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Liverpool Echo | (2008) | THE FAMOUS WHITE STAR LINE WHICH LATER INCLUDED THE TITANIC AMONG ITS FLEET WAS FOUNDED IN LIVERPOOL IN 1869 BY SHIPPING MOGUL THOMAS HENRY ISMAY. Known also as the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, White Star eventually led the way in building prestigious luxury liners such as Titanic and her almost identical sisters Olympic and Britannic.When Ismay died in 1899 his elaborate tomb can still be seen in Thurstaston churchyard, Wirral White Star was the most successful transatlantic passenger line.... | 23rd June 2008 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2008) | NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars.... | 5th September 2008 | ||
| (1926) | REMINISCENCES OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS There are a great many fallacies in connection with the loss of the Titanic, the chief one being that she was trying to break the record. As a matter of fact, she had not averaged twenty-one knots up to the time she struck, three knots le... | 1926 | ||||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Halifax, April 16—Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless s... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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LETTER POSTED BY BERTHE LEROY FROM THE LUSITANIA One of Berthe's 19 transatlantic voyages was on the Lusitania sometime between 1912 and 1915. She wrote to her brother Samuel: "Another couple of days on board this ship. It is not too bad a trip but I cannot help feeling a little ang... | |||||
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Washington Herald | (1912) | COMMANDER OF THE ILL FATED TITANIC Capt. Smith was known for years as "The grand old man of the sea" and was probably one of the oldest and one of the most reliable mariners or ocean liners on the Atlantic.... | 17th April 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ... | 24th January 1912 | |||
| THE LAURENTIC/MEGANTIC EXPERIMENT The Olympic-class liners were fitted with two triple expansion engines, which powered the port and starboard propellers, and a low-pressure turbine, which powered the center propeller. This propulsion system was first tested on the White Star sister... | ||||||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
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Regina Leader-Post | (2008) | FIVE-STAR ST. JOHN'S INN BOASTS LINKS TO TITANIC If you're a fan of the blockbuster movie Titanic, the elegant staircase at the Ryan Mansion Inn might deliver a sense of deja vu.The ship, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912, was luxuriously furnished to capture the growing transatlantic traffic of the era. Its grand staircase to the first-class quarters was a hallmark of the liner's opulence.... | 28th July 2008 | ||
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Liverpool Echo | (2008) | ART ON THE HIGH SEAS SHIPS often feature beautiful artworks from the majestic figureheads of the sailing era to stunning displays on great liners.A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic.... | 23rd February 2008 | ||
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Belfast Telegraph | (2009) | GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY By Linda McKee25 April 2009The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's ¢€Ëœlittle sister' is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what th... | 25th April 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD PIRRIE NOT RETIRING Report That He is Quitting Harland & Wolff is Denied --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, March 14---I am authorized to state that there is absolutely no truth in the statements... | 15th March 1912 | |||
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Journal Gazette and Times-Courier | (2007) | BRANSON TITANIC EXHIBIT CALLED WORLD'S LARGEST MUSEUM ATTRACTION As a family, several of our vacations have involved cruising on the seas - sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, but in the end, always a treat.And our love of ships, water and sunshine goes beyond a weeklong vacation. This fascination with ocean liners also stretches into museums, movies, reading and researching on the topic.... | 13th August 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD PIRRIE OPERATED UPON Belfast Shipbuilder Has Recovered from the Immediate Effects --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Feb. 22---Lord Pirrie, head of the Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff... | 23rd February 1912 | |||
| L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse | (1956) | DAVID SARNOFF AT WORK This picture of wireless operator David Sarnoff was published in 1956 by 'L'Illustré", a weekly magazine from Switzerland. Sarnoff was among the first to receive Titanic's distress call and for 72 hours stood at his post at the top of Wanamaker in Ne... | 27th September 1956 | |||
| OLYMPIC VS KRONPRINZESSIN CECILIE The two giant liners were rivals... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN TO MEET KAISER Report That Settlement of Italian-Turkish War Will Be Discussed --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, April 5---According to a dispatch from Modena, sent out by the Ex... | 6th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SAY THEY HAVE "MONA LISA" Two Men Go to Rome to See J. P. Morgan About It --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 11---A newspaper whose artistic news is generally reliable says that two men le... | 12th April 1912 | |||
