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	QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold...	1956
	SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS Looking towards the Ocean /White Star Dock c. 1912...
	SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS
nzherald.co.nz	TITANIC WRECK TOURS OFFERED TO MARK DISASTER'S CENTENARY The Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to its doomed maiden voyage in April 1912. Expand The Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to its doomed maiden voyage in April 1912. If you can't quite afford the US$200,000 (NZ$243,962) ticket to space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, how about US$59,680 to dive down to the Titanic, which lies 3810m below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean? The latest exotic expedition for the moneyed traveller is being organised for next year, the centenary of the Titanic disaster. Passengers will descend to the Titanic's hulk two-by-two, aboard a three-person Russian Mir submersible....	20th September 2011
guardian.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012....	31st March 2009
	JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
Belfast Telegraph	TV STAR DELIGHTED BY RETURN OF SS NOMADIC SKY News presenter Eamonn Holmes has expressed his delight that Nomadic is to return to the docks where she was built.The Ulster-born presenter, who gave his backing to the campaigners as they battled to bring the 'mini-Titanic' back from France to Belfast, said he was looking forward to seeing her in the docks where she was built in 1911."I look forward to being there the day they crack the bottle of champagne against her," he told The Belfast Telegraph."I think it's another piece in the jigsaw of making Belfast a top tourist attraction. ...	31st January 2006
Southern Evening Echo	OBITUARY TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir...	30th December 1968
thisiscornwall.co.uk	CENTENARY IS MARKED WITH A TITANIC DAY AT MUSEUM Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery will mark 100 years since the sinking of RMS Titanic with a special event on Saturday, March 31. The surviving crew of the doomed luxury liner were brought ashore at Millbay Docks in the city in 1912 and the museum will be running a day of talks and presentations to commemorate the anniversary. Speakers include David Hutchings, Richard de Kerbrech and Sheila Jemima, who have all written on various aspects of the disaster. They will variously elaborate on the ship itself, the times in which she was built, the engine room, and the impact the disaster had on the Titanic's home port of Southampton....	15th March 2012
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...	1908
New York Times	BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...	11th July 1910
	THE MILLER'S SON Albert Barker was born in the village of King's Worthy on the River Itchen in Hampshire, just a few miles upstream from the dock where Titanic would begin its voyage 19 years later. His father was a miller at nearby Abbot's W...
	SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS A panoramic view of Southampton Terminus railway station, circa 1912, at which time it was known as Southampton Town & Dock....
Southern Daily Echo	HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE TITANIC Neil Hotson Mrs Saunders, a widow, was walking down Bridge Street in the direction of Southampton Docks railway station. She was carrying her handbag, which contained six shillings. John Dixon was also walking in Bridge Street. He had arrive...	16th February 2002
	SOUTHAMPTON TERMINUS The rear elevation of Southampton Terminus, circa 1912. Note the Southampton Corporation tramcar....
New York Times	[WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd...	6th June 1907
Los Angeles Times	THE TITANIC DOCKS AT THE LUXOR AFTER midnight on a recent Tuesday, a crowd has gathered behind velvet ropes in front of the Luxor on the Las Vegas Strip, as if waiting for the Hilton sisters to arrive. Instead, they're watching a flatbed truck with a huge piece of jagged, round steel that looks like a postmodern sculpture....	3rd September 2008
Isle of Man Today	THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE TITANIC ARRIVES IN DOUGLAS THE Manx Operatic Society will be taking theatre-goers on a week-long journey on board the Titanic. Titanic the Musical docks at the Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, this Saturday until March 28....	20th March 2009
	STONE FAMILY INFORMATION Edmund Stone was born in Southampton in 1879. He was the son of William Stone (Railway Inspector) and Agnes Mary Jane Stone. In 1881 the UK Census has the family at 7 Brinton's Terrace, Southampton. With William and Agnes Stone were their 4 ...
