691 items found relating to : Sinking Of The Titanic And Great Sea Disasters
| OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'... |
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| WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD STUDIO PORTRAIT From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| THE THAYERS From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'... |
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| THE WIDENERS From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'... |
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| ISIDOR STRAUS STUDIO PORTRAIT From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| Sarasota Herald-Tribune | AN OCEAN-FLOOR VIEW OF TITANIC'S STAIRCASE Robert Williams first heard of the Titanic when his English grandmother gave him a copy of "The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters" for his 8th birthday.The book, printed in 1912, was the first narrative of the disaster, and it made an instant impact.... |
6th October 2008 | |||
| MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT STUDIO PORTRAIT From 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'... |
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| Wired.com | SEPT. 30, 1861: A NOVELIST WITH A NOSE FOR DISASTER 1861: American novelist and short-story writer Morgan Robertson is born. His 1898 novel, Futility, eerily foretells one of the 20th century’s great man-made disasters: the sinking of the Titanic The similarities between Futility and subsequent actual events are startling...... |
30th September 2009 | |||
| thespec.com | PLAN AFLOAT TO REMEMBER TITANIC STEWARD ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING William Edwy Ryerson has laid in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years, belying his involvement in the sinking of the Titanic, one of the world’s most infamous maritime disasters. Now, authorities of an Anglican Church outside London, England — where the former Hamiltonian was interred in 1949 in a pauper’s burial — are doing something about it.... |
5th December 2011 | |||
| The Times | TITANIC AND THE LUSITANIA DISASTERS REVEAL DIFFERENCE IN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS Almost 100 years after the Titanic and the Lusitania sank in the North Atlantic, the contrasting fates of their passengers have helped to explain how altruism can take over from the selfish instinct to save oneself. A scientific comparison of the two maritime disasters, which together claimed more than 2,700 lives just three years apart, has suggested that self-preservation can be trumped by social pressure to stand back while others are rescued, but only when people have sufficient time to think. ... |
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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 | |||
| TheDay.com | FOXWOODS COMMEMORATES TITANIC SINKING Foxwoods Resort Casino, which is hosting "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" through June 13, will commemorate the 98th anniversary of the famous liner's sinking at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Great Cedar Exhibition Hall.... |
15th April 2010 | |||
| R-100 IN CANADA. A view of England's R-100, companion vessel to the ill-fated R-101, in Canada.... |
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| 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. |
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| thisissurreytoday.co.uk | BOOK AIMS TO CLEAR GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF SINKING TITANIC THE great-granddaughter of the man who was at the helm of the Titanic when it sank has written a book she hopes will clear his name. Quartermaster Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who sank the "unsinkable" ship. He was at the wheel of the Titanic as she went to her doom and famously gave the "hard-a-starboard" command in a desperate attempt to steer away from the iceberg that would lead to the death of 1,500 people on April 15, 1912.... |
23rd September 2011 | |||
| CNN News | TITANIC 100TH CRUISES SPARK BUZZ DEBATE The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history.... |
28th September 2010 | |||
| HINDENBURG A 1936 snapshot of the Hindenburg at Friedrichshaven.... |
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| HINDENBURG The Hindenburg over Connecticut,1936.... |
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| HINDENBURG LOUNGE This stereoview shows the observation windows that proved to be the center of attraction on most voyages.... |
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| Scotsman | IN HIS OWN WORDS MAN WHO SURVIVED TITANIC AND SINKING OF HER SISTER SHIP LETTERS written by a seaman who survived the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship the Britannic four years later only to die in a German torpedo attack are expected to raise up to Ł20,000 at auction.Archie Jewell was on board the Titanic on the night of 14 April, 1912, and his writings describe the horror of watching the great ship sink and hearing the cries of passengers drowning in the icy seas.... |
23rd November 2008 | |||
| Cork Examiner | TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Sir William Arrol and two disasters... |
8th February 1913 | |||
| 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 | |||