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Liverpool Echo | (2007) | WERE SALVAGED MIRRORS DESTINED FOR TITANIC? SALVAGE experts are trying to find out if mirrors discovered buried in mud in a Southampton junkyard were destined for the stricken Titanic.The mirrors were discovered buried at a yard where surplus stock from liners, said to be supplied by prestigious Liverpool china and glassware company Stonier & Co, ended up.... | 21st November 2007 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | FINDS TEMPLE FOR MORGAN Prof. Leithgow Has Unearthed Huge Edifice in Egypt --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, March 22---J. Pierpont Morgan is delighted with his visit to Egypt and much plea... | 23rd March 1912 | |||
| (1910) | WHITE STAR LINE TENDER GALLIC, CHERBOURG The GALLIC was the White Star Line's first tender in Cherbourg. It was replaced in 1911 by the NOMADIC and the TRAFFIC, which better fitted the new giant liners OLYMPIC and TITANIC... | 1910 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in... | 15th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MR. MORGAN ANNOYED Resents Intimation That He Would Deal with "Mona Lisa" Thieves --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- FLORENCE, April 12---J. Pierpont Morgan is much annoyed over the ... | 13th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1952) | UNTITLED A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living... | 14th May 1952 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | THE BIGGEST LINER IS NOW IN PORT Adriatic Arrives After a Very Successful Maiden Voyage --- NO JARS ON THE TRIP --- Passengers Give Praise for Smoothness of Voyage on New White Star Liner --- The Adriatic, the biggest of transatlantic ... | 17th May 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | $100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h... | 14th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlantic lin... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TITANIC TESTS HER SPEED Then She Sails for Southampton to Prepare for Maiden Voyage by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times LONDON, April 2.—The White Star liner Titanic, which has just been completed by Ha... | 3rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | POMPEII CHARMS MR. MORGAN He Is Especially Captivated by the Frescoes in New Excavations --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- NAPLES, March 17---When J. Pierpont Morgan went to Pompeii Friday he was a... | 18th March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | J. P. MORGAN IN ROME Arrives There from Naples with His Sister, Mrs. Burns --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, March 16---J. P. Morgan and his sister, Mrs. Burns, arrived from Naples this... | 17th March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La... | 12th July 1913 | |||
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Ilford Recorder | (2007) | LOONY PLAN TO SALVAGE TITANIC A MAN whose lifelong ambition has been to raise the Titanic believes his dream is a step closer.Douglas Faulkner-Woolley, of Green Lane, Goodmayes, is trying to raise funds to refloat the sunken Queen Elizabeth liner in Hong Kong Harbour as a trial run for his ultimate goal of salvaging the Titanic.Mr Faulkner-Woolley, 69, who claims salvage rights to both former White Star passenger liners, says a survey of the Queen Elizabeth - commissioned by his company Seawise Salvage International - shows it can be recovered.... | 1st March 2007 | ||
| (1926) | RADIOS FROM NOTABLE PASSENGERS "The next day, which was Sunday, we passed the Titanic, receiving many friendly radios from our friends on board. Personally, I exchanged messages with Mr. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) and Mr. John Jacob Astor. Captain Barr received a wirele... | 1926 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN VISION OF ART Wants America to Have Institution an Janiculum, in Rome --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 3---J. Pierpont Morgan spent the whole morning on the top of Janiculum, t... | 4th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MILLET MEMENTOS IN ROME Friends Find a Pathetic Interest in Visiting the Future Academy --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 27---A visit to the Villa Aurelia on the top of the Janiculum, wh... | 28th April 1912 | |||
| Southern Evening Echo | (1970) | ARTICLE Titanic survivor 77-year-old Mr Lee James Hyland, of Sarnia Court, Boniface Crescent, Lordshill, Southampton who recalls Fred Allen a boy crew member mentioned in reference the playing of the Titanic Hymn. Allen, who lost his life in the disaster was... | 24th November 1970 | |||
| Oxford Times | (1912) | LOCAL PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC Among those it is feared have lost their lives on the ill-fated vessel, is Mr. Wesley Woodward, of Oxford. Mr. Woodward was the youngest son of Mr. Woodward, of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ... | 11th June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | AMERICANS IN ROME Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---[Three paragraphs which are irrelevant for present purposes have bee... | 7th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BATHS ARE HELPING MORGAN Aix-les-Bains Correspondent Tells of the Financier's Strenuous "Cure" --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 3---An Aix-les-Bains correspondent says: ... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | AUTEUIL SOUNDS THE PANNIER'S DOOM Smart Display of Summer Fashions at Paris Race Course Shows Radical Style Changes --- NOVEL ROBESPIERRE GOWNS --- Immense Crowd Out to See the French Grand National---Americans Less Numerous Than Usual... | 24th June 1912 | |||
| 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... | ||||||
