Hear the story of the man who captured unique photos of Titanic before she sank. He was luckily summoned back to his duties instead of going on the maiden voyage....
12th May 2011
Western People WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC, 46,326 TONS. THE LARGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD.
The completion of the "Titanic" at Harland and Wolf's great Belfast Ship-building yard marks a further stage in the progress of British shipping and ship building, and in the development of the White Star Line. The construction of two such notable ve...
13th April 1912
TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Cork Examiner TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES
Sir William Arrol and two disasters...
8th February 1913
TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS Titanic Stories TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS
Speculation, exaggeration, propaganda and lies! Titanic has inspired many tall tales – but what is really true and what’s not?...
8th July 2011
RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY   RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY
IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...
23rd March 2011
Newark Evening News TWO SURVIVORS WERE TO VISIT IN ARLINGTON
Among those reported saved from the wreck of the Titanic are Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, England, who were expected to visit Arlington as guests of Mrs. Etta Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue. They left home to join Mrs...
17th April 1912
New York Times Book Review THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956
Voyage COLLINGWOOD
John P. Eaton
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...
28th November 2004
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
New York Herald MR. W. ROEBLING, 2D, AMONG PASSENGERS
TRENTON, N.J. Monday - Washington Roebling, II a son of Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, the Roebling Construction Company and the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company, who was a passenger on board the Titanic, togethe...
17th April 1912
Weekly Irish Times BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON
Article...
7th September 1912
Cornishman NEWLYN MAN RESCUED
AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi...
18th April 1912
The Gazette (Montreal) LAURENTIC IS HERE
The Gazette, Montreal, 8 May 1909 Maiden Voyage Upholds the Satisfactory Results Achieved on Trial Trip --- AN EPOCH IN SHIPPING --- P...
8th May 1909
MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gare Maritime MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL
Gavin Murphy
Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar...
8th November 2001 Gare Maritime
Voyage LORD CROMER
John P. Eaton
Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...
9th January 2005
New York Times NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS
Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...
27th April 1912
TITANIC : HISTORY ON A PLATE   TITANIC : HISTORY ON A PLATE
To be opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on 18th February 2011 ...
  INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...
17th November 1911
New York Times AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT
AMERICANS OFFENDED BY A SPEECH BY MR. ISMAY ON THE TEUTONIC ---------- The maiden voyage of the splendid steamer, the Teutonic, of the White Star Line, which arrived at this port on Wednesday, seems to...
17th August 1889
SS NEW YORK   SS NEW YORK
Famous because of her near collision with the Titanic, the New York was a ship most people like to travel on. This is view 3 out of 3...
BRITANNIC POSTCARD (AS HOSPITAL SHIP)   BRITANNIC POSTCARD (AS HOSPITAL SHIP)
OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME Gare Maritime OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME
Gavin Murphy
RMS Olympic's cocktail bar in a Durham public house...
22nd January 2003 Gare Maritime
  WRECK MOVIE
Possibly what held the Titanic together after the ship broke apart aft of the third funnel - causing the stern to be pulled vertical as the ship sank. This piece is located in the debris field, approx. 900 meters away from the stern section. ...
New York Times INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER
Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here...
28th January 1917
New York Times WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC
Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...
8th January 1907
TITANIC : THE SHIP MAGNIFICENT : REVIEWED Titanic Review TITANIC : THE SHIP MAGNIFICENT : REVIEWED
Dave Gittins
Dave Gittins reviews Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, the ambitious two-volume edition that describes the achievement that was "Titanic" in detail as never before. ...
3rd April 2008
Tipperary Star DEATH OF TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Catherine Croke, Ballinntemple, Dundrum, whose death has occurred is believed to have been the last survivor in Ireland of the ill-fated Titanic. She was aged 21 at the time of the disaster and it was her first experience of being aboard a ship....
