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  (1912) THE SINKING TITANIC
By Marcellus O. Ruch Published 1912 by M. O. Ruch, Canton, Ohio, USA [Midi] ...
  1912  
  THE HIPPACH FAMILY
Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
  WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD STUDIO PORTRAIT
Published in 1912 in 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - By Logan Marshall'....
   
  CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS
Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
  (1912) MR. AND MRS. W. T. STEAD
This picture was published in the 1912 book 'Sinking of the Titanic, the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - Official edition - By Thomas H. Russell', page 161...
  1912  
  (1912) CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON
This portrait of Carpathia's commander was published in the 1912 book 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'...
  1912  
  JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
The most famous studio portrait of Mr. Ismay, published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
  MR. AND MRS. HARDER
Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'. The Harders were a honeymoon couple saved from the Titanic. The woman weeping, with hand to her face, is Mrs Charles M. Hays....
   
Bloomington Pantagraph (2008) BLOOMINGTON FAMILY RECALLS SURVIVING TITANIC SINKING
'I will never forget the shrieks of those people in the water,' remembered Albert Caldwell, a Bloomington resident who survived the sinking of the Titanic. 'We supposed at the time that there were 40 or 50, never dreaming that over 1,500 would lose their lives that night.'...
14th April 2008  
  MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT
One of two famous studio portraits of Major Butt published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
The Sun (2009) 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  
  TITANIC BOAT DECK
Published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
   
  (1911) CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC
Famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
  May 1911  
  (1911) CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC
Another famous portrait of Captain Smith taken on the Olympic in 1911 and published in 1912 in 'Sinking of the Titanic: the World's Greatest Sea Disaster - official edition - By Thomas H. Russell'....
  May 1911  
  ISIDOR STRAUS STUDIO PORTRAIT
Photographic portrait of Isidor Straus published in 1912 in 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters', by Logan Marshall....
   
SYFy Portal (2007) CHRISTIAN GROUPS, TITANIC SURVIVOR TARGET 'DOCTOR WHO'
It looks like one religious group and the last surviving member of the sinking of the SS Titanic more than 80 years ago aren't too happy with the Christmas special of "Doctor Who."The special, which aired Tuesday on BBC, is said to not only feature David Tennant's The Doctor as a "messiah," but also as a way to make light of the sinking of the Titanic....
27th December 2007  
New York Times (1932) 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  
  (1912) OLYMPIC / HAWKE COLLISION
This picture of the hull of the Olympic rammed by the Hawke on 20 September 1911 was published in the 1912 book 'The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters'by Logan Marshall...
  1912  
  (1926) RADIOS FROM NOTABLE PASSENGERS
"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  
Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times (1912) 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  
  (1912) 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  
Scotsman (2008) 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 £20,000 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  
AP (2009) LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT AGE 97
LONDON (AP) -- The Titanic International Society says Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died.The society's president, Charles Haas, tells The Associated Press that Dean died Sunday at age 97. He said she ...
31st May 2009  
NPR (2008) 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  
  (1912) DIE WOCHE (GERMANY), APRIL 20 1912
The Berlin based weekly "Die Woche", 'moderne illustrierte Zeitschrift' published a whole page on the sinking of the Titanic on its issue # 16, on April 20 1912. Three illustrations: Stead, Astor and Capt. Smith. An ocean map gives details on the acc...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1983) 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  
  (1926) REMINISCENCES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS
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  
Canada.com (2006) 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  
icCoventry (2006) HOW MY GRANDAD SURVIVED THE TITANIC
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20th January 2006  
  (1926) THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA
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  
New York Herald (1912) 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  
  SINKING OF THE TITANIC
   
  OLYMPIC/TITANIC POSTCARD (PRE-SINKING)
   
  LINEN KEEPER ON THE LUSITANIA
My grandfather William Mitchell was a Linen Keeper on the Lusitania. He survived the sinking, only to died within a year, of pneumonia. My mother was born a few months later.He lived in Liverpool. This postcard was sent to his sister Alice, from, ...
   
  TITANIC SINKING THE BREAK-UP NEW THEORY
   
New York Times (1968) 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  
The Daily Banner (1912) 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  
  THE THAYERS
Published 1912, Logan Marshall...
   
  THE WIDENERS
Published in 1912 by Logan Marshall...
   
  (1912) MEETING OF TWO TITANS
Published in 1912 by Thomas H. Russell...
  1912  
  (1912) TOLL FOR THE BRAVE!
Published in 1912 by Thomas H. Russell...
  1912  
Chicago Tribune (1976) 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  
  SINKING ANIMATION
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  (1911) MR. MANUEL URUCHURTU
Mr Uruchurtu months before the sinking of Titanic...
  1911  
Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic (1913) 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  
  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....
   
The Oregonian (2007) 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  
Wessex Scene Online (2007) IS A BEACON NEEDED?
An installation that is apparently to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, it seems city chiefs have decided that 2007 is the right time to bring Southampton's heritage to light......
1st February 2007  
  TITANIC SIMULATION VIDEO
   
Denver Post (1912) 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  
Daily Mail (2007) THE KEY THAT MAY HAVE SAVED TITANIC FROM SINKING
This key may have been able to save the Titanic from disaster. It would have opened a locker where the crows nest's binoculars were kept. The key belonged to second officer David Blair who was taken off the luxury liner at the last moment. ...
27th August 2007  
Hudson Dispatch (1959) 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  
UTV (2007) 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  
Danbury News Times (2008) AN EVENING ABOARD THE TITANIC
Perhaps no disaster had been revisited as much as has the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.We are endlessly fascinated with the luxurious and doomed ocean liner that, for almost a century, has rested silently on the bottom the Atlantic....
27th March 2008  
Shoreham Herald (2009) 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 Mayn...
15th July 2009  
ET Research (2009) CHRONOLOGY – SINKING OF S.S. TITANIC
13th June 2009  
Liverpool Echo (2008) 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  
St. John's Telegram (2008) 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  
New York Times (1936) 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  
BBC News (2007) TITANIC KEY IS SOLD FOR £90,000
A tiny key that might have helped prevent the Belfast-built Titanic sinking has fetched £90,000 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  
Travel Video Television News (2007) POWERFUL EXHIBIT TO DEBUT
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will make its stop in Panama City, May 25 Sept. 3, at the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida. Hundreds of artifacts recovered from the wreck site will tell the story of the sinking of the ship of dreams....
21st February 2007  
Irish Independent (2009) TITANIC'S LAST PORT OF CALL HONOURS VICTIMS
THE 97TH anniversary of the sinking of the legendary liner Titanic will be commemorated at a special ceremony in the Irish town that was the doomed ship's last port of call....
11th April 2009  
Unidentified Newspaper (1967) 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  
  TITANIC 97 YEARS UNDER
Today marks the day of titanic's 97th anniversary of hitting the iceberg and sinking in the cold waters of the north Atlantic with a loss of 1517 lives. So I made this 7 min video to think about the lives that where lost on that horrific night. ...
   
