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Pall Mall Gazette (1912) COAL STRIKE NEWS BILLBOARD
Advert for the Pall Mall Gazette in March 1912, suggesting that miners are "blackmailing the nation" (with obvious pun intended) by failing to work pits in their demand for better pay. If the coal strike had continued a few days longer, the...
23rd March 1912  
New York Times (1907) SEAMEN'S STRIKE ABROAD
LIVERPOOL, May 22---The projected move of the White Star Line to Southampton is responsible for a dispute between seamen and firemen and the company which threatens to spread. A hundred men belonging to the Oceanic refused to sai...
23rd May 1907  
The Times (1895) PIRRIE NOMINATED FOR LORD MAYOR OF BELFAST
Our Belfast Correspondent telegraphed last night: At a special meeting of the Belfast City Council yesterday, Alderman Pirrie, a director of the firm of Harland and Wolff, was unanimously nominated Lor...
29th November 1895  
New York Times (1907) ISMAY UPHOLDS STRIKE POLICY
President of Mercantile Marine Says His Company Will Not Advance Pay --- SAILORS DELAY A LINER --- Refuse to Sail on La Touraine Until Paid Full Wages for Loading and Unloading Cargo --- If the stri...
17th May 1907  
  (1912) LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD
Dear Miss Field, On boar...
10th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Mr Turpin, of Plymouth, who was employed at Salt Lake City, came home with his wife last August principally for the purpose of seeing Mrs Turpin's father Mr Wonnacott, of Endsleigh Place, Plymouth. Mr Turpin's mother lives in Beaumont Road, Plymouth...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1907) [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  
Belfast Newsletter (1912) THE LADY PALMIST AND TITANIC PASSENGER
Page 9The Central News says - Of the second class passengers of the Titanic, Walter Harris, of Enfield Highway and Percy Thomas Oxenham, of Ponders End, were booked on the "Philadelphia" for New York. Owing to the coal strik...
19th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ...
17th April 1912  
The Times (1895) PIRRIE'S ELECTION AS LORD MAYOR ASSURED
The unanimous nomination of Alderman Pirrie to be Lord Mayor of Belfast for next year has increased the hope that, as one of the most energetic members of the firm of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, he may be able to ...
30th November 1895  
Gloucester Citizen (1912) HODGES HENRY P. : GLOUCESTERIAN'S BROTHER UNLISTED WITH THE SAVED
[Photo] Among the Titanic victims was Mr. H. P. Hodges, of The Cotswolds, Highfield Lane, Southampton, who is an elder brother of Mr. R. Hodges, of Melcombe, Vicarage Road, Gloucester, one of the staff at Hatherley Road Council Schools...
17th April 1912  
Daily Mail (1912) THE MAY FAMILY
Mrs May, across the way, lost her husband and eldest son. The son was married a year ago and his wife had a baby six weeks ago... Crossing the road I had a talk with the elder Mrs May, a slight, pale woman with dark sorrowful eyes. She ask...
18th April 1912  
Surrey Advertiser and County Times (1912) AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG
Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ...
  April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma...
18th April 1912  
Totnes Times & Devon News (1912) THE LOCAL PASSENGERS
The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su...
20th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) 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  
New York Times (1926) MAURETANIA'S CAPTAIN IS HONORED BY KING
Roston [sic]Is Made a K. B. E. in Delayed Birthday List---48 Other Knights Created --- Copyright, 1926, by The New York Times Company --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The King's Bi...
3rd July 1926  
Torquay Times (1933) UNTITLED
Henley opened the door and came outside. Hichens was standing with both hands in his pockets, and in his right hand pocket was the revolver. He asked Henley for money, saying 'I am on the ground I want you to pick me up.' Henley naturally said 'Why d...
1st December 1933  
Chicago Tribune (1913) JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG
JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge...
28th October 1913  
Croydon Times (1912) THORNTON HEATH FAMILY AMONG THE MISSING
The loss of the Titanc has affected Croydon in at least one case, and that case a particularly pathectic one, it is believed that a whole Thornton Heath family has been lost, together with some relations who saild with them. Mr. and Mr...
20th April 1912  
  TURPIN FAMILY INFORMATION
William John Robert Turpin was born in Plymouth, Devon in 1883. He was the son of John R Turpin (general labourer) and Mary Jane. They had married in about 1880 and were living in Commercial Street, Plymouth at the time of the 1881 census. Both wer...
   
Chicago Evening Post (1912) CHICAGO HEARS ECHO OF NEW TITANIC WOE
French Miner From Iowa Arrives Here and Learns Wife and Children Were Lost With the Liner Sons Ignorant of Wreck Passengers at Union Station Take Up Collec...
25th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
  NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY
Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic...
   
Concord Enterprise (1913) 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  
Examiner.com TITANIC MEMORIAL IN DC
Admit it, you've done it too. You and a significant other have probably stood at some point at or near the bow of a boat and imitated the doubleheaded flying figurehead pose from the 1997 film "Titanic" (If you haven't, you surely know s...
   
  WONNACOTT FAMILY INFORMATION
Dorothy Wonnacott was born in Plymouth in 1885. She was a daughter of Arscott and Mary Jane Wonnacott. Her parents, both originally from the Holsworthy area of mid-Devon had married in about 1878 and were living in Plymouth from that time....
   
Worcester Telegram (1912) W.C.PORTERS LETTERS TO WIFE AND PARTNER
W.C.Porters Letters to Wife and Partner Tells of Pleasant and Successful Trip and of His Anxiety to Hurry Home on the Titanic "I have had a fine trip, enjoyed every minute of it, and have found business prospects ...
17th April 1912  
The Times (1935) TITANIAN - ECHO OF TITANIC
A coincidence between the Titanic and the Titanian was magnified in an article written by ex-sailor William Reeves in the April 1967 issue of the Sea Breezes magazine. Reeves was on lookout on the cargo vessel Titanian in April 1935 in the...
27th April 1935  
New York Times (1907) ADRIATIC TO SAIL TO-DAY
Biggest Liner's Cabins Full on Her First Voyage Eastward --- With her saloon apartments filled, the White Star liner Adriatic, biggest and newest of transatlantic liners at present in commission, will sail for Southampton ...
22nd May 1907  
  GOODWIN FAMILY UPDATED BIOGRAPHIES
Goodwin, Mr. Charles Frederick. (40). Missing. Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, Wiltshire. Ticket number CA2144 cost £46 18s 0d. There is a memorial to the whole famil...
   
The Times (2009) MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97
Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97.Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known as Millvina, died today at the nursing home near Southampton where he...
31st May 2009  
 

 
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