Troop Transport

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H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON   H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON
The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons   St Eloi   Neuve Chapelle   Y...
Voyage TUNISIAN
John P. Eaton
Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. On 10 April reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site. Port of Registry: Glasgow ...
12th November 2005
ROYAL EDWARD 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
ARMENIAN Voyage ARMENIAN
John P. Eaton
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
Barking Chronicle THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING
There is another East Ham resident amongst the crew in the person of Mrs Pritchard, a stewardess, of 9 Masterman Road. Her husband is Chief Steward on a Atlantic Transport liner....
19th April 1912
ARGENTINE TRANSPORT Voyage ARGENTINE TRANSPORT
John P. Eaton
Empire Transport Co., Ltd. (Houlder Brothers, Managers) Westbound, Narvik, Norway to Philadelphia. Left Narvik 3 April 1912 with a cargo of iron ore. On arrival at the intermediate stop of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, her captain reporte...
20th March 2005
TITANICA EXHIBITION - THE ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT, NORTHERN IRELAND Titanic Stories TITANICA EXHIBITION - THE ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT, NORTHERN IRELAND
The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum is launching TITANICa: The Exhibition and TITANICa: The People’s Story to mark the centenary of Titanic’s launch on the 31st May, running until 31 August 2011....
  HICHENS: PROBATE INDEX
HICHENS, Robert of 40 Shirley Road, Southampton Died 23 September 1940 at Aberdeen Bay Aberdeen. Administration Winchester 20 January 1941 to Robert Hichens transport clerk and Phillis May Russell (wife of Alfred Sydney Russell). Effects £124 16s 10...
1941
National Roll of the Great War WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD
FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
ALGONQUIN 1939   ALGONQUIN 1939
The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....
1939 Gare Maritime
The Times FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS
21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...
26th January 1912
Daily Home News DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC
John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ...
22nd April 1912
CALEDONIA Voyage CALEDONIA
John P. Eaton
Anchor Line On 9 April at 2:55 p.m. Caledonia, eastbound New York-Glasgow, relayed to Bulgaria an ice warning received earlier from Cassandra. Port of Registry: Glasgow Flag of ...
11th June 2005
New York Times 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
New York Times 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 transatlant...
21st February 1903
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
Cambridge Independent Press MR. R. C. COLERIDGE MISSING
Page 5 There seems every reason to fear that Mr. Reginald C. Coleridge, of Hartford, who was among the second-class passengers on the Titanic, has lost his life. Every day since the disaster his friends have anxiously scanned the lists...
19th April 1912
Chicago Evening Post LAPLAND WILL REPLACE TITANIC AS MAIL SHIP
The Post office Department has made arrangements for the substitution of the steamer Lapland for the Titanic, in carrying mails to Europe from New York City....
17th April 1912
Paterson Evening News CHARLES JOUGHIN RITES TOMORROW; TITANIC SURVIVOR
A service for Charles Joughin, 78, of 574 E. 23rd St., who survived the sinking of the trans-Atlantic liner, Titanic, will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the R. Charles D. Legg and Sons Home for Funerals, 384 Broadway. The Rev. Wi...
10th December 1956
New York Times THE CEDRIC'S PARROT MASCOT
"Baden-Powell" Won Purser McElroy's Heart by Sighting a "Landlubber off the Starboard Not since the days of Funston the famous Mexican parrot of Castle William on Governors Island, has there been seen in the...
4th May 1903
Chicago Daily News MESABA WARNED DOOMED TITANIC OF ICEBERGS
Mesaba Reports That It Warned The Doomed Ocean Vessel of Presence of Icebergs in Vicinity and Got "Thanks" ...
18th April 1912
  BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912
THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...
1912
Philadelphia Inquirer J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO
John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found dead, his wrists and throat cut, in a parked automobile near the P....
23rd September 1945
Philadelphia Inquirer JOHN B. "JACK" THAYER III:OBITUARY
J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found d...
23rd September 1945
Voyage THE TUGS AT TITANIC'S DEPARTURE
John P. Eaton
Albert Edward, Hercules, Vulcan, Ajax, Hector Neptune Registered 10 September 1861, the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Limited Company was known during its early years...
6th February 2005
NEW YORK Voyage 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
BULGARIA Voyage BULGARIA
John P. Eaton
(aka Canada, Hercules, Philippines,Drachtenstein) Hamburg-Amerika Line On Tuesday, April 9, while traveling westbound Hamburg-Southampton-Baltimore, received a wireless message from the Caledonia ...
24th June 2005
TRAFFIC Voyage TRAFFIC
John P. Eaton
On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second...
22nd September 2005
CERAMIC : THE SOLE SURVIVOR Voyage CERAMIC : THE SOLE SURVIVOR
By 1942, the White Star Line had merged with Cunard, and many of its ships had been sold off or sent to the scrapyard. Among the former was Ceramic, launched in 1913 and for many years the largest vessel in ...
18th December 2006
New York Times GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE
J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ...
24th February 1904
A CAPTAIN'S CAREER Voyage A CAPTAIN'S CAREER
John P. Eaton
  “When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say- uneventful.  Of course there have been winter storms and gales and fog and the like, but in all ...
23rd August 2005
NOMADIC Voyage NOMADIC
John P. Eaton
One of the two tenders built especially to serve the needs of Olympic and Titanic at Cherbourg. Nomadic and Traffic were registered under the French flag and managed by A. Laniece, later by George A. Laniece. On 10 ...
22nd August 2005
DUKE OF ALBANY Voyage DUKE OF ALBANY
John P. Eaton
(F. Kemp & Company) The center anchor of the Titanic weighs 15 ½ tons and was fabricated by Messrs. N. Hingley & Sons, Ltd. Of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire. Typical of the manner by which the m...
31st October 2004
Chicago Tribune 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
THE NORWEGIAN SAILOR ALBERT MOSS SURVIVED THE TITANIC TRAGEDY AS WELL AS WW1 AND WW2. Titanic Research THE NORWEGIAN SAILOR ALBERT MOSS SURVIVED THE TITANIC TRAGEDY AS WELL AS WW1 AND WW2.
Dag Bertelsen
The Norwegian sailor Albert Moss survived both the Titanic disaster and a number of other crucial experiences at sea. The story of his life is now documented in the book Titanic og to verdenskriger (Titanic, W...
26th March 2012
Town and Country MASTERS OF THE SEA
A. I. M.
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
New York Times HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES
Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...
27th February 1932
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