The Sun (2008) 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 £1million. The document, never seen in public before, has been loaned to an exhibition on the 1912 disaster....
24th July 2008  
stv.tv (2009) '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. It was sent from Canada to Moray in Scotland on May 21, 1912 - around a month after...
15th October 2009  
NOAA (2007) 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  
BBC Berkshire (2009) REMEMBERING THE TITANIC
A Crowthorne man has written a poem dedicated to a member of his wife's family who survived the sinking of the Titanic. Percival Blake, known as 'Nunk' to Paddy Boyle, miraculously survived after being plucked from the freezing Atlantic....
4th June 2009  
Edmonton Sun (2006) HALIFAX HOSTS TITANIC'S 95TH
HALIFAX -- Maritime history buffs from Canada and Europe will gather in Halifax next year to mark the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic...
28th December 2006  
Cape May County Herald (2008) CG INTL. ICE PATROL REMEMBERS TITANIC
The haunting melody of "Amazing Grace" cuts through the solemn silence of Fairview Lawn Cemetery here as 18 U.S. Coast Guardsmen pay their respects to the victims of possibly the most tragic maritime disaster in history, the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
5th May 2008  
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (2008) 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  
BBC News 'NO ISSUE' WITH TITANIC PROJECT
The chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners has dismissed concerns that the Titanic Signature Project will not be finished by 2012 The opening of the visitor attraction is planned to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the liner's sinking....
   
Minneapolis Star Tribune (2009) TREASURES FROM TITANIC'S RESCUE SHIP TO VISIT
Artifacts from the ship that responded to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 will make their worldwide debut at the Science Museum of Minnesota in June, officials for the St. Paul museum announced Tuesday....
1st April 2009  
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1915) LUSITANIA ICEBERG
Editorial cartoon in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle following the sinking of the Lusitania by the U-20 on May 7, 1915. The comparison to the Titanic is obvious, but ghostly death in the shape of the berg now wears an Uhlan helmet....
11th May 1915  
this is hampshire,net (2007) RECREATING THE VOICES OF THE TITANIC
IT has already led to a Hollywood blockbuster, seen hundreds of valuable mementoes auctioned off and spawned a legion of enthusiasts worldwide.The sinking of the Titanic, when it hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, today continues to captivate generations....
13th February 2007  
Oak Bay News (2007) TITANIC EXHIBIT ADDS ARTIFACTS
B.C. man unearths items from relatives who survived ship's sinking A Bowen Island resident has a heart-stirring reminder of his family's ordeal aboard the Titanic a second-class passenger list with marks beside the names of survivors. ...
3rd August 2007  
Norwalk Plus Magazine (2008) TITANIC EXHIBIT AT FAIRFIELD MUSEUM
This past April 14 marked the 96th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. On that fateful night in 1912, hundreds of men, women and children lost their lives in the waters of the North Atlantic, and those who survived went on with lives that were forever altered....
23rd April 2008  
  MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT STUDIO PORTRAIT
This portrait is to be compared with another one by the same photographer, where major Butt wears no cap. Published in 1912 by Logan Marshall....
   
Belfast Newsletter (2008) TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES
A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking....
24th April 2008  
The Gazette (Montreal) (2008) TITANIC SETS SAIL
The sinking of the allegedly unsinkable Titanic has fascinated few more than it has Paul-Henry Nargeolet. He was among the very first to see the sunken ocean liner in its final resting place, 12,600 feet at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 645 kilometres southeast of Newfoundland. That was over 20 years ago....
17th November 2008  
  (1911) GENUINE TITANIC STATIONARY
This card (front) is a genuine Titanic item. There were stocks of it in Cherbourg, in order to supply the liner with it at each of her stops. After the sinking, the stocks were destroyed and a few pieces survived to this day....
  1911  
Reuters (2008) NEW FILM EXPLORES FATE OF NAZI GERMANY'S "TITANIC"
A new television film about the sinking of a Nazi ship carrying thousands of German refugees at the end of World War Two has lifted the lid on one of Germany's most painful memories....
3rd March 2008  
thisishampshire.net (2008) MILLVINA DEAN TO MISS TITANIC COMMEMORATIONS
Ill-health has forced Millvina Dean, the last living survivor of the infamous sinking of the liner Titanic to cancel a public appearance she was due to make on Friday....
10th April 2008  
Vancouver Sun (2009) TITANIC LETTER NETS $14,000 US AT AUCTION
A letter written aboard the Titanic by George Graham, a T. Eaton Co. Ltd., department store buyer from Winnipeg who died in the sinking, sold at auction in New York on Friday for $14,000 US....
19th January 2009  
National Post (2008) 5‚¢ TORONTO STREETCAR TICKETS FOUND IN TITANIC WRECK
A piece of Toronto transit history went on display today at the Ontario Science Centre, tying the city to one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century: the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic. ...
4th January 2008  
New York Post (2007) TIME AND TIDE: GAL OF 95 IS TITANIC'S SOLE SURVIVOR
After the Oscar-winning movie and dozens of PBS re-enactments, there remains but one survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. Elizabeth Dean, 95, of Southampton, England, was only 2 months old when on April 15, 1912, the supposedly unsinkable vessel went to the bottom of the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. ...
26th November 2007  
  (1912) MEMORIAL CARD, 1912
This memorial card with thick black lines around it was published just days after the sinking. Somebody wrote something at the back of it with a pencil but the text was erased and cannot be read now. This image inspired another memorial document whic...
  1912  
Anchorage Daily News (2008) BRUSH WITH TITANIC GRAVE SITES A MOST SOBERING EXPERIENCE
Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, attracts visitors from all over the world. They come for one reason. Fairview Lawn is home to 121 victims of the sinking of the Titanic. ...
2nd June 2008  
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1983) 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  
NOW (2007) APRIL 14, 1912 BRINGS A PHYSICAL KICK TO THE TITANIC TRAGEDY
Theatre Rusticle's latest show, April 14, 1912, may commemorate the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, but don't expect any of its characters to shout that they're the king of the world....
20th September 2007  
Times Ledger (2007) THE TITANIC: A STORY WORTH TELLING, AND SELLING
3 years after her death, Cribb's gripping, nine-page handwritten account of the sinking of the Titanic and its immediate aftermath was to be auctioned at Christie's in New York, one 18 lots of Titanic memorabilia offered along with more than 200 other lots of ocean liner collectibles....
28th June 2007  
Guernsey Evening Press (1912) MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN
A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...
2nd May 1912  
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Eliina Honkanen, 27, was born in Finland. She lived in Saatrjkvi, Finland and had a family in Helsingforfs. She boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destination was 16 West Street, Q...
  1912  
  WALTER DONALD DOUGLAS
Miss Berthe Leroy, maid to Mahala Douglas, was offered this picture of her employer, who died in the sinking of the Titanic. She kept it with her until she passed away in 1972. She also treasured a book of poems by Mrs Douglas. One of the poems was a...
   
