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Titanic Stories	THE TITANIC & THE BATTLE FOR THE HIGH SEAS: CUNARD V. WHITE STAR LINE White Star Line and Cunard compete for passenger trade across the Atlantic....	16th May 2011
The Washington Post	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
	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
The Scotsman	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
The Times	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
Belfast Newsletter	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
	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....
telegraph.co.uk	THE TITANIC SANK INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANKIND In Belfast yesterday, they put out at City Hall a plan of the RMS Titanic, drawn for the Board of Trade inquiry into its sinking, at 2.20am on April 15, 1912, in mid-Atlantic with the deaths of 1517 passengers and crew. Those statistics chill us still. ......	23rd April 2011
	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	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
Western Morning News	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
	NORMANDIE AND NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE 1936 The Normandie, outward bound on a 1936 voyage, passes lower Manhattan. The area cleared in the 1960s to make way for the World Trade Center lies between her first and third funnels....	1936
New York Times	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
The Times	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	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 Book Review	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
Telegraph.co.uk	TITANIC BOUNCY CASTLE WITH INFLATABLE ICEBERGS IS A 'BOUNCY GRAVEYARD' A bouncy castle in the shape of the doomed ship Titanic complete with inflatable icebergs has been condemned as a "bouncy graveyard" by critics at a toy trade fare....	3rd July 2010
New York Times	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	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
Graphic	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
Hudson Observer	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
	HAROLD VICTOR GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parent...	29th May 1904
	WILLIAM FREDERICK GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names...	29th May 1904
	JESSIE ALLIS MARY GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names...	29th May 1904
New York Times	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	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
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	CHARLES EDWARD GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's Christian Name Parents Christian Names...	29th May 1904
Brighton Argus	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
	LILIAN AUGUSTA GOODWIN BAPTISM When Baptised Child's...	29th May 1904
thesun.co.uk	WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL TO BLAME FOR TITANIC? Author Robert Strange, an investigative journalist and former newspaper crime reporter, claims Britain's Second World War Prime Minister had a previously unrecognised, inglorious role in the loss of the vessel on her maiden voyage in 1912. As a newly-promoted government minister, Churchill had final responsibility for all marine safety when the Titanic was being planned, designed and built. Yet he failed in his duties as President of the Board of Trade to ensure that the ship was properly constructed and that her passengers were safe, the author claims. Strange says: "Churchill was fatally distracted from his vitally important safety duties by a combination of burning political ambition, wounded pride and the pursuit of his future wife Clementine. ...	26th March 2012
New York Times	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
New York Times	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
Connaught Telegraph	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	HUGO ROSS WAS ABOARD Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean	MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma...	19th April 1912
New York Times	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	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
The Gazette (Montreal)	THOUSANDS VISIT LAURENTIC Thousands of interested sight-seers, each provided with a pass of admittance, without which the vessel would without doubt have been packed even beyond her great capacity, yesterday visited the new White Star-Dominion li...	10th May 1909
	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...
The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand	ARRIVAL OF THE R.M.S. COPTIC [AT WELLINGTON WITH E.J. SMITH IN COMMAND] The S.S. & A. Company's R.M.S. Coptic anchored in the harbour at 8.40 this morning. She left London on 12th December, Plymouth 14th, and reached Teneriffe on 19th; left again on the following morning, crossed the Equator o...	31st January 1890
The Mercury (Hobart)	THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in...	25th April 1912
New York Times	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 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 (...
St. Ives Times & Express	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	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
Brockton Daily Enterprise	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
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	THE STORY OF TITANIC SURVIVOR MR. THOMAS KNOWLES Brian J. Ticehurst 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
	CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton......
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

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