Sinking Of The Titanic And Great Sea Disasters

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OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION   OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION
From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'...
1912
WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD STUDIO PORTRAIT   WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD STUDIO PORTRAIT
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
THE THAYERS   THE THAYERS
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THE WIDENERS   THE WIDENERS
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ISIDOR STRAUS STUDIO PORTRAIT   ISIDOR STRAUS STUDIO PORTRAIT
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT STUDIO PORTRAIT   MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT STUDIO PORTRAIT
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Fond du Lac Daily Commonwealth MISS MINAHAN DIES; TITANIC SURVIVOR
Sister of the Late Dr. W. E. Minahan Succumbs in California An incident in the sinking of the liner "Titanic," one of the greatest marine disasters in history, is recalled today in the death of Miss Daisy Minahan, which occ...
3rd May 1919
R-100 IN CANADA.   R-100 IN CANADA.
A view of England's R-100, companion vessel to the ill-fated R-101, in Canada....
Gare Maritime
HINDENBURG   HINDENBURG
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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
HINDENBURG ALBUM 3. OBSERVATION WINDOWS.   HINDENBURG ALBUM 3. OBSERVATION WINDOWS.
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HINDENBURG   HINDENBURG
A 1936 snapshot of the Hindenburg at Friedrichshaven....
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HINDENBURG   HINDENBURG
The Hindenburg over Connecticut,1936....
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HINDENBURG LOUNGE   HINDENBURG LOUNGE
This stereoview shows the observation windows that proved to be the center of attraction on most voyages....
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TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Cork Examiner TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES
Sir William Arrol and two disasters...
8th February 1913
HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Under the hull, looking forward towards the motor gondolas. Original photo stereoscopic....
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Chicago Tribune ANN STRAUBE
Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s...
31st January 1990
New York Times LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR
Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
4th September 1929
HINDENBURG FOYER.   HINDENBURG FOYER.
Stereoview showing the Hindenburg's staircase and port-to-starboard corridor. This area managed to be functional yet, at the same time, fairly elegant. The bust of Hindenburg hangs to the right....
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  RADIOS FROM NOTABLE PASSENGERS
Charles Spedding
"The next day, which was Sunday, we passed the Titanic, receiving many friendly radios from our friends on board. Personally, I exchanged messages with Mr. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) and Mr. John Jacob Astor. Captain Barr received a wirele...
1926
HINDENBURG ALBUM 1. APPROACHING THE AIRSHIP.   HINDENBURG ALBUM 1. APPROACHING THE AIRSHIP.
In a scrapbook, purchased from an Ohio estate, were found six large format snapshots taken on a  westbound Hindenburg crossing in 1936. The first was this view, showing the approach to the ship....
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HINDENBURG ALBUM 2. DINING ROOM.   HINDENBURG ALBUM 2. DINING ROOM.
An inflight snapshot showing, presumably, the owners of the photo album from which this was taken, dining....
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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 KITCHEN.   HINDENBURG KITCHEN.
The Hindenburg's famed all-electric kitchen.  It is unfortunate that the author of Sky Cruise neglected to expand on his dismissal of the Hindenburg cuisine as being mundane. View 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 RADIO ROOM   HINDENBURG RADIO ROOM
A 1936 view of the Radio Room, from a stereoscopic photo....
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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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The Evening Post MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...
16th April 1912
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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The Times TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC
The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi...
2nd July 1958
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 SMOKING ROOM   HINDENBURG SMOKING ROOM
A corner of the Smoking Room, the most elaborately fireprotected public room aboard the ship....
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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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New York Times ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90
ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So...
20th September 1983
HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS   HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
A striking stereoview showing the Hindenburg's framework....
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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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  REMINISCENCES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS
Charles Spedding
There are a great many fallacies in connection with the loss of the Titanic, the chief one being that she was trying to break the record. As a matter of fact, she had not averaged twenty-one knots up to the time she struck, three knots le...
1926
HINDENBURG CABIN   HINDENBURG CABIN
1936 stereoview of a Hindenburg cabin. In this regard, the Hindenburg represented a distinct step backward. Gone were the Graf Zeppelin's cabins with their cheerful wall coverings, couch and window. In its place was a room that, for $400, replicated a Third Class cabin on a pre-War vessel....
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HINDENBURG LOUNGE   HINDENBURG LOUNGE
1936 stereoview of the Hindenburg's lounge. This room, although simple, reflected shoreside (or perhaps 'earthbound' is a better term in this context) taste in what constituted good design better than the almost comical garishness of the Normandie...
