Sloping Deck

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New York Times MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC
TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ...
26th November 1975
1937 DECK SCENE   1937 DECK SCENE
Deck scenes, unspectacular but charming, taken by an unknown photographer who crossed in 1937....
1937 Gare Maritime
1937 DECK SCENE   1937 DECK SCENE
Deck scenes, unspectacular but charming, taken by an unknown photographer who crossed in 1937....
1937 Gare Maritime
TITANIC DECK CHAIR   TITANIC DECK CHAIR
A deck chair thought to have been recovered from the scene of the disaster in April 1912....
SUN DECK 1937   SUN DECK 1937
The Normandie's Sun Deck as seen on a 1937 crossing. The original uncluttered expanse had, by this point, begun to fill up. ...
1937 Gare Maritime
TOURIST CLASS SUN DECK LOOKING TOWARDS FIRST CLASS SUITES. 1936   TOURIST CLASS SUN DECK LOOKING TOWARDS FIRST CLASS SUITES. 1936
The Tourist Class Sports Deck looking towards the no longer private terraces of the Suites Grande Luxe (note the two women to the right of center looking into the suites, even as the occupants look outward across the sports deck) taken on a late summ...
1936 Gare Maritime
AFT ON THE BOAT DECK   AFT ON THE BOAT DECK
Looking forward from an area to the port side of the first class terrace....
May 1935 Gare Maritime
MOHAWK COLLISION AND GROUNDING PHOTO   MOHAWK COLLISION AND GROUNDING PHOTO
The morning after the multi-collision debacle in New York harbor, passengers are evacuated in calm and orderly fashion from the vessel, which lay perhaps 100 yards from the beach. In 1935 the view would be considerably different, as passengers and...
1935 Gare Maritime
BOAT DECK   BOAT DECK
May 1935 Gare Maritime
PROMENADE DECK   PROMENADE DECK
May 1935 Gare Maritime
CAP ARCONA B DECK PROMENADE   CAP ARCONA B DECK PROMENADE
One lap around the Cap Arcona's B deck promenade measured 1082.9'....
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Gettysburg Complier REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY
Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners are Referred to as Floating Palaces While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most respects like the Olympic there is a pronounced diff...
19th June 1912
VESTRIS HEELED OVER : DECK VIEW   VESTRIS HEELED OVER : DECK VIEW
November 1928 Gare Maritime
BOAT DECK   BOAT DECK
1937 Gare Maritime
LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK   LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK
1938 Gare Maritime
PROMENADE DECK 1937   PROMENADE DECK 1937
1937 Gare Maritime
COLETTE ON THE PROMENADE DECK   COLETTE ON THE PROMENADE DECK
Colette, in her trademark sandals, is photographed on the promenade deck....
May 1935 Gare Maritime
LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK AND LIFEBOAT   LE HAVRE 1938 BOAT DECK AND LIFEBOAT
1938 Gare Maritime
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER, OIL PAINTING.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER, OIL PAINTING.
THE VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER: Two large oils of New York in the A Deck Foyer, outside the Cabin class dining room are recent works of Adriaan Lubbers, whose first hand knowledge of the city is apparent from his bold treatment of its complex topog...
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER. OIL PAINTING.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER. OIL PAINTING.
THE VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER: Two large oils of New York in the A Deck Foyer, outside the Cabin class dining room are recent works of Adriaan Lubbers, whose first hand knowledge of the city is apparent from his bold treatment of its complex topog...
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TITANIC BOAT DECK   TITANIC BOAT DECK
From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...
SUN DECK SUITES   SUN DECK SUITES
The Living Room and the Dining Room in the Trouville Suite reflect the luxuriousness of the Sun Deck Suites...
1937 Gare Maritime
Newark Evening News LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES
NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm....
20th April 1912
New York Times SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT
Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...
19th April 1912
Daily Northwestern A SAD FAREWELL
Mrs. Wick's recollections...
17th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SOLARIUM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : SOLARIUM. 1938.
SOLARIUM: Located on the Sun Deck, adjoining the gymnasium. It is furnished with tables and reclining chairs and has a transparent glass ceiling. It is directly connected by elevator with the Turkish baths and swimming pool on E Deck....
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER. 1938.
THE VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER: Glass, metal, wood and fabrics in the Nieuw Amsterdam’s decorative scheme have been put to some novel uses. New techniques have been applied to old methods and some entirely original ones have appeared. ...
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MAIN DECK - ROUEN SUITE   MAIN DECK - ROUEN SUITE
The pleasingly modern bedroom is in the Rouen Suite on the Main Deck....
1937 Gare Maritime
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS DINING ROOM. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS DINING ROOM. ARCHITECT'S RENDERING. 1938.
THIRD CLASS DINING ROOM: The only Third class public room to survive the 1961 refit, the dining room was located on B Deck, directly below the First and Second class dining rooms. To reach the room, Third class passengers descended a staircase from A...
