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Belfast Newsletter (2007) A TASTE OF ULSTER WHETS US APPETITES
THE arrival of Ulster's sizeable contingent of Government ministers, representatives of trade and industry, culture, tourism and leisure is the culmination of a four-month appetiser being served up in Washington DC. ...
28th June 2007  
New York Times (1940) CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES
Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
11th May 1940  
Graphic (1912) A TRADE THAT HAS BEEN BOOMING SINCE THE TITANIC DISASTER
‘ILL BLOWS THE WIND THAT PROFITS NOBODY’ The Titanic disaster has created an unprecedented demand for lifeboats, and we now seem to be in danger of placing too much reliance on this system of life-saving. Meanwhile these are busy times...
18th May 1912  
  (1912) WILLIAM DAVID ARCHER (PRINCIPAL SHIP SURVEYOR - BOARD OF TRADE) TESTIMONY (BRITISH ENQUIRY)
17th June 1912  
The Washington Post (1912) BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR
President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...
22nd May 1912  
  (1912) BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE
A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...
11th July 1912  
New York Times (1937) MRS. B. GUGGENHEIM SUCCUMBS HERE AT 66
Her Husband, Member of Family Noted in Mining Industry, Perished on Titanic --- Mrs. Florette Guggenheim, widow of Benjamin Guggenheim, who perished on the Titanic, died yesterday in her apartment in the Hotel Plaza, after a brief illne...
16th November 1937  
The Scotsman (1912) STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1941) 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 Times (1888) LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES COMMITTEE, 1888
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1888.-The first meeting of the comnmittee appointed under the provisions of the "Merchant Shippng (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888," took place at the Board of Trade...
19th November 1888  
Cork Examiner (1912) UNTITLED
A list of survivors published today contains no reference to the names of Mr. Patrick Colbert, Kilconlea, Abbeyfeale (Not Limerick as given) Mr. James Scanlon, Rathkeale, nor of other young men said to have been on board from East and North Kerry. Pa...
22nd April 1912  
BBC News (2008) GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY
Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ...
15th April 2008  
New York Times (1899) THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...
25th November 1899  
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882) SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND
SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
   
  TITANIC INQUIRY PROJECT
The site contains the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports....
   
The Times (1899) THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...
22nd July 1899  
  TITANIC BISCUIT
A biscuit with an impressed image of the Titanic measuring 2 ½ in. diameter, made by Carr, Carlisle. Removed from the ship by Board of Trade official Captain Morris Harvey Clarke, Southampton 1912....
   