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New York Times CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise...
6th October 1946
THE SINKING TITANIC   THE SINKING TITANIC
By Marcellus O. Ruch Published 1912 by M. O. Ruch, Canton, Ohio, USA [Midi] ...
1912
Chicago Tribune MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN
 Mrs. Bertha Christensen   Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. ...
29th December 1976
  THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA
Charles Spedding
At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo...
1926
  THE TITANIC PAPERS
The story of the Titanic has been retold in virtually every medium for the past 100 years and continues to fascinate. But it was the newspapers that first fed the appetite of the public for information during those fateful April days in 1912. T...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle TITANIC SURVIVOR ETHEL BEANE DIED IN NURSING HOME
Page 1A-3A She, husband honeymooned aboard the ill-fated ship Ethel Bean, one of the remaining survivors of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic on April 15, 1912, died Saturday in Rochester. She had been living at a Roches...
17th September 1983
Unidentified Newspaper MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT
Bruce Chadwick
He Recalls Sinking 62 Years Ago --- The Easter season is never a completely happy time for Tom McCormack of Elizabeth, N.J. It always brings memories of his escape from the sinking Titanic, which went down in the freezing Atlantic 62 ye...
15th April 1974
Chicago Tribune DEATHS ELSEWHERE
Deaths Elsewhere __________ Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned t...
23rd December 1969
THE HIPPACH FAMILY   THE HIPPACH FAMILY
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS   CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS
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MR. AND MRS. W. T. STEAD   MR. AND MRS. W. T. STEAD
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
1912
  MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR
Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri...
Providence Journal R.I. WOMAN, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES AT 92
Page 26 Mrs. Lulu Thorne Opie, 92, of the Old Post Road at Dunn's Corners in Westerly, a survivor of the sinking of the British passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Tuesday at the Watch Hill Nursing Home. One of the other ...
4th June 1970
CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON   CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
1912
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
New York Times EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY
Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig...
6th May 1975
JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY   JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
MR. AND MRS. HARDER   MR. AND MRS. HARDER
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
Greensburg Tribune-Review SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SUCCUMBS
Sophie Halaut Abraham, 82, of South Greensburg, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, died Saturday, Dec. 11. She was born on Feb. 10, 1894, in Shwahed, Syria, the daughter of the late John and Marian Abraham Easu. She was a member of ...
13th December 1976
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
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER
Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...
19th April 1912
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT   MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
Elizabeth Daily Journal BELIEVES BROTHER LOST
Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S...
19th April 1912
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
TITANIC BOAT DECK   TITANIC BOAT DECK
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC   CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
May 1911
CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC   CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
May 1911
IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912   IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912
Memorial document published in Great Britain in April 1912...
1912
New York Times OPPOSE LONDON RADIO PROGRAM ON SINKING OF THE TITANIC
By The Associated Press --- LONDON, Feb. 24---Many protests have been made against the proposal of the British Broadcasting Corporation to present a radio representation of the sinking of the Titanic. "That borrible scene...
25th February 1932
New York Times WEIRD MISFORTUNES BLAMED ON MUMMY
Beautiful but Malignant Priestess Is Said to Resent Touching Her Coffin Lid --- IT IS IN BRITISH MUSEUM --- Officials Call Stories Myths, but Superstitious Even Blame Her for Sinking of Titanic --- Copyright,...
7th April 1923
The Times EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET
From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet...
25th July 1885
New York Times SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY
Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...
22nd April 1912
Hudson Observer LEAVES SINKING SHIP IN BOAT 13 AND STILL LIVES
Thomas Percy Oxenham Tells of His Escape from Titanic---------------CRASH SO GREAT HE IS THROWN FROM BERTHAnother of the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, who is slowlyrecovering from the harrowing experiences suf...
23rd April 1912
The New York Times OPPOSE LONDON RADIO PROGRAM ON SINKING OF THE TITANIC
By The Associated Press --- LONDON, Feb. 24---Many protests have been made against the proposal of the British Broadcasting Corporation to present a radio representation of the sinking of the Titanic. ...
25th February 1932
New York Times MARSHALL DREW
Marshall Drew, a survivor of the Titanic, died Friday at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, L. I. He was 82 years old and lived in Westerly, L. I. Mr. Drew, who was born in Greenport, taught fine arts at Grover Cleveland High S...