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NORMANDIE - PORT SIDE BOAT DECK AT SEA   NORMANDIE - PORT SIDE BOAT DECK AT SEA
May 1935 Gare Maritime
A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS Gare Maritime A VOYAGE ON THE SS PARIS
A cruise along the East Coast around 1932...
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Newark Evening News BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER
The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...
19th April 1912
LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD   LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD
Dear Miss Field, On board ship one has little to do to fill up time so I start to write a letter to yo...
10th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette STILL PLAYING AS WATER CREEPS UP
New York, April 19- Mrs. John Murray Brown of Acton, Mass, who with her sister, Mrs. Robert C. Cornell and Mrs. E.D. Appleton, was saved, was in the last life-boat to get safely away from the Titanic. "The band played marching from dec...
20th April 1912
The Times MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking-room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck. He described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted the foremast was listin...
20th April 1912
Brighton Argus MR. A. H. BARKWORTH
Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on the deck. he described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted that the foremast w...
19th April 1912
ON DECK   ON DECK
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Daily Northwestern SAW THE ICEBERG
Silverthorne account...
17th April 1912
Southern Evening Echo ARTICLE
Titanic survivor 77-year-old Mr Lee James Hyland, of Sarnia Court, Boniface Crescent, Lordshill, Southampton who recalls Fred Allen a boy crew member mentioned in reference the playing of the Titanic Hymn. Allen, who lost his life in the disaster was...
24th November 1970
MEXICO CRUISE BROCHURE (INTERIORS)   MEXICO CRUISE BROCHURE (INTERIORS)
"Upper - The main lounges of the big Ward Liners are cool, restful, graciously inviting. Left Center - There's a rich, serene, masculine atmosphere to the smoking rooms.  Center - A Tea Room - bright, breezy, with long vistas of sea and sky throu...
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Evening World HEROIC PRIESTS GAVE UP LIVES TO QUIET CROWDS
Went Down on Titanic With Men and Women Grouped About Them. ------------- ALL CREEDS IN PRAYER ------------- Three Girl Survivors Tell How They Chose Death to S...
22nd April 1912
New York Times THE OLYMPIC LIKE A CITY
Carries 3,346 Persons Turkish and Swimming Baths and Racket Court. LONDON, June 10.—Engineering gives details In regard to the Olympic and Titanic, the sister ships of t...
18th June 1911
Chicago Daily Journal LEAPS FROM THE SHIP
Charles Williams, the racquet coach at Harrow, England, who is the professional champion of the world , was coming to New York to defend his title, said he was in the smoking room when the boat struck.  He rushed out, saw the iceberg, whic...
19th April 1912
Camden Post-Telegram SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR
Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam...
19th April 1912
FRIENDS ON DECK   FRIENDS ON DECK
1935 Gare Maritime
Daily Mirror AUBART ACCOUNT
May 13, 1912 : I had in my cabin jewels worth 4,000 (GPB) as well as many trunks of dresses and hats. One does not come from Paris and buy one's clothes in America. That is understood, is it not? Nothing could I take with me; not...
13th May 1912
LEANING OUT   LEANING OUT
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ON DECK   ON DECK
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STATENDAM 1929. CA. 1923 BROCHURE.  PROMENADE DECK.   STATENDAM 1929. CA. 1923 BROCHURE. PROMENADE DECK.
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THE DECK SHOWING A FUNNEL AND THE RADIO ARRAYS   THE DECK SHOWING A FUNNEL AND THE RADIO ARRAYS
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MORE SWINGING ON DECK   MORE SWINGING ON DECK
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SWINGING ON THE DECK   SWINGING ON THE DECK
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STATENDAM 1929. CA. 1923 BROCHURE.  PROMENADE DECK ARTIST'S RENDERING.   STATENDAM 1929. CA. 1923 BROCHURE. PROMENADE DECK ARTIST'S RENDERING.
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North American WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ...
20th April 1912
New York Times ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN
"Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w...
22nd April 1912
  RMS OLYMPIC ARCHIVE FILM (3)
Taking the elevators; the grand staircase; dancing in the saloon; smoking room; at Cherbourg; Nomadic comes alongside; passengers disembark...
FILM OF THE OLYMPIC   FILM OF THE OLYMPIC
These pictures were retouched after the Titanic disaster to eliminate American company flags visible on the other vessels in harbour so that, when re-shown in April 1912, the pictures might represent Titanic at her berth in Southampt...
1911
Daily Sketch MAN WHO WAS PULLED BACK
Says Officer Shot Two Men Who tried to Enter Boat A graphic description of the scene on the Titanic after the boats had gone is given by an Athlone survivor, Mr ...