The Register-Mail Online (2007) TITANIC MUSEUM ADDS NEW FEATURES
Largest Titanic Museum Attraction has added several new features and expansions totaling more than $1 million, along with a worldwide amateur ham radio broadcast to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic....
13th April 2007  
New York Times (1949) HENRY BLANK
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWARK, N. J., March 17---Henry Blank, chairman of the board of Henry Blank & Co., manufacturing jewelers here, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen Ridge, N. J., after a brief illness, at...
18th March 1949  
South Devon Herald Express (2008) STEWARD'S LUCKY TITANIC ESCAPE
AMAZING events surrounding the tragic sinking of the Titanic have been brought vividly to life through the experiences of two South Devon men. Torquay Museum is hosting an extensive exhibition about the world's most-famous ship, which struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people....
21st July 2008  
CanWest News Service (2007) U.S. BEATS CANADA TO TITANIC LEGISLATION
While Canada dithers, the United States has taken a key step toward ensuring the wreck of the Titanic -- watery grave for hundreds of victims of the famous 1912 sinking off the coast of Newfoundland -- will officially become an international maritime memorial site protected from relic hunters....
8th August 2007  
Gaston Gazette (2009) TITANTIC EXHIBIT TAKES VISITORS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
The newest exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium - "Titanic Aquatic" - features a display of nearly 200 artifacts recovered from the ship. In 28-degree water, as deep as 12,500 feet off the coast of Newfoundland, the wreckage of the Titanic was found in 1985 after sinking in April 1912....
31st January 2009  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY
The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank....
22nd April 2009  
LocalNews8.com (2009) ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC'S SINKING CELEBRATED
IDAHO FALLS- Ninety-seven years ago Wednesday, the grand Titanic sank after colliding into an iceberg.More than 1,500 hundred lives were taken that day. The Titanic exhibit at the Museum of Idaho commemorates the lives lost and the lives saved....
16th April 2009  
thisishampshire.net (2007) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death....
7th November 2007  
Norwich Evening News (2008) NORFOLK COUPLE'S LOVE FOR TITANIC
It is a tragedy that has captured imaginations for almost a hundred years, and for one Norfolk couple the sinking of the Titanic has become a fascination.Robin and Sue Burrows, from Little Plumstead, are avid collectors of memorabilia and items connected to the vessel which at 882ft long and more than 46tonnes was the world's largest passenger steamship....
4th July 2008  
Liverpool City Council (2008) TITANIC LUNCHEON
THE final meal on the Titanic is to be recreated at a special event hosted by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool on Monday (14 July).Representatives from cities connected with the Titanic's tragic maiden voyage are gathering to discuss how one of the worst maritime disasters ever should be commemorated in the run up to the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship in 2012....
11th July 2008  
The Day (2008) INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL REMEMBERS TITANIC VICTIMS
The U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol recently paid its respects to the victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
15th May 2008  
Seacoastonline (2007) THE TITANIC MUSEUM: A MORNING REMEMBERED
Briny icy air bit the pale cheeks of the 9-year-old boy as he looked up into the clear black sky studded with brilliant stars. It was after 2 a.m. in the early morning of April 15, 1912. Shivering in the crowded lifeboat bobbing on the brutal waves of the Atlantic, he huddled against his fear filled mother who shielded him from the sight of the sinking ship....
30th April 2007  
Yeovil Express (2007) TITANIC REMEMBERED: 95TH ANNIVERSARY
THIS month commemorates the 95th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Overnight April 14-15, 1912, the luxurious passenger liner sank en-route to New York from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Some 1,496 people were lost at sea, while only 712 passengers and crew members survived. One of those who did survive came from Yeovil....
25th July 2007  
Wired.com (2009) 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  
Event Magazine (2008) £11M TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN BELFAST
Belfast is to host an £11m Titanic-themed visitor attraction, to open for the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the famous vessel.Event Communications is creating the exhibition, after winning a competitive pitch tendered by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board....
12th December 2008  
BBC News TITANIC MUSEUM DESIGNS UNVEILED
Designs showing how Southampton's new museum, marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, will look have been unveiled....
   
Sunderland Echo (2007) WEATHERMAN SEARCHES FOR CLUES TO TITANIC SINKING
Titanic investigators have enlisted a Wearside expert to help reveal the weather conditions during the doomed liner's final voyage. Sunderland University climatologist Dennis Wheeler has made a name examining ships' logs dating back to the seventeenth century to understand weather patterns....
30th July 2007  
KTNV Las Vegas (2009) THE SPIRIT SOME SAY LURKS AT THE TITANIC EXHIBIT AT THE LUXOR
Wednesday marked the 97th anniversary of the Titanic sinking to the bottom of the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 people died in the frigid waters that night, but about 700 survived. At the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor one of those survivors still lurks in the shadows....
16th April 2009  
Deutsche Welle (2008) TV FILM ON NAZI GERMANY'S "TITANIC" DRAWS MILLIONS OF VIEWERS
Millions of Germans tuned in to a television film about the 1945 sinking of a Nazi ship full of refugees in the Baltic, which cost 9,000 lives and surpassed the Titanic as the worst maritime disaster in modern times....
4th March 2008  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) BAYSIDE'S LOSS IN DEATH OF HENRY B. HARRIS
BAYSIDE, L. I., April 17---All Bayside is saddened by the belief that Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, perished with the sinking of the Titanic. Mr. Harris had a charming home in Broadway, Bayside, and was a regular summer resident of the vil...
17th April 1912  
Yorkshire Post (2006) TITANIC THEORY IS TESTED WITH YORKSHIRE HELP
Wrought iron specialist makes duplicates of suspect rivets used in doomed ship's construction for TV programme Chris Benfield FOR nearly 100 years, the blame for the sinking of the Titanic has been split between the iceberg and the man who sailed into it. But tomorrow night, a television documentary made with the help of a Yorkshire blacksmith will argue that faulty workmanship was another factor....
18th September 2006  
Newark Evening News (1912) SERVICES FOR TITANIC VICTIMS
ELIZABETH, April 29---Services for Peter Renouf, Lawrence Garvey and Clfford and Ernest Jeffries, who lost their lives on the Titanic, were held last night in Grace Episcopal Church. Mrs. Renouf, who was rescued from the sinking sh...
29th April 1912  
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse (1956) DAVID SARNOFF AT WORK
This picture of wireless operator David Sarnoff was published in 1956 by 'L'Illustré", a weekly magazine from Switzerland. Sarnoff was among the first to receive Titanic's distress call and for 72 hours stood at his post at the top of Wanamaker in Ne...
27th September 1956  
Drogheda Independent (2008) LOCAL FAMILY UNCOVER A PIECE OF HISTORY WITH TITANIC PAPER
A local family has uncovered a piece of history after finding a newspaper chronicling the aftermath of the titanic sinking and a will for a man with the same name as their father....
7th August 2008  
Southern Daily Echo (2009) SOUTHAMPTON TO STAGE EVENTS MARKING 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC TRAGEDY
A MONTH-LONG series of commemorative events will be staged in Southampton to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Fascination with the ship, her passengers and crew still continues unabated....
18th March 2009  
Mail on Sunday (2008) FAMILY OF 'COWARD' WHO STEERED THE TITANIC INTO AN ICEBERG REVEAL HIS 'LIFE-LONG GUILT AND SHAME'
The sinking of the Titanic left a legacy of grief and heartbreak for hundreds of the survivors. But the suffering was not confined to those who lost loved ones in the icy seas of the North Atlantic. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was at the wheel of the liner on April 15, 1912, when she struck the iceberg that destroyed her. ...
18th August 2008  
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2007) TITANIC EXHIBIT WILL DOCK IN MILWAUKEE
Would you survive the sinking of the Titanic? Visitors to the Milwaukee Public Museum will get to find out if they sink or survive when a major traveling exhibit, "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit" comes here Oct. 9, 2008....
24th September 2007  
Chicago Daily News (1912) GIRL TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HERE
Miss Annie Kelley Last Woman to Leave Sinking Ship, She Says Miss Annie Kelley, 17 years old, a sister of Miss Beatrice Kelley, 303 Eugenie street, arrived in Chicago last night and told of her escape from the sinking Tit...
23rd April 1912  
BBC Scotland (2007) STUDENT TITANIC MODEL MAKES WAVES
An Aberdeen student who spent three years building a replica of the Titanic is having his work honoured by the liner's own home city. Stuart Robb's 6ft long model is to be put on display in Belfast City Hall In April for an exhibition marking the 95th anniversary of the sinking. ...
6th February 2007  
Oklahoma City Friday (2008) TITANIC AT HERITAGE HALL
Lift up the ramp, and let go the lines!' It's time once again for another spectacular performance by the Heritage Hall Performing Arts Department. On Feb. 16 and 17, the Howard Theatre will showcase Titanic the Musical. Directed by Jay Michael Ferguson, Titanic is an ensemble version of the same story shown on the big screen in 1997 (think the sinking ship without Jack and Rose.)...
7th February 2008  
Southern Daily Echo (2006) COURT MAY STAGE TITANIC EXHIBITION
SOUTHAMPTON'S former magistrates' court could be used to stage a Titanic exhibition to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the liner's sinking next year, the Daily Echo can reveal.The idea emerged during a full council debate on the future of leisure and heritage services, held at the Civic Centre last night....
17th November 2006  
Schenectady Gazette (2008) BACK IN TIME: CHURCHGOERS PRAYED IN 1912 FOR VICTIMS OF TITANIC SINKING
The men and women at Schenectady's Union Presbyterian Church sang 'Nearer My God to Thee' on Sunday, April 21, 1912.The hymn's verses, always solemn, seemed sadder this day: 'Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone. Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God to Thee . . .'...
22nd April 2008  
North Wales Pioneer (2008) RNLI HOSTS A TITANIC NIGHT OUT
A SPECTACULAR Titanic themed event will be held to raise money for the RNLI. The night will be hosted at St George's hotel on Friday, April 18, during the week of the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The famous ship set sail from Belfast on April 2, 1912 and sank 13 days later....
2nd April 2008  
International Herald Tribune (2007) ONE OF LAST TITANIC SURVIVORS DIES IN ENGLAND AT AGE 96
Barbara West Dainton, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died at age 96.She died Oct. 16 at a nursing home in Camborne, England, according to Peter Visick, a distant relative. The funeral was held Monday at Truro Cathedral, Visick said Thursday....
8th November 2007  
Telegraph.co.uk (2009) TITANIC CRUISE TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF SHIP'S FATEFUL VOYAGE
The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is to be marked with a cruise that will follow the ship's original route.Bookings for the historic cruise opened today - exactly 97 years after the Titanic was lost - with the departure date set for early April, 2012....
16th April 2009  
Metro (2006) TITANIC FASCINATION GETS SOME STICK
Friday, June 2, 2006 It may be called Titanic, but Mark Colling never had a sinking feeling about his 7m model of the ship after building it out of more than 5million matchsticks. The father-of-four has just smashed the world ...
2nd June 2006  
New York Times (1964) SPENCER V. SILVERTHONE DIES; MERCHANT, 88, WAS ON TITANIC
Special to The New York Times --- SCARSDALE, N. Y., May 17---Spencer V. Silverthorne, a survivor of the Titanic sinking, died today at his home, 7 Colvin Road. He was 88 years old. Mr. Silverthorne had been a vice presid...
18th May 1964  
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (2008) EXPERT ON THE TITANIC WILL SPEAK AT LIBRARY
Kenneyth Chamberlin, a member of the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk about the 1912 sinking of the luxury ocean linear."The Titanic: A Night to Remember" will be at 1 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Manatee County Central Library, 1301 Barcarrota Blvd. W., Bradenton. Admission is free. The Friends of the Central Library are sponsoring the program....
6th October 2008  
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Erna Alexandra Andersson, 17, the daughter of Mr Anders Israelsson, was born in Finland. She lived in Kulla gard, Lovisa, Finland. Erna boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destinatio...
  1912  
CCTV (2007) BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG
elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ...
28th June 2007  
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press (2008) 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  
Unidentified Newspaper (1996) OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE
Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ...
10th April 1996  
New York Times (1931) 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  
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (2008) THE RMS TITANIC
Grab your boarding pass, it's time to embark on an exhilarating voyage aboard history's most notorious ocean liner.By now, the tragic events surrounding the Titanic's maiden voyage and catastrophic sinking, which left 1,523 people dead, are well-known.Countless books, expeditions and motion pictures have meticulosity analyzed, theorized and re-created every aspect of the "unsinkable" passenger liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912....
6th October 2008  
The Times (1958) 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  
  SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC RECALL THEIR EXPERIENCES
Survivors of the Titanic recall their experiences of the sinking, accompanied by original photos of the Titanic....
   