| Cumberland News | (1912) | LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com... | 8th March 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | J. P. MORGAN SAILS Has Six Staterooms on the Adriatic---Mrs. Waldorf Astor Also Departs --- Many passengers sailed yesterday in the outgoing liners for Europe. On the Adriatic went J. Pierpont Morgan and his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterl... | 27th February 1908 | |||
| (1926) | NEAR TRAGEDY ON THE SEAS FOR STRAUS FAMILY The following year both Captain Barr and myself were transferred to the Caronia for a voyage down to Alexandria from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Strauss ( sp ) were on board, and occupying one of the suites on the upper deck. ... | 1926 | ||||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT Largest Steamship Afloat Pronounced Steady as a Rock --- Gales and High Seas Made No Impression on Her, and None of the Passengers Was Seasick --- The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made he... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| New York Times | (1926) | CARLISLE, DESIGNER OF TITANIC, IS DEAD Member of Privy Council and Noted Engineer Stricken at 72 --- DISASTER BROKE HIS HEART --- Recently Visited Old Friend, Ex-Kaiser---Wanted “Merry Widow Waltz” Played at Funeral --- ... | 6th March 1926 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MONEY LOSS NOTHING---MORGAN But He Is Upset by Loss of Life, Due to Faith in Boat --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 21---An interesting interview was obtained by a correspondent at Aix w... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN MAY ACT AS A PEACE ENVOY Berlin Thinks That, Unofficially, He Will Try to End the Turkish-Italian Conflict --- TO VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE --- After Seeing Kaiser at Venice---Belief That Turkish Officials Will Listen to Him Respectful... | 9th April 1912 | |||
| Oxford Illustrated | (1912) | JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD MR WOODWARD was the youngest son of Mrs Woodward of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen College Choir, living in Oakthorpe Road, Oxford. Mr. Wesley Woodward left Oxford about a fortnight ago to joi... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | GAMBLERS ON TITANIC ESCAPE BY DRESSING AS WOMEN An extraordinary story is reported in New York of the escape from the sinking Titanic of two well-known gamblers who, for some years, have frequented the Atlantic liners, and against whose card-sharking tricks notices have been posted on ... | 11th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio... | 10th July 1910 | |||
| Gettysburg Complier | (1912) | REACH HEIGHTS OF LUXURY Good Reasons Why the Newest Ocean Liners are Referred to as Floating Palaces While the first photograph of the new steamship Titanic received in New York shows a ship in most respects like the Olympic there is a pronounced diff... | 19th June 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | 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 | (1912) | ANCESTOR OF ROTHES SAVED A PRINCESS Bit of Ancient Family History May Have Inspired the Countess-Oarswoman. --- "GRIP FAST," SAID RESCUER --- "Gin the Buckles Bide," Replied the Princess--Coat of Arms and Motto Derived from Incident --- By Marc... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
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ET Research | (2003) | OLYMPIC FIND AT PITY ME Move over Alnwick and Haltwhistle — another location in Northeast England holds artifacts from RMS Olympic, sister-ship of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. While many ocean-liner enthusiasts know about the Olympic fittings at the White ... | 22nd January 2003 | ||
| New York Times | (1900) | YACHTS AND YACHTSMEN From present indications, John Jacob Astor's large steam yacht, the Nourmahal, will not be put in commission this year, at least not during the early Summer months. No orders have yet been received for her refitting, and as Mr. Astor is e... | 29th April 1900 | |||
| The Times | (1895) | HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill... | 25th December 1895 | |||
| (1912) | CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s... | 1912 | ||||
| Outlook | (1911) | THE RACE FOR OCEAN SUPREMACY A little more than ten years ago I crossed the Atlantic on the first trip of what was then the largest ocean liner in the world. A distinguished ship-builder who made the voyage at the same time expressed the opinion that this steamship marked the... | 24th June 1911 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | (1912) | MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| (1926) | THE VIEW FROM THE CARONIA At 10:30 that night we received a message from the Titanic to say that she had struck an iceberg. She would then be about two hundred and forty miles away. We established communication with the German steamer Breslau, about fo... | 1926 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | GAMBLERS ON THE TITANIC Many Planned to Cross on the First Trip---"Doc" Owen Not Aboard --- Broadway inhabitants were discussing last night the report that a number of well-known professional gamblers had gone to their death on the Titanic. It was said that t... | 18th 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC’S MAILS John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS ------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THREE BRAVE OFFICERS Dr. O'Loughlin and Pursers McElroy and Barker on Honor Roll --- In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers. Three men who lost their lives were well known to... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