4th May 1912
MORRO CASTLE PHOTO TAKEN BY PASSENGER, AUGUST 1932   MORRO CASTLE PHOTO TAKEN BY PASSENGER, AUGUST 1932
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Dowagiac Daily News BISHOP'S ARRIVE HOME AND RELATE MANY THINGS ABOUT TITANIC NOT BEFORE TOLD
Waited Over to Take Passage on This Ship From Cherbourg DETAILS RESCUE Ship Slowly Sank to Watery Grave While They Watched One Mile Away - Did Not Break In Two Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Bishop, who were among ...
10th May 1912
THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE   THOMAS WHITELEY'S TITANIC LECTURE
I was just about to go to bed and had my pajamas on when I heard a grating noise and the vessel came to a stop. I slipped on a pair of trousers and rushed on deck. I saw a lot of ice on the forward deck, the well deck, about twenty tons of it, ...
1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM. 1938   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM. 1938
TOURIST CLASS DINING ROOM: Located on A Deck, air conditioned and connected with the First Class Dining Room by doors, enabling both rooms to be used as one when required. Seating capacity 292. Carpeted in grey in large squares of alternating nap. Wa...
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  BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT
Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th...
1912
Chicago Daily Journal SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH
C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...
19th April 1912
New York Times 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
INSPECTION TOUR: ON DECK   INSPECTION TOUR: ON DECK
May 1935 Gare Maritime
New York Times 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
SPORTS DECK FUNNEL SHOT   SPORTS DECK FUNNEL SHOT
May 1935 Gare Maritime
DECKPLAN SECTION   DECKPLAN SECTION
1937 Gare Maritime
NORMANDIE - STARBOARD SIDE BOAT DECK AT SEA   NORMANDIE - STARBOARD SIDE BOAT DECK AT SEA
May 1935 Gare Maritime
LE HAVRE 1938 FIRST FUNNEL   LE HAVRE 1938 FIRST FUNNEL
1938 Gare Maritime
VESTRIS HEELED OVER : DECK VIEW   VESTRIS HEELED OVER : DECK VIEW
Note the crew member hanging on to the bulkhead....
November 1928 Gare Maritime
PASSENGER IN A BAR ON THE NORMANDIE   PASSENGER IN A BAR ON THE NORMANDIE
Passenge enjoy drinks in the bar, taken by an unknown photographer who crossed in 1937....
1937 Gare Maritime
Newark Evening News HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM
It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ...
19th April 1912
ARRIVAL VIEWED FROM THE DECK   ARRIVAL VIEWED FROM THE DECK
3rd June 1935 Gare Maritime
'FENCING' ON DECK   'FENCING' ON DECK
May 1935 Gare Maritime
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL Gare Maritime THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s....
10th July 2007 Gare Maritime
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER, ARCHITECT'S RENDERING.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : VESTIBULE AND A DECK FOYER, ARCHITECT'S RENDERING.
Vestibule and A Deck Foyer: One of the most striking examples is that of the four bronze statuettes on a huge oxidized copper panel, located in the well of the Main Deck Vestibule. The work of Jan Eloy and Leo Brom, it represents the seasons f...
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Akron Beacon Journal AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP
HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...
20th April 1912
HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. ET Comment HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
Senan Molony
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Washington Herald MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH Daughter of Henry Siegel, the millionaire merchant. She was brought in on the Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. In relating her exxperiences she said: "There were many lifeboats preparing to be launched w...
21st April 1912
New York Times PROVING FOREMAN ON TITANIC
Brother Files Letters of Survivors in Asking for Administration Papers --- Edwin H. Foreman obtained yesterday from Surrogate Fowler letters of administration on the $10,000 estate of his brother, Benjamin L. Foreman, who was drowned on ...
15th May 1912
Cornishman CORNISH LADY'S EXPERIENCE
(courtesy of the Western Morning News) Mrs Stephen Ould (sic), of Sacamento, USA formerly of St Keverne, was in her room in the second cabin section, preparing to retire when the boat struck. "It felt as if something had tried to ...
16th May 1912
Unidentified Newspaper UNKNOWN TITLE
Eleanor, her brother; Harold, and her mother; Alice were in Finland visiting her mother's dying father. They were on their way back to the U.S. The three stopped in England only to find out their tickets on the ship to take them back to America had b...
1997
Worcester Evening Gazette BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS
New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...
20th April 1912
Newark Evening News JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES
Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa...
20th April 1912
Hudson Dispatch MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING
Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi...
4th October 1959
INSPECTION TOUR: UNDER THE FUNNELS   INSPECTION TOUR: UNDER THE FUNNELS
May 1935 Gare Maritime
  GENERAL INFORMATION
MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr...
LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH   LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH
11th April 1912
Titanic Commutator FATE DEALS A HAND
Artist Frank Millet, and a fourth gentleman unknown to Gracie. They seem oblivious to the happenings on the deck outside, preferring to sit alone in the room where they had spent many enjoyable hours during the last few evenings. [THS Comm...
1982
MAGGIE DALY   MAGGIE DALY
Missing Survivor...