The Post Standard (1961) TITANIC SURVIVOR FINALLY AWARDED $280
Roberta Bolling, 68, who survived the sinking of the Titanic nearly 50 years ago, finally got a check Friday in compensation for losses and sufferings she encountered that night. The check, from trustees administering the compensation fund, was fo...
27th May 1961  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) LONE SURVIVOR IS PENNILESS
Mrs. Peter Reniff is Left Destitute ---------- SAW NO LIGHTS OF OTHER SHIPS AS TITANIC SUNK Made penniless by the recent Titanic disaster in which she lost her husband, two brothers, cousin and two friends, Mrs. Peter Ren...
26th April 1912  
Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2008) TITANIC ON THE OHIO: EXTENSIVE 'ARTIFACT EXHIBITION' SURFACES AT THE SCIENCE CENTER
"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" takes visitors on a vivid journey through one of history's most tragic chapters -- the sinking of RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912.The traveling exhibition opens Saturday at Carnegie Science Center's SportsWorks....
22nd May 2008  
Globe and Mail (2009) LETTER WRITTEN BY CANADIAN ABOARD TITANIC EXPECTED TO FETCH $10,000
For those who follow the lore of Eaton's department store, one tragedy stands out among others: the loss, in 1915, of the founder's granddaughter Iris Burnside in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. But three years before that, another member of the extended Eaton family, employee George Graham, had perished in an even more famous disaster, as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic during his return from a buying trip in Europe....
12th January 2009  
Nord-Matin (1966) BERTHE LEROY IN 1966
Berthe Leroy is showing the reporters of Nord-Matin the lifeboat in which she escaped from the sinking Titanic. This picture was taken in 1966 (February?) by Mr Jean Hemery, Nord-Matin photographer...
  1966  
Yorkshire Post (2009) TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH £300,000
20 April 2009 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about ?300,000 at auction.Millvina De...
25th April 2009  
PR Web (2008) TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ASIAN ADVENTURE AT ANGKOR WAT RESURFACES
April 15th marks the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, but surviving that disaster was a mere footnote in the unusual life of writer Helen Churchill Candee. Her book, "Angkor the Magnificent," recounts her Cambodian adventure of the 1920's, supplemented by more than 100 antique photos and an original biography by historian Randy Bryan Bigham....
10th April 2008  
  PURSUIT OF GRACE: ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND
A new historical fiction novel about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. This historically accurate account is written by a Salvation Army Staff Band member, the same band whose predecessors were aboard the Empress the night the ship sank....
   
New York Times (1912) F. J. MCCARTY
Michael McCarty, father of Frederick J. McCarty, was also a steward.  He arrived in New York on the Allan Line steamer Victoria on April 23, 1912, seeking information about his son.  Michael's ship passed through the same ice field that ...
23rd April 1912  
  TITANIC 1912 ARCHIVE FOOTAGE
Original archive film of the Titanic....
   
Hudson Observer (1912) HOBOKEN MAN MAY BE AMONG THOSE DROWNED
Among the passengers who may have lost their lives in the sinking of thesteamer Titanic is Len Moore, aged 20, of 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken,who was a second class passenger from Southampton.Mr. Moore, who made his home w...
16th April 1912  
Halifax News Net HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT TITANIC SINKING, OAK ISLAND LEGENDS
Author and historian Dave Drummond will give lectures on Oak Island and the Titanic at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in August. Drummond, author of The Shipyard: Will It Float?, is a retired shipbuilder, born into a shipbuilding family that spanned three generations. His anecdotal writings, narrations, and discussions are factual, often surprising, and sprinkled with humour....
   