20th November 1948
The Evening Post HOLDING BACK FACTS OF DISASTER STIRS CRITICISM
Charges ranging from indifference to deliberate suppression of news are being made against the White Star officials on both sides of the Atlantic . As ground for these charges one needs to go back only to the rapid sequ...
18th April 1912
LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY Titanic Review LOST VOICES OF THE TITANIC : THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY
Dave Bryceson
Reviewed by Dave Bryceson...
21st October 2009
Highland News CAPTAIN GOES DOWN WITH SHIP
Captain Smith - all honour to him - made absolutely no attempt to leave the ship, and insisted on going down with the vessel. The report that he committed suicide is discredited. As one of the passengers said, ''He stuck to the bridge like a hero'', ...
20th April 1912
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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New York Times THE TITANIC
Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...
28th July 1912
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Washington Herald MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...
21st 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
Southern Evening Echo ARTICLE
SATURDAY was a special anniversary for three Southampton men - Mr. Walter Hurst of 5 Granville Street, Mr. Leo James Hyland of 11 Burlington Road, and Mr. George Kemish of 14 Begonia Road. Exactly 46 years ago these three were part of the crew aboard...
14th April 1958
THE UNLUCKY STATENDAM Gare Maritime THE UNLUCKY STATENDAM
Jim Kalafus
Views of the elegant ocean liner...
18th December 2006 Gare Maritime
QUEEN MARY AND FAT RASCALS ON OFFER IN YORKSHIRE Gare Maritime QUEEN MARY AND FAT RASCALS ON OFFER IN YORKSHIRE
Gavin Murphy
1930s Art Deco in a York tea shop...
19th September 2002 Gare Maritime
Gettysburg Complier REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY
Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners are Referred to as Floating Palaces While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most respects like the Olympic there is a pronounced diff...
19th June 1912
BRIDGE OF LA PROVENCE   BRIDGE OF LA PROVENCE
First liner to receive Titanic's distress call...
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
Chicago Tribune UNCONFIRMED STORY OF HORROR
A report is current here which is said to have emanated from the trading vessel Bruce, which is on the way to Sydney, C. B., giving a version of the Titanic disaster which the trader obtained from various ships. This is to...
17th April 1912
  DISCOVERY TSX: TITANIC PREVIEW
The Titanic finally arrives in New York City at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. Relive Titanic's fateful 1912 maiden voyage and take on the identity of a Titanic passenger as you explore magnificent reconstructions of the Ship's interior. Discover how the 'unsinkable' Ship met its fate and connect with the passengers and crew, as you view haunting personal artifacts recovered from the wreck....
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 OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC Titanic Review THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC
Michael Tennaro
In this new book, Chirnside has done the triplets proud, with a thoroughly researched history of each of these vessels. ...
6th December 2004
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 J. P. MORGAN AS A GRANDPA
Eager as a Boy to Meet the Home-Coming Hamilton Children --- When the White Star steamship Oceanic reacher [sic] her pier from Liverpool yesterday morning the most eagerly expectant person awaiting her was J. Pierpont Morgan, who was t...
23rd November 1905
  OLYMPIC
The olympic in profile; At the pier in New York; Pier 59; New York skyline...
San Francisco Chronicle TITANIC CAPTAIN BLAMED FOR WRECK
Senate Committee Also Scores [sic] Captain of the Steamer Californian. COULD HAVE SAVED ALL. Praise for Carpathia Crew and Gold Medal for her Captain. WASHINGTON. May 28. –The Titanic disaster of April ...
29th May 1912
New-York Tribune GET GIANTS OF THE SEA
Captains Smith and Haddock for Olympic and Titanic --- Captain Herbert J. Haddock of the White Star liner Oceanic, which left port on Wednesday for Southampton, was congratulated by wireless yesterday on his appo...
2nd December 1910
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
Cornishman CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE
(courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ...
16th May 1912
A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Titanic Research A TITANIC COINCIDENCE
Gavin Murphy
How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....
9th July 2002
ALGONQUIN 1939   ALGONQUIN 1939
The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....