Guernsey Weekly Press (1912) MR. H. MITCHELL
Mr. H. Mitchell, who was aged 73, was on his way to pay a visit to his brother and other relatives. He was an ex-Donzenier of Canton No. 1 and was for some years in business in the boot trade in Mill-street. He was a widower and resided with his daug...
22nd April 1912  
The Times (1897) PIRRIE HONOURED FOR SERVICE AS LORD MAYOR
BELFAST, DEC. 14.To-night a banquet was given to the Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Mrs. Pirrie by the citizens on the occasion of the approaching termination of the second year of Mr. Pirri...
15th December 1897  
New York Times (1953) WILLIAM DICK DIES; AN INDUSTRIALIST
Director of the National Sugar Refining Co., Best Foods, Inc., and Irving Trust Was 65 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- ISLIP, L. I., Sept. 5---William K. Dick, industrialist, banker and grandson of a pioneer in the f...
6th September 1953  
Western Morning News (1912) WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS
Mr. Frank Andrew, a young married man, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, about 3 miles from Redruth en route to America to seek his fortune - his first trip across the seas - by the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Andrew has a wife and one child, age ...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
Elected President of International Steam Pump Co. in 1909 --- Benjamin Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1865, the fifth of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, founder of the famous house of M. Guggenheim & Sons, who came to...
16th April 1912  
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) (1908) HARLAND AND WOLFF, LTD.
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast. Shipbuilding in Belfast as a progressive industry is of comparatively recent growth, and yet there is probably no commertial [sic] centre more prominently identified with the trade to-day than th...
  1908  
The Times (1913) LIFE-SAVING AT SEA
AWARD OF THE KING'S MEDALS The King has been pleased, on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award medals for gallantry in saving life at sea to the folowing persons: A silver medal t...
12th July 1913  
The Times (1913) PRESENTATION OF MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, DEC. 16---The King this morning decorated the following with medals for acts of gallantry on land and at sea as stated against their names:--- BOARD OF TRADE MEDALS Lieutenant ...
17th December 1913  
New York Times (1930) SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA
Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ...
1st November 1930  
New York Times Book Review (1902) BOOKS AND MEN
Elinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" and the recently published "Reflections of Ambrosine," is Mrs. Clayton Glyn, a sister of Lady Duff Gordon.  She is an intimate friend of Lady Warwick.  Lady Gordon is one of the well-known titled En...
15th November 1902  
Daily Mirror (2006) FAULTY RIVETS SANK TITANIC
FAULTY rivets were to blame for the Titanic disaster, a 9/11 scientist says. Metal pins that should have held the hull together snapped after the liner hit an iceberg. They allowed it to open up like a zip when it sank off Newfoundland in 1912, leaving 1,523 dead. US forensic expert Tim Foecke, who probed the World Trade Centre terror attack, said the rivets were made from sub-standard wrought iron which snapped under pressure....
1st November 2006  
North American (1912) TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN
Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w...
3rd May 1912  
New York Times (1911) CHANGE IN COMMODORES
Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo...
6th June 1911  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1949) ELMER ZELBY [SIC] TAYLOR
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., May 22---Elmer Zelby [sic; should be "Zebley"] Taylor, a pioneer in the paper container industry and a consulting engineer for the Continental Can Company, Inc., of New York, died he...
23rd May 1949  
Hudson Observer (1912) HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER
In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1909) JUDGMENT FOR $266,249 LOAN
Judgment for $266,249 was entered by default yesterday against John D. Baumann & Co., a New York corporation, in favor of Charles G., Hugh L., Herbert R., and William R. Arbuthnot, merchants of London. The judgment was entered for amounts claimed as ...
4th February 1909  
New York Herald (1912) EDWARD A. KENT
Edward A. Kent, who is a well-known architect at Buffalo, N. Y. and whose brother, William Kent, is an architect in New York city, was a passenger on board the Titanic who is not reported among the rescued. Mr. Kent, who is fifty-eight years old, is...
17th April 1912  
The Times (1919) CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETIREMENT
MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING --- CONTROLLER-GENERAL'S RETlREMENT --- The Prime Minister and the Shipping Controller have consented to the release from the end of the present month of the Right Hon. Lord Pirrie, ...
23rd December 1919  
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
He was saved in Lifeboat Englehardt C. His home address was Fanners Lane, Lymington, Hants. His official occupation was - Fireman's Messman and he was 39 years old . (He was originally born in Hampshire). Last ship before the Titanic was the RMS ...
   
Brighton Argus (1912) MR. PITMAN
Mr. Pitman, the third officer, who confirmed the statement that only two boats were lowered at the Board of Trade inspection. He did not see any ice before the disaster, but knew a wireless warning had been received. After the receipt of the w...
24th April 1912  
New York Times (1941) WM. K. DICK MARRIES MRS. VIRGINIA CONNER
Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Co. Weds in Akron --- Word has been received here of the marriage of Mrs. Virginia Keniston Conner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Conner of this city, to William K. Dick of this city and Al...
25th December 1941  
New York Times (1904) BETWEEN SIPS OF TEA
Lady Duff-Gordon is one of the English titled women who are "in trade," as it is termed in England. She started a dress-making establishment some years since in London, and, having energy and taste, it has proved most successful. She is a Canadian...
11th December 1904  
Chronicles of the Cumming Club (1887) (1887) SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART.
SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART.; 'the sixth of a family of eight.' His father, Dr. Harland, a graduate of Edinburgh University, practised in Scarborough until nearly the period of his death, in 1866. He was a man of remarkable skill...
  1887  
Connaught Telegraph (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER, DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED
Lord Mersey, the specially appointed Commissioner of Wrecks to enquire into the loss of the White Star Liner Titanic, on Tuesday delivered the finding of the Court. The attendance at the London-Scottish Hall, Westminster, where the in...
3rd August 1912  
The Evening Telegram (1912) HUGO ROSS WAS ABOARD
NO NEWS YET OF TORONTO MAN Prominent Winnipeg Mining Man and Formerly of Toronto--Was Returning from European Trip. "News of Hugo Ross, broker of Winnipeg, and formerly of Toronto, is eagerly watch...
16th April 1912  
The Times (1930) OBITUARY---MR. J. H. ISMAY
A NOTED AGRICULTURALIST --- We regret to announce that Mr. James Hainsworth Ismay died at Iwerne Minster House, Blandford, Dorset, yesterday. He belonged to the well-known family of shipowners, and was himself formerly a partner in th...
25th January 1930  
New York Times (1907) SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD
Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé  Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist.  Her mother marrie...
4th August 1907  
New York Times (1912) JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...
16th 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...
   