| net | SINKING OF TITANIC HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR VILONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL CUSTODIAN Fourth-grade students at the Vilonia Primary School on Friday learned about Sophie Abraham Halaut, a Titanic survivor, from her great-great niece who works at the school. “We knew her as Aunt Sophie, the aunt who was on the Titanic,” Tricia Gill told the students, regarding Halaut, who died in 1976.... |
13th September 2011 | |||
| Southport Visiter | LOCAL MAN WAS TITANIC CAPTAIN The human cost of three sea disasters involving ships captained by men from Crosby, Blundellsands and Waterloo is on show in Liverpool.Titanic, Lusitania and the Forgotten Empress, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, looks at the trio of catastrophes that shook the world between 1912 and 1915.... |
14th September 2007 | |||
| 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. 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... |
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| 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. An inflight snapshot showing, presumably, the owners of the photo album from which this was taken, dining.... |
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| HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS A general view under the hull, looking aft. Photo originally steroscopic.... |
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| HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS Installing one of the motor gondolas. Photo originally stereoscopic.... |
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| 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 Crew gangway, the same as described in Sky Cruise. From a stereoscopic image.... |
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| HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The installation of the control car. Froma stereoscopic image.... |
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| HINDENBURG RADIO ROOM A 1936 view of the Radio Room, from a stereoscopic photo.... |
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| HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The control car. Photo originally steroscopic.... |
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| TITANIC TOWN - CROSBY, MERSEYSIDE'S LINKS TO THE TITANIC AND OTHER SHIPS Crosby, a small suburb of Liverpool, has had more than its fair share of interesting inhabitants over the years. With the recent attention paid to the film Titanic, I decided to revisit the homes of some of the main protagonists in the three greatest sea disasters of all time...... |
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| 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 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 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 A corner of the Smoking Room, the most elaborately fireprotected public room aboard the ship.... |
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| 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 A striking stereoview showing the Hindenburg's framework.... |
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| 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... |
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| CNN | TITANIC 100TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISES SPARK CONTROVERSY The frigid waters of the North Atlantic aren't among the most prominent cruise destinations but that may change as the world remembers one of the worst maritime disasters in history. At least two cruises are planned in the spring of 2012 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with both touting special activities lectures and memorials to commemorate the tragic voyage.... |
22nd September 2010 | |||
| guelphmercury.com | HAUNTED HALIFAX HALIFAX — With its long history of disasters and shipwrecks, there is an air of tragedy that hangs over Halifax, not unlike the dense fog that often rolls in from its harbour. Though the port city has long established itself as a down-home, good-time burg — a place to unwind to a toe-tapping Celtic tune and a dram of whisky — those thirsty for spirits of the paranormal kind won’t be disappointed.... |
19th August 2011 | |||
| 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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| Examiner.com | TITANIC THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION--REAL OBJECTS REAL STORIES TITANIC The Artifact Exhibition is now at Foxwoods Resort Casino complex in Western Connecticut. It offers the opportunity to experience some of the nearly century-old glamor associated the Titanic and to discover facts and legends surrounding one of deadliest peacetime disasters at sea.... |
19th June 2010 | |||
| 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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| mirror.co.uk | GOING OVERBOARD AS TITANIC FEVER BEGINS TO GO ON ... AND ON AND ON - MIRROR.CO.UK (BLOG) There is little doubt that we are all going to be engulfed with Titanic fever over the next few months, as the centenary of the liner's sinking approaches. Memorial cruises, films and exhibitions are all being prepared for the great event which will capture our attention before the arrival of distractions such as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics.... |
2nd January 2012 | |||
| 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 | |||
| GREAT LAKES TITANIC SOCIETY GLTS is an informal association of Titanic enthusiasts which got its start in the Great Lakes region. The website highlights the maritime connections of the region to the Titanic and other White Star Line ships. Great Lakes and North Atlantic maritime history are also explored.... |