11th June 1986
Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times ACCOUNT OF THOMAS THRELFALL
Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said: "From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's...
4th May 1912
THOMAS WHITELEY, JOHN THOMPSON AND OTHER SURVIVORS IN NEW YORK   THOMAS WHITELEY, JOHN THOMPSON AND OTHER SURVIVORS IN NEW YORK
John William Thompson, Thomas Whiteley, William McIntyre, Emilio Pallas y Castillo are shown in New York after the sinking.  Whiteley was being treated at St. Vincent's Hospital...
April 1912
SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER   SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER
Had already experienced disaster in 1910...
26th May 1910
WILLIAM FARR PENNY   WILLIAM FARR PENNY
Tony Evans
My great uncle...
99TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC'S SINKING COMMEMORATED IN BELFAST Titanic Stories 99TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC'S SINKING COMMEMORATED IN BELFAST
15th April 2011 was the 99th anniversary of Titanic’s foundering after hitting an iceberg in mid Atlantic. In towns and cities throughout the world, the event is remembered in simple ceremonies. ...
16th May 2011
WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC   WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC
Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain...
1915
DIE WOCHE (GERMANY), APRIL 20 1912   DIE WOCHE (GERMANY), APRIL 20 1912
Titanic victims in a German weekly...
20th April 1912
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
The Times INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT
Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ...
29th January 1930
Philadelphia Inquirer LOIS THAYER OF ROSEMONT; ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Lois Thayer, 82, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family, died Saturday a the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She lived at 103 Airdale Rd., Rosemont, PA. The former Lois Buchanan Cassatt, she was a great-great-niece of Jame...
26th June 1977
Washington Post THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le...
9th January 1974
Washington Times SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD
Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...
22nd April 1912
New York Times MRS. HELEN C. CANDEE SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Page 25, column 2 YORK HARBOR, ME., Aug 23 Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, author and lecturer, of this place and Washington, D.C., died here today after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Candee, an authority on tapes...
24th August 1949
New York Times RECITES CLOSE CALL OF TITANIC RESCUE
Sir Arthur Rostron Tells How Radio Man Got S 0 S as He Prepared to Quit Post --- RECALLS 46 YEARS AT SEA --- Carpathia's Former Master, in New Autobiography, Describes "Most Memorable Night" of Career --- If ...
27th October 1931
Unidentified Newspaper FRANK GOLDSMITH, TITANIC SURVIVOR
A former Detroit resident who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912 is dead at 79. Frank John William Goldsmith died Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived since 1979 after retiring from business. The funeral will ...
1982
Chicago Daily News FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY
FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY      Willaim Haines, a publisher, father of Mrs. Marion Smith, who was reported rescued from the doomed vessel, was prostrated with grief when ...
17th April 1912
LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA   LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA
Lusitania Postcard...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP
Margaret Frawley
MRS. EDWARD BEANE, THEN BRIDE OF 17, SAW SHIP SINK AS SHE CRUISED NEARBY IN BOAT; HUSBAND SWAM AROUND TILL PICKED UP; NOW HAVE 2 CHILDREN It was a strange honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beane of 44 Michigan Street when on April 14, ...
15th April 1931
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
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
New York Times THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...
25th November 1899
  SINKING OF THE TITANIC
SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Gare Maritime SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES
Gavin Murphy
Story of the Empress of Ireland whose loss resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the Titanic disaster....
20th June 2001 Gare Maritime
OLYMPIC/TITANIC POSTCARD (PRE-SINKING)   OLYMPIC/TITANIC POSTCARD (PRE-SINKING)
New York Times SCREEN: SINKING OF THE TITANIC
Review...
17th December 1958
TITANIC HYMN, 1912   TITANIC HYMN, 1912
This is one of the many in memoriam cards published in Great Britain...
1912
JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN   JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN
Peter Gauthier
To all who are interested in John Cotter, Harbor Pilot for Queenstown My name is Peter Gauthier and I am the Great, Great Grandson of said John Cotter. Specifically, one of his daughters Maggie or Margaret, who my mother is named ...
New York Evening Journal MAYOR HAS TRIBUTE FOR ISIDOR STRAUS
HEROISM OF NOTED AMERICAN AND HIS WIFE PRAISED IN LETTER TO OSCAR STRAUS Praise for the heroism of Isidor Straus and Mrs. Straus was expressed yesterday by Mayor Gaynor in a letter to Oscar Straus of No. 5 West Seventy-sixth Street. ...