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Chicago Record-Herald NIAGARA NEAR TITANIC'S FATE
French Liner Arrives Under Own Power After Striking Iceberg. New York, April 16—Close to where the Titanic sank the new French line steamer Niagara on the night of April 10 crashed into an ice field and sent out a wi...
17th April 1912
THE 'OLYMPIC' CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC (REVISED EDITION) Titanic Review THE 'OLYMPIC' CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC (REVISED EDITION)
Art Braunschweiger
Review of Mark Chirnside's ‘Olympic’ Class Ships: Olympic – Titanic – Britannic...
3rd January 2012
Southern Evening Echo UNTITLED
GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ...
9th December 1952
The Times THE CUNARD STEAMER CARPATHIA
From Wednesday morning until that of Saturday of last week a party of visitors, which included Sir William White (late Director of Naval Construction), Messrs Moorhouse and Maxwell (General Manager and a director of the Cunard Company), were carri...
27th April 1903
JUST AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN - A SONG OF THE SEA   JUST AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN - A SONG OF THE SEA
A Song of the Sea Words by Edith Maida Lessing Music by Bernie Adler and Sidney Gibson Published 1912 by the Harold Rossiter Music Company, Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [...
1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE SHIP OF TOMORROW   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE SHIP OF TOMORROW
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Chicago American FOUR TITANIC SURVIVORS SCORE SHIP'S OFFICIALS
Four women who were rescued from the Titanic passed through this city on their way to their Western homes.  They were: Mrs. H. F. Chaffee of Amenia, N. D.; whose husband was drowned; Mrs. Walter Clark of Los Angeles, who also lost her husban...
22nd April 1912
OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN STOP IN CHERBOURG   OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN STOP IN CHERBOURG
Note handwritten date: 14 June 1911 (1st stop)...
14th June 1911
BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA Evening Bulletin BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA
Second Wireless Operator of the Titanic...
20th April 1912
Cork Examiner BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE
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11th May 1912
Camden Post-Telegram SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR
Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam...
19th April 1912
MARY ANN PERREAULT   MARY ANN PERREAULT
Mussie before Ship Wreck...
March 1912
Unidentified Newspaper LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...
2nd February 2001
POSTCARD SENT BY MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TITANIC   POSTCARD SENT BY MAN WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE TITANIC
Private Postcard...
21st April 1912
Worcester Telegram NEVER NEAR TITANIC
Article...
18th April 1912
Paterson Morning Call BROTHER OF MISS FUNK STILL HOPES
Newton, April 23---Persevering in the hope that Miss Annie Funk, formerly of Paterson, did not go down with the Titanic, Horace Funk, her brother, a teacher of the eleventh grade of the high school here, went to New York today to see if further infor...
24th April 1912
PAUL MAUGé AND UNIDENTIFIED COMPANION ABOARD SHIP.   PAUL MAUGé AND UNIDENTIFIED COMPANION ABOARD SHIP.
July 1927
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
Toronto Daily Star E.Z. TAYLOR'S ACCOUNT
E.Z. Taylor jumps into the sea...
18th April 1912
Washington Times STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO
Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ...
22nd April 1912
Evening Bulletin GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP
Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in the Mediterranean. She was the widow of Dr. Raymond S. Leopold, former executive vice ...
12th August 1965
New York Times PROVING FOREMAN ON TITANIC
Brother Files Letters of Survivors in Asking for Administration Papers --- Edwin H. Foreman obtained yesterday from Surrogate Fowler letters of administration on the $10,000 estate of his brother, Benjamin L. Foreman, who was drowned on ...
15th May 1912
CHELSEA PIERS   CHELSEA PIERS
The ship shown on this card is Luistania....
Worcestershire Chronicle FIRE UP HARD
''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions...
27th April 1912
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
North American WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ...
20th April 1912
Washington Times TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM
NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo...