1912
Gettysburg Complier RESCUE OF MRS BECKER
Dr L. B. Wolf Secretary of Foreign Missionary Board of The General Synod Lutheran Church, tells that he met Mrs Becker, a Lutheran missionary from India, returning on the ill-fated Titanic, at New York when the Carpathia docked with the Titani...
15th May 1912
Paterson Morning Call JUMPED FROM SINKING SHIP
Frederick Hoyt Sees His Wife Safely in a Boat Before His Plunge ---------- IS PICKED UP LATER ---------- And Happily Reunited With His Wife in Lifeboat---Thrilling Story of Man Known in This City ---------- ...
23rd April 1912
Voyage GLENDUN
John P. Eaton
GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway...
26th October 2004
CAFE GRILL   CAFE GRILL
The Café Grill on the Boat Deck is a pleasantly sunny room by day, and by night is softly illuminated by shafts of iridescent light....
1937 Gare Maritime
New York Times LEAPED FROM LINER AT SEA TO SAVE MAN
Majestic's First Officer Dived Overboard after Coal Trimmer Who Attempted Suicide --- BUT LIFEBOAT MADE RESCUE --- Gift from Passengers for Officer's Deed--Another of Crew who Sought Death Successful --- The ...
9th May 1913
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
NIEUW AMSTERDAM DECK VIEW   NIEUW AMSTERDAM DECK VIEW
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New York Times FIERMONTES SAIL ON THE SAME SHIP
Former Mrs. Astor, With Friend, Books Passage for Italy at Last Moment --- The former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, who was married to Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist, more than a year ago, booked a last-minute passage Saturday on t...
29th January 1935
1938 NIEUW AMSTERDAM BROCHURE. SPORTS DECK.   1938 NIEUW AMSTERDAM BROCHURE. SPORTS DECK.
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New York Times TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC
President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...
25th January 1912
  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...
HENRY WILDE AND CAPTAIN SMITH   HENRY WILDE AND CAPTAIN SMITH
LEHAVRE 1938 FUNNEL AND TENNIS COURT   LEHAVRE 1938 FUNNEL AND TENNIS COURT
1938 Gare Maritime
1937 STERN VIEW 3   1937 STERN VIEW 3
View over the stern, taken on a 1937 crossing.Part of a series of 22 onboard photos taken by an unknown photographer....
1937 Gare Maritime
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE 'NIEUW AMSTERDAM'   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THE 'NIEUW AMSTERDAM'
The "NIEUW AMSTERDAM", the largest ship ever built in the Netherlands, will be famous for its architecture, decoration and exceptionally high standard of comfort. Modern profile, pleasing proportions and careful design all reflect the traditions o...
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Chorley Guardian THE TITANIC DISASTER: A NATIVE OF CHORLEY SAVED
Mr. Charles Herbert Lightoller, the second officer of the ill-fated Titanic, who is among those who were saved, is a native of Chorley. He is the son of Mr. Fred J. Lightoller, and was born in 1874, receiving his education at the Chorley Grammar S...
27th April 1912
RIO BROCHURE - DECKPLAN AND FARES   RIO BROCHURE - DECKPLAN AND FARES
1937 Gare Maritime
CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE   CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE
EDWARD JOHN SMITH WITH DOG   EDWARD JOHN SMITH WITH DOG
1912
Chicago Evening Post DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD
DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...
23rd April 1912
Washington Herald ISMAY LEFT SHIP AT WOMEN'S PLEA
White Star Official Described as Refusing to Enter Boat at First --- New York, April 18---J. [sic] D. M. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, who was among the rescued passengers of the Titanic, told how he said he witnessed Bruce Ismay’s departur...
19th April 1912
New York Times BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...
10th July 1910
HENRY T. WILDE   HENRY T. WILDE
New York Times SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS
Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....
26th June 1915
RIO CRUISE - BROCHURE COVER   RIO CRUISE - BROCHURE COVER
This brochure was issued in 1937 to promote the Normandie's 1938 Rio Cruise. It contains the cruise information; interior photos and a massive accordian-folded Isodeckplan in which each deck is given its own nearly three foot long page....
1937 Gare Maritime
ICE ON DECK Titanic Research ICE ON DECK
Henning Pfeifer
Further analysis of the iceberg impact....
12th February 2002
NIEUW AMSTERDAM CABIN DE LUXE 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM CABIN DE LUXE 1938.
CABINS DE LUXE: The cabins De Luxe, located on the Lower Promenade Deck, were #49; Groningen; 51: Friesland; 59: Drenthe; 61: Overijssel; 71: Geldeland and 73; Utrecht (Port) and #50: Holland; 52:Zeeland; 60 Noordbrabant; 62: Limburg; 72: Anti...
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM CABIN DE LUXE 1938. 2.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM CABIN DE LUXE 1938. 2.
CABINS DE LUXE: The cabins De Luxe, located on the Lower Promenade Deck, were #49; Groningen; 51: Friesland; 59: Drenthe; 61: Overijssel; 71: Geldeland and 73; Utrecht (Port) and #50: Holland; 52:Zeeland; 60 Noordbrabant; 62: Limburg; 72: Anti...