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| 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 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | TITANIC SHOWPIECE TO RECREATE LINER'S TALE The temperature drops and the voices of survivors recorded 50 years ago recount harrowing tales of making it through one of the most infamous disasters of the last century. That is the desired effect of one of the galleries in the Titanic Belfast attraction which is set to open in time for the centenary of the Belfast-made liner. Giving a tour of the 93ft building, the same height as the ship, project manager Noel Molloy said that Titanic Belfast would recreate the Titanic story.... |
28th September 2011 | |||
| 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... |
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| Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | TITANIC: THE MUSICAL - NORFOLK AND NORWICH OPERATIC SOCIETY If you think the sinking of the Titanic is a strange subject for a musical, you're in good company.However, with such quality performing and all the human interest you want, it's a great show from the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society.... |
30th January 2008 | |||
| 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... |
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| 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 | |||
| belfasttelegraph.co.uk | LET'S HONOUR THE WORKING CLASS HEROES WHO BUILT THE GREAT TITANIC Why has this city been so tardy in marking its great link with the Titanic? Why are some here still griping about why we should even bother commemorating it now? The Titanic was a disaster, they say. Why bum about our role in building a ship that sank on its first outing? It's an argument that misses the point by a large iceberg. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindy-mcdowell/lets-honour-the-working-class-heroes-who-built-the-great-titanic-16006543.html#ixzz1OCWL6Mw0 ... |
2nd June 2011 | |||
| THE HIPPACH FAMILY From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| MR. AND MRS. W. T. STEAD From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 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 | |||
| The Tribune | WITNESS NIGHT OF THE TITANIC Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic a ship widely heralded as 'unsinkable' struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Over the course of the next few hours, a great tragedy unfolded as weather, ice, the sun and human error all contributed to the sinking of this unsinkable ship. In Night of the Titanic, now playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium, experience the Titanic's last day to discover what went wrong, and examine the changes in Arctic ice patterns that may help scientists prepare for the future.... |
7th April 2008 | |||
| New York Times | EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig... |
6th May 1975 | |||
| Baltimore Sun | TITANIC SANK 98 YEARS AGO TODAY On the anniversary of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, it's a good day to note Baltimore's literary connections to the disaster. The closest link is "A Night to Remember," Baltimorean Walter Lord's gripping account of the sinking.... |
16th April 2010 | |||
| JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| MR. AND MRS. HARDER From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| 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 | |||
| Liverpool Daily Post | LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY IT ALL started with an innocent game of billards in one of Liverpool's great merchant palaces.... |
29th April 2009 | |||
| 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 From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| The Sun | SINKING TITANIC SKETCH FOUND AFTER 97 YEARS A SKETCH of the sinking Titanic has come to light . . . 97 years on. A mystery passenger or crewman on the doomed ship made the pastel drawing.... |
9th April 2009 | |||
| 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 | |||
| digitalspy.com | 'TITANIC: BLOOD & STEEL' Q&A: IT'S NOT ABOUT A SINKING It's the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic next spring, so it's not surprising that several new shows about the tragedy are in production. One of the most interesting looks like Titanic: Blood and Steel, which has an all-star cast and focuses on the building of the vessel rather than that fateful iceberg.... |
30th September 2011 | |||
| TITANIC BOAT DECK From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| thisisstaffordshire.co.uk | 'TERRIBLE NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC' THAT is how The Staffordshire Sentinel reported the sinking of the Titanic in ...Stoke & Staffordshire. The story read: 'The terribly alarming news reached us this morning that the new White Star Line Titanic, which was proceeding upon her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, has been in collision with an iceberg, and was in a sinking condition. ...... |
26th May 2011 | |||
| CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
May 1911 | ||||
| CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
May 1911 | ||||
| IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912 Memorial document published in Great Britain in April 1912... |
1912 | ||||
| examiner.com | 'TITANIC' TO DROP ANCHOR IN TENNESSEE There have been maritime disasters that have taken more lives, and larger ships have sank since, but none have held the fascination like the RMS Titanic. Numerous books, movies, and even a musical have been written about her; there is a Titanic Historical Society, and googling Titanic results in 24,400,000 results.... |
