Shipwreck

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Titanic Research	I WAS SAVED FROM THE TITANIC Lady Duff Gordon A vivid eyewitness account of the legendary shipwreck and its aftermath. Edited by Randy Bryan Bigham...	15th November 2010
Waterloo Record	THE MUSEUM LANDS MAJOR TITANIC EXHIBIT More than 150 artifacts from the worlds most famous shipwreck are coming to town for a four-month show....	3rd July 2010
BBC News	VIDEO REVEALS TITANIC'S CONDITION New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic almost 25 years since it was first discovered....	2nd September 2010
	BRITANNIC - SISTER TO TITANIC
	NOAA 2004 TITANIC SHIPWRECK FOOTAGE
CBC.ca	TITANIC EXPLORERS PREPARE 3-D MAP PROJECT An ambitious research mission is set to leave St. John's this weekend with a team of scientists planning to create three-dimensional maps of the world's most famous shipwreck....	24th August 2010
msnbc.com	EXPEDITION BIDS FAREWELL TO TITANIC An expedition to document the Titanic shipwreck site in 3-D has been brought to a quick end due to the approach of yet another hurricane....	23rd September 2010
Seattle Post Intelligence	12-YEAR-OLD STUDENT FINDS A TITANIC MENTOR When you want to find out about a profession, sometimes it's best to go straight to the expert.It was 1985 when underwater explorer Robert Ballard made his discovery of the Titanic shipwreck and Kris Ludwig was growing up in Colorado....	27th February 2008
TIME	A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TITANIC DISCOVERY Almost 25 years to the day after the R.M.S. Titanic was discovered two and a half miles below the surface of the Atlantic an expedition to the ocean floor has transmitted brand new images of history's most famous shipwreck....	2nd September 2010
St. John's Telegram	RETURN TO THE TITANIC Archeologists oceanographers and other nautical scientists will leave Pier 17 in St. Johns Harbour Sunday onboard the research vessel Jean Charcot for an expedition to the Titanic wreckage where theyll create a three-dimensional map of the entire shipwreck area....	24th August 2010
The Associated Press	ANOTHER TITANIC EXPEDITION POSSIBLE IN 2010 The president and CEO of the company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic says the company is interested in conducting its first salvage since 2004 at the world's most famous shipwreck....	27th October 2009
LiveScience.com	TITANIC EXPLORER TO SEARCH FOR SHIPWRECKS IN BLACK SEA The explorer who discovered the Titanic shipwreck now plans a robotic expedition to look for sunken ships on the floor of the Black Sea as well as clues to its geologic history. ...	20th August 2007
CTV.ca	TITANIC EXPEDITION BACK AT SEA AND SCANNING WRECKAGE An expedition to map out the last resting place of the Titanic was back at sea Monday and continuing its work of preserving a virtual record of the world's most famous shipwreck....	14th September 2010
CBC.ca	TITANIC DISSOLVING FASTER THAN EXPECTED ENGINEER The Titanic is disintegrating faster than previously thought says a Dalhousie University engineer who predicts researchers have about 15 years before natural bacteria dissolve most of the shipwreck....	6th December 2010
feedsportal.com	TITANIC ARTEFACTS TO GO UP FOR AUCTION - TELEGRAPH.CO.UK The owner of the largest trove of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck. ...	29th December 2011
All'erta!	UNA VITTIMA DI MONTALTO NEL NAUFRAGIO DEL «TITANIC» Venerdi 26 Aprile 1912 Purtroppo anche il nostro Circon- dario deve registrare una sua vittime nel terribile disastro del vapore «Ti- tanic». Fra l'elenco dei periti nello spa- ventoso naufragio annoverasi, infatti, Gatti Luigi, d'ann...	26th April 1912
CTV.ca	SCIENTISTS TO SET SAIL FOR TITANIC WRECKAGE SURVEY A team of scientists setting sail Sunday from St. John's harbour hope their expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck will help in the search of a more recent tragedy in the Atlantic Ocean -- that of the Air France Flight 447 crash last year. ...	24th August 2010
The Associated Press	TITANIC SALVAGE COMPANY WINS AWARD FROM VA. COURT The company with exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is entitled to full compensation for artifacts worth about $110 million that it has recovered in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck a federal judge has ruled....	14th August 2010
Toronto Star	EXCURSION TO TITANIC WRECK PROCEEDS DESPITE FIRE ON RESEARCH VESSEL A small fire broke out aboard a research vessel days before it is scheduled to leave Newfoundland for an expedition to the site of the Titanic shipwreck....	19th August 2010
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR FACES DEATH AGAIN GALESBURG, Ill., Apr 14---Frank Karoun, one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, narrowly escaped death again last night, just a year after surviving that shipwreck. The Lindel Hotel, of which Karoun is the proprietor, collapsed, and the walls ...	15th April 1913
Portugal News	TITANIC EXHIBITION TO THRILL VISITORS Lisbon is to host a Titanic exhibition from Saturday until August, the ??€?œTitanic ??€' The Artifact Exhibition??€?„?, showcasing several artefacts which were recovered from the shipwreck that took the lives of 1,500 people on April 15th 1912. ...	19th May 2009
Daily Gleaner	TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912....	22nd August 2008