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM CABIN DE LUXE 1938. 3.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM CABIN DE LUXE 1938. 3.
CABINS DE LUXE: The cabins De Luxe, located on the Lower Promenade Deck, were #49; Groningen; 51: Friesland; 59: Drenthe; 61: Overijssel; 71: Geldeland and 73; Utrecht (Port) and #50: Holland; 52:Zeeland; 60 Noordbrabant; 62: Limburg; 72: Anti...
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Evanston Daily News MARY HEWLETT - SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE
Mrs. Mary Hewlitt, of Lucknow, India, Was Rescued From the Disabled Craft, Gives Description of Disaster Was Traveling Alone Woman Stops Here At Home of J. L. Hebblet...
25th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS PLAYROOM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS PLAYROOM. 1938.
THE PLAYROOM: A playroom, where the real children may also have a good time, is on the same deck. Designed by Fritz Spanjaard, it is decorated with leaded glass windows and a humorous frieze, by Ruscha Wijdeveld. An electric train, a juvenile stage...
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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
CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?   CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR?
Senan Molony
(William McQuillan, from a family photo)...
MOHAWK BROCHURE 4   MOHAWK BROCHURE 4
"Appetizing menus are just another link in the chain that makes "Clyde Line Service" famous." "The traditional "Ship Shape" of sea-going vessels is well exemplified in these kitchens." "On the highly polished dancing deck where hap...
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  MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY
The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget...
23rd July 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer BUTT A COURTIER TO DEATH, SAYS WOMAN
Washington, April 19 – A graphic story of the heroism of Maj. Archibald W. Butt on the Titanic was told today in an interview given by Miss Marie Young, a former resident of Washington. Miss Young is believed to have been the last woman to leave the ...
20th April 1912
  MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY
The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were report...
23rd July 1912
Western Daily Mercury ARTICLE
Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...
29th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : RITZ-CARLTON ROOM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : RITZ-CARLTON ROOM. 1938.
RITZ-CARLTON ROOM: The Ritz-Carlton room is located on the Upper Promenade deck, immediately above the Smoking Room and is reached by an impressive ebony and bronze Y-shaped stairway. On either side of the stairs where they divide port from starb...
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Atlantic City Daily Press LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY
City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti...
5th May 1912
CAP ARCONA TENNIS COURT   CAP ARCONA TENNIS COURT
The extended aft superstructure made a large tennis court possible, and the Cap Arcona's run through mostly temperate zones made it a desirable asset....
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Chicago Daily Tribune STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN
Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng...
20th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star I CAN ROW, BUT LET A WOMAN GET INTO BOAT
Newspaper article...
19th April 1912
Worcester Telegram ICE CAKE HELPED HIM TO ESCAPE
New York, April 19.- A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding Emilo Portaluppi of Aricgabo, Italy, in escaping death when the Titanic went down. Portaluppi, a second class passenger, was awakened by the explosion of one of the boilers of the ship. ...
20th April 1912
New York Times THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED
A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...
20th January 1889
Bridgwater Mercury 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
HANDSOME PUBLIC ROOMS - RIO CRUISE (PAGE 5)   HANDSOME PUBLIC ROOMS - RIO CRUISE (PAGE 5)
... it is an easy matter to meet every requirement. After these come several hundred other rooms. both single and double. Raymond-Whitcomb, however, have no intention of taking passengers to anywhere near the astounding capacity of the NORMANDIE o...
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Worcester Evening Gazette BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...
20th April 1912
Standard Union FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC
Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita...
4th May 1912
MKKZ UNTITLED
'In the Titanic were two Catholic priests: Professor Byles, an Irish man [sic], who wanted to act in the marriage of his brother and his bride and a German monk (Padre). They helped women and children, climbing into the boats. The people on the last ...
12th April 1987
New York Times TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH
Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...
25th April 1912
HENRY WILDE IN WHITE UNIFORM   HENRY WILDE IN WHITE UNIFORM
Henry Tingle Wilde pictured in Summer White uniform...
New York Times BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS
BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS --- Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The rise and progress of the leviathan liners n...
10th July 1910
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
Jersey Journal MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr...
4th November 1959
Rockford Morning Star TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD
DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...
26th April 1912
The Charleroi Mail MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER.
SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...
23rd April 1912
  LETTER FROM WILLIAM BYLES TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
Bernards' Inn Bernardsville, N.J. April 21, 1912 My dear Mamma, Here we are at Bernardsville...went to St. Vincent's Hospital, when we met first some young boys and afterwards some girls who had been on the...
21st April 1912
CAP ARCONA WINTER GARDEN   CAP ARCONA WINTER GARDEN
A winter garden might seem a bit superfluous on a liner who, by nature of her run, spent most of her voyage in Equatorial regions. But, they were on obligatory first class fixture until the post World War 2 years and so the Cap Arcona fea...