8th July 2009 | |||
| dnaindia.com | MAN WHO BUILT TITANIC RAN AWAY AS IT SANK He said he had been helping with the rowing, but this seems unlikely: not only was he facing the wrong way, but he was in no state to do anything physical. When he left the sinking ship, Ismay stepped into a bottomless well. As I explain in How to Survive the Titanic: the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay, the president's hair apparently turned white overnight, and those on the rescue ship, the Carpathia, said that his body in the lifeboat was as stiff and lifeless as a marble statue.... |
5th August 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| USA Today | CRUISE TO MARK 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC SINKING NEARLY SOLD OUT A controversial cruise to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking is close to selling out -- 18 months in advance of sailing.... |
30th October 2010 | |||
| 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 | |||
| NorthJersey.com | TITANIC DIVER, HISTORIAN LECTURES AT LAMBERT CASTLE Titanic historian, Charles Haas, will deliver part 2 of his Titanic lecture program at Lambert Castle on March 3, at 7 pm. Previously, he fascinated the audience at Lambert Castle with his knowledge of the history of the great ship and the famous accident. On this occasion, Haas will focus on the continuing tale of this great ship, Titanic: The Latest Chapters.... |
27th February 2010 | |||
| irishemigrant.com | BELFAST TRIP A TITANIC-SIZED EYE-OPENER - THE NEW YORK IRISH EMGIRANT I’m standing in the middle of an ever-growing crowd of people, a sense of great excitement heightening all around me. All of a sudden we are thrown back in time, to May 31, 1911. I can actually feel what it must have been like for the folks whose lives played out here at this famous shipyard - Harland and Wolff, birthplace of the Titanic and, at the time, the largest shipbuilding company in the world. ... A certain sense of expectation continues as Belfast readies itself for its bow on the world stage come April 15, 2012, when it will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of that unforgettable human tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York. Never ready to forget the lives lost, the lives of those who built Titanic, and how it all played out in history, Belfast is hard at work readying itself for the event.... |
23rd August 2011 | |||
| The Republican | LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR, MILLVINA DEAN, WILL BE MISSED BY SPRINGFIELD-BASED TITANIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPRINGFIELD - Millvina Dean kept a low profile about her connection to one of the world's most well known disasters until she was urged into the media spotlight by the Indian Orchard-based Titanic Historical Society. And, the society returned her goodwill, contributing to her care before her death on Sunday in England.... |
3rd June 2009 | |||
| 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 | ||||
| NewDesignWorld | HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It began in April 1912. On April 25, 2009, the romance continues. Local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast are inviting all to experience being a part of making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit.... |
26th January 2009 | |||
| Montreal Gazette | HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg.... |
3rd August 2006 | |||
| SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER Had already experienced disaster in 1910... |
26th May 1910 | ||||
| NewDesignWorld | DAVID G. BROWN AUTHOR AND TV DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER TO JOIN HISTORIC TITANIC GREAT LAKES DINNER CRUISE It's 'full steam ahead' as local Marine City businesses, The Pearl's Water Street Boutique and Titanic Movie Museum, Ahead Turner Designs, and The Heather House Bed and Breakfast continue making history on this first ever Great Lakes Titanic Dinner Cruise to be held on the beautiful Detroit Princess in downtown Detroit April 25th, 2009.... |
2nd February 2009 | |||
| NPR | GAVIN BRYARS' 'SINKING OF THE TITANIC' IN CONCERT Originally written in 1969, Gavin Bryars' first major composition, The Sinking of the Titanic, still sounds just as vital, fresh, and forward-thinking now as it did then. In a concert from the Wordless Music Series, recorded by WNYC, the piece was performed live by the Wordless Music Orchestra on Jan. 16, 2008, at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City. Conductor Brad Lubman led the ensemble.... |
28th March 2008 | |||
| WILLIAM FARR PENNY Tony Evans My great uncle... |
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| 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 Returned Hartley's body in Great Britain... |
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| 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 | |||
| Branson Courier | TITANIC IRISH FESTIVAL ENHANCES AN ALREADY GREAT EXPERIENCE Almost 97 years ago, at 11:30 p.m. on April 14, 1912 the unsinkable RMS Titanic was breached by an iceberg. Less than three hours later she achieved a static permanent place in history as she sank to a watery grave in the frigid waters of the north Atlantic taking 1513 passengers and crew with her. Fortunately, although the great ship herself might be a static piece of history at the bottom of the Atlantic, the celebration and memory of her short life and the passengers and crew who sailed on her are anything but static at Branson's Titanic-Worlds Largest Museum Attraction.... |
