Steamship Company

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New York Times	ISMAY IS TO QUIT Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...	1st January 1913
New York Times	MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...	16th April 1912
The Plain Dealer	AKRON MAN'S FIRM BUYS TITANIC RESCUE SHIP Akron businessman Joe Marsh's company has bought the ownership rights to the wreckage of the Carpathia, the steamship famous for rescuing hundreds of passengers after the Titanic sank in 1912, for $3 million. ...	13th March 2007
The Times	ISMAY RESIGNS CHAIRMANSHIPS The Asiatic Steam Navigation Company announce the resignation of Mr. J. Bruce Ismay , chairman of the company and its associated company, the Delta Insurance Company. Mr. Ismay has been a director of these companies for nearly 35 years....	30th July 1934
Chicago Record-Herald	RUSE SCENTED TO AVOID CLAIM Titanic Survivor Says She Signed Paper Thinking It Railroad Tickets Alleged unfair tactics used by the owners of the steamship Titanic to avoid damage claims from survivors were explained yesterday by Miss Annie Kelly, one of...	25th April 1912
Evening Telegraph	STEAMSHIP DIRECTOR A VICTIM New York, April 23. - It was learned today that Jonkheer J. G. Reuchlin,managing director of the Holland-American Steamship Line, had gone down with the Titanic. Mr. Reuchlin was coming to this country to arrange business relative to the opening of t...	23rd April 1912
New York Times	THOMAS H. ISMAY LEFT £1,297,881 LONDON, March 11---The will of the late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Steamship Company, who died in Liverpool last November, has been proved, showing a personal estate of £1,297,881. Numerous legacies, in all about £2...	12th March 1900
Newark Star	MR. STENGEL SENDS WORD HE IS SAFE Nothing Heard of Three Other Essex Men Who Were on Doomed Ship --- Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel were rejoiced yesterday when a wireless message was received from Mr. Ivan Stengel stating that his father and ...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ...	21st July 1912
Newark Evening News	MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th...	20th April 1912
Concord Enterprise	TO INSTITUTE SUIT Miss Frances M. Ford of this town, who lost nine relatives in the wreck of the Titanic, including her mother, two brothers, two sisters, an uncle and an aunt, and their small children, is one of those to institute suit against the steamship company i...	12th February 1913
Globe and Mail	LAST REMAINING CP STEAMSHIP COMING HOME TO CANADA The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era. The elegant ship, with its oak and mahogany dining room and stained-glass windows, ferried passengers and freight from Georgian Bay to Lake Superior for more than 50 years, until it was decommissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1965....	14th October 2011
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM IN MINING CO. Holthoff and Loomis-Pettibone Corporations Are Merged --- Special to The New York Times --- MILWAUKEE, Dec. 31---The Holthoff Machinery Company of Cudahy has issued a circular announcing a change i...	1st January 1904
New York Times	$5,000,000 STERILIZED AIR COMPANY TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 4---The American Sterilized Air and Transportation Company, with a capital of $5,000,000, filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State to-day. The company is formed to develop a patented system of sterilizing, dehyd...	5th August 1899
	RIO CRUISE - BACK COVER GENERAL CONDITIONS The NORMANDIE sails under the command and control of the French line, and passengers are subject to the rules and regulations of that company and to the terms of the ticket for ocean carriage issued by t...	1937
Voyage	ROYAL EDWARD John P. Eaton Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1...	10th May 2005
The Times	MR. ISMAY AND THE WHITE STAR LINE IMPENDING RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMANSHIP --- It is now officially announced that Mr. J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the presidency of the International Mercantile Marine Company as from June 30 next, and that he wil...	1st January 1913
New York Times	THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died...	24th November 1899
Camden Daily Courier	SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...	20th April 1912
The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	CONDITION OF TITANIC KNOWN AT OFFICE MONDAY CONDITION OF TITANIC KNOWN AT OFFICE MONDAY ___________________ Timothy L. Woodruff Says Typewritte...	19th April 1912
info	PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there....	26th August 2011
New York Times	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...	16th April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times	STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st...	19th April 1912
New York Dramatic Mirror	GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS Dorothy Gibson has been engaged as leading woman for the New American stock of the Éclair Company. Her portrait appears on another page. She had gained some attention on the stage before going into pictures and had also posed for Harrison Fisher, the...	9th August 1911
New York Herald	WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary...	19th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	WILLIAM LINDSAY William Lindsay was one of the few saved from the Titanic on which he was a dynamo attendant. William Lindsay says he feels too upset to write much and his brother here hopes to hear more from him within a couple of weeks. The survivor of the great c...	22nd April 1912
Worcester Evening Post	ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o...	19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them fr...	20th July 1912
Stratford Express	THE TITANIC DISASTER Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For...	20th April 1912
Paterson Morning Call	WILLIAM C. JOHNSON, JR. [The opening paragraphs of this article, which do not relate to Mr. Johnson, have been omitted.] The death of William C. Johnson, Jr., of Hawthorne, has been confirmed when his parents received a message reading as follows: “William C....	20th April 1912
Dictionary of National Biography (1901)	ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY Prof. Sir John Knox Laughton, Litt.D. ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY (1837-1899), shipowner, eldest son of Joseph Ismay, of Marypoint, [sic; should be "Maryport], Cumberland, was born there on 7 Jan. 1837. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a firm of shipbrokers (...