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ET Comment THE RECORD SPEAKS!
Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt
In his latest opinion piece, Senan Molony said that it is important to bear in mind that Hugh Woolner is merely a battleground for the real issue, the claim that Collapsible C “left the Titanic close to her climactic consummation.” Yet, the final ...
13th December 2006
Christian Science Monitor WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP
Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M...
19th April 1912
Ottawa Citizen SYRIAN WOMAN'S THRILLING NARRATIVE
Ship's Officers Fired into Steerage: Panic Amid Rush for Lifeboats Mariana Assaff says Ten People on Doomed Ship were Bound for Ottawa but Two survive. ...How Mrs. Assaf views the Horror and Catastrophe of Her Rescue. "Mariana Assaf a...
24th April 1912
New York Times MORGAN HOME FROM EUROPE
Financier Refuses to Discuss Business or Politics J. Pierpont Morgan returned yesterday on the White Star liner Olympic from his seven months' stay abroad. He was met at Quarantine by his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., who ha...
25th July 1912
THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED Calgary Herald THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED
Special Dispatch to the Herald...
21st April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette ASTOR PUT BOY BY WIFE'S SIDE
A fine act of heroism by Col. John Jacob Astor was told by George A. Harder, a Brooklyn man, who survived the Titanic disaster. "When Col. Astor had assisted his tearful young wife and her maid into a life boat, he tried to put in a yo...
19th April 1912
New York Times BOOK NOTES
Macmillan has obtained what are believed to be the only pictures of the rescue of the Titanic’s survivors and these will be used to illustrate Sir Arthur Rostron's forthcoming autobiography, "'Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, in command of the Ca...
22nd July 1931
New York Times MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER
Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...
3rd March 1912
New York Times THREE BRAVE OFFICERS
In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers....
23rd April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED
New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...
20th April 1912
Cork Examiner BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE
...
11th May 1912
Burlington Daily Gazette GUNNAR TENGLIN
"It was not a hard shock," said Tenglin, "but my friend and myself, finding the engines stopped, thought, we would go up and investigate. I put on all my clothes but my shoes and we went to the forward deck. The deck was covered ...
25th April 1912
Western Morning News LEAP OF 75 FEET
A fireman named Walter Hurst, of Southampton, said he was off watch at the time, and made his way to the boat deck. He was, of course, told to stand back and about five minutes before the liner sank he jumped the 75 feet to the sea, having a lifebel...
29th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR $57,000
A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night. Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US ex...
12th April 2006
  ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Arne Mjĺland
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972
CAP ARCONA SUITE DELUXE   CAP ARCONA SUITE DELUXE
One of the Cap Arcona's eight suites deluxe on D Deck.  These suites consisted of sitting room, bedroom, bathroom, water closet, and trunk room.   The suites were finished in cherry wood, walnut, birch, mahogany, East Indian satinwo...
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STATEROOMS AND SUITES FOR EVERY DESIRE - RIO BROCHURE (PAGE 4)   STATEROOMS AND SUITES FOR EVERY DESIRE - RIO BROCHURE (PAGE 4)
THE plain, unembellished statistics of the NORMANDIE are most impressive.. well nigh staggering in the immensity they represent. 83,122 tons register, 1029 feet of length, 119 feet of breadth, turbines that develop 160,000 horse power, enormous ov...
1937 Gare Maritime
New York Times MORGAN IN PARIS
London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi...
6th January 1912
The Washington Post RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC
From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ...
20th April 1912
Bernardsville News SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT DISASTER
Mrs. Harman and Daughters Interviewed---Before and after the awful Casualty---Husband and Father gone and all their Property Lost---A Trouble too Deep for Words --- Mrs. Jane Harman, widow of Samuel Harman, who met his death at sea last...
26th April 1912
New-York Tribune MAJESTIC IN WITH CHIEF OFFICER A HERO
Passengers Cheer David Blair, Who Risked Life in Fog to Save Fireman --- DIVED IN MIDOCEAN --- Women Weep as Gallant Sailor and Man for Whom He Jumped Are Helped Over Side ---...
9th May 1913
Unidentified Newspaper ASTOR'S OLD BUTLER A HERO
Toronto Daily Star
Tribute to Victor Robbins...
20th April 1912
New York Times $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY
Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...
14th May 1912
INFORMATION FOR CRUISE MEMBERS   INFORMATION FOR CRUISE MEMBERS
An outside double room with bath. Rooms decorated in this fashion may be found on the Main, B and C Decks. INFORMATION FOR CRUISE-MEMBERS Membership in the Cruise includes accommodations in the Normandie from New Y...
1937 Gare Maritime
Asbury Park Evening Press MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST
MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...