9th March 2009 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Canada.com | LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ... |
8th May 2006 | |||
| 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 | |||
| icCoventry | HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC RICHARD ALLEN has relived the tale behind his grandfather's desperate escape from the sinking Titanic.Boiler-room worker Ernest Allen was one of 705 people to survive the stricken liner's sinking on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 perished.His grandson Richard, of Greendale Road, Whoberley, Coventry, said his grandfather plunged off the ship's deck to make a daring escape.Richard, aged 48, said: "He waded through the water in the engine rooms and got up to the deck but the lifeboats were full.... |
20th January 2006 | |||
| Newspaper | JOHN LAW HUME BIOGRAPHY;RMS TITANIC 'THE FIRST VIOLIN' BY YVONNE HUME Donna White I have just come across this article from the Sunday Mail in Scotland. This seems to be a fascinating book as it is written by a close relative, I can't wait to read the whole book. ... |
27th March 2011 | |||
| 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 ... |
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| 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 Lusitania Postcard... |
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| northernlife.ca | SCIENCE NORTH COMMEMORATES THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC It was majestic. It was technologically advanced. It was supreme luxury. It sank off the coast of Newfoundland nearly 100 years ago and 1,517 people perished. More importantly, 706 survived to tell their stories. Fascination with the Titanic continues to this day, and on April 14, 2012, Science North will commemorate the sinking of the Titanic with a gala evening befitting of the most famous ocean liner in history. This event will bring people back in history to that fateful evening in 1912, and will include a modernized version of the last dinner served to the first class guests on the Titanic. ... |
14th June 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
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| televisual.com | KING'S SPEECH INDIE BEDLAM TO MAKE TITANIC FEATURE Bedlam Productions, creator of the The King's Speech, has produced a new feature length drama documentary Titanic: Case Closed, which has been commissioned by Nat Geo International Channels and the Smithsonian Channel. The 90-minute film is due for broadcast in April 2012 to mark the centenary of the ship's sinking. Titanic: Case Closed will explore the real reasons behind the sinking and lack of rescue of the RMS Titanic by closing the case on the events of that night which saw over 1,500 lives lost in the North Atlantic Ocean. ... |
8th December 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
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| New York Times | SCREEN: SINKING OF THE TITANIC Review... |
17th December 1958 | |||
| TITANIC HYMN, 1912 This is one of the many in memoriam cards published in Great Britain... |
1912 | ||||
| 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 ... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 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. ... |
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| 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 | |||
| 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 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 | ||||
| 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 From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| TOLL FOR THE BRAVE! From 'Sinking of the Titanic'... |
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| 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 Portrait of the great financier, industrialist and shipowner.... |
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| 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 | |||
| Burnley Express | WALLACE HARTLEY AND THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC Welcome to all our readers to our very first column of 2011 and here we present an iconic image of what is the most famouse sea-faring vessel of all time.... |
11th January 2011 | |||
| New York Times | MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE birds... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC EXHIBITION SAILS INTO DUBLIN Almost 100 years after the Titanic sank beneath icy waters on an April night in 1912, the spirit of the great ship is coming to Ireland.... |
8th December 2009 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Bookseller | THE HISTORY PRES The History Press has signed its 10th new title on the sinking of the Titanic to be published in the run-up to the centenary of the disaster in 2012.... |
29th November 2010 | |||
| telegraph.co.uk | J BRUCE ISMAY: DOOMED THE MOMENT HE JUMPED SHIP The man who built the Titanic lived for ever in disgrace after fleeing th the sinking ship.... |
3rd August 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 Oregonian | MYSTERIOUSLY FAST SINKING OF BRITANNIC EXPLORED Why did Britannic plummet 400 feet to the floor of the Aegean Sea despite the many improvements made in her design and construction?... |
13th October 2007 | |||