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ET Research | (2001) | MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL There is more for ocean liner enthusiasts in the English city of Bristol than simply visiting the S. S. Great Britain. The world's first great ocean liner, the Great Britain was built by the influential engineer Isambard K... | 8th November 2001 | ||
| Daily Telegraph | (1910) | TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Proposed new port for White Star Liners (From Our Correspondent) New York, October 27 (1910). The report that a new terminal for the White Star Line will be established at Fort Pond Bay, in the eastern end of Lon... | 27th October 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN BUSY IN ROME Wishes the Papers Would Stop Saying He Is Ill --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---This year J. Pierpont Morgan has not had his usual luck in regard to the wea... | 7th April 1912 | |||
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Southern Daily Echo | (2009) | MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES By Jon Reeve MILLVINA Dean, the last survivor of Titanic, died today at the age of 97.Miss Dean was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Sou... | 31st May 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1907) | NEW WHITE STAR SERVICE TO TAP CHERBOURG TRADE Adriatic, Biggest Ship Yet Built, to Start It in May --- SHE WILL CARRY 3,000 SOULS --- And Have a Turkish Bath, Plunge, and Orchestra Aboard---Line to Liverpool to Stay. --- With the putting in commis... | 7th January 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Plaza last night, said that Capt. Smith had been informed by the White Star Company that he was to ret... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1926) | ALEXANDER CARLISLE OBITUARY ALEXANDER CARLISLE The Right Hon Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, who died yesterday in London at the age of 71, was a ... | 6th March 1926 | |||
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ET Research | (2004) | 1914: MURDOCH SAVES LINER FROM ICEBERG WILLIAM McMaster Murdoch lost his life, in common with one and a half thousand others, in April 1912. He had tried to “port around” an iceberg, but “she was too close.” First Officer Murdoch tried to slalom the berg by orde... | 6th February 2004 | ||
| 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 | |||
| (2005) | ARMENIAN Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion. (courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Famous Liner... | 27th March 2005 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra... | 5th June 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPITAL RESIDENTS IN NEW YORK FOR CARPATHIA'S COMING Anxious for News From Friends Aboard the Titanic --- With barely one thread of hope that three of the Washingtonians who sailed from Southampton on the ill-fated Titanic a week ago yesterday are still alive, a party of Washingtonians to... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
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ET Research | (2006) | TITANIC CITATION CATALOG Titanic Citation Catalogby Captain Charles WeeksI created this document to assist Titanic researchers. I have found it maddening to have to thumb through numerous books to find a particular citation on a certain subject. Using this... | 21st October 2006 | ||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
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ET Research | (2005) | A BIRTHPLACE REBORN : THE TITANIC QUARTER PLANS for the development of 185 acres of dockland in Belfast that include the cradle of the Olympic and Titanic have just been formally announced. Most of the Queen's Island site will be transformed over the next seven ... | 21st October 2005 | ||
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(2005) | NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic... | 20th July 2005 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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(2005) | OCEANIC White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following... | 11th July 2005 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1928) | SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr... | 29th July 1928 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| 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 (... | |||||
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ET Reviews | (2004) | THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC BY MARK CHIRNSIDE Titanic is arguably the most famous ship in history, and her popularity has often come at the expense of her siblings. Yet she was but one of a trio of sister ships. The number of titles that have attempted to tell the story ... | 6th December 2004 | ||
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ET Research | (2007) | OLYMPIC AND TITANIC : MAIDEN VOYAGE MYSTERIES ROUTES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC The new White Star liner Olympic, the first of three gigantic liners ordered by the White Star Line for the highly competitive transatlantic service, was launched from the Queen’s Island yard of Harlan... | 29th April 2007 | ||
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New York Times | (1909) | GIANT SHIPS SOON TO JOIN THE ATLANTIC FLEET Olympic and Titanic, Carrying 5,000 People---12,000 Tons Heavier, 50 Feet Longer Than Any Ship Afloat VISITORS to the commercial capital of Ireland by way of the Victoria Channel through Belfast Lough for the first time ca... | 12th December 1909 | ||
| 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 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||