21st April 1912
Trenton Evening Times TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE
Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t...
16th April 1912
  WILLIAM EDWY RYERSON : EXTRA INFORMATION
William Edwy Ryerson was born on 7th dec 1878 in Portland Dover, the son of George Arthur Ryerson and Catherine Hamilton. William had a brother, George A Ryerson born in 1880. when Williams father died on 21 january 1881, his mother took him an...
New York Times SOUTHAMPTON EN FETE
Arrival of Adriatic Inaugurates the New White Star Service --- SOUTHAMPTON, May 30---The City of Southampton was in holiday attire to-day in honor of the arrival here of the White Star liner Adriatic, f...
31st May 1907
  FAMILY MEMORIES
Family memories...
New York Times R. NORRIS WILLIAMS 2D, TENNIS TITLIST, DEAD AT 77
Survivor of Titanic's Sinking Was on 7 Davis Cup Teams---Pennsylvania Historian --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, June 3---R. Norris Williams 2d, former national tennis champion and a survivor of the sin...
4th June 1968
New York American DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON
Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,...
22nd April 1935
Toronto Daily Star RESCUED BY THE SAME LIFEBOAT TITANIC SURVIVORS UNITED AGAIN
"A tragedy so great that it forever gives its survivors a common bond was the sinking of the Titanic. Sgt. John Collins was so impressed by his experiences of that famous occasion that he is trying to form a Titanic Association. He found three other ...
16th April 1939
TITANIC BELFAST: TITANIC IN MY BLOOD Titanic Stories TITANIC BELFAST: TITANIC IN MY BLOOD
Susie Millar, whose great grandfather Thomas Millar died upon the Titanic, shows us around Belfast – birthplace of Titanic. ...
The Daily Banner RESCUED FROM THE SINKING TITANIC WAS CHARLES BURGESS
Nephew of Mrs. Brining Of This City A Telegram Received Here from White Star Line The following telegram was received from New York shortly before noon today: ...
19th April 1912
A MATTER OF COURSE Titanic Research A MATTER OF COURSE
Randy Bryan Bigham
There was more to Great Britain’s fashionable Countess of Rothes than banquets and garden parties. She proved that the night Titanic went down. ...
22nd September 2006
SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE   SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE
Dear Madam,In reply to yours of the 26th- inst. we beg to say that we greatly regret being unable to give you any information in reference to Mr Silva and can only state that up to the present time there has been no indication that any of t...
29th May 1915 Gare Maritime
Democrat and Chronicle ROCHESTER WOMAN TELLS OF TITANIC SINKING IN 1912
Mrs. John Black Barely Reached Last Boat To Leave Ship, And Tiny Craft Was Nearly Drawn Into Great Vortex by Samuel B. Covey "No, I am not averse to another ocean voyage, although I have not been on one since, for I re...
15th April 1931
Chicago Daily Journal THE HERO'S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND
The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind   From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ...
19th April 1912
New York Times THE LOSS OF JAMES CLINCH SMITH
Amid the maelstrom of mourning in connection with the recent disaster, (which was indeed "Titanic,") the city press seems to have overlooked the loss of one of our most estimable citizens. I refer to Mr. James Clinch Smith, a bro...
24th April 1912
Chicago Sun-Times ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER
Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan...
2nd February 1990
MEETING OF TWO TITANS   MEETING OF TWO TITANS
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
1912
TOLL FOR THE BRAVE!   TOLL FOR THE BRAVE!
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
GUGGENHEIM---At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Technical Institute held since the sinking of the Titanic, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, We have learned with deep sorrow of the u...
8th May 1912
Guardian MOUNT CHARLES VICTIMS
It is now almost certain that Mr. W. H. Nancarrow and Mr. Alex. Robins have gone down with the ill-fated liner. Hopes were held that at least Mrs. Robins might have secured a place in the rescue boats, but now the Carpathia has reached the shore it i...
26th April 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times MR. AND MRS. HARVEY COLLYER
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Collyer and their little daughter. Mother and daughter saved; Mr. Collyer missing. Mr. Collyer's parents live in Leatherhead, Surrey. Leatherhead passengers One taken and two left. Among the passengers were Mr. ...
20th April 1912
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN   JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
Portrait of the great financier, industrialist and shipowner....