| Pittsburgh Post Gazette | 'TITANIC' ON STAGE AT MUSIC HALL The great ship Titanic will sink once again, this time on a stage in Carnegie with a cast of 62 actors who range in age from 5 to 82.... |
5th November 2009 | |||
| 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 | |||
| ANNA TURJA LUNDI'S TITANIC EXPERIENCE One interesting piece of my family history is that my maternal grandmother was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.... |
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| 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 | |||
| liverpoolecho.co.uk | TITANIC PLANS NEED CAUTION It is being planned alongside a production at the Empire and new exhibitions at our museums as part of Liverpool's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. ... |
1st June 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| edp24.co.uk | NORFOLK FARMWORKER REVEALS GREAT TITANIC ESCAPE The young steward had been determined to join the crew of the Titanic, pictured right, in March 1912. “But,” his eldest son recalled, “he failed the medical inspection because he had a cold and a touch of flu. He was really cut-up about that.”... |
14th May 2011 | |||
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| 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 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC TENDER NOMADIC RECEIVES LOTTERY BOOST Plans to restore the SS Nomadic have moved a step closer to winning more than Ł2 million in lottery funding.... |
27th September 2010 | |||
| 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 | |||
| SheKnows.com | WILL 3D REMAKE SINK TITANIC TALE? James Cameron's Titanic is finally going 3D and the revamp will hit screens April 2012 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ship's actual sinking. ... |
9th July 2010 | |||
| mirror.co.uk | A TITANIC NIGHT TO REMEMBER In just a few days' time ceremonies will be held to mark the anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic's 99 years ago; an exhibition of artefacts recovered from the wreck is in its final month...... |
6th April 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| UTV | TITANIC TRAGEDY IS REMEMBERED A service has been held in Belfast to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. The world`s most famous maritime disaster happened when the vessel hit an iceberg in April 1912.... |
30th April 2007 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | ART ON THE HIGH SEAS SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic.... |
23rd February 2008 | |||
| 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."... |
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| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Cypress Times | LIFE AFTER THE TITANIC Weve all heard the eerie story of how the many passengers of the Titanic lost their lives on that icy night in April of 1912. One of historys most devastating and romanticized stories will never be forgotten but what about some of those who survived the sinking? What happened to them?... |
19th April 2011 | |||
| 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. "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."... |
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| GRAF ZEPPELIN. ARRIVAL, 5. During their final seasons in commercial service, the great airships proved to be valuable propaganda tools.... |
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| Belfast Telegraph | STORM OVER TITANIC DISTRESS SIGNAL The onboard designer of the doomed Titanic liner has been defended by his great nephew after a book claimed the distress signal was delayed.... |
16th April 2010 | |||
| Shoreham Herald | SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Maynard, he was an entrée cook on the ill-fated voyage, which ended with the liner sinking on April 15, 1912.... |
15th July 2009 | |||
| PICTORIAL REVIEW COVER 1942 Why did this happen?The great Normandie burning at her pier.... |
March 1942 | ||||
| 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 ... |
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| 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... |
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| Titanic Research | CHRONOLOGY – SINKING OF S.S. TITANIC David G. Brown |
13th June 2009 | |||
| St. John's Telegram | BERG WATCHERS The iceberg season has begun, at least for the International Ice Patrol. The U.S. Coast Guard's annual hunt for ocean-going bits of glaciers drifting through Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland started with the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago.... |
26th February 2008 | |||
| The Move Channel | THE TITANIC OF TENNESSEE The 100th anniversary of her sinking is approaching fast but the Titanic - the ill-fated cruise liner that collided with an iceberg and slipped to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912 - continues to exert a curious fascination...... |
3rd July 2010 | |||
| baysidebulletin.com.au | VILLAGERS REMEMBER TITANIC APRIL 15 was the 99th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic and residents at Victoria Point’s Adventist Retirement Village marked the event with a special day of commemoration for the ship and those who lost their lives in the tragedy.... |
27th May 2011 | |||
| 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... |
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| 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 | |||
| Balkan Travellers | TITANIC RESURFACES IN THE GUMOSHTNIK VILLAGE, BULGARIA Based on the number of victims, the passenger liner’s sinking was a tragic incident for the world, but for one village in Bulgaria, it was a true disaster.... |