Atlantic City Daily Press	COUSIN OF CITY CLERK DONNELLY AMONG RESCUED Elmer Taylor, Paper Cup Manufacturer, Mrs. Thos. Potter, Mrs. Boulton Earnshaw (Olive Potter) and Miss Hayes Are Safe On Carpathia ---------- COTTAGE SECTION HERE IN FERMENT ---------- Many Atlantic City people ...	17th April 1912
The Associated Press	ANOTHER TITANIC EXPEDITION POSSIBLE IN 2010 The president and CEO of the company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic says the company is interested in conducting its first salvage since 2004 at the world's most famous shipwreck....	27th October 2009
Rahway Daily Record	NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ...	26th April 1912
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. DODGE AND HIS FAMILY ARE SAFE Page 1 Assessor Sends Two Messages From Carpathia to His Son Here-- Mayor Wires Reply Relieving the deep anxiety of his relatives and thousands of friends in this city, Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco, ...	18th April 1912
The Toronto World	C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ...	17th April 1912
Boston Daily Globe	LATTIMER MOURNED Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and...	20th April 1912
New York Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES HERE J. Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Mauretania. With him was Vice President Harold A. Sanderson and E. C. Grenfell, the latter a Director of ...	27th February 1910
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
Voyage	ALEXANDRA John P. Eaton Det Forenede Dampskibs Selsk (United Steamship Co.) Departed Emden, Germany for Boston, 13 March. On 3 April at 45 degrees 04'N. by 56 degrees 38'W. saw drifting ice and ice fields. Arrived at Boston 7 April. ...	16th January 2005
The Times	INSURANCE DIRECTOR'S RETIREMENT Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, who has for many years been a director of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company and also for some time past a director of the Royal Insurance Company and of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, has ...	29th January 1930
Washington Herald	E. N. KIMBALL SAVED Boston, April 18---A wireless message was received at the Hall & Kimball Piano Company here saying that Edwin Nelson Kimball, jr., president of the company, had been saved and is aboard the Carpathia....	19th April 1912
Acton-The Beacon	ACTON LIBRARY TO HOST 'TITANIC SINKS' ACTON, MASS. - The Delvena Theatre Company will present "The Titanic Sinks as Acton Sleeps" at the Acton Memorial Library on Wednesday, May 6, at 7 p.m....	29th April 2009
New York Times	14 IN GLASS TRADE FINED IN TRUST CASE They Plead Nolo Contendere at Chicago on Price-Fixing --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Jan. 22---Fourteen corporate and individual defendants in the glazing industry, accused of fixing prices of glass...	23rd January 1941
The Associated Press	TITANIC SALVAGE COMPANY WINS AWARD FROM VA. COURT The company with exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is entitled to full compensation for artifacts worth about $110 million that it has recovered in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck a federal judge has ruled....	14th August 2010
New York Times	WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C...	30th April 1931
	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...
New York Times	EXTENDING PUMP CO. PLANTS On Inspection Tour President Guggenheim Finds Orders Beyond Capacity --- President Benjamin Guggenheim of the International Steam Pump Company, who has just returned from a tour of inspection of the company's Eastern plants, issued a sta...	21st October 1909

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