Guardian Unlimited (2007) REUTERS GETS THAT SINKING FEELING
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week....
11th August 2007  
Liverpool Daily Post (2008) SALE OF RARE ACCOUNT OF TITANIC SINKING
A RARE account of the night the Titanic sank is being sold alongside the hero's medal given to the seaman who wrote it.The Carpathia bronze medal presented to Liverpool able-seaman George Gardner is being auctioned today with his handwritten account of that fateful night in 1912....
8th July 2008  
Bridgwater Mercury (1912) T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN
T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ...
  April 1912  
BBC News (2008) GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY
Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ...
15th April 2008  
Unidentified Newspaper (1974) MEMORIES OF A TITANIC NIGHT
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  
  (1912) CONCERT BY THE APOLLO CLUB, BROOKLYN IN AID OF MUSICIANS' FAMILIES
This is a booklet presenting the concert given by the Apollo Club, in Brooklyn, on 9 May 1912, "in aid of the families of the musicians who perished by the sinking of the Titanic". This document was presented to us by the family of Roger Bricoux, cel...
9th May 1912  
GlobalAtlanta.com (2008) ATLANTA COMPANY BRINGS TITANIC MYSTIQUE TO GEORGIA AQUARIUM
Atlantans might be familiar with the story of RMS Titanic, the 'unsinkable ship' that met its end on its maiden voyage, but a new exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium is drawing more than 1,000 visitors a day to get a better picture of life on the famous ocean liner.Sites all over the world pay homage to the victims of the Titanic's tragic sinking, but a partnership between two Atlanta entities made the exhibit's worldwide debut at the aquarium possible....
15th September 2008  
Sphere (1913) TITANIC ORPHANS ON WATER 1913
Children from the Seamen's Orphanage at Southampton, including the offspring of many crew drowned on the Titanic, on holiday at Ryde, Isle of Wight. A little over a year before, their fathers looked out from the sinking Titanic at what...
30th August 1913  
  (1912) TITANIC'S CURSED MUMMY
This is the only known picture ever published by the French press of the supposedly cursed mummy that some still think caused the sinking of the Titanic. The name of the evil priestess of god Amen-Ra was Tcheser-Ka-Ra and as early as January 1912, th...
14th January 1912  
  (1912) FIELD ICE PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 15, 1912,
Ice seen in the general vicinity of the Titanic sinking. Photographed by Dr Marloth, ship's surgeon aboard the NDL Frankfurt....
15th April 1912  
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mr Abraham August Johannes Abrahamsson, 20, was born in Finland. He lived in Dalsbruk, Finland. August, as he was called, was single. He borded as a third class passenger at Southampton with his friends - Eino Lindqvist, Helga Hirvone...
  1912  
  (1912) 1ST CLASS MENU SAVED BY MISS ELISE LURETTE
Miss Elise Lurette, a French passenger who was Mrs Spencer's travelling companion (more than 'maid'), used to lose her way on the Titanic. She did not speak English and she had crossed her cabin on a plan she showed to other passengers when she did n...
12th April 1912  
Daily News (2008) TREMONT CHEF SERVES UP TITANIC-THEMED DINNER
A dinner of historic proportion adds a special note to next week's Galveston Uncorked! food and wine celebration. Tremont House executive chef Kelly Wilson researched the menus from the ill-fated maiden sailing of the Titanic to create a Titanic-themed meal that won't leave diners with a sinking feeling....
8th May 2008  
Minneapolis Star-Tribune (2009) MINNEAPOLIS FOURTH-GRADERS GET LESSONS FROM THE DEEP
On the eve of the 97th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, some artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck found their way to a Minneapolis classroom on Monday.Fourth-graders at Hale Community School in south Minneapolis have been studying the famous disaster, and with the help of an expert who'll be bringing a Titanic exhibit to the Twin Cities this spring, they learned some new lessons about the more than 1,500 people who died and the more than 700 who survived....
14th April 2009  
Minneapolis Star Tribune (2009) MINNEAPOLIS FOURTH GRADERS GET LESSONS FROM THE DEEP
On the eve of the 97th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, some artifacts from the 1912 shipwreck found their way to a Minneapolis classroom on Monday. Fourth-graders at Hale Community School in south Minneapolis have been studying the famous disaster, and with the help of an expert who'll be bringing a Titanic exhibit to the Twin Cities this spring, they learned some new lessons about the more than 1,500 people who died and the more than 700 who survived....
17th April 2009  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) EXCLUSIVE: TITANIC SURVIVOR MILLVINA DEAN
Exclusive footage of the final video interview with Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. Belfast artist, the Rev Keith Drury, recorded this brief interview with Millvina when he visited her in Southampton just a few weeks ago as part of a project to help raise funds towards her nursing care. Sadly, Millvina died soon afterwards....
19th June 2009  
  HUGH FITZPATRICK'S CHILDREN
Hugh Fitzpatrick had two children, Rose and Rev. Dan Fitzpatrick, S. J. Rose was born on 10th October, 1912 6 months after the sinking. Rose married Joe Fitzpatrick and family (Joe, Dan, Margaret, Maura, Paul, Brian, Denis, and Eugene)...
   
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...
22nd January 1997  
Irish Independent (2007) COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY
AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912....
15th August 2007  
The Tribune (2008) 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  
Seattle Post Intelligencer (2008) TROUBLING NEW EVIDENCE LEADS LOCAL AUTHOR TO REWRITE TITANIC'S FINAL CHAPTER
Somebody had better call James Cameron and tell him his movie needs to be revised. The big finish in "Titanic" -- in which characters Rose and Jack cling to the stern of the ship before it slips into the sea -- is wrong.The 1997 film depicted the prevailing theory at the time to explain Titanic's sinking. After striking an iceberg, the ship sank bow-first, the stern bobbing up at a 45-degree angle and the ship breaking in half under the pressure....
10th October 2008  
New York Times (1913) BELGIANS PLAN TITANIC SUITS
Pierre Mali, the Belgian Consul in this city, applied yesterday to Surrogate Cohalan for letters of administration on the estates of several victims of the sinking of the steamship Titanic for the purpose of bringing suits on behalf of their survivin...
8th August 1913  
Syren & Shipping (1937) 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING
Castings for Liner 522 (The Queen Elizabeth) Workers at Messrs William Beardmore & Co., Parkhead Forge, casting a rudder trunk on April 15 (1937) for the Queen Elizabeth, now building at Clydebank. Seventy tons of molten stee...
15th April 1937  
  CONFUSION OVER A NAME: YROIS OR YVOIS
Almost since the Titanic sank there has been confusion over the name of a second class passenger. What we know for positive was that her first name was Henriette. She was traveling with film maker William Harbeck. They both lost t...
   