New York Times (1912) MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS-Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (Orphan Asylum,) passed at a meeting specially called for the purpose of considering the tragic and untimely death of Isidor Straus: Isidor Straus t...
4th May 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  
Dictionary of National Biography (1901) ISMAY, THOMAS HENRY
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 (...
   
Variety (1946) JULES BRULATOUR DIES AT 76 IN NEW YORK; PIONEER OF FILM BIZ
Jules E. Brulatour, 76, film business pioneer, who for four years had been distributor of raw stock for Eastman Kodak, died Saturday night (26) at Mt. Sinai hospital, N.Y., after an illness of about a month. His wife, former actress Hope Hamilton, wa...
23rd October 1946  
New York Times (1962) HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC
Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t...
23rd May 1962  
St. Ives Times & Express (1988) UNKNOWN TITLE
Died January 9th 1988. RICHARDS, William (Willie) Rowe Richards of Carbis Bay whose death at the age of 78 is reported on page 7 was one of the few survivors remaining of the Titanic disaster in which in April 1912 claimed 1,500 lives....
22nd January 1988  
Wiltshire Times (1912) TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...
20th April 1912  
The Times (1937) MR. BRUCE ISMAY
AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, particularly in Liverpool, as an able shipowner. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay, was a...
18th October 1937  
Brockton Daily Enterprise (1912) BROCKTON AND STOUGHTON MEN ABOARD TITANIC
Among the passengers of the Titanic are Frank D. Millet, the distinguished artist, once of East Bridgewater, and a brother of Dr. Charles S. Millett of Brockton; George Q. Clifford, of the Belcher Last Co. of Stoughton and widely known among the shoe...
15th April 1912  
The Times (1924) LORD PIRRIE - DOMINANT FIGURE IN SHIPBUILDING
PEACE AND WAR SERVICES ...
9th June 1924  
Atlantic Daily Bulletin (1992) THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES
SOME of you who were on the Titanic's re-enactment voyage on the Waterfront Ferry Hotspur VI, out of Southampton docks back at the Convention in April, may remember that the Captain of the Ferry we were aboard passed me a note sa...
  1992  
New York Times (1935) LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES
Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele...
22nd April 1935  
ET Research (2006) TITANIC'S SUPREME SURVIVOR
Sydney Buxton as a new MP SYDNEY BUXTON, President of the Board of Trade...
13th December 2006  
Worcester Magazine (1912) WALTER C. PORTER, 46 YEARS, 11 MO. AND 2 DAYS OLD OF S. PORTER & CO., DROWNED AT SEA.
Worcester's Toll in Titanic Disaster Walter C. Porter, of the Samuel Porter Company, a Member of this Board on Ill-fated Ship, Returning from European Business Trip. His Body Found by Crew of Mackay-Bennett after the Mighty Ocean Liner...
  May 1912  
The Times (1913) WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED
THE WHITE STAR LINE AND ITS OFFICERS IMPROVED CONDITIONS The Imperial Merchant Service Guild is officially informed by the White Star Line of substantial improvements in the pay and general conditions of the officers of ...
4th April 1913  
New York Times (1911) AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911  
  CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC
Eight men, all Sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton with third class ticket #1601 at a cost of £56 9s 11d. Six of the men: Lee Bing, ...
   
The Times (1899) DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY
We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble....
24th November 1899  
The Times (1912) SURVIVORS OF THE CREW AT PLYMOUTH
DETENTION FOR THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE A strange welcome awaited the surviving members of the crew of the Titanic on their arrival at Plymouth today. Instead of a popular demonstration of sympathy and b...
29th April 1912  
New York Times (1940) CAPTAIN ROSTRON, TITANIC RESCUER
Raced Carpathia Through Icy Waters to Save 700 Persons---Dies in England at 71 --- WITH CUNARD 36 YEARS --- Commodore of Line, 1928-31, Commanded Mauretania and Berengaria During Career --- By Cable to The NE...
6th November 1940  
The Evening Post (1912) BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS
Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...
2nd May 1912  
  (1911) INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...
17th November 1911  
ET Research (2005) LORD MERSEY— OBITER DICTA
HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusion with...
13th March 2005  
The Times (1904) MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu...
21st April 1904  
  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...
   
Women's Wear Daily (1911) EDITH L. ROSENBAUM REPORTED HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
A number of the daily papers this morning have the following press dispatch from Rouen, France: "Rouen, Monday: – Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured today in an automobile accident while on her way to this city from Paris. A Ger...
22nd August 1911  
Washington Herald (1912) ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK
Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1907) WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC
Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...
8th January 1907  
  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....
   