dailyecho.co.uk	PLANS TO SELL OFF SOUTHAMPTON'S 600-YEAR-OLD WOOLHOUSE REVEALED The Grade I listed Wool House, which houses the city's Titanic display, is being marketed by Southampton City Council. It is the only surviving freestanding mediaeval warehouse in Southampton, built in 1415 as a storehouse for wool to be exported to ......	4th April 2011
Worcester Evening Gazette	LANDING MOST PATHETIC SIGHT New York, April 19. Worcester Evening Gazette. Worcester, Mass. Have just left Cunard docks after witnessing arrival of Titanic's rescued passengers on the Carpathia. It was the most pathetic and tr...	20th April 1912
The Toronto World	SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic. The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t...	17th April 1912
bbc.co.uk	BELFAST CEREMONY MARKS TITANIC'S LAUNCH 100 YEARS ON A ceremony has taken place in Belfast to mark the moment the Titanic was launched 100 years ago. A large crowd of school children cheered as they attempted to re-enact the mood on the docks as those involved in building the ship watched her roll down ......	31st May 2011
GlobeNewsWire	AFTER 97 YEARS, TITANIC DOCKS IN NEW YORK CITY ATLANTA, June 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRXI), announced today that Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will open at Discovery Times Square Exposition on June 24, 2009 for a limited engagement. ...	5th June 2009
BBC News	BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING Amid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. The Nomadic is to return to Belfast Weeds grow on its deck, and year after year of recent neglect have taken a heavy toll. Step onboard and you see the enormity of the renovation task. Look hard enough, however, and you do glimpse the potential. The question is will the millions needed be raised to do the job? ...	11th July 2006
Birmingham Mail	TITANIC ANCHOR DOCKS AT BLACK COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUM A FULL-size replica of the Titanic 16 ton anchor has docked at the Black County Living Museum....	30th October 2010
BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ...	19th July 2006
BBC News	NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ...	16th July 2006
	SOUTHAMPTON ROYAL PIER The small station at Southampton Pier, which was in use from 1891 until 1914. The excursion steamer is typical of those which ran across the Solent to and from the Isle of Wight....
BBC News	SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM PLAN GETS GREEN LIGHT Southampton City Council says it will consider selling off assets and short-term borrowing to raise the extra £10m needed to build a £15m maritime museum....	4th August 2010
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t...	1912
BBC News	MUSICAL OF SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC CREW STORIES A trio of Southampton singer-songwriters have written a musical show based on the city's connections with the Titanic....	10th April 2010
	FREDERICK SHEATH Brian J. Ticehurst FREDERICK SHEATH was born in 1892 at number 12 Bell Street, Southampton, the house was a two-up, two-down terraced house with an outside toilet and no garden. Bell Street was situated in the lower, poorer part of town and not f...
New York Times	SOUTHAMPTON EN FETE Arrival of Adriatic Inaugurates the New White Star Service --- SOUTHAMPTON, May 30---The City of Southampton was in holiday attire to-day in honor of the arrival here of the White Star liner Adriatic, f...	31st May 1907
BBC News	SOUTHAMPTON'S £8M AERONAUTICA MUSEUM PLAN UNVEILED Plans have been unveiled for a £8m museum celebrating Southampton's maritime and aviation history. ...	19th June 2010
Press Release	TITANIC WALKS : IPHONE APP : TITANIC TRAIL IN SOUTHAMPTON, UK Almost a century on, Southampton, England—the home port of RMS Titanic—carefully preserves the memory of the ship and those who tragically lost their lives on her ill-fated maiden voyage. Locals and visitors to Southampton who, in t...	20th October 2010
BBC News	LOTTERY CASH FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM A new maritime museum in Hampshire has moved a step closer after the plan was awarded a Â£4.6m lottery grant. Southampton City Council had planned to sell off artwork to raise Â£5m of the total Â£15m cost but dropped the idea after criticism....	30th March 2010
thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON AND BELFAST'S TITANIC MEMORIALS TAKE SHAPE AHEAD OF ANNIVERSARY THEY have both been billed as landmark tourist attractions to mark the 100th anniversary of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage. But council heritage bosses behind a £15m Titanic museum in Southampton have shrugged off ......	13th April 2011
dailyecho.co.uk	SOUTHAMPTON CHILDREN TO LEAD TITANIC COMMEMORATION A PERSONAL tribute to the hundreds of Southampton residents who died on board the Titanic will be led by the children of the city, as part of the centenary commemoration of the disaster. ...	16th February 2012
The Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri...	17th February 1956
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS: WILLIAM DUFFY Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial....
Web	SOUTHAMPTON COMMEMORATION WEEKEND A group of long standing Titanic buffs will be attending Southampton's Titanic Commemoration this coming weekend......	6th April 2008
New York Times	A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com...	26th May 1901
ARTINFO	ARTWORK SALE TO FUND TITANIC MUSEUM OPPOSED IN ENGLAND SOUTHAMPTON, Englandâ€” The Southampton City Councilâ€™s plans to auction off two artworks to help fund a museum dedicated to the Titanic is drawing art world opposition, with some critics fearing the precedent the sale might set....
Southern Daily Echo	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
	DEATH CERTIFICATE Certified Copy of an Entry of Death Registration District ...	1913
	GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
BBC News	SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC ENGINEERS MEMORIAL IS RESTORED A newly-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS Titanic sank 98 years ago will be unveiled in Southampton....	2nd September 2010
	1910 MAP OF SOUTHAMPTON Map...
Daily Echo	SOUTHAMPTON'S SEA CITY MUSEUM GIVEN GO AHEAD COUNCILLORS have given the final go ahead for work to start on Southampton's £15m Sea City Museum....	29th September 2010

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