  (1911) BROCHURE SAVED FROM THE TITANIC BY MME LAROCHE
Mme Laroche saved a White Star Line brochure from the sinking. This 32 page document contained many pieces of information for second class passengers. From the notes on the cover: 'Nicholas Martin, 9, rue Scribe, Paris', it seems that this brochure w...
  1911  
Portsmouth Today (2007) TRIALS NOW PLANNED TO TEST IMPACT OF LASERS
TRIALS are to be carried out to test the impact on wildlife of a plan to shoot lasers miles across the night sky. Bosses at Southampton City Council said plans for the controversial Laser Gateway project needed further investigation before they were given the go-ahead. Initially it was planned to turn on the lasers which would be visible up to 15 miles away to coincide with the 95th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking in April this year....
6th February 2007  
Washington Post (1912) SOCIETY: MRS. CANDEE
Mrs. Churchill Candee, who was among those rescued from the Titanic, is still in New York, where she is visiting Mrs. Matthews, at 43 Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Candee, who had an apartment in Paris for the winter, returned home in response to a cablegram i...
30th April 1912  
Liverpool Daily Post (2008) WORLD SHOULD UNITE TO COMMEMORATE THE TITANIC TRAGEDY
WITH time not dispelling the ever- growing worldwide interest in the sinking of the White Star Line's RMS Titanic, it is reassuring to know that Liverpool is already planning to commemorate the centenary of the tragic loss of this superliner, which was owned and registered in the city.A special lunch, with a menu replicating that served to first-class passengers on Titanic's final, fatal night, has already been hosted by Judith Feather, Liverpool Culture Company's head of events, to bring together the ports associated with the liner....
16th September 2008  
  KATE HERMAN IN 1913
Kate Herman right after the Sinking, 1913...
   
Belfast Telegraph (2006) RARE COPY OF ORIGINAL TITANIC REPORT AT FAIR
A rare copy of the original report on the loss of the Titanic, dated July 30, 1912 - three months after the tragedy - will be on display at the Belfast Antiquarian Book Fair in the Wellington Park Hotel on Saturday (10am-5pm).The report, which was completed by mid-summer after the sinking on April 14, is being presented for sale by Arthur Davidson of Davidson Books at Spa, Ballynahinch....
8th November 2006  
  MEMORIAL TO DENZIL JOHN JARVIS
"Erected to the Beloved Memory of Denzil J. Jarvis who was lost in the wreck of the Titanic 15th April 1912 aged 47 Also of Margaret Heath the devoted wife of James Wedgwood Heath who fell asleep May 1st 1934 and is interred in this place." ...
   
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) CHICAGO GIRL LAST TO LEAVE TITANIC
Miss Annie Kelly Reaches Home Here and Tells of Her Thrilling Experiences White Escaping From the Sinking Liner The last woman to leave the sinking Titanic was Miss Annie Kelly, 17 years old, sister of Miss Beatrice Kelly,...
23rd April 1912  
Foxnews.com (2006) LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99
BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, 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 died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass....
7th May 2006  
Kings County Record (2009) A TITANIC VOYAGE 100 YEARS LATER SET FOR APRIL 2012
When we heard the news on the radio, my 10-year-old son and I stared at each other.Had we heard right? Was a voyage being planned to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic? Yes.Almost everyone has heard of th...
5th May 2009  
  MEMORIAL ON GRAVESTONE
In Loving Memory of RICHARD ALLSOP died 30 November 1829 Aged 35 and of JAMES ALLSOP son of the above born 1 September 1827 died 6 April 1917 also of FRANK RICHARD ALLSOP so...
   
New York Times (1950) MRS. FREDERIC SPEDDEN
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES ---  TUXEDO PARK, N. Y., Feb. 10---Mrs. Margaretta C. Spedden died in her home here today after a brief illness. She was 78 years old. Mrs. Spedden was the widow of Frederic O. Spedden, who died two y...
11th February 1950  
The Times (2006) TINY FLAWS THAT CAUSED A TITANIC WASTE OF LIFE
New evidence suggests that the rescue of 1,500 people would have succeeded but for weak rivets that allowed the hull to 'unzip', Mark Henderson reports THE most celebrated disaster in maritime history owed as much to substandard rivets as it did to the iceberg, an analysis of the sinking of the Titanic has revealed. The liner would have survived the collision for long enough for most of, or even all, its passengers to be rescued had it not been put together with weak rivets that caused its hull to 'unzip' on impact with the ice, according to the new research....
16th September 2006  
AP (2006) TITANIC LOCKET FETCHES $100,000
A locket that went down with the Titanic and a survivor's handwritten account of the 1912 disaster fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction Saturday.American passenger Helen Churchill Candee's 36–page description of the ship's sinking, which fetched US$85,000 in the sale, describes how she gave her locket to Edward Kent, a friend on board the ship, for safekeeping after the Titanic hit the iceberg that destroyed it.The locket, which sold for US$100,000, was found in the drowned Kent's jacket pocket when his body was recovered soon after his death....
4th May 2006  
New York Times (1912) GEORGE B. GOLDSCHMIDT
George B. Goldschmidt, lost in the sinking of the Titanic, was one of the oldest members of the Bar Association, having become a member in 1870. He was born in this city in 1840, admitted to practice in 1882, and was one of the best-known conveyancer...
20th April 1912  
Excelsior (1912) PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS TITANIC PASSENGERS
The French paper Excelsior dedicated its 17 April issue to the sinking of the Titanic. They published the pictures of many famous passengers (Mme Aubart, JJ Astor and Madeleine Astor), but also: (1) J.B. Ismay, (2) Countess of Rothes, (3) Lord Ashbur...
17th April 1912  
Telegraph.co.uk (2009) INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPH OF WEALTHY TITANIC VICTIM MADELEINE ASTOR GOES ON SALE
A poignant photograph of Madeleine Astor, a pregnant woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic, is to go on sale.The intimate photograph was taken on Christmas Day 1911, shortly after the young bride had created a scandal with her marriage to the world's richest man. Yet four months after the picture was taken in Paris, Madeleine Astor, aged just 18 and pregnant, was a widow....
16th April 2009  
New York Times (1912) JESSE STRAUS TO HURRY HOME
CHERBOURG, April 19---On the steamer Amerika, which arrived to-day from New York, were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Straus, son and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, who lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. News of the di...
20th April 1912  
Belfast Telegraph (2006) DIVERS PROBE SECRETS OF TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP
A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.Divers and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) have penetrated the wreck of the former hospital ship, which has lain close to the Greek port of Kea in the Aegean Sea since her sinking in November 1916 as she passed through a minefield. The resulting footage will be screened in a History Channel documentary....
27th September 2006  
PR-CANADA.net (2008) IUNIVERSE WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF TITANIC: RELATIVE FATE BY V.C. KING
Nearly one hundred years after the catastrophe, people around the world are still intrigued by the events leading up to the ultimate destruction and sinking of the historic ship, Titanic. Wanting to engage readers in a present-day story fabricated from the legendary ship, author V.C. King put her research skills, interest in the topic and natural story-telling abilities together to create her second published book, Titanic: Relative Fate....
20th May 2008  
New York Times (1958) SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 23---Mrs. Olive Potter Crolius, who with her mother, the late Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Monday at her home in the Germantown section. ...
24th April 1958  
Washington Times (1912) LIKE AWFUL DREAM, DECLARES WOMAN
Mrs. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, Tells of Her Experience In Wreck --- NEW YORK, April 19---Among the survivors were Mrs. J. R. Cardeza, her son Thomas, and maid, Annie Ward, all of Philadelphia. "We crashed into the iceberg...
19th April 1912  
TIME (2008) REVEALING THE TITANIC'S SECRETS
In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic....
6th October 2008  
New York Times (1969) RENEE HARRIS, 93, FIRST WOMAN TO PRODUCE PLAYS HERE, IS DEAD
p.47, col. 5 Mrs. Renee Harris, New York's first woman theatrical producer, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died yesterday at Doctor's Hospital. She was 93 years old and lived at 140 West 69th Street. A former owner...
3rd September 1969  
Southern Daily Echo (2006) TWINNING WILL CEMENT TITANIC LINK
In a cemetery in the Canadian town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, around 150 victims of the Titanic disaster are buried. Their bodies were recovered from the freezing waters of the north Atlantic days after the sinking.Now, leisure chiefs in Southampton are planning to cement the relationship between the two cities by signing an official "twinning" accord with the Canadians.The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor John Slade, is set to visit Halifax in March next year as part of the 95th anniversary commemorations of the disaster....
13th November 2006  
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Hildur Elisabeth Hirvonen, 2, was born in Finland on 15th February 1910 as the daughter of Alexander Hirvonen and Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Hildur boarded as a third class passenger at Southa...
  1912  
Times of India (2006) TITANIC GAVE A VALUABLE LESSON TO SHIP-MAKERS
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6th January 2006  
msnbc.com (2009) "TITANIC" STARS HELP SHIPWRECK'S LAST SURVIVOR
LOS ANGELES - The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is getting a hand from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.The 'Titanic' stars, along with director James Cameron, have contributed to a $30,000 fund for Millvina Dean, ...
11th May 2009  
New York Times (1974) WASHINGTON DODGE, ADVISER ON INVESTMENTS, DIES AT 67
Page 50, column 4 Washington Dodge, an investment adviser who survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, died here Tuesday of a heart attack. His age was 67. He was 5 years old and returning from Europe with his parents...
5th December 1974  
Liverpool Daily Post (2009) LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY
by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009Today, Liverpool starts planning the centenary of Titanic's sinking in three years' time. Peter Elson reportsIT ALL started with an innocent game of billiards in one of Liverpool's great me...
29th April 2009  
Geneva Times (1976) MRS BERTHA CHRISTENSEN DIES - TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Bertha Christensen. 82  of 88 White Springs Rd., one of the few remaining survivors of the Titanic, which went down  April 14 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean, died this morning  at  Geneva General Hospital. The Bennett Funeral Home is in charge of...
30th September 1976  
New York Times (1960) MRS. S. BEACH COOKE
Special to The New York Times --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., June 25---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson Cooke, widow of S. Beach Cooke, an artist and writer, died today of a cerebral hemorrhage at Ringwood, her home here. She was 66 years old. ...
26th June 1960  
Chicago Daily News (1912) LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK
  Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ...
15th April 1912  
Daily Home News (1912) WRECK VICTIM KNOWN HERE
Henry B. Harris, the well-known theatrical man who lost his life in the sinking of the Titanic last week, was a very intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Tepper, of this city, and had been touring Europe in company with Mr. Tepper’s brother-in-l...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1916) ADOPTS HIS WIFE'S CHILD
Horace S. De Camp, who married the widow of Daniel V. [sic] Marvin, got permission from Surrogate Fowler yesterday to adopt the infant daughter of his wife by her first marriage. Mr. Marvin lost his life when the Titanic went down. He...
26th March 1916  
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
   