22nd April 1912
Vineland Times Journal SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER TELLS OF GRIM EXPERIENCES
Stan Sloame
It was around midnight on April 14, 1912. The luxury liner "titanic", the finest passenger vessel afloat was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, To New York. The ship collided with an iceberg off Newfoundland in the fog and sank. ...
25th March 1953
Voyage NEPTUNE
John P. Eaton
Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal...
6th March 2005
St Ives Times HAYLE MAN'S NARRATIVE
TRIBUTE TO A KIND HEARTED CAPTAIN...
POSTWAR 13. THEATRE. CABIN CLASS.   POSTWAR 13. THEATRE. CABIN CLASS.
THEATER: If you book Cabin or Tourist class on the Nieuw Amsterdam, you’ll enjoy many a first-run film in this comfortable , air conditioned motion picture theater on the Promenade Deck. Installed since the war, this theater seats 166 p...
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  GENERAL INFORMATION
Harper, Miss Nina. Saved in Lifeboat number 11 with her cousin Jessie Leith. Returned to England via SS Celtic, 25th April 1912. Aged 6 years. Later (1934) became Mrs. Pont, died 1986. (Gleaned from the Internet 20th S...
Cleveland Plain Dealer 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 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
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
Voyage HECTOR
Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles...
13th March 2005
TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR Titanic Research TITANIC'S CARGO GEAR
Captain Charles B. Weeks
Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic’s cargo gear. Chronologically she came d...
11th January 2005
Unidentified Newspaper UNTITLED EXTRACT
Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ...
1987
Toronto Daily Star JUMPED INTO LIFEBOAT
H.B. Stephenson Account...
19th April 1912
  LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS
The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo...
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS LOUNGE. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : TOURIST CLASS LOUNGE. 1938.
TOURIST CLASS LOUNGE: The Tourist Class Lounge is on the Lower Promenade Deck. Has a large figured red carpet, extending wall to wall with motifs of Holland and America. Walls paneled in satinwood, and furniture upholster in beige. The room has lar...
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Toronto Daily Star E.Z. TAYLOR'S ACCOUNT
E.Z. Taylor jumps into the sea...
18th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM- 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM- 1938.
THIRD CLASS SMOKING ROOM: Main Deck. Has a brightly decorated cocktail bar just inside its entrance. The room is extremely cozy and luxurious. The walls are watered teakwood, finished with transparent lacquer. The color scheme is light brown and gree...
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Jersey Journal BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK
McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...
23rd April 1912
Kenosha Telegraph-Courier MRS. HANSON IS HOME
MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________   ...
New York Times SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS
Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz...
22nd April 1912
CAP ARCONA FIRST CLASS PUBLIC ROOMS SUITE   CAP ARCONA FIRST CLASS PUBLIC ROOMS SUITE
Although the Cap Arcona did not have divided funnel uptakes as some earlier German liners did, her interiors mananged to convey the same feeling of procession that the Normandie's famed promenade deck suite did. Dividing walls be...
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Washington Times TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM
NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo...
20th April 1912
WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA   WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA
NYI, the following lot is among the highlights in Swann's Sept 15 auction of the Eric C. Caren Collection: Sale 2253 Lot 309 WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA? (STEAMSHIPS.) John Brown ...
30th August 2011
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : ENGRAVED GLASS PANELS   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : ENGRAVED GLASS PANELS
Vestibule and A Deck Foyer: Elevator shafts are embellished in a new and exciting manner with panels of engraved glass created by Andreas D. Copier in collaboration with Jaap Gidding. Softly diffused with turquoise blue light, the various undersea m...
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  ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER
Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card....
MORRO CASTLE : FIRST CLASS LOUNGE   MORRO CASTLE : FIRST CLASS LOUNGE
The lounge was, perhaps, the most Cunard-like room aboard the ships. The walls were paneled in medium-toned wood, with details picked out by gilt. Both levels of the lounge well were defined by gilt-topped Corinthian columns, and all four corners ...
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San Francisco Bulletin DR. DODGE'S WIFE TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK
Reaches Home with Husband and Son after Terrible Experience at Sea. Seated in the library of her home on Washington street, amid a profusion of flowers sent by friends to express their welcome home, Mrs. Washington Dodge again told th...
30th April 1912
Jersey Journal ONLY 1 OF 10 IN PARTY ON TITANIC SAVED
One of the fortunate survivors of the ill-fated steamship Titanic...
22nd April 1912
POSTWAR 12. JUNGLE BAR. CABIN CLASS.   POSTWAR 12. JUNGLE BAR. CABIN CLASS.
JUNGLE BAR: One of the most delightful spots on the entire ship is the exquisitely appointed Jungle Bar. Its dark walls, sophisticated decorations and subdued lighting provide the intimate charm of your favorite rendez-vous at home. Here you will ...
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Unidentified Newspaper THOMAS MCCORMACK; TITANIC SURVIVOR, 82
Thomas J. McCormack, 82, of the John F. Kennedy Arms, 70 Westfield Ave., Elizabeth, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died today in Elizabeth General Hospital. Mr. McCormack was returning to America from Ireland aboard t...