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
Town and Country AN ENGLISHMAN OF MUCH INTEREST
Mr. Tyrell William Cavendish, the only son of the late Charles Tyrell Cavendish, who is the fiance of Miss Julie Siegel, is an Englishman of interest.  Very quietly Mr. and Mrs. Henry Siegel made the announcement of the engagement of Mr. Sieg...
26th December 1906
New York Times MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE
birds...
22nd April 1912
The South Bend Tribune MRS FATIMA MOUSSELMANI
Michael D. Lacopo (transcriber)
TITANIC SURVIVOR WEDS Michigan City Woman Brings Word of Drowning of South Bend Men Michigan City, Ind., May 8 -- Mohammed Mustafa Ajamy and Miss Fatima Muselmanie, the latter a Titanic survivor and the woman who brought word of the...
8th May 1912
St. Ives Times & Express MR. CARBINES INTERRED
Through the courtesy of Mr. Carbines — brother of the late Mr. William Carbines, a passenger on the "Titanic" and who has only just arrived in St. Ives from America — we are able to give some information from a letter which Mr. William Cogar, loca...
10th May 1912
New York Times MARCONI CHEERED FOR WIRELESS FEATS
Modestly Gives Credit to Other Inventors and Speaks of Life Saving from Titanic --- FIRST LECTURE IN AMERICA --- Prof. Pupin Childes Speaker for Praising Other Inventors for Discoveries That Were Only by Marconi ...
18th April 1912
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette TITANIC OWNERS OFFER TO SETTLE FOR $664,000
New York, Dec 17 – The White Star line has agreed to pay $664,000 in settlement of all claims arising for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, when more than 1,5000 persons were drowned, the line announced here to-day. Of this amo...
18th December 1915
THE PRICE OF FAME : ROSE ELLEN MURRAY, THE LUSITANIA'S TITANIC SURVIVOR Gare Maritime THE PRICE OF FAME : ROSE ELLEN MURRAY, THE LUSITANIA'S TITANIC SURVIVOR
Jim Kalafus and Michael Poirier
Rose Ellen Murray, of Dublin and Philadelphia, became a minor celebrity after she survived the Lusitania disaster. However, her celebrity proved to be her undoing twenty years after the vessel was destroyed. Mrs. Murray'...
7th May 2010 Gare Maritime
MR. MANUEL URUCHURTU   MR. MANUEL URUCHURTU
Mr Uruchurtu months before the sinking of Titanic...
1911
Bournemouth Echo A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER
Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e...
1912
SINKING Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic SINKING
This drawing by G. Dutriac illustrated a novel by Jacquin and Fabre, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic', the first French book about the Titanic (1913)...
1913
The Times A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC.
MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number...
19th June 1914
Billboard Magazine HENRY B. HARRIS
Loses Life When Ill-Fated Titanic Sinks – Other Victims Of Disaster Connected With Amusement Field Include Albert A. Stewart, Emil Brandeis and Franz Addelmann – Dorothy Gibson Saved New York, April 20 (Special to Billb...
27th April 1912
Totnes Times & Devon News UGBOROUGH MAN'S GRAPHIC STORY OF THE GREAT OCEAN TRAGEDY
This item was almost word for word the same as that reported in the Western Morning News of 29 April 1912. However, in addition the article stated that his father was in the Metropolitan Police at Devonport. ...
4th May 1912
  TITANIC SIMULATION VIDEO
Santa Barbara News-Press MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP
Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa...
27th May 1956
Chicago American TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT
The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...
25th April 1912
WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST Titanic Research WHY THE TITANIC DID NOT LIST
Eqab S. Al-Otaibi
Eqab S Al-Otaibi NS 415 Titanic Supervised by Captain C. Weeks The list of any ship is due to either a negative initial stability (GM, metacentric height) or off center weight. So the list is due to internal force. Off center weight i...
30th April 2003
New York Times LADY PIRRIE MAY HEAD HARLAND & WOLFF, THE GREAT BRITISH SHIPBUILDING FIRM
Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 16---It is the general belief in shipping circles that Lady Pirrie will assume the post of President of the great shipbu...
17th July 1924
Denver Post PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK
'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat...
19th April 1912
Hudson Dispatch MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi...
4th October 1959
Huntington Herald Dispatch (West Virginia) SMITH FUNERAL PLANS DELAYED : PROMINENT HUNTINGTON WOMAN DEAD; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Mary Eloise Hughes Smith, 47, 1140 Fifth Avenue, who died unexpectedly in a Cincinnati, Ohio sanitarium yesterday at 5 A.M., were incomplete last night. Plans were withheld, members of the family said, pending word...