  REV. JOHN HARPER
Rev. John Harper was minister at Paisley Road Baptist Church, in Plantation area of Glasgow, near Govan, (now the Harper Memorial Baptist Church) before moving to London. He had completed a Mission time at the Moody Church in Chicago, in 1911,...
   
  (1904) LADY DUFF GORDON
Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon wearing a pair of 18th century emerald and pearl cross-shaped earrings that were lost in the sinking of the Titanic. They were Duff Gordon family heirlooms given to her by her husband as a present on their wedding in 1900. The ...
  1904  
New York Times (1933) BARRED FROM BERMUDA
Enzo Fiermonte, Boxer, Will Return to the United States --- HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 13 (AP)---Refused permission to land in Bermuda, Enzo Fiermonte, Italian boxer, who is reported to be seeking the hand of the wealthy Mrs. Madeline Dick...
14th October 1933  
New York Times (1912) MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE
Thinks She Got Into Last Boat as She Left Husband on Deck --- COMPELLED TO HANDLE OAR --- Rowed Back After Liner Went Down and Helped to Rescue six struggling Men----Maid Aids --- Mrs. John Jacob Astor and he...
22nd April 1912  
Times-Tribune (1962) 50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC
BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....
  1962  
Southern Daily Echo (2009) MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES
By Jon Reeve MILLVINA Dean, the last survivor of Titanic, died today at the age of 97.Miss Dean was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Sou...
31st May 2009  
New York Times (1986) JOHN RYERSON
John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel fortune...
24th January 1986  
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mrs Alexander Hirvonen (nee Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist), 22, was born in Finland on 2nd January 1890 as daughter Carl and Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Helga was married to Alexander Hirvonen and had a daugh...
  1912  
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD
Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ...
   