Daily Gleaner	TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS AT ATLANTA AQUARIUM TODAY The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck.The 5,500-piece collection contains almost everything recovered from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which has sat four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912....	22nd August 2008
Henley Standard	HAODS TO STAGE A TITANIC MUSICAL HISTORY'S most famous shipwreck comes to the stage of the Kenton Theatre next month, when HAODS stages Titanic - The Musical. It tells the story of the hopes, loves and dreams of the real-life passengers and crew as the gigantic liner embarked on her maiden voyage in April 1912....	4th November 2008
canadaeast.com	GEOLOGIST TAKES ON TITANIC RESEARCH Steve Blasco, a Nova Scotia-based researcher, had spent countless hours beneath the waves during his career, exploring seascapes at depths never before experienced by human beings. But this was different. Nearly 4,000 metres below the surface of the frigid North Atlantic, 79 years after an iceberg appeared out of the mist cutting short the lives of 1,517 men, women and children, Blasco was about to see the most famous shipwreck in history. ...	21st October 2011
Arizona Republic	EXPLORER TO SHARE LATEST INFO ON TITANIC AT MESA ARTS CENTER Robert Ballard, the marine biologist and deep-sea explorer best known for discovering the Titanic shipwreck, will be at Mesa Arts Center to share tales of his underwater explorations....	15th January 2009
The Ann Arbor News	GAELIC STORM OF 'TITANIC' FAME AT THE ARK Gaelic Storm, at The Ark tonight, can thank a movie about a famous shipwreck for providing a stepping stone to fame. Remember the lively Irish band that played for the steerage passengers in the 1997 movie "Titanic?'' That was Gaelic Storm....	3rd August 2007
Realscreen.com	JAMES CAMERON TEAMING WITH NAT GEO FOR TITANIC DOC Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron will bring together the director with some of the world’s leading Titanic experts for what the network is calling “the ultimate forensic investigation into the science behind what sank the unsinkable ship on her maiden voyage.” The experts will also examine Cameron’s feature film take on the event, and bring to the fore what technology has revealed about the shipwreck since 1997....	7th December 2011
St Petersburg Times	TITANIC OWNERS KEEP TOES IN LOCAL WATER RMS Titanic Inc. moved its headquarters from Clear- water to Atlanta nearly six years ago. But the bay area remains a key port of call for the company, which owns exclusive rights to the Titanic shipwreck.The company hired International Advantage Inc. of Tampa last year to run a Titanic exhibit in Greece. And under its new moniker, Premier Exhibitions, it chose Tampa's MOSI as the inaugural site for its Bodies ... The Exhibition show. ...	4th September 2006
Southern Daily Echo	SELLING TITANIC ITEMS IS WRONG SAYS SURVIVOR Milvina Dean A HAMPSHIRE Titanic survivor has slammed black market dealers who are selling relics from the world-famous shipwreck.Britain's last survivor Milvina Dean, 94, of Woodlands, near Southampton, said the sale of items from the ship which sank killing more than 1,500 people in 1912, was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved....	30th October 2006
ibtimes.com	UNSEEN PICTURES OF TITANIC ON 100TH YEAR OF LAUNCH NOAA wants to ensure that the memorial, historical, archaeological and scientific values of Titanic is preserved for future generations while sharing the story and images of the wreck with the public, it said. While NOAA strives to protect as well as make Titanic wreck site accessible to the public through 2010 documentation and pictures, start the slideshow to view some of the never-before-seen pictures of Titanic before it sank, the shipwreck and more:...	2nd June 2011
ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
ABC News	PLUNDERING THE TITANIC The last British survivor of the Titanic disaster condemned black-market dealers today, after it emerged that relics from the world-famous shipwreck were up for sale. Millvina Dean, 94, of Hampshire, England, who was just an infant when the ship went down, said the sale of items from the Titanic was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved. "My father [who died on the ship] is still on there," she said to ABC News. "It's awfully wrong to take things especially from a ship where so many people perished. I don't suppose these people thought of that. ¢€¦ They just thought of the money." ...	31st October 2006
	SECTION OF TITANIC HULL OFFERED BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS An actual 7 x 4 inch section from the hull of the doomed ship R.M.S. Titanic, modern history’s most famous shipwreck – consigned by famous author, Hollywood consultant and deep sea archeologist Charles Pellegrino – is expected to bring $4,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 21 Americana & Political Memorabilia event. A minimum of 10% from proceeds will be donated to the Firefighter's Burn Center....	9th May 2011
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 2011
clickliverpool.com	TITANIC AND LIVERPOOL: THE UNTOLD STORY The only known surviving Titanic first class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster are displayed in Liverpool to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar of St Paul’s Church, Portman Square, London. His wife became ill the day before the Titanic sailed, forcing him to cancel his voyage. Mr Holden had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934. A compelling new exhibition explores little-known links between Titanic and Liverpool, the city that inspired the biggest ship in the world doomed to be most notorious shipwreck in history....	26th March 2012