4th November 1975
Daily Enterprise LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August...
20th April 1912
POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM.   POSTWAR 8. FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM.
DINING ROOM: Every detail of the First Class Dining Room is calculated to enhance your enjoyment of the lavish meals served aboard ship. The golden, padded ceiling, tinted mirrors and soft, diffused lighting lend an air of quiet distinction. On cruis...
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The New York Times THINKS TIMES LIST SAVED FATHER'S LIFE
Survivor Says Aged Man Got Hope from Interpretation of Faulty Wireless Message --- 'WILLIAMS' MEANT 'WILHEMS' --- ...
21st April 1912
CUBA TO AMERICA ON THE ORIZABA Gare Maritime CUBA TO AMERICA ON THE ORIZABA
A cruise from Cuba and along the East Coast in the 1920s taking in an excursion to Kensico Dam....
9th September 2006 Gare Maritime
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
Falmouth Packet FALMOUTH MAN DROWNED
The name of Mr. H. Creece (sic), deck engineer, does not appear amongst the survivors and he has been given up as lost. The deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and her two children in their great sorrow. Obituary WAS born at ...
26th April 1912
San Francisco Bulletin DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE
Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the...
20th April 1912
Voyage KURA
John P. Eaton
Kura Steamship Co., Ltd. (Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, Managers.) (Westbound, Bremerhaven to New York via St. John’s Newfoundland) On 18 March encountered ice at 42 degrees N. 47 degrees ...
19th December 2004
Montreal Daily Witness YOUNGEST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, GLEEFUL WITH FOSTER PARENTS
newspaper article...
22nd April 1912
Worcester Telegram FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912
Western Daily Mercury STEWARDESSES INTERVIEWED
Shortly before the special train steamed out of the docks, two of the stewardesses who are returning to their homes – Mrs. Gold and Mrs. Martin – granted a brief interview, in which they narrated their experiences. They were first-class stewardesses ...
30th April 1912
The Times OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912
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
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : STUYVESANT CAFE VERANDAH. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : STUYVESANT CAFE VERANDAH. 1938.
CAFÉ VERANDAH: As an added attraction, the Stuyvesant Café features this sunny adjoining verandah with picture windows overlooking the Cabin Class Sports Deck and, beyond it, the creamy wake of the ship streaming back towards the horizon. The ver...
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RITZ RESTAURANT  STAFF ON THE TITANIC Titanic Research RITZ RESTAURANT STAFF ON THE TITANIC
Brian J. Ticehurst
ON BOARD the Titanic was what must have been the finest Restaurant in the world. The Ritz Restaurant (as it was called) was situated on B deck and was for the exclusive use of First Class passengers only. Th...
19th September 2005
E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC Titanic Review E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC
Brian J. Ticehurst
THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...
5th May 2009
POSTWAR 6. CABIN DE LUXE.   POSTWAR 6. CABIN DE LUXE.
CABIN DE LUXE: As gracious and inviting as the living room of your own home is this colorful cabin de luxe. There are twelve such apartments, each distinctively different in color scheme and furnishings, and each consisting of bedroom, sitting roo...
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NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : FIRST CLASS DINING ROOM
First Class Dining Room: The Dining Room on A Deck is an exquisitely delicate setting of ivory walls, pale gold ceiling, gold leaf columns, tinted mirrors, satinwood furniture, two toned blue carpet and handmade frosty Murano glass lighting fixtures....
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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
POSTWAR 16. TOURIST CLASS COCKTAIL BAR.   POSTWAR 16. TOURIST CLASS COCKTAIL BAR.
COCKTAIL BAR: The gay canary yellow and buff décor of the Nieuw Amsterdam’s Tourist Class Bar is designed to give spirits a lift…even without the benefits of alcohol. But there’s no denying that the fine liquors and smooth mixed dr...
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  MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT'
Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
LEST WE FORGET : ALBERT ARTHUR BESTIC Gare Maritime LEST WE FORGET : ALBERT ARTHUR BESTIC
Michael Poirier and Jim Kalafus
“To me she was my dream ship. I saw her first when in her regal beauty she sped along the surface of the Clyde upon her trials. My boyish heart went out to her in admiration.” ...
1st August 2010 Gare Maritime
FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS   FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS
The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ...
30th April 1912
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : GRAND HALL CEILING, 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : GRAND HALL CEILING, 1938.
WHAT BECAME OF THE GRAND HALL: The Grand Hall was destined to become the only room in First class to be entirely remodeled after the war. Evidently the daring , predominantly gray, color scheme worked better on paper as a means of “feminine enhan...
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Chicago Record-Herald SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO
Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr...
23rd April 1912
Voyage COLLINGWOOD
John P. Eaton
(Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...
28th November 2004
Voyage AJAX
John P. Eaton
Call letters: S P G B Port of Registry: Southampton Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Red, black top Company flag:...
27th February 2005
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