Grand Haven Tribune (2008) STORIES FROM THE TITANIC COME TO LIFE AT LAKE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
For a brief time Thursday night, Lake Hills Elementary School was transformed into a scene from the Titanic. Teacher Susan Ewing's third grade students regaled the audience of parents, teachers and friends with true stories of those who survived the ship's sinking in April 1912 - complete with photographs, replicas and period costumes. The elegant affair included guests in formal attire and a punch bowl fountain, to recreate the stately atmosphere on the ship's upper-class decks....
4th February 2008  
New York Times (1912) PAINTING FOR BUTT FUND
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14---Col. Spencer Cosby, chief aid to President Taft, received to-day a painting depicting the sinking of the Titanic and the rescue of some of her passengers. Gilbert Gaul, a New York artist, offered it as a contribut...
15th December 1912  
Travel News (2009) FRED OLSEN CRUISE LINES SELLING TICKETS FOR TITANIC CRUISE
Exactly 97 years after the Titanic was lost to the sea, tickets have gone on sale for a Titanic memorial cruise. Tickets are on sale now and will be on sale until they are sold out or until the departure date of April 2012. This will mark the 100th year since the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic cruise will take place on the Balmoral, which is operated by Fred Olsen Curise Lines. The ship will carry 1,309 passengers, which is the same number that sailed on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The ship will also follow the same course as the Titanic did as well....
25th April 2009  
New York American (1935) 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  
New York Times (1914) TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DEAD
East Side Children Honor Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus --- On the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, in which Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus perished, 1,000 children, mostly public school boys and girls, gat...
15th April 1914  
Worcester Telegram (1912) TITANIC INSURED FOR $5,000,000
LONDON, April 15- The Titanic was insured for $5,000,000. No definate information is obtainable as to the amount of valuables on board but it is generally understood that the vessel took diamonds consigned to dealers whose estimated value is as high ...
16th April 1912  
Chicago American (1912) 2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES
Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu...
25th April 1912  
  (1912) IN MEMORIAM SS TITANIC, 1912
This splendid document was published just days after the sinking of the Titanic. Its title is 'Souvenir in affectionate remembrance of the Captain, Mates, Crew and Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world's biggest liner S. S. T...
  1912  
  (1912) TITANIC COMPARED WITH THE RUE ROYALE IN PARIS
At the time of the sinking of the Titanic, a French paper (unidentified) published this striking drawing: the liner was compared with the Rue Royale, in Paris. This showed how huge the liner was. Those who know the Rue Royale in Paris will appreciate...
  1912  
Tipperary Star (1948) DEATH OF TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Catherine Croke, Ballinntemple, Dundrum, whose death has occurred is believed to have been the last survivor in Ireland of the ill-fated Titanic. She was aged 21 at the time of the disaster and it was her first experience of being aboard a ship....
20th November 1948  
Niles Daily News (1912) 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  
Bergen Record (1961) ANNA JOSEPHSON
Titanic Survivor, Resident of Haworth, Dies At 71 Mrs. Anna J. E. Josephson, 71, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, died yesterday at her home, 3 Seneca Place. Born in Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Josephs...
20th February 1961  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) LOSES ALL HIS MONEY
NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1956) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Mrs. Annie May Stengel, 88, Was in Third Lifeboat --- Special to The New York Times --- MONTCLAIR, N. J., Jan. 24 ---Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Annie May Stengel, a survivor of the sinking of the Tita...
25th January 1956  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT
New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ...
19th April 1912  
PR (2006) TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES
In August 2005, a History Channel expedition team made a shocking discovery more than two miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean: large missing pieces of Titanic's bottom, more than 1,500 feet from the rest of the ship, so well preserved that even the original red paint is still clearly visible. These pieces were little known and never examined for their role in the sinking, and they tell a new and potentially more terrifying story of Titanic's final moments, rewriting the script that had previously been taken as fact. Relive the disaster, the history, and the deep-sea search for new clues in high-definition in TITANIC'S FINAL MOMENTS: MISSING PIECES, premiering Sunday, February 26th at 9:00 p.m. on The History Channel....
21st February 2006  
Paterson Morning Call (1912) BROTHER OF MISS FUNK STILL HOPES
Newton, April 23---Persevering in the hope that Miss Annie Funk, formerly of Paterson, did not go down with the Titanic, Horace Funk, her brother, a teacher of the eleventh grade of the high school here, went to New York today to see if further infor...
24th April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) CHURCH HOLDS SERVICE FOR VICTIMS OF TITANIC
ELIZABETH, April 28--- Memorial services for Peter R. Renouf, Lawrence Garvey [sic] and Clifford and Ernest Jeffries, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, were held tonight at Grace Episcopal Church. The services were conducted by the Rev. D...
29th April 1912  
Chicago Daily Journal (1912) THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES
Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...
19th April 1912  
Evanston Daily News (1912) LOCAL WOMAN'S KIN SAVED FROM TITANIC
Spencer V. Silverthorne, a brother of Mrs. H. H. Harris, 820 Foster street, is among the Titanic passengers that were rescued by the Carpathia. Word to this effect was received today. Mr. Silverthorne who lives in St. Louis, is a buyer fo...
18th April 1912  
The Toronto World (1912) THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE
Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee: "I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat." "I did not see what happened to the lifeboats...
20th April 1912  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) AN ATLANTIC MAN FINDS EVIDENCE FAVORING ISMAY
D. W. McMillan’s Sister, Titanic Survivor, Says He and Astor Helped Women ---------- DESCRIBES DEATH OF DOUGHTY CAPTAIN ---------- In a letter to his wife, D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, who visited New Yor...
23rd April 1912  
Evening Bulletin (1965) GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP
Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in the Mediterranean. She was the widow of Dr. Raymond S. Leopold, former executive vice ...
12th August 1965  
TDN (2009) TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN
When John Stuart saw a newspaper article Monday about the death of the last Titanic survivor, his first thought was, 'My gosh, I talked to her. I have her signature.'The retired Castle Rock history teacher chatted with Millvina Dean at...
5th June 2009  
Evening Bulletin (1958) MRS. CROLIUS DIES; TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Olive Potter Crolius, widow of Allen Crolius, died Monday at her home in Alden Park Manor, Germantown. She was 70. Mrs. Crolius and her mother, the late Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr., were survivors of the sinking of the Titanic off th...
23rd April 1958  
New York Times (1912) GIRL SURVIVOR HAS PRAISE FOR ISMAY
Miss Rosenbaum Declares She Owes Her Life to White Star Head --- FORCED HER INTO LIFEBOAT --- Declares He Was Among Last to Leave Sinking Titanic, Calling "Any More Women?" --- Out of al...
23rd April 1912  
  DESIGN FOR AMERICAN TITANIC MEMORIAL
Part of an original design submitted in 1912 for a Titanic memorial in Washington, to be set up by women in honour of the men who gave their lives. This is a work by Mr Dana Gibson, which was ultimately rejected. Gibson places a hammer in t...
   
Worcester Telegram (1983) FELIX R. ASPLUND [OBITUARY]
SHREWSBURY--Felix R. Asplund, 73, of 39 Fairlawn Circle died yesterday in his home. Mr. Asplund was a draftsman for Coppus Engineering in Worcester for 35 years, retiring in 1972. He leaves a sister, Lillian G. Asplund of Shrews...
2nd March 1983  
  EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN
Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S...
   
Daily Sketch (1912) 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  
New York Times (1986) 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  
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit...
   
  (2005) BRAVERY AWARD
I have in my possession (recently discovered) a rare illuminated accommodation awarded to the Purser (Ernest G F Brown RNR) of the RMS Carpathia, the first ship to rescue the survivors from the “Titanic” sinking.  Ernest Brown was originally from ...
1st April 2005  
New York Times (1952) THOMAS D. M. CARDEZA
Page 19, column 2 PHILADELPHIA, June 6 Thomas D. M. Cardeza, explorer and art collector, died today in his home at the age of 77. Mr. Cardeza served on the board of directors of the old Fidelity Trust Company ...
7th June 1952  
Evening World (1912) TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF
Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...
22nd April 1912  
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1931) SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP
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  
Paris Presse (1959) LA RESCAPEE DU TITANIC N'A PAS PU RETENIR SES LARMES
LA RESCAPEE DU "TITANIC" N'A PAS PU RETENIR SES LARMES Stewardess à bord du Titanic, Mrs Emma Bliss fut une des rares rescapées du naufrage. Aujourd'hui âgée de 92 ans, et hospitalisée à Toronto, elle a assisté à la projection du film 'Une nui...
12th March 1959  
Unidentified Newspaper (1975) THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82
Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t...
4th November 1975  
New York Times (1951) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Harry Anderson, Commodore of N. Y. A. C. Yacht Unit, Was 87 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 24---Harry Anderson, a survivor of the sinking of the White Star liner Titanic in 1912, died yeste...
25th November 1951  
Jersey Journal (1946) TITANIC SINKING SURVIVOR DIES IN BERGEN HOME
Mrs. O'Grady Often Told of Tragedy in Which 1,500 Lost Lives Mrs. Emily O'Grady, 52, of 553 Prospect at Ridgefield, survivor of the sinking of the White Star liner Titanic by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, when 1,500 persons lost their...
17th July 1946  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1933) FUNERAL OF MRS. ARTHUR STEAD
Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, who died Friday, wife of Arthur Stead, of 128 Reid street, were held yesterday afternoon at J. S. Stiner's Home for Services, 97 West Grand street. Rev. William G. Felmeth, D. D., pastor of the Third Presb...
13th July 1933  
San Francisco Examiner (1919) DEATH HOVERING OVER DR. DODGE; END IS EXPECTED
Page5, column 2 Former City Assessor Rapidly Sinking After Week's Fight for Life. Dr. Washington Dodge, banker and former Assessor of San Francisco, is dying in St. Francis Hospital, and cannot possibly live more than ...
29th June 1919  
Chicago Tribune (1990) 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  
Montreal Gazette (2006) 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  
The Times (1917) A FIREMAN'S ADVENTURES
The remarkable adventures of a young fireman have been brought to light through the sinking of the "Donegal." John Priest, who lives in Southampton, is only 29 years of age. He has been on the sea since his youth, and has served in many wat...
23rd April 1917  
Chicago Tribune (1912) OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD
John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t...
24th December 1912  
Chicago American (1912) 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  
Chicago Tribune (1940) CHILD FEARED LOST ON TITANIC REPORTED LIVING IN MICHIGAN
Montreal, Que., Sept. 4 (AP)--A Montreal family was stirred today by the prospect that Lorraine Allison, long believed to have been drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912, still is alive and residing in Berkley, Mich., as Mrs. Laurence K...
5th September 1940  
New York Times (1917) INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER
Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here...
28th January 1917  
 

 
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