Liverpool Daily Post (2009) LIVERPOOL GETS READY FOR TITANIC 2012 CENTENARY
by Peter ElsonApr 24 2009Today, Liverpool starts planning the centenary of Titanic's sinking in three years' time. Peter Elson reportsIT ALL started with an innocent game of billiards in one of Liverpool's great me...
29th April 2009  
ET Research (2002) QUEEN MARY AND FAT RASCALS ON OFFER IN YORKSHIRE
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19th September 2002  
New York Times (1937) J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937  
New York Times (1924) LORD PIRRIE DIES ON SHIP BOUND HERE
Head of Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Stricken With Pneumonia --- ON TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA --- A Leader in the Formation of the International Mercantile Marine --- Viscount Pirrie, head of the famous firm of...
9th June 1924  
Atlantic City Daily Press (1912) ATLANTIC SURVIVOR TELLS OF DISASTER
E. Z. Taylor, On Telephone With City Clerk Donnelly, Describes AwfulScene---Third Member of His Party, Fletcher Williams, Lost---Did NotHear of Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Earnshaw.----------Atlantic City was in direct personal ...
19th April 1912  
New York Times (1893) FAVORS ISIDOR STRAUS
RICHARD CROKER SAYS HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO BUSINESS MEN --- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10---Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady, John R Sexton. and John F. Carroll, well-known Tammany men, who have been in Florida since la...
11th February 1893  
La Voix du Nord (1965) SHE NEARLY DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC...
...and almost was burned to death in a Florida hotel Mme Bourlard, 80, now lives peaceful days in Béthune Sunday May 9th and Monday May 10th, 1965 Mme Bourlard, who was born in Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, 80 ...
9th May 1965  
  LETTER FROM CATERINA GILARDINO, NIECE OF VINCENZO GILARDINO
I do not know the year Vincenzo Gilardino came to England but it must have been in the last years of the 1800s because in 1901 my father (Paulo) Gustavo, Vincenzo's brother, was sent to England by their father to try + persuade Vincenzo to return to ...
   
ET Reviews (2009) E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC
THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...
5th May 2009  
New York Times (1899) 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  
ET Research (2004) OF RATS AND MEN: TITANIC SURVIVOR "SLEEPING ROUGH"
YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT ...
10th June 2004  
Salford Reporter (1912) THE FUNERAL OF MR ARTHUR GEE AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAREER
The remains of Mr. Arthur Gee, who was one of the passengers who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster were laid to rest on Monday afternoon in the graveyard of St. Johns Church the Height. Mr. Arthur Gee was born at the Height 47 years ago, his f...
23rd May 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) PORTER SANK WITH TITANIC HEROES
Family and Friends of Worcester Man Now Satisfied He Is Among Those Lost Walter E. Bigelow, business associate and friend of Walter C.Porter, last of the Titanic, who made a special trip to New York yesterday in the hope of securing fa...
19th April 1912  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) FOUR ON BIG LINER CLEVELAND BOUND
Page 1 Three Men and One Woman on Way to This City May Have Gone Down Many Parts of Ohio Represented in Lists of Victims When the news of the greatest sea distater ina century was flashed to Cleveland ye...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1915) SUBMARINES SINK FOUR MORE SHIPS
Three British and a French Steamer Destroyed, All Probably in Mediterranean --- 2 U-BOATS REPORTED LOST -- And a Third Is Said to Have Been Captured and Taken to Port by British Warships --- LONDON, Nov...
11th November 1915  
ET Research (2004) PITMAN'S OWN PRIVATE ICEBERG
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19th July 2004  
New York Sun (1935) NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON
London, April 22 - Lady Duff Gordon, for thirty years directress of the noted dress firm Lucile, with branches in New York, London, Paris and Chicago, and an innovator in feminine apparel, died yesterday in a London nursing home, following an illness...
22nd April 1935  
New York Times (1915) BUYER FINDS TRADE IN GERMANY STIFLED
E. P. Calderhead Say Factories There Are Crippled Because They Lack Materials --- ALL PRICES HAVE ADVANCED --- Berlin Streets, Cafes, and Hotels Deserted---Factory Workers in France Are Men Over 70 --- A repo...
23rd April 1915  
  COLERIDGE FAMILY INFORMATION
Reginald Coleridge was born in 1883 at 23 Bitton Street, Teignmouth, Devon. He was the only son of Charles Coleridge (cabinet maker) and Annie. He had a younger sister named Augusta. Reginald’s grandfather, James Coleridge (1824-1904...
   
ET Research (2008) COULD YOU MAKE IT TO EXTRA MASTER?
If I doubted my reckoning after a long time at sea I verified it by reading the clock aloft made by the Great Architect, and it was right. Captain Joshua Slocum, navigating by Lunar Distances. ...
28th February 2008  
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) BELFAST, PORT OF
Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
   
 

 
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