9th May 1940
Elizabeth Daily Journal SAD NEWS CAUSES COLLAPSE
Owing to the great anxiety and mental anguish under which Mrs. Margaret O'Brien, of 90 Monroe street, has been laboring for the past few days since the wreck of the Titanic and the probable drowning of her brother, Arthur Keefe, were reported, she co...
19th April 1912
GENEVA 1908 (BACK)   GENEVA 1908 (BACK)
Geneva. Sept. 3/08 "This is another beautiful city. A great deal of life here and lots of beautiful shops. hope youa re all well. We are awfully worn out and will be glad to get to Paris for a few days rest. Love to you all. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
Gare Maritime
Santa Barbara News-Press RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...
8th July 1990
Boston Daily Globe LATTIMER MOURNED
Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and...
20th April 1912
Greensburg Herald Tribune YOUNG GREENSBURG WOMAN WAS PASSENGER ON ILL-FATED SHIP
"Oh, I feel bad, ver' bad, los' money, los' friend. When I stand up I see ship come again, when I shut my eyes. I see people go down, down, down--Oh ver' bad time." And, with the remembrance of it, Mrs. Sophie Abraham, 20 years old, shuddered and bur...
22nd April 1912
FRANKFURT 1908 (BACK)   FRANKFURT 1908 (BACK)
Frankfurt, 1908. "Having the best time ever. on the go all the time. Crowds are great here. Will see Turners tonight. (?) would enjoy that- wouldn't you? Love to you & all. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
Gare Maritime
GRAF ZEPPELIN. ARRIVAL, 5.   GRAF ZEPPELIN. ARRIVAL, 5.
During their final seasons in commercial service, the great airships proved to be valuable propaganda tools....
Gare Maritime
PICTORIAL REVIEW COVER 1942   PICTORIAL REVIEW COVER 1942
Why did this happen?The great Normandie burning at her pier....
March 1942 Gare Maritime
Toronto Daily Star TITANTIC (SIC) STOOD ON END FOR MINUTES BEFORE SHE SUNK (SIC)
Newspaper article...
19th April 1912
  FLORENCE THORNEYCROFT MARRIAGE
Several months after the sinking Florence Kate Thorneycroft married Albert T. White in early 1913. She died in 1950 in Bromley, Kent ...
SPOOKY TITANIC DISASTER PREMONITIONS & PREDICTIONS Titanic Stories SPOOKY TITANIC DISASTER PREMONITIONS & PREDICTIONS
Was the Titanic’s fate predestined? Was there a warning that the Titanic was going to sink? View a collection of some of the unexplained glimpses into Titanic’s future sinking...
CHRONOLOGY – SINKING OF S.S. TITANIC Titanic Research CHRONOLOGY – SINKING OF S.S. TITANIC
David G. Brown
13th June 2009
Voyage BLUE JACKET
(Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days...
Borough of West Ham, East Ham, and Stratford Express THE TITANIC DISASTER
The only son of the Rev. R. Partner, who for many years was minister at Balaam-street Congregational Church, was also a passenger on the vessel. It is still uncertain whether or not he is saved, and Mr. ...
20th April 1912
New York Times COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS
Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the...
21st April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD
  NICE, France, Oct. 12 (AP)---Samuel Goldenberg of New York, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic, died here yesterday. He had lived in France for fourteen years. His age was 76. ...
13th October 1936
TITANIC 3D MODEL ANIMATION   TITANIC 3D MODEL ANIMATION
A 3d computer generated model of the Titanic takes to the high seas....
16th November 2011
Burlington Hawk Eye SWEDE SURVIVED LINER'S SINKING DURING SEARCH FOR HIS AMERICAN DREAM
There's another love story connected to the Titanic....
1st January 1998
New York Times CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS
blurb...
21st April 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR...
28th April 1912
Chicago Tribune FILM STORY OF TITANIC SINKING GETS THE GREEN LIGHT
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD by Hedda Hopper Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light Hollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brac...
22nd February 1952
Unidentified Newspaper MRS. ADA PERINE, 92, SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Ada Perine, 92, who 55 years ago survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner Titanic, died Sunday at the Maryland Masonic Home for the Aged in Cockeysville, where she had lived since 1953. Mrs. Perine, then Mrs. Ada Ball, was...
1967
  PROBATE REPORT
Probate Report...
1912
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