22nd April 2010 | |||
| scotsman.com | BOOK REVIEWS: RMS TITANIC, THE FIRST VIOLIN This deeply moving book centres on the story of the author's great uncle, John Law Hume. Patiently, it pieces together the Titanic story, showing how its narrative tragically ...... |
22nd May 2011 | |||
| BBC News | TITANIC KEY IS SOLD FOR Ł90,000 A tiny key that might have helped prevent the Belfast-built Titanic sinking has fetched Ł90,000 at auction. The key, with the tag "Crows Nest Telephone Titanic" opened the binoculars store, but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton. ... |
23rd September 2007 | |||
| Las Vegas Weekly | TITANIC EXHIBIT AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CHILLING REMINDER OF HISTORICAL TRAGEDY There's a definite chill in the air when you step out on the deck re-creation of the new Titanic exhibit. One moment you are marveling at the stunning staterooms and grand lobby of the great ship, and the next you're so close to the icebergs, you can actually touch them.... |
2nd January 2009 | |||
| 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 | |||
| getsurrey.co.uk | LOTTERY GRANT AWARDED TO TITANIC MEMORIAL - GET SURREY A MEMORIAL built in tribute to Godalming's Titanic hero will be restored in time for the centenary commemoration of the ship's sinking next year. ... |
13th July 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Sun | SACK FOR THE TITANIC CREW A LETTER showing the crew of the Titanic were sacked when news of its sinking reached Britain has been valued at Ł1million. The document, never seen in public before, has been loaned to an exhibition on the 1912 disaster.... |
24th July 2008 | |||
| 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 | |||
| News & Star | SELL-OUT CROWD AWED BY TITANIC SINKING AT CARLISLE CASTLE There was no Leonardo DiCaprio or Kate Winslet but sparks still flew as fireworks and torrents of water helped dramatically recreate one of the worlds most famous events in Carlisle last night. ... |
27th July 2010 | |||
| 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 | |||
| scotsman.com | TITANIC HERO WHO PLAYED ON TO THE BITTER END THE great-niece of a young violinist who played on the Titanic as it sank has told his story for the first time. John "Jock" Hume, 21, from Dumfries, was the youngest member of the RMS Titanic orchestra, which famously continued to play as the ship went down.... |
24th May 2011 | |||
| NOAA | PROPOSED LEGISLATION GIVES NOAA THE LEAD ON PROTECTING RMS TITANIC ...the agreement and legislation will designate the RMS Titanic wreck site as an international maritime memorial to those who lost their lives in its tragic sinking and whose graves should be given appropriate respect.... |
26th July 2007 | |||
| Liverpool Echo | TITANIC'S SUPER HERO The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 continues to fascinate people and one man is remembered as the shining hero of the rescue operation Captain Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia.... |
28th January 2008 | |||
| Indianapolis Star | CRUISE TO TITANIC SITE FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SHIPS SINKING “A Voyage of Remembrance and Exploration” is how an April 2012 Titanic memorial cruise is being described by enthusiast Bill Willard, founder of willTiger Corporation.... |
21st April 2010 | |||
| Mirror.co.uk | TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISES GO DOWN WELL April 2012 will see the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and it's beginning to look like the spot where the doomed liner went down is going to be a little crowded with the announcement that a second cruise ship will make a memorial voyage to the site.... |
23rd September 2010 | |||
| bymnews.com | NEW PACKAGES FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE GO ON SALE With just over eight months to go until the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, more than 1309 passengers from all over the world are preparing to set sail on a replication of the fateful voyage. The original cruise leaving from Southampton is ...... |
2nd August 2011 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New Haven Register | EXHIBIT OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS The story of the Titanic isn't so much the story of a ship and an iceberg as it is the story of people. It's what those people did under great duress that we care about; it's the tragedy of what happened to most of them that stirs our emotions.... |
23rd February 2010 | |||
| Irish Independent | 'DISASTER CRUISES' TO MARK TITANIC'S CENTENARY THE 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster is set to trigger a tourism bonanza with 'disaster cruises' to the spot where the great ship sank.... |
12th August 2010 | |||
| stv.tv | 'HAUNTING' TITANIC POSTCARD UNDER THE HAMMER A "haunting" postcard commemorating the sinking of the Titanic, which was sent just weeks after the disaster, has gone under the hammer in Perth.... |
15th October 2009 | |||
| PROBATE REPORT Probate Report... |
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| burtonmail.co.uk | CARL WAS A GREAT ADVENTURER - NOT BAD FOR A PLUMBER FROM STAFFORDSHIRE Carl, 39, from Kings Bromley, was already an accomplished diver when he was asked by film director James Cameron to work on a diving expedition to the Titanic in 2003 — six years after the blockbuster film which earned the film-maker 11 Oscars.... |
18th January 2012 | |||
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