20th April 1912
THOMAS ANDREWS - TITANIC DESIGNER Titanic Stories THOMAS ANDREWS - TITANIC DESIGNER
Titanic Stories
The undoubted hero of the story of the titanic is Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect, managing director of the design department at Harland and Wolff and the leader of the Guarantee Group. ...
1st August 2011
Washington Times TITANIC SURVIVOR IS EXPECTED HERE
Wife of Former Washington Man Will Visit Relatives In Washington --- Mrs. William Beard Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., one of the survivors of the Titanic, comes to Washington tomorrow night and will, for several days, be the guest of her mo...
22nd April 1912
POSTWAR 12. JUNGLE BAR. CABIN CLASS.   POSTWAR 12. JUNGLE BAR. CABIN CLASS.
JUNGLE BAR: One of the most delightful spots on the entire ship is the exquisitely appointed Jungle Bar. Its dark walls, sophisticated decorations and subdued lighting provide the intimate charm of your favorite rendez-vous at home. Here you will ...
Gare Maritime
Chicago Daily News LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK
Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...
27th February 1912
Unidentified Newspaper THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82
Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t...
4th November 1975
POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM.   POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM.
DINING ROOM: Every detail of the First Class Dining Room is calculated to enhance your enjoyment of the lavish meals served aboard ship. The golden, padded ceiling, tinted mirrors and soft, diffused lighting lend an air of quiet distinction. On cruis...
Gare Maritime
The Times LORD PIRRIE - DOMINANT FIGURE IN SHIPBUILDING
PEACE AND WAR SERVICES ...
9th June 1924
THOMAS SILVA LETTER   THOMAS SILVA LETTER
Dearest Eff,After a long hard journey I arrived in New York on the 29th of April. The trip was certainly a long one and I was glad indeed when it was over. The first thing that I endeavoured to do was to try to get my passport. After t...
1st May 1915 Gare Maritime
Brooklyn Daily Times MRS. NATSCH PROSTRATED BY NEWS OF DISASTER
Charles Natsch, of 503 East Seventh street, Secretary of the firm of Lamonte, Corliss & Company, importers of Manhattan, is prominent in club and social circles in Flatbush. Mr. Natsch left New York about six weeks ago on a business trip for his fi...
16th April 1912
SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC Titanic Research SIX SECONDS TO DISASTER - THE DEATH OF TITANIC
Jim Currie
As a professional mariner and Marine Accident Investigator, I was irresistibly drawn to the detailed information available concerning the few minutes before Titanic began her death throwes....
30th December 2011
Ottawa Citizen SYRIAN WOMAN'S THRILLING NARRATIVE
Ship's Officers Fired into Steerage: Panic Amid Rush for Lifeboats Mariana Assaff says Ten People on Doomed Ship were Bound for Ottawa but Two survive. ...How Mrs. Assaf views the Horror and Catastrophe of Her Rescue. "Mariana Assaf a...
24th April 1912
  THE WHITE STAR LINE
George Henry Preble
THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"...
The Times A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES
The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat...
23rd April 1917
ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE Gare Maritime ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE
Pierette Domenica Simpson
From "Alive on the Andrea Doria"...
9th January 2007 Gare Maritime
SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE Titanic Review SWITCH THEORY FOUNDERS IN A SEA OF EVIDENCE
Monica Hall
OLYMPIC & TITANIC - The Truth Behind The Conspiracy by Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge The Olympic–Tit...
12th July 2004
  LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC?
Pete Morrall
Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?...
Unidentified Newspaper OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE
Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ...
10th April 1996
Camden Post-Telegram MR. SUTTON'S BODY TO BE SENT HOME
Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER'S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutt...
27th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune SALAVAGE SHIP ACTIVE WHERE TITANIC SANK
A British salvage vessel, the Help, was reported today using heavy explosives in the north Atlantic roughly over the spot where the Titanic sank in 1912.  Nothing could be learned of the nature of the ship's activities, first reported ...
1st August 1953
 

 
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