huffingtonpost.com	POSSIBLE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND AT TITANIC WRECKSITE Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, a federal official said Saturday. A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster's centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site. "These are not shoes that fell out neatly from somebody's bag right next to each other," James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The way they are "laid out" makes a "compelling case" that it is where "someone has come to rest," he said....	15th April 2012
com	JUDGE: SALVAGE FIRM HAS TITLE TO TITANIC ARTIFACTS A federal judge on Monday granted a company title to fine china, ship fittings and other artifacts worth about $110 million that it recovered from the Titanic in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Norfolk issued the order a little over a year after ruling that RMS Titanic was entitled to full compensation for the roughly 5,900 artifacts. In her August 2010 ruling, Smith postponed deciding whether to give RMS title to the artifacts or sell them and turn the proceeds over to the company....	15th August 2011
irishtimes.com	TREASURE HUNTERS SAY IRISH WATERS HAVE VALUABLE WRECKS THE US marine exploration company which has located a British wartime shipwreck with £150 million worth of silver in the Atlantic has also been surveying southwest Irish waters where there are a number of "commodity" wrecks. The Naval Service has confirmed that it notified the company's research ship Odyssey Explorer some weeks ago that it should notify the Irish authorities of its activities. It said the Naval Service came across the vessel surveying some 25 miles west of the Blasket islands, in Co Kerry on August 2nd. Under international law, a ship undertaking scientific research should inform the relevant state, and should be licensed to tow a sidescan sonar in territorial waters....	28th September 2011
The Guardian	TITANIC SALVAGE FIRM LOSES BID TO OWN ARTEFACTS he company that has exclusive salvage rights to the wreckage of the Titanic does not own the site or the artefacts recovered from it, a US federal appeals court has ruled. The ruling by the 4th US circuit court of appeals affirmed a decision by the district court in Norfolk, Virginia.RMS Titanic Inc had sought full ownership of the nearly 6,000 artefacts it has recovered from the shipwreck, claiming that they are worth some $71m (?40m).Article continues In 1994, the district court granted it sole salvage rights, allowing it to recover artefacts from the liner to be used in the public interest. The court barred the company from selling the items, including passengers' clothing and part of the ship's hull....	2nd February 2006
	BRAVERY AWARD Trevor M. Bailey Ernest G F Brown...	1st April 2005
Sphere	INVENTOR OF THE LIFEBOAT The Lukin Grave in England...	21st December 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
Torquay Directory	A FULFILLED DREAM. ECHO OF THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC One of the stewards on board the Titanic was a son of the late organist and choirmaster of a church in Torquay. He leaves an aged widowed mother, who was dependent upon him. His sister narrates a strange dream. She says that for several nights pri...	15th May 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
Salt Lake Tribune	UTAH WOMAN ON TITANIC NOT NAMED AS SURVIVOR Page 1 Photograph of Mrs. Irene Colvin Corbett of Provo, who wrote she would take passage on Titanic. She is holding one of her three children, who are with their grandparents in Provo. (Photo of Mrs. Corbett and child...	17th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald	MRS. CROSBY OF MILWAUKEE, ON WAY HOME, TELLS OF EXCITEMENT IN LOWERING BOATS Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon. Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs...	23rd April 1912
Fox News	TITANIC EXPLORER'S ASHES HEADING FOR SPACE The ashes of a Titanic shipwreck explorer are poised to launch into space on Saturday in a suborbital memorial service to blast off from New Mexico. A small portion of the cremated remains of Ralph White, a cinematographer who documented the 1985 expedition that discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic, will fly to suborbital space and back alongside the ashes of 15 other people when their SpaceLoft XL rocket launches from New Mexico's Spaceport America at about 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on May 2....	29th April 2009
msnbc.com	"TITANIC" STARS HELP SHIPWRECK'S LAST SURVIVOR LOS ANGELES - The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is getting a hand from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The "Titanic" stars, along with director James Cameron, have contributed to a $30,000 fund for Millvina Dean, 97, Access Hollywood has confirmed....	11th May 2009
MinnPost	TITANIC EXHIBIT OPENS ST. PAUL; RESEARCHER SAYS HIT MOVIE NOT ACCURATE As the Titanic exhibit opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- with artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck along with newly discovered articles from the ship that rescued many of the passengers -- a Minnesota writer with a passion for the topic raises questions about the historical accuracy of the 1997 hit movie that catapulted the disaster into the realm of popular culture. ...	14th June 2009

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